Debunking Quacks and Hospital Neglect in London Society
A harsh critique targets medical quackery at Charing Cross Hospital and the wider London class system. Dr Sigmond, Professor Sigmond, and others condemn unsafe treatments like mercury and laudanum while calling for reform. The piece cites patient harm, legal threats, and public distrust of "medical science" amid privileged immunity and nursemaid rhetoric.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charing-cross Hospital
Relph
Mercury
Lord Langdale
London University
Europe
Aring-Cross Hospital
SigsJast
Charing-Cross
Sopor
Sigmond
and Green Rand
Rolph
Chronicle
Thomas Allen
M.R.C.S
Ond
B. Brodie
Hulbert
Ham
The Great Metropolis and the Limbird Christmas Publication
A critical review contrasts Limbird’s juvenile reader with The Great Metropolis by Saunders and Oltley. It mocks the latter as trashy gossip, defends Limbird’s pleasant, woodcut filled work, and includes an anecdote about a lobster seller and a bachelor, reflecting mid Victorian literary satire and public taste.
Balloon voyage over Europe ends in Weilburg after long ascent
An account of a perilous aerostatic expedition begun at the Great Vauxhall balloon on November 7 1836. After crossing the channel and sea with rising winds and cold, the balloon descended in a wooded valley near Weilburg. The crew faced near disaster from ballast loss and ice encrusted ballast bags, yet managed a controlled landing and a hospitable reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gye and Hughes
Canterbury
Paris
Castle
Dover
Calais
France
Ainking
Meuse
Rhine
Weiburg
Weilburg
Baron de Bibra
French Bravery At Constantina Amid River Fords
Accounts praise French soldiers during disasters before Constantina. Marshal Clausel's batteries commanded the town while General de Rigny faced a swollen ford. A grenadier braved enemy fire and freezing water, stripped to the waist, swam the river with an order tied in a handkerchief to reach de Rigny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantins
Constantina
Marshal Clausel
de Rigny
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Necai
Limbird
Saunders and Oltley
Nny More
Great Queen Street
Janet
Met
Pty
Bartoon
Nassau
Green
Baltic
iIt
Greenwich
Weilberg
London
Greer
Dillhausen
Elbern
Niederhausen
Weilbirg
Aerostation
M. Blanchard
Frankfort
Stirling
Duke of York
New Church-street
St. John’s-wood
Don Castello Costello
Spain
Thomas Evans
Gee-street
Somerstown
Witness
Atherway
V. Santry Bellora
d’Ortiz Y Zaganty
Athelway
Evans
Bellora
Payne
St. Thomas's Hospital
Anne Chambers
Meadows
House of Correction
Cold Bath-fields
W. Baker
Lowther Arms
Join-street
Lambeth
Susan Pritchard
John-street
Charles Obbard
Ramagate
Wapping Oldstairs
Baker
Middlesex
Wapping
Marshall
Beadle
Reinebow Inn
Liverpool Road
Islington
John Asbury
Picksford
Golding's Wharf
City-road
City Arms
Michael Adams
Saffronhill
Joseph Bayley
Hattonwall
Whitmore
Bath-street
Clerkenwell
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