School: St. Brendan's (C.), Blennerville
- Location:
- Blennerville, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhuircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0441, Page 011
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- 1. Toast-water is a cure for vomiting.
2. The lining of a hens gizzard dried and made into powder, and swallowed in some drink also stops vomiting.
3. The white of an egg is good for a burn.
4. If you caught a lizzard with a silk handkerchief, and licked him three times you would have a cure for a burn for ever.
5. Boil the flowers of red clover for cancer.
6. Wash and boil the roots of the daisies for heart trouble.
7. Get a white turnip, cut it up, put a pound of brown sugar over it, leave until morning and drink for heart trouble.
8. Broom for diabetes.
9. To drink the water off the top of a cow-dung. every morning for the heart.
10. Ivy leaves for a sore head.
11. The bark of an elm tree for burns.
