School: Clonfad (roll number 11948)
- Location:
- Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Cionnaodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 358
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- Chin cough, the cure for this is get a cure from a man with a white horse. another cure is to get your sponsers to buy a red tape and wear it round your neck. Another cure is, to make porridge out of an asses leavings of oatmeal and eat it or to eat the leavings of a meal of a married couple of the same surname or to pass the patient three times out under a white horse or mare. Another cure is to drink a jug of asses milk.
Jaundice - the cures for this disease are to, boil herbs in stout and drink it, boil nine earthworms in milk and strain the milk and drink it, boil sheep-dungs in milk and strain the milk and drink it, boil garlic in water and drink it, boil the bark of an ash tree in water and drink(continues on next page)
