School: Stonehall, Cora Caitlín
- Location:
- Stonehall, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Páidraig Mac Cormaic
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- Chin-cough - a ferrets' leavings
Ear-ache: Pour a few drops of warm olive oil or whiskey into it.
Boils: Lard and mashed-turnip. Hot onion
Headache: Let brown paper steeped in vinegar rest on the forehead
A Cold: hot milk and pepper or mustard. Slice a turnip and sprinkle brown sugar over it. Allow it to set for 24 hours and drink the juice that comes from it. Slice an onion into a jar and on every slice put two spoons of brown sugar. Leave for a night. Then drink juice.
A Cut: pigs fat allowed to become yellow
A Cough: - Onions and sugar.
Warts: (1) Hide a piece of meat underground. As the meat rots the wart decays
(2) Rub them with the water in the holes of rocks
(3) Milk-weed
(4) Rub them with a snail. Bury the snail. As the snail rots the wart rots. When you meet a black snail [?] it to the(continues on next page)
