School: An Mhainistir, Móin Rátha (roll number 14243)
- Location:
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Br Columban Ó Cróinín
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- (continued from previous page)Cure for Consumption (T.B.)
Smoking tobacco, and arsnic.
Cure for Epilepsy: Put a black silk handkerchief in the persons face when in a fit.Cure for a Cough: Take half a lb. of fresh unsalted butter, half a lb. of white sugar and one pint of good whiskey and boil them together. Take a tea-spoon or two of this mixture when the cough is troublesome.Cure for Cholera: A table spoon full of salt and a tea spoon full of red pepper.
Cure for Stammering: Read aloud with the teeth closed for two hours a day for two or three months.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Br Seumus Kelly
- Gender
- Male