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THE TALLERMAN FREE INSTITUTES.
1597 sponsors she
was worthy of her title. The story may bE recommended to girls from " six to sixteen."
crippling
diseases
of the osteo-arthritic
type, commonly
called " rheumatic gout"or I I rheumatoid arthritis." It is <-confidently upon the working-classes that the brunt of the mischief falls, The Story of the Seven Young Goslings. By LAWRENCE and great numbers of the poor are bed-ridden and crippled HOUSMAN. Illustrated by MABEL DEARMER. London: from rheumatoid disease, "against which," to quote the Blackie and Son. 6s.-A droll story told in rhyme and words of a distinguished Frenchman, Dr. Edouard Chretien, " the up till now confessed himself to be powerbeautifully illustrated. As inculcating filial trust we com- less." physician That opinion has been endorsed by various leading mend this stanza: medical authorities. You must remember, wherever you are, Since 1893 the Tallerman apparatus, by which such You are the jam, but your mother’s the jar; conditions are treated with superheated air, has been in You are the twig, but your mother’s the trunk ; constant use at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and has been You are the crumb, but your mother’s the chunk! So you must endeavour, whatever you do, used with good results at Charing-cross, the London, the Not to be clever, or think it’s you ; North-West London, University College, and other hospitals, But intellect smotlier, and stick to your mother, metropolitan and provincial. The treatment has been dealt For somehow or other she’ll pull you through! with both as to theory and to practice in a monograph No Surrender:A Tale of the Rising in La T endee.-By by Dr. Arthur Shadwell, and several clinical articles have ’G. A. HENTY. London : Blackie and Son. 5s. There is no appeared in our own columns, tending to establish the value of superheated air as a therapeutic agent when properly more heroic episode in the annals of history than the defence It should be added, for it constitutes a different applied. of La Vendee against the overwhelming forces of the French sore of claim upon medical attention, that Mr. Lewis TallerRepublic, and Mr. Henty’s vigorous and resourceful pen does man, the inventor of the apparatus, has used it solely in - full justice to the extraordinary character of the struggle. connexion with medical men and has not brought it under ’The story tells how a young Englishman, who chances to be the notice of the public by advertisement. Those who could afford to pay for private treatment came upon the recomvisiting his sister and her husband, a landowner of La mendation of their medical advisers. A more active policy ’Vendes, at the time that the uprising took place, recognises was pursued with regard to the poor-first by placing ’in the Republicans the enemies of his own country and apparatus at the disposal of hospitals and secondly by espouses the cause of the peasantry. Need we say of one treating patients certified by medical men to be fit objects of Mr. Henty’s heroes that adventures by flood and field for such gratuitous relief. The success attained by these - crowd thick upon him, and that successes and disasters means led Mr. Tallerman to conceive the idea of bringing his treatment within the reach of the poor not only of the metro.cominingle in his career as an irregular soldier ? He shows polis but also of the United Kingdom. Such a scheme has himself a brave and good fellow under all circumstances been shown to have chances of success by an experiment that and eventually reaches England again in safety. This is an has been conducted for upwards of three years in South London. Some charitable folk interested in mission work in excellent gift-book. that locality decided to apply the superheated-air treatment The Doctor. By HENRY DE VERE STACPOOLE. London : to cases of chronic rheumatic and other crippling maladies T. Fisher Unwin. Pp. 247. Price 6s.-The doctor was a which were brought under their notice. They were enabled practitioner of the old school who tended the people in a to do this under the supervision of an honorary medical remote part of Somersetshire. He was a charming old mau officer with an apparatus placed at their disposal by Mr. .and was rightly loved by his people, who ’’came to him like Tallerman. Success was obtained by this kindly effort, as no less than 40 patients per annum have been reported so far .animals when they were ailing or sent him extraordinary relieved or cured as to be enabled to return to their work. entreaties to come to them written on the fly-leaf of a prayer By securing the free use of the mission-room, moreover, the ’book or the sheet of a child’s copybook. These came to the local committee achieved their purpose at a nominal cost. From these results the idea has originated of opening surgery delivered by very little children as a rule, for the bucolic mind had grown to recognise that a messenger who similar free institutes all over the country. The need of a scheme arises from the fact that the general could talk and explain symptoms generally returned with comprehensive either have not the necessary apparatus or have not hospitals pills or a bottle of stuff to be taken at once and a promise a nursing staff available for its administration. The work ,that the doctor would call in the morning."’ Not that he of the medical charities is already so extensive that there a special treatment ’neglected his patients in any way but he knew the west is little chance of their adopting time and attention. that makes further demands upon well. to constitution We that he "country pretty regret say A further consideration bearing upon this aspect of the new did not believe in modern research and was wont to express charity is that many inquiries have been made by medical there ain’t any men from time to time as to where himself forcibly thus : ’’ Damn microbes poor patients could - such things....... I remember the time when THE LANCET obtain this special treatment. A general committee recently formed in London have announced that they will consider all was a paper that a man could understand, that was when Watson was alive and Jenner and Gull were young men, but duly accredited and responsible applications from medical men and others desirous of forming local committees, while now its all packed full of microbes and antiseptic surgery. Mr. Tallerman has offered to provide the necessary apparatus Microbes there may be in London but there ain’t any in free of charge. The recommendation of a duly qualified Somerset." Indiana, his niece, is also a delightful character, medical man as to eligibility of candidates will be necessary of the free institutes and an naturally of a veJY different kind, and we must congratulate before admission to the benefits "Frances"through whose mouth Mr. Stacpoole speaks upon honorary medical officer will also be appointed. In this way gratuitous relief will be restricted to the necessitous poor. -a very sympathetic portrait of a very noble character. is It will be seen that the fundamental motive of this "
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charity bring the poor at no cost to themselves within the reach of a somewhat costly form of treatment of diseases that specially affect and disable that class of the community. The lines of bhe free institutes will be those of the ordinary medical charity, except that any appeal for support will be rather for to
THE TALLERMAN FREE INSTITUTES.
To found a fresh medical charity in these latter days of practical work than for money. ,manifold philanthropy is to invite criticism of a searching kind from both lay and professional quarters. With that - consideration well in view it may be claimed that the objects COAL SMOKE ABATEMENT SOCIETY.-Sir W. B. mf the organisation recently started under the name of the Richmond presided at the usual fortnightly meeting of this Tallerman Free Institutes are worthy of the careful attensociety held on Nov. 29th at Buckingham Gate. It was tion and support of all who are interested in matters of the ’eported that something under .E100 had been received kind. iuring the last few days to carry on th. crusade against The population of Great Britain, as everyone knows, is Smoky London," besides hundreds of letters from all parts specially prone to rheumatic and gouty affections and to of the country promising support to the movement..
was worthy of her title. The story may bE recommended to girls from " six to sixteen."
crippling
diseases
of the osteo-arthritic
type, commonly
called " rheumatic gout"or I I rheumatoid arthritis." It is <-confidently upon the working-classes that the brunt of the mischief falls, The Story of the Seven Young Goslings. By LAWRENCE and great numbers of the poor are bed-ridden and crippled HOUSMAN. Illustrated by MABEL DEARMER. London: from rheumatoid disease, "against which," to quote the Blackie and Son. 6s.-A droll story told in rhyme and words of a distinguished Frenchman, Dr. Edouard Chretien, " the up till now confessed himself to be powerbeautifully illustrated. As inculcating filial trust we com- less." physician That opinion has been endorsed by various leading mend this stanza: medical authorities. You must remember, wherever you are, Since 1893 the Tallerman apparatus, by which such You are the jam, but your mother’s the jar; conditions are treated with superheated air, has been in You are the twig, but your mother’s the trunk ; constant use at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and has been You are the crumb, but your mother’s the chunk! So you must endeavour, whatever you do, used with good results at Charing-cross, the London, the Not to be clever, or think it’s you ; North-West London, University College, and other hospitals, But intellect smotlier, and stick to your mother, metropolitan and provincial. The treatment has been dealt For somehow or other she’ll pull you through! with both as to theory and to practice in a monograph No Surrender:A Tale of the Rising in La T endee.-By by Dr. Arthur Shadwell, and several clinical articles have ’G. A. HENTY. London : Blackie and Son. 5s. There is no appeared in our own columns, tending to establish the value of superheated air as a therapeutic agent when properly more heroic episode in the annals of history than the defence It should be added, for it constitutes a different applied. of La Vendee against the overwhelming forces of the French sore of claim upon medical attention, that Mr. Lewis TallerRepublic, and Mr. Henty’s vigorous and resourceful pen does man, the inventor of the apparatus, has used it solely in - full justice to the extraordinary character of the struggle. connexion with medical men and has not brought it under ’The story tells how a young Englishman, who chances to be the notice of the public by advertisement. Those who could afford to pay for private treatment came upon the recomvisiting his sister and her husband, a landowner of La mendation of their medical advisers. A more active policy ’Vendes, at the time that the uprising took place, recognises was pursued with regard to the poor-first by placing ’in the Republicans the enemies of his own country and apparatus at the disposal of hospitals and secondly by espouses the cause of the peasantry. Need we say of one treating patients certified by medical men to be fit objects of Mr. Henty’s heroes that adventures by flood and field for such gratuitous relief. The success attained by these - crowd thick upon him, and that successes and disasters means led Mr. Tallerman to conceive the idea of bringing his treatment within the reach of the poor not only of the metro.cominingle in his career as an irregular soldier ? He shows polis but also of the United Kingdom. Such a scheme has himself a brave and good fellow under all circumstances been shown to have chances of success by an experiment that and eventually reaches England again in safety. This is an has been conducted for upwards of three years in South London. Some charitable folk interested in mission work in excellent gift-book. that locality decided to apply the superheated-air treatment The Doctor. By HENRY DE VERE STACPOOLE. London : to cases of chronic rheumatic and other crippling maladies T. Fisher Unwin. Pp. 247. Price 6s.-The doctor was a which were brought under their notice. They were enabled practitioner of the old school who tended the people in a to do this under the supervision of an honorary medical remote part of Somersetshire. He was a charming old mau officer with an apparatus placed at their disposal by Mr. .and was rightly loved by his people, who ’’came to him like Tallerman. Success was obtained by this kindly effort, as no less than 40 patients per annum have been reported so far .animals when they were ailing or sent him extraordinary relieved or cured as to be enabled to return to their work. entreaties to come to them written on the fly-leaf of a prayer By securing the free use of the mission-room, moreover, the ’book or the sheet of a child’s copybook. These came to the local committee achieved their purpose at a nominal cost. From these results the idea has originated of opening surgery delivered by very little children as a rule, for the bucolic mind had grown to recognise that a messenger who similar free institutes all over the country. The need of a scheme arises from the fact that the general could talk and explain symptoms generally returned with comprehensive either have not the necessary apparatus or have not hospitals pills or a bottle of stuff to be taken at once and a promise a nursing staff available for its administration. The work ,that the doctor would call in the morning."’ Not that he of the medical charities is already so extensive that there a special treatment ’neglected his patients in any way but he knew the west is little chance of their adopting time and attention. that makes further demands upon well. to constitution We that he "country pretty regret say A further consideration bearing upon this aspect of the new did not believe in modern research and was wont to express charity is that many inquiries have been made by medical there ain’t any men from time to time as to where himself forcibly thus : ’’ Damn microbes poor patients could - such things....... I remember the time when THE LANCET obtain this special treatment. A general committee recently formed in London have announced that they will consider all was a paper that a man could understand, that was when Watson was alive and Jenner and Gull were young men, but duly accredited and responsible applications from medical men and others desirous of forming local committees, while now its all packed full of microbes and antiseptic surgery. Mr. Tallerman has offered to provide the necessary apparatus Microbes there may be in London but there ain’t any in free of charge. The recommendation of a duly qualified Somerset." Indiana, his niece, is also a delightful character, medical man as to eligibility of candidates will be necessary of the free institutes and an naturally of a veJY different kind, and we must congratulate before admission to the benefits "Frances"through whose mouth Mr. Stacpoole speaks upon honorary medical officer will also be appointed. In this way gratuitous relief will be restricted to the necessitous poor. -a very sympathetic portrait of a very noble character. is It will be seen that the fundamental motive of this "
......
......
charity bring the poor at no cost to themselves within the reach of a somewhat costly form of treatment of diseases that specially affect and disable that class of the community. The lines of bhe free institutes will be those of the ordinary medical charity, except that any appeal for support will be rather for to
THE TALLERMAN FREE INSTITUTES.
To found a fresh medical charity in these latter days of practical work than for money. ,manifold philanthropy is to invite criticism of a searching kind from both lay and professional quarters. With that - consideration well in view it may be claimed that the objects COAL SMOKE ABATEMENT SOCIETY.-Sir W. B. mf the organisation recently started under the name of the Richmond presided at the usual fortnightly meeting of this Tallerman Free Institutes are worthy of the careful attensociety held on Nov. 29th at Buckingham Gate. It was tion and support of all who are interested in matters of the ’eported that something under .E100 had been received kind. iuring the last few days to carry on th. crusade against The population of Great Britain, as everyone knows, is Smoky London," besides hundreds of letters from all parts specially prone to rheumatic and gouty affections and to of the country promising support to the movement..