School: Druim na hAdhairce (roll number 14379)
- Location:
- Drumnaheark East, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Mhic Robhartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1037, Page 30
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- (continued from previous page)him to lick you where you have the cancer it would go away. If you go to the river with a donkey bridle on you and take three mouthfuls of water it is a cure for the mump’s.
- The cure for measles is to keep warm and drink liquor. The cure for mumps is to put the donkey’s bridle on the person who is affected and lead him to the bog water. The patient who has scarlet fever goes to the hospital to get treatment. Goat’s milk is the cure for consumption. The people who have consumption go to the sanatorium. Olive oil is the cure for burns. The cure for sprains is to bandage the place affected. The cure for warts is to burn them with caustic. The cure for the rose is bog water lifted before the sun rises and after she sets. There were certain people who had the cure for cancer.
- Collector
- Teresa Cunnaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Mountcharles, Co. Donegal
