School: Eanach Mór (C.) (roll number 12427)

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   For a cough cut turnips in thin slices, cover with sugar. Drink the juice. Boil some new milk, put a little grain of nitre on it, this is a cure for the same.

   

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   For a cut, get the root of a white lily. Pound it up very finely after it has been washed. Then place it on the wound. The soup got from blackbirds flesh is a cure for the chin-cough. A cure for a burn, take the skin from a bultery and get the soft skin inside. Mix it with unsalted butter and sweet oil and boil it. When cold rub it on the burn

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Kate Brien

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   62

   Address

   Kilfree, Co. Sligo