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HEALTH EXHIBITION SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

Midland Medical Miscellany.

No. 1.]

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[JUNE 2, 1884.

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Remedy.

HE success which the Midland Medical Miscellany has achieved since its new departure in January last has been great, and so gratifying to those who have the care and responsibility of production that the proprietors have felt compelled, in justice to the subscribers to the Miscellany, to issue, as announced in our last number, a Supplement of sixteen pages devoted exclusively to an account of the International Health Exhibition-an exhibition which appeals in all its branches so strongly to the interests and sympathies of medical men. Six of these Supplements will be issued, and by this means it is hoped that all our readers who may, owing to distance or the exigencies of practice, be compelled to forego a personal visit to the exhibition may be MALT EXTRACT: made acquainted with the novelties shown, and kept au courant with the advances made during recent years in sanitation.

29,

THE

66 HAMBURG" HOFF'S

BEVERAGE OF HEALTH.
Trade Mark:
(Signature) "Leopold Hoff."
M. Hoff's London House:
NEW BRIDGE STREET,

LUDGATE CIRCUS.

EDWARDS' PREPARED POTATO,

As used in H.M. Navy.

Samples in 3 oz. packets, 1d.; four, post free, 7d,

One pound is equal to five pounds of raw potatoes.

EDWARDS' DESICCATED SOUP

Is eminently suited for Hospital use.-Vide Reports to H.M.
Government.
1-oz. samples, 2d. each; twelve, free by post, 2s.

F. KING & CO., 6, BISHOPSGATE AVENUE, E.C.

H. RANDALL. PATENTEE.

The second of the series of international exhibitions at South Kensington inaugurated last year by the Prince of Wales has been formally opened, and the Health Exhibition of 1884 now occupies the buildings devoted last year to the popular and profitable Fisheries Exhibition. The fact that of late years vast strides have been made in 29, this country in sanitary matters renders the present a most favourable time for the holding an exhibition the aim of which is to bring before the English people all that science is doing or attempting in the direction of Hygiene and Sanitary Reform. Wide as was the scope of the Fisheries Exhibition, the range of subjects embraced in its successor, as might be expected, are far more numerous. Many and varied are the means by which the health of mankind is benefited or prejudicially affected, and accordingly many and varied are the exhibits, both in the nature and application. The object of the exhibition, as stated by the Executive Committee itself, is to illustrate, as vividly and in as practical a manner as possible, food, dress, the dwelling, the school, and the workshop, as affecting the conditions of a healthful life, and also to bring into public. notice the most recent appliances for elementary school teaching and instruction in applied science, art, and handicrafts. The influence of modern sanitary knowledge and intellectual progress upon the welfare of the people of all classes and all nations is thus practically demonstrated, and the most valuable and recent advances which have been attained in these important subjects is displayed. The exhibition is divided into two main sections Health and Education, and is further subdivided into eight principal groups. As regards the subject of Health, the exhibition will be most instructive and generally interesting. This section includes three groups-Food, Dress, and the Dwelling, the former of which is divided into twelve classes, all of which relate to the production and preparation of food, and is intended specially to illustrate the food resources of the world, and the best and most economical methods of utilising them. In the first three classes are included what may be termed the raw materials of food-e.g, unprepared animal and vegetable substances used as food in various countries; prepared vegetable substances used as food, including tinned, compressed, and preserved fruits and vegetables; prepared animal substances used as food in a preserved form-tinned, smoked, salted, and compressed animal foods of all kinds. Classes rv, and v. include Tenacious

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respectively beverages of all kinds-alcoholic, non-alcoholic, and infusions

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Do not fail to inspect RANDALL'S

Lawn Tennis Shoes,

which are exhibited at Stall No. 8, Class XIII., Dress Section. Also see Official Catalogue.

AUG. BREHMER’S

PATENT

(tea, coffee, cocoa, etc.); and new varieties of foods-foods for invalids and infants, and new concentrated foods of all kinds. Class vi. has reference to the practical part of cookery, and the collection of bakeries and ovens in

FOLDING CARDBOARD BOXES, full operation is sure to attract a constant throng of spectators. The object

Specially suitable and highly recommended

of Classes VII. and vin. is to diffuse popular information as to the nature, confor packing up Proprietary Goods, Cereals, Foods stituents, uses, and adulterations of food, and in these classes the Science and

Patent Medicines, etc.

Superseding Paper Wrappers in neatness of appearance and strength, and therefore affording great protection to bottles, etc. ESTIMATES AND SAMPLES FREE ON APPLICATION.

Steam Factory: 3 & 4, MOOR LANE,

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Art Department has lent valuable aid. Class IX. has reference to army and navy rations, prison and workhouse diet, and foreign dietaries. Under the latter head are some most interesting specimens of the food, beverages, etc., used by savages and native races of low civilization. Class x. consists of the literature of food, whilst the last two sections are devoted to the exhibition of apparatus for conserving, storing, conveying, and distributing all kinds of fresh food, and the machinery and appliances used for this purpose. In them are embraced methods of cold storage and transport of fresh meat, ice-making, dairy operations, the preservation of food, the manufacture of confectionery, and the production and bottling of aërated

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waters.

In the group devoted to articles of dress is to be found perhaps the most interesting collection ever brought together, and, although it does not possess for the male sex that fascination which it is sure to have over the daughters of Eve, it may be advisable to enumerate the heads of the various classes of which this group is composed. These classes are eight in number, and relate to the history of dress, national costume, etc., illustrated by a collection of costumes perfectly unique in

WM. WOOLLAMS & CO. character; waterproof clothing, etc.; furs, skins and feathers; dress for

Original Manufacturers,

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sport, hunting suits, etc.; life-saving dress (divers' dress, fireproof dress, etc.); the comparative value of different dress materials for articles of clothing; publications and literature; patterns, statistics, diagrams, and models relating to this group; and, finally, the machinery and appliances for the preparation of articles of dress. These two groups in the order named will form the subjects of our first notices, and the enumeration of the remaining groups, sections, and classes can well be deferred until attention has been paid to Dress and to Food, the latter certainly one of the most important, if not most picturesque and romantic, divisions of the exhibition. No less than twenty-nine handbooks having special reference to the exhibition have either been published or are in course of publica110, HIGH STREET, tion. Mrs. Gladstone is the authoress of one of these, and M. Pasteur has superintended the production of another. The remaining twenty-seven authors are well known in connexion with the subjects of which they

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Sole Address.

NOTE TRADE MARK.

ardson's].-The special action of Hamamelis

TINCT. HAMAMELIS [Richappears to be upon the coats of the veins. Dr. K. HUGHES speaks of it as the prince of remedies in the of the tincture easing the pains, and the external up. He has cured case after case of bleeding piles by the internal use of the tincture, and in an experience of twelve years never found it to fail. It is most useful in passive hæmorrhage, hæmoptysis, hæmatemesis, and epistaxis. It has also been used

treatment of varicose veins, the first or second dose application of it causing the dilated vessels to shrink

of several of these works.

*

The circumstance and pomp of State pageantry that characterised the opening of the Fisheries Exhibition at South Kensington last year were absent at the inauguration in the same series of buildings of the Health Exhibition by the Duke of Cambridge, acting on behalf of the Prince of Wales; but none the less successful apparently was the ceremony which opened an exhibition full of promise, as evinced by a crowded attendance and the presence of the Prime Minister and other notabilities. With the opening of the doors to the public at half-past nine there began a flow of visitors, comprising season-ticket holders and specially invited guests, and for two hours afterwards the various courts and avenues of the place were thronged by an inspecting company prior to the opening ceremony, while outside, in Exhibition-road, there was a considerable crowd of onlookers Tinct. Hamamelis is put up in 40z., 8oz., and 16oz. to see the arrivals. Although not complete in some departments, all was in readiness for the formal inauguration, and, in the main, the exhibition was fairly advanced for an opening day.

in menorrhagia, gonorrhoeal orchitis, and in some forms of ovaritis.

Proportion, 1 in 10. Dose, 2 to 10 minims. bottles, price 1/4, 2/6, and 4/- each.

COMPOUND MENTHOL

CONES [Richardson's]. For NEURALGIA, TIONS. A preparation of pure Menthol, &c., with wax and other emollients, for local application in the above most painful affections-elegant and cleanly, DIRECTIONS.-Rub gently the cone over the affected

SCIATICA, HEADACHE, and NERVE AFFEC

and magical in its effects.

parts at bed-time, or when urgent.

In Boxes containing six or twelve Cones.

J. RICHARDSON & Co., 10, Friar-lane, Leicester.

The opening ceremonial took place in the long central arcade, with a close glass roof. This long court or gallery, hung with banners and adorned with works of art, was lightsome and gay in appearance, and crowded from end to end by an assembly of several thousand persons. The day, though dull, was warm as days go now, and the place thus thronged proved very close. In the centre of the gallery was a crimsoncovered daïs, with a background formed with crimson silk hangings and a trophy of flags surmounting the royal arms.

At noon the inauguration procession arrived, consisting of the Duke of Cambridge, Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, Musurus Pasha (Turkish Ambassador) and Mdlle. Musurus, Lord Mayor Fowler, and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, the Duke of Buckingham (chairman of the Executive Council), other members of the Council, and the Foreign Commissioners. This procession had been formed at the main entrance of the exhibition upon the arrival of the Duke of Cambridge, and the party proceeded thence along the south gallery as far as the dairies, across the electric light shed to the "Old London Street," and from there to the royal pavilion. "Old London Street" was festive with garlands suspended across the

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thoroughfare from the quaint old houses, and the City trumpeters sounded 13, St. Mary-at-Hill,

a fanfarronade as the procession passed, while from the church came a peal of bells rung by the Criterion Hand-bell Ringers. From the pavilion the procession advanced to the daïs. The Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs were gorgeous as usual in their state scarlet robes; but for all else plain morning dress was the order of the day. The Duke of Buckingham first of all read a telegram received from the Prince of Wales, wishing success to the exhibition, and next read a long address from the Executive Council to the Duke of Cambridge. After a reference to the death of the Duke of Albany, this document stated that the exhibition originated in the desire expressed by his Royal Highness the President (the Prince of Wales) when closing the International Fisheries Exhibition, that the buildings erected for that exhibition should be utilised for other similar undertakings, and concluded by the statement that "unhealthy food, unhealthy dress, and unhealthy houses are potent in their effects; and we feel convinced that, if this exhibition shall become the means of indicating how the evils which result from them may be prevented, the ceremony which your Royal Highness is performing to-day will prove to be the inauguration of an enterprise which will make its mark in the records of the social and domestic condition of the nation."

The Duke of Cambridge read the following reply:-"I have had no hesitation in assenting to the wish of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and of the Council that I should on this occasion occupy the position which he would have filled but for the sudden and lamented death of his Royal Highness the Duke of Albany. I know that I express the feeling of the Prince of Wales, as well as my own, when I assure you of my hearty desire for the complete success of this great international exhibition. No design can be more worthy of encouragement than the earnest and costly endeavour here made to promote good health, which is one of the first conditions necessary for the happiness and prosperity of a nation. Every year shows us more clearly the vast extent of misery and the loss of working power which are due to disease, which might be prevented by a better observance of the rules of public health. Much has been done by charity, by science, and by legislation, to diminish the effects of these diseases; but I think we must all feel that what is still most desirable is, that people of all classes should know how they may help themselves and their neighbours to prevent the risk and injury to health, to which they may be exposed. This most useful knowledge may be acquired by the study of the objects displayed in your exhibition; and I gladly express my warm approval of the great variety of means which you have provided, both for the attraction of visitors and for their in

LONDON, E.C.

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and the beauty of many of the objects displayed; and it may justly be hoped that few will leave the exhibition without having acquired some usefulknow ledge, either by their own observation or by the instruction which they may gather from the lectures, and by their study of the handbooks. I am glad also of the opportunity which the conferences and the display of the most scientific means of investigation will offer for the discussion and research of the best methods still to be adopted for the improvement of the public health. It speaks well for this exhibition that you have been able to enlist in its promotion so large and influential a body of gentlemen as you have mentioned. I tender to them the thanks of the president, in addition to those which you have already expressed. The assistance given by the City of London and by the Guilds proves not

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only their liberality, but their conviction that a great public good will be Wholesale Houses only supplied,

attained by the exhibition, and especially by that part of it which is

in the treatment of asthma was discovered by Dr.

EXT. GRINDELIA ROBUSTA
LIQ. [Richardson's].-The value of this remedy
Q. S. SMITH, who published in the Pacific Medical
and Surgical Journal, for April, 1875, an account of
Dr. T. M. ROCHESTER asserts that it has proved in
his hands far superior to any of the other remedies
been found of service in hay fever, and in doses of
it is useful in hypertrophy of the spleen. It has also
been used in vesicle and uterine catarrh. In iritis it
has also proved a valuable collyrium in the propor-
tion of one part of fluid extract to four of water.
Proportion, I in 1. Dose, 10 to 30 minims.
Ext. Grindelia Robusta Liq. is put up in 4oz., 8oz.,
and 160z. bottles, price 3/-, 5/6, and 10/- each.

its use of disease.

or methods of treatment for asthma. It has also one dram of the fluid extract, Dr. NAPHEY states that

EXT. PHYTOLACCA DE

CANDRE LIQ. POKE ROOT. [Richard

son's].-Phytolacca is possessed of emetic, purgative, vomiting commencing, usually, in not less than two hours after being taken, continuing, accompanied by

and narcotic properties. It is rather slow in action,

of

purging for a long time. Vomiting is not usually attended by pains or spasms, but drowsiness, vertigo, and dimness of vision are sometimes present. It has been highly recommended in chronic rheumatism syphilitic origin, in inflamed and painful mamma; and in domestic practice as a remedy for the itch, for which purpose a decoction is used for a wash.

Proportion, 1 in 1. Dose, Emetic, 10 to 30 minims. Ext. Phytolacca Decandra Liq. is put up in 40z.. 8oz., and 16oz. bottles, price 3/-, 5/6, and 10/- each.

EXT. STILLINGIE LIQUID constipation, owing to deficient mucous secretion of the intestinal canal, in torpidity of the liver, jaundice, in the first stage of cirrhosis, in ascites due to hepatic changes, and in hæmorrhoids, due to obstruction

QUEEN'S ROOT.-[Richardson's].-In habitual

of

the liver, Stillingiæ is of great service. Of its value in syphilis there can be no doubt.

Dr. PARKER, of South Carolina, says: "I have

employed the decoction of the root of this plant as an alterative in syphilitic sores, occurring in patients in the City Hospital, Charleston, the spread of which

nothing else could arrest. It proved completely

satisfactory."

Proportion, 1 in 1. Dose of the fluid extract, mx to zj.

Ext. Stillingiæ Liq. is put up in 40z., 8oz., and TINCT. BOLDO [Richardson's]. and circulatory systems, and is useful where there exists chronic hepatic torpor, and in the treatment of

160z. bottles, price 3/-, 5/6, and 10/- each.

-This remedy is a stimulant of the nervous

hepatic abscesses, when the febrile systems have been overcome.

Dr. S. W. FRANCIS, of Newport, N.J., states he had from gall-stones, with hepatic trouble and subperito

under his charge a lady who for four months suffered neal inflammation. After failure of the best modern remedies, he gave Tinct. Boldo in doses of 20 to 30 drops three times daily. Soon after taking it the pain entirely left her, and she became perfectly well. It is used by the Chilians in syphilis and liver disease,

also in allaying rheumatic and neuralgic pains. Proportion, 1 in 8. Dose, 10 to 30 minims.

Tinct. Boldo is put up in 40z., 80z., and 160z.

bottles, price 1/4, 2/6, and 4/- each.

devoted to the promotion of technical education. Next to the working power which is supplied by good health, I consider that nothing contributes more to the wealth of any nation than the proper guidance of such power by judicious training. It will be an admirable result of your exhibition if it proves, as I think it must, the great advance already made in education, and if it thus encourages a more earnest and persistent study of the best methods of work in every department of life. On my way to this gallery I have seen enough to justify me in congratulating you on the measure of success which you have attained in the collection and arrangement of the immense number of objects exhibited. Considering the vast extent of the plan and the shortness of the time in which it was to be completed, the result already attained appears to me highly satisfactory. A feature of this and similar exhibitions which, I think, should be constantly borne in mind is, that it is international. From this we may hope that one of its advantages may be derived. It is certain that the promotion of health and education is a source of blessing to all nations. The knowledge which one nation possesses is, by exhibitions such as these, made accessible to all; and although this may be attended with competition and mutual rivalry, yet it need not produce hostility, but should rather promote mutual respect and goodwill; so that when I repeat to you my earnest wishes for the prosperity of the exhibition, I feel that I am encouraging at the same time the blessings of peace and concord among all nations. It is with the earnest hope that this may be among its good results that I now declare this exhibition open.”

This terminated the formal ceremony, and while a piece of music was performed, the procession was re-formed, and proceeded through the machinery gallery as far as the historic dress collection, and then returned through the aquarium to the Belgian Court and the Queen's-gate annexe. The Royal party left by the Queen's-gate entrance. During the afternoon the building was crowded, and in the evening there was a grand concert in the Royal Albert Hall, in celebration of the successful inauguration of the exhibition.

The Health Exhibition promises to be quite as popular as its predecessor. Its subject is wider and less liable to technical treatment. Last year's exhibition dealt with a particular kind of food; in this year's an abstract subject is treated in relation to everything it concerns. The magnificent display illustrates the hygiene of food, dress, the dwelling-house, the school, and the workshop; while the results of primary and technical education, which of late years have received so great an impetus, find an expression which is to the public what a good object-lesson is to a child. The buildings are the same as used for the Fisheries Exhibition, but many additional annexes have been found necessary, and notable among these is the large new building at the Queen's-road entrance, occupied by the Belgian exhibitors and the ambulance department. The new entrance on the west or Queen's-road side no doubt much relieves the principal entrance in Exhibition-road; and that the main vestibule may be still less liable to overcrowding, it is devoid of exhibits, or of anything to attract the attention except the noble equestrian statue of the Prince of Wales, by Mr. Boehm, R.A., presented by Sir Albert Sassoon to the municipality of Bombay. At the opening the British exhibitors appeared to have all their goods in position, but the foreign sections were more or less behind-hand. Belgium, France, India and China are the only four separate foreign sections; the United States, Brazil, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Siam and Venezuela being classed under the head of "foreign" in the west central galleries. The Belgian annexe was in an advanced state of order. The opening of the Chinese court is delayed this year, for the ship bringing over the Chinese shopkeepers, cooks and musicians, some thirty in number, is not expected to arrive in the Thames until early in the present month, and then the court appropriated to China will have to be decorated and fitted up appropriately to the character of the exhibits by Chinese artists and artisans who are on their way here from Peking, so that probably it will be towards the end of the month before this department can be thrown open to the public. One of the most conspicuous among those gathered in the hall was Ah Kiu, chief decorator of the Chinese Court for the Fisheries Exhibition, wearing the medal awarded him by Her Majesty's J. RICHARDSON & Co., 10, Friar-lane, Leicester. | Commissioners, and further decorated with the gilt button and red girdle

TINCT. BRYONIÆ RichardSON'S-An excellent remedy in muscular rheumatism following a cold, and in lumbago its action is little short of marvellous. It has a marked cardiac stimulant, as it is liable to depress the action of the heart. In the second stage of pleurisy, when general pyrexia has diminished or disappeared, but an exceedingly valuable drug. In pericarditis and ordinary bilious headache with vomiting it is of great

effect on the kidneys, but needs to be given with a

exudation continues, it is, according to Dr. PHILLIPS, pleurisy it is said to equal any known remedy, and in

service.

Proportion, 1 in 10. Dose, 2 to 10 minims.

Tinct. Bryonia is put up in 40z., 8oz., and 160z.

bottles, price 1/4, 2/6, and 4/- each.

EXT. EUPHORBIA PILULI-
FERÆ LIQ. [Richardson's].-Is said to be
a certain cure for asthma, and nearly all bronchial
affections. Acts as a capital tonic as well as a
narcotic.
Proportion, I in 1. Dose, to i drachm.

Ext. Euphorbia Pilulifera is put up in 4oz., 8oz., and 160z. bottles, price 3/-, 5/6, and 10/- each.

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GUAZUMA ULMIFOLIA BARK.
GUAIACUM OFFICINALE BARK
ANONA MURICATA ROOT.

LEUCENA GLAUCA ROOT.
PAPAÏNE.

AGAR-AGAR SEA-WEED, and

A Large Stock of NEW DRUGS and REMEDIES always on hand and arriving. Particulars as

to Uses, Doses of all New Drugs, can be had upon application to

THOMAS CHRISTY & CO., 155, Fenchurch Street, London, E.C.

HONOURABLE MENTION AT NATIONAL HEALTH SOCIETY'S EXHIBITION, JUNE, 11883. BOWER'S PATENT POTATO

STEAMER.

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of the dignity bestowed upon him by his Imperial master. The broad NEW DRUGS AND REMEDIES. South Gallery is devoted to the various British food-stuffs, and contains innumerable samples of preserved provisions, Australian frozen meat, tinned, smoked, salted, compressed, and prepared animal foods of all kinds; roots and seeds, and vegetables, canned, compressed, or in some other way kept from decomposition. There are, too, wines, beers, mineral waters, and, conspicuous enough, the cup that cheers but does not inebriateunless, indeed, tradition is wrong on this point, and a cleric who recently fulminated against the teapot should prove to be in the right. Coffee, cocoa and chocolate assert their rival claims. Food for infants, food for invalids, and concentrated food of all kinds challenge attention. Located ISINGLASS for the Cultivation of Bacilli, &c., &c. as it is in this gallery, tobacco appears tacitly to be classified as a food, though on what principle it is difficult to say. The use of tobacco has the power of appeasing by staving off hunger, but that does not make it a food. The scientific teetotaller will no doubt resent too the introduction of whisky and other alcoholic liquors into the category of foods. Abutting on the western side of the gallery are a series of model dairies, where are shown all the most modern methods of keeping cows, of separating cream from the milk, and of making butter, cheese, and other dairy produce. In one of these dairies is a shed of six fine Alderney cows in stalls, and some goats in the paddock, several of the latter (known as "Zulus") having been brought to this country by the late Captain Mayne Reid. The dairymaids of Warwick Farm attract admiring exhibitors to the display of cool clean counters, and shining pails and pans, churns and skimmers, and wholesome country faces, which are the special characteristics of model dairies. The charms of this part of the show are enhanced by the picturesque background of red roofs and wood frame walls and hanging eaves, which it seems the Warwick Farm cows particularly effect. The Express Dairy approaches its rival in tasteful architecture, and charming old lattice windows with diamond panes and other features which are more pleasing to the artistic than the sanitary eye. The dairies are the great attraction of the south gallery; though the immense barrel of lager bier which confronts them will probably find its votaries, and the Hungarian and Australian wine-shops have their merits, if only the contents have been long enough in bottle. The "butcher to the Chief Rabbi's" stall of meat which pious Jews may safely eat is also a curious sight, especially as it includes sausages, which might for all the world be pork but for the Hebrew inscription. The Belgian court forms a decidedly pretty part of the exhibition. The series of Red Cross implements are peculiarly interesting, and may safely be allowed a connection with health. The furnished rooms in the central gallery look well, though we cannot approve of the very mongrel taste of one Algerian shop. The chief dining rooms lie to the south of the gallery, next the vestibule, and between them and the dairies are the rooms of the National Training School of Cookery, where popular sixpenny dinners will be served, lectures on their preparation being delivered to the public, free of charge, in the theatre. The vegetarians have a dining-room to themselves, where cheap dinners, as savoury as may be, are provided. The exhibition is furnished with plenty of refreshment bars, and for total abstainers from alcoholic drinks there are cocoa and coffee rooms. The East Corridor is occupied with the bakeries, and here the merits of whole-meal bread are scientifically and practically demonstrated. A small corridor is in the hands of the British Beekeepers' Association, where honey and its comb are raised to the rank of a food, and the visitor, as he views the luscious display, is disposed to sympathise with the royal custom in the nursery fable of "eating bread and honey." The West Arcade is occupied this, as last, year, with an aquarium, which is not by any means the least interesting part of the exhibition. The organisation of this department has been left this year to the National Fish Culture Association, of which the Marquis of Exeter is the president, Mr. Birkbeck, M.P., the vice-president, and Mr. Oldham Chambers the manager. There are over forty tanks, which are stocked with marine and fresh-water fish suitable for food. There is an interesting collection of young salmon hatched in the Fisheries Exhibition. Fish culture processes are shown, and there is an admirable loan collection of stuffed fishes. Food analysis and practical dietetics receive abundant exposition. The subject of dress is treated historically as well as

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This invention is designed to meet an almost universal and daily want-viz., the means of cooking

with certainty and precision' all the various sorts of potatoes that are brought to consumers. Experience only-experience dearly bought if ever acquiredteaches that some potatoes will only boil and not steam, and that others will steam and not boil. Exany sort of potato which cannot be successfully

periments carefully conducted have failed to discover cooked by this new invention.

The diagram above clearly indicates the working in the bottom of the vessel, with sufficient water to of it. The inner lining, filled with potatoes, is placed well cover the potatoes; after boiling fifteen minutes, the lining is raised and fixed at the top, and in about to perfection. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

twelve minutes, according to size, they are steamed

"From experiments made it is found that all sorts

of potatoes can be cooked with certainty and satis

faction in this steamer."-The Ironmonger.

"Experience has proved that this steamer is admirable in operation, and there is no class of potatoes which cannot be successfully cooked by its means." -The Merchant.

"All sorts and conditions' of Potatoes have been

cooked in it with invariably satisfactory results."—

The Caterer.

Sizes: 3lb., 5s.; 4lb., 6s.; 6lb., 7s. 6d. To be obtained of any ironmonger in town or sale only of the Sole Manufacturers,

country at the above-mentioned prices, and wholeGROOM & CO., Liquorpond St., London, E.C.

BRIGGS & CO.'S TRANSFER PATTERNS.

These Patterns consist of Designs for all kinds of

CREWEL WORK, BRAIDING

(Including Sets for Costumes), INITIAL LETTERS

For Handkerchiefs, Table Linen, etc.
Every Lady should send for a copy of the New Pattern Book,

containing upwards of 350 Designs, and including the Spring
Supplement, which is sent free by parcels post on receipt of

7 stamps; or the Spring Supplement may be had separately,
Post Free, 2ld.

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Postal address, 33, Richmond Crescent, Barnsbury,
LONDON, N.

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