School: Swanzy Memorial N. S. (roll number 10428)
- Location:
- Moville, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eilis F. Ní Stiobháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1120, Page 92
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- Local Cures.
There are many kind of local cures. There is a cure for whooping cough which was used many years ago, that is to give the patient the crumbs of oat cake which had been fed to a donkey, afterwards putting the patient under the donkey three times
Warts are supposed to be cured by rubbing them with a little black snail and washingsoda.
Boils are cured by jagging them with gooseberry jaggs every one of them must be thrown over your right shoulder before the boils disappear.
A cure for a cold is to drink hot jinger-buttermilk(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ada Morrison
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greencastle, Co. Donegal
