Page 3 Advertisements Column 2

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 14 December 1901, Page 3

KOOLIBAH is used by all leading cyclists and athletes for sprains, muscle soreness, &c. XMAS, 1901. XMAS, 1901 LUEY, GEOK&CO, Fruiterers, Grocers, and Fancy Goods Dealers, IN THANKING the general public for the support accorded them in the past, announce that they hare received for the coming season a choice assortment of Toys, Fancy Goods and Silk . Handkerchiefs. Fresh Fruit by every Steamer, and delivered to any part of the town. LDEY, GEOK & GO,, Boundary Street, Grbyjiouth. GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE. ALL new Policy Holders paying their first annual premiums before the end of the year will receive two year’s bonuses in the next Division of Profits at the end of 1902. Half-yearly and quarterly policies will also receive bonuses in proportion. Reversionary Bonuses already granted to policy holders £1,630,000, exceeding the total amount of claims paid by the Department. J. H. RICHARDSON, Government Insurance Commissioner. n RAND ART UNION OP OIL OT PAINTINGS, from the brush of Mr G. H. Nelson. By permission of the Colonial Secretary. Tickets One Shilling. Ist Prize, Portrait (3ft x Ift) of the Right Hon R. J. Seddon, P. C., L. L. D. Valued £ls 15s. 2nd Prize, Lake Te Anau, valued £7 7s. 3rd Prize, Sophia, famous Maori guide £6 6s. 4th Prize, Maori and child, valued £5 3s. sth Prize, s. s. Monowai, valued £l4s. 6th Prize, s. s. Wamui, valued £3 3s. 7th Prize, Landscape, valued £2 2s. Pictures on view at Mr Schaef’s furniture warehouse, and also at J. ‘Williams, tailors establishment. To be drawn in January, 1902. TENDERS. TENDERS are invited for dismantling, removal, and re-erection of the ISLAND CREEK DREDGE MACHINERY and PONTOONS, complete on Ngakawau claim of this Company. Telegraphic tenders received up to the 21sj inst. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Particulars can be obtained from Mr Mackenzie, dredgemaster. E. M, BuULTON, Secretary, Stoney Creek G. D. Co, Ltd. Parish Street, Wellington. Prof. G. H. Raymond, On the Giving of a Death Certificate. No Government has any just right to legalise fraud and make criminals of honest men. An educatid Herbalist or or Botanic Physician—or any body else, for that matter—has as much right to give a Death Certificate, and to bo recognised by the State, as any Allopathic or Homoeopathic medical humbug. Indeed the mineral and deadly drug practitioners should bo the very last class of medical men to receive recognition from the Government, as the Allopathic and Homoeopathic systems are based upon no established principles, but are false in theory and destructive in practice. In fact the so-called “ duly qualified ” are WRONG all ROUND ; and to be wrong in the treatment of one class of diseases is to be wrong in the treatment of all: and mccUal men,'who have no proper or fixed method of treating disease in its acute forms, are not likely to succeed in its chronic stages. Medical men should, furthermore, bo licensed to cure, and not kill their fellows ; and no educated and genuine herb doctor was ever known to destroy anybody. The Botanic system admits no article to be employed as medicine that does not haimoniso with food ; consequently, it the patient sinks into the jaws of death, it is because there was not sufficient vitality left in the system to work upon, or it may be the result of lack of skill on the part of the attendant physician, who may have only been palming himself off as a genuine herbalist or herb doctor.

As to the Botanic Medical Colleges and their Graduates ; it is useless for botanic doctors to bring their diplomas to this country, while the mineral and deadly drug practitioners have a monopoly of Legal Status. Perhaps the lime is not far distant when the public will be able to dispense with both doctors and diplomas; but that never can be accomplished while the people remain in ignorance, and pettifogging politicians legislate solely in the interest of wealthy tyrants. An honest and humane Legislature should make it a criminal offence for any person to sell or prescribe deadly poisons as medicines for internal use ; and perhaps we would then cease to hear of thousands being hurried out of time, before the silver cord of life bad become fully extended, The present “Law” which gives the chemical doctors the sole power of giving a death certificate, enables them to organise conspiracies, and to concoct bogus postmortem schemes to get rid of their opponents; and I think the public should certainly demand the right to suffer and die under whom they like, without being compelled by Legislative Enactment to suffer and die under a system of licensed medical quackery. Peof. Raymond’s brains, education, ability, and experience give him a higher claim to the titular distinction of Doctor, than anything any so-called ‘regular’ medical graduate can produce in the British Empire, The public should certainly pay a little more attention to these important matters as it does not pay to bo ignorant on scientific or political questions now-a-days. Peof. Raymond’s next artice will be on “The Prejudice and Tyranny of Magistrates,’’ calling attention to his fighs with the “medical faculty” in Christchurch recently, in which the Magistrate persisted in giving a decision contrary to the letter of the law, and in defiance of the very morality of his exalted position. “Dr G. H, Raymond, Botanic Physician,’ 1 is not an infringement of the old obsolete Medical Act of 1869, as the phrase “Doctor,” is qualified by Botanic, and does not imply registration or legal qualification under the Act, as they don’t register herbalists or botanies, or grant any legil status to that class of medical practioners in this country, and never will, so long as pettifogging politicians protect the incomes, and legislate solely in the interest of the mineral and deadly drug colleges and their graduates. This musty old medical statme allows you to call yourself a doctor of herbs, or of herb medicine, or of magnetism, but you must not imply you are registered under the Act, and as the Professor has never been calling himself anything else but a herb doctor, he absolutely fails to see how his enemies can make out he was implying he was a “duly qualified medical man.” Moreover if the present law allows you to use physician or doctor after your name, I cannot soe what objection they can have to using it before it. The Professor is still in Hospital street, near Trinity I Church, Greymouth.