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School: Coracrin

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Corracrin, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
E. Ní Dhuibhghlinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0960, Page 077

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    A cure for a sore throat is to cut a lemon up and scald it and leave it till it goes cold and then drunk it.
    A cure for ringworm is to hold a plate over the smoke of a candle and put it on the ring worm.
    A cure for the hooping cough is to take milk a ferret left.
    A cure for rheumatism is to swallow a frog.
    When anybody got a thorn in their hand or foot they mixed soap and sugar together and put it on.
    The cure for sore eyes is to drink black tea.
    The cure for a sty is to prick it three times with a thorn of a gooseberry bush.
    The people used to put hot salt into a sock for a sore throat.
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