Broman, Allan (1861-1947)

Attendance book, 1885-1901, and casebooks, including some correspondence, 1905-1911, of his private practice in London (partly in Swedish).

List of distinguished or interesting patients (including some names taken from Attendance Book):

Duke of ABERCORN

Hon Rowland BARING (later Lord Cromer): See DNB. Mentions typhoid attack.

Lady Norah BRASSEY

Sir Henry CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN (later P.M)

Rt Hon (later Viscount) Henry CHAPLIN M.P.

Prince CHRISTIAN of Schleswig-Holstein (Treated at Buckingham Palace)

Lady Spencer CHURCHILL (wife of Randolph)

DE BILE, Danish Ambassador

Baron and Baroness Frederick D'ERLANGEN

Baroness G. DE MENASE

Count Hierschel DE MINERBI, Italian Embassy

Lord DERBY [1908 i.e. 17th Earl?)

Lord DE SAUMAREZ

J. DUHAMEL, French master at Harrow School. With letters: I am going to rewrite the chapter [on gymnastics] in my book [on education]

Lord DUNRAVEN

Washington EPPS (of Homeopathic Hospital)

Sir Daniel F. GODDARD M.P.

Sir Reginald GRAHAM. Described as 'old patient' - Broman must have treated him before commencement of notebook 1884/5, possibly while assistant to Kellgren.l

Marquis of GRANBY

Lord HAMILTON of Dalzell

George A. HARD M.P.

Baron de HEECKEREN

Dr L.S JAMESON (of 'Jameson raid' fame): 'Run down' after typhoid

Sir Alfred JEPHSON

Joseph JOACHIM, violinist [and friend of Brahms?]: Rheumatism in arms

Lord LECONFIELD

Duchess of LEEDS and family: Example of continuing faith in Broman

Sir Frederick LEIGHTON, painter: treated 1895-6; came to Broman for exercises 3 days before death; diagnosis by Lauder-Brunton attached

Charles LEVESON-GOWER, Cricketer

Sir George LEWIS, Solicitor: Associated with Dr. Gully/Bravo at earlier date

Duke of MARLBOROUGH

Claude MONTEFIORE, family of

Lord MORLEY, Statesman

Edwin Roscoe MULLINS, Sculptor

Lillian NORDICA, Mme Döme [spelt BÖME by Broman] American prima donna

Sir Lionel PHILLIPS, South African millionaire!

Dr Austin E REYNOLDS

Lord ROWTON

Sir Cecil SPRING RICE, diplomat

Dr STARLING [the physiologist?]

Donald TOVEY, musician and composer: then a 24 yr old student of piano. Hand and back trouble - see letter from Sophie Weisse, his mentor and piano teacher

Sir Edward WINGFIELD, Colonial Office

Lord WOLVERTON

Count and Countess WRANGEL

List of Medical 'Patrons' (physician or surgeons who referred patients to Broman)

An asterisk indicates that there are letters or notes.

BLUM (of Liverpool): not in Medical Directory [possibly a masseur?]

Robert Leaman BOWLES

*Stanley BOYD

Dr Julia Maria BRINCK: See Vol. 1, p.220

*Sir William BROADBENT: See DNB

Sir Thomas Lauder BRUNTON: See DNB [keen interest in physical education]

Mortimer GRANVILL[E]

*Donald William Charles HOOD: See Munk's Roll

*Thomas Ridge JONES: See Who Was Who

KUMLIEN (of Paris)

*Thomas John MACLAGEN

William Frederick Hoyle NEWBERY

PARSER: Not identified [non-medical]

Sydenham Teast Gifford RANSFIELD

Edward Reynolds RAY: Also treated by Broman, Nov 1900

Edward Tait ROBINSON

Dr STAPFER (or STOPFER): Not traced in Medical Directory but evidently in practice in 1900 (see Vol 2, p.123). Sent several patients to Broman and he and his wife treated by Broman.

*Charles James SYMONDS: See DNB

WESTBIN: Not identified (non-medical?)

*Benjamin Mower WHITE

Staff of Homeopathic Hospital [with which Broman seems to have had close association]

David Dyce BROWN

George Mann CARFRAE

John Henry CLARKE: [Same Dr Clarke as Vol 2, p.212?]

*John Robertson DAY

*Charles Thomas KNOX-SHAW, surgeon: See Who Was Who [Broman treated by 11 year old son, 1896-98, and the surgeon himself, 1911]

*Byres MOIR: See Who Was Who [sent many patients to Broman 1895-1901; himself received treatment 1908-10.] See Attendance Book.

Edwin A. NEATBY

*Gerald SMITH, Surgeon. A letter from Smith shows that Broman conducted gymnastic classes for men at his gymnasium 1898 - presumably refers to the Institute for the Manual Treatment of Diseases, since his Central Institute did not come into existence until 1911.

*Thomas George STONHAM

Diploma from Central Institute of Gymnastics, Stockholm

1883 Assistant [in England?] to J.H. Kellgren (1837-1916), exponent of Ling system and pioneer of medical gymnastics

1884 Dec Established practice in London (this is the date of the first entry in his notebooks). This may have begun as a partnership since the first treatment [massage and exercises?] was given by J.H. Kellgren and his brother Arvid, while Broman interviewed and examined the patients. Subsequently Broman took over the treatment from the Kellgrens whose names disappear [except for references to 'old patients of Kellgren's]. Mrs Broman evidently also administered treatment, though she seems to have had her own clientele.

1886 Founded National Physical Recreation Society

1888 Founded his own 'medical institute' - not named by sources but Broman used paper headed 'Institute for the Manual Treatment of Diseases, 10 Southwick Place, Hyde Park, W' (see inserts in notebooks)

1888-93 Organising Master of Physical Exercises to London School Board. His Swedish system opposed first by Thomas Chesterton (Superintendent of Physical Exercises, who had his own system, more popular with teachers) and later by anti-militarist lobby.

1891 President, Swedish Gymnastics Association

1902-1903 Appointed to conduct first course at new Royal Navy gymnastics school of Portsmouth

1905 Founder member of 'Svenska Sjukgymnastiksällskapet Ling' (Swedish Ling School of Medical Gymnastics)

1911 Oct Founded Central Institute for Swedish Gymnastics for men students (Paddington Street, London) on lines of Stockholm Institute

1914 Central Institute became hospital. Broman engaged in recruit training for new armies.

c.1918 Central Institute purchased from Broman by London County Council for £18,000 and renamed L.C.C. College of Physical Education

Broman's daughter was Anna B. Broman MRCP,LRCP (1891-1962) also used the form of Swedish massage which Broman introduced to England, and published on the subject (Recreative Physical Training, n.d.). Her aunt was Madam Bergman Osterbury who ran a college at Dartford, Kent, which had a high reputation for its methods of physical training.

n.b. Portraits of Allan Broman and J.H. Kellgren are in A. Holmström's Svensk Gymastik 1904-1929, 1930

Publications

Physical Education in elementary schools. (Paper read at quarterly meeting of Swedish Gymnastics Association), London 1891

Physical Education in elementary schools II (Paper read before International Congress of Hygiene and Demography), London 1891

School Gymnastics on the Swedish System, London 1895 (3rd edition, London, 1902)

On Physical Education (Reproduced from Education), Boston, 1913

Physical Education (Reproduced from King Alfred School Magazine), London. 1914

A short Course of Physical Training for the Recruits of the New Armies, London, 1915

Rörelselära av Hjalmar Ling [Mechanics of Hjalmar Ling], Stockholm, 1949 [posthumous]

At Wellcome Collection:

MSS.5406-5409 and 7869-7872 comprise papers of [Jonas] Henrik Kellgren. Papers of Kellgren's son-in-law, Edgar Ferdinand Cyriax, also a practitioner of Swedish medical gymnastics, are held as MSS.2001-2025 and 6054-6060. MS.3348 comprises a work on Swedish medical gymnastics by Amalia Lundgren and MSS.5027-5028 works on the same subject by Anna Justina Augusta Wilson. All this material was acquired by the Wellcome Library with Edgar Cyriax’s papers.