MEDICAL CORONERS.

Evening Star, Issue 4053, 22 February 1876, Page 3

MEDICAL CORONERS.

To the Editor. Sib, —Be it known to all the world that “liberality,” “nobility,” and benevolence are not characteristics of the medical profession, nor is even troth engraven on its escutcheon. Its p-pfessors are without are without agree* ment la their opinions, and without principles in theit practice. “If five of their number can be got to swear to white five more can be i jot to swear to black.” How much they differ herein from other professions —pol.ticians, for instance—the public can judge. The conclusion is that medical professors are the greatest blockheads or the most untruthful persons on the face of the earth. They should no onger be allowed to act as corpners- not even in an inquiry on the burning of a shanty. What a dreadful thing it would be supposing, for instance, that an ex-M.H R. should suddenly “shuffle off this mortal coil,” and one of those medico coroners should direct the jury that the said M.H.B. had died of chagrin because he had been deprived- of the means of carrying a pet Bill—a Bill that would deprive those medicos from sitting in judgment on the ashes of a shanty or on the defunct remains of a disappoint’d politician. This state of things-that is as they now exist—must not be allowed to remain. The next op rang in Parliament must be filled by your corespondent “Neiiher Tobyats Nor b'aadallots ” Many thanks are due to him for this timely exposure. I am sure the public—espe ially the sick publicmust Lei very grateful for the manner in which he has unmasked those medicos. I sincerely hone that “Neither TobyassJS’or Sandallots” will give us the pleasure that would arise from a perusal of his “Pro cu-ra-tor-fis-cal-ism ” Oh give us this “remedy.” “We did intend to advocate ” “ Who are we ?” I have a shrewd guess that “ we” is the man that would like to wear the coroner’s shoes. —I am, &c., Not a Coboner. Dunedin, February 21.‘