School: Clonard (roll number 16067)
- Location:
- Clonard, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Fithcheallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)To cure a vomiting in the stomach is to go to St. Finians well and take a drink of water out of it
To put a poultice of loaf bread and water as hot as you can bear it to wherever you have the thorn, and the thorn will be gone before the next morning.
The cure of a sore throat is to get a lemon and sick the juice out of it without any sugar - The cure for a soar throat is boiled butter milk and sugar
The cure for a swollen throat is if you get a leaf of gladdum and tie it around your neck
Bread soda and butter milk is the cure fora heart burn
If you get a snail and if there is warts on the back of your hand if you rub a black snail to them he will cure them.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bill Hughes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilwarden, Co. Meath