MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1247, 22 January 1886, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

An action of interest to medical practitioners was brought in London before Mr Justice Day and a common jury, states the ‘ Standard ’ of November 27. The action was for alleged libel and slander. The plaintiff, named Tally, who had been a pupil in a hospital at Adelaide. Australia, came to England in 1873, and had been assistant to a medical practitioner at Poplar. The defendant, Macgill, was a medical man in the same 'neighborhood, and he had issued a circular imputing to the plaintiff that he was carrying on the profession of a medical man and suigeon although Utterly unqualified, and that he had no license in midwifery. He had also written a letter to the plaintiffs employer, saying that he was about- to make known to the Medical Council that this gentleman was debasing his profession by lending his name as a c'oak to the plaintiff. The Tetter was written to the Medical Council, but no action had been taken upon it. The alleged slander was a statement said to have been made to one of plaintiffs patients. The plaintiff admitted that he had no medical or surgical diploma, but he submitted that the circular was libellous, as it imputed that he was not qualified to act in midwifery eases, while in such cases no legal qualification was necessary. For the defence the circular, was justified, on the ground that the plaintiff had been fined under the Apothecaries Act for an offence under the statute. As to the letter, it was said it was privileged, as it was for the public benefit that the defendant should act as he did. The slander was denied. The jury gave a verdict for plaintiff for L 250. Paoe Woodcock’s Wind Pills, yjars, the popular and favourite medicine for the cure of wind on the stomach, in. digestion, biliousness, liver complaints, &cThey are certain and mild in their action and are taken by young and old by equal qenefit. Of all chemists at la lid, 2s 9d, 4s fid ; family boxes; Us. Proprietor Page D. Woodcock, Lincoln, England.

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