School: Scoil na mBráthair, An Teampall Mór (roll number 13247)

Location:
Templemore, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An Br. Ó Laoghaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 025

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 025

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  1. Whiskey is a very good cure for a person that has the measles.
    If a person had the whooping cough, the juice of a lemon and sugar-of-candy will cure it.
    If a person was suffering from rheumatism frog spawn put in a bottle and buried in the ground for about a month, until it dissolves and rubbed to the joints will remove the pain.
    A very good cure for a person who has corns is to bathe his feet in water in which washing soda is dissolved, will soften the corns so that they can be picked out.
    If a person has warts on his hand rub a stolen piece of fat meat to them.
    If a person has a pain in the ear the best cure is Lourdes water.
    Boil robin-run-the-hedge and put it to boils is a good cure.
    Prod a sty with a thorn off a gooseberry bush is a good cure.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
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      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
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