School: Scoil na mBráthar Sligeach (Sráid na Céibhe) (roll number 16585)
- Location:
- Quay Street, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Cearbhaill
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- XML “Local Cures - Headache”
- XML “Local Cures - Nervous Headache”
- XML “Local Cures - Heartburn”
- XML “Local Cures - Heart Trouble”
- XML “Local Cures - Hoarseness”
- XML “Local Cures - Jaundice”
- XML “Local Cures - Mumps”
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- (a) Measure the head with a tape, and say some prayers.
(b) Say three "Hail Marys" on your Rosary-beads in the morning.
(c) Put heated salt in a stocking and tie it round your neck. - Take a raw potato; run the dirt off with a damp cloth; cut it into thick slices and lay these on the forehead.
- Take three pinches of sugar or salt after each other.
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- Collector
- A. Conway
- Swallow a cup of salt water very slowly.
- Special roots, which only some people can find.
- (a) The sufferer's cousin should drive him to three "mairn[?]" waters with an asse's halter round his neck; and drink of the three waters.
(b) Put a horse's bridle on the sufferer's head and bring the patient to a spring well three times.
(c) Put the patients neck in an ass's halter and walk him in and(continues on next page)