A private journal in Egypt from May 1894 to May 1895 / by D. Harvey Attfield.

  • Attfield, D. Harvey (Donald Harvey), 1866-
Date:
1895
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Credit: A private journal in Egypt from May 1894 to May 1895 / by D. Harvey Attfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    remuneration my father started with in 1862; I want no more auspicious precedent, and feel happy, confident, and contented. The more contented and reliant perhaps, because neither outside personal in- fluence, nor inside favouritism, could affect my elec- tion. The requirements of the Egyptian Sanitary and Quarantine Board were advertised in the medical journals of England, France, and Germany ; applica- tions and testimonials were to be sent to and con- sidered by the Board at Alexandria. Not ordinary medical qualifications alone, but special bacteriological and chemical attainments were required, experience in dealing broadly with epidemics such as cholera, and as much all-round administrative and linguistic skill, as well as sound health and physique, as could be conjoined. Here, apparently, was an opening into the very career for which I had been studying and working. Clearly, too, opportunities would be at disposal for increasing whatever power of research, and therefore of usefulness to others, one might already possess. I applied, adducing testimony from my three univer- sities of (a) Cambridge (various diplomas, including one in public health); (b) Wiirzburg (through Pro- fessor Dr. Medicus, Director of the Technological Institute of the Boyal University) ; and (c) Munich (through Professor Dr. Max von Pettenkofer, President of the Hygienic Institute, and Professor Dr. Emmerich, Director of the Bacterio]ogical Laboratory of the Boyal Ludwig-Maximilian University) ; also (d) from St. Bartholomew's Hospital and College, London, my chief medical school (through Sir William Savory,