School: Kiltegan
- Location:
- Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: S. Foxton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 216
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- For a pain in your back, rub the affected part with goose grease.A cure for cramps is, rub the affected part with goose grease.For pains:- Get the leaves of the tall rag-weed and of the small rag-weed, put them into a cup with enough buttermilk to make a paste, and rub it abut three times on the affected part.For toothache:- A frog tied to the jaw is supposed to take the toothache away.A cure for chickens with the pip is, dip a feather in turpentine and twist it gently in the wind-pipe and the worms will stick to the feather.Sulphur and buttermilk are good for hens with liver complaint.A cure for a dog with distemper, is to give it a ball of blue in butter.For cattle with ringworms:- make an ointment of sulphur, salt and buttermilk, and rub it on the ringworms.Daisy root, Chicken weed, Groundsel, Tansy, Forum(?), Plaintain leaf, Rib-grass, Yarrow, Marsh Mallow, Crow foot, Fox glove leaft, Laurel leaf,(continues on next page)
