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248 we must therefore hold you responsible in damages for To the Proprietors of THE LANCET. and will hear from our solicitor your unjustifiable libels, you to the libellous letter of Sir Wm. in due course. GENTLEMEN,-Referring MacCormac in of the 12th instant, I We are, Sir, your obedient servants, your publication beg THE MEDICAL BATTERY COMPANY (LIMITED). to say that my clients, The Medical Battery Company C. B. Harness, Managing Director. (Limited), will hold both you and him liable in damages. Oxford-street, JM1. 26th, 1889. My clients have to thank you for calling their attention to your article of May the 28th, 1881, which, under my advice, To the Editor of THE LANCET. will be published in extenso; also the article of the 17th December, 1881, of which you say a garbled quotation SIR,-Our attention has been called to a libellous letter only has been published. I trust this will satisfy you. in your issue of the 12th inst., under the above appearing It seems to me a matter of regret that you have not heading, and signed by Sir William Mac Cormac. A copy availed yourselves of the opportunity of visiting the Electro- of this libel has been sent to our solicitor, who will deal pathic and Zander Institute with a view of satisfying your- with it in due course; but in the meanwhile we think we selves whether or not it has deteriorated. You would have have a just claim for an answer to appear with equal had the satisfaction of that the late extensive in columns. finding outlay publicity your has rendered it and tliat the beneficial effects derived It is true that Sir William MacCormac’s name did perfect, quite from the were as to be as marvellous and in a column to the Zander appliances likely appear particular relating as when advocated them in 1881. Mechanical Exercises in the of Jan. complete your paper My Daily 1’elegraph 8th, clients will continue to use such testimonials as are but no " unwarrantable was taken in connexion they liberty" entitled to, regardless of the opinion of any bigoted news- therewith, as we have the most and conclusive ample I am, obedient servant, that Sir for some an paper. Gentlemen, your evidence William has time been earnest A. FLEET. supporter of this form of "movement cure," from the 39, H-,ttton Garden, London, E.C., Jan. 26th, 1889. literature and books of the Zander Institute (Limited) which %* We publish the above letters from Mr. Harness at, came into our possession when we acquired the whole of his request, and notwithstanding that they appear to us to, the and and the sole to out machinery patents right carry be wide of the criticisms to which refer. We Dr. Zander’s treatment in Great Britain. It is from these entirely they also the letter from his solicitor. We cannot under- records that the complete list of medical patronage was care- publish to Mr. Harness and his fully compiled, and, we believe, without a single error. take give company unlimited space Your distinguished correspondent’s assertion that "the in our columns, yet we must say, in answer to the remark Zander Institute was once contra be respectable," must per that we have not visited his establishment or inspected his taken sane man to mean that such is not now the by every apparatus, that the simple reason is that his case. Well, the machines are the same, the staff of skilled appliances have not come under discussion. The be. assistants were taken over almost entirely e-ra bloc, and it is apparatus may therefore the present proprietors of the Zander Institution- the best of its kind; the subordinates may be eminently the Medical Battery Company (Limited)-who are publicly fitted for their posts : with this we have nothing to do. We as "not and an represented respectable," this, failing have said, and we mean to say, nothing whatever about which we have Sir William Mac Cormac the apology, given these matters. But what we have said is that this of is the libel for which we shall ask opportunity offering, when under the control of a "medical the courts to grant us substantial damages. establishment, As a matter of fact, the Zander Department here is con- electrician" of whom we know nothing except through ducted on precisely the same lines as formerly, and surely the medium of his advertisements, must not be taken and will not contend that professional despotism bigotry to be the same thing as when it was controlled and these machines have lost any of their curative unique responsibly managed by an accomplished medical man. virtues by a change of locale from Soho-square to the corner Of Dr. Zander we know to have confidence in his. of Rathbone-place. Such a department, too, comes legiti- enough mately within the scope of our operations as a medical ability to treat disease and to employ the machinery of the institution, and the following facts, if placed before your Zander system for that purpose, and of Dr. Zander and his will delusive readers, dispel many impressions existing appliances we wrote accordingly. But we protest against ourselves. respecting the of what we then wrote to the condition of The Medical (Limited) is appropriation Battery Company successfully described in the above and no conducting what has never before been done in this things letters, possible inspec- tion of a and its could affect our or country--viz., an institution, under one management, for building fittings protest the treatment and cure of disease by the therapeutic uses the grounds on which it rests. With regard to the letter of of electricity, massage, chemical inhalation, and mechanical the solicitor, we may say that we absolutely prohibit the all curative and for these exercises, highly approved agents ; in any form Mr. Harness or his company of have to secure the most republication by purposes they sought perfect of the articles which have THE LANCET appliances and skilful operators in the world. In the any appeared in Mechanical Exercises Department, Dr. Zander’s celebrated with reference to the Zander system and its appliances.- machines for mechanical and movements are ED. L. manipulations ____________ absolutely unrivalled. In the Electrical Department the exclusive services of the late preparateur to Dr. Charcot, at the Hospital Salpetriere, and Preparateur d’Anatomie to the LIVERPOOL. hospitals in Paris, have been obtained, and under his and Mr. Harness’s supervision Dr. Charcot’s system of elec- (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) trisation is being carried out with the most improved machines and also the most recently perfected instruments The Local Medical Charities. for producing static, continuous, and induced currents; and THE annual of all our and we venture to claim we supply a professional as well as a meetings hospitals dispensaries public want in the combination under one roof of such a take place during the present and next month. So far the variety of methods of treatment of proved utility in modern story of each is the same - increased expenditure, with’ therapeutics, and which could not be conducted by any diminished receipts. Up to the present date the receipts indivi.lual physician. from the Hospital Sunday collections amount to £6500, Our great " besetting sin " appears to be that we are whether the total will exceed or fall short of last "unprofessional" in advertising; but whether this can though justify Sir William MacCormac’s estimate of our respect- year cannot at present be stated. ability remains to be seen. Rabies at St. Helens. The and Zander Institute is open to Electropathic your On Jan. 23rd in St. Helens were if you desire to view it, likewise to that of any eight persons living inspection bitten the same which there is too much reason to member of the and you to this letter by dog, Faculty, asking give believe was from it is to be in next issue, suffering rabies, though regretted publicity your that it was before the fact was made conclusive. We are, Sir, obedient servants, destroyei your were attended THE MEDICAL BATTERY COMPANY (LIMITED.) The patients by several local practitioners, C. B. Harness, Managing Director. and the advice of Dr. Barron of this city was also sought. Oxford-street, London, W., Jan. 21st, lSb9. Six of the patients have been sent to Paris to be submitted 249 to the Pasteur treatment, the bites in the remaining two i Salford and Manchester tramp wards, and came back con- being slight. The progress of these six cases will be watched vinced that their own system was the best. Not content with great interest. The experience of past cases of a with this, however, they proceeded to publicly criticise the similar nature in this neighbourhood would appear to be in arrangements they found in these other unions, and espe- favour of the Pasteur treatment. Since the above was cially complained that in the Manchester wards, where the written, it appears that the remaining two persons have separate system is in operation, the wards were dirty also gone to Paris for treatment. The subject of liydro- and ill ventilated, and that the diet given was of a very phobia is to be brought before the Medical Institution here meagre character. The Manchester guardians retort by on Jan. 31st by Drs. Briggs, Glynn, and Barron. saying that the separate system is better, that it keeps the or decent in honest search for work The Burial Unclaimed Bodies. respectable tramp away of from the profes-ional pauper, instead of herding them indis- case before the Bootle A recently brought magistrates criminately togetlier.