School: Baile na mBreathnach (Welchtown) (roll number 9882)
- Location:
- Welchtown, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: R. A. Alcorn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1093, Page 093
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- Diseases...................Cures
Whooping Cough ....Take mare's milk. Jump over a donkey three times. Make a cake and take three pieces of it, every morning.
Evil.... The seventh son can cure for evil.
Mumps... The person that has the mumps gets some other one to lead them across a "merch" burn with a rope and horse's winkers.
Warts. .... Rub them with gizard of a fowl. Rub it with a snail and hang the snail up on a bush
Jaundice.....Take a white of an egg three mornings and a glass of water.
