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RefNoEL/A/38
LevelItem
TitlePart of a letter, from St George Ashe [to the Royal Society], dated at Trinity College Dublin
Date26 March 1687
DescriptionConcerning a girl called Elizabeth Dooly who had a protuberance on her forehead -when her mother was pregnant she was frightened by a cow she was milking, and hit by the cow's teat on her temple - believed that the daughter's protuberance was linked to this incident; concerning a description of and virtues of the herb 'Mackinboy' or 'Tithimalus hibernicus', a rare plant known today as Irish Spurge (Euphorbia hyberna L.)
Only part of the letter has been preserved

Subject: Physiology/ Botany
LanguageEnglish
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
Place originTrinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Leinster, Republic of Ireland
Origin coordinates53.33306, -6.24889
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1686.0062
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1698.0060
RelatedRecordLBO/12/109
RBO/6/139
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/c033f366-53b3-44df-850a-d1564d769e7a
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5799Ashe; St George (1658 - 1718); Bishop of Derry and scholar1658 - 1718
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