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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 1671, 19 July 1892, Page 1

Hedical TYPOGRAPHICAL TESTIMONY, THE EDITORS TOR OtfOE AGREE. 1 New Zealand Times,' May 14th, 1892. THE 'British Medical Journal' is very angry with Lord Onslow. The particular cause of the journal's wrath is that our late Governor has absolutely dared to testify to the value of remedies whose composition is not detailed in the British Pharmacopoeia. The wrath is expressed as follows :—' We see with regret Lord Onslow shamelessly puffing quack secret remedies by an advertised letter—as scandalous an abuse of political position and as discreditable a folly as has been for a long time brought under notice.' Poor Lord Onslow ! The dyspeptic diatribe above quoted owes its existence, no doubt, to the fact that Lord Onslow having found virtue in some of the Maori herbal remedies prepared by Mother Aubert, actually had the courage to say so in print. Why tbe ' British Medical Journal' should deem such testimony a high offence, and, judging by the strength of the language it uses, an almost criminal misdemeanour, 1 totally fail to see, save that the average medical mind is fanatically opposed to any medical innovation which does not proceed from recognised red-taped sources. 'Twas ever thus with the medicos. Almost every new advance made in medical science has heen bitterly attacked as ' quackery ' when it appeared ; every new thinker denounced as a madman or worse ; and every formula not hall marked by the 'Lancet' and ' British. Medical Journal' as a dangerous innovation. Personally, while not having the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with, either Mother Aubert or Mr Kempthorne, I can sympathise with them and Lord Onslow in seeing the Maori Remedies denounced as * quack secret remedies.' Only one of those same ' quack remedies ' do I know, and that * Karana to wit,' which as 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 ' podophyllum has evidently been of no service 10 him, otherwise he would never have penned so spiteful a paragraph. As, however, the ' Maori Remedies ' —' quack and secret' though, they be—are 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 Medical Journal.' As for Lord Onslow, he is at Home and can fight his own battle.—' Scrutator in tho New Zealand Mail.' (' Wairarapa Star,' 3rd May, 1892.) Concentrated sunshine is acknowledged to be Nature's great remedy for all the ills that human flesh is heir to. In no part of the world is the remedy, in rays pure and serene, more freely lavished than in New Zealand. The sunshine, playing on a clear salubrious atmosphere has left its impression on the fauna and flora of the colony. The extinct moa, the wondrous coal deposits, proclaim the natural wealth of old New Zealand. The muscular Maori and the splendid forests survive. From these forests Mother Mary Aubert has compounded several important remedies, and we recommend the announcements elsewhere to the perusal not simply of the sick but of those in health. ' A stitch in time saves nine,' applies to healing art more than to less important matters Mother Mary Aubert's New Zealand Remedies are preventive as well as curative. When the first symptoms of sickness appear, their power in cutting short the attack by rousing dormant organs and functions to activity is said to be remarkable. Insidious ailments resemble the burglar ; but these remedies promptly applied give the alarm and make him decamp. There is no quackery about them ; they are not foreign compounds of which people know nothing, and which may be pernicious, but they are the pure products ot New Zealand sunshine distilled through the vegetable kingdom. Belter than all, their character has been proved, for they have been well tested, au.l the best proof of their merits is that their sale is rapidly increasing. (' Weekly Herald,' April 30,1892,) A southern paper says :—' What with Marupa, Karana, Paramo, Natanata. and cold weather, typhoid fever has been driven from the City of Wellington, and the place is now as healthy as any town in New Zealand. No small share of the credit is due to the Rev. Mother Mary Joseph Aubert for the production of her unrivalled remedies.' And as far as we are personally concerned we must say that, when any one of our stafi is affected, no matter from what cause, even alcoholic poisoniug, we pour into him a bottle of Marupa, when restoration to a normal condition takes place at once.