School: Scoil na mBráthar (roll number 16741)
- Location:
- New Ross, Co. Wexford
- Teachers: Aindrias Ó Caoilte Br Ó Cinnéide
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- Cure for boils. Get some soap and sugar and mix them together. Then melt them amd place them on a cloth. Then put them on the boil, and it will cure it.------------Cure for Warts. Get some dendelion and squeeze the juice on the warts and they will go away.------------Cure for a stone-bruise. Get some yellow dock leaves and squeeze the juice out of them. After that put the juice on a piece of cloth and tie it around the stone-bruise.------------Cure for a sore eye. Wash it with cold tea and it wil cure it.------------Cure for corns. Get some penny royal leaves which grow on the ditches. Heat the leaves near the fire, for a few minuts and put them on the corn whilst they are hot.------------Cure for a pain in your head. Drink plenty of cold water, or hold your heas over the fumes of a hot teapot.------------Cure for a pain in your ear. Heat a spoonful of olive oil and pour it in your ear.
When that is done put cotton wool in the ear.------------(continues on next page)
