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School: Achadh na Garron (Aughnagarron) (roll number 5603)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0764, Page 273

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    cold or sore throath.
    Cure for chil-blains
    A split potato when rubbed to the chil- blains will cure them.
    Cures for cattle
    Garlic cures cattle with a cough and it is also a preventive of the black leg . Soot cures cattle or horses with a colic
    Cure for mumps.
    The person who has the mumps has to be led around the pigsty by means of a donkey's winkers and he will be cured.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Donohoe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Creevy, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Joe Donohoe
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    56
    Address
    Creevy, Co. Longford