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Diseases

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:

Note about plants used as cures for ailments, 1885

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/65
Scope and Contents

Note about plants used as cures for ailments in Uist [Uibhist] including 'An Leòdan', which is found in lakes, is brought home in its own water, boiled, dried and used for 'coilleasaichean' and 'Na Ruiceaidean', which are lumps 'the size of the pipits egg' growing on the lower rib.

Dates: 1885

Note about the plant 'Barra-bhrisgean' [silverweed], June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/216
Scope and Contents

Note about the plant 'Barra-bhrisgean' [silverweed flower] that it is 'bad for the Clamhra dugh' [probably cloimheach[d] or mange in sheep].

Dates: June 1887

Note on the charm 'Eola[s] Sgocha Feith[e]', September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/130
Scope and Contents

Note on the charm 'Eola[s] Sgocha Feith[e]'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1909

Notes about the plants lus-mor [spearwort] and lus an acrais [hunger plant], 12 September 1890

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/3
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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.

Dates: 12 September 1890

Notes on Miulay, 1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/48
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Notes on Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] describing its bay as 'of an ampitheatre form...like an old-fash[ioned] military saddles (sic)'. Croc Conain and Creagan rua [Cnoc Conain, Creagan Ruadh] are noted as where the houses 'stood of old when the plauge (sic) came' adding 'Creag na h-aoinaig and Biola creag [Bual na Creige] are the same.'

Dates: 1867

Poem under the title 'Leprosy', 1885

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/62
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Poem under the title 'Leprosy' said by a woman 'afflicted with dropsy (leprosy?)' who was set apart from the people and placed in a bothy by herself beginning 'Iosaibh! Eosaibh! Eosaibh! (Joseph?), Iosa bu choir a mholadh'. The text has been scored through in pencil.

Dates: 1885

Potatoes from Scabbed and Clean Sets, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1381
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Photograph of two sets of potato crops, one from sets that were badly scabbed (not boxed before planting) and the other from sets that were fairly clean (boxed before planting) showing the effect of scab on the growth and height of the plants. The experiment was done in 1914.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Remedy using dog fat entitled 'Lòni - Cure', August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/30
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Description of a remedy made using dog fat entitled 'Lòni - Cure' with a note that it was a treatment used by an Indian doctor which cured Mrs Stewart of Prince Edward Island [Canada]. Also notes that one in ten people on the island have cancer.

Dates: August 1883

Samples of Clover, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1416
Scope and Contents

Photograph of six samples of clover: a good sample of clover; a poor sample; dodder; weed seed often taken for dodder; dodder attacking red clover, the first stage and the final stage.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Song entitled 'Mararan do Thirmaid, 7 April 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107/48
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Mararan do Thirmaid mac mhic ic Aileain' [Marbhrann do Thormaid]', beginning 'Fhuaras neac an dè', collected from Donald MacDonald, age 6, Sniseabhal/Snishival, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. Tormod, for whom the lament was written, was a young nobleman who died of yellow fever while in France. Text has been scored through as if to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 7 April 1869