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School: Rochfortbridge (B.) (roll number 1122)

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Rochfortbridge, Co. Westmeath
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Ml. Rowan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 448

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    Chin cough.
    Put an ass eating oats and put the person with the cough out under him three times and he will be cured.
    Scald.
    Bread soda and buttermilk mixed together and put on as a poultice would cure it.
    William Alford,
    Newcastle.
    I got the information from my father Ernest Alford. age 46
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. whooping-cough (~234)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    William Alford
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Ernest Alford
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    46
    Address
    Newcastle, Co. Westmeath