School: Kentstown (roll number 1599)
- Location:
- Kentstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Lúasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0684, Page 364
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- (continued from previous page)the affected part in lime water and linseed-oil.The cure for the blast is ground ivy and boiled it in lard. This is put on as a poultice.I once heard that the best cure for boils is to rub the with the wax that the shoemaker uses.The cure for chilblains is to wash them in hot water with mustard in it.The cure for whooping cough is to get fire-shovel and put a few red lumps of coal on it. Then put on a spoonful of sulphut and inhale the gas of it for a few minutes. This will relieve the cough.Kachleen Tully
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- This is a cure for styes on the eyes. Get a gooseberry thorn and point it at your eye three-times saying in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Some people say get a person whose Father and Mother are both living. Such person is provided with ted thorn of a gooseberry bush. The person then points each of the nine thorns nine(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Carter
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sicily, Co. Meath
