WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

Manawatu Herald, 18 August 1892, Page 4

WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.

TYPOGKAPHICAL TESTIMONY. THE EDITORS FOR ONOE A^KEE. New Zealand Times, May 14, 1892. The British Medical Journal is very angi 1 ? with Lord t »nslow. The particular ea-tfe of the Joiirnil's wrath is that our late Governor has absolutely dared to testify W the value of remedies whose composition is not do: ailed in the British JParmacopceia The wrath is x =ed as follows:— Wo see with 3 Ii«r;.l Uns'ow shamelessly p tft. quack secret remedies by an advertised 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 ! The dyspeptic diatribe abore quoted owes its exis'teuca, no doubt, to the fact that lord Onslow, having found virtue in some of the Maori herbal remedies prepared by Mother Hubert, ! actually had the courage to say .-o in print. Why the British Medical i Journal should deom such testimony ii high offence, and, judging by the ! strength of the language it uses, an , almost criminal disdemeanonr, I totally fail tc see, save that the average medical mi)id 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 medical science has been bitterly attacked as •• as quackery " when it appeared, every new thinker dencunced as a madman or worse, and every formula not hall-marked by the " Lancet " and " British Medical Journal " as a dangerous inovation. 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« j nounced as " quack secret remedies." Only one of those same " quack remedies " do I know, and that " Karana " to wit, which, as a 1 "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, oth.er.wise he would never have penned so spiteful a paragraph. As, however, the (l Maori Eemedios "— •" quack i aud secret " though they be— are reported to be selling like the proverbial " hot cakes," neither Mother Aubert nor Mr Kempthome 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."