THE ABRAMS TREATMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 84, 10 March 1925, Page 2

THE ABRAMS TREATMENT.

CHARGES AGAINST DOCTOR. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. March 9. In the Supreme Court application was made by the Medical Board to have the name of Henry Dundas Mackenzie, medical practitioner, removed from the Register on the ground that he had been guilty of infamous conduct professionally, inaemuoh as for the past four years he had practised an alleged scientific method of diagnosis and treatment known as the Abrams method, in such a manner as to show he could not honestly have believed that that method of treatment and diagnosis waa a reliable or useful one in the oases in which ho employed it. • Mr Meredith appeared for the board and eaid some twenty cases of patients would be brought before the Court. It was alleged that Mackenzie was a fraud, irrespective of whether the machine was any good or not, and that as a competent man, he oould not'have believed in what he, waa doing. Mr Myers, K.C., is defending the case, which, is expeoted to last five days. In the course of his opening addreßS, Mr Meredith said evidenoe would .be given in some nine or ton cases where cancer was diagnosed and that such a diagnosis was altogether unjustifiable. The allegation would be that this was done for the purpose of'getting the patient’s money. The J udgo suggested that the press should not mention tho names of the patients who gave evidence. The hearing of evidence, which will be lengthy, had commenced before the caße waa adjourned.