I never remember such a day as this so far on in spring. Last night the sky was clear + starry + the ground was all white this morning. During the forenoon there was some slight snow showers but from 2.30 till 7 there was one of several snow blizzards with a strong NE wind. Everything was smothered in snow + at night when Helen [Muir] + I came from Wellwood it was freezing hard. I went down to Mauldsheugh [surgery] at 10. D [Dr David Graham] operated on Barbara Henderson for a tubercular gland1. Afterwards we saw Mitchell the [engineer’s son?] + opened a sinus in the perineum. I saw a few town cases + went to evening service.
1 I am pleased to be corrected, the entry reads “tubercular gland”. The correspondent points out that “removal of enlarged lymph glands was not uncommon in the days of tuberculosis”
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/22, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1919]
I think it reads “tubercular gland”. Removal of enlarged lymph glands was not uncommon in the days of tuberculosis.
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Thanks, you’re correct of course. I had pondered this a bit so pleased to get it right. Appreciate your feedback again.
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