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 373
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- The cure for jaundice is to get jaundice water and wet the patients inside clothes with it in bed and make him remain there till they dry into him.
The cure for whooping cough is, if the child meets a man riding a white horse and if he tells the child to eat a slice of white bread and butter and sugar.
The cure for a sore throat is to roast salt, put it in a stocking and keep it on your throat all night.
There is a herb called rose-noble which cures diseases of the blood.
There is a man called John Norris of Deseart who has the cure for stopping blood.
The cure for toothache is to go under a briar three times in the name of the three divine persons.
Paraffin oil washing-soda is another cure.
The cure for whooping cough is the remains of ferrets milk.
A cure for mumps is to go in and out of the(continues on next page)
