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School: Ross (roll number 12789)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0718, Page 136

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    Heartsease is good for the same complaint.
    Bogbane is good for kidney trouble
    Hops for sleeplessness
    The fruit of the elderberry is used to make elderberry wine, which is a nourishing drink
    Bleeding heart and St Patrick's leaves will stop a cut from bleeding.
    A sure cure for chin-cough is for you to stop the first person you meet riding a white horse. Ask him what cure he has for the chin-cough and whatever he says do it and the cough will go. Another cure for it is to boil three snail in a glass of milk and take the milk three mornings in succession, fasting
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mrs Joseph Mullen
    Gender
    Female
    Occupation
    Teacher
    Address
    Mount Nugent, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Joseph Lynch
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Farren Connell, Co. Cavan