School: Tuaim Gréine, Lúbán Díge
- Location:
- Tomgraney, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Cadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0591, Page 228
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- (continued from previous page)If a cat bit you put a small bit of butter to the cut and let a dog lick it.
Put cold milk to a burn and it would get cured.
The cure for corns is to wash your legs in water and washing soda.
Sore eyes are cured by going to a well for a week and by rubbing them with water.
Warts are cured by rubbing lamp oil to them.
The skin inside the shell of an egg cures sore heels.
Garlic is used as a cure for asthma.
To drink the leavings of milk you would give to a ferret would cure the Whooping Cough.
