22 April, Wednesday. Cleaned house all day Venicean blinds are a big job. Margret Simpson helped me. THE ARMY SURGEONS PAST With the decline of the bath mens craft in the Middle Ages, barber surgeons started as a professional group. However, not until the reign of Maximilian I (1493 to 1519) was some effort made to enlist capable army surgeons. Their badge of distinction continued to be the shaving basin. Finally, in the mid eighteenth century, barber surgeons received special instruction; they disappeared completely with the progress of nineteenth century medicine and surgery. Thursday, April 23. I did not visite D.U.P. as I was cleaning house & help is very hard to get had two men clean kitchen 2 bathrooms Breakfast room, 2 bedroom paper Dining R. living R & library R cost for papering cleaning etc. with Margrets help at 50 cts & hr total for down stairs 40.50. I did all cupbords dishes, drawers, closets, silver books & cases and some wood work beside. To Jap Gardner for yard 5.50. still have three rooms & six closets to do up stairs. He hears but half who hears one party only AESCHYLUS. WARNER CALENDAR OF MEDICAL HISTORY.