THE QUACK'S ELYSIUM.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1509, 31 January 1901, Page 16

THE QUACK'S ELYSIUM.

There seems to be-, after all, a little difficulty in working out—in th© Polio© Courts—the penal provisions of the New South Wales Medical Practitioners Act, and Broken Hill has had the first experience. At that happy hunting ground for auacks, a batch of Asiatic medicos was brought up few judgment, and the Bench had no hesitation in fining a brae© of Hindu practitioners £SO apiece, with the usual option, but they failed to find it in their hearts or brains to deal similarly with a “Chinese doctor.” The Confuoian medico escaped scot free, on the ground that his assumption of thd doctoral title could not have been “ with intent to deceive,” because no sane person could possibly be deluded into believing that a “Chinelse doctor” is a medico within the meaning of the Act. The point has not been raised lately in Victoria, but, judging from the recent experiences of th© verdant and guileless north-east, probably it would l be safer—and quite as profitable—for a quack to style himself a “Parisian healer.”