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School: Clonfinlough, Athlone

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Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
E. Ní Mhionacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 289

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  1. Local Cures - Chincough

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    1. Any person who never saw his father can cure it, by giving the patient a drink from a river running between two town lands.
    2. A married pair, the wife whose maiden name is the same as her husband's takes the child who is suffering from the chin-cough and puts it from one to another under and over a she ass in the Name of the Father, etc.
    The child is given three sips of the ass's milk to drink, or a small piece of bread and jam to eat and it must leave no leavings.
    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