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SPAHLINGER’S CURE “LANCET” " WARNS " PEOPLE AGAINST UNDUE HOPE. “LEGACY OF DISAPPOINTMENT.*! By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Sydney “Sun” Cable.) LONDON, December 16. “The Lanoet,” which is the leading British medical journal, in a discussion on the appeal on behalf of M. Spahlinger, and on the optimistic reports of his treatment, says that new cures and fresh treatment for disease are sometimes received by the daily Press and the public with unguarded enthusiasm, which bequeaths a legacy of disappointment to sufferer®. Great expectations in pathology are not always realised. Even those prospective remedies of which high hopes are justly formed may require a protracted period of proof of preparation before they are available to the ordinary patient. The Spahlinger treatment seems to be passing through such a stage. After detailing the resoltless negotiations between M. Spahlinger and Hie Ministry of Health and the Red Chess, “The Lancet” asks whether M. Spahlinger lias yet produced an agent that will enable a patient to be told that payment of a definite sum will produce a definite benefit. “Until any therapeutic agent has reached such a stage we are surely not justified in promoting research in its behalf by appealing to the bopeß and fears of the patients ibis seeking to relieve.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11705, 18 December 1923, Page 7
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208PROOF LACKING New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11705, 18 December 1923, Page 7
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