MEAT-EATING.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1925, Page 4

MEAT-EATING.

EA F-W lI.M'-YOF LIKE. T.i >NDn\. .Jitn • Ihi - i- llic Ja-i day of the lisit of the Slid A lucrii a n doctors to Loudon. To-morrow they will visit hospitals in various part- of Britain lielore leaving ' for the Continent, where tlu-v will see the best-known medical schools in France, Germany, Austria, and Switz--1 erlaiiil. I Before I bey leave London the tlele--1 gates will go in a body to lay a wreath - at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, another ' at the grave of the Unknown Warrioi - in Westminster Abbey, and a third at s the Abraham Lincoln statue at West 1 minster. THE DRUG ILLUSION, [’residing at a luncheon to the Aiiicr- •' icon doctors at the llyilo I’ark Hotel. Knightsbridge, yesterday. Sir ArbutliI not Lane, referred to the work done during Lhc war by General Sir Alfred 1 Keogh as Director-General of the Army - Medical Service, lie added: - He came nut of the w ar with enhanced s honour and dignity, but he received in reward, no distinction, no remunora- , tion of any kind. It is always tho wav 1 with the medical profession. They' do their work nobly; they do not expect, recompense and they do not .get it. (Laughter.) Dr Wood Hutchison, responding to l the toast, said : . We are getting rid of the drug illusion. We are willing even to subscribe i to the dictum of Oliver Wendell £ Holmes, that if 99 per cent, of all the < drugs we possess were thrown into the - sea it would be a good tiling for the 1 human race hut rather hard on tho - fishes. 1 He ridiculed the dietary of the fad- ? (lists who banned meat. The most important single factor in a commonsense diet was meat and lots of it. It was the best food ever invented ! and the instincts which prompted > people to eat it were sound and good. There was not a particle of evidence in • support of the old nonsense about meat being bad for the kidneys and lor sufferers from gout. -Meat-eating races like the New Zealand, Australian and Canadian had the lowest death-rate in the world. Vegetables, of course, should figure in a (•oiiiiiiuii-seiise diet. A doctor should question his patient just long enough to find out what lie liked to eat, and then lie should give it to him. People who lived on a diet mainly composed of cereals had just about the same resisting power to disease as cows and rabbits. Children wanted not bread and butter. but butter and bread, and the most intelligent of them would lick the lint ter off the bread. DOCTORS AND THE PRESS. Sir Arbuthnot Lane, replying to a toast of his health, iommented on the fact that in America doctors could write freely in the newspapers and ediiiato the public, wherea-in England it a doctor wrote p> the newspapers some branch ot what was called the Ethical .Medical Committee was down upon him. at once. j Doctors should insist that the men who could speak best about health should be allowed to do so without receiving insulting letters from the Ethical Medical Committee. That was a self-constituted body which had no business to exist, and

yet on the slightest pretence it wrote j to him rude niitl insulting letters, let- ! tors which were in no way tbserml. j The position whs perfectly nlr-unl.