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School: Castleblayney (2) (roll number 10649)

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Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
William Boyd
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0943, Page 300

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    Then you eat the bread and the whopping cough will be gone. Another cure for whopping cough is to take sweet milk with you and go to a man that has ferrets. Let the ferrets drink some of the milk and then you drink the rest of it and the whopping cough will restored.
    My grandfather has a cure for piles. He will give the cure to those who require it but he will not tell how it is made up.
    A woman in Armagh has a cure for external cancer. It is a kind of potion made from different herbs.
    A man in the town of Castleblayney had a bad cancer on his lip and throat. He showed it to Dublin doctors and they would not operate on it. He got the cure from this woman and though he
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    J. Floyd
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Annahale, Co. Monaghan