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School: Baldoyle Convent (roll number 11883)

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Baldoyle, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
Sr Augustine
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    Cures
    January 1938.
    A cure for a sty on your eye is to point a thorn of a gooseberry bush at it three times saying "In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen". Another cure for a sty is to make the sign of the Cross with a blessed gold ring on the sty.
    A cure for a whooping cough is to tie a red ribbon around the child's neck. A cure to stop a person's hair from falling out is to rub an onion into it. A cure for a sore throat is to put roasted salt to it.
    Patty Ward.
    I got this information from Mrs Ward,
    Grange Abbey
    Raheny.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patty Ward
    Gender
    Female
    Occupation
    Pupil
    Informant
    Mrs Ward
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Raheny, Co. Dublin