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School: Paulstown (B.) (roll number 8244)

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Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Máirtín Ó Conaill
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    or to rub a snail on them.
    Or to put knots of straw in a sweet-bag and leave them on the road; whoever would pick them up would get the warts.
    (7) Diabetes - The dandelion is a cure. It has to be a quarter of an hour boiling and a quarter of an hour drawing.
    (8) Pain in the back - Cut a raw oinion in two and rub the sap on the affected part
    (9) Ring-worms - Ashes of a pipe and a fasting-spit.
    (10) Bleeding - from nose - to put a door-key down your back. Finger bleeding - to put a cob-web on it.
    (11) Bad stomach - Dandelion
    (12) Water-grass for a good appetite
    (13) Sore eyes - cold tea.
    (14) Sore legs - hemlock.
    (15) Kidney trouble - dandelions
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English