School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.)
- Location:
- Ballina, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: D. P. Ó Cearbhaill
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- (continued from previous page)60. Tripe is also a cure for a bad stomach.
61. A cure for a toothache put a drop of parafinoil in it and the pain will go.
62. For the headache rub vinegar to your forehead
63. For a toothache put salt into the tooth.
64. There is a little bush growing in the bogs called furze and there is a cure in it for a horse that would have diabetous. You bring it in and chop it and put it through his food.
65. There is also a cure in a sunburned potato for diabetous. For a horse you cut it up and put it through his food.
66. Boil a chicken's guizard for a few hours in milk and then drink it. Its a cure for a bad stomach.
67. There is a cure in water-cress for the evil. Eat it every morning before breakfast.
68. There is a cure in garlic for bronchite's. If they taste it occasionlly it helps them to breath freely.
69. A cure for a gumboil is to roast a fig on a coal and put it to the gumboil for to burst it.
70. A cure for sore feet is to mix unsalted butter and the clippings of horse's hooves and rub it to your feet.
71. A cure for sore eye's is unsalted butter and rub(continues on next page)