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27.6 Female, Married, 25-34 yrs, Manic depressive, April 1945

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/26

Scope and Contents "Referred to the Clinic and admitted to CR. Discharged recovered. Diagnosis: Melancholia. Symptoms began at Christmas 1943. She has not remained well since discharge, but has had hysterical fits - treated under Pentothal. Refused to return to CR. Parents alive - father suffers from mild depression. Unhappy childhood, parents separated, patient went to live with her father and his mistress who was a prostitute; stealing, truanting, vice. Parents now together again. Married a railway worker,...

Dates: Other: April 1945

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

7.39 Female, Single, Over 65 yrs, Involutional melancholia, June 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/7

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"Private patient. Obligant is brother. Principal Cause - heredity. Diagnosis - Melancholia. Onset of symptoms - 1941? Two maternal uncles committed suicide, ? alcoholism. Patient's brother was in CRI. Patient is one of a family of five. One sister died at 21 or 22 years, ? brain abscess. Love affair said to be possible cause. Patient is the eldest of the family. Patient never had employment."

Dates: June 1947

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

33.46 Female, Single, 45-54 yrs, Undiagnosed, June 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/32

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"Never mixes with anybody, used to come to church but has stopped doing even that. Said to have had a disappointment in love. Nurse confirms - she gave up the widower she was engaged to in order to keep house for her brother. She is very quiet."

Relatives in surey: Brother 33.47

Dates: Other: June 1947

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

45.38 Male, Single, 25-34 yrs, Undiagnosed, October 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/42

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"This man is queer, dark and unshaven, writes love letters to any girl he sees. A shepherd. Lives with father and stepmother [45.39]."

Dates: Other: October 1946

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

16.250 Female, Single, 45-54 yrs, Schizophrenia, January 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15

Scope and Contents "Quite mad, dippy, is very annoyed because she thinks [name redacted] in Gretna is engaged to someone. Thinks people cry things after her in the street. Something went wrong with her own love affair. Doesn't work. Lives alone, mother dead. Nurse confirms - should be in the CRI. Very hallucinated and deluded, thinks the police tap on her window at night, interrupts the church service. Has private means. "Sex mania". Dr confirms: paranoid, hears voices, has delusions, is a terrible nuisance,...

Dates: Other: January 1947

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Account of a fishing trip around Mingulay with accompanying place-name notes, descriptions and stories, 23 May 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/31

Scope and Contents Account by Alexander Carmichael of a fishing trip around Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] with accompanying place-name notes, descriptions and stories. Carmichael notes geographical features such as high points, caves, rocks or arches; archaeological sites such as dùns or graveyards; places people have used for looking after livestock or catching birds and fish, noting breeding grounds or habits of some birds; and sea-faring items such as the conditions of the sea or navigation techniques. One...

Dates: 23 May 1869

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Biographical notes on the poet Uilleam Ros [William Ross], 14 March 1866

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW104/23

Scope and Contents Biographical notes on the poet Uilleam Ros [William Ross] collected from Alastair Mac Coinnich [Alexander MacKenzie], Loch Uisge-bhadh [Loch Uiskevagh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula] originally from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty], including how he met Alastair's mother [Mary MacKenzie], for whom he wrote 'Moladh na h-Oighe Gaelaich'; how shortly before he died, Ross burned all his books; about the relationship between him and Mor Ros, for whom he wrote many...

Dates: 14 March 1866

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm entitled 'Eolas Gradhaich', 24 September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/92

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Charm entitled 'Eolas Gradhaich' collected from John Pearson [John MacPherson], cottar, Ceanntangaval [Ceanntangabhal/Kentangaval, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] beginning 'Cha'n eolas gradhaich dhuit, Ach uisge thra na thop (chop?)'.'

Dates: 24 September 1872

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm for love, 29 October 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/103

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Charm for love [Eòlas Gràdhaich or Love Charm] collected from 'old' Angus Currie, pauper, Iocar [Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'Chan eolas gra aich dhuit, Uisge thra'adh romh shop'. The text has been scored through in ink and written transversely across the text is 'Trans[cribed] B[ook] III p192 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael] Creagorry 5 October 1875' [Creag Ghoraidh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula].

Dates: 29 October 1872

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Christianity as the Religion of Love, c1912-c1955

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Identifier: BAI 1/4/1/16

Scope and Contents

Undated lecture, in note form, examining the relationship between loving God and loving one another.

Dates: c1912-c1955

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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27.6 Female, Married, 25-34 yrs, Manic depressive, April 1945

7.39 Female, Single, Over 65 yrs, Involutional melancholia, June 1947

33.46 Female, Single, 45-54 yrs, Undiagnosed, June 1947

45.38 Male, Single, 25-34 yrs, Undiagnosed, October 1946

16.250 Female, Single, 45-54 yrs, Schizophrenia, January 1947

Account of a fishing trip around Mingulay with accompanying place-name notes, descriptions and stories, 23 May 1869

Biographical notes on the poet Uilleam Ros [William Ross], 14 March 1866

Charm entitled 'Eolas Gradhaich', 24 September 1872

Charm for love, 29 October 1872

Christianity as the Religion of Love, c1912-c1955

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