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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15382, 20 February 1912, Page 5

Mr A. W. Martin, the Rupture Specialist ami Sole Controller in Australasia of the Sherman method of treatment, lias just returned to Dnnedin from what he acknowledges to have been a most successful visit to southern towns and dir. triits. Unfortunately. however, lie found more than one cause for indignation at the methods adopted liy exponents of rhal systems—i.e., at deliberate and, for tl'.e time viiicoctvfiil attempts at fraud and in one instance of impersonation of himself. A patient complained that after !ive years' use of the " Sherman " appliance lie hail received no b.-aciit. '• Show me the appliance," said Mr Martif. When shown it proved to lie ipiite a different thing altogether to tl'.e Sherman appliance. and the worst feature in connection with this particular fraud is not, of comv, that Mr Martin had been impersonated to hw pecuniary low or that a useless contrivance had been palmed oil, hut that live years' ncodlcss fiiilorii'.!; had been endured by tiie patient. Al! sufferer.- are warned that any treatment that includes or comprirns an cbsir;- truss is not Ur Sherami that 110 one in Austml.-uia except Mr A. W. Martin can di spose of l)r Sherman's appliances without incurriu;.' legal penalties. Mr Martin's present visit to llunedin will be brought to a close on 'l'lnirfday. the 29th iiwt. Sufferers. therefore, should l'?e no time if they wioh to avail themselves of this treatment before Mr Martin leaves for northern centres.—2o2l2.