THE GOLDEN CHARIOT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9094, 30 June 1888, Page 5

THE GOLDEN CHARIOT.

WHAT THE CANADIANS SAY.

A CHALLENGE.

The cases of alleged injury to tho patients through taking the medicine of tho Canadian doctors have created considerable sensation. Of the two deaths which have occurred, one of them has been shown to be due to natural causes, and nob to any fault of the medicine. About the other the truth will come out at the inquest on Monday next. In regard to the case of erysipelas at the Hospital, Dr. Dutlot says ho remembers the man perfectly well. He came down to the chariot repeatedly to get his tooth out, but there was such a crowd that he had nob been treated. At last he became very abusive, and at dark, just as they were about to drive away, and the carriage-lamps had been lit, ho insisted on having his tooth drawn Dr. Dutlot refused two or three times, as it was too dark. At this the man said "Ah, you can't draw that tooth ; that's why you don't doit." Dr. Duflot says he replied that he could do it, and there and then, by the light of the carriage-lamps, pulled the tooth out just to satisfy the man and get rid of him. Tho tooth was an unusually largo one, and the man was very well pleased. There was a policeman present at the time, as well as live others, whom Dr. Duflot can produce as witnesses to the truth of his statement. As for the inflammation, it may be due to various causes. He may have been smoking afterwards, and some nicotine may have got into the socket of the tooth and poisoned it; or, the man may have been drinking, or may have got some foreign substance into the hollow, or he may have put his dirty linger into it to feel it. This would be quite sufficient to cause inflammation. When a man gets a big toot h extracted like this he must take care, or he may catch a chill and inflammation quickly set in. " Why didn't the man como to me," said Dr. Duflot, instead of going to the Hospital. I would just have put on a bit of cotton saturated with the ' perfume ' and he would have been better immediately. To say that I broke his jaw is sheer nonsense. This afternoon I pulled '23 teeth out of the mouth of one woman in half a minute by the watch. To-morrow is the last day we will work in the Chariot, at least for some time. We have about 3000 people with free consultation tickets, and I want to see them all. There were a crowd of about a thousand at the entrance to the consultation office this morning struggling and fighting to get in, I have three doorkeepers to take the tickets, which arc all numbered, the last given away being numbered 3000. When these cases are disposed of we will probably appear in public again. This afternoon I told the people, and I now repeat it, that I'll lend tho golden chariot, the hand, horses, and all, to Drs. Erson and Bakewell to show their skill next week. I'll pay all expenses, and they will have nothing to lose but a few hours of their time. If they can show that they are better than us, I am sure they will soon havo a large practice. That will be a practical proof of their assertions. They will work under exactly tho same conditions as we do, except that they will use their own medicines, instruments, and methods. I think the test will be a fair one, and it will prove their devotion to tho public good. And further. I am not jealous of them, and if they do perform anything extraordinary, I'll give them a big reward. Dr. Erson said something at the first inquest about knowing what was in the 'perfume.' If that is so, it will be very good for him ; he can use it on the chariot all next week. To show what a lot of cures we are making, we get 200 to 300 letters every day from patients thanking us for what we have done for them ; and unlike Dr. Erson, we are so busy that we have not time to write to the newspapers." In further conversation Dr. Duflot admitted having sold 100,000 boxes of medicine throughout New Zealand, principally in Dunedin.

In conversation with Dr. Kennie he oxpressed similar views to those of Dr. Duflot about the Hospital case, and said that it was strange that among some thousands or more teeth drawn, there should be only one complaint. When reference was made to the analysing of the medicine he smiled and said, They'll have a picnic analysing this medicine. They have tried to do so in all parts of the world, but they have never got it exactly yet."