Warts
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Cure for warts, 1901
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.
Note on 'Foineachun' [foinneachan], 28 October 1872
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.
PR4.77, 1932
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.