School: Cromadh (B.) (roll number 9306)

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   “To cure St. Anthony's fire - a variety of skin trouble...”

   

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   To cure St. Anthony's fire - a variety of skin trouble in which a number of pimples appear together, "in a sod" as the old people used to say, generally upon the neck or about the chin:- You have only to write your own name around the affected patch in ink. I cannot see how one could easily do that if the patch or "sod" were under the chin or towards the back portion of the neck. I also saw in my native place the nicotine encrusted on the bottom of an old clay pipe, scraped off and rubbed hard into the affected spot. I was so treated myself. It was both painful and nauseating, but decidedly a cure. The former method was known in my homeland, but I never knew it to be practised. Ink was homemade from oak-apples.

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   Topics

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

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   English