Medical Exposures and Homeopathy Row
A provocative polemic targets Homeopathy as a dangerous challenge to established medicine. The writer ridicules Hahnemannian doses, cites dubious experiments, and lampoons doctors and a Surgeon Kingdon for endorsing or opposing the new system, arguing the profession relies on quackery and sensational claims while patients suffer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hesiod
Bank of Elegance
Dulwich
Hemiceopaths
Hahnemann
Gersdorff
Caspari
Gersdorf
Uwins
Kingdon
Quin
Jules Ase
Uwvises
Kingdons
Ahnemana
M. Andra
Abduction Scandal in Chester Ends in Court Action
A young Mitchell from Newry faced magistrates over an elopement with Captain Verner’s teenage daughter. Though the abduction charge failed, theft found in his portmanteau led to further proceedings. The girl, seated beside him, refused parental reconciliation yet showed affection for him, prompting renewed legal action and an offshore pursuit to Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Mitchell
Newry
Verner
Liverpool
Ireland
Foregate-street
Hill
Romeo
Verne
Liverpool Albion
New Licht
Lloyd’s
Rostock
Bennce and Rappatrz
Lord Forges
Viscount Forbes
Earl of Granard
Longford
Messrs
Halpen
Rorke
Frances
Dr. Territt
Admiralty Court
Bermuda
George Arthur
Noel-house
Kensington-gore
Marchioness of
Hastings
Lord Forbes
Gor
Alse
Russia
Poland
Kruckowiecki
Marshal Radziavil
Siberia
Czartoryski
Sweden
Norway
Hamburg
Desperate assault case at St Katharine Docks
Middlesex Sessions heard a case against Lyons for an assault on James Clear, a dock foreman, during a dispute over docking procedures at St Katharine Docks. The jury found Lyons guilty. he was sentenced to six months in the House of Correction with a £10 fine and related costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Katharine Docks
Tre-Kina
Wu. Lyons
C. Phillips
St. Katharine
Urpin
Lambeth
Forborne
James Clear
Tom Foreman
Compton
Wilmer
Rascal
Payne
George Bartlett
Clear
Lyons
Robert Bowie
Burr-street
Clarke
Atkins
W. Curtis
House of Correction
Adalphus
Sergeant Adams
Levi Lemon
False Imprisonment Damages Assessed in Engraver Case
A writ of inquiry before Mr James assesses damages in a false imprisonment case involving Munday Dean Co printers. The plaintiff an engraver and his son were detained for an hour and a half at the Mansion House after the son refused to surrender plates for two guineas. damages fixed at ten pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parge
R. Dean
James
Charles Phillips
Munday, Dean, and Co
Mansion House
C. Jones
Court hears assault case over Windsor Park incident
In a sheriff's court trial, Thomas Allen testifies he and the plaintiff were in Windsor Park when the defendant Mr Hudson on horseback struck the plaintiff with a riding whip after the plaintiff threw a stone at a hare. Cross witnesses describe the dispute as a minor injury over a dog and a horseman’s anger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
X—Newman
Hopson
Thomas Allen
Springgardens
Windsor
Prince George
Windsor Park
Rascal
Plaintif
My. Hudson
Mr. Clarkson
Mr. Hudson
Austen
Hudson
Thomas Seawood
Windsor Great Park
Clarkson
Thomas Bushell
Windsor Castle
London
Another Daniel at Kingsgate Street Court
A lively report from the Court of Requests on Kingsgate Street recounts Daniel Flyn the blind beggar and a defiant claimant known as Wisha, with comic exchanges about thefts, beggary profits, and a 10s verdict after a lengthy hearing before Commissioner Du Bois. The piece captures the court’s banter, petty thefts, and the refrain no money no law as defendants plead poverty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inner Court
Commissioner Dubois
Daniel
Daniel Flyn
St. Marylebone
Dan
Derrynane
Dubois
Wisha
Meeself
Marylebone
Manrin
Spratt
Martin
Edinburgh Jury Convicts Campbell of Culpable Homicide
Trial in the Edinburgh Court of Justiciary found John Campbell guilty of culpable homicide in the death of Duncan Dougall, who died from a skull fracture after a stage rope was allegedly pulled while Dougall worked aboard the Sarah Ann at Greenock. Campbell is sentenced to fourteen years transportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Campbell
Duncan RE Dougall
Greenock
M*dougall
Sarah Ann
Newcastle
John Armstrong
M‘dougall
Campbell
Al‘Dougall
Sarah
M*‘Dougall
McDougall
William M'Lellan
James M‘donald
Macdowal
H. G. Bell
Barrister O Loghlin and the Duel Day Court Battle
Dublin dispatch recounts young Barrister O Loghlin taking a five day hearing on a contentious Exchequer decision linked to Baron M Clelland. The case, argued with O Connell, coincided with a duel involving O Esterre. Despite fears, the court upheld M Clelland by a slim majority, shaping a fateful fortune. Also noted is France’s political intrigue over high office and a Euphrates expedition officer's death from typhus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron O’locuin
M‘clelland
O’loghlin
O'Connell
O’esterre
O'Clelland
M'Clelland
O'Loghlin
Dublin
Morning Chronicle
Hieu Constas le
France
Strasbure
Marshal Soult
M. Mole
Duke of Luynes
Louis XIII
Napoleon
Louis
Duke de Luynes
Euphrates
Lieut. Murphy
Royal Engineers
Bussorah
Chesney
Bay of Scanderoon
Mediterranean
Birdreck
Athenæum
Various London Crime and Accident Reports Plague Thames Banks
A roundup of 19th century urban misadventures includes a missing cart at Upper Thames street after a porter left it to fetch a shipping bill, a mysterious death in a Hounslow barn, a steam packet loss with no lives, embezzlement at a Bracknell post office, a severe river accident near Limehouse, a failed convict escape from the Fortitude hulk, a fatal self‑inflicted wound by a former public official, and a Lombard street cork warehouse fire caused by a candle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biertumpfel and Clark
Albany-street
Regent’s Park
Red Lion
Upper
Thames-street
Queen-street
Hounslow
Heston
James Morris
Robertson
Scabrage
William Gibbons
New York
Charleston
Body Island
Cape Hatteras
Braprorp
Messrs. Harris and Co
Liverpool
Arthur Simpson
Inkersley
Messrs
Harris
Hustler
Briggs
Simpson
Leeds
York Castle
Thames
Robert Young
Gaskin
Mr. Garford
Limehouse
Young
Limehousehole Stairs
Horn and Chequers
Fortitude Hulk
Chatham
Newgate
W. C. Jarvis
Massachusetts Assembly
Finn
Cork
Mr. Hegison
Ball-court
Lombard-street
Mr. Hesgison
Rha damanthus Arrives at Woolwich With Supplies for Evans Legion
The Royal Navy steamer Rha damanthus arrives at Woolwich from Portsmouth carrying stores and ammunition for General Evans's Anglo Spanish Legion in St Sebastian. Colonel Colquhoun receives extended leave to command the artillery, with Le Marchant and other officers also taking leave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
St. Sebastian
de Lacy Evans
Axuiliary Legion
Lord Palmerston
Evans
Colquhoun
Royal Artillery
le Marchant
Cape of Good Hope
Paris
London
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Homeopathy
Sir Astley
Middlesex
Sheriff's Court
Rep
Lion-square
Court OF Requests
Kingsgate Street
Edinburgh Court OF Justiciary
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