School: Monagear (roll number 16292)
- Location:
- Monagear, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Donnchadh Ó hÉanaigh
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- (continued from previous page)303Local cures (continuedWhen a father and mother have the same name the mother can cure whooping cough.
She makes a little cake and gives a piece of it to the child that had the whooping cough, three mornings in succession.
A cure for the mumps is to burn salt and flour and put the burnt salt and flour on flannel and tie the flannel round your neck.
A cure for the mumps is to stand over boiling water and let the steam go down your neck.
The seventh son should become a doctor.
A cure for toothache is to get a straw from the Christmas Crib and chew it.
