School: Christian Bros., Drogheda (roll number 16718)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Ó Siordáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 014
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- 1. Boils:- Pour hot water into a bottle and after a while pour it out, and hold the bottle near the boil.
2. Sore throat:- tie a stocking full with salt round the neck.
3. Warts:- Boil dandelines and drink the juice.
4. Scalds:- Wash the sore with buttermilk and bread soda.
5. Burn:- Put lime and oil on it.
6. Sty:- Make the sign of the cross with a gooseberry thorn before the eye.
7. Bleeding nose:- put something cold at the back of the neck.
8. Sore leg:- Put lisst and lukewarm water on the sore.
9. Cuts:- Put cobwebs on the cut and after a week they disappeared
10. Chilblains:- Rub sliced onions on them for three days, every morning and every night.
11. Sting of a nettle:- Rub it well with a dalkin leaf.
12. Pimples:- Boil nettle and drink the(continues on next page)
