School: Balscadden (roll number 9492)
- Location:
- Balscaddan, Co. Dublin
- Teachers: P. Ó Séaghdha Francis Shaw

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suffer from teeth trouble. The ordeal was to pull the tooth out of the skull with your own teeth.
Annie Langan - Garlic, boiled in milk is a local cure for Asthma.
Garlic is common around here.
Cough Cure. Flax seed steeped, boiled & strained.
2 ozs liquorice Add a squeeze of
2 v Sugar Candy a lemon.
Put in bottle & cork.
Taken after meals.
A wine glass full.