School: Leacht na mBard (Latnamard) (roll number 16769)
- Location:
- Latnamard, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 357
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- The cure of the mumps is to tie the halter of an ass around the affected persons heck and lead him round the pig sty or over a south running river every day for nine days after each other.
It is said that warts are cured by rubbing the, with the water that is in a hole in the side of a tree in the graveyard.
Any person owning a piebald horse can cure the measles. Whatever such a person gives the sufferer to eat or drink will be a cure.
The cure of the chin-cough is to put the child three times under a young ass foal that never wore a saddle. After this give the child a drink of spring-water and the juice of flax-seed.
The whooping cough is cured by catching a trout in the river and bringing(continues on next page)
