“BULLETIN” SUED
DOCTOR’S ACTION FOR LIBEL £250 DAMAGES AWARDED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) SYDNEY, Wednesday. The treatment known as twilight sleep was at issue in an action for alleged libel brought by Dr.' George Stanly Thompson against the Bulletin Newspaper Company, Limited. Plaintiff claimed that defendants adversely commented upon the twilight sleep treatment on March 6 in the issue of the Woman’s Mirror published by them. The inference was, said plaintiff, that he had lent himself to a medical imposture and to quackery. Evidence was given by one of plaintiff’s medical witnesses that he had used the twilight sleep treatment in 50 or 60 cases in the past year and had no bad results either to mothers or to babies. However, it was essential that the treatment should be in skilled hands, otherwise it was dangerous. Women patients gave evidence in favour of the treatment. For the defence it was claimed that the treatment was not favourably regarded by medical men in other countries. The jury found for plaintiff and awarded him £250 damages. A stay of proceedings was granted.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 624, 28 March 1929, Page 11
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