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Note about boiling burdock and horns for treating consumption, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/203

Scope and Contents

Note about boiling burdock [searcan] and horns [croic nam fiadh] for treating consumption. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1885

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW87

Scope and Contents Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing material collected between October 1867 and December 1885. The material dated from 1883 to 1885 was probably written down at source. The notebook is marked as 'No IV' and the inside cover gives his address as 30 Royal Circus, Edinburgh [Dun Eideann] and the date as 16 November 1883. The material transcribed and collected in this notebook includes love songs, religious songs, waulking songs and songs relating to cattle. Much...

Dates: 1883 to 1885

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Vocabulary for 'Cioch-shlugain' and 'Glas-chiodhlan', September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/128

Scope and Contents

Vocabulary for 'Cioch-shlugain' [cìoch-shlugain or uvula] and 'Glas-chiodhlan' [glas-chìodhlan or lock-jaw]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1909

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Vocabulary list including words for rheumatism, 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/183

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Vocabulary list including words for rheumatism 'Scainteach', 'Greim-loin' and 'Siataig', the first of these being attributed to Islay and the third to Lewis [Ìle and Isle of Lewis/Eilean Leòdhais]. The rest of the note reads 'Scanaport on the river Ness. Ca[thuil] = Catching fish [in] excise ink bottle.'

Dates: 1894

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Vocabulary note entitled 'Al & Fual', 1895

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/77

Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Al & Fual' including 'Al is generally one of the old Celtic names for water' citing examples such as 'Algeal an old decease common to young people if weak spine which generally follows after too much running in hot weather.' Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1895

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections