School: Kildraught (2)
- Location:
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Ní Armhultaigh
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- Borax and honey and rub it on the tongue.A child that never saw his father can cure the thrush by blowing their breath into the child's mouth.
- To pass the child under a donkey three times to cure thrushMr T. Kennedy. Celbridge has cured the "thrush" by breathing into the baby's mouth and saying some prayer he never saw his father
- Informant
- Mrs Hollingsworth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Celbridge, Co. Kildare
- Wash the mouth with a solution of borax and water
- Borax and honey rub to the mouth cures thrush