In Cheyne Walk and thereabout; containing short accounts of some ingenious people and famous places that were by the riverside at Chelsea - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... even the lowest classes," annual tickets of admission being promised to every Peer and member of Parliament "to be disposed to deserving objects pronounced incurable." THE EASTERN END OF CHEYNE WALK AND DOMINICETl'S HOUSE. From drawings by W. Burgess. The Doctor's description of his apparatus would kindle enthusiasm in a door-mat, to say nothing of an incurable deserving object. His stove, he tells us, with as much fire only as is used in an ordinary kitchen, will cook a dinner of three courses for a hundred people, and bake bread for all at the same time; it renders sweet, putrid or salt water enough to supply a ship's company; it prepares the medical effluvia of vegetable and mineral substances with the salubrious dry fumes of germs, balsams and minerals, instantaneously conveyed to vapour baths and more than thirty rooms, and at the same time effectually applies the said effluvia with decency into the... whole or any part of the body with an arbitrary degree of heat and different medical substances; it also warms thirty rooms and boils and stews any sort of meat, etc., etc. How dare we boast our adjustable kitchen ranges and economical fires after this? And of the great man himself there is not wanting a picture equally impressive; for "Mr. Powell," whose father was Dr. Dominiceti's principal assistant in the use of his medical baths, has a fine portrait in oil of the Doctor, threequarters length, which delineation is esteemed an admirable likeness. There is also another large painting containing figures of nearly the size of life; this spirited picture represents "a human subject, extended on a table in a lecture room, at full length; the Doctor looks on with a scalpel, or dissecting knife in his hand; around him stand the...
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