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School: Mayne (roll number 12433)

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Mayne, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Margaret Percival
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0720, Page 078

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    This was told me by my father Thomas Walker. Bawn Finea/ Co Westmeath aged fifty six.
    The local cure for Whooping Cough is to give the child the leaving of ferret's milk or the leavings of the food of a married couple if the wife had the same name before marriage as after it.
    A sore mouth - The cure for a sore mouth in a baby was for a posthumous child to blow his breath into the babies mouth.
    Mumps - This disease was generally called "Pecknough". The cure was to put the donkey's winkers on the head of the person and lead him to the pig-sty and in and out three times for three days in succession repeating the words "utlagh utlagh shed away a Pecknough." This cure is still
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Una Walker
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bawn, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Thomas Walker
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    56
    Address
    Bawn, Co. Cavan