School: Cathair Loisgreáin (C)
- Location:
- Caherlustraun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire Nic Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0022, Page 0513
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- (continued from previous page)5. For sprains, to bathe in boiled bran for nine nights, and to put a woolen thread around it.
6. For a sore throat, cut a thin slice of bacon and apply it to the throat with a good flannel cloth around it.
7. For la headache, a good strong cup of tea and a few aspirins.
8. For sore eyes, a drop of hot milk, to drop it into them
9. For a pain in the ear, to warm a drop of castor oil and drop it into the ear,
10. For pains in the side, or in the hip, or even toothache, warm the smoothing iron and apply within a red flannel.
11. If stung by a nettle, apply a dock-leaf
12. For corns- apply an ivy-leaf.
- Collector
- Mary Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Conneely
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Derrymore, Co. Galway
