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School: Adare Convent (roll number 9296)

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Adare, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
An tSr. Mechtildes
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    Cures.
    If you go to old persons and ask them for a cure for a sprain they will tell you to get comfrey and pund it up and put it on as a poultice.
    Old people say if you have a burn put a burn leaf to it. If you get a deep cut the cure from an old woman is to put a cobweb to it.
    If you get pyrrhae in the gums get a leaf off an ash tree and put it to it.
    When you get warts get the milk from a dandelion and rut it to the warts.
    The cure for animals is cow's lick. It is got by the ditches.
    Got by Mary Tydings, Adare, Co. Limerick.
    From Mrs. Hogan, Gortnagrour, Adare, Co. Limerick (68 yrs)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Tydings
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Adare, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mrs Hagan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    68
    Address
    Gortnagrour, Co. Limerick