School: Tulach Cruinn, Inis (roll number 7708)
- Location:
- Tullycreen Upper, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Maranáin
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Sean-leigheasanna.
A Headache=To put your head over a jug of boiling tea and inhale the steam.
Ring-Worm=Write the name around the ring worm three times and it will disappear.To plaster it with ink,parrafin-oil,washing soda mixed together .Melt the tallow of a candle and rub it to the ring-worm.A Sty.=To make the Sign of the Cross on it three mornings while fasting.
Boils=The shell of a snail pounded very fine and put the boil will draw the matter and cure it.
Cuts=A plant grows wild named "cats ear"which is chewed and mixed with cob-webs would stop bleeding.(2)Fresh staple manure applied to the cut will stop bleeding.
Rheumatism=Slash yourself with nettles.
Bad Stomach=Wild garlic eaten raw is good.(continues on next page)
