Fine though cold up till 2 after which it rained straight on. I cycled first thing to Sund. Hall Garden1 + then from 11 till 1.30 I was giving Chlor[oform] at Viewfield2 to a boy Bell3 (tuberculous cervical gland), Mrs T Montgomery4 (curetting) + Effie Robertson5 (clearing sinus in old wound). In afternoon motored to Heatherlie Park, Forest Mill, + Faldonside. Jessie6 all right. The Wylies from Whitelee7 came when I was there. Saw Robert Currie8 at night + gave hypo [of] Heroin. Brace of grouse from Grieve9 of which I sent 1 to Rennie10.
1 Sunderland Hall, Selkirk, was the home of the Scott Plummer family but it is not clear what Dr Muir was there for.
2 Viewfield Nursing Home, the Muir and Graham medical partnership’s base.
3 The boy Bell is so far unidentified.
4 Mrs Montgomery is so far unidentified.
5 There were three women named Euphemia Robertson recorded at Selkirk in the 1921 Census.
6 Dr Muir had been attending Jessie Milne Brack Boyd (1867-1961), of Faldonside, plantswoman and gardener.
7 Alexander Wyllie, merchant, and Helen Gifford Wyllie née Whitelaw were at Whitelee, Melrose, Roxburghshire in the 1921 Census and he was recorded as the Proprietor of the same in Valuation Rolls into the 1930s.
8 Dr Muir had been attending Robert Currie, junior (about 1847-1923), woollen hosiery manufacturer, at Rockville, Hillside Terrace, Selkirk.
9 Norman William Grieve who appears to have moved to (or taken an interest in property in) the Selkirkshire and Roxburghshire areas around 1911. It is feasible that he is the Norman William Grieve (about 1852-1936), born Hawick, who worked in tropical agriculture and as the director of public companies (rubber and tea companies according to A Hawick Word Book), he left £308,574.
10 The Reverend James Rennie (1826-1924) of Ladyton, Prestwick, clergyman, described on his death registration as Minister of the Gospel Retired, Dr Muir’s brother in law and widower of Catherine Stewart Rennie née Muir.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/26, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1923]
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