QUACKS AND DRUGS.

Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 954, 25 May 1901, Page 4

QUACKS AND DRUGS.

It was complained by Dr. Chappie at a recent meeting of lib- Sr. John's Ambulance Association that on immens.: (•.mount of quack literature, full of !ie«, is being pouted into this colony. Tim a were some p litioisns tit that meetlna, he said, and he hoped they would tuke a note ot this. This literature was coming from all quarters of tho globe. Photographs were displayed of little children wh» were fed on this, thar, or tho other food j but those who publishes those things were eaeful to say nothing <.f thhundreds of children who died through indiscriminate feeding. Such food, he as-erterl, we up of ingredients no better than anything we hud in our own kitchens, and rhc peopla who mad- u:> these tins or boftlcs hail no inter st in putting into til. m the best, nuvonals. There was no guarauteo tint >he milk we got in this w,y was oftuiued froiri healthy omle j w nils', on the oth=r hand, we were able to sicure Booh a guarantee with the milk obtained locally. Dr. Chappie also warned his heaters against an appetite for drugs. An enormouamount of medicine, he says, Wiis brought before tho public g zc ; bur fallacy was almost entiiely the basis of this medicine trade. Drugs did nor cure disease. The cure of disexse was simply the result of obedience; to the law that the human organism tended to return to a normal conditi.n. The healing process was a vital process, and all that healing ointments and the like remedies did was merely to keep out evil influences which would hinder a euro. The Lion. C. H. Mills, speaking later on, said th*t, as Minister for Customs, he could promise T>r Chappie that if a little (inly were required on the drugs he complained of, he would be epiite willing to impose it, l:cc:Uuc such a change always brought a few hundred pound-' more into the public purse.—New Zealand Times.