Diseases
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Vocabulary note entitled 'Al & Fual', 1895
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.
Vocabulary note for 'Gea', 'Leig' and 'Bulgach', c1892
Vocabulary note which reads 'Gea = Boat hook S[aint] Kilda, Leig = Suil-chruthaich = Marsh, Bulgach Psoriasis.'
Wart Diseased Potatoes, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of wart diseased potatoes both on the stalk and off with the root system below.
Wheat, 1870s-1930s
Photographs of nine samples of wheat: good wheat; wheat shrivelled by rust; the black things contain worms and and are what the ears yielded instead of wheat; darnell;corn cockle, smut and bunt (spores).