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regretted that Psasnis’s reply and the result Wales branch of the British Medical Association and is a forthcoming. The above papyri came from surgeon-colonel (V.D.) of the 3rd V.B. Royal Welsh Oxyrhynchus, as, too, does the following, which is a report Fusiliers. Hackney.-Mr. Frederick Montague Miller, M.R.C.S. Eng., by a public physician to the county functionary, stating that in accordance with his instructions he had investigated the L.R.C.P. Lond., the Mayor of Hackney, was educated at causes of a death that had taken place. The date is known Merchant Taylors’ School, whence he took a perpetual from the name of the " strategus " to be A.D. 173. Somewhat scholarship to St. Thomas’s Hospital and was tra;ned It is deeply to be
thereof
are
not
in the papyrus collection at Berlin. son of Apollodorus, son of Dionysus, of Oxyrhynchus, public physician, &dgr;&e gr;µó&sgr;íos l&agr;&tgr;pos. I was to-day instructed by you through Heraclides, your assistant, to inspect the body of a man who had been found hanged, named Hierax, and to report to you my opinion upon it. I therefore inspected the body in the presence of the aforesaid Heraclides at the house of Epagathus in the Broad Street quarter, and found it hanged by a noose which fact I accordingly report. Another official medical report, however, is extant from Oxyrhynchus which explains itself. Its date is A.D. 325 :In the consulship of Paulinus and Julianus, the most illustrious. To Flavius Leucadius logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the Aurelii Didymus and Sylvanus of the illustrious city of Oxyrhynchus, public physicians. Your grace sent us in consequence of a petition received by you from Aurelius Dioscorus to make a report, in writing, upon his daughter, who as he complained had been in,jured by the fall of his house which had occurred. We accordingly went to Dioscorus’ house and saw that the girl had several cuts in her hip and wounds near the shoulder and on the right knee. We therefore present this report. Although the medical examination is not recorded it is certain from what we know of Roman army matters and the physicians attached to the legions and recruiting depôts that the following deed of exemption from serving would not have been given without expert medical inspection. The date of its engrossment is A.D. 52. Copy of a release dated and signed in the twelfth year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Augustus, Germanicus, Imperator. Phamenoth 29. Release from service was granted by Cneius Vergilius Cpito, prefect of Upper and Lower Egypt, to Tryphon, son of Dionysius, weaver. suffering from cataract and shortness of sight, of the metropolis of Oxyrhynchus. Examination was made at Alexandria. The last papyrus1 from this old city yet published mentioning a medical man is of A.D. 572 and merely consists of an allusion by a lady to her husband whom she styles a chief physician and who gives his consent to her undertaking to pay the taxes on some property forming her dowry. Among the literally tons of papyri now at Oxford still undeciphered there are doubtless many more manuscripts describing medical matters.
similar documents
are
To Claudius, Strategus, from Dionysus,
......
under Dr. Peacock, Mr. Le Gros Clark, and Sir John He became L.R.C.P., M.R.C S., and L.S.A., Simon. and from that time till the present he has practised in the north of London. He has always taken a great interest in everything connected with Hackney and commenced his municipal life six years ago when Hackney was incorporated. He has been an active member of the works and general purposes committee of the borough and chairman of the public libraries committee, being instrumental in obtaining a gift of .625,000 from Mr. A. Carnegie for the erection of a central and two branch libraries. He also obtained a gift of a site for a branch library from the Rhodes trustees through the late Colonel Frank Rhodes. With Mr. Francis Howse, the ex-mayor, and others, he joined in the optional deposit for the purchase of the Springfield Park estate which has since been acquired by the London County Council. He has been chairman of the public libraries committee since its inception and hopes to signalise his year of office by seeing the central library completed during his year of office as mayor. Lancaster.-Mr. William Cowan Hamilton, M.B., C.M.
Glasg. Macclesfield.-Mr. John Somerville, F.R.C.S. Edin., L.R.C.P.Edin., who occupies the mayoral chair of Macclesfield, has been in practice in that town for 35 years. In 1872 he was appointed honorary surgeon to the Macclesfield General Infirmary and in 1901, after 29 years’ service, was appointed consulting surgeon. He is certifying factory surgeon for Macclesfield.
Oldham.-Mr. Robert Gourlay, M.B., C.M. Glasg,, the mayor of Oldham, was born at Kirkintillock, near Glasgow, and received his medical education at the University of Glasgow, where, before graduating M.B., C.M. in 1883, he won the Johannes Hunter medal in the senior division. He went to Oldham in 1884 and commenced practice there. He was first returned to the council in 1889 for St. James’s Ward after a contested election ; in 1892 he was successful again ; in 1895 he was returned unopposed ; and in January, 1897, he was made an alderman. He retired from the council in 1901 and was re-elected for Waterhead Ward in 1904. During his membership of the council Dr. Gourlay has rendered to his adopted town valuable service, espeMEDICAL MEN AND MUNICIPAL cially on the watch, health, gas, electricity, park, and educaHONOURS. tion committees. Ambulance work has also been helped forward by him and he has always taken a personal interest He has been THE following is a list of members of the medical pro- in athletics and physical development. the of Oldham Caledonian honorary president Society since fession who have been elected or re-elected to the mayoral its formation. brief notes their with of medical and chair, together Nem Romney.-Alderman Richard R. Daglish, M R.C.S. municipal careers so far as we have been able to ascertain Eng., L.S.A., J.P., of New Romney, Kent, has been them. elected of that old and historical Cinque port Mayor Brighton.-Mr. Henry Gervis, M.B., B.C. Cantab., for the eighth time since September, 1885, when the who has been L.R.C.P. elected M.R.C.S. Eng., Lond., ancient was granted a new charter in accordance borough Mayor of Brighton, is the son of Dr. H. Gervis, con- with the Municipal Corporation Acts, although under the old sulting obstetric physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital. charter granted by Queen Elizabeth in the fifth year of her Although he has had only two years’ service on the reign the corporate body consisted of a mayor, jurats, and Brighton town council he was for several years a member as a medical man in the of the district council at Bishop Stortford and his work commonalty. Mr. Daglish qualified and received instruction at Liverpool and at Guy’s on that body amply justifies his fellow townsmen of year 1864 He is an Admiralty surgeon and agent, Brighton in electing him to the mayoral chair. Dr. Hospital, London. Gervis was educated at Mill Hill School and Trinity a district medical officer, the workhouse medical officer, and surgeon to the county constabulary. New Romney has been College, Cambridge. He received his medical training at constant to some of its previous mayors, but Mr. Daglish St. Thomas’s Hospital where he became house surgeon and seems to have established a record for the borough. resident accoucheur. For some time he practised at Bishop Southwold.-Mr. Basil Hubert Howard Tripp, M.R.C.S. Stortford and subsequently went to Brighton and entered the L.R.C.P. Lond. Eng., town council as a of the
Brighton
Ward in 1904.
representative
Regency
His zeal for municipal work has caused him to be elected on as many as five committees and he is also a member of the Sewers Board. In the eight years during which he has resided in Brighton Dr. Gervis has won the esteem of all with whom he has come in contact. Conway.-Mr. R. A. Prichard, L.R.C.P. Edin., M.R.C.S. Eng., J.P. for the county of Carnarvon, who was Mayor of Conway from 1893 to 1897, was last year again chosen to represent his fellow townsmen in the civic chair. He has now been re-elected. He has been President of the North 1 This is papyrus No. 10,085 of the Cairo Museum.
A NURSING EXHIBITION.-On Nov. 22nd a nursing exhibition was opened for a few days at St. George’s Hall, Mount-street, W., organised by the provisional com-
mittee of the National Council of Nurses. The exhibits consisted of maternity outfits, apparatus used in nursing the tuberculous, and general nursing equipment. Several of the articles exhibited had been invented by nurses. Conferences in connexion with the exhibition were also held on the care of the consumptive, maternity nursing, and mental
nursing.
regretted that Psasnis’s reply and the result Wales branch of the British Medical Association and is a forthcoming. The above papyri came from surgeon-colonel (V.D.) of the 3rd V.B. Royal Welsh Oxyrhynchus, as, too, does the following, which is a report Fusiliers. Hackney.-Mr. Frederick Montague Miller, M.R.C.S. Eng., by a public physician to the county functionary, stating that in accordance with his instructions he had investigated the L.R.C.P. Lond., the Mayor of Hackney, was educated at causes of a death that had taken place. The date is known Merchant Taylors’ School, whence he took a perpetual from the name of the " strategus " to be A.D. 173. Somewhat scholarship to St. Thomas’s Hospital and was tra;ned It is deeply to be
thereof
are
not
in the papyrus collection at Berlin. son of Apollodorus, son of Dionysus, of Oxyrhynchus, public physician, &dgr;&e gr;µó&sgr;íos l&agr;&tgr;pos. I was to-day instructed by you through Heraclides, your assistant, to inspect the body of a man who had been found hanged, named Hierax, and to report to you my opinion upon it. I therefore inspected the body in the presence of the aforesaid Heraclides at the house of Epagathus in the Broad Street quarter, and found it hanged by a noose which fact I accordingly report. Another official medical report, however, is extant from Oxyrhynchus which explains itself. Its date is A.D. 325 :In the consulship of Paulinus and Julianus, the most illustrious. To Flavius Leucadius logistes of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from the Aurelii Didymus and Sylvanus of the illustrious city of Oxyrhynchus, public physicians. Your grace sent us in consequence of a petition received by you from Aurelius Dioscorus to make a report, in writing, upon his daughter, who as he complained had been in,jured by the fall of his house which had occurred. We accordingly went to Dioscorus’ house and saw that the girl had several cuts in her hip and wounds near the shoulder and on the right knee. We therefore present this report. Although the medical examination is not recorded it is certain from what we know of Roman army matters and the physicians attached to the legions and recruiting depôts that the following deed of exemption from serving would not have been given without expert medical inspection. The date of its engrossment is A.D. 52. Copy of a release dated and signed in the twelfth year of Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Augustus, Germanicus, Imperator. Phamenoth 29. Release from service was granted by Cneius Vergilius Cpito, prefect of Upper and Lower Egypt, to Tryphon, son of Dionysius, weaver. suffering from cataract and shortness of sight, of the metropolis of Oxyrhynchus. Examination was made at Alexandria. The last papyrus1 from this old city yet published mentioning a medical man is of A.D. 572 and merely consists of an allusion by a lady to her husband whom she styles a chief physician and who gives his consent to her undertaking to pay the taxes on some property forming her dowry. Among the literally tons of papyri now at Oxford still undeciphered there are doubtless many more manuscripts describing medical matters.
similar documents
are
To Claudius, Strategus, from Dionysus,
......
under Dr. Peacock, Mr. Le Gros Clark, and Sir John He became L.R.C.P., M.R.C S., and L.S.A., Simon. and from that time till the present he has practised in the north of London. He has always taken a great interest in everything connected with Hackney and commenced his municipal life six years ago when Hackney was incorporated. He has been an active member of the works and general purposes committee of the borough and chairman of the public libraries committee, being instrumental in obtaining a gift of .625,000 from Mr. A. Carnegie for the erection of a central and two branch libraries. He also obtained a gift of a site for a branch library from the Rhodes trustees through the late Colonel Frank Rhodes. With Mr. Francis Howse, the ex-mayor, and others, he joined in the optional deposit for the purchase of the Springfield Park estate which has since been acquired by the London County Council. He has been chairman of the public libraries committee since its inception and hopes to signalise his year of office by seeing the central library completed during his year of office as mayor. Lancaster.-Mr. William Cowan Hamilton, M.B., C.M.
Glasg. Macclesfield.-Mr. John Somerville, F.R.C.S. Edin., L.R.C.P.Edin., who occupies the mayoral chair of Macclesfield, has been in practice in that town for 35 years. In 1872 he was appointed honorary surgeon to the Macclesfield General Infirmary and in 1901, after 29 years’ service, was appointed consulting surgeon. He is certifying factory surgeon for Macclesfield.
Oldham.-Mr. Robert Gourlay, M.B., C.M. Glasg,, the mayor of Oldham, was born at Kirkintillock, near Glasgow, and received his medical education at the University of Glasgow, where, before graduating M.B., C.M. in 1883, he won the Johannes Hunter medal in the senior division. He went to Oldham in 1884 and commenced practice there. He was first returned to the council in 1889 for St. James’s Ward after a contested election ; in 1892 he was successful again ; in 1895 he was returned unopposed ; and in January, 1897, he was made an alderman. He retired from the council in 1901 and was re-elected for Waterhead Ward in 1904. During his membership of the council Dr. Gourlay has rendered to his adopted town valuable service, espeMEDICAL MEN AND MUNICIPAL cially on the watch, health, gas, electricity, park, and educaHONOURS. tion committees. Ambulance work has also been helped forward by him and he has always taken a personal interest He has been THE following is a list of members of the medical pro- in athletics and physical development. the of Oldham Caledonian honorary president Society since fession who have been elected or re-elected to the mayoral its formation. brief notes their with of medical and chair, together Nem Romney.-Alderman Richard R. Daglish, M R.C.S. municipal careers so far as we have been able to ascertain Eng., L.S.A., J.P., of New Romney, Kent, has been them. elected of that old and historical Cinque port Mayor Brighton.-Mr. Henry Gervis, M.B., B.C. Cantab., for the eighth time since September, 1885, when the who has been L.R.C.P. elected M.R.C.S. Eng., Lond., ancient was granted a new charter in accordance borough Mayor of Brighton, is the son of Dr. H. Gervis, con- with the Municipal Corporation Acts, although under the old sulting obstetric physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital. charter granted by Queen Elizabeth in the fifth year of her Although he has had only two years’ service on the reign the corporate body consisted of a mayor, jurats, and Brighton town council he was for several years a member as a medical man in the of the district council at Bishop Stortford and his work commonalty. Mr. Daglish qualified and received instruction at Liverpool and at Guy’s on that body amply justifies his fellow townsmen of year 1864 He is an Admiralty surgeon and agent, Brighton in electing him to the mayoral chair. Dr. Hospital, London. Gervis was educated at Mill Hill School and Trinity a district medical officer, the workhouse medical officer, and surgeon to the county constabulary. New Romney has been College, Cambridge. He received his medical training at constant to some of its previous mayors, but Mr. Daglish St. Thomas’s Hospital where he became house surgeon and seems to have established a record for the borough. resident accoucheur. For some time he practised at Bishop Southwold.-Mr. Basil Hubert Howard Tripp, M.R.C.S. Stortford and subsequently went to Brighton and entered the L.R.C.P. Lond. Eng., town council as a of the
Brighton
Ward in 1904.
representative
Regency
His zeal for municipal work has caused him to be elected on as many as five committees and he is also a member of the Sewers Board. In the eight years during which he has resided in Brighton Dr. Gervis has won the esteem of all with whom he has come in contact. Conway.-Mr. R. A. Prichard, L.R.C.P. Edin., M.R.C.S. Eng., J.P. for the county of Carnarvon, who was Mayor of Conway from 1893 to 1897, was last year again chosen to represent his fellow townsmen in the civic chair. He has now been re-elected. He has been President of the North 1 This is papyrus No. 10,085 of the Cairo Museum.
A NURSING EXHIBITION.-On Nov. 22nd a nursing exhibition was opened for a few days at St. George’s Hall, Mount-street, W., organised by the provisional com-
mittee of the National Council of Nurses. The exhibits consisted of maternity outfits, apparatus used in nursing the tuberculous, and general nursing equipment. Several of the articles exhibited had been invented by nurses. Conferences in connexion with the exhibition were also held on the care of the consumptive, maternity nursing, and mental
nursing.