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School: Tulach Ruacháin

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Tulrohaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mary Agnes Smyth
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 507

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    Long ago before people knew of doctors, nurses or any of the present day medicine they had cures of their own for every disease. Here are some of their usual cures.
    If a person had the whooping cough and any relation of the patient to meet a man with a white horse and ask him for a cure and whatever he recommed they believed it would cure the patient.
    A dandelion leaf boiled in milk was a cure for consumption but if it was not drunk before a certain time it would not cure.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Katie Caulfield
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tulrohaun, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Delaney
    Gender
    Female