School: Achadh Fobhair (roll number 13853)
- Location:
- Aghagower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Hannah T. Kevilla
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- Cure for whooping cough
1. The ferrets leavings
2. The ass's milk
3. If a man riding a white horse passes the place where people have the whooping cough and he is asked for a cure. Whatever he tells the patient to take is considered a cure.Cure for the thrush
1. A white gander to blow its breath into the patient's mouth
2. A person who never saw its father to blow its breath into the patient's mouth
3. The seventh son to blow its breath into the patients mouthCure for toothache
Put a frog into the mouth(continues on next page)- Collector
- Martin Sheridan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghagower, Co. Mayo