THE CANADIAN DOCTORS. (From " Auckland Star.")

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 275, 23 June 1888, Page 4

THE CANADIAN DOCTORS. (From " Auckland Star.")

(Xne 01 two corres pon den ts have written in quiring why wo do not notice the daily proceedings at the Golden Chariot, and asking our opinion on tho curesalleged to have been eflbctod. The reply to the first question is very simple. Aucklandcrs have so olten in times pust been victimised by travelling quacks, that the press would bo highly culpable Aveie it bo lend ibs influence to any professor of healing whoso credentials and alleged cures it had not thoroughly examined. Wo have, therefore, quietly waited to sue more of tho matured results of tho operations of Mr and Madame Dullot before expressing any opinion. The manner in which they pioclaim their mission leaves nothing to be desired in the way of publicity, and the gaping crowds who assemble day after day on the loolamation is s.utu'oient testimony to the man el-loving propensity that. «appe.us to be latent in tlic minds ot the multitude even in this dry matter-ot-fact age. Coming to our eorrcsponuunt's second question, the iCMtlts ol inquiry and obser- , vation lend us Lo torm the following conclusion^. There appears, in the fust place, no icason to doubt tho great expertucss oi !Mr and Madame Dullot in the extrae- ! tion of teeth, and the majority of persons i operated upon who have been questioned agree in stating that the teeth are drawn with such rapidity that therein noeonscious-ue.-s of pain. Anothoi class or operation in which they seem to have been successful in Auckland is the removal ot tumours from the scalp which i.s not considered a very dilheult surgical operation. And a Mr Ku bio rostauiant keeper, has called at our ollice and stated that Ik- lias been cuied ot dcatne^, apparently by the removal of some obst motive matter troin the eais. Mepoits of cuies of a more marvellous natuic are cuuent, bat we have failed to authenticate them. In our mind, moreover, such claims as aic alleged in the handbills widely circulated ot '"cancei and epileptic tits" ot many years standing being cuied in a few minutes on the ({olden Chaiiot, spinal disease of twenty yeaia'st.mding being cured in twenty minute-sand so ioith, are so totally opposed not merely to medical and physiological science, but to common-sorino that the mere statement of such prepo.->tcious claims is sullioient to condemn them. \nyone pos^e^siii(^[,uchmar\ ellou-? powers w ould not be paiadmg thcaticet- ol a small colonial town with a band in " a golden chaiiot' 1 while ompciois t ued\ing and millionaiie^ are languishing fioin disease icady to give half their foi tunes m exchange for their ebbing lives. Chronic p.ttienfcs, liowevcr, aie ever on the alert; foi any new nostium to caso their j)ain > -, and hem c Uio sale ot paient medicines goe^ on merrily o\er every chemist's counter and from the '' (loldcn Chariot," and will no doubt do so to the end of the ehaptci.

MX AND MADAM K DUbLOT LXTERVIEWKI). A Stwi reporter waited upon the heroes ot the (.olden Chaiiot :it the Star Hotel and elicited the following information with u'Hiii'd to thcii caioer — Madame Duflot it appeal.-, .-piing-hom a medical family. [for maiden name is Josephine Cariboni, and .-he was born at (Quebec, her mother being a Inoncb Canadian and her lather an .Italian doctoi who.se hendquarteis were at Rome, but who u-sGd to make periodical e\cmsions through the country in much the manner ab his daughter now Louis the woild. Signorina Cariboni graduated at the University of Bruges in Belgium aiDoctor of Dental Suigery. At the ago of 16, .she was married at Brussels to Or. E-mault, a French physician, with whom -he continued, at inteivaks, her professional toui.s. In 1878, Dr. Renault died, and in the following year his widow was mariied to liei present husband, Mi I'aul Duilot, who hold. 1 - the diploma of Doetoi of Dental Singeiy trom the I nnei.-it} oi Binge-, and a dipl"ma of Doetoi ot (Xulai Mugeiy horn the Uimei-ity ol Philadelphia. Oui icpoiter Wiis shown both these diplomas. A book ot newspapei cuttings, etc., was ako .-how n which in addition to teftimonuilfiom poisons w'ui -tatcd that they had hencfitted through Mi and Madame Dullot'dental .u)i\ (.hetapeubi<\d .-kill, included Icttei- of thanks tor donations to philan-thiopicin-litutiouh( C5O to Bendigo Hospital, L'2s t,o the Adelaide Industnal School tor the Blind, CVI 17- 6d to the Balloiat P»enc\olent A-j lum, and so on.) Mr and Madame Duilot came to this colony horn Vittoiia. aid\ ing in Dunechn about I\o\cmher la-t aiul staying there -ome lorn or tne months ojierating daily beloii crowds of people in an open space near the " Dail\ Time.s " ollice. Thence they wouiion to ( hiistclnuch, wheie they rojoinned loi the icmaiodei of the thno bctoie they came to Auckland, and they ,-tatu that their stay would have been piolontjcd but for tho unfortunate c'iow ning ol Madame Dullot's eldest sou (a line young man of 21) w hile ho was out on a shooting exclusion lound the shores of Lake ftllomeie. He had ju.sL arrived in thi.s colony after winning ins diploma at the Medical College ot Lou vain, in Belgium. Alter thi- painful bereavement, they state, the mothei could not bear any lonuei to icmain in a place invested wall -U( h sorrow tul a— ociations, and so .-he and her husband travelled right through to Auckland. Our ropoiter drew their attention to the following extiact liom tho Cantcrbuy "Time.- "of -May 11th:—

! TIIK CANADIAN DOCTORS IN ! COURT. Dr. Dudot, generally known u^ the Canadian doctor, recently lig'utcd as defendant |in an action in the Dunedin Kosident | JWngi'-trate'ft Coui't. Tint, case possesses a certain amount of inteicst for the Chriatchurch public, both from the fact of the detendant bein,u ho widely known here, and troin a quantity ot evidence having been taken in the Clnistduirch Court before Mr J. Ollivier, on April 27th last. The caso, it, may be premised, win* Imally settled "out of Court." The hictt are, briefly, as follows : — A i\Jr Love consulted the Canadian doctors?, when in Dunedin, about a tumour iji bis neck, and ak<o concerning his two daughters, who wcic, he supposed, afllioted with heart disease. A verbal agreement was made between Dr. Duflot and his patient, as to the precise terms of which ihCIC WHb <l COnUiCb of evidence. 2»Ji Love abherted that the doctor guaranteed a cure in all three cases foi the .sum of C 22. M. Dullot stated that, ioi this sum, he merely undertook to use his bost cllorte to odect a cure, but gavo no guarantee. Dr. Rennie, wiio was present at the interview, could not say whether there had been any guarantee or not. At any rate, the money was paid to Dr Duflot, who commenced a courso of treatment. Shortly aftei wards he came to Chvi?tchurch, leaving Dr. Rennie to look after his patients in Dunodin. All seems to havo gono well for somo timo, but tor some reason or other Dr. Kennie left the employment of Dr. Dufldt. who was, it was stated, paying him u bulary oi £25 a month. He thon wrote to certain patients of the Canadian doctor, staLin^ that Dr. l^utlot was an impos-

tor and a quack, and that if they chose fco attempt to got back the money they had paid, he (Dr. Rennie) would help them. Mr Love, through his solicitors, Messrs Fraser and * Stilling, of Dunedin, brought an action against Dr. Dutlot to recover the sum of ,Cl 7, alleging that a cure had been trn rana tcecland not effected. Dr. Duftofc then telegraphed to Dr. Rennie to come to Cbri&tchurch. He did not come, and a lady member of the Canadian doctor's party went to Dunedin. The result was that Dr. Rennie re entered Dr. Du (lot's service. Ho declined, however, to state whether he went back at a reduced or an increased salary. He then wrote lo the patients, advising them to discontinue their cases against Dr. Duilot. This Mi Love declined to do, and the attair was settlod by Dr. Duflot paying the amount of his claim, Cl 7, without the ca«c being adjudicated upon in the Dunedin (Joint."

The reporter having'submitted thisextraet the following conversation ensued :■ — Repot ter : What have you got to .say to the ouf-o of Love '! Mr Dullol,: Well, a.s in thai case Love came to mo \\ ith his daughters and J undertook to treat them. Love was bullet-ing from a tumour in the neck which the local doctors-, tcfused to icmovc. The operation wa-> j >erf owned successfully and the man is now cured. Koporter : Cmcd, eh '! Mr DuiJot: Yo, cuied ! lam willing to forfeit Q,OOO to the charitable institutions of Auckland it it can be proved thai we did not cure him. Madame Duilot, who \va^ sitting in the room ejaculated, "Out, out! Cl,000," at the .-ame time nodding her head to give force to her words Repoi tor : And Love's daughters '! Ml Duflofc : They were not .sufleiing fiom heait disease at all. Only dy.spep.sia, 01 something 1 like that, and I left their treatment in the hands ot Dr. Rennie, who icmained in Dunedin after my wife and 1 had gone to Chribtchurch. llepoitei" • Lf you cuied Lo\c \shy did you lepay the money v Mr Duilot : Ah ' 1 know I did a foolibh thing. My solicitor, >Sir Kobeit .Stout, told me not to do it, but 1 feared that I would lobe far moic by the wa^te of time in attending the CourU three or four times, and thought it wab not woibh the trouble. Keportcr : Well, you must admit it had a suspicious look. Mr Dufiot. I know it had, and she (indicating Madame with u nod) said so, too. liepoitei . And, now, how do jou explain this lefeience to "Rennie .' Mr Duilot : Well, after we weie in t'hri^tchurch I beveied m^ connection with htm 1 had been paying him C2sa month, . ud he is a \ery skilful doctor for men. fSomctimes 1 had put his name on the bills along with my own, but he was not my paitner. After he had left my set \ ice he took legal proceeding* to establish hi^ right to a partneiship and we settled the mattei by my agieeing to take him back into my at £25 per month, he givmci me a written statement that he was. not a partner. Mi Dufiot hcio opened a bo\ aid piociuced a document to the eilect mentioned, and signed by Mr llennio. ! After some hirther convct-ation oui ieportcr withdrew.