School: Leyney (roll number 15384)
- Location:
- Ceathrú na Cloiche, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Sinéad de Brugha
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- (continued from previous page)the cough. The white of an egg or olive oil is very good for a burn. Turkey and goose fat are very good for chest trouble. A cure for a sty is to get a thorn off a gooseberry bush and rub it on the eye. This is a old cure for a sprained ankle, Some people have it. They will give you a thread to put round your ankle, it is said it will melt away. A cure for toothache is put Cresot in every day. For a nervous pain in your head put a clove in your tea.Goose seame or goose grease is an old cure for rheumatism and pneumonia.
Mountain sage is a cure for the blood.
Put a frog up to your mouth and let him bite your tooth that is supposed to be a cure for toothache.
Ferrets leavings is a cure for whooping-cough and donkeys milk is also a cure
