School: Lios Ciúin (roll number 7829)
- Location:
- Liscune Lower, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheál S. Mac Tighearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0043, Page 0147
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- (continued from previous page)Cure for sore eyes = Wash them with cold tea.
Cure got chilblains = Rub an onion of them.
Cure for a burn = Rub the skin of a raw egg on it.
Cure for teethaches = Put whiskey and red pepper on them.
Cure for swelling = There is a cure for swelling in every knot of chicken weed.
Cure for a sting of an insect = Rub a blue bag of it and it will take the poisin out of it.
Cure for sting of a nettle = Rub a dock leaf of it.
Cure for a wart = Hide a piece of bacon in the dung-heap and as the meat rotted the wart would fade away.
Cure for a China Cough = Give milk to a ferret to drink and all he would leave after him give it to the patient to drink and the China Cough would go.
