School: Mercy Convent
- Location:
- Belturbet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: The Sisters
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 157
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- A cure for corns is to get a slice of lemon and put it on the corns for a few nights when going to bed.
A tootache is cured by rubbing a frog in the gum.
A burn is cured by covering it with boot-polish.
A cure for a cough is to boil a root of garlic in a pint of sweet milk.
Another cure for a cough is to eat a raw onion before going to bed.
A cure for warts is to get the milk of a dandelion and put it on the warts.
Another cure for warts is when a funeral is going past to say "I send these warts to the grave with thee" and the warts will disappear.
A cure for a sore through is to boil butter milk and sugar and drink it at night before going to bed.
A cure for chillblains is to rub parafin oil on then.
Kathleen McCabe, Ballinlough, Belturbet.
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinlough, Co. Cavan
