School: Johnstown
- Location:
- Johnstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Doherty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0726, Page 347
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- Mrs. Murray, Johnstown, has the cure of the jaundice, made from herbs.
Mrs. Aughy, Fennor, has the cure of the jaundice, the ringworm and the running worm.
Mrs. Reilly, Rickardstown has the cure of the whooping cough because she is married to a man of the same name as herself. She gives two (cuts) slices of wheaten bread and butter covered with sugar to each person suffering from this sickness.
Thomas O'Farrell, Rickardstown, Collinstown, has the cure of the burn because he licked the red spot on a man-keepers' back. If he licks a burn after one getting it, it prevents it from blistering.
