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Compendium of medicine, Incipit page, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.595, fol. 2b

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This manuscript is a compendium/encyclopedia of medicine entitled Ẕakhīrah-i Khvārazmshāhī, composed by Zayn al-Dīn al-Jurjānī (d. 531 AH / 1136 CE). It was copied by Muḥammad ibn Maʿrūf ibn Maḥammad al-Zarīr [?] al-Kāzarūnī Shīrānī in 889 AH / 1484 CE. The text opens with a double-page illuminated incipit with verses alluding to the title of the perform.

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John McCrae Memorial / McCrae Residence / Guelph, Ontario

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In Flanders fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our spot and in the sky
The larks, nonetheless bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below…
We are the Dead. Brief days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields…
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, even though poppies grow
In Flanders fields…

Videos related to the writing of the poem
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Armistice Day occurs subsequent Tuesday… “at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month”. My father’s brother, John Barber, died in 1917 when a stove exploded in a Belgian army camp. My mother’s brother, Bill Watson, was killed on July 23, 1944, when the Wellington Mk X bomber in which he was navigator ditched into the Irish Sea even though on a coaching mission. All on board were killed.

I determined it would be fitting to travel the quick distance to Guelph, Ontario, to check out the birthplace of Lt. Col. John McCrae, who penned “In Flanders Fields” on a piece of paper held tightly to the back of his pal, Colonel Lawrence Cosgrave while they have been in the trenches throughout a lull in the bombings on Might three, 1915. McCrae had witnessed the death of his pal, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, the day ahead of. The poem was initial published on December eight, 1915 in Punch magazine, London.

The light wasn’t the greatest for my photoshoot, considering that the front of the home receives quite little sunlight at any point for the duration of the day. Did my ideal. Someday I’ll redo it when the skies are overcast.

Over the up coming week, I will be posting pictures taken in the course of the visit. I will also be posting pictures of Uncle Bill and Uncle John, as well as of Bill’s flight crew. I will inform as a lot of their stories as I know.

From my set entitled “John McCrae Birthplace” (beneath preparation)
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In my collection entitled “Places”
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Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, writer, artist and soldier for the duration of World War I and a surgeon throughout the battle of Ypres. He is ideal recognized for writing the popular war memorial poem In Flanders Fields.

McCrae was born in McCrae Residence in Guelph, Ontario, the grandson of Scottish immigrants. He attended the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute. John became a member of the Guelph militia regiment.

McCrae worked on his BA at the University of Toronto from 1892-3. He took a year off his research at the University of Toronto due to recurring troubles with asthma.

He was a member of the Toronto militia, The Queen’s Very own Rifles of Canada whilst studying at the University of Toronto, for the duration of which time he was promoted to Captain and commanded the company.

Among his papers in the John McCrae House in Guelph, Ontario is a letter John McCrae wrote on July 18, 1893 to Laura Kains even though he trained as an artilleryman at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. &quot…I have a manservant .. Fairly a nobby location it is, in reality .. My windows look appropriate out across the bay, and are just near the water’s edge there is a great deal of shipping at present in the port and the river looks quite rather.’ [one]

He was a resident master in English and Mathematics in 1894 at the OAC in Guelph, Ontario. [two]

He returned to the University of Toronto and completed his B.A. McCrae later studied medicine on a scholarship at the University of Toronto. Although attending the university he joined the Zeta Psi Fraternity (Theta Xi chapter class of 1894) and published his initial poems.

He completed a medical residency at the Garrett Hospital, a Maryland children’s convalescent residence. [2]

In 1902, he was appointed resident pathologist at Montreal Basic Hospital and later also became assistant pathologist to the Royal Victoria Hospital Montreal. In 1904, he was appointed an associate in medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital. Later that year, he went to England where he studied for several months and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians.

In 1905, he set up his personal practice despite the fact that he continued to work and lecture at numerous hospitals. He was appointed pathologist to the Montreal Foundling and Infant Hospital in 1905. In 1908, he was appointed doctor to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Infectious Ailments.

In 1910, he accompanied Lord Grey, the Governor Basic of Canada, on a canoe trip to Hudson Bay to serve as expedition doctor .

McCrae served in the artillery during the Second Boer War, and upon his return was appointed professor of pathology at the University of Vermont, where he taught until 1911 (despite the fact that he also taught at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec)

When the United Kingdom declared war on Germany at the commence of Globe War I, Canada, as a Dominion within the British Empire, declared war as effectively. McCrae was appointed as a field surgeon in the Canadian artillery and was in charge of a field hospital for the duration of the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. McCrae’s buddy and former student, Lt. Alexis Helmer, was killed in the battle, and his burial inspired the poem, In Flanders Fields, which was written on Might three, 1915 and initial published in Punch Magazine, London.

From June one, 1915 McCrae was ordered away from the artillery to set up No. three Canadian Common Hospital at Dannes-Camiers close to Boulogne-sur-Mer, northern France. C.L.C. Allinson reported that McCrae &quotmost unmilitarily told [me] what he believed of currently being transferred to the medicals and being pulled away from his beloved guns. His last words to me had been: ‘Allinson, all the goddam medical doctors in the world will not win this bloody war: what we need to have is a lot more and far more fighting men.’&quot[3]

‘In Flanders Fields’ appeared anonymously in Punch on December eight, 1915, but in the index to that year McCrae was named as the author. The verses swiftly became a single of the most well-known poems of the war, utilised in countless fund-raising campaigns and frequently translated (a Latin version begins In agro belgico…). ‘In Flanders Fields’ was also extensively printed in the United States, which was contemplating joining the war, alongside a ‘reply’ by R. W. Lillard, (&quot…Concern not that you have died for naught, / The torch ye threw to us we caught…&quot).

For eight months the hospital operated in Durbar tents (donated by the Begum of Bhopal and shipped from India), but after suffering storms, floods and frosts it was moved up to Boulogne-sur-Mer into the old Jesuit School in February 1916.

McCrae, now &quota household name, albeit a regularly misspelt one particular&quot,[4] regarded his sudden fame with some amusement, wishing that &quotthey would get to printing ‘In F.F.’ correctly: it never is currently&quot but (writes his biographer) &quothe was satisfied if the poem enabled guys to see in which their duty lay.&quot[5]

On January 28, 1918, while nevertheless commanding No 3 Canadian Basic Hospital (McGill) at Boulogne, McCrae died of pneumonia. He was buried with full honours[6] in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission section of Wimereux Cemetery, just a couple of kilometres up the coast from Boulogne. McCrae’s horse, &quotBonfire&quot, led the procession, his master’s riding boots reversed in the stirrups. McCrae’s gravestone is positioned flat, as are all the other individuals, simply because of the sandy soil.

McCrae was the co-writer, with J. G. Adami, of a medical textbook, A Text-Book of Pathology for College students of Medicine (1912 2nd ed., 1914). He was the brother of Dr. Thomas McCrae, professor of medicine at John Hopkins Medical College in Baltimore and close associate of Sir William Osler.

McCrae was the wonderful uncle of former Alberta MP David Kilgour and of Kilgour’s sister Geills Turner, who married former Canadian Prime Minister John Napier Turner.

Many institutions have been named in McCrae’s honour, like John McCrae Public School (component of the York Area District School Board in the Toronto suburb of Markham, Ontario), John McCrae Public College (in Guelph, Ontario), John McCrae Senior Public School (in Scarborough, Ontario) and John McCrae Secondary School (part of the Ottawa-Carleton District College Board in the Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven). The existing Canadian War Museum has a gallery for unique exhibits, named the The Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae Gallery. Guelph is property to McCrae Residence, a museum produced in his birthplace.

The Cloth Hall of the city of Ieper (Ypres in English} in Belgium has a permanent war remembrance[eight] known as the In Flanders Fields Museum, named after the poem.

There are also a photograph and quick biographical memorial to McCrae in the St George Memorial Church in Ypres.

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Illuminated manuscript, Compendium of medicine, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.595, fol. 2b

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This manuscript is a compendium/encyclopedia of medicine entitled Ẕakhīrah-i Khvārazmshāhī, composed by Zayn al-Dīn al-Jurjānī (d. 531 AH / 1136 CE). It was copied by Muḥammad ibn Maʿrūf ibn Maḥammad al-Zarīr [?] al-Kāzarūnī Shīrānī in 889 AH / 1484 CE. The text opens with a double-page illuminated incipit with verses alluding to the title of the operate.