Charles Alfred Tyrrell

Charles Alfred Tyrrell (1846 - July 2, 1918) was a British eclectic physician and hygienic specialist, noted for popularizing the J.B.L. (Joy - Beauty - Life) Cascade enema kit through his company, Tyrrell's Hygienic Institute.

Background
By the Professor's own accounts, as published in the "Who's Who in New York" (1904), he: "circumnavigated the earth three times, spent 12 years in Australia and New Zealand, three years in the South Sea Islands, two years in South Africa, and seven years in India, China, Japan and Philippine Islands. [He] was once shipwrecked on coast of Australia, and dangerously wounded in cutting out a nest of Chinese pirates on coast of Formosa, 1864. [The Professor] has eaten with nearly every specimen of human family, from Chinese Mandarin to the Australian aborigine, and has partaken of nearly every edible substance known."

The Internal Bath
Whereby colon cleansing, and particularly the J.B.L. Cascade, is promoted as a cure to all that may ail you.


 * C.G. Percival, "The Wonderful Mission of the Internal Bath" (1915) &mdash; advertisement from Technical World Magazine (Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 777-8)
 * Tyrrell's Hygienic Institute, "Why We Should Bathe Internally: An Exposition of the Value of Intestinal Cleanliness through the use of the Famous J.B.L. Cascade." (1927) &mdash; $, oop (bibliophagist.com)
 * Tyrrell's Inst., "Ever Had Your Colon 'House Cleaned?'" (November 1934; modernmechanix.com)
 * AMA's "Nostrums and Quackery" (Vol. 1, p. 311-14, 1912); and "Nostrums and Quackery" (Vols. 2 & 3, p. 697-705)

"The Ideal Sight Restorer"
''A cure to poor vision from the cutting edge of ophthalmology, courtesy of Pr. Tyrrell's Ideal Company!''


 * Richard Van Vleck, "Quack Eye Massagers" (American Artifacts, No. 41; americanartifacts.com) &mdash; see "Feb 7, 1899, Benjamin Stephens, New York - Eye-cup"
 * A. P. Ferry, "'Professor' Charles Tyrrell and his ideal sight restorer", Ophthalmology (Volume 93, Issue 9, Pages 1246-1257, 1 September 1986) &mdash; abstract (nih.gov/pubmed); abstract (aaojournal.org)
 * Summary of the "Ideal Sight Restorer" display at the Museum of Vision (museumofvision.org)

Selected Bibliography


In addition to his books published through the Institute, Dr. Tyrrell served as president of the Health Publishing Company, and as editor-in-chief of its main periodical, Health: a Home Magazine Dedicated to Physical Culture and Hygiene.