School: Mayne (roll number 12433)
- Location:
- Mayne, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Margaret Percival
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- This was told me by my father Thomas Walker. Bawn Finea/ Co Westmeath aged fifty six.The local cure for Whooping Cough is to give the child the leaving of ferret's milk or the leavings of the food of a married couple if the wife had the same name before marriage as after it. A sore mouth - The cure for a sore mouth in a baby was for a posthumous child to blow his breath into the babies mouth.Mumps - This disease was generally called "Pecknough". The cure was to put the donkey's winkers on the head of the person and lead him to the pig-sty and in and out three times for three days in succession repeating the words "utlagh utlagh shed away a Pecknough." This cure is still(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Una Walker
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bawn, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Thomas Walker
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Bawn, Co. Cavan