School: Cappamore (B.) (roll number 7480)
- Location:
- Cappamore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: James McCarthy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0520, Page 188
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- A plant called the Yarrow which grows in the end of Spring is used to cure rheumatism. It is gathered and boiled in water. When it is boiled the water is extracted from the weed and it is drank.
- Get a cobweb down off the wall and put it to he cut, and after a few minutes the blood will be stopped.
- Get a lump of breadsoda, and put some into each stocking in the morning and the morning after the sore feet will be healed.
Get a pot of hot water and put washing soda into the water and bathe your feet in the water for a quarter of an(continues on next page) - Collector
- James Sweeney
- Gender
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