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Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 54 at first examination in 1957. Conditions mentioned include: arthritis; facial pain; and rheumatism. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Correspondence and notes relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 49 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: occipital headache; rheumatism; fibrositis; and hypertension. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Remedy for rheumatism, probably collected from Margaret Stewart or Campbell, Bohespic, Rannoch, Siorrachd Pheairt/Perthshire which reads 'Black snail = Black pudding. Put in in (sic) pigin rua and put on top of oven and the oil rubbed to the pain for rheumatis[m]'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Scope and Contents Story about a sick woman in an unthatched house on Miùghlaigh/Mingulay in which Carmichael was encouraged by 'My old friend Ruary' [Roderick MacNeil] to visit the sick woman even although Carmichael did not know her as Roderick thought she would appreciated it. On arriving at the house he was surprised that the woman was young and 'comely' but saw that she was completely paralysed with rheumatism. He also noticed that there was only a tiny amount of roof over the bed where she lay as 'The...

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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.'