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 121
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- It is said that if you get Marsh mellows and boil them. Then bathe the place where you have Rheumatism and it will cure it.
- The cure for a cold is to boil some buttermilk and drink it going to bed.
- This cure is well known in my district. Mix the juice of a mangold with some Caster Oil, mix it well and put it on the burn.
- The cure for this sickness is to get the second bark of an elm, boil it well and drink the substance.
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- Louis Smith
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