School: St Columba's Abbey, Navan (roll number 882)
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Br. Abban O' Donoghue
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0700, Page 120
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- XML “Cure For Sore Breast or Back”
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- XML “Headache”
- XML “Toothache”
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- (continued from previous page)with water in which the Oak bark has been boiled.
- Two local women Mrs Cantwell Flower Hill and Miss Connell Railway Street have the cure for "Thrush." They make a special ointment from herbs and doctors are very anxious to find out these herbs.
- Collector
- Pilib Mach Niocaill
- Gender
- Male
- A very good cure for a sore throat is to get a fox glove and make it into a broth and use it as a medicine.
2. To get a stocking and fill it with salt. Then tie it round your neck and go to bed and when the morning you will be cured.
3. Tie a wet silk scarf round your neck. - This cure for a head ache is well known in this district. Bathe your forehead with vinegar and rest for a while in a dark room.
2. Strong tea. - Rub mustard and salt on your gums.
2. Rinse your mouth with whiskey.
3. Lick back of frog.
