School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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“It's a good horse that never stumbles.”
(continued from previous page)Feed a Cold and Starve a Fever
Cure for a Cold
Take hot camomile tea (a dozen flowers to a pint of boiling water.) Camomile tea, taken cold, is also a spendid liver tonic.Cure for consumption
Get roots of comfrey, boil well strain and drink a wineglass of it three times a day. Cure for a bielded or festered finger
Get a piece of bacon and nitre and bandage it with this. Cure for pimples
Rub them with a mixture of unsalted butter and suplhur. Cure for freckles or sunburn
Bathe the affected parts nightly with butter milk.Cure for hives
Rub with bread soda or vinegar and take fasting and mixure of treacle and sulphur. Cure for sore throat
Beat up an egg white with honey and take To stop bleeding
Give the patient a wad of paper to chew.
- Cure for a bielded or festered finger. No 93.
Get a piece of bacon and nitre and bandage it with this.
Cure for pimples. No. 94.
Rub them with a mixture of unsalted butter and suplhur.
Cure for freckles or sunburn. No 95.
Bathe the affected parts nightly with butter milk. - Cure for hives No. 96
Rub with bread soda or vinegar and take fasting and mixture of treacle and sulphur.
Cure for sore throat No. 97.
Beat up an egg white with honey and take
To stop bleading No 98.
Give the patient a wad of paper to chew.
