Ossian Collection > Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides

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in the Advocates library at Edinburgh^
where, no doubt, it is ftill to be feen.
Two brothers of the name of Bethune
were famous for the profeflion of phyfic,
in the iflands oi Ijlay and Mull\ and they
were defigned, from the places of their
refidence, ^ Olla Ilich and Olla Miilich.
They were both educated in Spain, and
were well verfed in the Greek and Latin
languages ; but they did not underftand
one word of Englifli.
Olla Ilich lived in the reign of 'James
VI., and held free lands of his Majefty,
as one of his phyficlans. He wrote a
Treatife in Phyfic, in the Gaelic charader,
with quotations from Hippocrates. This
manufcript was feen at Edinburgh fome
years ago, by a gentleman of my acquaint-
* Olla fignifies a Do£lor or Profeflbr in any fcience, parti-
calarly in phyfic.
ance,