School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 154
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Get a piece of bacon and nitre and bandage it with this.
Cure for pimples. No. 94.
Rub them with a mixture of unsalted butter and suplhur.
Cure for freckles or sunburn. No 95.
Bathe the affected parts nightly with butter milk. - Cure for hives No. 96
Rub with bread soda or vinegar and take fasting and mixture of treacle and sulphur.
Cure for sore throat No. 97.
Beat up an egg white with honey and take
To stop bleading No 98.
Give the patient a wad of paper to chew.