School: Cortubber
- Location:
- Cortober, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mary A. Burke
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- (continued from previous page)certain prayer a number of times every day.Jaundice.
There is a man near the school who has a great cure for jaundice and people get it from him often. A large bottle of bitter stuff to be taken by the patient every morning. When a person gets this cure it is taken up out of the ground where it is kept buried in a large jar. It must be made from some herbs as it tastes very much like dandelion. Its a good cure too as it has cured several people round here.Heartache.
There is a cure round here too for Heart ache. I suppose Palpitation and the people have great faith in it too.Head Ache.
A man in this locality too can cure the Headache but he won't tell any one how it is done as that's part of(continues on next page)
