MEDICAL CORONERS.

Evening Star, Issue 4054, 23 February 1876, Page 3

MEDICAL CORONERS.

To the Editor. Sib,—My connection and acquaintance with the medical world, although not of the profession myself, warrants my repudiation of the remarks of such as “Not a Coroner.” Surely it is not necessary for me to say "hat the public have an everlasting boon amnrded them by the circumstances of ‘ Such not being a Coroner. A bright spark will brighten ideas of human philosophy! there ora black spots in every character whether private or public, and I have but to refer my friend to the fact that a better man than hj mself has *aid “ Who shall decide when doctois disagree ?” And dr still better individual has pronounced that “ all men are liars,” Consequently, we do away with hia sneering Sarcasm when “ Coroner ’ says of doctors that they are untruthful. L.t me remark it is not always expedient for a medical mam to speak the exact truth. For instance, sup.mae Coroner reaches his (medico’s) house 11,3 ) o.m M and makes inquiries as to whether he is servant, well versed in the private politics of the doctor, says “he has jus: .-one out,” and either suggests “ Coroner’s” waiting until his return or asks him to seek the doctor at ome ext erne part of the town knowing full well by “OoronerV’ impatience’ which brooks no delay, that he will either leave his message to be conveyed after his departure if it is of “ any consequence” or go and consult some other medico whom he has no confidence in. The sum total of this is that a good doctor who is independent and who can rely up~n the tactics of his maid, goes to bed and leaves her to attend and argue the roint with such as “Coroner.”

So much for “Coroner’s” untruthfulness. Now sp?akmg of a coroner being a medical man, it is 1 sav the most essential part of a country’s ju ? isdiction to have ours as such, simply because the cases of poison he has at his finger’s end, what would undoubtedly be wanting in a man who was not a medico, but the example such as Coroner uses as a "public illustration ” vc shanty is again a matter worthy of him and his antecedents. Speaking from an experience (a knowledge of the medical lives of a grandfather father, and three brothers) there is no profession m which "liberality,” "nobility,” and „ benevolence are so thoroughly distilled. If , wl . she ? t0 g et at a fact he should not try to daub with a tar-brush the intricate criminateV p fe l tlire by blackle p«g indie- £ r ' m “J ate y 6O humane a nee as doctors. He when he tries to say that men shnnld° be u pub u c men * and 88 Public SSn 2 loT^they Dunodin, February 22. H. J. 0.