School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)
- Location:
- Tullamore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Piarais
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0399, Page 142
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- (continued from previous page)the dew of the grass to the place where he is bald in a short time he has a head of hair.
52. A cure for hiccough is if somebody told you something that would frighten you and give you an awful fright they would go away.
53. A cure for a sore throat is to warm salt and to put it into a stocking and to tie it around your neck.
54. A cure for whooping cough is to drink the ferrits leavings and it will go away.
55. A cure for a pain in your tooth is if there is a hole in it to stuff it with candle grease.
56. Dogs get a fit called the corruige and the cure for it is to boil dock leaves and mix the juice in milk and give it to them to drink.(continues on next page)
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- Cáit Breathnach
- Gender
- Female
