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School: Keelagh

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Keelagh, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 095

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    In this country the weather is nice and cool and there are not many diseases. But there are some diseases. For instance when you take a bad cough you can gather blackheads and boil them then you sweeten the juice with sugar and take it your cough. If you take the mumps you could. get a cure by some one putting a halter on you by leading you round the pig sty and saying a prayer.
    Some people have great belief in the chicken weed for pains round your head. The chicken weed is brought in and warmed in a cloth and put on the pain and it is said to give instant relief.
    If anyone takes heart fever a mug is filled with meal and a white cloth is put on the top If the meal leaves the mug the person is suffering from heart fever.
    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
    Brigid Mc Donald
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr F. Mc Carron
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Mullalougher, Co. Cavan