School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)
- Location:
- Béal an Átha Móir, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Seán Heslin
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A cure for a bad cold.
If you have a bad cold get a cup of milk and an onion. Boil the onion through the milk. Then drink what is left and eat the onion after.
A cure for a sore throat.
If you have a sore throat get a cup of luke-warm water and put a grain of salt in it. Then gargle the throat with this solution.
Charlie Comerford,
Convent Road,
Ballinamore.
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- Charlie Comerford
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Béal an Átha Móir, Co. Liatroma
- A cure for wild-fire.
A cure for wild is to rub a piece of gold or a red coal out of the fire to the wild-fire. When you are rubbing them to the wild-fire say, "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen,"A cure for ring-worm.
Get polish and paraffin oil. Put a glass of paraffin oil in a jar. Then get some polish and mix well together. Then put some on the ring-worm three or four(continues on next page)
