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Bodie, Walford. Walford Bodie Empress Theatre Playbill. Brixton: Brixton “Free Press,” 1904. Letterpress playbill on pale yellow paper. 15 x 5”. Two small modern stickers adhered on verso, faint old folds, minor closed tears. This advertises Bodie’s so-called “Bloodless Surgery,” by which numerous ailments including paralysis were supposedly cured. The medical establishment deemed the performer a quack.