School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Heslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 170
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- A cure for earache
Pour a few drops of slightly warmed olive oil into the ear. Then plug loosely with cotton wool. A cure for a sore throat.
Mix one teaspoonful of powdered borax and two tablespoonfuls of honey. Then warm the mixture in a cup stirring until dissolved. When cool apply to throat and roof of mouth with a small brush. A cure for a cough.
Boil 1lb black treacle in a quart of water. When cool stir in the following, 1 pennyworth of each, essence of peppermint, syrup of quills, one pennyworth of parigoric and 2d worth essence of horehound. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day after meals. A cure for broken bones or stiff bones. Boil hemlock in water for 20 mins. Then bathe the bones with the juice. The leaves may be into a plaster and applied to the bone or joint. Then bandage it tightly to the broken bone.
- Collector
- Willie Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Stradermot, Co. Leitrim
