Still thawing but slowly+ calmly. Wire to Mrs Redpath, Lilliesleaf.1 Saw a few town cases walking in the slush + then drove to Cunningham, the Glebe (Annie2 very ill with Bright’s disease + Pilocarpine useless3) + over to almshouses, Lilliesleaf + Newhouse. After lunch drove to Broadmeadows, Newarkburn, Bowhill + Hospital. Examined 8 Yeomanry recruits sent down by Mr Steel.4 Was called down late to Mrs Campbell, Millburn Place (Jeannie Hislop5).
1 Agnes Redpath née Swanston (about 1835-1912), widow of James Redpath, roadman, living at High Street, Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire.
2 Annie Cunningham (1877-), draper’s assistant, daughter of George Cunningham, draper, and Isa Cunningham née Graham.
3 Pilocarpine was a common treatment for Bright’s disease (Nephritis).
4 Assume Samuel Strang ‘Sam’ Steel (1882-1961), son of William Strang Steel of Philiphaugh and Rosetta Edith Barber. Later an M.P., he was a soldier and Territorial administrator.
5 Jane Campbell née Hislop, wife of George Donald Campbell, gardener. They lived at 11 Millburn Place, Selkirk.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/7, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1904]
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