Lionel Terry.

Northern Advocate, 25 June 1910, Page 3

Lionel Terry.

HIS QUARTERS AT SUNNYSIDE

A BELIEVER IN "NATURE."

Terry has taken un a certain atti-

tude in regard to his confinement at

the Mental Hospital, and he will not be moved from that attitude. He

has a ready answer to every sugges-

tion, and is uncompromisingly hos-

tile to any proposal that does not

meet his views. In the presence of the reporter Dr. Gow suggested

that some healing ointment should be applied to his chilblain. Terry instantly refused, saying that if a nan led the natural life and had

sunshine lie would nut suffer from chilblains; that, in any event, Nature would effect a cure, and that he was going to' leave it to; Nature.

The reporter asked him why he did not have some heating appara-

tus in his cabin, and Terry replied that he was utterly opposed to everything of an artificial nature. He added that he meant that people should keep themselves sufficiently

warm in a natural way without any

extraneous or art ideal assistance. The whole bent of his mind was on

the ability of Nature to support the

human body in comfort and health without outside assistance.

The reporter then asked Terry why he dii not accept the offer made him by Dr. Gow to allow him two hours

daily exercise in the sunshine. Terry

replied that he would accept the oller if the hours were definitely fixed, and regularly adhered to, and that he had refused to leave his quarters because this had not been done. The attendants used to call for him when he was not ready to go, when he was in the middle of'a meal, or doing

some job or conducting some experiment, lie refused to recognise that

it was impossible for the medical superintendent to fit in the hours definitely when he never knew what demands might be made on his staff

of attendants