School: Fearglass (roll number 15616)
- Location:
- Fearglass South, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 431
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- (continued from previous page)and pounded between the wood and the stone and boiled in unsalted butter or beef fat then taken up and strained will make good ointment for wound or burn and they are known as the planting leaf, slanles and gaston. There is a worthy well in this town and if you pay three visits to it and drop a pin in it each time and rub the water to the wart it will cure them.The laurel leaf pounded and boiled in unsalted butter is good for a burn.
Melted lard and white chalk is another good cure for a burn.
Red soap and sugar mixed together and put to a bad wound will draw out the poison and cure it.
Cow dung and new milk mixed together and used as a poultice will break a lump. Fairy finger roots boiled and strained and the water of it given to pigs will both prevent and cure convulsions.
If a person was hoarse and get garlic and pound it and put it to the soles of his feet it would cure it.
Buttermilk and sugar boiled together and drink it when you are going to bed will cure a cold.(continues on next page)
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