During the hearing of a case in which a doctor was concerned in the Appeal Court, in Wellington, the other day. a Court officer whispered in the ear of a press representative that he knew of a case in Wellington some ten or twelve years ago, where a well-known citizen was seriously ill, and a spiritualist called up the spirit of a. doctor, and got him to prescribe. A nurse took the prescription to a chemist to have it made up, and incidentally asked if it was a good one. •'Splendid,'' was the reply. Another peculiar part about the case was that the prescription was written in Latin, and that the medium did not know Latin. The patient, according to the Court officer, recovered.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13762, 29 May 1908, Page 8
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