QUACK DOCTORS.
TO THE EDITOR. SlB, —Your remarks in Saturday’s issue are quite true, I am sorry to say;—*“A quack doctor is nothing but a murderer in disguise, and more dangerous, in truth, than an ordinary assassin. The one kills purposely; the other kills in an ignorant effort to cure.’ The English law is somewhat strict on the subject, but in some of the colonies—and perhaps we may include New Zealand—it has not been so strictly enforced as it should be.” A man has ' only to get one recognised diploma in surgery, it matters not how inferior, when he can send a few pounds to some universities and they will send him a diploma in medicine, upon the strength of which he has the impertinence to sign himself M.D., and compete with men who have spent years of their lives, and past severe examinations, to obtain their diplomas. Such a state of things is simply monstrous, sind the public ought to be protected against such miserable impostors, which the Americans very properly call “murderers in disguise and the attention of Government should be at once called to the subject, so that an Act providing for the suppression of such diplomas, and forbidding medical men to register or make use of them in any way, should be passed.— Yours, &c., Justice.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4238, 20 October 1874, Page 3
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