CHARGE AGAINST THE DOCTORS.
BY PKOF. A. W, THOMAS. (By Telegraph.-Special Correspondent.) Auckland, August 29. A serious charge was levelled at medical science last night by l'rofnwr A. W. Thomas in his lecture on Heredity. The process of tin; .police was not, ho said, aai unmixed blessing. It had cn•lbled men W> thwart nature. Ivitural erlection was always at work temjing lo eliminate (he inferior and the un it, tho diwed, and those ill-adapted to the, cenditions of life, but medical skill saved the lives of the weak, and loft them in a position to multiply- Statistics showed that this had had a deteriorating influence upon the. kicr generations. Now it was necessary to find some compulsory or voluntary means to counteract that in* lluenue.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1219, 30 August 1911, Page 4
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