Much colder today. Strong W. Gale. Very slight hail showers in forenoon but from 1 o’clock tremendous blizzards of snow. At 7 p.m. there was a heavy fall of snow which left the ground white but aft later it was raining. Jeannie1 easier today after a very restless night. Her sputum was less rusty : breathing + pulse slower + pain gone. She was sick however + at night became so restless that I had to give her 10 grs Trional + 1/10 gr morph. Gave Agnes Bell2 [from ?] [illegible] + extracted a lot of teeth. Cycled to Bowhill, Broadmeadows + Philiphaugh where I lunched. The Laidlaws of Kippielaw3 were there. Came home by Buccleuch Road + Hospital + saw a few town cases after. Jack4 rode Macaulay5 at the meet at Haining + followed a bit but had no run. Spring Holiday
1 Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Muir, later Pike (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s eldest daughter, suffering from pneumonia at this time. The Editor has never seen her called Jeannie before.
2 There were a number of individuals named Agnes Bell in the area and it has not so far been possible to match any to this reference.
3 John Thompson Laidlaw was pretty elusive. The best match is that he was away from Kippilaw, Bowden, Roxburghshire in 1901 and 1911 (though he and his wife were office bearers of the short-lived golf course on Bowden Common around 1901 and he appears in the Valuation Rolls around that time) but he and his wife – and a quite enormous household of visitors and domestic staff – are recorded at Kippilaw in 1921. They couple was John Laidlaw (1851-1929), electrical and mechanical engineer, and Elizabeth McArthur Caird Laidlaw née Mackinlay (1866-1932). [golf course information: Forgotten Greens of Scotland : Bowden Golf Club]
4 John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), Dr Muir’s son-in-law.
5 Macaulay was one of Dr Muir’s horses.
[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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