“Oh I have passed a miserable night.” The cough was incessant with a moist irritating cooing rattle at the bottom of the trachea. It was distinctly worse when I lay on my right side but when evening came I was really very exhausted. Besides I could take very little food. However my temperature was down to 99.4 which of course made a mighty difference in my feelings. Meikle1 was very kind. He called in the morning [and he] saw Mr Hewie2 at Yarrowford for me, as he was going to Broadmeadows + then Baptie3 drove him to Cannon Street, Fairnilea + Ashybank in the afternoon.
1 Robert William Meikle (1870-1962), L.R.C.P. Edinburgh, living at Gowanbrae, Selkirk around 1904 [sources: Medical Register 1903 and Valuation Rolls, 1904] but moved to England between 1908 and early 1911.
2 Perhaps James Hewie, grocer and postmaster at Yarrowford.
3 Thomas Baptie (1860-1929), driver and handyman for Dr Muir.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/7, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1904]
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