WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

Manawatu Herald, 4 August 1892, Page 4

WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

TYPOGBAPHICAL TESTIMONY. THE EDITORS FOR ONCE AGBEE. New Zealand Times, May 14, 1892. The British Medical Journal is v=ry angry with Lord i 'nslow. The particular cause of the Jourml's wrath is that our lnte Governor has nbsolutoly daved to testify tp the valne of remedies whose composition is not de' ailed in the British Parmacopoeia The wrath is expressed ns follows:— We see with regrat Lori nns'ow shamelessly putnuc: quack secret remedies by an advertised, letter— as scnndalous an abuse of political position and as discreditable a folly a3 has been for a long time nnder notice." I'oor Lord Onslow ! The dyspeptic diatribe above quoted owes its exis'teuca, no doubt, to tlie fact that 1 ord Onslow, having found , virtue in some of the Maori herbal remedies prepared by Mother Hubert, actualK had the courage to siy -<• j in print. Wtoy the British Medical ' Journu ! should de?m such testimony n high offence, and, judging by the strength of the language it u-es, an almost criminal di^domeanour, I totally fail tr s^-e, snve that the average medical mind is fanatically ogposed to any medical innovation whiob does not prooeed from recognived red taped sources. Twas ever thus with the medicos. Almost every n«w advance made in medical science has been bitterly attacked as •• as quack ory " when it appeared, every new thinker denounced as a madman or worse, and every formula not hail-markod by the ' : Lancet" and " British Medical Journal " as a dangerous inpvation. Personally, while not havrug; the pleasure of a personal acquniutance with either Mother Aubert or Mr Kempthorne, I can sympathise with them and Lord Onslow in seeing the Maori "Remedies _ de« nounced as " quack seoret remedies." Only one of those same " quick remedies " do I know, and that "Karnna" 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 ana *' recognised" podophylliu has evidently been of no service to him, otherwise he would never havo penned so spiteful a paragraph. As however, the "Maori Kennedies "-•" quack and secret" though they he— are rpported to be selling like tho pro* verbial ' hot <akes," neither Mothet Atiliert nor Mr -K'.- in p thorn o is likely to trouble about the wrath of the " British Medical Joupunl." As for Lord « 'nslow, he is at H-imf, and con fight his own battle. - 4< Scrutator," in the " New Z -aland Mail."