School: Sixmilebridge (C.)
- Location:
- Six-mile-bridge, Co. Clare
- Teacher: M. J. Walker
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0596, Page 387
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- (continued from previous page)Violet leaves are used for cancer or growths.
Coltsfoot leaves are very good for the chest or lungs.
Warts : (1) rub a snail to them (2) wash them in forge water.
For Decline :
Drink the water of a dandelion
For whooping cough:
Ferrets leavings.
Warts;
(1) Some water lodged in a stone or wood
(2) Rub the brown of a match to the wart for seven days. Get a different match every time.
(3) If you goo into a crag and the first stone you meet with water dip the warts into the water and they will be cured.
(4) Rub a piece of fat meat to the warts for nine days and they will be cured
(5) Rub a black snail to the warts for three then bury it and the will war away.
