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School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)

Location:
Dysart, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Ní Ailpín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0672, Page 204

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  1. Local Cures (continued)

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    Take the sting of a nettle out.
    Sore Throat
    Roast salt on a shovel and put it in a stocking and wear the stocking around your neck.
    Colds
    The cure for a cold is to boil flax seed, along with licquorice, and drink it.
    Bruises
    The cure for brusies is sugar and soap and goose grease.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Local Cures

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    Warts
    The cure for warts is to get a raw potato, and cut it into nine pieces, and rub every piece nine times to each wart, and then bury the potato and as the potato is rotting so is the wart.
    Sore Throat
    The cure for a sore throat is to get "dalkin" seed and boil it, and drink the juice of them.
    Ringworm
    The cure for ringworm, is to boil the skin of an elder bush, and rub it to the ringworm.
    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
    Vin. Byrne
    Informant
    Mick Woods
    Gender
    Male