SIR MORELL MACKENZIE AND THE GERMAN DOCTORS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9188, 18 October 1888, Page 6

SIR MORELL MACKENZIE AND THE GERMAN DOCTORS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l think that in your leader this morning you have hardly done justice to Sir M. Mackenzie. You are nob in the habit of reading the medical journals, and are therefore nob aware of the vindictive and unscrupulous way in which Sir M. Mackenzie has been attacked by his German colleagues in the treatment of the late Emperor. All this he has endured in silence. He has borne for the sake of his patient, and his patient's family, what few men can bear—to have a hard-won reputation attacked and endangered by statements made with the most malicious ingenuity for the sole purpose of damaging him. There can be no question, to those who know Morell Mackenzie and his work, that the statements of Dr. Bergmann are simply false. Dr. Bergmann's reputation as regards the particular class of diseases from which the late Emperor suffered, bears no comparison with that of Morell Mackenzie, and the fact remains undisputed and indisputable, that the latter by his skill and care prolonged for several months a life which would have been inevitably sacrificed to the savage and barbarous surgery of the German doctors.—l am, &c., R. H. Bakewbll, M.D. Auckland, October 17.