School: Ballyjamesduff Convent
- Location:
- Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sr. Mary Theresa
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- (continued from previous page)and after a day the measles would be gone.
Sting. This is a cure which is very easily done. It is the cure for the sting of a nettle. First a dock leaf is got, and rubbed well on the spot where the sting is, will cure the sting.
Hiccough. can be cured by taking a pinch of salt, and by somebody giving you a sudden start in any way.
Burns can be cured by rubbing buttermilk or soda on when received, and after holding it before the fire, for some time no matter how much it pains.
Dirty Mouth can be cured by a person who never saw his or her father, breathing into the mouth of the one having the disease.
- Collector
- Rose Rudden
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stravicnabo, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Peter Rudden
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Stravicnabo, Co. Cavan
