School: Bailieboro (C.)
- Location:
- Bailieborough, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1011, Page 114
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- (continued from previous page)with "goose seam". (The fat taken from the intestineg of a goose).
Cold and Hoarseness:- (1) Buttermilk and sugar taken as a hot drink going to bed.
(2.) White of egg, lemon juice and candy sugar taken at intervals.
(3) Black currant jelly made into a hot drink.
Wildfire (a rash):- Rub with gold.
Toothache:- 1. Fill the cavity in the tooth with cotton-wool soaked in whiskey.
2. Rub the gums with bread-soda.
To Purify the Blood:- Give children a mixture of sulphur and treacle in the Spring time.
Whooping Cough:- Get an egg and milk from some one who did not change her name at marriage.
Sore or Weak Eyes:- An old cure is bathe the eyes in breast-milk every morning for nine mornings.
