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Wound healing

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

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Story about the use of a charm to remove a crumb from an eye, July 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/22
Scope and Contents Story about the use of a charm to remove a crumb from an eye collected from [John] Maclennan, crofter, in which his brother gets a biscuit crumb in his eye following a practical joke but the crumb is stuck there for two days. They are sent to an old woman at [Fairburn Tower, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire] who does not touch the brother but places three pebbles in water and repeats a charm at which point a crumb falls into her hand and the brother no longer feels pain as the crumb in...
Dates: July 1909