School: Carrickaslane (roll number 365)
- Location:
- Carrickaslane, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mary Greer
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0943, Page 219
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- Local Cures
1 Crostoe rubbed between the hands and sniffed is a good cure for headaches
2 The sap of a dandelion is a good cure to put on warts
3 Paraffin-oil and turpentine mixed is a good rub for pains
4 Milk that a ferret tasted is a cure for whooping cough.
5 A child born after the father's death has a cure for mumps.
6 A pantation leaf is a cure for a cut or bruise
7 If you put a cobweb on a cut it will stop the blood.
8. When a horse has a dirty mouth you redden an iron rod in the fire and burn it away, then put a handful of salt in his mouth.
9 Blue rubbed on is a cure for the sting of an insect.
10 Peroxide of Hydrogen is good for cleaning a cut.
11. A Good poultice can be made from starch.
12. There is a cute in chick-weed for a felon in a cow's udder.
14. There is a cure in potato water for a sprain. Bath the sprain with the potato water
15 Goose seam rubbed into a sprain will cure it.
16 Goose seam will keep marked skin soft and prevent tightening
