Bright morning. S.S.E. wind : roads muddy but rideable. Cycled about town + to Haining, Philipburn, Ettrickbank + Abbotsford Road. Ad. Brydon1 much better. It got duller + began to rain when I was at Gala + gradually developed into a very wet afternoon though mild. After lunch drove to Riddell to see Mrs Sprot.2 Jean3 better on the whole but had a bad night coughing. She had a little fish + some ground rice.
1 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”.
2 Assume Charlotte Gertrude Sprot née Cole (1856-1933) who had married Lieutenant-General John Sprot (1830-1907) of Riddell House, Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire, on 24 November 1886 at Steyning, Sussex.
3 Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Muir, later Pike (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s eldest daughter, suffering from pneumonia at this time.
[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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