HERBALIST SUED.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18245, 2 December 1924, Page 5

HERBALIST SUED.

• - ' ♦ atiENT becomes opium PA ADDICT. damages claimed. (J.JESS ASSOCIATION lEL2GRAK.) - AUCKLAND, December 1. •i case particular interest was : Ure Mr Justice Stringer and a al jury - twelve in the Supreme ijn A &y when Agnes Stewart, a ■ woman, proceeded against i . _ Waller Mahomed Salaman, of /■sw Pass who de-scribed himself i \ KTlnclian'lierbalist claiming £2250 i ZZail damages, and £24 3s special |&As for alleged neglect, and for ®C7*used by his treatment from Jrlr 'with Mr Oliver, appeared' for jgfc and Mr Luxford, with Mr fciUv for defendant, nrhe case, said Mr Singer in addressfeff the jurv was a dreadful one of a !Lm being the victim and dupe of S>ked deception and trickery as a re- ' of which the unfortunate woman fX permanently injured'. She was a SuT 30 years of ago who until Ifar 1922, was in health and emIjJrment managing a branch of a busiEss in Dunedin at £5 a week. Then cemo to Auckland with her mother Sd sister. Last year she developed -Mohthalmio goitre, and her eyes be2?to fail. She was treated by Dr. lore in February and March, and in ji-nl 1923, she became an inmafo of ?&,Auckland Hospital under the care jpr. Abbot, with Mr McGregor Grant •j consultant. She was treated so Out her strength might be improved a that she could undergo a vital and molt ifccessary operation. She improvgreatly in btrength, and pat on one and arhalf stone weight. She left the hoapital in Juno to go home for a »i3e prior to tho proposed operation. Up to that time plaintiff could have WP safely operated upon and cured. . $» had no affection of the kidneys or jangg. friends came to tie her who advised against an operation and told her of a "wonderful pip", Salaman, who could cure her without an operation. Naturally the iroman, in her nervous condition, was otJy too glad to be treated by. this Jjtopishing person of such marvelloua towers if ho coul€ successfully treat fer. Salaman was sent for. He placed i stethoscope to the sufferer's neck, isis-when he was informed an opera-lon'-had been advised, he told her Srbuf kidneys aro very badly strained. OP9 lung is practically gone, and water rtejußt one inch from your heart, and j j£you don't undertake treatment in 'a» .week it' will be drowned 1 ." He 'iild'her goitre was only a minor thing, he; would see to that after. Osun&el then described) what ho tafmed ihe extraordinary mixtures and midicines which Salaman gavo tho defendant. j To an interjection from Mr Luxfoid,/Mr Singer declared Salaman was, in this case, accused of fraud. Plaintiff's sister also consulted him, and he raado an extraordinary examination of j Her by placing a stethoscope on her j lieck and ankle, and said sho had ] rEmimatism of the ankle, and prescribed, the same marvellous .mixtures : as he had given the sister with goitre, irfilst lie treated the crushed rib of the mother bv attaching a battery to the ' electrio light and putting current to iterjbs, giving her some plasters to 1m ttplied in the same manner as were thenuuters for her daughter. Not for " nwrlv a month after his . treatment ffasi It discovered that the real basis of treatment was opium, as * mtulfc of which plaintiff had con- : trttfedjiho opium habit, and it was Vgfiiliuiify'ble whether.. , l 1 ®!" condition cmiU'fe successfully treated. ;contended that'.-'to pave ji x&t the patient opium was [an act 1 (if I ', fraud and that it was for defendant to $6 given the patient prohibited mediJfc. Dr. Share was usiner every Tour to break nlaintiff of the opium it and Dr. Horton had latterlv M tho patient and was_ alarmed with %vchange in her condition in the iWlra jnonths which had elansed since fe h'ad previously examined her. An aeration at the present stasre was now jSjdlnteiy impossible the doctors de- ' tfcuid. "fMence for the plaintiff was comSpced. including that of the doctors, jjg 1 the case was adjourned till . tomorrow. CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUNDS. ' r . —«— J. QUESTION OP SUBSIDIES. r 4 , . T "The Reserves Compiittee recommendto the City Council last nightT that 8)9 Sydenham Children's Playground WP&ittee bo paid a subsidy of 10s in feft £ on the sum of £205 2s 6d which raised for the purpose of equip- , TOg the playground at the corner of . Srodsworth and Queen streets. The to&mittee had received) a Tequest that I.shelter shed and conveniences, ' and jllw water for drinking purposes, be fctorided at the playground, and had' weded to inspect the playground' becoming to a decision in the mat- | The report was adopted. the matter of subsidising raised for playgrounds, the tOEffliittee recommended, that in future W subsidy paid for the equipment of pldren's playgrounds should not ex- ) fSO in. any one year in respect of ?bt playground. I j"Qf. J. K. Archer said that a £SO \j # pdy "was rather small. 'I. 6 Mayor said that a £SO _ subsidy " fiSWsepted: a total contribution of jWlty, the subsidy being 10s in the £. I I &. E, H. Andrews, chairman of the 'tsmtnittee, said that £SO might not 114 enough for the first year, but the fttaoittee felt that some limit should - kqecided upon. : 1 Gr. E. McCombs moved as an amendjjpafc to tlie adoption of tho _ report, ftjttte subsidy should be raised to I tir. H. E. Armstrong said a limit necessary, but £SO was too lotv. seconded the amendment, k reply to Cr. C. Carr tho Mayor said Elrawood and St. Albans were ex'fWeil to apply for subsidies. The only «msidy actually paid was that to Syd- . The Council had only agreed subsidise expenditure for approved *ppHances in the playgrounds. W. E. Leadtoy said that _aof .applications for subsidies be received, and a limit was :,IA "w." h. Winsor said *it was not Swcd that large playgrounds for should be established. It was to have a number of smaller

[ Mayor suggested that appljea- ! for subsidies should be required 1 received before tlio estimates '.yY® considered. ■Vn reply to Cr. MeCombs, Cr. Anit was estimated that front to £4OO would be required to f a playground of an acre in < A a ' did not expect that ? l< ? re ?~®} throo applications for subsidies be received in any one yenr. ijf. A. McKellar Baid it would bo to crant a smaller subsidy each to all applicants, rather than to . the.full subsidy to a few, and others to wait. [ e Council agreed' to raise tte sub' £IOO, provided that applies.i*«?L' were received by August Ist in fsi year.