School: Cluainín Mór (roll number 1682)
- Location:
- Cooga, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Ss. Ó Murchú Seán Ó Murchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0166, Page 005
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- Old Biddy had a cure for measles. The cure was to drink the juice of boiled nettles. She also had a cure for a sore eye, and it was to rub a bit of hawthorn bush to his eye three times. For a swollen wrist the cure was to make a straining thread of flax, and to keep it round the wrist, and not to take it off until it fell off itself.
Toothache.
If a person who had the toothache put a live frog in his mouth and kept him there for a few minutes, then he would be cured.
Mumps.
Put a bridle on the person who has the mumps, and bring him in and out of a pighouse three times, then he would be cured.
Warts.
Let the person who has warts put them bleeding, and then rub washing soda on them, and they would disappear soon afterwards.(continues on next page)
