School: Rathnure (C.) (roll number 12480)
- Location:
- Rathnure Upper, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Bholguidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 243
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- (continued from previous page)him the child would be better after
the third bottle. When he returned
home his wife did as was directed.
After the third bottle Dan was
quite well, and lived to be a fine
strong boy, until last April 1938,
when he got diphteria and scarlet
fever which swept him away after
a week's illness at the age of 29 years.
This incident happened about 22
years ago, and all the people in this
district know how he was cured.Another young girl, named Mary
Kate Clare, Tomanine, Rathnure, aged
9 years got ill the same time as
Daniel Quigley. Dr. Kelly, Killanne,
the local doctor, failed also in her
case, and as she was complaining
in the same way as Daniel Quigley
her father had recourse to the herb
"doctor", or "quack", who treated her in
the same way as Daniel Quigley(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Patrick Clare
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tomanine, Co. Wexford
