School: Breachmhaigh (roll number 13222)
- Location:
- Breaghwy, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Giolla Pheadair
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- (continued from previous page)Cough: - Get some flax-seed, candy, liquorice and lemon. Mix all together in water. Strain the mixture and boil for about an hour. Strain again and allow to cool. Drink a wine glass of the liquid a couple of times a day and the cough will soon be cured. Warts: - There is a herb called dárach found growing in cabbage. Squeeze the juice from this herb and rub it to the warts two or three times each day. In a few days they will have disappeared. Mumps: - Put the donkey’s bridle on the person who has the mumps and drive them three times in and out to the horse’s stable.Whooping cough: - Warm some donkey’s milk and drink. Ring Worm: - The seventh son or seventh daughter in a family can cure this disease. The sufferer of this disease must go to the one who has the cure. The person having the(continues on next page)
