Everything was wet this morning as if it had rained all night but the mist was gone + it turned out a fine day but still cold + the glass low. Gave Nancy Waters1 Chlor[oform] + extracted a lot of her first teeth. Nurse Beck2 helped me. Cycled round town + finished all I had to do by 12. Did some work at record cards in afternoon. Wrote Mary.3 Also Jean4 who proposes coming out tomorrow night.
1 Nancy Lilian Waters (1917-), daughter of John Alexander Waters (1879-1991), butcher, Agnes Watson Robertson, married October 1904 at Musselburgh.
2 Elizabeth Fyfe Beck (1865-1954), nurse, born Dumfriesshire, died Ceres, Fife. The Southern Reporter, 10 August 1916, describes her as a District Nurse at Selkirk before she was released to take up military nursing.
3 Mary Jane Wallace née Muir (1836-1933), Dr Muir’s sister, widow of James Wallace (d.1922), and living at Scotstoune, Haslemere, Surrey.
4 Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Pike née Muir (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s widowed eldest daughter, living in Edinburgh.
[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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