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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1056, 26 May 1892, Page 42

PARAMO AND THE MEDICOS WHAT TOE PRESS SAYS. TYPOGRAPHICAL TESTIMONY. THE EDITORS FOR ONCE AGREE. (New Zealand Times, May 14, 1892 ) THE British Medical Journal ia very angry with Lord Onslow. The particular oauae of the Journal’s wrath is that our late Governor has absolutely dared to testify to the value of remedies whose composition is not detailed in the British Pharmacof *eia. The wrath is expressed as follows :— ‘ We see with regret Lord Onslow shamelessly puffing quack secret remedies by an advertised letter—as scandalous an abuse of political position and as discreditable a folly as has been for a long time brought under notice.’ Poor Lord Onslow ! The dyspeptic diatribe above quoted owes its existenoe, no doubt, to the fact that Lord Onslow having found virtue in some of the Maori herbal remedies prepared by Mother Aubert, actually had the courage to say so in print. Why the British Medical Journal should deem such testimony a high offence, and judging by the strength of the language it uses, an almost criminal misdemeanour, I totally fail to see, save that tho average medical mind is fanatically opposed to any mcdicA innovation which does not proceed from recognised ndtaped sources. 'Twas ever thus with the medicos. Almost every new advance made in medical science has been bitterly attacked as * quackery ’ when it appeared ; every new thinker denounced as a madman or worse ; and every