School: Domhnach Mór, Luimneach (roll number 16118)

Location:
Donaghmore, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Aingeal Nic Aodha Bhuidhe
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  1. 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
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. 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 16-11-1937
    2. 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
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. whooping-cough (~234)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Halpin
    Gender
    Female