Quackery In Small Country Village

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 30, 6 January 1939, Page 12

Quackery In Small Country Village

AUTHOUGH "Quack’s Paradise" may not cause the world-wide sensation created by "The Citadel," it should prove a best-seller. It exposes the "racket" carried on by "specialists’ who receive their diplomas-by a mail-order coursefrom little-known American "universities." ; The story carries conviction and many people may .be saved from needless expense and disappointment if they read * and digest it! It condemns a system-a. pernicious system-which, unfortunately, is not altogether unknown .in New Zealand. It opens with the experiencés of two medical students who are facing up to their final examinationsone a keen, conscientious student; the other, a happy-go-lucky take-what-comes young Irishman, Fate decides that the happy-go-lucky one should fail; he embarks ‘on a career of quackery, and, with the assistance of a country editor, who skilfully’ prepares "health" articles and then shows how the amazing discovery of the local "professor" will sot : all the difficulties, sets about amassing a fortune. In love with his wife-but infatuated with a follower of the sunbathing cult-he is faced with a problem; his wife needs specialist treatment and h2 hus to take her to the registered doctor in the village, the former student of his college days. Sidney. Fairway pens a graphic story of. the wiles of the "quacks." Tt is a story well-worth reading.-

W.F.

I.

"Quack’s Paradise." Sidney Fairway. Stanley Paul and Co., Lid., London. Our copy from the pubishers.