There were some patches of snow on White Coomb¹

A cold dull but dry day. Wind slight E. I walked up to Rockville² + back by Hawthorn Cottage. Left about 10.30 in car with Helen³ + Winifred⁴: called at Hospital + then ran to Peebles, Dreva + Moffat. It was very cold + Winifred had to supplement her clothing with the “Scotsman” which she wore all the journey. We lunched at The girls inspected Neidpath⁵ + we lunched at Mossfennan⁶: stopped at Beef tub⁷ + Grey Mare’s Tail⁸. Had to light the lamps after Craighope⁹ + got home at 6.10. I had to go over to Pinegrove + the Hospital¹⁰ before dinner. My hands … + Winifred came back with Coryza¹¹. The colouring of the Dawyck¹² woods was marvellous.

¹ White Coomb is the highest point in the Moffat Hills, grid reference NGR NT163,150

² Rockville, Selkirk, home of Robert Currie ‘junior’ (about 1847-1923), hosiery manufacturer; the fourth of five generations at Selkirk with the given name Robert

³ Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper

⁴ Margaret Winifred Armitage (1874-1970), daughter of William Armitage, cotton merchant, and Margaret Petrie Armitage; her sister Dorothy had married Francis ‘Frank’ Muir (1877-1972), electrical engineer, son of the Reverend Gavin Struthers ‘Guy’ Muir Dr Muir’s brother, and thus Dr Muir’s nephew

⁵ Neidpath, Peebles, NT236,404

⁶ Mossfennan, Broughton, Glenholm and Kilbucho Parish, Peeblesshire, area centred on grid reference NT117,316

⁷ The Devil’s Beef Tub, grid reference NT062,128 is the impressive hollow in the hills north of Moffat and adjacent to the A701; sitting below Annanhead Hill it is one of the main sources of the River Annan

⁸ Grey Mare’s Tail, NT183,148, below Loch Skene on the Selkirkshire – Dumfriesshire boundary

⁹ There seem to be two locations named Craighope which might be a ‘fit’, at Yarrow, NT280,283 and Innerleithen, NT297,451 but neither is a place which one would be merely driving past

¹⁰ Mauldsheugh ‘The Hospital’ appears to have been used by the Muir and Graham medical partnership as their main site (supplemented from 1920 by Viewfield Nursing Home) but also to have been Dr Graham’s home but should not be confused with the Infectious Diseases Hospital at the north end of the Selkirk Hills (though Dr Muir seems to have used the word interchangeably for Mauldsheugh and the Isolation unit)

¹¹ Coryza (as Dr Muir prefers to call it) is the Common Cold or symptoms of it

¹² Dawyck, Drumelzier, area centred on grid reference NT167,351

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

A better day with some sunshine but pretty cold. There are now 17 cases of Diph. in Hospital¹ + 7 Scarlet [fever]. 2 new cases of Diph¹. today. Gave Chlor[oform] at Viewfield for a case of tuberculous submaxillary gland. Wrote Jean³ in answer to a letter in which, poor girl, she writes very gloomily about Pike⁴. I have promised to see him next Sunday. Wrote Barbara⁵ also + Jenny Smith ⁶ who is at Peebles Hydro⁷.

¹ Viewfield Nursing Home and Mauldsheugh ‘The Hospital’ (but see below), both in Selkirk and both used by the Muir and Graham medical partnership but in this case the reference may be to the Infectious Diseases Hospital (19th-20th Century), just east of Ashburn and Buxton Cottage at the north end of the Selkirk Hills, grid reference NGR NT48515,28659, see Ordnance Survey six inch Selkirkshire sheet XII.NW, revised 1930 [Source: Canmore ID 353686 Canmore Permalink]

² Selkirk had been suffering from a nasty and prolonged outbreak of Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever

³ Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Pike née Muir (1877-1941), Dr Muir’s eldest daughter

⁴ Frederick Charles Pike (1883-1921), had married Jane Henderson Logan ‘Jean’ Muir in 1920 at Newington, Edinburgh but by late 1921 he was gravely ill

⁵ Andrina Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Twhigg (1902-1996), Dr Muir’s eldest granddaughter

⁶ Assume Jenny Locke Smith (1882-1952), daughter of Thomas Smith, tweed manufacturer (about 1841-1899), and Katie Smith née Locke, who had married 23 April 1873, London; later of independent means, she died June 1952 at Lynedoch Place, Edinburgh, aged 70, her death reported by Isobel Rodger, ‘cousin’, of Comiston Drive, Edinburgh

⁷ Peebles Hydro, grid reference NGR NT26027,40525, hotel, hydropathic institute and sometime naval hospital, Dr Muir refers at this time to the new building which replaced that lost in the devastating 1905 fire; Canmore describes it as a “Hospital (First World War), Hotel (19th Century), Hotel (20th Century), Hotel (20th Century), Hydropathic Institute (20th Century), Hydropathic Institute (19th Century)” [Canmore ID 98207]

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

Dry cold grey day with stiff S.W. wind. Cycled round town + out to Synton Mill. Jas. Elliot¹ rather better. They are at last patching the Greenhill to Clarklands road². Crowds of people at night till near 7.30. Went to “Greetin’ Supper”³ in the Railway Hotel⁴. Thought the hour was 8 + got there to find the supper over but Mrs Wilson⁵ kindly gave me a bite in her parlour. The supper was the usual affair. It was raining heavily as I went home at 10.

¹ See also diary entry for 15 September 1921; this is presumably James Elliot of Flex, Hawick, who was also tenant at Shielswood, Ashkirk, in which case his wife was Isabella Douglas Elliot née Amos [1921 Valuation Roll, VR011700009-/302, Selkirk County, page 302 of 611]

² The state of this stretch of road had been a vexation to Dr Muir for some time, to the extent that he had reported avoiding it on a least one occasion previously

³ This is the supper given by the Lord Provost to the Council (it is a coincidence that it fell at Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) in 1921).

⁴ By Railway Hotel Dr Muir presumably means the Station Hotel, Station Road, Selkirk, Canmore ID 100365 and grid reference NGR NT46663,28769 (still standing)

⁵ William Wilson, hotel keeper, was proprietor of the Station Hotel and Stable, Station Road, Selkirk [1921 Valuation Roll,VR007900012-/198, Selkirk Burgh, page 198 of 644]

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

Calmer today + less cold: no rain but dull. Was called up just after I went to bed last night to see Mrs Walt. Scott¹, Hawthorn Cottage. There were messages to Brown², Curror Street (Diph.), Mitchell³, The Green + McPherson⁴, Forest Road. Went to morning service where Mr Ross⁵ preached from “Our citizenship is in heaven”⁶. Mrs MacIntosh⁷ + the Stowes⁸ came to tea. I like Griswold Stowe. He seems a very straight chap. He consulted me as what his attitude to Napier⁹ should be. Lady N.¹⁰ has asked him to see her husband while Lady Belhaven¹¹ is against him doing so.

¹ Mrs Walter Scott was Mary Best Scott née Robertson (about 1886-); the couple had married 13 August 1914 at Selkirk Parish Church and in 1921 Walter Lumsden Scott, painter, was recorded as Tenant at Hawthorn Cottage, Dovecot Park, Selkirk – renting the property from what appears to be his father [marriage, Scott, Walter Lumsden and Robertson, Mary Best, 1914, 778/ 27, Selkirk; 1921 Valuation Roll, VR007900012-/131, Selkirk Burgh, page 131 of 644]

² It is not possible to identify a specific Brown from Curror Street because there is more than one recorded in the 1921 Valuation Roll

³ Thomas H C Mitchell, baker, was Proprietor and Occupier of a house at 10 The Green, Selkirk [1921 Valuation Roll, VR007900012-/209, Selkirk Burgh, page 209 of 644]

⁴ John Macpherson, carter, was Tenant Occupier of a house and garden 100 Forest Road, Selkirk [1921 Valuation Roll, VR007900012-/165, Selkirk urgh, page 165 of 644]

⁵ The Reverend Andrew Ross (1871-1942), Church of Scotland minister

⁶ Philippians 3:20 (though the King James Bible has ‘conversation’) “For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:” continuing at 3:21 “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”

⁷ Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946), of Elm Park, Selkirk, whose home was known by Dr Muir as ‘the Magic Cave’

⁸ Agnes Maude Ethel Stowe née Simpson (1878-) was Mrs Mackintosh’s niece and married to Griswold Stowe (1869-1930), treasurer of the Deshabille Lumber Company [USA] and sometime of 11 Verndale Street, Brookline, Massachusetts and of 2 Corrennie Gardens, Edinburgh; they had a son William Sargent Stowe (1904-)

⁹ Francis Edward Basil Napier (1876-1941), 12th Lord Napier and 3rd Lord Ettrick, J.P., Captain; soldier and courtier aka ‘The Weakling Lord’, ‘An Awful Ass’ or “Poltroon”; appears to have been a constant irritant to Dr Muir who regularly criticised him for evading military service, which he had indeed sought to do. Lord Napier was charged with being absent without leave but failed to show at his trial at the Sheriff Court on 13 August 1917. He was fined and entered Berwick Barracks a few days later as an ordinary soldier. On 25 September 1919 Dr Muir, fed up that Lord Napier had upset Lady N. called him “… that prince of snobs and dipsomaniacs.” and on 26 September 1921 Dr Muir noted that “He seems to be affected with ‘Satyriasis’. It is a terrible state of matters + will probably end in a divorce.”

¹⁰ The Hon. Clarice Jessie Evelyn Napier née Hamilton (1881-1951), Lady Napier

¹¹ The Hon. Georgina Hamilton née Watson (1856-1940), Lady Belhaven and Stenton; Lord Napier’s mother-in-law

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

A very strong N.W. gale raged all night + most of the day but eased towards evening. David¹ returned from Ed. [Edinburgh] at midday. I saw a few cases walking + cycled twice to Hospital for Matron who got her face badly scalded. Helen² + Winifred³ went with the Elmpark⁴ party motoring to the meet at Haining Gate⁵ + went round by Lilliesleaf. In the afternoon Winnie went for a walk on the hill with Keltie⁶.

¹ David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner

² Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper

³ Margaret Winifred Armitage (1874-1970), daughter of William Armitage, cotton merchant, and Margaret Petrie Armitage; her sister Dorothy had married Francis ‘Frank’ Muir (1877-1972), electrical engineer, the son of the Reverend Gavin Struthers ‘Guy’ Muir, Dr Muir’s brother, and thus Dr Muir’s nephew

⁴ Elm Park, Selkirk, home of Agnes Mackintosh, née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946)

⁵ Haining Gate where the track that runs in a south easterly direction across the Haining estate debouches onto the Selkirk-Hawick road opposite the road to Clerklands

⁶ Keltie was a dog, presumably belonging to the Muirs, who has been referred to previously in Dr Muir’s diaries

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

Strong NW wind dry but not cold. Saw 8 town cases besides Viewfield + Hospital. Nurse Fraser¹ ill with sore throat + I ordered her to bed. Cycled to Rockville², Kingcroft Toll³ + Synton Mill: quite pleasant. About 4.30 had to go down to Clark⁴, dentist, to stop a bleeding gum in a man Wintrup⁵. Had a crowd at night + was later for dinner at Elmpark⁶. Jack⁷ + Charlie⁸ there to meet the Stowes⁹. After getting home at 10.30 had to go down to Mauldsheugh¹⁰ + reduce a dislocated shoulder for Robt. Davidson¹¹, Beechwood, the postman.

¹ Nurse Fraser has not (yet) been identified

² Rockville, Selkirk, home of Robert Currie ‘junior’ (about 1847-1923), hosiery manufacturer; the fourth of five generations at Selkirk with the given name Robert

³ John Elliot, retired forester was Tenant at Old Tollhouse, Kingcroft, (Proprietor Christina H Brown) [1921 Valuation Roll, VR011700009-/334, Selkirk County, page 334 of 611]

⁴ Thomas Raeburn ‘T Raeburn’ Clark (1879-1943), dental surgeon at 8 The Green, Selkirk and of Ettrickbridge, 1920 Valuation Roll; married to Isabella Watson, he died, 9 July 1943, aged 63, at 153 Morningside Drive, Edinburgh, usual residence Elburn, Ettrickbridge.

⁵ There was a Thomas Wintrup, millworker, who was Tenant at 6a Heatherlie Terrace, Selkirk [1921 Valuation Roll, VR007900012-/214, Selkirk Burgh, page 214 of 644]

⁶ Elm Park, Selkirk, home of Agnes Mackintosh née Watson, formerly Harper (1859-1946)

⁷ John ‘Jack’ Roberts junior (1876-1966), mill owner and Provost of Selkirk, and Dr Muir’s son-in-law

⁸ Charles Henry ‘Charlie‘ Roberts (1877-), tweed manufacturer and Jack’s brother

⁹ The Stowes were Agnes Maude Ethel Stowe née Simpson (1878-1962), daughter of James Cowie Simpson, coal master, and Margaret ‘Maggie’ Simpson née Watson (thus Mrs Agnes Mackintosh’s niece) and Griswold Stowe (1869-1930), sometime treasurer of the Deshabille Lumber Company [USA] – and possibly at this date their son William Sargent Stowe (1904-1973)

¹⁰ Mauldsheugh, named ‘Mauldshaugh’ on the 1918 and 1920 Valuation Rolls, was Andrew Gray Lumgair’s old house later tenanted by Dr David Charteris Graham and used as his home and as the Medical Partnership’s hospital, the Editor assumes therefore that this is the ‘Hospital’ referred to frequently in the diaries (and sometimes at the same time as Viewfield, so they are clearly undertaking different functions for Muir & Graham); there is a reference, 29 January 1919 “He was taken to Mauldsheugh where he was operated on by Mr Fraser at 5. I gave Chlor[oform]. Fraser is a beautiful operator + the result was successful in the removal of an inflamed appendix.” [Heritage Hub SBA/657/22/15]

¹¹ Robert Cameron Davidson (1897-1974), postman, son of James Davidson (about 1869-), coachman, and Joan Davidson née Cameron (about 1868-), who had married 1895, at Kennoway, Fife [Sources: 1897 Births 434/ 7); 1911 Census Selkirk, 778/ 12/ 12, page 12 of 14 and 1921 Valuation Roll, VR011700009-/326, Selkirk County, page 326 of 611]

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

Walked along along town, Forest Road, Hospital +c. Had to go down to Ettrickhaugh Road to see a man John Dodds¹ at request of Fowler². I have rarely seen a house or a man in such a state of filth. It seems his wife is a habitual soaker³. David⁴ went to Edin. to attend the Centenary dinner of the Medical Chirug.⁵ tomorrow. I motored to Melrose + dined with McMillan⁶ at 7 + then recited at a Concert organised by Miss Wilson⁷ for the Girl Guides. There was some good singing by Miss Stewart⁸, Faughill [?] + a man Bell⁹ from Gala. I gave the Bottle, stuck on “Holyrood” + gave Salmon¹⁰.

¹ John Dodds, engine driver, was tenant of a house at Ettrickhaugh Road, Selkirk [1921 Valuation Roll, VR011700009-/331, Selkirk County, page 331 of 611]

² William Fowler (about 1863-1933), Inspector of Poor and Registrar, Selkirk

³ Mrs Dodds appears to be Isabella Elizabeth ‘Isa’ Dodds née Hardie (about 1881-1935), wife of John Dodds, engine driver for the railway company, aged 34, who was described as living with his wife Isa E Dodds, aged 29, at 14 Victoria Street, Galashiels in the 1911 Census [1911 Census, 775/9/1, page 1 of 25]; they had married July 1908 at Chalmers Street, St Giles, Edinburgh and she died July 1935, aet 56, at the Western General Hospital, usual residence Knowepark, Galashiels

⁴ David Charteris ‘Dav.’ Graham (1889-1963), M.B., medical practitioner and Dr Muir’s business partner

⁵ The Editor can do no better than quote the The Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh’s own description “Based on the successful Medico-Chirurgical Society of London, The Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh was founded in 1821 by our first president, Dr Andrew Duncan. In the beginning, the main object of the Society was “communication of facts and the interchange of opinions on medical subjects and the collection and preservation of important practical observations so frequently made by gentleman whose avocations do not permit them to undertake separate publications”.” [Source: Welcome to The Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh]

⁶ Assume John James McMillan (1879-1953), medical practitioner, of Melrose

⁷ Miss Wilson is not identified but it is perhaps Miss Kate Wilson, teacher and Proprietor of Gordonlee, Melrose who was also Tenant Occupier of the site of the tennis court at Highcross, Melrose; it is the Editor’s recollection is that this was the site of Boy Scout camps locally so further research will be undertaken

⁹ Bell from Galashiels appears in Dr Muir’s diary from time to time but has not (yet) been identified

⁸ James Ballantyne Stewart was Tenant Occupier of part of the farm and house of Faughhill, Bowden [1921 Valuation Roll, VR011600033-/538, Roxburgh County, page 538 of 993] – perhaps the one who was a farm student at Netherby, Eskbank, Dalkeith, aged 24, 1911 Census, who married June 1913, St Giles, Edinburgh, Nancy S S Thin, though the Editor cannot find any daughters born after this date who would have been able to sing at a public engagement in late 1921 (it is possible to rule out Stewart’s sisters Eliza Simpson Stewart, later Ross (about 1886-) or Gladys Robina Stewart, later Sharpe (about 1890-) as both had married by this date, in 1913 and 1916 respectively)

¹⁰ Neither ‘Holyrood’ nor ‘Salmon’ have yet been identified but Dr John Freeland Fergus (1865-1943), medical practitioner, was the author of ‘Fancies of a Physician, Medical and Otherwise, in Scots and English’, published by Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1938 and including ‘The Bottle’ the last verse of which reads “An’ the bottle, oh the bottle, that the skilly doctor gied, | It had ipecac an’ squills intill’it, tolu’ an’ aniseed, | An a tate o’ paregoric, but was gey an’ wersh to pree, | For aye the wershest medicines are aye the best to gi’e, | But a bottle, oh a bottle, is jist the wale o’ a’, | Gin you’ve a hoast or income, or ha’e naething wrang ava’.”

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

Lovely bright morning: fine all day but cloudy in afternoon. Very mild. After seeing a few town cases I left in Swift¹ with Helen² + Winifred³: called at at Faldonside with medicine for Mrs Maycock⁴ + went on to Bemersyde, Old Smailholm, Mellowlees⁵ to Hume Castle where we lunched: then to Rowchester⁶, Lamden, Mersington, Leitholm, Swinton, Ladykirk, Norham + home by Cornhill, Coldstream + Kelso. It was a delightful run + we all enjoyed it. The good old Swift with 4 aboard went without a hitch.

¹ The Swift Motor Company made Swift Cars in Coventry; it is not clear which model Dr Muir owned of this small motor manufacturer’s many products but it had been the ‘workhorse’ car for the practice since Dr Muir had acquired it some time before August 1914 [Source: ‘Swift Models 1901-1931’, http://www.theswiftclub.co.uk%5D]

² Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper

³ Margaret Winifred Armitage (1874-1970), daughter of William Armitage, cotton merchant, and Margaret Petrie Armitage; her sister Dorothy had married Francis ‘Frank’ Muir (1877-1972), electrical engineer, son of the Reverend Gavin Struthers ‘Guy’ Muir Dr Muir’s brother, and thus Dr Muir’s nephew

⁴ Catherine Maycock née Gow (1874-1959), wife of George James Maycock (1877-1957), butler, later poultry farmer, at this time living at Lower Faldonside, Galashiels – see diary entry for 14th October 1921 for more detail

⁵ Mellowlees Bridge, Smailholm, crosses the Eden Water south of Mellerstain Mill at grid reference NT6533,3793

⁶ The party travelled from Smailholm via Hume Castle, NT704,413, Rowchester, NT733,438, Lambden, NT744,430, Mersington, NT777,445, Leitholm, NT791,441, Swinton, NT836,474, Ladykirk, NT888,475 and Norham, NT898,472, before returning along the River Tweed

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

It was quite mild today + the snow had quite disappeared from the nearer hills. I finished all I had to do by 12 o’clock + set to to transfer all current accounts from the old to the new ledger. Got letters from Dora + Barbara¹. Helen² + Winifred³ had tea at Dandswall⁴ + went to the picture house at night with Nancy⁵. Got note of Burgh account which are [sentence left incomplete].

¹ Andrina Dorothy ‘Dora’ Muir (1882-1978), nurse and Dr Muir’s youngest daughter and Andrina Henderson ‘Barbara’ Roberts, later Twhigg (1902-1996), his eldest granddaughter who had gone off to Paris in 1921

² Helen Frances ‘Mousey’ Muir (1880-1963), Dr Muir’s third daughter and sometime housekeeper

³ Margaret Winifred Armitage (1874-1970), daughter of William Armitage, cotton merchant, and Margaret Petrie Armitage; her sister Dorothy had married Francis ‘Frank’ Muir (1877-1972), electrical engineer, the son of the Reverend Gavin Struthers ‘Guy’ Muir, Dr Muir’s brother, and thus Dr Muir’s nephew

⁴ Dandswall, Shawpark Road, Selkirk, appears at this time to have been home to Malcolm Murray Thorburn (1889-1977), manufacturer and Tenant Occupier [1921 and 1922 Valuation Rolls, VR007900012-/322, Selkirk Burgh, page 322 of 644] but by 1923 it had been purchased and occupied by Miss Elizabeth Douglas Ballantyne (about 1879-1950) [1923 Valuation Roll, VR007900012-/457, Selkirk Burgh, page 457 of 644] and the Editor is sceptical as to how closely in practice one can rely on Valuation Rolls to track the date of such changes

⁵ Agnes Amelia ‘Nancy’ Roberts née Muir (1878-1948), Dr Muir’s second daughter

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]

Beautiful sunny sharp morning but from one o’clock it got cloudy + very cold + threatening rain. Saw some cases walking + then cycled to Bengerburnhope intending to go up Leithen + back by Gala but I found the snow lying on Paddy Slack making riding rather nasty so I turned up Tweed past Cardrona + then back to Walkerburn¹. Took my tea above Holylee. My hands were miserably cold most of the time + I didn’t enjoy the ride. Came back via Rink + Hospital. All the Yarrow + Tweed hills were quite white.

¹ It appears that Dr Muir has ridden to Gordon Arms before crossing Paddock Slack, grid reference NGR NT313,288, turning off just short of Traquair, NT331,347, to travel north westwards to Cardrona, approximately NT303,388, probably crossing the River Tweed there to return on its opposite bank and taking his tea east of Walkerburn at Holylee, NT393,374, the final part of the journey being via the Rink, NT482,323 (and thus into Selkirk past the Toll instead of via Sunderland and Bannerfield)

[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/24, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1921]