School: Derreenargan
- Location:
- Derreenargan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Fionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0232, Page 213
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- (continued from previous page)of nettles.
A person who never saw his own or her own father has the cure of the foul mouth.
An excellent application for a burn is a simple covering of common wheat flour.
If chickens are suffering from "gapes" a very good cure for it is to put the chickens into a box and shake fresh lime in through them and leave them there for nearly five minutes.
If you are suffering from a cold in the head the best cure for it is to spill a drop of Jeyes fluid on a coal and inhale the vapour that comes from it.
A good cure for deafness is to put a teaspoonful of heated olive-oil into the ear or glycerine is another(continues on next page)
