The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-23 00:00:00

Some years afterwards, the success of my treat-
ment of these cases becoming known in Scot-
land, several patients came to one from that
country, and returned home cured ; these facts
being known to Lady Byron, she determined- to
send her son to be under my care in London, a,
he was then old enough to be sent to school.
She sent him to a private academy, kept by a
Mr. Glenny, at Dulwich, who was ordered to
send for me to attend Lord Byron, and to cure
his ftiot. A few days afterwards, a. gentleman
called at my house to ask at what school Lord
Byron was placed. I-had, then, no knowledge
of Lord Byron or his 'residence. The -gentle-
man told me the state of his foot ; that he was
sent by his mother to -a -school near London,
with orders to the. master to employ melo,attend
him -till his foot was quite well ; that, as he was"
coming to London, Lady Byron requested that
he would call at .the school; and see how her son
was going on under my care.. He had just ar-
rived in London, and had lost his pocket-book,
which contained the direction, with other paperT
and .as •he knew his Lordship wa's to Ise my
patient, he came to me for the address, 'that 1t
might go to him directly ; all this was unknown
to me ; there. was, evidently, , some Mistake.
which neither of us could explain,_and therefinv,
•
we parted.
A few • ~ay afterwards, I received a letter

from Glenny the schoolmaster, who reproved
me, in very strong terms, for neglecting Lord
Byron, and required me to attend to him pro-
perly. I now saw what the -mistake was; that
Glenny had first sent a verbal order to me,
which, by mistake, had passed into the hands of
the person whom (Dr. Neale told Captain
Darley) was the wrong Sheldrake, alias Shel-
drake the truss-maker. Finding that thiS order
Has not obeyed, Glenny, I suppose, wrote by
the post, and' directed lits letter to the address
which he had received from Scotland, and,: of
course, his letter came safe to me. As this
was, evidently, the real state of the case, I wrote
to Glenny in explanation ; - but never received
an answer to my letter.

Many years afterwards,, when Lord Byron Was
at Cambridge, a gentleman told him of the dis-
tinction that was to be made between me • and
Slieldrake the truss-maker. In consequence he
came to London to consult me. He told me
all that passed in Scotland, in the attempts that
had there been made to cure his•foot ; of his
surprise, when Sheldrake the truss-maker was
introduced to him, to find that the person of
whom he had heard so much, was so stupid and
ignorant as the individual who was then intro-
duced to him certainly was ; that he made no
attempt to cure his foot ; made' sornething that
he called a leg-iron, and when that was done,
'appeared no more. ,
When Lady Byron was thus disappointed in
the great benefit which it was believed her son
would have received from me, she -sought- no
more for assistance of any kind -; and in due
course of time, his Lordship proceeded to Har-
row, and thence to Cambridge.
After I had carefully examined his foot; I was
convinced that; although he was at that time near
twenty years of age, it was in such a state that I
could have completely cured him, if he could
have submitted to. the seclusion which he must

have borne fOr so long a time as would have been
necessary to effect a cure.

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To explain_ this, it
fisgelii.iooaluuslndudpl..ipeottrio:lchlleetThla,t..,:sil.rlutillicet,
cures.wlnchi.- at that time, had' been performed
by me, were effected by using mechanical con-
trivances of different constructions, which
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isioenrrea,t
—l:tesierolneotnlyttsisd,eo,l. iairai.pielici. tri; s, - - and
changed, altered, or removed, from tiau.
to time, as existing circumstances .renilered
necessary ; if. this course was followed stea-
dily, the patient was cured ; if it was interrupted,
partial relapse took plaCe-; and, in short, nothing
lint the most persevering attention could hare
ensured success.. The instruments that he must
have used were cumbersome to the person, and
the
seirwchuit:h..
ileillidrcfltuolilinens.otgafloilicinie.f
stances,A fter
having
dla
Lordship made his determination
he expressed bitter regret that the vile trick which
had been practised upon .him in early-life: hail
cheated him of that time which might .have been,
vseN%'l,iiittrliello,oitit:ttu inconvenience,ttiielNigilircetai
e
nhpeaetetlirs wase, tleisetincjouird)d, not now engage in
aoirlndot
hweinnggaasl
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siiiihatltiowelillo,
suited
eiteodf
injury
jiliiriy4 r; afnokr,
tahnetsiewrielasicloi !Ilse cloieulldeisiooltvac \d'ostildoiooNt‘('litti,lllllo)(l)lt
0 f his foot, but all the parts of it had
at-
tempt a cure, which, it was more. than probable,
circumstances would compel him to interrupt, t,,,t,
even render abortive.
The .next (potion was, what could he
.(1Q,,,
to alleviate the inconveniences helabottred under?
so much flexibility, letirasgalitgl:isndfutt:.l:uesti:'lir's'Llittis'
that by using sonic" exertion
.With both .my hands, .I could turn .the foot about
so much as to bring the sole and the heel like-
equal
t,N:V:eloel,::::ildieil
smaller than the other lea B --• '.
y making the in-
side of tic shoe of a' b. •
peeithar form; and . some
in size. to the other, so that when he
precautions, and 'by placing additional sub-
stances upon the smallest 1
other el'all
eg, they made it ap-
pearwas dressed, his legs and feet
appeared to be Sea
equal, that common observers did not perceive
any difference bet Ween them in the usual inter-
course of society.l tl • state 1 e continued,
n this i
from the :
tone that I first saw him, soon after the
publication of his " Hours of Idleness," till he
went on his first voyage to Greece; upon th:it
Occasion he carried with him :as many of the ar-
ticles that I bad invented for his foot as; would
-serve till his return, when he continued to use
them so long as he remained in England ; and
when he left England the last time, he took a
fresh supply,
and _ I saw him riolnore ; though i
once received an order from him'while he
' was on the Continent, to send him another
set. To execute effectually the means of