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School: Swords (B.) (roll number 755)

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Swords, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
A. Hamill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0789, Page 64

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    Before doctors became skilled in making the different kinds of medicine, people had their own cures for sickness.
    One of these cures was for a person with the whooping-cough.
    This cure was to give a donkey bread to eat. While the donkey was eating the bread the person with the cough crept under the donkey's body three times.
    Then the crumbs which fell from the donkey's mouth were gathered and boiled on fresh milk. The person with the cough drank this as a medicine.
    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
    Patrick Scahill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Balheary, Co. Dublin
    Informant
    John Scahill
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    21
    Address
    Balheary, Co. Dublin