WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

Manawatu Herald, 6 August 1892, Page 4

WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

TYPOGBAPHICAL TESTIMONY. THE EDITORS FOU ONCE AGBBE. Kbw Zealand Times, May 14, 1892. The British Medical Journal is very angry with Lord < inslow. The particular cause of the Journ >l's wrath is that our lute Governor has absolutely dared to testify to the value of remedies whose composition is not de'ailetl in the British Parmacopceia The wrath is expressed ns follows :— We see with egret Lori Uns'ow shamelessly p rikd quack secret remedies by «n a vertised letter— as scandalous an almae of political position and as discreditable a folly a3 has been for a long time under notice." I'oor Lord Onslow ! The dyspeptic diatribe above quoted owes its existence, no doubt, to tlie fact Lhnt 1 ord Onslow, having found virtue in some of the Maori herbal | remedies prepared by Mother Aubert, actually had the courage to si y *o in print. Why the British Medical Journal should deem such testimony a high offence, and, judgiug by the strength of the language it uses, an . almost criminal disdemeanour, I : totally fail tc ai-e, save that^ the average medical mind is fanatically ogposed to any medical innovation which does not proceed from recog- { uited red taped sources. i Twas ever thus with the medicos. ( Almost every new advance in de in . medical science has been bitterly at- ! tacked as '• as qiiackory " when it appeared, every new thinker de- ' ncunced as a madman or worse, and every formula nut hall-marked by , the (: Lancet " and " British Medical Journal ! ' as a dangerous inova- ' tion. Personally, while not having the pleasure of a personal acqunin- ■ tance with either Mother Aubert or Mr Kempthorne, I can sympathise , with them and Lord Onslow in seeing the Maori Remedies de* nounced as " 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.MJ. He appears to need it sadly, for the common and domestic and >( recog' nised" podophyllin has evidently been of no service to him, otheiwise he would never have penned go spiteful a paw graph. As, however, tho " Maori Kemedioa "~ •" quauk and secret " though they be— are reported to be sellin-,' like the proverbial " hot cakes," neither Mother Aubert nor Mi* Kompthome is likely to trouble about the wrath of the " British Medical Journal," As for Lord Onslow, he is at Hom Q , and con fight his own battle. " Scrutator," in the " New Zealand Mail."