WCP3161

Letter (WCP3161.3129)

[1]1, 2

5, Endsleigh Gardens,

London, N.W.

13 March, 1901.

Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.S.

Parkstone,

Dorset.

My dear Dr. Wallace,

The address you desire is: — -

The Manager,

Pharmacie des R.R.M.M. Benedictines, de Pistoja,

Florence, Italy.

You send him a post office order for twenty-five francs describing briefly the symptoms and the weight of the patient and ask for one box of his Poudres Anti-Goutteuses3.

Pestalozzi4 has had an attack of gout, however, this autumn but he never had anything of the kind whilst he was taking the powders and that covered a period of nearly a year..

I myself have benefited so immensely from taking the Alkaline Waters at Terasp5[sic] this summer that I have no occasion to resort to any other remedy, but I should be very much interested later on to hear how your friend prospers on this monastic treatment.

Yours very truly | Henry S Lunn6 [signature]

Page numbered 151 in pencil in top RH corner.

The letter heading, centrally placed is

"Travel

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE

Editor Henry S. Lunn, M.D"

The letter is typed (a carbon copy). "W.W.4819" is typed in the top LH corner of the page.

Medicinal powder to treat gout.
Not identified. (By date of letter, not Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) Swiss teacher and educational reformer, nor his son Jean-Jaques d. 1801).
Tarasp is a town in the canton of Graubünden, in the Swiss Alps. Alkaline waters, characterized by high proportions of sodium carbonate and free carbonic acid are a remedy for gout inter alia. Alkaline sulphated waters also contain soda and magnesia, exemplified by the mineral waters of Carlsbad, Marienbad, Franzensbad and Tarasp.

Please cite as “WCP3161,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3161