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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9327, 10 October 1893, Page 5

A farmer's wife, in good circumstances, was charged with pocket-picking at Scarborough the other day. There being an entire absence of motive, the magistrate, instead of sending the accused to prison, fined her £25, which was paid. The champagne vintage of the present season is expected to be the largest for 70 years.

Mr. Bhau Daji, while a sfcudenb at the Grant Medical College, India,, was induced by the late Dr. Morehead to take up thf study of leprosy. He commenced work on the subject in the late fifties, and so far back as 1862 he announced to Dr. Duff, of Calcutta, that he was trying a remedy in one of the charitable dispensaries of Bombay which offered a hope even for lepers." Six or seven years later his cures, or re« ported cures, led to a good deal of rather waspish correspondence, and Mr. Bhau Daji's conduct in keeping secret his method of treatment involved some amounb of personal criticism of a kind verging upon the discourteous. Ho was assailed >on all sides, and was denounced as a quack, or worse, and after his death, in 1874, little more was heard of his leprosy cure. Most opportunely at the present moment, when the subject of leprosy and its cure is again arousing so much interest, the subject has been revived by Dr. Stanley Boyd, surgeon to the Charing Cross Hospital. We learn that Bhau Daji's secret did not, as was popularly supposed, die with him. During his fatal illness in the hot weather of 1874 he expressed much anxiety that his papers and notes of cases should be collected and got ready for publication, bub for some • unexplained reason this was never done. He had told the secret, however, to three European i friends in confidence. : Aftec" many experiments, it seems, Bhau Daji came ultimately to rely upon one substance —the oil of the'Hydnocarpus ihebrians, known among the natives as hauti —which he used both for internal and external £ administration. Sometimes he coloured the oil to render it less easily recognisable. In the early morning minims x—ounce ss of the oil was taken in boiled milk, and ib is said to be nob bad to the taste;" then the patient was rubbed all over with the oil , after two hours the. oil was washed off in a - warm bath. Sometimes the oil was directed to be applied again, and | kept on until the evening,' when the patient wiped himself >" r and went for a walk' until he ;perspired. In other cases no oil was applied after the warm bath until evening, when ib was again rubbed iin over the ' whole body, and 'the patient slept in ib. The oil was applied also to affected mucous surfaces, and was to be run into the nasal cavities. The patients were ordered to abstain from pork, beef, and fish ; from all alcoholic drinks, tea, and coffee. They were allowed :as much milk, fruit, and vegetables as they liked ; also butter, eggs, mutton, and < fowl. This wna the whole' secret of Bhau Daji'a treatment. '■ ■' . . : '■' .■."■'•'' '••'.'• ';"%i