School: Mulhuddart (roll number 16675)
- Location:
- Mulhuddart, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0790, Page 35
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- The foot or hand on which the chilblains are is dipped in urine every night until they are cured
- Get a small piece of lard and a teaspoonful of salt and mix them together, to form an onitment. Rub this ointment on the chilblains for three mornings and then they will be cured.
- Collector
- Kathleen Caffrey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mulhuddart, Co. Dublin
- Rub suet already rendered on the chilblains for three nights before retiring. The sight juice that remains in the suet when rubbed on the chilblains will cure them.
