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Warts

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

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Cure for warts, 1901

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/82
Scope and Contents

Cure for warts probably collected on the Isle of Barra [Barraigh] which reads 'Fuil cirein coillich will put away warts' [cockscomb blood]. Text has been scored through.

Dates: 1901

Note on 'Foineachun' [foinneachan], 28 October 1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/102
Scope and Contents

Note on 'Foineachun' [foinneachan or warts] probably collected from Archibald Currie, aged forty-six, shoemaker, Iocar [Ìochdar], Uibhist a Deas/South Uist describing how an old woman in Bornish [Bornais] cured her warts using straws and multiples of nine so that there were eighty-one [straws] for each wart. These were buried in a pit until they withered and the warts were gone. The text is unclear in its meaning.

Dates: 28 October 1872

PR4.77, 1932

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.77
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 34 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: Infective warts; and tumours. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1932