As a person who have kept writing my journal since the year when I entered university, I was fascinated by reading hand-written journals in the special collection room of the National Library of Scotland.
One of the manuscripts that I read recently was the diary of George Combe (1788 - 1858), the famous Scottish phrenologist in the nineteenth century.
His holistic view of the body and mind significantly influenced the medical thoughts of Lane, with regard to the concept of the 'natural laws of health'.
His journals are extremely well preserved, thus while thumbing through the pages, I felt as though they were written recently.
The page above shows the entries of 28th and 29th August 1856.
On 29th August (the lower part of the page above), he wrote 'I had a long conversation with Dr Lane on his establishment, & advised him to enlarge the basis of it & announce it as an institution for hygienic treatment of invalids, hydropathy being one means of cures, but ...'
General reading room of the NLS, taken when I was about to leave the room, one evening last week.
A filter to purify water: This item was one of the most interesting exhibits that I have ever seen in relation to my research. I saw this in an exhibition held in the library last spring.
'The Pasteur-Chamberland filter was invented by the French bacteriologist Charles Chamberland (1851 - 1908) in 1884. Made of porcelain, it filtered and purified water for drinking. Since cholera is transmitted by contaminated water, this device proved to be important for protection from the disease.' - from the explanation board in the exhibition 'Plague!' which had run from December 2015 to May 2016.
A rare picture of E. W. Lane (1823 - 1889), one of the protagonists of my thesis - from Richmond Reference Library, cited from James Green and Silvia Greenwood (on behalf of the Richmond Society History Section), Ham and Petersham as It Was (Lanchashire: Hendon, 1980).
The man standing in the centre with a hat in his right hand is Lane.
He graduated from the medical school, Edinburgh University, in 1853.
His book, Hydropathy; Or, Hygienic Medicine, was published in 1859 as the second edition with an altered title of the original one, Hydropathy; Or, the Natural System of Medical Treatment.
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