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School: Flower Hill (roll number 12788)

Location:
Flower Hill, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Isabel Mc Quade
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0700, Page 306

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    Some people have very good cures for the whooping cough. They get thistles ad boil them for three hours. Then they squeeze the juice into a tin. Then when that is done the cure is left in the thistle. After that they have to boil the thistle again for an hour.
    Then the people have to squeeze the thistle again until they see the white part of the stalk coming out.
    Then they put the white part into a different tin.
    People who have the whooping cough have to drink this.
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    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. bleeding (~48)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Liam Rennicks
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Flower Hill, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Mr Rennicks
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ardbraccan, Co. Meath