WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

Manawatu Herald, 11 August 1892, Page 4

WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

I TYPOGBA.PHICAL TESTIMONY. TOE EDITORS FOR ONOE AGREE. New Zealand Times, May 14, 1892. The Briti.-h Medical Journal is vrv angry with Lord 1 'nslow. The particular ca'ise of the Journ il's wrath is that our lute Governor hns nhso'tituly daved to testify to UKvalue of remedies whose composition is nnt do ailed in the British i?avmacofohii .'J'he wi'ath is etp ?ed us follows : — We see wit'i eg res L-n- . i 'us ow shameles-ly p tea cfuac!? seciet remedies by tin a vertised letter— as scnndalous an aliuee of political position andasdiscreditab'e a folly a3 hns been for a long time under notice." l'oor Lord Onslow ! 'llje (Ivbi optio dintvibe above quoted ow«-8 \U exiftonc-J, no doubt, to tiufact lint i ovd Onslow, having found virtue in some of the Maori herbal remi dn s prepared hy Mother Aubert, nctunlU hnd the cunrn^e to sty «• in print. Wliy tlio Uriiisb Me«licai Jonrin should do' m sui-h tostimouy :i high i.ffviicu, mid, judging by the strength of lie language it usoa, an almost er'uuinal di-demeauour, I totally fnil tr s- e, s.ve that the nverng'» medical mind is fanatically ogpoeeil to any medical innovation which does not proceed from recognised r.d 1 aped sources. Twas over thus with the medicos. Almost every nnw advance m de in mcdicitl t-cienoe has bopn h tter'.y attacked as •• as qnackory " when it appeared, eveiy new thinker denounced as a nnulman or worse and every f vinula n»fc ha 1-markcd by the mici " Mritish Medical Journal " as a dangerous inovation. rersiiinilly, while not having the ) lea ure of a personal acqunin-tnm-e with either Mother Aubort or Mi- ICempthovne, I can sympathise with them aud Lord Onslow in seeing the Maori Remedies de« nonnced as " quack secret remedies." Only one of those same " qunck remedies " do I know, and that "Karana" to wit, which, as a " real good thing " tor a mau 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 •' recognised" podophylliu has evidently been of no service to him, otheiwise he would npver havo panned so spiteful a paragraph. As, however, the «• Maori Heroedioa "-■ ll quack and secret " though they bo— are reported to bo &ellin«4 like tho pro. verbial •' hot <nkes," neither Mother Anliert nor Mr Kempthnrno is likoy to trouble about the wrath of the " British Medical Jounml." Ar f>r Lord <'n-«!ow, he is at Humt 1 , ami con fight his own battle. ''Scrutator," in the " New Z aland Mail."