School: Skerries, Athy (roll number 10975)
- Location:
- Skerries North, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Tansey
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- Thrush is a sore thing that babies get on their tongues.
The way to cure it is to get a piece of bread and rub it on an ass's tongue and after that on the baby's tongue. Then the thrush will go away. My grandmother told me this and she said it was a good cure.
- Collector
- John Tansey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballitore, Co. Kildare
- The cure for Neuralgia is to heat salt and put it in a stocking and tie it round round your neck as tightly as you can bear it.
My mother had Neuralgia very badly one time and she used the hot salt and she was cured.
