LIBEL ACTION.
DOCTOR AWARDED DAMAGES. SYDNEY, March 27. The treatment known as twilight sleep is at issue in a libel action brought by Dr. George Stanly Thompson against the Bulletin Newspaper Company, Limited. The plaintiff claimed that defendants, on March 6, adversely commented upon the twilight sleep treatment in an issue of The Women’s Mirror, which is published by them, the inference being that the plaintiff lent himself to medical imposture and quackery. Evidence was given by one of the plainti’s medical witnesses to the effect that he had used the twilight sleep treatment in fifty or sixty cases during the year, and had had no bad results to either mothers or babies. But it was essential that the treatment should bo in skilled hands, otherwise it would be dangerous. ' Women patients gave evidence in favour of the treatment.
The defence claimed that the treatment was not. favourably regarded by medical men in other countries. The jury found for the plaintiff and awarded £250 damages. A stay of proceedings was granted.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 101, 28 March 1929, Page 7
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171LIBEL ACTION. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 101, 28 March 1929, Page 7
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