School: Castlecoote (roll number 6344)
- Location:
- Castlecoote, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ghabhláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0263, Page 177
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1.Yellow Jaundice can be cured by drinking the water strained after boiling Sheep's manure. Boil sheep's manure in a saucepan of water, then strain off into a vessel, allow to cool and then drink.
2. If a person gets a scrape of a cat, or a bite of a dog, he can be cured by pulling out a rib of hair from the cat or dog that did the harm and placing it on the wound.
3. When you have a sty on your eye get a branch off a gooseberry bush and paint a thorn to the sty each morning for nine mornings.
4. If suffereing from a wart on your hand, dip it into the froth in which potatoes were boiled.
5. When a person gets a bump on the forehead and it starts to swell press a penny on it for a while and the swelling will go down.
6. A very good cure for a thorn is to get a foxe's tongue and leave it on the part of the hand in which the thorn is. After a few days the thorn will come out.
7. For a cut on the hand allow a dog to lick it and it will soon be better.
8. Rub a dock leaf on the leg stung by a nettle and it will soon be relieved from the sting.
9. The following is a cure for an earache -(continues on next page)
