School: Cormeen (roll number 6821)
- Location:
- Cormeen, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Anna Leary
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0958, Page 046
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- Whooping cough
1. If a person who was married to a woman with the same surname named three things (for example a sweet, a biscuit, and a piece of apple) to be given to the patient to eat these were supposed to cure the complaint.
2. A man who had a piebald pony was to do the same to the person affected by it.
3. Milk which a ferret left behind it was to begiven to the person affected by it.
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Mumps
The person who had the mumps had to put a pair of donkey's winkers on him and he had to get someone whose parents were both alive to lead him across a southward running stream three times. He was then supposed to be cured.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bertha Wright
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheetrim, Co. Monaghan
