School: Rathkenny (roll number 15483)
- Location:
- Rathkenny, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Cárthaigh
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- XML “Local Cures - A Cure for Whooping-Cough”
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- (2). To boil the blessed-thistle (herb) in milk and drink the syrup so made.
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- Collector
- Thomas Carty
- Gender
- Male
- (2) To give the child suffering from this complaint the milk left behind by a ferret when being fed. Some say that even if the ferret only dips his nose in the milk, it will cure this complaint.
- Get any person named McElroy to blow hos or her breath on the patient on three different days after sunset