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Eyes

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

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Charm entitled 'Gulman' and accompanying narrative, September 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/109
Scope and Contents

Charm entitled 'Gulman' collected from Alexander Urquhart, tailor, 'An Gaidheal', Gearrloch [Geàrr Loch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] beginning 'An t ainm s an sloinneadh, S padir Dhe h aon' for healing the eye. Urquhart states in the accompanying narrative how gold and silver must be put in the basin of water and put on wood and then rubbed over the eye. He states that he cured at least forty people. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1909

Charm entitled 'Snaile', 10 April 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/89
Scope and Contents

Charm entitled 'Snaile' [Thread] collected from Fionaghal MacLeod [Flora MacLeod], cottar, at Carnan, Iocar [Càrnan, Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The charm begins 'Ni mi air obair ri shul, A uc[hd] Phead[air] a uc[hd] Phoil'. Written across the text in ink is 'Transcribed B[ook] III p[age] 126.

Dates: 10 April 1874

Charm for cataract [Eòlas a' Ghulmain], 8 September 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/89
Scope and Contents

Charm for cataract [Eòlas a' Ghulmain] collected from Isabell[a] Chisholm née MacKenzie, Meallabhaig [Mealabhaig/Melvaig, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 8 September 1909

Chart and drawings for named patient, c.1931

 Item
Identifier: LHB1/61A/94/3/16
Scope and Contents

Bundle of items clipped together relating to a named patient: an outline of a brain section, an eye chart, and a drawing of the patient's brain.

Dates: c.1931

Copy of an eye chart for named patient, 1934

 Item
Identifier: LHB1/61A/94/3/20
Scope and Contents

Eye chart showing the field of vision for a named patient with handwritten noted. Titled 'Copy'.

Dates: 1934

Expression which reads 'Rinn e suilean a chait ruim', 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/340
Scope and Contents

Expression which reads 'Rinn e suilean a chait rium' meaning 'growing wild at me'.

Dates: 1887

Note on a charm entitled 'An Gulman', 11 September 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/103
Scope and Contents

Note on a charm entitled 'An Gulman' [cataract] probably collected from Catherine MacLean, crofter, Naast, Gairloch, Ross and Cromarty [Nàst, Geàrr Loch, Ros is Cromba], which notes that there must be a sixpence or a shilling in the bottom of the basin [of water] used in the charm. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 11 September 1909