School: Flower Hill (roll number 12788)
- Location:
- Flower Hill, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Isabel Mc Quade
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0700, Page 309
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- (continued from previous page)have on your hands. They are not sore but they do a person's skin harm. To cure them get a snail and put it on them and leave it on for five minutes. They they will go away in a short time.
- People often have lumbago. It is a very sore thing to have but it is said if you take glauber salts every second morning you will never get it again.
- If a person has a bad cold and a cough, heat camphorated oil and rub it to his chest and put brown paper over it and the cough will get easier and wear away.
- Collector
- R. Mc Allen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Allen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Navan, Co. Meath
- If a little baby took convulsions put him in a bath of hot water and put a cold sponge(continues on next page)
