School: Mounttrenchard, Leamhchoill (roll number 2540)

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   7. Rash. Crushed cabbage put down on it.

   8. Bleeding from the nose. Let a cold key down the person's back.

   9. Whooping cough. To drink the "leavings" (milk) after the ferret has taken its feed, or to crawl in and out under a donkey's stomach nine times.

   10. Chilblains - Rub the juice of an onion to them, or wash them in paraffin oil.

   11. Warts. Rub the water that is found in the hollow of a (?) rock to them, or pull a dandelion or sow-thistle. Break the stem and rub the milky fluid, which comes out of the broken end to them.

   12. Boil. Put a slice of a mangold or a slice of fat bacon, or steeped loaf bread, or soap and sugar up to it.

   13. Cold in the head. Bathe the feet in a mustard bath.
   A cold (general). Drink a good mug of hot milk with a generous supply of butter and pepper in it, just after going to bed.

   14. Dragged or stained muscles. Pound up the

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Crissie Noonan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Mounttrenchard, Co. Limerick