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  • A. F. Tredgold, consulting physician to University College Hospital, London, argued that the 80,000 or more idiots and imbeciles in Britain who were unemployable, a drain on the nations resources and utterly helpless, repulsive in appearance, and revolting in manners should have their existence painlessly terminated in an economical and humane procedure.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • A. F. Tredgold, consulting physician to University College Hospital, London, argued that the 80,000 or more idiots and imbeciles in Britain who were unemployable, a drain on the nations resources and utterly helpless, repulsive in appearance, and revolting in manners should have their existence painlessly terminated in an economical and humane procedure.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • A. F. Tredgold, consulting physician to University College Hospital, London, argued that the 80,000 or more idiots and imbeciles in Britain who were unemployable, a drain on the nations resources and utterly helpless, repulsive in appearance, and revolting in manners should have their existence painlessly terminated in an economical and humane procedure.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • A little later, Eaton Hodgkinson proved by experiments the uncertainty of cast iron with regard to tensile strength, which he showed to be much less than had been stated by Tredgold.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various

  • Now, as the findings of Tredgold and Karl Pearson and the

    The Pivot of Civilization Margaret Sanger 1924

  • Tredgold points out that the number of children born to the feeble-minded is abnormally high.

    The Pivot of Civilization Margaret Sanger 1924

  • Tredgold seems to have been conferred on some medieval stoic, for we find also Spurnegold.

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • She dissected well, and in a year she found herself chafing at the limitations of the lady B.Sc. who retailed a store of faded learning in the Tredgold laboratory.

    Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

  • She dissected well, and in a year she found herself chafing at the limitations of the lady B.Sc. who retailed a store of faded learning in the Tredgold laboratory.

    Ann Veronica, a modern love story 1906

  • It was the doctor: and Furnilove had been so explicit on the 'phone that the doctor -- whose name I learnt afterwards to be Tredgold -- almost by magic whipped out a small bottle from his pocket.

    Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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