School: Rosmead (roll number 7212)
- Location:
- Cavestown and Rosmead, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: E. Lynch
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0726, Page 120
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- (continued from previous page)9. Put boiled bacon and an ivy leaf on corns and it will cure them
10. The cure of sprains is hold your foot under a water fall
11. The cure of sprains or bruises is to rub goose grease on it and the person who has it is Mrs. Sheridan in Crowenstown and Mrs. Hobson in Clonarney.
12. A child that has never seen his father has the cure of the dirty mouth.
12 The cure of the pimples is get an egg and rub the skin that is inside the shell on them
14 The cure of the gumboil is fill your mouth with hot water
15 The cure of the gumboil is get a bit of an ash tree and burn it and put it to your gumboil
16 The cure of the toothache is tie a thread around the tooth and then tie a key of a door and pull the tooth that way.
17 The cure of the toothache is put pepper in the hole of the tooth
18 The cure of the toothache is rub Sloans-liniment out side on the jaw(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Gaffney
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Gaffney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonarney, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mrs Gaffney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonarney, Co. Westmeath
