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Note which reads 'Striking the dearna to revive a person in a fit so also in C[ailleach] an Dudain.'

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Note about the plant searbanach and Angus Ross, crofter, that searbanach is the plant he uses to stop bleeding. A physical description of Ross is given and also that he stated 'The power to stop blood is from God not from me. I ask him and he gives.' Also a note of vocabulary which reads 'Cumar = Narrow = Cumhann'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Note entitled 'For Toothache' listing different remedies for toothache including putting small sharp sticks 'bioranan' or the spine of a dogfish or the nail from a grave under the tooth.

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Note which states that sacrificing a black cat or a black cock is a cure for falling sickness [epilepsy]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Note of a remedy for 'Influenza' which reads '6 to 8 drops ([-] in a or teaspoonful of castor oil) or in glass of toddy'.

Scope and Contents Note on Achlasan C[haluim]-Chille [St John's Wort/St Columba's Plant] probably collected from Archibald Currie, aged forty-six, shoemaker, Iocar [Ìochdar], Uibhist a Deas/South Uist describing how it is [collected] 'gun sire[adh] gun iar[raidh]' and 'is scraped ag[ainst] its bark and a crosgag (a ring) is made and placed in the bottom of the milk [boyne].' The note also describes the 'cneapag' which is made before the crosgag is made. Calum Cille [St Columba] is described as 'the best herd...

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Note on 'Foineachun' [foinneachan or warts] probably collected from Archibald Currie, aged forty-six, shoemaker, Iocar [Ìochdar], Uibhist a Deas/South Uist describing how an old woman in Bornish [Bornais] cured her warts using straws and multiples of nine so that there were eighty-one [straws] for each wart. These were buried in a pit until they withered and the warts were gone. The text is unclear in its meaning.

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Note on the use of a poultice made of eighty-one earthworms to treat lockjaw.

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Note about the origins of the Patons [or Beatons] in Uist [Uibhist] that they are descended from the Olla[mh] Ileach [Ollamh Ìleach], a celebrated herbalist, who lived at Dallabrog [Dalabrog/Daliburgh, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. It notes that 'The cuillion [holly] that he bro[ugh]t is good for cleibh druim', that am maraich [scurvy grass] could be found in cairns on the Strand and that the best water for boiling plants was in Geary heille [Geàrraidh Sheilidh/Garryhellie].

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Notes about the plants lus-mor [lus-mòr or spearwort] and lus an acrais [hunger plant] that the former is applied to greim lòin [lumbago or rheumatism] as can the fliodh Moire [marsh chickweed]. It is unlucky to come across the latter as it causes a person to be hungry. Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.