School: Baile Ard
- Location:
- Ballard, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Floinn
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- (continued from previous page)father a cure for ringworm in calves, but it is quite a different mixture to what he has for human beings.
The cure is for calves half pound of sugar of lead mixed into a vaseline with half a pound of lard. This is to be rubbed on with a quill in the night and the crush or scab that has formed during the night is to be rubbed off with a stick in the morning. After a few days the hair begins to grow and in a week or so there will be no trace of the ringworm.
The sugar of lead would be too strong to use on human beings. There is a woman living in Kilrush about 8 miles from this who has a cure for jaundice, but whatever it is composed of it is a most wonderful cure. Our parish priest(continues on next page)
