Treating a sore throat

contributed by Ethnomedica 19 Jan | 17:18

When a child and I had a sore throat I was made to wear a stocking round my neck. In the stocking was an onion, I cannot remember if it was boiled or not but I think it was unboiled.

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From Greater London (UK) in the 1930s

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