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Description: | Commemorative monument with statue of Hygeia (goddess of health). Two graduated steps supporting a square plinth with a square bronze tablet fixed above inscription on the front (south) face. The bronze tablet shows a relief portrait of Maclagan in profile facing right. Hygeia is characteristically posed holding a saucer in her right hand with water for a serpent which is wound around a column at her side. Additional Information: Dr Philip Whiteside Maclagan (1818-92) was born in Edinburgh the second son of an army surgeon. He trained at Edinburgh University and became an army surgeon with the Royal Canadian Regiment. After marrying the daughter of Dr George Johnston of Berwick in 1847 he joined Johnston's practice in 1853, eventually inheriting it on Johnston's death. Over the next decades whilst he and his son Charles steadily built up the practice he busied himself as an elder and lay preacher at the Wallace Green Presbyterian Church and as a trustee of the British School.(1) | Subjects: | Statue | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Sculptor: Stevenson, David W.S. | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=7516... | Go to resource |
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