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1. Local Cures - Whooping-Cough (continued)

   

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   paper then put on the persopns chest.
   (3) A cure was to bring in a mare ass on the floor. Then there needed to be a woman named Mary, to take the child first then to pass the child out and in under and over the ass three times. Then give the child three drops of the ass's milk.

   Collected by Brigid Egan (14) from Thomas Egan (67), Ballyleague, Ballycommon, Daingean.

   

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2. Local Cures - Whooping-Cough

   

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   (4) A cure for whooping cough is to drink the juice of a lemon and glycerine and take castor oil.

   

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3. Local Cures - Whooping-Cough

   

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   (5) There is a woman called Mrs Lawler of Lowertown living near Kilbeggan and she can cure the whooping cough. If you had the whooping cough and she put her hand on you it would get better. It is said the reason she can cure it is because she never saw her father. He was dead when she was born.

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   Topics

   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. cleachtas an leighis
         1. leigheas dúchasach (~11,815)
            1. leigheasanna ar ghalair ar dhaoine
               1. triuch (~234)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Alice Daly

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   14

   Address

   Baile Thaidhg Beag, Co. Uíbh Fhailí

   Informant

   Joseph Scally

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   53

   Address

   Baile Thaidhg Beag, Co. Uíbh Fhailí

4. Local Cures - Whooping-Cough

   

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   (6) Another cure for the whooping cough is to get three pieces of bread and give them to the ass and whatever falls from the ass's mouth you are to give it to the child.

   

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5. Local Cures - Whooping-Cough

   

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   (7) Another cure for the whooping

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