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School: Clochar Loreto, An Uaimh (roll number 16100)

Location:
Navan, Co. Meath
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Colm
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    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.
    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
    Margaret Brady
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Navan, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Mrs Brady
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Navan, Co. Meath