School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)
- Location:
- Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 454
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- (continued from previous page)linen that would be taken of should be burned. The cure is slow but it is sure.
The cure for a chin-cough is to get new milk and to give it to a ferret until he would drink enough and what the ferret would leave to give it to the child to drink for nine mornings. Then after that the chincough would go away.
Another cure for the chincough is "Man with the grey horse what would cure the chincough." The man would answer "give the child a good glass of punch" and that is what would cure the child.
If a man had seven sons in his family the seventh son would have a cure for the pain in the back. A young baby that would have the thrush in its mouth, the childs mouth would be all covered white like milk, and to get a boy that never saw his father to get him to blow his breathe into the childs mouth for nine mornings and it would be clearing from the mouth after that.
In olden times(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick O' Dowd
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moatquarter, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs O' Donnell
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Moatquarter, Co. Tipperary
