School: Rathkenny (roll number 15483)

Location:
Rathkenny, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Tomás Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0714, Page 220

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    on each of the following two visits.
    Local people say there are two kinds of Ringworm - one that spreads very quickly and is usually contracted from calves. A man named Patrick Dunne, Lobinstown, Slane makes an ointment which cures this in a very short time.
    The other kind of Ringworm spreads very slowly and is much more difficult to cure.
    The following is a local Recipe for curing this:-
    Hogs lard
    Gunpowder
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. ringworm (~99)
    Language
    English