Sores. Sores were cured by a weed called (bleoinín mhaith). This weed had to be heated and then stuck to the sores. They were then supposed to heal. Patrick O'Connell 16.11.37
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Whooping Cough. 1. Get garlic and boil it, then mix the liquid in which it was boiled with whiskey and give it to the child to drink.
Peggy Halpin 16-11-19372. Another cure for whooping cough was to allow the child walk under a white horse, then ask the owner of the horse a cure for whooping cough and whatever he will say it is supposed to cure the child.Peggy Halpin 16-11-1937
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