THE LATE INQUEST.

Evening Star, Issue 2954, 7 August 1872, Page 3

THE LATE INQUEST.

To the Editor,

Sir, —It is with reluctance that I again recur to this subject; but the tone of Dr. Docking’s letter compels me, for the sake of truth, to give it answer. On two points only I will briefly touch. First, with reference to my wife, he charges her with prejudice This imputation my wife, through me, denies ; nor is prejudice apparent in her evidence. Then his statement, th.at the poverty of the deceased precluded her from having a nurse is a misstatement : because, though her means were limited, yet, by the means of myself and her friends, a nurse could have been kept, were it not for the Doctor’s repeated assurances that her complaint would be of short duration and the nature of the case did not warrant the expense. So much then for the absolute judgment of the “champion of homoeopathy,” as witness the sequel of eight months’ protracted illness and a painful death, preceded by the exclamation, “ He has killed me.” Nothing more is needed from me in explanation, and I leave the whole matter with the fullest confidence in the hands of the public.—l am, &c., J. Bowers, Dunedin, August 6.