"A MEDICAL MISTAKE."

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8703, 27 January 1894, Page 10

"A MEDICAL MISTAKE."

_» the kditor or the rs_ss»

Snt,—Under the heading above yos publish to-day a damaging paragraph from the New Zealand MedicalJoumal onth*" Mattei eurte." Was it an "editorial mistake" that this appeared the day before Dr. Kennedy, of London (a specialist in the Mattei treatment) was advertised to visit Christchurch to be consulted and lecture on this treatment ? One would hope : that the PRESS would be above any unfair play, aud that it would not lend itself to prejudicing the public mind before Dr. Kennedy gets a -tearing. You have formerly given in extenso wh **purported to be a showing up of tha Mattei treatment. 1 have ne?er observed that you gave the like publicity to the liaUwst's rejoinder. Apart from the merits of the»Temedies, have you given the Matteists fair play? Are you doing it: trow* Dr. Kennedy has been iotereatiug large audiences and teaching classes in Duuedin; the local press ma columns to the reports. Bow is it that instead of letting your *e&4ers know this, you virtually give* the doctor and Matteists a slap on the face by ? your paragraph this morning? It seems to mc that the best way to save your dignity and give every man fair play is to confess tnat your this morning was ar •editorial mistake." Of course I expect no mercy m thus undecidedly tackline an editor or heckling the Press, but atHhe risk of a good beating.—Yours, _c.„ «,..,,_. Fair P__tv. Chmtchjuch, 26th January, 1891 •