School: Palmerstown (roll number 14080)
- Location:
- Palmerston, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mrs Tuohy
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0795, Page 098](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0795%2FCBES_0795_098.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0795, Page 098
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Palmerstown
- XML Page 098
- XML “Old Cures - Whooping-Cough”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- A woman named Biddy MAc Inerney used to cure whooping cough by breathing into the mouths of children suffering from itWhooping Cough
A cure for whooping cough is to put a frog into a bottle and then to cork it. It is said that when the frog dies the whooping cough will be cured.