School: Tallanstown (roll number 2746)
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- Tallonstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Mac Gráinnne
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- Old Cures
Most diseases which are hardest to cure arise from bad colds namely Scarletina and Whooping cough and many others. Anyone whose father and mother are alive can cure the mumps. They get donkeys winkers and put them on the person with the mumps and they walk in and out of a pig sty three times making the sign of the Cross and saying three Hail Mary's every time they come out of the pig sty.
Warts are cured with Caustic. Methylated Spirits cure chillblains. The real cure for the Toothache is to get it out but some people cure it for a time with oil or cloves. Gold cures wild-fire
Anyone whose father and mother alive can cure the sty. They get ten gooseberry thorns, throw one away and then put(continues on next page)