School: Dromad (roll number 16781)

Location:
Drumod, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Millicent "Nuabhroinn"
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 023

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  1. Put peper into a piece of brown paper and put it to your face for a tooth ache.
    Mash up the roots of orange lilies and put them to a boil or absess.
    Get a black snail and rub him on a wart and put the snail on a thorn of a white thorn bush and when the snail is withered the wart will be gone.
    Get fairy finger leaves and roast them and rub them into a powder and get fresh unsalted butter and mix it in the leaves for Ringworm.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Albert Sloane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    10
    Address
    Drumod, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    John Sloane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Occupation
    Postman
    Address
    Drumod, Co. Leitrim