School: Glassalts (roll number 1239)
- Location:
- Glasalt or Treanfasy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. P. Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 101
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- (continued from previous page)four ozs of taking soda and a pint of water mixed.
Engle Berry:
(1) Tie horse hair on it
(2) Rub Archangel tar on it.
(Poke:
(1) Rub Jeye's Fluid on it.
(2) Cut a piece out of the sheep's ear.
Slip-tail:
(1) Split the cow's tail in the middle put in a mixture of garlic and butter and salt into the heart of the tail and tie it tightly with a cloth.
Other Cures:
Cough: Liquorice Ball + Sugar candy dissolved in water
Cut: Apply salt
Burn: Buttermilk + baking soda mixed
Drink for Sick People: Whey
"Strangles" in Cows: Add sugar to boiled whin blossoms and give juice to cow.
Humlock (a weed) is good for a strain
It is good for swellings also.
For a Hurt:
(1) Crancummer is good.
Chin cough:
Drink mare's milk.
For a Cut: Apply salt.(continues on next page)
