School: Darley
- Location:
- Cootehill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Newburn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1018, Page 044
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- (continued from previous page)Chapped Hands:- Rub some unsalted fat of a cow on them.
Rashes:- Rub butter and milk on the rashes.
Stomach-pain:- Hot milk with pepper.
Wart:- Let a snail crawl over it.
Boil:- Mix soap and castor sugar and use as a poultice.
Sore Eyes:- Bathe in cold tea.
Warts:- Rub washing soda on them for 9 mornings.
Headache:- Walk or crawl under a briar.
Kidney Trouble:- Eat plenty of parsley sauce.
Chilblains:- Rub with paraffin or boil ivy leaves. In the water you boiled the leaves in bathe your feet.
Sprain:- Let cold water run over it till the ankle or wrist is very cold.
Cramp:- Drink luke warm water.
Bleeding nose:- Keep wet cold rags to your forehead.
Peeling onions:- Put a plain pin in your mouth.
Sore throat:- Wet some silk in cold water. Do not wring it out too much and tie it round your neck. Leave it on till the material is dry.
Hiccup:- Hold your breath as long as you can
Bleeding:- Get a spiders web or webs and cover the bleeding part.
Sting of bee:- Rub ink on it.
Sting of nettle:- Rub with mint(continues on next page)
