WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

Manawatu Herald, 13 August 1892, Page 4

WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

TYPOGEAPHICAL 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 Journal's wrath is that our late Governor has nbsolutely dared to teafciiy to the value of remedies whose composition is not de'ailed in the British FarmaI copceia The wrath is ex 3ed as follows :— We see with c Lord uns'ow shamelessly p in" quack secret remedies by an a vertised letter— as scandalous an abuse of political position and as discreditable a folly as has been for a long time under notice." Poor Lord Onslow ! The dyspeptic diatribe above quoted owes its exis'teuca, no doubt, to the faot that Lord Onslow, having found virtue in some of the Maori herbal remedies prepared by Mother Hubert, actually had the courage to say so in print. Why the British Medical Journal should deem such testimony ti high offence, and, judging by the strength of the language it uses, an almost criminal disdemeanour, I totally fail tc see, save that the average medical mind is fanatically ogpoged to any medical innovation which does 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 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 Aubert or Mr Kempthorne, I can sympathise with them and Lord Onslow in seeing the Maori Eemedies de* nounoed 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.M.J. He appears to need it sadly, for the oommon and domestic and •' reoog* nised" podophyllin has evidently been of no service to himi otherwise he would never have penned so spiteful a paragraph. As, however, the "Maori Remedies "—•" quack and secret " though they be— are reported to be selling like the proverbial " hot cakes," neither Mother Aubert nor Mr Kempthorne is likely I to trouble about the wrath of the " British Medical Journal." As for Lord Onslow, he is at Home, and con fight his own battle.— '* Scrutator," in the " New Zealand Mail."