School: Baile na Cille, Roscrea (roll number 10350)
- Location:
- Ballynakill, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: F. Bergin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0548, Page 095
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- (continued from previous page)The weather being great, and the waters being good.
When Jesus came the waters stood.
And in the name of Jesus stop the blood."
Boils = One quart of stout, 1 oz of cream of tartar, 1 lb of brown sugar, 1 oz of sulphur mixed together and reduced to half with red irons.
Cough = One raw onion, half a pint of vinegar, one lb of raw sugar mixed together.
Eczema = Rub effected part to a cut lemon.
Wart = The cure for a wart is costic also to make the sign of the cross, with the first quarter of the moon over the wart.
Burn = The cure for a burn is breadsoda, water, and butter milk, mixed together, and roasted to the fire.
Sore throat -- The local cure for a sore throath is warm water, salt + a lemon.
Head Ache = The cure for a Head Ache is to drink black tea and to rub parrafin oil on your forehead.
Tooth ache = The Local cure for a tooth(continues on next page)
