WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

Manawatu Herald, 16 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 < »nslow. The particular cause of the Journal's wrath is that our late Governor has absolutely dared to testify to the value of remedies whose composition is not detailed in the British Parmacopoeia. The wrath is x 3ed as follows :— We see with e Lord Unslow 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." I'oor Lord Onslow 1 The dyspeptic diatribe above quoted owes its existence, no doubt, to the faot that Lord Onslow, having found virtue in some of the Maori herbal remedies prepared by Mother Aubert, actually had ihe courage to say so in print. Why the British Medical Journal should deem such testimony it 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 ogposed 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 medioal science has been bitterly attacked as •• as quackery " when it appeared, every new thinker denounced as a madman or worse, and every formula not hall-marked by the t: Lancet " and " British Medi* cal 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 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.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, otheiwise he would never have penned bo spiteful a paragraph. A6, however, the "Maori Bemedies "—>• quack and secret " though they be — are reported to be selling like the proverbial %< hot cakes," neither Mother Aubert nor Me Kempthome is likely to trouble about the wrath of the " British Medioal Journal." As for Lord Onslow, he is at Home, and con fight his own battle.— 1 ' Scrutator," in the " New Zealand Mail."