Abstract
In 1886, Judge Wallis, summing up in the ‘Pimlico Case’, castigated the writings of a witness, the Catholic doctor, Thomas Low Nichols, as shocking and as tending to ‘unsex’ women. For Nichols’ Esoteric Anthropology had been found in the home of Mrs. Adelaide Bartlett, a French Catholic, accused of murdering her husband with the assistance of the Reverend George Dyson, a Wesleyan minister of Putney. Even though he had written in the preface that ‘this is no book for the centre table, the library shelf or the counter of a bookseller’, Nichols was outraged by what he considered the judge’s libel upon him and his work. In the event Mrs. Bartlett was acquitted amid the most tumultuous applause ever heard in the Old Bailey and retired to a Belgian convent. It was but one more colourful episode in the extraordinary career of the Catholic health reformer, Dr. Nichols.
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