COUNT MATTEI'S REMEDIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9736, 5 February 1895, Page 3

COUNT MATTEI'S REMEDIES.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — Dr. Bakewell apparently feels aggrieved at our letter, and says :— " That I carefully watched the operation of Count Mattel's remedies in two cases of cancer for some months. Both cases died while under treatment, and beyond the effects of ' suggestion' I could observe no action whatever either of the so-called electricities or of the globules." The only case under treatment with these medicines Dr. Bakewell had anything to do with was that of a Mrs. Eaddy, of Ponsonby, who, after suffering from internal cancer for over three years, and given up by several doctors, tried Count Mattel's remedies for cancer with the best possible result that could hare been expected. We do not make a practice of flaunting testimonials, or even of obtaining them, but we have one in connection with this case/that was given voluntarily, containing the opinions of the patient herself, and her husband, and which speaks in the highest praise of the remedies. Suffice it to say that the patient was free from pain most of the time, and according to Dj\ Bakewell's own diagnosis was cured of cancer, as will be seen by the following affidavit from the husband :— True copy of affidavit. —Richmond, Auckland, February 2nd, 1895. Messrs. I. Hopkins and Co. . Gentlemen,— At your suggestion, I called in a doctor to examine and state the condition of my wife after she had been under Count Mattel's treatment for cancer for some months. The doctors had given her up some 15 months previous. Dr. Bakewell was the gentleman I engaged. I gave him all particulars of her case, and stated what medicines she had been using. After he had been in her presence from five to ten mtuutes he said, "That either she had never had cancer, or the medicines had done their work ; there was certainly no cancer now ;" and advised keeping on/ with the Mattel remedies. He also said that my wife was now iu the position of a person recovering from a severe illness, and if she could only get up her strength again, she would be all right. He gave me every hope of her ultimate recovery. He visited her twice altogether. And I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled, the Justice of the Peace Act, 1882. Declared at Auckland, this 2nd day of February, 1895, before me, Frederick L. Prime, J.P, (Signed) C. F. Eaddy. How can Dr. Bakewell reconcile his statements to the patient with those in his letter ?

With regard to the test of the electricities, Dr. Bake well says he proposed to Dr. Kennedy, we think this is another stretch of his imagination, as we know that nothing of the kind was proposed at the meeting. A very good thing it was nob, as a more ridiculous test could not have been suggested. Just- fancy asking a person to swallow half an ounce of a liquid (240 drops) at once, when from one to three drops is the usual dose, and front five to eight drops the maximum dose. We scarcely know what to think of Dr. Bakewell's statement, bub the most charitable view we can take of the matter is, thab he is troubled with a highly elastic imagination, and a very defective memory. Although we can deeply sympathise with him, all the same we must emphatically decline further controversy with one so afflicted.—We are, etc.,

I. Hopkins and Co.