Timely counsel, or, Short essays on social subjects / by T. Atchison.

  • Atchison, Thomas, 1823-1874.
Date:
1874
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Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Medical Times and Gazette, June 22, 1872, No. 1,147, p. 719. A set of clashing, trenchant essays, by the writer whose most useful suggestion of “ encampments” for the isolation of small-pox and cholera patients will not have been forgotten by our readers. In this series he pleads for freedom to visit wild scenery, condemns that demoralising penny-seeking habit which marks the idle classes of sea-side denizens, and pleads for opening the London squares, and for preserving historic . remains. He combats Mr. Oldham’s theory of the non- existence of malaria, and gives some weighty remarks on the alliance of variola and vaccinia. * * * The Rock, April 25, 1873, No. 406, p. 225. CIRCULATION OF CHEAP TRACTS. Sir,—In your leading article in this day’s Rock, yon recom- mend the Church Association to set about the circulation of cheap tracts bearing on Protestant subjects—a good idea, and one which I earnestly hope may be taken up. As a sample of the sort of thing we want, allow me to call your attention to a paper on “ Our Errant Clergy,” which forms one of a series of short readable “Essays on Social Subjects,” by Surgeon- Major Atchison. It would make an excellent tract. Kilburn, April 19. Quisqualis. [We have the volume of Surgeon-Major Atchison’s “Essays” before us now. They arc all good, especially on “ Our Errant Clergy,” and which—like our Kilburn correspondent—we should be very glad indeed to see extensively circulated.—Ed.] The Art Journal, November 1872, No. 131, p. 292. This pamphlet is a reprint of letters addressed to the Times and other publications, on various subjects of public interest. Wc notice it chiefly because some of the essays protest strongly against the attempts that are being made to exclude