Very hard frost + the tarmac streets a sheet of ice but it got softer during the day + very muddy. I cycled to Clifton Road, Hospital, Mill Street, Forest Road + Beechwood where I removed a [illegible] cyst from nurse Pringle.1 Then I motored to Sprot Homes, Lilliesleaf + Dimpleknowe at which latter place I found the doors of both cottages locked!2 The hounds met at Ashkirk + I met the riders going home + saw all the hounds + whips at Sinton Mill. All day I have felt a Coryza + laryngeal catarrh coming on.
1 Nurse Pringle is as yet unidentified.
2 The cottages at Dimpleknowe, Ashkirk, proprietor Major James Douglas Corse Scott of Synton, were occupied by Walter Mabon and John G Jackson respectively.
[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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