School: Clochar Loreto, An Uaimh (roll number 16100)
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Colm
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- Mumps
Gladium fried with dripping and put as a poultic on mumps is a good cure.
- Collector
- Mr O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Boyerstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Alice Curtis
- Gender
- Female
- Whooping Cough.
Get a frog and draw it three times across the patients throat. Then cork it up in a bottle and as the frog dies the whoop disappears.
