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School: An Clochar, Béal an Átha Móir (roll number 13614)

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Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
An tSr. Áthracht
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 290

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  2. Cures - Cure for Burn

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    First you get a qr lb of sheeps kidney suet, and 1 oz of white resin, and an oz of bees wax. Then you get an oz of each of the following :- verdi-gris, daisy roots, bog-Lus, slan-Lus, ivy, white thorn,borthy, and dochen roots
    Now melt the sheeps kidney suet. Then fry the herbs in fat for twenty minutes, add white resin and bees wax has dissolved, strain through a muslin cloth into an earthen jar, and set aside to cool stirring occasionally until it sets. When you want to use his plaster, get a small piece melt it and soak a piece of linen in the plaster. Then pat the plaster to the burn. Repeat till the burn is cured.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. burns (~116)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Rowley
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Drumrane, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Mrs Ann Galloghy
    Gender
    Female