School: Kilmuckridge
- Location:
- Kilmuckridge, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: L. Mac Donnell
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- Cure for Measles."Give the Patient some Strong Saffron Tea", and if you ask (as I did) "whatever is Saffron tea" you would be told a plain unvarnished tale - and assured of the absolute efficacy of the cure" but you would not find the Saffron Tea in any "B.P." or Medical Pharmacology of the day, for how should I write it without offending - Saffron tea is the brew of sheep's manure, and is supposed when taken as a strong potion to "bring out" the measles in the Patient.
And on telling my narrator that a Patient would now want be so patient as to be dead before such an infliction Could be administered He replied, "Well Master, I took it myself"- Informant
- John Dempsey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Killincooly More, Co. Wexford