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School: Scoil na gCeithre Máighistrí, Dún na nGall (roll number 14247)

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Copany, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Cathal Mag Fhionntaigh
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    Old Cures.
    Chin-cough
    A cure for the Chin-cough is to go out and in under a donkey three times.
    The donkey must be eating oat-meal and whatever he drops on the ground you must pick up and make an oaten cake of it and eat in.
    Nearls.
    Nettle-Tea
    Pick some fresh young nettles. Wash them three times in spring-water.
    Put them into a pot. Cover them with cold water. Let them boil for half-an-hour.
    Then strain them and make tea of the juice by adding cream and sugar.
    Give a cup of this nettle teach when the nearls being to come out.
    This cure brings the nearls out on you. Then they go away the quicker.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. whooping-cough (~234)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Adhamhnan Mag Fhionntaigh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13