School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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- The thrush: Honey and borax mixed together, given to the baby several times a day, will cure the thrush.
- A man by the name of Bernard Teery, Ballycommon, Daingean, has the cure of yellow jaundice. He makes up a bottle with stuffs which he gives to the one that has it.
- (2) Mrs. Heaghney, Kilbeggan, Westmeath can cure the yellow jaundice. She minces a special medicine which cures it, but it is a secret what she puts in it. The medicine has to be taken three times before you get better. The days you take it on Monday, Thursday, and Monday.
- (3) People cure it with sheep's manure and milk. They boil the manure in the milk and then they strain off the manure and drink the milk.
- Collector
- Thomas Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Richard Dunne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly