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School: Dundalk (St. Nicholas Monastery) (roll number 16719)

Location:
Dundalk, Co. Louth
Teacher:
Br. T. Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0661, Page 092

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    Toothache
    Put mustard in your teeth or put ginger or salts or iodine and they will cure it after a while.
    Whooping Cough
    Mix honey, lemon-juice and castor-oil together and give to the person who has the cough.
    Measles
    Keep in a dark room, and take hot drinks and whiskey and also wear red flannel.
    Itch
    Take sulphur ointment and boiled sulphur.
    Warts
    Put ink on them, or spirits of salts or iron water from the blacksmith's forge.
    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
    Seán Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Castletown Road, Co. Louth