PARAMO AND THE MEDICOS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4175, 26 July 1892, Page 3

PARAMO AND THE MEDICOS.

j. WHAT THE PRESS BAYS, TYPOGRAPHICAL TESTIMONY. THE EDITORS FOil ONOE AGREE, ((New Zmknd Times, Mmj 14,1 M.) Tlio British Jledicul Journal is very angry with Lard Oiiblow. Tlio particular isiuse of the Journal's wrath is thut our late Governor has absolutely darod to testify to the value of romcdios whose composition is not detailed in the British Phaimacopooia. Tho wrath is espressed as fullows:—"Wo see with regret. Lord Onslow shamelessly puOing quack secret remedies by an advertised letter—as scandalous an abuse of political position and as discreditable a tolly as has been for a long lime brought under notice." Poor Lord Onslow I The dyspeptic diatribe abovo quoted owos its existence, no doubt, to tlio fact that Lord Oub'.ow, having found virtue in some of the Maori herbal remedies prepared by. Mother Aubuit, actually had the courage to say so in print. Why the British Medical Journal should deem such testimony a high offence, and, judging by the strength of the language it uses, an almost criminal misdemeanour, I totally fail to bco, savo that tho average medical mind is. fanatically opposed to any medical innovation which does not proceed from recognised red-taped sources,

with the medicos, Almost every>tiew advance made in medical science has been bitterly attacked as " quackery " when it appoared, every new thinker denounced as a madman or worse, and every formula not. hallmarkod hy tho " Lancet" and "British Medical Journal" as a dangerous innovation. Personally, while not having the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with eithor Mothor Aubert or Mr Kemptho'rne, 1 can sympathise with them and Lord Onslow in seeint; the Maori Remidiei denounced as " quack remedies." Only one of those same " quack remedies" do I know, and that '"Karana" to wit, which bb a •' real good thing" for a man with a liver, I would cordially recommend to the editor of the B.M.J, He appears to need it sadly, for the common and domestic and "recognised" pndophyllin has evidently been of no service to him, otherwise he would never have penned so spiteful a paragraph. As however, the " Maori Remedies " •'quack and secret "though thoy heare reported to be selling like the proverbial " hot cakes," neither Mother Aubert nor Mr Kempthorne is likely to worry about the wrath of the' British Medic.il Journal." As for Lord Onslow hois at 11 Mine, and can fight his own battle.—" Sorutator," in the ' New Zealand Mail.'

i | Weekly Herald, Aran, 30,1892, A southern paper says:—" \Vhat with Marupa, Karana, faramo, Natanata and cold weather, typhoid tever has been driven from the city of Wellington, and the place is now as healthy as any town in New Zealand. Ho small share of the credit is due to the Rev Mother Mary Joseph Aubert for the production of her unrivalled remedies,' 1 And as far as we are personally concerned we must say that, when any one of our staff is affected, no matter from what cause, even from alcoholic poisoning, we pour into hnn abottloof Marupa, when restoration to a normal condition takes place atonce.

Reeeton Goahdian, Anta 14,1892. We would ask our readers to givo their attention to the chango m the advertise-

ment of Mother Mary Joseph Aubert's Medicines, which will be found on our fourth page to-day, Theso Medicines are fast gaining in public esteem, and the oxcellont testimonials rtcoived, including one from Bishop Grimes, as to their curative properties, and which are published, should be an ample guarantee of their efficacy. The public should carefully peruse the iidtertisement. These sterling remedies are stocked by Mr T. G. Mason, Masterton.