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School: Taney, Dundrum

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Dundrum, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
E. Costello
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0797, Page 129

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    1. A cure for a sting of a nettle is a dock leaf and put it to the sting for about six minutes and it will take it away.
    2. A cure for a sore throat is a weed called a bog aster you eat it with a piece bread and it will cure it.
    3. If you want to have rosy cheeks when you wash you put orange peels in the water in the morning.
    4. A cure for a fishbone in your neck is to eat plenty of hard dry bread.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Tracey
    Gender
    Female

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    1. A cure for chilblains is to rub vinegar in and it soothes only if the chilblains are not broken.
    2. I once heard it said that dandelion tea is good for invalids.
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