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The Diary: Orange appeal

FORMER Met detective Jock Murray, originally from Lewis, tells in his just-published autobiography, The Whaler of Scotland Yard, that more than 50 years ago he had sat a medical carried out by a wizened Harris doctor, Iain MacIntosh, in order to serve on whaling ships.

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When a fellow whaler, says Jock, went to Old Mac for advice on dealing with a cold, he was told by the doc: “Buy a bottle of rum, two oranges, and a glass.

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