SIR MORELL MACKENZIE’S BOOK.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1805, 20 October 1888, Page 1

SIR MORELL MACKENZIE’S BOOK.

London, October 16.

Relations between Queen Victoria and Sir Morell Mackenzie are strained in consequence of the action of the English medical journals in publishing facsimiles of a portion of the Emperor Frederick’s Diary defending Sir Morell Mackenzie against the attacks made . pn him by the German doctors. These portions of the diary the Queen has ordered to be erased, and their publication has caused Her Majesty great annoyance, Sir Morell Mackenzie protests bis innocence in the matter, and .has assured Her Majesty that he in no way authorised the publication of these portions of the diary; Her Majesty fears that this incident will further annoy the Germans and cause friction between the two countries. Sir Morell Mackenzie is threatened with libel actions for calling papers who published parts of bis book prematurely “ thieves and robbers.” Forty thousand copies of the work have been seized at Leipsic, October J 7. The publishers of Sir Morell Mackenzie’s book, anticipating that it might possibly be confiscated, sold and distributed a large number of the books secretly. The importation of the work into Germany was effected previously to the book appearing in England, by means of packages so branded that the heavy import duty on the material which the packages were supposed to contain completely deluded the authorities as to the actual nature of their contents, The Times, in the coarse of an article on the quarrel between Sir Morell Mackenzie and the German doctors declares' that the former’s diagnosis of the disease from which the late Emperor Frederick; died was wrong, though it is impossible to say whether the treatment prescribed; by the German doctors and Sir Morell Mackenzie was right, Berlin, October 17.

The revelations esntained in Sir Morell Mackenzie’s book are causing a 1 feeling of increased animosity by the German court officials towards England.