School: Dumha-chaisil
- Location:
- Ballindoo or Doocastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 230
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- (continued from previous page)on a white horse and asks of him a cure for the whooping-cough, whatever remedy he orders should administered to the sick person, and he will speedily recover.
(4) To hold a frog in front of a patients mouth when coughing is another cure.
(5) The patient is to take a drink of donkey's milk nine mornings in succession.
Measles: A small drink of the juice of nettle-roots when boiled is to be taken at least three times for a cure.
Foul-mouth: A child who has never seen his father breathes three times into the patients mouth and says(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Frank O' Dowd
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doobeg, Co. Sligo
