School: Glassalts (roll number 1239)
- Location:
- Glasalt or Treanfasy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. P. Ó Dochartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)(2) Boil whin blossoms in a quart of water and drink.
Boils:
(1) Put Venus turpentine on a cloth and apply
(2) A poultice of loaf bread boiled in milk.
(3) A poultice of Indian porridge.
Flatulence:
(1) Melt a teaspoonful of soda and drink it.
(2) Half a cup of milk with half a teaspoonful of soda melted in it and drink.
Headache:
(1) Tie a cloth around the head.
(2) Soak a cloth in vinegar and tie around the head.
(3) Put a cloth on a bush on St. Brigid's night. After that when the head is sore tie the cloth on it.
Toothache:
(1) Put snuff on the tooth.
(2) Hold alum on the tooth, and let it dissolve.
(3) Put salt-petre on a piece of cotton-wool and apply.
(4) Put a drop of iodine on the tooth.
Mumps:
(1) Put winkers on the head and then go to a stream that is running south and take a sip.(continues on next page)
