THE QUACK.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 437, 19 September 1908, Page 4

THE QUACK.

Severe Comments by a Judge

Sydnky, September 15. Mr. Justice Cohen, in the Supreme Court, .summing up iu an action tor damages for alleged wrongful treatment brought by a farmer against a Medical Institute, made use of some strong remarks. He said: “There are occasions when public interest, however strong the desire of the Judge to preserve his mind utterly undisturbed may be, demands that he should give fair and full expression to his feelings. This is an occasion when the public interest calls fora frank, outspoken expression of opinion upon the methods adopted at this Institute by those concerned iu its management. For cruel, cunning, unmeasured audacity and hypocritical pretence, I doubt whether the annals of the Court of this State disclose a case to which the application ot these epithets could be more justly applied. It is a strong illustration of man’s inhumanity to man and shows how crafty, cunnir g and designing men, in the haste and hunger for money, can set at naught the feelings and sufferings of their iellow men, no matter what sacrifice may be involved in their machinations. The circumstances of this case show to us humanity in one of its worst forms. The whole atmosphere of the Institution reeks with wickedness and it is only men with callous dispositions, with hearts of stone, steeled perhaps, by hunger for money, who can trade upon the credulity of their fellow men as the proprietors of this institution have preyed upon their fellow men.’’