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School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)

Location:
Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0298

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  1. Local Cures (continued)

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    Another cure for the whooping cough is to pull the person who has the whooping cough three times out under a gray donkey. More say a cure for the whooping cough is to give a feriet milk to drink and what he leaves after him to give it to the person who has the whooping cough and is supposed to be able to cure them
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  2. Local Cures

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    In olden times the old people used to give alot of cures to people who would be sick from such diseases as sore eyes Whooping cough and warts
    The way they used to cure the sore eyes was they used to have alot of house-leek growing on their houses and they would squeeze it into a cup and rut it with a cloth into their eyes and it would cure them. And they also used to rub tea-leaves
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Martin Power
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Loughatorick North, Co. Galway