School: Shrove (roll number 3470)
- Location:
- Stroove, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Leonard Bovaird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 8
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Bouglus mixed with oatmeal and boiled is good for cuts or burns when made into a poultice.
Goose oil is good for burns.
A plantin leaf is good for cuts.
Centry is good for indigestion.
Boghum is good for asthma
A cure for whooping cough was to put a child under a donkey nine time.
A fasting spittle is good for warts
A dab of a gooseberry bush nine times is good for a stye.
Tar is good for ringworm
Buttermilk and Baking soda for burns.
Stocking full of hot salt for sore throat
Cold running water cures sprain
Smoke a pipe to cure toothache.
Oil and lime water to cure burns.
An eel skin cures sprains.
Roasted onion is cure for chilblains
Oil of Gander cures thrush.
Rub of snail cures warts
Eat onions is cure for rheumatism
For bruises or hives apply a leech.
Blind well cures blindness
Parts of frog as poultice cures toothache.
Hot Garlic in ear to cure neuralgia.
Boiled Burr Roots are good for blood(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leonard Bovaird
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
