Volume: CBÉ 0265
- Date
- 1935
- Collector
- Location
![The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0265, Page 0599](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbe/CBE_0265%2FCBE_0265_0599.jpg?format=jpg&width=1600&quality=85)
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0265, Page 0599
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- (continued from previous page)Rheumatism -
(1) Take one drop of turpentine in water & increase dose by one drop on each of nine mornings & in the meantime apply turpentine on red flannel to the affected parts.
(2) apply a green cabbage leaf
(3) Plaster of pitchWound -
(1) Cover with skin of egg
(2) Cover with cobwebCuts or Sores - Dogs lickMeasles or Yellow Jaundice - Boil sheep dung in milk & drink milk when strained off.Whooping Cough -
(1) Ass is brought in on floor & patient passed 3 times under & over it in home (in home of father, son etc)
(2) Ass eats loaf and patient eats crumbs that drop from its mouth
(3) Ass eats hot stirabout & patient eats asses resulting excrement.(N.B. Mrs Keenan of Kyle told me that she herself saw this being done when a youngster).(continues on next page)