School: Liath-Mhuine
- Location:
- Leaffony, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Fhionnlaoich
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 356
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- An old cure for Whooping cough is to get milk from a man who has married a woman of the same name as himself and take three sups of the milk for nine mornings after each other and on the nineth morning the Whooping cough is cured.The cure for toothache is to get a frog and put it in your mouth and hold it in your mouth until the pain goes. Or to get a horses tooth when you are not looking for it and put it in the tooth the pain is in and the pain goes immediately.The oldest and best cure for Ringworm is the raking of the ashes in the morning. Make a plaster of ashes and your fasting spit put it where the disease is for nine morning.To cure Whooping cough go to a brewery and get a tarry rope bring it home cut it into small pieces and tease it out finely. Then place in between too round pieces of red flannel and tie round the nick with too tapes.A cure for corns is, bathe the foot in a basin of soda water pull a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Finnerty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathlee, Co. Sligo
