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Bleeding
For a bad cut, that is bleeding a lot, take a cobweb and put it over the cut. This will stop the bleeding.

Chesty Baby
Get a sheet of brown paper. Cut it out in the shape of a vest. Coat the back and front of the “vest” with goose grease or the melted wax from a blessed candle (it has to be a blessed candle). Put the vest on the child and leave it on until the child gets better.

Nappy Rash
One cure was to beat the white of an egg and rub it on the baby’s skin.
Another cure was to get a piece of an old wool blanket like a Foxford blanket. Scorch it until it gets very brown. The rub it into a powder between your hands. Put this powder on the baby.

Adult Flu
Put plenty of water into a pot. Put in some flake meal and lots of sugar and boil it. Make it watery. Then give it to the person to drink.

Convulsions
If a child gets a convulsion, put them into a bath of luke warm water as quickly as possible. Put a spoon into their mouth to stop them from swallowing their tongue. Hold them carefully in the bath until the convulsion stops.

Coeliac
The best cure for coeliac is goat’s milk.

Sore Eye
Bathe the eye with salt and water or rub it with a cold teabag.
 
The Lucky Chemist

For a baby with a cough Traveller women use 'Hiprewindsand squells'. This was a medicine made in a chemist called 'The Lucky Chemist' in Thomas St in Dublin. This chemist is still operating today.

Thrush in the mouth
Dip a teat or a soother in borax and honey and rub it around the mouth. Another “cure” which involved rubbing the baby’s own wet nappy in their mouth!!!!!!!!

 

 
A sprained leg or ankle
In the old days when, water pumps were a common thing along the roadside, the sprained ankle or leg was held under the cold running water from the pump.