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INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
Dr Cameron Gillies, the Secretary of the
Scottish Gaelic Academy, is a native of Sunart,
Argyleshire. He studied in Glasgow University,
where he graduated M.B., M.Ch., in 1882. In 1893
he tooh his M.D., being top graduate. In 1877 he
compiled a collection of Gaelic Songs for the use
of schools. In the preface of that worh he said —
"I believe that in the Gaelic song lies the means
of the Gaelic redemption," a prophecy which is
being verified every day. In 1881 he edited a
collection of the Gaelic Songs of Dr John
MacLachlan, Rahoy. In 1885 he issued "Gaelic
Texts for Schools," and in 1896 a Gaelic Grammar,
as well as "A Class Booh of the Gaelic Language."
In 1899 he published "The Gaelic Names of Disease
and Diseased States." In 1906 he gained the prize
offered by the Caledonian Medical Society by an
essay on "A Gaelic Medical MS. of 1563," and the
same year he published " The Place Names of
Argyll." In 1911 he gave the world "Regimen
Sanitatis— the Rule of Health," a Gaelic medical
MS. of the early 16th Century. He is at present
engaged on the "DunoUy Manuscript of 1611."
He has contributed numerous articles to the
various medical magazines and journals, and was
President of the Caledonian Medical Society in
1903.
The following pages are an extension of a
lecture delivered by Dr Gillies to the members of
the Dundee Highland Society on January 20th last,
and form the first of a proposed series of pamphlets
for the furtherance of the objects of the Society.
Dundee, April 4th, 1913.