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) Put hot mustard on a cloth and apply.
Rheumatism:
(1) Take a hot bath with Sloan's Liniment in it.
(2) Rub home-made linement on the part affected.
Influenza:
(1) Drink half a pint of lemonade each day and ly in bed.
(2) Drink lemon juice
Sore Throat:
(1) Drink hot butter-milk and a spoon of sugar melted in going to bed.
(2) Put hot salt in a stocking and tie around the neck.
(2) Gargle with soft water mixed with salt.
Corns:
(1) Mix baking soda in buttermilk and apply
(2) Apply an ivy leaf.
(3) Rub turf-mould and it will take away the soreness.
Sore eyes:
(1) Rub on cold tea going to bed.
(2) Boil ivy and allow the steam to get into the eyes.
(3) Bathe the eyes in soft water going to bed.
A Pain:
(1) For a pain in the side spit on a stone and leave it down on the same place again.(continues on next page)
