School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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- Celia Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Thomas Dalton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Bracklin Little, Co. Offaly
- Measels:- hot drinks and punch.
- Erysipselas:- Scorched flour and new white flannel.
- Hand Cracks: A cure for hand cracks is to melt wax and put it into the cracks.
- Colds:- 1. Boiled butter-milk and a lump of butter and sugar is a great cure for a cold.
2.Another cure for a cold is boiled flaxseed and a lemon. - 3. Another cure is black currant jam made into punch.
- Asthma:- Raw turnips and brown sugar.
- Sty in your eye:- Squirt a drop of cows milk from the udder of the cow into the eye,
2. Prod the sty with three gooseberry thorns for nine mornings. The three thorns must be put away in a piece of paper.
