School: Baile na Cille (roll number 7454)
- Location:
- Ballynakilla, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Loingaigh
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- (continued from previous page)sugar and left them over night, then they drank the juice. When they had the measles they got sheep's droppings and boiled them with water and then they drank the water. If they had toothache they put seagull's droppings into their tooth to stop the pain.
- A cure for a burn is boil an egg and get the white of the egg and put it against the burn or the minute you get burn rub bread soda to it and it will not blister or a grated potato will heal a burn. A cure for a sore throat is get some camomile and put it into a basin and put hot water over it and put your head over it and inhale the steam that rises from it. A cure for a sore chest is get black unwashed wool and heat the wool and rub fresh butter to it and put it up against your chest. Another cure for a sore chest is get sugar candy and black sweets and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynakilla, Co. Cork
