School: Ráth Ó gCormaic (C.), Carraig na Siúire
- Location:
- Rathgormuck, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Dhálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0655, Page 265
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Liver Complaint. Drink butter-milk.
Sprain in the leg. Put it under cold running water.
Ring worm. Burn straw and put a flat iron over the steam from it. Then rub the steam with a piece of cloth and rub the cloth to the ring worm.
Yellow Jaundice. Penny leaves which are to be found in a stone ditch. Boil them in milk and when they are boiled strain off the penny leaves and drink the milk.
Cataract. Burn ivy leaves into ashes and break them very finely and put them into the animals eye.
Pain in the ear.
Roast a potato and put it to the ear.
Warts. 1) Put the juice of a Dandelion on the warts. 2) Get a snail with a shell on it and rub it to the warts and then hang the snail on a thorn. When the snail is withered the warts will go away.
Chilblains. get a half of a potatoe and runb it to the chilblains for three nights.
Measles. Get sheep dung and put it in a cloth, and put it in hot milk until the juice comes out. Then drink the milk.
Pain in tooth. Get a snail and rub it to the(continues on next page)
