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School: Maynooth (Pres. Convent)

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Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Sr. M. Borgia
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    An old cure for the whooping cough - give an ass a piece of bread and the crumbs that fall from his mouth pick them up and give them to the person that has the cough.
    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
    Peg Wright
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Carney
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    84
    Address
    Maynooth, Co. Kildare