School: Móta Ghráinne Óige
- Location:
- Woodlawn, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eibhlís Ní Innse
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- (continued from previous page)If a child has measels give it plenty of punch.
For Rheumatism get a quarter lb of raisins and take out inside of them and steep in lemon juice over night and take a drink of it in the morning before breakfast.
- Sore Throat
Get a roasted onion and put it to your throat and that will cure it.
Ear Ache
Get black sheeps wool and dip it in olive oil and that would cure it.
Tooth Ache
Put a small grain of mustard into the hole of the tooth and that would cure it.
Chilblains
Starch and the white of an egg would cure chilblains.
Thrush
A child that never saw its father to blow its breath three times over the person that has the disease would be cured.
