School: Monksland (C.) (roll number 2792)
- Location:
- Monksland, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Nic Oireachtaigh
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- Local cures.A cure for an ear-ache is to get an onion and cut it get the heart of it and put it in your ear. I did this and it cured the ache.A cure for a cold is to get two get two tea-spoonfulls of blackcurrant jam mixed with hot water and sugar and drink it before going to bed.A cure for a sore throat is to get a rusty nail and boil it in water, when it is boiled drink the juice, this is said to have cured many people. A cure for the measles is to mix sulphur and magnesia and take it.A cure for toothache is to get a piece of cotton wool soaked in iodine and put it into your tooth.A cure for whooping cough is to roll the person in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Petestown, Co. Louth