School: Castletowngeoghegan (B.) (roll number 2092)

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   to go to that well and rub some of the water on his eyes. In three days his eyes would be cured.

   The cure for the whooping-cough long ago was this : - If the person suffering from the whooping-cough drinks the milk left after a ferret, he would be cured of the whooping-cough. Another cure for the same cough is to get a goose-quill and tickle the inside of the persons throat with it in order to make him cough up the phlegm.

   If a person had the chin cough, he should crawl under a donkey's front legs and he would be cured.

   

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2. Local Cures

   

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   The cure for a sore throat is roasted onions as a poultice around your throat. Barley water is good for bad kidneys. For warts, the old people used washing soda. If you drink milk that a ferret leaves it will cure the whooping cough. If you cut a quarter of a potato, fill it with bread soda and leave it for four days.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   B. Maloney

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Joseph Carey

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Conranstown, Co. Westmeath