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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 131

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    and keep the person's head back and it will stop bleeding.
    A cure for a cold is to take shot lemon drink every night going to bed and take an Iodine tablet and the cold will get better
    Iris Allison
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    If you have a toothache a very good cure for it is to put some salt in a long machine-made stocking and put it round your neck and up against your jaw and it will soothe the pain. When you have a sore eye the best thing to do is to save some cold tea and bathe your eye with it and it will get better.
    A cure for corns is to get some dandelions and pull the tops off them and inside the stalk there is some white pulp squeeze the stalk and the pulp will run out, then rub it on the corn and it will get better
    Alice Gilmore
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