School: Breaffy (roll number 15555)
- Location:
- Breaghwy, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Catháin
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- (continued from previous page)Boiled oat meal is the cure for boils.
Heavy tea is for a head-ache
Nettle juice is the cure for the measles.
Tobacco juice is for a a sore eye.
Jeyes fluid is a cure for a pain in the back.
The cure for wild fire, is to write the person's name on it with ink.
The cure for a burn is to hold it to the fire and the fire will take it out.
If dirt has got into a cut, the cure for it is to wash it with hot water and put a drop of parifin oil on it.
The cure for a pain in the ear is to melt butter(continues on next page)