The Death of Count Mattei: A Passing Retrospect
Anon
Genre: | Obituary, Editorial |
Subjects: | Disease, Medical Treatment, Homeopathy, Heterodoxy, Medical Practitioners, Truth, Hospitals |
Concedes, 'I have done few things that brought me more denunciation and involved me in more expense than the attempt to get at the truth about these remedies. Sometimes I feel disposed to regret that I yielded to the urgent entreaties of Mrs. Booth on her death-bed. But now and again I get letters' from cancer sufferers who have been helped by Cesare Mattei's alleged remedies 'that justify my belief that I was not misled when I made my pilgrimage to Bologna' [see RR1/3/1/3]. Informs readers that there is still 'a Mattei home at Earl's Court, London, where a small hospital has been established. Sir Henry Tyler paid the first cost of one half of it, and still supports one half of the patients'. |
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