DEATH OF A CHILD
TREATED BY HERBALIST FORMER SCHOOL-TEACHER Press Association. GISBORNE, Thursday. The coroner held an inquest as to the death of a Maori child, aged three, who caught a severe cold, and was brought by the parents from the country to a herbalist, who prescribed two bottles of cough mixture* the medicine proving ineffective. Claude Edwin Bolton stated that he was a retired schoolmaster, and carried on business as a herbalist. The parents brought the child to him on Monday, suffering from a bad cough. Witness prescribed a mixture of paregoric peppermint, aniseed oil, and honey, and also fluid methylated spirit and water, coloured with burnt sugar, to open the pores. He never pressed for payment, but if the Maoris liked to give him anything he allowed them to do so. Witness said he stu lied medicine about 60 years ago, and had been prescribing medicine for th*-* Maoris since IS6S. Dr. Rice stated that the post-mortem revealed the child’s general condition to be poor. Signs of pleurisy of several days’ duration were present. Thx. medicine given would have a slight effect. The coroner returned a verdict that the child died of bronchitis and pneumonia, following on pip-iitim
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 73, 17 June 1927, Page 13
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