School: Garrdha (roll number 12721)
- Location:
- Garra, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó hAnnracháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0026, Page 0060
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There was a man poisened from eating tin-fish but he ate a quarter stone of onions and was cured.
There is a plant called "comfry" and it is very good for swelling and cuts.
Onions are good for a pain in the ear.
Cold tea is good for a sty in your eye.
Fat bacon is good for a bile.
Washing soda is good for warts.
Any cure that the owner of a white horse would give you would cure the chincough.
There is a cure in the juice of chicken weed for a lump in a horses breast. It is boiled in a pot with a small sup of water. Then it is rubbed of the lump and it reduces it.
It would cure chin cough to drink ferrits leavings.
A crane boiled into jelly and rubbed into the affected spots is a cure for rheumatism.
It you had a sore tongue and a person who never saw his father to blow into your mouth three times it would cure it.
It you had tooth-ache and your cheek was swollen and you got some chicken-weed warmed it and pressed it to your cheek they swelling would go down.
If you had a swelling and to rub some goose-grease(continues on next page)
