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School: Druim Mór (roll number 16278)

Location:
Dromore, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Seosamh Ó Catháin
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    Long ago the people did not believe in doctors or nurces at all. When anybody in a house got sick the people of the house had their own cures to cure the person from the disease
    for instance : -
    Disease
    Whooping-cough (1)
    Cures.
    For whooping-cough ass's milk was given to drink to drink to the person suffering from the disease.
    (2) The child suffering from whooping-cough was made to creep in and out under an ass that was never mounted.
    (3) If you met a man mounted on a white at a cross-roads and you
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Mc Hugh
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Frank Mc Hugh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Address
    Dunneill, Co. Sligo