School: N. Colmcille, Westport Quay (roll number 13145)
- Location:
- Westport Quay, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Sean Ó Flaitile
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- The Thrush :- This disease comes in the form of white blisters on a baby's tongue. It comes from badly washed feeding bottles. If you wash the tongue with cotton wool dipped in lylycerine, it will be cured. A child who is born after the father has died is supposed to have a cure for The Thrush Toothache - a piece of cotton wool soaked in iodine and placed in the tooth will cure this. A little pepper or gingerwill also cure it.
Sore Eyes :- make some tea and put it in a saucer to cool. Then wash the eyes(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggy Eaton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rosbeg, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Kathleen Eaton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Rosbeg, Co. Mayo