Volume: CBÉ 0548 (Part 3)
- Date
- 1938
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0548, Page 0221
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“There were doctors long ago but they were not the same doctors as of the present day.”
(continued from previous page)Kyle called Doctor Dooley and he used to boil black buttons to cure the yellow jaundice. He also used to boil potried flour to cure Eryciplus.
at a time there were no such things as medicines at all, but for colds and coughs they used to drink Punch. They also used snowater for pains. It was a kind of red dirty water.
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“When a person dies in a house it usually causes great sorrow and anxiety to his friends.”
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