Norman's shop, directly across the street from the London Hospital, was visited by a surgeon named Frederick Treves, who invited Merrick to be examined and photographed.

Treves visited him daily and spent a couple of hours with him every Sunday.

At around three o ' clock in the afternoon, Treves ' house surgeon visited Merrick and found him lying dead across his bed.

He eventually made his way back to London ; unable to communicate, he was found by the police to have Frederick Treves ' card on him.

To enable him to travel the short distance without drawing undue attention, Merrick wore a costume consisting of a huge black cloak and a brown cap with a hood that covered his face, and rode in a cab hired by Treves.

Not long after Merrick's last examination with Frederick Treves, the police closed down Norman's shop on Whitechapel Road, and Merrick's Leicester managers withdrew him from Norman's care.

Recognising Merrick, Treves took him in a hansom cab to the London Hospital.

Treves and Merrick built a friendly relationship, although Merrick never completely confided in him.

He told Treves that he was an only child, and Treves had the impression that Merrick's mother, whose picture Merrick always carried with him, had abandoned him as a baby.

Treves decided that Merrick would like to be introduced to a woman and it would help him feel normal.

He later told Treves that Maturin had been the first woman ever to smile at him, the first to shake his hand.

One day he expressed a desire to see inside what he considered a " real " house and Treves obliged, taking him to visit his Wimpole Street townhouse and meet his wife.

Treves, with the help of Madge Kendal, arranged for him to attend the Christmas pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

He resided for a time in Hamburg, but then left on a journey which took him to London, Treves, Brussels and New York City.

The problem of his unpleasant odour was mitigated through frequent bathing and Treves gradually developed an understanding of Merrick's speech.

In addition to sculpture, he also produced illustrations for the works of Edmondo De Amicis published by Treves.

In 1905 Sir Frederick Treves wrote that the village " straggles down hill like a small mountain stream.

The second adaptation was broadcast on 15 July 2007 as part of a celebration of Stoppard's 70th birthday ; the production was directed by Peter Kavanagh with Danny Webb as Rosencrantz, Andrew Lincoln as Guildenstern, Desmond Barrit as The Player, John Rowe as Polonius, Abigail Hollick as Ophelia, Liza Sadovy as Gertrude, Simon Treves as Claudius and John Dougall as Hamlet.

Trier (;, ; ; ; ; the Latin adjective associated with the city is Treverensis ), historically called in English Treves, is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle.

* Cerialis defeats Claudius Civilis at the Battle of Treves, thus quelling the Batavian rebellion.

* Rotrude of Treves, Duchess of the Franks and wife of Charles Martel ( b. 690 )

* Rotrude of Treves, Duchess of the Franks ( d. 724 )

In the meantime other causes of disagreement appeared when the Pope refused to comply with Frederick I's wishes as to the regulation of German episcopal elections which had taken place during the schism, especially as regards a contested election to the See of Treves in 1183.

Sir Frederick Treves, with the support of Lord Lister, performed a then-radical operation of draining the appendix abscess through a small incision.

Treves was honoured with a baronetcy ( which Edward had arranged before the operation ) and appendix surgery entered the medical mainstream.

Eventually, the coronation had to be postponed and Edward had an operation performed by Frederick Treves of the London Hospital to drain the infected appendix.

Maximus made his capital at Augusta Treverorum ( Treves, Trier ) in Gaul, and ruled Britain, Gaul, Spain and Africa.

The mediaeval legend of Genevieve of Brabant connected her to Treves.

Milano: Edizioni Fratelli Treves, 1933.

Prose speech of thanks to the emperor Gratian on the occasion of attaining the consulship, delivered at Treves in 379.

The " Elephant Man ", Joseph Carey Merrick ( 1862 – 1890 ) became well known in Whitechapel — he was exhibited in a shop on the Whitechapel Road before being helped by Dr Frederick Treves ( 1853 – 1923 ) at the Royal London Hospital, opposite the actual shop.

Treves came and took Merrick back to the London Hospital.

The official cause of death was asphyxia, although Treves, who dissected the body, said that Merrick had died of a dislocated neck.

Like his colleagues, Tuckett was intrigued by the Elephant Man's deformities and told his senior colleague Frederick Treves.

Frederick Treves first met Merrick that November at a private viewing, before Norman opened the shop for the day.

Treves later recalled in his 1923 Reminiscences that Merrick was " the most disgusting specimen of humanity that I had ever seen ... at no time had I met with such a degraded or perverted version of a human being as this lone figure displayed.

" The viewing lasted no more than 15 minutes after which Treves returned to work.

`` The place had no sink or washbasin, only a bathtub '', his mother discovered when she visited him.

Franklin D. Lee proved a man of prompt action when Mrs. Claire Shaefer, accompanied by a friend, visited him in Bakersfield, California, several months ago as a prospective patient.

Lee renewed his pressure on Mrs. Shaefer to buy his machine when she visited him the next day.

Although she weighed only 108 pounds when she visited him, Carroll permitted her to go on a 10-day fast in which she took nothing but water.

The sensation he so overwhelmingly realized was one which told him he had been there before but he knew he had not, and could not recall any place he had visited to be likened to the limpid green water or the little fountain-falls or the green demon imprisoned beyond his reach.

Days later, when that city fell, Lincoln visited the vanquished Confederate capital ; as he walked through the city, white Southerners were stone-faced, but freedmen greeted him as a hero.

Plutarch states it to have been fear of her husband, together with hatred of his cruel and brutal character, and ascribes these feelings principally to the representations of Pelopidas, when she visited him in his prison.

It was during this time that he followed closely the work of the main driving force behind the new modernism, Le Corbusier, and visited him in his Paris office several times in the following years.

As a youth he worked at a vineyard until, according to the 2nd-century AD geographer Pausanias, the god Dionysus visited him in his sleep and commanded him to turn his attention to the nascent art of tragedy.

In 1763, Greek Orthodox bishop Erasmus of the Diocese of Arcadia, visited London, where John Wesley had considerable conversation with him, and ordained several Methodist lay preachers as priests, including John Jones.

The Venetian artist Jacopo de ' Barbari, whom Dürer had met in Venice, visited Nuremberg in 1500, and Dürer said that he learned much about the new developments in perspective, anatomy, and proportion from him.

As a boy he visited the United Kingdom, and he had a number of British tutors in Cairo including a governess who taught him English.

Kirk's cousin, Graham of Duchray, was then to claim that the spectre of Kirk had visited him in the night, and told him that he had been carried off by the Fairies.

When Saint Macarius visited Saint Anthony, Saint Anthony clothed him with the monk's garb, and foretold him what would be of him.

However, some modern scholars have argued that the demons and temptations that Anthony is reported to have faced may have been related to Athanasius by some of the simpler pilgrims who had visited him, who may have been conveying what they had been told in a manner more dramatic than it had been conveyed to them.

The monk apparently visited him frequently, and on fixed days brought him food.

Nothhelm, a correspondent of Bede's who assisted him by finding documents for him in Rome, is known to have visited Bede, though the date cannot be determined beyond the fact that it was after Nothhelm's visit to Rome.

Some of the victorious fleet went in pursuit of him ; but Octavian himself visited Greece and Asia, and spent the winter at Samos ; though he was obliged to go for a short time to Brundisium to settle a mutiny and arrange for assignations of land.

Thierry, however, had a veneration for Columbanus, and often visited him.