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School: Kilcullen (Convent) (roll number 11806)

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Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0780, Page 239

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  1. Stys

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    Stys.
    Pick 10 thorns and throw the tenth away. Take the first and point it to eye making sign of Cross.
    1. Point a thistle to your eye and make the sign of the Cross.
    Jennie Ffrench.
    2. Rub your mother's gold wedding ring on sty.
    Helen Power
    3. Bathe your eyes in cold tea for three days.
    Nan O'Neill
    4. Get a gooseberry thorn and prick sty.
    Mary Walshe
    5. Rub wet tea leaves on your eyes three times.
    Bridie Whittle
    Chillblains
    An old cure for chillblains is to get a piece of raw turnip. Make a hole in it. Fill the hole with salt and when the salt dissolves to water apply it to chillblains.
    Rub chillblains with a piece of roast onion.
    Wash chillblains in hot water with bread soda.
    Rub parafin oil on chillblains.
    Wash your feet in brine.
    Rhuematism - Lie on a bed of ferns.
    Janudice - Eat boiled nettles.
    Patsy Dix
    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. sties (~76)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jennie Ffrench
    Gender
    Female

  6. Chilblains

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    an old cure for chilblains is to get a piece of raw turnip make a hole in it - fill the hole with salt and when the salt dissolves to water apply it to chilblains. Rub chilblains with a piece of raw onion.
    wash chilblains in hot water with bread soda.
    rub paraffin oil on chilblains.
    wash your feet in brine.
    Rheumatism; lie on a bed of ferns
    Jaundice; eat boiled nettles
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit