Another brilliant morning but still cold. Had a rather bad night with coughing + lumbago. Am taking Salol + Sal Sol at 5 grs several times a day.1 Drove in the Stanhope2 to [word deleted] Buxton3, Mavisbank, Hospital, Cooperative Mill4, Blackhaugh5 + Sunderland [and] was fairly comfortable. Have begun my annual report. Did not see any one at night. Wire to go to Crook Cottage6 tomorrow.
1 The Editor speculates that this reads as shown above, presumably meaning that Dr Muir was taking phenyl salicylate as a pharmaceutical, sold at this time under the commercial name Salol. However, if this is correct then Dr Muir seems to have repeated the Sal implicit in the Salol. Better interpretations welcome.
2 The Editor’s judgment is that this is a Stanhope as a light horse-drawn gig or buggy rather than an imported Stanhope car.
3 Presumably Dr Muir was going to the Infectious Diseases Hospital near Buxton Cottage, just below the Selkirk Hills.
4 Ettrick Mill, Dunsdale Road, Selkirk. It was purchased by the Scottish Co-operative Society in 1901 [Canmore].
5 Blackhaugh, in Caddonfoot Parish, grid reference NGR NT42355,38350, must have been on the very edge of Dr Muir’s practice. For more detail see Dr Muir’s diary entry for 15 March 1904.
6 Crook Cottage, near Overkirkhope, Ettrick, grid reference NGR NT217,123.
[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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