School: Rosses's Point (roll number 12133)
- Location:
- An Ros, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Raighne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 158
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- A cure for whooping cough is to fill a saucer full of milk and give it to a ferret to drink and whatever he leaves over let the person who has the cough drink it.Another old cure for a cough is to get a spanish onion and mix it with brown sugar. Leave it covered for the night and drink it in the morning.A cure for a sore throat is to put a piece of red flannel round the throat.An old cure for corns is to tie a piece of limpid, of a sock, to the corn for a night.A cure for a sty on the eye is to pick ten thorns of a gooseberry tree and throw one away and point(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seamus Gillen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Ros, Co. Shligigh
