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School: Druim Mór (roll number 16278)

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Dromore, Co. Sligo
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Seosamh Ó Catháin
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    it killed the pain. They would do the same with the mustard.
    3) The people also used 'first-shot' poteen.
    4) When having toothache if you could catch a frog and rub him to your teeth, the old people said, that the frog would take it and the person would be cured.

    Whooping-Cough
    1) If a person who had the whooping-cough happened to meet a man riding on a white-horse and if he would ask him what was the cure for it, any cure this man would give him would cure it at once.
    2) The old people had another cure and it a drink of asse's milk.

    Asthma
    A good cure for asthma is got in this way. Boil the roots of the Cradán in poteen and then drink the juice.
    2) Put garlic in 'poteen' and leave
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eily Judge
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Henry Judge
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    Crowagh or Dunneill Mountain, Co. Sligo