PARAMO AND THE MEDICOS.

Manawatu Herald, 22 September 1892, Page 4

PARAMO AND THE MEDICOS.

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 < mslow. The particular ca'ise of the Journal's wrath is that our late Governor has absolutely dared to testify to the value of remedies whose composition it) not del ailed in the British Parmacopceia. The wrath is expressed as follows : — Wo see with regret Lord unslow shamelessly puffiing quack secret remedies by an advertised letter — as scandalous an abuse of political position and as discreditab'e a folly a3 has been for a long time under notice." i'oor Lord Onslow ! The dyspeptic diatribe above quoted owes its exibteuce, no doubt, to the fact ihut Lord Onslow, having found virtne in some of the Maori herbal remedies prepared by Mother Aubert, actually had the courage to say so in print. Why the British Medical Journal should deem such testimony v. high offence, and, judging by the strength of the language it uses, an almost criminal disdemeanour, I totally fail tc s^e, 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 d in medical science has been bitterly attacked as •• as qnackfiry " when it appeared, every new thinker denounced as a madman or worse, and every formula not hail-marked by the ll 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 seeiug 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 " lor 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 nnd •' recog* nised" podophyllin has evidently been of no service to him, otheiwise he would never have penned so spiteful a paragraph, As, however, tho "Maori Remedies "— ••' quack and secret " though tliey be— are reported to be selling like the pro» verbial • hot cakes," neither Mother Aubert nor Mr Kempthorne is likely to trouble about the wrath of the " British Medical Journal." As for Lord <'nslow, he is at Home, and con fight his own battle. *' Scrutai tor," in the " New Z aland Mail." ' Waibabapa .^tab., May 3. 1802-Oonoentx-ated sunshine is acknow- , ledged to be Nature's great remedy | for ail the ills that human flesh is heir to. In no part of the world is the remedy, in rays pure and serene, more freely lavished than in New Zealand. The sunshine, piayiug on ti clear and sa'ubrioua . tmospb^re, has left its impression on the fauna j and flora of the colony. The extinct inoa. the wondrons coal deposits, proclaim the natural wealth of old New Zealand. The muscular Maori and the splendid forests survive. From these forests Mother Mary Aubert has compounded several important remedies, and we recommend the announcements elsewhere to the perusal, not simply of sick, but of those in health. "A stitch in time saves nine " applies to the healing art more than to leas important matters. Mother Mary Aubert's New Zealand Remedies are preventive as well as curative. When the first symptoms of sickness appear their power, in cutting short the attack by rousing dormant organs and funotions to activity, is said to be rerr ark able. Insidious ailments resemble the buglar, but these remedies promptly applied give the alarm and make him decamp. There ia no quackery about them, they are not foreign compounds of which people know nothing and which may be pernicious, but they are the pure products of Now Zealand sunshine distilled through the vegetable kingdom. Better than al, their character has been proved, for they have been well tested, and the best proof of their merits is that their sale is rapidly mc; easing. Weekly Hebald, April, 30, 1892. A southern paper says :— '• What with Marupa, Karana, Paramo, Natanata and cold weather, typhoid fever htiß been driven frum the city of Wellington, and the place is now as healthy as any town in New Zealand. No small share of the credit is due to the Rev. Mother Mary Joseph Aubert for the pr duction of I her unrivaikd remedies "' And as far as we are personally concerned we must say that, when any one of our staff is afllected, uo matter from what cause, even alcoholic poisoning, we poor into him a bottle of Marupa when restoration to a normrl condition takes place at once.