School: Gleann Bruacháin (C.), Cnoc Luinge (roll number 12614)
- Location:
- Gleann Bruacháin, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Sheighin
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- (continued from previous page)For Sprains or twists -keep injured joint in water as hot as "you can bear it" & have kettle boiling to keep up that temperature.Burn of nettlecured by immediately applying juice leaf of dock leaf.For Pain in the ear,blow your breath into it."Hives" or nettle rashis cured by bathing the body, in water, to which bread-soda has been added, or bran water may be added. This bran water is bot by pouring boiling water over bran between two cloths & squeezing the water on to the bath. Bread soda applied dry to the little itch eases it or another application to ease the discomfort of itching is ordinary ground starch applied dry.For Backache,they say that the seventh son of a family has a cure - to allow him walk on the back of the sufferer - a cure also for the lumbago.For tonsilitis,the ear of a black cat tied loosely round the neck gives immediate relief.For pain the back,in Ballingarry near Maguires on side of the road is a [?] & people say to go in & out under this three times is a cure for backache.[Drawing](continues on next page)
