School: Dungourney (roll number 3501)
- Location:
- Dungourney, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rignigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0387, Page 235
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- (continued from previous page)Bronchitis : Take hot lemon and sugar of candy on going to bed.
Toothache : Wet mustard with a small taste of whiskey, spread on two small strips of strong brown paper; lay on inside and outside of gum, leaving for some time.
Inward pain: Steep common flannel in boiling water; lay on quickly with hot plate over it.
Wounds and cuts : Apply soap mixed with sugar.
Whooping Cough : Get a "hairy-molly" and put it in a bottle; according as it is dying, the cough is dying with it.
Warts : Put a number of stones in a small bag, equal to the number of warts. Throw bag out of window; whoever will pick up the bag will take the warts.
Or
Rub your fasting spin to warts for 9 mornings.
- Collector
- Maire Tobin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Tobin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dungourney, Co. Cork
