School: Ballysadare (2.) (roll number 11769)
- Location:
- Ballysadare, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Kathleen Noble
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0176, Page 206
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- In former times these are the cures which people used for their ailments:
The cure for thrush was honey and borax.
The cure for the whooping cough was to put the child under an ass foal's legs to keep him from kinking [?]
The cure for a soreness in your wrist is to tie a black ribbon around it.
If a person had a pain in his chest to rub goose-seam on it would cure it.
If a person had a soreness in his throat to poltice the throat with boiled orange lillies would cure it.
The seventh son or daughter has the cure of ringworm(continues on next page)
