Lovely calm morning followed by distinctly the most springlike + pleasantest day we have had this season. The roads were excellent + I was able to cycle. Went to Philiphaugh to breakfast + did not get away till 11. It was chiefly for [illegible]. Came back to Ettrickbank where I opened what I thought was an abscess in Alison Holmes’1 neck but which turned out to be a collection of fluid like that from a hydrocele. Saw some town cases + Hospital on way back + after lunch cycled to Almshouses, Lilliesleaf, Newhouse + Sinton Mill. After dinner had to go over to Galashiels to see Adam Brydon2 who has influenza. Temp. 103.8.
1 Alison Holmes is so far unidentified.
2 Adam Brydon (about 1837-1919), farmer, of 21 Abbotsford Road, Netherbarns, Galashiels, Selkirkshire. His wife Isabella Brydon née Howie (about 1841-1904), had died 9 February 1904, aged 63, of “pneumonia 8 days”. certified by “John S Muir M.B. +c, 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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