MEDICAL IMPOSTERS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 303, 16 September 1908, Page 7

MEDICAL IMPOSTERS.

PLAYING ON CREDULITY. A MAN BLED BY AN "INSTITUTE." JUDGE'S CENSURE! (BY UIEGRAPJI— ritESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Roc, September 15; 11.20 p.m.) Sydney, September 15. ! Mr. Justice 'Cohen, in the Supremo Court, summing up in an action for damages for alleged wrongful treatment brought by a farmer against a medical institute, made uso of strong remarks. He said: — "There are occasions when in the public interest—however strong the desire of a judge to preserve his mind utterly undisturbed may be —he should give fairly full expression to his feelings. This is an occasion when the public interest calls for a frank and outspoken expression of opinion upon the methods adopted at this institute by those concerned in its management. For cruel, cunning, unmeasured audacity and hypocritical pretence, I doubt whether tho annals of the Courts of this State disclose a case to which these epithets could be more justly applied. "This case is a strong illustration of man's inhumanity to man. It shows how crafty, cunning, designing men, in their haste and hunger for money, can set at naught tho feelings and sufferings of their fellow-men, no matter what sacrifice may be involved in their, machinations. Tho circumstances of this case IShow to us humanity in one of its worst forms. The whole .atmosphere of the institution reeks with wickedness, and it is only men with callous dispositions, with hearts of stone, steeled perhaps by the hunger for money, who oan trade upon the credulity of their fellow-men as the proprietors of this institution preyed upon their fellowmen."