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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    Bart., F.R.S., Surgeon Extraordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, and Dr. Thorne-Thorne, C.B., F.H.S., Chief Medical Officer to the Local Government Board); from (c) King's College (through Professor Smith, Director of the State Medicine Laboratories where I had been demonstrator; and Professor Crookshank, Director of the Bacteriological Laboratories); and, lastly, (/) from Dr. Thursfield, the Medical Officer of Health for twenty-seven sanitary authorities in Shrop- shire and adjacent counties, whose deputy I had been and under whom I had investigated and traced out a large number of epidemic outbreaks. As regards medical pharmacy and chemistry, I was able, for several years of tuition, to cite (g) my father, Professor Attfield, F.R.S., editor of the ' British Pharmacopoeia ' for the Medical Council, and Professor of Practical Chemistry to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. I was selected, together with a German and a French colleague, out of, as I afterwards gathered, many scores of candidates. I have devoted the substantia] fee I earned for my professional work at the Soda Lakes of Wyoming, United States, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, in 1891 [see page 241], to my outfit and other expenses; so I start with a fair amount of the pleasant as well as proper British feeling of independence. At Suez we three medical officers are to have a steam launch at our disposal, an office, and probably, after a time, a house to ourselves, with appropriate suites of rooms. In all other respects we are, at present, to fend for ourselves. We are to ' report1 ourselves at Alexandria on Tuesday, May 15. When