WHAT THE PEESS SAYS.

Manawatu Herald, 2 August 1892, Page 4

WHAT THE PEESS SAYS.

TYPOGRAPHICAL TESTIMONY. THE EDITORS FOR ONOS AGBEE. New Zealand Times, May 14, 1892. The British Medical Journal is vsry angry with Lord Onslow. The particular cause of the JourniPs wrnth is that bur late Governor has Hbsolutely dared to testify to the value of remedies whose composition is not defaitoriin the British Parmacopoeia. „T;he wrath is expres?ed ns follows :— We see with regret Lord Onslow shamelessly puffins: quack secret remedies by an advertised letter— as scandalous an ahuse of political position and as discreditable a folly a 9 has been for a Ion? time under notice." f*oor Lord Onslow ! The dyspepqo diatribe above quoted owes its esistflnca, no doubt, to the fact thnt Lord Onslow, having found virtue in sOme of the Maori herbal remedies prepared by Mother Aubert, actualK had the courage to sny ><» in print. Why the British Melical Journal should deem such testimony si high offence, and, judging by the strength of the language it uses, an almost criminal di?demeanour, I totally fail 1 tc s'-e, snve that the average medical mind is fanatically ogposgcl to any medical innovation which doefl not proceed from recognised red taped sources. Twas : eve* thus with the medicos. Almost every new advance .made in medical science has been bitterly attaoked as 4 "as quackory " when it appeared, every new thinker denounced as a madman or worse, and every formula not hall-marked by the " Lancet " and " British Medical Journal " as a dangerous inova* tion. Personally, while not having the pleasure of a personal acqunintance with either Mother Auberfc or Mr Kempthorne, I can sympathise with tbem and Lord Onslow in seeing the Maori Remedies de« nouncedas " quack secret remedies." Only one of those same "quack remedies" do I know, and that " Karana " to wit, which, as a "real good thing " tor a man with a liver, I would cordially recommend to the editor of the B.M.J. He appears to need it sadly, for the common and domestic and *' recog* nißed" podophylli'i has evidently been of no service to him, otherwise he would never have penned so spiteful a paragraph. As, however, the "Maori Remedies "—•" quack aud secret " though they be —are reported to be selling like the proverbial "' hot cakes," neither Mother Aubert nor Mr Korapthorne is likely to trouble about the wrath of the li British Medical Journal." As for Lord Onslow, he is at H'->ms, and con fight his own battle. - " Scrutator," in the " New Zealand Mail,"