CHRISTIAN SCIENCE METHODS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8172, 3 July 1906, Page 5

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE METHODS.

CHARGE AGAINST A DOCTOR. Received July 2, 9.3 a.m. LONDON, July 1. I The jury disagreed in the case against Dr. George R. Adcock, who was charged with having caused the death of Major John Nicholas Whyte. (The case has attracted a widespread Interest in England. The allegation against Dr. Adcook is that ho treated Major Whyte in accordance with the doctrines of Christian science. The inquest on Major Whyte was opened at thu Westminster Coroner's Court on May 3rd. Evidence showed that three years age Major Whyte met with an accident in the hunting field, and his spine was broken. He was treated for three months at the local cottage hospital, Hincksley, by a local practitioner, and then by Sir Victor Horsley, who operated about three days after the acoident. He'then went to a nursing home in London, staying there about a year, and was under medical treatment the whole time. Subsequently he was removed to the Osborne Home for Convalescent Officers, where some one told him of Christian science. He then informed his mother that he was going to London to give Christian science a trial, as he was in great pain, and he wrs told that Christian scientists would oure him where the doctors had failed. He was treated by a Mr Smith, Captain Haynes, and Mrs Grant, the treatment consisting in prayers and believing in God's goodness. About a month before death J)r. Adcook was called in, also a Christian soientist—not as a Christian soientist Major Whyte's mother thought, but as a medical practitioner).