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School: Corraslira

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Corraslira, Co. Roscommon
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Bean Uí Dhubhláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 070

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    Years ago, the old people had a lot of cures for diseases in people. When a person would have a tooth-ache the old people would tell them a cure, or for the whooping-cough, measles, consumption and other diseases, they would tell them a cure also,
    The cure for the whooping cough is to give a piece of food to the sick person that a ferret would leave after him and then the person would be cured. The cure for a tooth-ache is to put a boiled onion into a sock and put it to the tooth-ache and then it would be cured.
    The cure for consumption is to drink donkey's
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridie Holmes
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Annaghbeg, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Donaugh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Annaghbeg, Co. Roscommon