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Health Issues

  • Believed Cures and Old Wife's Tales

    Believed Cures and Old Wife's Tales

    Homemade remidies, Old Cures, Etc.
  • Dental Care in the 1900s

    Dental Care in the 1900s

    The wealthier classes might have been able to afford a dentist but they were not assured of an excellent service
  • Epidemic diseases of The Great Hunger

    Epidemic diseases of The Great Hunger

    Famine is a failure of food production or distribution, resulting in dramatically increased mortality.
  • Polio (Poliomyelitis)

    Polio (Poliomyelitis)

    The last great polio epidemics plagued Ireland in the mid 1950s as well as the rest of Europe and America
  • TB In Ireland  (Tuberculosis)

    TB In Ireland (Tuberculosis)

    TB was the AIDS of its day, a scourge that ravaged the country.
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