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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1862, Edition 1 of 1, Page 175, A PHYSICIAN'S MEMOEA1STDA. 175

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      A Phospecttjs "Bearing* This Title Has B...

      by the general requisition of all classes and parties of his townsmen , but has retired therefrom chiefly in order that he might have more

      time to devote to this project . " " The Business of the Association will be directed by a Committee—chosen , as may be determined

      hereafter—who will have power to appoint the Trustees , Managers , and other Officers of the Institution .

      < c Communications on the subject are invited , and may be addressed toyW . WoodEsq ., Monkhill House , Pontefract , or to any of the

      , undermentioned ladies or gentlemen . " Miss Carpenter , Red Lodge Girls' Reformatory , Bristol .

      " Mrs . Balfour , 10 , Alfred Road , Paddington . " Miss _TV _^ eale , Whitechurch Canonicorum , Bridport .

      " Miss S . Durant , 14 , Conduit St . "West , Hyde Park , London . " Dr . BoothVicarageWandsworth .

      , , " Mr . Baker , Head Master of the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , Doncaster . "

      The prospectus concludes with letters of approval and sympathy from Harriet Martineau , Miss Carpenter , Mrs . C . L . Balfour , Lord

      Shaftesbury , the Right Hon . W . Cowper , M . P ., Edward Akroyd , Esq . late M . P . for Huddersfield , Dr . Booth , and the Vicar and

      , Incumbent of Pontefract .

      S . D . C .

      A Physician's Memoea1stda. 175

      A PHYSICIAN ' S MEMOEA _1 _STDA . 175

      Xxxiii.—A Physician's Memoranda.

      XXXIII . —A PHYSICIAN'S MEMORANDA . BY A _JTEILILOW OF THE ROYAI COUGEGE OF PHYSICIANS .

      « When Lord Chief Justice Holt Was A You...

      _« When Lord Chief Justice Holt was a young man , he undertook an excursion into the country with some companions ; and , the party

      having * spent all their money , the friends agreed to separate and to try their luck on different tacks . Holt arrived at an inn by

      himself , and after ordering his horse to be taken care of , and a supper to be provided for himself , he went , we may suppose in

      search of some passe-tenips , into the kitchen . Here he found a girl of thirteenill with the ague ; and on inquiry he ascertained that the

      , child had been afflicted with the disease for a twelvemonth , in spifce of all the medicine she had taken , and the doctors that had been

      consulted in her behalf . Young Holt pooh-poohed the doctors , and promised a cure , little dreaming that he could perform his

      engagement . He scribbled some hieroglyphics on a piece of parchment taken from a hamper , and ordered it to be rolled up and tied firmly

      to the child ' s wrist . His injunctions were obeyed ; and , wonderful to relatethe ague did not return . The gratitude of the hostess

      whose onl , y child the patient Was , was palpably _demonstrated by , her refusing any payment . for the accommodation she afforded him

      during a week ' s stay . Holt forgot all about this occurrence ; but

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    • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 175, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/31/