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School: Threemilehouse (roll number 342)

Location:
Three Mile House, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
I. Mc Eneaney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0953, Page 300

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    Local Cures
    Cure of headache
    Pepperment tea will cure the headache.
    Lift a stone of the road and spit on it, and leave it in the same place as you got it.
    Cure of headache is to mix a spoon of sugar and ginger together.
    The cure of the headache is asproes (?) and salts and also liver salts every morning fasting.
    Weak Heart
    Frank Conlon, Raw, Threemile-house. Co. Monaghan, has the cure of the weak heart when you go to him with it he puts meal in a cup and if you are bad with it the meal leaves the cup.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English