School: Cappamore (B.) (roll number 7480)
- Location:
- Cappamore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: James McCarthy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0520, Page 193
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- (continued from previous page)Local Cures (Contd)If your leg is burned shake flour on the leg and it will never blister. (Patrick Blackwell)If you get a burn of a nettle pluck a dog-leaf and wrap the dog leaf around it for a while (Joe Ryan)
- Put a grain of lime into your tooth and it will kill the nerve Put cold water into your mouth and keep it in until it gets hot then put a grain of lime into it. Mix salt and water together and take a sup of it and leave it in your mouth for a while and then spit it out.
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- Bathe it with hot water to clean it out and then put oil in it
- Cure for Boils
When you get a boil get a piece of wax and warm it to the fire and stick it to the boil (Michael Keating)A cure for boils, is to get snails and bruise them together and then put the snails to the boils and it will cure them
(Con Kemp)
