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Wartime cure for a chesty cough & whooping cough

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Contributed by听: cornwallcsv
People in story:听: Mrs Patricia C Pascoe
Location of story:听: Falmouth, Cornwall
Background to story:听: Civilian
Article ID:听: A4094237
Contributed on:听: 20 May 2005

This story was submitted to the People's War website by Claire Shaw on behalf of Mrs Patricia C Pascoe, the author and has been added to the site with her permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.

A wartime cure for a chesty cough and indeed, whooping cough was to wear a "tarred rope" necklace around one's throat. Breathing in the tar was very advantageous and cleared the lungs.

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