The Lightning Cage
“THOMAS PARKER, The Chelsea Asylum The man who owned the Chelsea Asylum where Richard Pelham was incarcerated, Dr Thomas Parker, had been highly thought of in his time, though doubts have of late been cast upon both his competence and his integrity. He had been regarded for many years as at least a blessed alternative to the corrupt Monro family and their indifferent rule at Bethlehem Hospital, but scholars have recently begun to establish that Parker’s own account of his private institution i...n Chelsea was perhaps somewhat under-motivated in its pursuit of the diamond edges of the truth.
To begin with, increasingly on the agenda nowadays is the character of Parker himself. He had no medical qualifications, unless you include his patent medicine, Parker’s Liquid Panacea, an indigestible concoction whose sale and subsequent consumption led to the pharmacologist being violently thrown out of many towns and villages in the south-west of England. The substance, according to its inventor, could cure insomnia, gout, indigestion, impotence, infertility, insanity, scrofula, worms and baldness.MoreLess
To begin with, increasingly on the agenda nowadays is the character of Parker himself. He had no medical qualifications, unless you include his patent medicine, Parker’s Liquid Panacea, an indigestible concoction whose sale and subsequent consumption led to the pharmacologist being violently thrown out of many towns and villages in the south-west of England. The substance, according to its inventor, could cure insomnia, gout, indigestion, impotence, infertility, insanity, scrofula, worms and baldness.MoreLess
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