A GROSS DECEPTION,

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2504, 28 July 1888, Page 2

A GROSS DECEPTION,

McPHERSON AND THE CANADIAN DOCTORS. Whkn the fame of tho marvellous euros of the Canadian doctors reached Hamilton, tho friends of Mr H. P. McPherson, whose great affliction has been v\ el! known to our renders, decided to send him to Auckland for treatment by the celebrated occupants of the " Golden Chariot." A letter was despatched to Madame Dnflnt on the subject, and a reply was received to the effect that if the applicant sent money to purchase a bottle of the magic " Perfume" a day would be fixed for him to visit Auckland and be treated for his complaint. Seven shillings and sixpence was therefore remitted, and tho " Perfume " was forwarded in return, together with a numbered ticket, with which he proceeded to Auckland on Wednesday last. In the meantime M. and Mdine. Duflot had vanished from the scene like a beautiful dream, heavily ladon, however, with " golden " plunder. They left their factotum, Dr. Rennie, behind them to carry on the lucrative worlc, all for the (rood of mankind. When MePherson arrived in Auckland, he was wheeled to the rooms of Dr. Rennie, stated his case, and presented his ticket, His reception is bost told in his own words in a letter to Mr Cox. "I have seen the doctor, and ho says that the ticket that I had was only a bit of waste paper, and he said he could not cure mo for nothing, and said he could do me good if I would buy a dozen bottle* of medicine and lay out £4 10s, and when I told him I c»uld not he said he was not Jesus Christ to cure, for nothing. May Gad forgive him for his language. Telegraph and tell what is bost to be done." It seems then that the modus opcrandi "f these precious people is to delude tho dupes that swarm to them, by some hocus pocus at at which they have become experts, into purchasing the wash they style " Canadian Perfume," but when a genuine case of Buffering and distressed humanity comes before them, tho poor creature is turned away with impious blasphemy. Poor McPherson is a bedridden sufferer, stricken down with paralysis, quito destitute of means, and is wheeled about in a chair. He was sent down to town by his smpathisers, in the iorlorn hope of relief being afforded, as so many cures by the Canadians had tieen proclaimed abroad. It is high time these foreign impostors wero prevented from deluding and robbing the people of this country. It is not proper that quacks should enter the colony, and in tho course of a few weeks, clear out with plunder out of ono town alone to the tune of £10,000. We cannot spare to lose our wealth in that manner, to receive only a trashy nostrum called perfume in return. Something more productive ia required for so large a snin. We hope an eye will be kept on this class of gentry in future.