POLICE SURGEON ASSITS CHARLATAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 206, 28 August 1920, Page 17

POLICE SURGEON ASSITS CHARLATAN.

Two men, of whom one is a doctor attached-to the Prefecture de Police, were each sned 30CK1 francs ny % Paris Court yesterday, and sentenced, one to on.> year, and the other '■• t'fe years' imprisonment, for fraud and illegal practice of medicine. The "patien'.*' Mm Jourdan. was iuard i 800 francdamages. Mme. -Jordan had recourse t • a. hypnotist t n cureher of an ailment. T.'e hypnotis- recommended her to a certain Dr. Ca-ran who, she said, had method' of'his own to cure every kno-vi. ailment i C i.-an's methods were simpb enoug-'n, . nniv rhev were not original, as they have I been practised b- every charlatan from •time immemorial. Having received Mm.'. , Jourdan in = a;nptuon* surr urnding'. where Oriental hangings and perfumes 1 v ; ed with mysteriously subdued lights 7ie pronounced a few raialii=ti,- .void-, and with the a«=;?tance of Vi.iit. thf doctor, a; piied a number of planter 1 ; to the affected pari-. A:i c.-Mir an.p that she was now .-tired. « heavy f?p lor '■■'■■ troubles, and tiie ">■ iiMiltatinn." came to an end. But Mme. Jourdan was not cured, and her fait.l in tho wonder-worker was so weakened as to induce her to report her case to the police authorities, who were even less j impressed by the magician's fame and lions ic-bea-