KING EDWARDS DEATH

Evening Star, Issue 14533, 8 December 1910, Page 1

KING EDWARDS DEATH

The letter from Dr J. (lordon licnnetl.' Halifax. Nova .Scotia, was published in the .ScpU'mlxT number of Tiliuguood'fi ' Thorapeulict ' : King Jirlwai'tl died <if catarrh of the stomach. There an: many eclectics and homccopathic doctors in Kngland, but allopathy treats the. King.; and lioya] Family. 'lhero is usually no set fee paid to His Majesty's physician, as the honor-of it makes his foitiirie. On March 6 the was vaccinated with a vaccine, and hud been pieviously given for about eighteen months a microbe extiact in a win.dr.scfui ■of milk once a. weok. Up to within a short time of ills death he received an emulsion of dead germs cultivated from his own sputum, with a view to preventing attack-, of catarrh, to which ho urtimately stKcumber!. The argument that colds were prevented by it was not correct, as Hi?. Majesty's physicians admit that the catarrh had left lum at no tu.no. After practically a treatment of two years, there should have been some abatement, if there was anything in the treatment. Kir A. E. Wright's eystem commenced with the u.«e of inoculations, and Dr Spitta, of St. George's Hospital, thought he could get good results through the mouth. The practice of serumtherapy, which had been lauded very much as the greatest scientific discovery of the age, was subsequently denounced by the inventor, and in the face of this it was given to the King. Dr Hadwin says: " The filthiness of the method, consisting of a broth of cooked germs cultivated from the patient's own eputum. compares with the worst superstitions of the old days of the witches' cauldron "