School: Convent of Mercy, An Pasáiste, Corcaigh
- Location:
- Passage West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0390, Page 186
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- A Cold
Bathe feet in mustard and water, rub soles of feet with salt and wrap them in flannel - take a hot drink and go to bed.A Cough
Make a syrup of flax-seed, lemon juice and sugar candy and take a table spoon of the mixture night and morning. Gout
Bathe the feet in potatoe water.Rheumatism
Carry a raw potatoe in your pocket. Renew the potatoe from time to time.Sore Throat
Put roasted salt in a stocking and put it around the throat or Soak a piece of flannel in hot bacon fat and put it around the throat as hot as it can be borne.Warts
A black snail rubbed to the warts and then stuck on the thorn of the white-thorn. As the snail dies the warts disappear. To purify the blood
Cook boil young nettles and(continues on next page)
