School: Kilskeer (B.) (roll number 1421)
- Location:
- Kilskeer, Co. Meath
- Teachers: Máirtín Ó Loingsigh R. Ó Fithcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0704, Page 206
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- (continued from previous page)VI The Hicough
1. The cure for the hicough is to take three drinks of water between one hicough and another.
2. To give the person complaining of the hicough a good fright or hold his purse or to hold his breath for a while.
3. Another cure is to take a good drink of cold spring water.
4. Another cure is to get a spoonfull of sugar and suck it or to get a sweet called, sugar a candy.(continues on next page)
