WANTED TO BE FREE

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1933, Page 3

WANTED TO BE FREE

BRITISH' DOCTOjX’S RESIGNATION. i . - ■ .V . ■■■ :•* LONDON, January >• The ‘‘Daily Express” reveals .'the rha-.' sons for-, the, request of S'r V* llliaxil Arbttthnot ; 'Lane, the. eminent surgeon, that his .name bo removed from the ■Medical -'Register. ’ yir William was at. the time on the high .£oafe, returning to England from a voyage to South America.’ In a wireless message lu' said: “Being firmly eonvmeted that, by prevention alone, d,senses peculiar to civilisation can he avoided,' I am determined, to be free from" tli e resJnetJOiia imposed'by the General Medical Council. “1 am hoping thus lo be more able to help in educating the public in the knowledge of the lmvs of health. li these diseases never affect healthy tissues it is obviou» that the only, means of avoiding them is by keeping the body in a state of health. No other way has ever been suggested. “These are my reasons , for liaving my name removed from the register.” Thus ends the speculation among members of the medical profession and others who had been mygEified by S>r •William Anbuthuot Lane’s sensational request, made, formally, on tlig ground that he had ceased to practise. Sir William was not represented tvhen his application came before the council, and, without comment, tli& . assembly granted it. At a stroke of the pen be was no longer a registered medical practitioner and became a fre L , lamA in the medical world—beyond the judicial""powers, of the General Medical Council.