School: Mostrim (B.) (roll number 2083)
- Location:
- Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Richard Hyland
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- Years ago there were a lot of different cures for every disease.
A cure for jaundice is to catch a mouse alive and out him in a saucepan of milk and boil it, and then the mouse was taken out and the milk given to the sick person.
A cure for corns is to get a raw potato and cut a hole in it and put a lump of washing soda in it and leave it until the washing soda melts and then put it on the corn.
A cure for warts is to get a snail and out him on them and then stick him on a thorn and when the snail decays away the warts will go.
A cure for ringworm is to put polish on it.- Collector
- George Bloomer
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bracklon, Co. Longford