School: Beann Gulban (roll number 3301)
- Location:
- Kiltykere, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Mhic Giolla Mhártain
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- Cures
Measles:
Take Nettle Tea, keep warm and take whey or barley water.
(Nettle Tea is made by picking the fresh leaves of the nettles, boiling them and putting milk and sugar on the juice)
Whooping Cough:
1. Drink the milk of an ass.
2. If you meet a man on the road driving a white horse and if you ask him for a cure for the whooping cough, whatever he says will be a cure.
3. Catch a live trout in the river and put it in your mouth.
Mumps:
1. A person whose father and mothers name is alike has the cure of the mumps. They put an asse's bridle on the person having him the mumps and drive him or her into the pig-sty three times.
2, Put an asse's bridle on the person having the mumps and drive him or her to the mearn water(continues on next page)
