School: Ballinree, Nenagh (roll number 15560)

Location:
Ballinree, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Patrick Ahern
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0536, Page 248

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  1. To draw matter from a boil, half fill a large neck bottle with water place the mouth of the bottle tightly to the boil and much of the matter is drawn into the bottle
    Plaster's for boil's are:- sugar and common soap.
    A poultice of bread and water.
    A mixture of bees wax and lard.
    Linseed meal poultice.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. boils (~39)
    Language
    English
  2. 1. 1 oz of yellow arsenic mixed with the white of an egg
    2. the juice of a wart weed
    3. make a hole in a dry cow dung fill it with water and wash the warts in it.
    4,Rub the warts with the juice of a plant called the five sisters
    5. warts washed in the water that a blacksmith cools the iron in are supposed to be cured.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.