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School: Dumha-chaisil

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Ballindoo or Doocastle, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Dubhda
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    Local Cures
    Whooping cough: (1) Food left by ferrets which can be obtained in the following manner, is a cure for this ailment. Milk must be taken to the owners of a ferret, give more than sufficient to the ferret and whatever is left should be given to the patients and it will cure them in a week.
    (2) Another cure is the broth of a feathered magpie drunk three mornings in succession.
    (3) If a parent or friend of a child affected by this ailment , meets a man on a
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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
    Frank O' Dowd
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Doobeg, Co. Sligo