School: Leixlip (C.) (roll number 2345)
- Location:
- Leixlip, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Mrs. Harty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0773, Page 220
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- A Cure For Whooping Cough
Bread made by a woman who was married to a man of her own name and given to eat to a child who has the whooping cough is supposed to be a sure cure.Christina Pegley
15th, September 1938.
- A Cure For Whooping CoughBring a child to an ass in the meantime give the ass a bit of bread. Every crumb that falls is to be brought home and boiled in milk. But the child must be put under the ass three times while he is eating the bread. This bread and milk boiled is to be given to the child with the cough.
- get a cap of ivy leaves and put it on your head.
