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School: Grange (roll number 3759)

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    him full instructions about how he could make the cure. She also told him to apply this to the cancer and that he would get better. She instructed him not to tell what the names of these herbs and poisin were to anyone but to one of his own family who would pass on the cure in the same way to their family and so on.
    This man made the cure and cured several people of this disease. His son James Gorevan, to whom he gave the cure, cured several people also. This James Gorevan left cure to his daughter Kathleen who now lives at her father's place in Lowerwood, Grange Co. Sligo
    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. cancer (~20)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Mc Gowan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Streedagh, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mr Michael Mc Gowan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 75
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Streedagh, Co. Sligo