School: Clochar Lughaidh, Carraig Machaire Rois (roll number 15329)
- Location:
- Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Sr. Máire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0935, Page 038
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- (continued from previous page)Whooping Cough
There are a number of cures for whooping cough.
I). Some people believe that if they give a ferret milk to drink and then give the person infected with whooping cough what remains of the milk when the ferret has drunk. This is to be repeated for 9 days in succession. II) If a person with whooping cough gets his or her god-mother or god-father to tie a red-tape around his or her neck it is believed to cure the cough.III) Another cure is to get bread and butter from a woman whose surname is the same before and after her marriage(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Seán Mac Caba
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Creevy (Swinburn), Co. Monaghan
