CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 107, 27 October 1877, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

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TO THE EDITbjR. Slß,— Mr Quackman still pursues hiß somewhat, novel kind of practice amongst the natives of Otaki, and oh Friday last a remarkably fine child, Kate XJtico, came to its end after four days' illness. Its body . was the same evening conveyed to its friends who reside near Foxtpn, which circumstance precluded an enquiry, as the police, who had intimation of the occurrence would have interfered. • - ; ■; - Quackery and popular delusion have their foundation m gross ignorance, " Poptitusinflt dedpi et decipiatur." " The" principles of Sangrado were suited to the times m which Sangrado flourished. All our sick died of malpractice as incurable. He seldom had to make three visits to one patient. At the second the patient was either at his last gasp or going to be" buried; and as I was a young physician, not inured to murder I begiin to be uneasy. Sir said I to Dr Sangrado, I ; take heaven to witness that I followed your method with exactness, yet' "every one Of : thy patients leaves me m the^lur^h". _ This very day I met two. goirig to their long* home. Why, truly, child, answefed he,l make the same observation; I hate not /rften the satisfaction of curing, and if I was not so swre of the prineijiles fin which I proceed I should think iriy remedies pernicious." Lb Sags.