Mild dull day. Thick mist drizzle + finally rain after 2 o’clock. Roads at first drying became greasy. Rose at 5 + worked away at ledger. Did not go out till 11. Saw town cases walking before lunch. Called at Wellwood + saw Barbara1 enjoying a haddock! In afternoon cycled to Bowhill + Broadmeadows. Discovered a tumour in old John Rutherford.2 Left a hypo of Astrium [?].
1 Andrina Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts (1902-1996), daughter of John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), mill owner, and Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948) of Wellwood, Ettrick Terrace, Selkirk. Barbara was Dr Muir’s first grandchild.
2 John Rutherford, garden labourer, widow of Isabella Hogarth. He lived at Broadmeadows, Selkirk. He was 77. The 1901 Census locates him more precisely at Yarrow Road, Old Broadmeadows and living there with his daughter Betsy Rutherford, 57, described as “housekeeper”. He was recorded as born Mordington, Berwickshire and Betsy as born Melrose, Roxburghshire.
3 There are elusive references to the medical use of Astrium on the Internet that the Editor cannot resolve but nor is he particularly confident of the transcription here.
[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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