GLAND TREATMENT

Evening Star, Issue 19004, 28 July 1925, Page 3

GLAND TREATMENT

.I—■■ „ ■ GOOD RESULTS REPORTED EXPENSE A BIG HANDICAP [Speciaii to the ‘Star.’] v CHRISTCHURCH, July 27. The orginator of the monkey gland treatment was laughed at, and dubbed a fool when he told the world that bo could rejuvenate men and women, but since then great strides have been made with glandular treatments, and the general opinion of doctors is that they will revolutionise the practice of medicine. Already in New Zealand medical practitioners have had wonderful, almost starting, results, but their one big handicap is the expense to which The patients are put. The preparations are expensive enough in themselves, but upon this is added an extra 35. per cent, duty on i foreign products, and 20 per cent, on i British. Practically all the glandular j products used in Now Zealand at pre- i sent come from America, and carry the ■ 35 per cent. duty. The reason for this ! excessive duty is that there is no provision for the products in the Customs tariff. They are classed as “ Drugs, N.0.E.,” meaning “ drugs not otherwise enumerated.’ 1 The duty is not a protective one, for the products are not manufactured in the dominion. With New Zealand’s small population, it would not pay anybody to open a laboratory in the dominion for the sole purpose of manufacturing these products. The doctors have found that i many of their patients are unable to 1 take the glandular treatment, for the price is far beyond them. In practically every case it is not a “ cure in a night business,” but a slow, steady process. To have the desired'effect the patient must keep on with the treatment sometimes for several months. The effect is to build up those glands of the body which arc depleted, and in this case the building up is not temporary, but permanent. It is in this i that the value of the product lies. j Several Christchurch doctors who I were questioned by a ‘ Sun ’ reporter on this subject were most enthusiastic about the results they had obtained. One doctor quoted the case of a baby that could not sleep. After several ; other things had failed, ho tried a glandular treatment, and it had iminej diate effect. " The beauty of this treatment,” said the doctor, “is that I can gradually cut out, but the effect will not disappear. I have been cutting down the doses, and in a, few weeks’ time I will be able !o cut it, out altogether. Probably, if I had used ! T'irrwm/Inc -fTm tvnnlrl nrvh lir» fihlo

i nrommos, tne enua wouia not; uc aoio to do without them.” The same doctor said it was only I natural that there shorn.l be failures. I There were failures with everything, i Ho admited that at present very little ! was known of the products and bow they should bo used. Another doctor said the glandular products would revolutionise the practice of medicine. “This kind of treatment is still in its infancy, but what is holding ns back is the prohibitive price which patients have to pay. If we could only get down to a reason-, able price we could do wonders.” In speaking of the duty, be considered that the products should be duty free. “Whoever classed these things ‘Drugs, N.O.E,’ showed a terrible lack of knowledge of what he was dealing with,” lie added.