School: Cluain Fhada (roll number 15091)

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   district supposed to be visited by Saint Brigid called Brideswell and people go for their stations from the fifteenth of August to the eight of September.

   

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2. Local Cures

   

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   In olden times people always tried local cures for their ailments. The cure for the whooping cough was the food left by a ferret or food that a man or woman of the one name would leave after them. The ring-worm and itch were cured by boiling a certain herb and mixing it with a certain oil. The jaundice was cured also with an herb boiled and mixed in porter. Children were always subject to a certain disease called "thrush" This was cured by applying Borax and glycerine

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. medical practice
         1. folk medicine (~11,815)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Francis Bohan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Hillstreet, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   Pat Cummins

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Hillstreet, Co. Roscommon