School: Inis (B.) (roll number 15042)

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1. Care of the Feet (continued)

   

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   1. Welts. The welts come on the ball of the foot. The cause of these welts is uneven boots, or cheap boots, or badly tanned leather. A good cure for welts is to bathe your feet in epsom salts.
   2. Another cure is to paint your feet with iodine and wash them in hot water.
   3. Another cure is to get a piece of cloth and make a plasture of bread soda and rub it to the welt.
   4. Another cure is to get hot tea leaves and press them hard to the welt with a tight bandage. Keep this to the welt and leave it on for a day or two. When you take it off the welt will be gone.
   5. The cure for welts is to rub bread soda to them.
   6. Get goose-grease and rub it hard to the welts.
   7. Get a pan of hot water and put washing soda into it, and then bathe your foot in it.
   1. Bunions. Bunions come around the tops of the toes. The cure for bunions is to boil an onion and to rub it to the bunion.
   2. Another cure is to get paraffin oil and rub it to them.
   1. Boundlocks. Boundlocks come around the heel. The cure for boundlocks is to get soap and grind it up very fine. Then get sugar and mix it through the soap and put it up to the sore.
   2. Another cure is to get very hot water and

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
         1. shoes (~1,841)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Michael Heffernan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ennis, Co. Clare