FAMOUS COMPOSER FLAYS DOCTORS.

Evening Star, Issue 22952, 9 May 1938, Page 13

FAMOUS COMPOSER FLAYS DOCTORS.

ATTACK ...ON MEDICAL PROFESSION

A remarkable attack on members; of the medical profession is made by Cynl Scott, famous composer and expert m mystical philosophy. It is contained in his latest book, 4 Doctors, Disease, and Health. _ In \explaining the ■, reasons which urged him to write the book, Mr Scott people are suffering frbm the indirect and 'disastrous results-of a misplaced confidence: in medical men who, glamoured by their vast accumulation of learning, have turned their backs on wisdom and common sense. The author launches a series of allegations against doctors, mentioning specific Cases.' Of one case he says: 44 She was murdered by learned ignorance and surgical brutality.” ... . Mr Scott refers to an “indiscreet nurse” who revealed the fact that “in a small town on the south coast, where she had worked, certain doctors and surgeons, after lamenting that there were far too few operations in the locality, put their heads together -to see how the number might be unnecessarily increased.” Nursing homes come in for their share of pungent criticism. ’ “In one nursing home I visited the patient’s room was, near a pantry, in which dishes were washed from morning till night with a loud clatter I would not tolerate anywhere in my own* home except in the basement. * And. referring to the staffs of some voluntary hospitals: 44 In one big London voluntary hospital recently 40 per cent, of the probationers broke down and _ left in the three first months of their training. The number able to complete the training course was only 50 per .cent.” ; Mr Scott also: makes this statement, in his own italics: 44 In order to understand the various manifestations of we must turn to the study 'of' astrology.” 44 It is no overstatement of the cas,e,” he adds, 44 to maintain that the type of 1 body or each individual is governed by the position of the planets at the moment of. birth; the position of the planets also >goverhs the types of diseases from which he is liable to suffer.” In accusing the medical profession of many unnecessary operations, Mr Scott says: ' " "- f - S'? . 44 Unfortunately, one operation often leads to further operations owing, to adhesions or other after-effects. 44 A near relation of mine who hadl been mutilated by one surgeon was persuaded into having five subsequent operations, all of wnioh proved entirely useless and only served to ruin her nervous system. ”■ , '