WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

Manawatu Herald, 9 August 1892, Page 4

WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

TYPOGBAPHICAL TESTIMONY. THE EDITORS FOR ONCE AGREE. New Zealand Times, May 14, 1892. The British Medical Journal is very angry with Lord Onslow. The particular cause of the Journnl's wrath is that our hue Governor has absolutely dared to testify to the value of remedies whose composition is not de'ailed in the British Pavmacopoeia. The wrath is expressed as follows :— We see with egfet Lord Onslow shamelessly prmu quack secret remedies by an a vertised letter— as scandalous an abuse of political position and as discreditable 1 a folly as line been for a long time under notice." i'oor Lord Onslow ! The dyspeptic diatribe above quoted owes itn exihtenca, no doubt, to the fact that 1 ord Onslow, having found virtue in some of the Maori herbal remedies prepared by Mother Aubert, : actualh had the courage to say i-o in print. Why the British Medical \ Journal should deom such testimony :i high offence, and, judging by the > strength of the language it uses, an \ almost criminal disdemeanour, I totally fail ie s»e, save, that the average medical mind is fanatically ogposed to any medical innovation which doe's not proceed from recognised red taped sources. > Twas ever thus with the medicos. Almost every new advance m de in medical science has been bitterly attacked as ••■ as quackery " when it appeared, every new thinker den'cunced as a madman or worse, and every formula not hall-marked by the " Lancet " and " British Medi* cal 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 Bemedies 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 " lor 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* nised" podophyllin has evidently been of no service to him, otherwise he would never have penned so spiteful a paragraph. As, however, the "Maori Remedios "—•" quack and secret " though they be— are reported to be selling like the proverbial " hot oakes," neither Mother Aubert nor Mr Kempthorne is likely to trouble about the wrath of the 11 British Medical Journal," As for Lord Onslow, he is at Home, and con fight his own battle, - l< Scrutator," in the " New Zeala-ml Mail."