School: The Vale (An Gleann)
- Location:
- Leiter, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Brolcháin
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Nose-bleeding:- Put a penny at the back of the neck. Throw cold water on the neck.
Burn:- lick a mankeeper nine times and lick the burn three times.
Choking:- Thump the person on the back and blow into his ears:-
Warts:- Get a snail and rub it to the warts, then hang the snail on a whitethorn bush, and according as it is withering the warts are withering also.
Mumps:- Put the donkeys winkers on the patient's head and lead him around the pig house three times saying "Lickna Lickna, Muckna Muckna."
Nettle Sting:- Get a docken leaf, rub it three times on the spot where you have got the sting and say
Docken Docken in and out
Take a sting of a nettle out.
If you don't I will cut your throat
Docken Docken in and out.
Measles:- If roots of nettles are washed and boiled in water it is then called nettle tea. The nettles are mixed with equal parts of milk. A half a cup-full of it is given to the patient four times a day until the rash appears. They are kept in bed until the rash is gone in about a week.
Fits:- The person who has fits must eat hard bread and milk until they get better.
Chickenpox:- Rub chickenweed on the chickenpox.(continues on next page)
