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The Sun. — 1870-06-04 (London, England)

SUICIDE MANIA. —George Johnson, aged 28 years, and described as a smith, of No. 3, Old Bow-lane, surgeon, was brought before Mr. Lushington at the Thames Police-c,airt, charged with attempting to commit suicide.  The prisoner jumped into the Tham's at Blackwell, and would have been drowned but for the heroic behaviour of a man named William Payne, of 52, Regent- street, Blackwall, who gallantly went to Lis rescue. Payne nearly lost his life in the attempt. He was encumbered with his clothes and hat, but he was a good swimmer, and succeeded iu saving the prisoner, and held his head above water until assistance arrived. The prisoner, who appeared to be very dejected, said ho had recently lost a good situation, and had been (kinking to excess. He was very sorry for what he had done. Mr. Lushington said life was given to us for nobler purposes than to be destroyed, and severely admonished the prisoner on the rashness and wickedness of his conduct in attempting the serious crime of self-murder, which was contrary to all Divine and human lawd. He remanded the prisoner for a wee); and awarded 7s. 6d. to Payne for his bravery. Mary Ann Schroeder, a bloated and dissipated woman, was next charged with attempting self-destruction. She has been living at No. 5, Richardsstreet, Stepuey. A woman named Phoebe King, a laundress, said she was called out of the Rising Sun Tavern, in Oxford-street, Stepney, and saw the prisoner at her bed side " cutting away" at her throat, and took the knife from her. The prisoner, who was the worse for liquor, said, " Don't give me in charge, I will drown myself." The Prisoner--I am very wretched. Mr. Lushington—What a very shocking thing this is. A police-constable named Griven produced a very large  and blood-stained knife, with which the prisoner attempted self-destruction. Mr. Lushington remanded the prisoner for a week. Three attempts at suicide were committed in the neighbourhood of the King David-lane Station, Shadwell, on Friday night. A woman threw herself from the New Gravel-lane Bridge into the London Dock and was drowned, Another woman threw herself from the second storey of a house of ill-fame in that horrible place, Palmer's Folly, Rateliff Highway, and was killed. Another woman leaped from the first floor window of a house in Old Gravel-lane, and was very seriously injured. She is in the London Hospital, and is not expected to recover.
The Sun. — 1870-06-04 (London, England)

STRANGE EXPERIMENTS.  Some remarkable experiments on living animals are described by M. Taine in his lately issued book, "De l'lntelligence." The first is thus detailed :—" Insert in the back of a rat the end of its own tail, having first pared it raw with a bistoury; it will heal and take root. As soon as the graft is complete, amputate the tail about one-third of an inch from the old root. The rat's tail will thenceforward grow the reverse way and out of the back. During the first three months the rat will evince very feeble signs of feeling when the tail is pinched. At the end of six or nine months the sensitiveness of the part will have much increased, but the animal will not yet be able to guess where he is pinched. After a year he will, however, be completely up to the trick, and will turn to bite the pincers." Thus it is proved that experience must intervene before an animal can localize his sensations ; and that the irritation of the nerves which before the operation travelled in the centripetal, subsequently has effect in the centrifugal direction. The other experiment is similar, but still more ingenious :—" If you amputate the paw of a young rat, partially skin it, and introduce it through the skin of another rat's side, it will engraft, take nutriment, grow, and acquire all the ordinary parts of its structure, as if it had remained with its former pr •prietor." M. Taine's conclusion is also worthy of note. " Such is the vital function ; saving ulterior obstacles, that is to say, provided the medium is suitable, it works blindly, lets it aim be useful, useless, or even hurtful. It is the same with the mental function ; saving some impediment or paralysis in the cerebral lobes, as soon as a sensation is experienced, perception or affirmative judgment follows ; it matters not whether that judgment be false or true, salutary or hurtful, even although the hallucination which sometimes constitutes the judgment should lead on to suicide and destroy the normal harmony that adjusts our actions to the course of the universe."
The Sun. — 1870-06-04 (London, England)

STRANGE EXPERIMENTS.  Some remarkable experiments on living animals are described by M. Taine in his lately issued book, "De l'lntelligence." The first is thus detailed :—" Insert in the back of a rat the end of its own tail, having first pared it raw with a bistourY ; it will heal and take root. As soon as the graft is complete, amputate the tail about one-third of an inch from the old root. The rat's tail will thenceforward grow the reverse way and out of the back. During the first three months the rat will evince very feeble signs of feeling when the tail is pinched. At the end of six or nine months the sensitiveness of the part will have much increased, but the animal will not yet he able to guess where he is pinched. After a year he will, however, be completely up to the trick, and will turn to bite,the pincers." Thus it is proved that experience must intervene before an animal can localize his sensations ; and that the irritation of the nerves which before the operation travelled in the centripetal, subsequently has effect in the centrifugal direction. The other experiment is similar, but still more ingenious :—" If you amputate the paw of a young rat, partially skin it, and introduce it through the skin of .another rat's side, it will engraft, take nutriment, grow, and acquire all the ordinary parts of its structure, as if it had remained with its former proprietor." M: Taine's conclusion is also worthy of note. " Such is the vital function; saving ulterior obstacles, that is to say, provided the medium is suitable, it works blindly, lets it aim be useful, useless, or even hurtful. It is the same with the mental function ; saving some impediment or paralysis in the cerebral lobes, as soon as a sensation is experienced, perception or affirmative judgment follows ; it matters not whether that judgment be false or true, salutary or hurtful, even although the hallucination which sometimes constitutes the judgment should lead on to suicide and destroy the normal harmony that adjusts our actions to the course of the universe."
The Sun. — 1870-08-06 (London, England)

THE PARADOL CASE.  It appears to us that the Paradol inquest did not satisfactorily go to the bottom of certain of the difficult points in the case. An insufficient history is given of the night —of all he time between one a.lii. and five a.m.—when he servants were alone in the house with the corpse and made no sign. Is this the natural conduct of such persons in such circumstances ? Neither, it seems, ever thought of calling for help or that a physician might be of use. The man Auguste thought his master was taken with a fit, and immediately ran downstairs for vinegar. Downstairs he found blood on his own clothes, and said, " Some one has killed M. Paradol ; " so that he had the conception, first, of a fit ; second, of a wound ; yet never thought of a doctor. When he went ffi ,stairs M. Paradol was dead, yet he lived three-quarters of an hour. During the greater part of that time apparently the dying man was alone, and his servants were downstairs looking for vinegar. It is said that as they were strangers to the country and language they knew not what to do ; but the servants knew the residence of other members of the Legation ; and as to the country, there are certain customs that are naturalised the world over, and one of these is for servants to call assistance to the help of an injured master in all cases where they have nothing to conceal. The letters produced are not without a peculiar character, When did M. Paradol write the exclamation, "Je me tue ?" Its time assumes to be coincident with the act it refers to, but was it written before or after, and how did it come to light? The letter in the possession of M. de Jardin is not above closer scrutiny than has been given it. Superficially, appearances point to suicide, but the conduct of the servants was certainly strange, and some other points are not less so.—New York Herald.
The Sun. — 1865-07-04 (London, England)

GIIIDE TO THE QUACKS OF LONDON. A Series of Papers relative to Quacks, which appeared in the " Medical Circular," with the signature of "Detector," has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet. The reader of " Punch" should read this pamphlet also. He has often read, in the pages of "Punch," of certain Quacks, fraudulent and noisome, who obtain money by false pretences. and more money by menaces and extortion, from green young men. For their names, which " Punch" would not advertise, he has referred his readers to the lower corner of the advertising columns of low newspapers, amongst which too many of Mr." Punch's" contemporaries, especially in the country, may still be enumerated. But now he begs to publish the information that a nominal list of these miscreants, with copies of their puffs and other particulars concerning them, needful to be known, will be found in the pamphl t above referred to, which is entitled "Revelations of Quacks ant Quackery," and is to be had at the "Medical Circular" Office, 20, King William-street, Strand, W.O. The vile practices, the monstrous impudence, the cruel rapacity, and the enormous gains of the obscene tribe of Quacks, the mischief they do, the ruin they work, even to the causation of suicide, are sully set forth in " Revelations of Quacks and Qackery." And mark especially that, as aforesaid, the names of the Quacks are publishe I. The pamphlet in question thus constitutes a regular Quack Directory, by con-ulting which every young man may know where be may go if be wishes to get plundered and destroyed. Buy, therefore, reader, by all means buy " it evelations of Quacks and Quackery." its contents will astonish and amt se rat, while they invoke your indignation and disgust. Of course you do not want It on account of ita warnings for your own Fake, but you doubtless do for that of the many simpletons with whom you must be acquainted, if your acquaintance is large. " Who are tne Quacks that 'Punch' means 2" Consider what it is to he able to answer this question of the young and inexperienced, and, for charity's sake, if tor no other, go and provide yourself with "Revelations of Quacks and Quackery," by Detector.—Punch, April 12.
The Sun. — 1865-07-11 (London, England)

GUIDE TO TAE QUACKS OF LONDON. A Series of Papers relative to Quacks, which appeared in the " Medical Circular," with the signature of "Detector," has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet The reader of " Punch" should read this pamphlet also. He has often read, in the pages of "Punch," of certain Quacks, fraudulent and noisome, who obtain money by false pretences, and more money by menaces and extortion. from green young men. For their names, which " Punch" would not advertise, he has referred his readers to the lower corner of the advertising columns of low newspapers, amongst which too many of Mr. " Punch's" contemporaries, especially in the country, may still be enumerated. But now he begs to publish the information that a nominal list of these miscreants, with copies of their puffs and other particulars concerning them. needful to be known, will be found in the pamphlet above referred to, which is entitled "Revelations of Quacks and Quackery," and is to be had at the "Medical Circular" Office, 20, King William-street, Strand, W.C. The vile practices, the monstrous impudence, the cruel rapacity, and the enormous gains of the obscene tribe of Quacks, the mischief they do, the ruin they work, even to the causation of suicide, are fully set forth in " Revelations of Quacks and Qackery." And mark especially that, as aforesaid, the names of the Quacks are published. The whichthus co nesvtietruyteyso uanrgegmu man ur Qmuaayo k knowD i rectory pamphlet i• b where he may go if he wishes to get plundered and destroyed. Buy, therefore, reader, by all means buy " Revelations of y c °n questionu it ttig Quacks and Quackery." Its contents will astonish and amuse you, whi.e they invoke your indignation and disgust. Of course you do not want it on account of its warnings for your own sake, but you doubtless do for ti.at of the many simpletons with whom you must be acquainted, if your acquaintance is large. " Who are tne Quacks that 'Punch' means 7" Consider what it is to t,e able to answer v.'s question of the young and inexperienced, and, for charity's sate, if for no other, go and provide yourself with "Revelations of Quacks and Quackery," by Detector.—Punch, April 12.
The Sun. — 1865-07-11 (London, England)

GUIDE TO TIM QUACKS OF LONDON. A Series of Papers relative to Quacks, which appeared in the" 31edical Circular," with the signature of "Detector," has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet. Tho reader of " Punch" should read this pamphlet also. He has often read, in the pages of "Punch," of certain Quacks, fraudulent and noisome, who obtain money by false pretences. and more money by menaces and extortion. fi um green young men. For their names, which " Punch" would not advertise, he has referred h!s readers to the lower corner of the advertising columns of low newspapers, amongst which too many of Kr." Punch's" contemporaries, especially in the country, may still be enumerated. But now he begs to publish the information that a nominal list or these miscreants. with copies of their puffs and other particulars concerning them, needful to be known, will be found in LI e pamphl. t above referred to, which is entitled Revelations of Quacks and Quackery." and is to be had at the "Medical Circular" Office, 20, King William-street. Strand, W.C. The vile practices, the monstrou3 impudence, the cruel rapacity, and the enormous gains of the obscene tribe of Quacks, the mischief they do,- the ruin they work, even to the causation of suicide, are fully set forth in " aevelations of Quacks and Qackery." And mark especially that, as aforesaid, the names of the Quacks are published. The pamphlet in question thus constitutes a regular Quack Directory, by consulting which every young man may know where he may go if' he wishes to get plundered and destroyed. Buy, therefore, reader, by all means buy " develations of Quacks and Quackery." Its contents will astonish and amuse you, whi e they invoke you, indignation and disgust. 01 course you eo not want tt on account of its warnings for your own Fake, but you doubtless do for that of the many simpletons with whom you must be acquainted, it your acquaintance is large. " Who are tne Quacks that Punch' means ?" Consider what it is to i.e able to answer this question of the young and inexperienced. and, for charity's sake, if for no other, go and provide yourself with "Revelations of Quacks and Quackery," by Detector.—Punch, April 12.
The Sun. — 1865-05-18 (London, England)

LONDON. ' A Series of Papers relative to Quacks, which appeared in the " Medical Circular," with the signature of "Detector," has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet. The reader of " Punch" should read this pamphlet also. He has often read, in the pages of "Punch," of certain Quacks, fraudulent and noisome, who obtain money by false pretences, and more money by menaces and extortion, from green young men. For their names, which "Punch" would not advertise, he has referred his readers to the lower corner of the advertising columns of low newspapers, amongst which too many of Mr. " Punch's" contemporaries, especially in the country, may still be enumerated. But now he begs to publish the information that a nominal list of these miscreants, with copies of their puffs and other particulars concerning them. needful to be known, will be found in the pamphlet above referred to, which is entitled "Revelations of Quacks ani Quackery," and is to be had at the "Medical Circular" Office, 20, King William-street, Strand, W.C. The vile practices, the monstrous impudence, the cruel rapacity, and the enormous gains of the obscene tribe of Quacks, the mischief they do, the ruin they. work, even to the causation of suicide, are sully set forth in " Revelations of Quacks and Qackery." And mark especially that, as aforesaid, the names of the Quacks are publishel. The pamphlet in question thus constitutes a regular Quack Directory, by consulting which every young man may know where he may go if he wishes to get plundered and destroyed. Buy, therefore, reader, by all means buy " Revelations of Quacks and Quackery." Its contents will astonish and amuse you, while they invoke your indignation and disgust. Of course you do not want it on account of its warnings for your own sake, but you doubtless do for that of the many simpletons with whom you must be acquainted, if your acquaintance is large. " Who are the Quacks that 'Punch' means 2" Consider what it is to be able to answer this question of the young and inexperienced, and, for charity's sake, if for no other, go and provide yourself with "Revelations of Quacks and Quackery," by Detector.—Punch, April 12.
The Sun. — 1865-02-17 (London, England)

GEO. V. TOWNLEY."  In answer to a question from the jury, the witness said the deceased the first six months he was in the prison was employed in weaving, and afterwards at shoemaking. Mr. Townley, the father of the deceased, who was in court during the inquiry, and who at times was moved to tears, inquired if his son had, during his avocation, the uncontrolled use of tools ? He was answered in the affirmative.  The question was put with the view of showing that the deceased had opportunities of committing suicide previous had he contemplated it.  The Coroner said that if the jury thought they had sufficient evidence to enable them to come to a verdict he would go no further into the case. They knew that the insanity of the deceased had been much discussed, and if they required evidence as to insanity having existed in the family he would, if they thought proper, call Mr. Townley. The jury did not desire to inflict this pain upon that gentleman, who, however, stated that there had been no less than 11 cases of insanity in the family. Mr. Bradley, the surgeon, was here recalled, and said—l forgot to mention that upon examining the body I found marks of indention in both arms, and from that I think he attempted to bleed himself. There were wounds on both arms. They were quite recent. I mention this to show that there had been some kind of suicidal feeling upon him on the Sunday morning. He was seen by the warder when he was washing on that morning, and those wounds were not there then.  The jury then retired to consider the verdict, and after an absence of a quarter of an hour returned the following verdict :  " That the deceased destroyed himself by throwing himself from the gallery of the Model Prison, whilst in an unsound state of mind."  They append the following to their verdict : " The jury regret that the letter was not sent, as they find nothing in it contrary to the rules of the prison."  The Governor said that it should be forwarded to the directors of convict prisons.  The inquiry then terminated.
The Sun. — 1865-02-17 (London, England)

GEO. V. TOWNIEY."  In answer to a question from the jury, the witness said the deceased the first six months he was in the prison was employed in weaving, and afterwards at shoemaking. Mr. Townley, the father of the deceased, who was in court during the inquiry, and who at times was moved to tears, inquired if his son had, during his avocation, the uncontrolled use of tools ? He was answered in the affirmative.  The question was put with the view of showing that the deceased had opportunities of committing suicide previous had he contemplated it.  The Coroner said that if the jury thought they had sufficient evidence to enable them to come to a verdict he would go no further into the case. They knew that the insanity of the deceased had been Much discussed, and if they required evidence as to insanity having existed in the family he would, if they thought proper, call Mr. Townley. The jury did not desire to inflict this pain upon that gentleman, who, however, stated that there had been no less than 11 cases of insanity in the family. Mr. Bradley, the surgeon, was here recalled, and said—l forgot to mention that upon examining the body I found marks of indention in both arms, and from that I think he attempted to bleed himself. There were wounds on both arms. They were quite recent. I mention this to show that there had been some kind of suicidal feeling upon him ,on the Sunday morning. He was seen by the warder when he was washing on that morning, and those wounds were not there then.  The jury then retired to consider the verdict, and after an absence of a quarter of an hour returned the following verdict :  " That the deceased destroyed himself by throwing himself from the gallery of the Model Prison, whilst in an unsound state of mind."  They append the following to their verdict : "The jury regret that the letter was not sent, as they find nothing in it contrary to the rules of the prison."  The Governor said that it should be forwarded to the directors of convict prisons.  The inquiry then terminated.
The Sun. — 1865-05-02 (London, England)

LONDON. A Series of Papers relative to Quacks, which appeared in the " Medical Circular," with the signature of ."Detector," has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet. The reader of "Punch" should read this pamphlet also. He has often read, in the pages of "Punch," of certain Quacks, fraudulent and noisome, who obtain money by false pretences, and more money by menaces and extortion, from green young men. For their names, which " Punch" would not advertise, he has referred his readers to the lower corner of the advertisim-; columns of low newspapers, amongst which too many of Mr." Punch's" contemporaries, especially in the country, may still be enumerated. But now he begs to publish the information that a nominal list of these miscreants, with copies of their puffs and other particulars concerning them, needful to be known, will be found in the pamphlt above referred to, .which is entitled " Revelations of Quacks ani Quackery," and is to be had at the "Medleil Circular" Office, 20, Ring William-street, Strand, W.U. The vile practices, the monstrous impudence, the cruel rapacity, and the enormous gains of the obscene tribe of Quacks, the mischief they do, the ruin they work, even to the causation of suicide, are fully set forth in " Revelations of Quacks and Qackery." And mark especially that, as aforesaid, the names of the Quacks are published. The pamphlet in question thus constitutes a regular Quack Directory, by consulting which every young man may know where he may go if he wishes to get plundered and destroyed. Buy, therefore, reader, by all means buy "Revelations of Quacks and Quackery." Its contents will astonish and amuse you, white they invoke your indignation and disgust. 01 course you do not want it on account of its warnings for your own sake, but you doubtless do for that of the many simpletons with whom you must be acquainted, if your acquaintance is large. " Who are the Quacks that 'Punch' means 7" Consider what it is to be able to answer this question of the young and inexperienced, and, for charity's sake, if for no other, go and provide yourself with "Revelations of Quacks and Quackery," by Detector.—Punch, April 12.  Demy Svo.. extra cloth, 6s. 6d.,  LIFE : Its NATURE, VARIETIES, and