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Thirst

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

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Custom and saying entitled 'Spilling Milk', 1895

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/60
Scope and Contents

Custom and saying recorded by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Spilling Milk' describing how if someone spilt milk they would say 'Coma libh dheth tha bial feumach a feathamh air' [It doesn't matter, there's a needy mouth waiting for it] and that the thirsty party would get their thirst quenched. Text has been scored thorugh as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1895

PR2.360, 1941

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.360
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: dazed condition; unable to speak; unconscious; fits; very thirsty; poor memory; numbness in right arm; pain in back and abdomen; cyanosis; dysphasic disturbances; aphasia; sarcoma; and metastasis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941

PR4.630, 1932

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.630
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and notes relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 43 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: thrombosis; defective vision; hemiplegia; and thirst. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1932

PR4.670, 1933

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.670
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, typed case summary and notes relating to female from outside Great Britain aged 39 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: encephalitis; headache; polyuria; and excessive thirst. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1933

PR2.4331, 1946

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4331
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: hypothalamic disturbances; somnolence; headache; and thirst. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946

The social part of social facilitation, 1995

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Identifier: Coll-1362/4/760
Scope and Contents

Located in Roslin Institute Staff Papers 1995. Part 1.

Dates: 1995