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School: Mercy Convent, Baile Mathúna (roll number 3865)

Location:
Ballymahon, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Sr. M. Clement
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0752, Page 009

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    The cure for a sore finger long ago was a poultice of boiled turnips.
    The cure for a wart was to get up early in the morning, and rub a black snail on it, and put him on a blackthorn bush, until the wart would wear off. If there was a rock with a hole that would hold water, and if you washed your wart in it for three mornings the wart would go.
    For a sore throat they used to put roasted salt in a stocking and tie it round their necks, and another cure was to rub paraffin oil around it.
    For a chilblain, roasted salt, they used to put it
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Conlon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballymahon, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Conlon
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballymahon, Co. Longford