School: Mercy Convent
- Location:
- Belturbet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: The Sisters
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- A cure for warts is to get a black snail and rub it on the warts for nine mornings and when the nine mornings are up you should stick the snail on a gooseberry bush.
Corns are cured by getting the fat of bacon and tying it on the corns for three days.
A cure for hacked hands is to melt wax and rub it on them.
Toothache is cured by chewing tobacco.
A cure for a cold is to boil butter-milk and sugar and drink it and then go to bed.
Chilblains are cured by rubbing the juice of an onion on them every night.
A cure for a boil is to put hot water into a bottle and put it up to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Evelyn Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Belturbet, Co. Cavan
