A nice day on the whole with just a threatening of drizzle about midday which prevented me cycling but need not have done so as it kept quite fair. Wind W. David1 saw Douglas Ballantyne2 with me + diagnosed “Dementia Praecox”3. + I saw Miss Martin4, Glebe Terrace at his request with well marked religious melancholia. Motored to Bowhill, Bluecairn + Oakwood. In the afternoon made out list of Panel Patients who have been attended this year. Helen went with Jack, Nancy + Barbara5 motoring to to the meet at Melking Minto + then via Belses6 to Cornhill + Melkington7.
1 David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner
2 Douglas Ballantyne is not identified
3 The term used from 1896 to describe that condition which would later be known as schizophrenia
4 Miss Martin is unidentified
5 Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963) and Andrina Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Twhigg (1902-1996), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper and his eldest granddaughter respectively
6 Old Belses and New Belses, Ancrum, approximately centred on grid reference NGR NT571,250
7 Melkington, Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland, grid reference NGR NT873,411
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]
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