School: St. Brigid's (B.) (roll number 12925)
- Location:
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: M. Gúld
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0880, Page 059
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- 1. A cure for warts is to put ink on them every night.
2. To cure a pain in the stomach stand on your head and get someone to shake you.
3. A cure for toothache is to put mustard on the tooth.
4. To stop blood from coning from a cut a cobweb was got and a piece of linen wrapped around it.
5. To draw a sting it was usual to rub some blue on it.
6. To cure a sprain a poultice of bran was put on the sprain.
7. To cure a sty on the eye it was usual to bath it with cold tea.
8. To cure whooping cough chop up snails and eat them.
9. A cure for biliousness is to eat boiled nettles.
- Collector
- James Bright
- Gender
- Male
