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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0870, Page 237

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    Cures
    This is a cure for a headache. Cut a piece of brown paper to fit the forehead, steep it in vinegar, and lay it on the forehead, repeat it as still as the papers get dry.
    This is a cure for a whittlo. Put the finger into the boiling potato water three times, when the potatoes are boiling on the fire.
    This is a cure for a sty on the eye. The first who has seen the sty on the eye get a thorn of a gooseberry bush, and point it at the sty three times without touching it.
    This is a cure for a boil. Get soap and sugar and mix it together, and make ointment of it, and put it on the boil.
    This is a cure for a wart. Put your spittle on the wart for nine mornings.
    Una Doyle,
    Great Graigue,
    Fethard-on-sea,
    Co. Wexford.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Una Dolyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Graigue Great, Co. Wexford