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School: Listerlin (roll number 5776)

Location:
Listerlin, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Ml. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0846, Page 016

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    slices and put sugar between the slices and leave it rest up for the night and drink the juice for two or three mornings
    Sore throat
    To cure a sore throat gargle your throat with salt and water and put hot salt in a stocking and put it around your neck.
    (2) Get black currants and boil the juice in fresh new milk and take a spoonful of the juice as many mornings as you are years.
    Sprains
    If you had a sprained leg hold it under a spout of spring water until it get hot and it would be cured.
    (2) Put the fat of a goose on a sprain and it would cure it.
    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
    Maureen Barron
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Darbystown, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    John Harte