HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DUE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9841, 23 February 1893, Page 2

HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DUE.

TO TBE EDITOR.

Sib, —A correjpoodent signing himself * D H ,’ writes you expressing astonishment at the action of the New Zealand Medical Association and prauiog up Ora Potts and Harrison. On Wednesday lut I attended the Opera House to hear Dr Harrison lecture to men only, admission Is and 2s. What I heard and what I saw did not rai*e Dr Harrison in my estimation, but caused in me a feeling of disgust. Dr Harrison bad a fao simile of the plates to be seen in any recognised work on the human anatomy. Of course these were on an enlarged scale and reproduced on a canvas screen. Dr Harrison was on the stage, and the audience, including many boys of from 14 or 15 years upwards, were being treated to a lectuie by him on acme of the moat disgusting subjects it has ever been my lot to listen to; and I venture to think

that many a boy or young man who heard the details for the first time has had his mind polluted with a lot of filthy subjects, which may unfortanatly do them a deal of harm. Several of Dr Harrieoj’a stories were exceedingly 1 blue.* and had better been left untold. I felt so disgusted that after waiting about half an boar I left the Opera Bouse. If Mrs Ur Potts’ lectures to women are ou a par with Dr Harrison’s lectures to tbe man, 1 pity the women who have to listen to them. Unlike ( D.H ,’ 1 oan s»y that I have heard of several poor wom?n iu Canterbury and in Otago who consulted Mrs Potts on her last visit to New Zealand and received no relief whatever from her treatment, and some of them had to make great efforts to scrape together the money tj p*y for the treatment.—Yours, &c.,

Investigator.