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School: Dundalk (roll number 16719)

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Dundalk, Co. Louth
Teacher:
R.G. Smith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0662, Page 009

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    Cure for Whooping Cough.
    People believed that my grandmother could cure whooping cough, because her name was not changed when she got married. One morning some people wrote to her for the first slice of bread off the load. She got the bread and knife and cut a very big slice of bread and I was wondering how it would be eaten. She then explained what it was for and she sent it away to the people.
    Bruce Smith
    Jocelyn Villa
    Dundalk
    Mrs H. Smith,
    "Moat View"
    Ballytore,
    Co. Kildare
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. whooping-cough (~234)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bruce Smith
    Gender
    Unknown
    Address
    Dundalk, Co. Louth
    Informant
    Mrs H. Smith
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballitore, Co. Kildare