School: Taney, Dundrum
- Location:
- 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.
- 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.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Betty Patterson
- Gender
- Female
- 3. Buttermilk is very good for poisonous cuts.
