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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18760, 13 January 1923, Page 13

A serious case was reported to (he AVan;inui health officers Inst wool; (says the Chronicle). An elderly rnnn in an np-conntry tT'.n. who evidently subscribed to the maxim that a man over 40 is either a foci or a physician, anil chose to believe he was a physician, diagnosed his complaint as leprosy. As a result of receiving this information. Dr Monl; and Mr Pargetor, the local health officials, might have been seen last week making a hurried departure from Wanganui for the man’s address to make sure that be was a fit and proper person to go to Quail Island, whither he had applied to ho sent. The amateur physician had been reading up all the medical books ho could get his hands on. He had already had personal knowledge of nearly every, disease he could contract, and he was sure his latest complaint must be leprosy. However, Dr Monk’s diagnosis did not coincide ■with that of the victim, who wag sent on to the town hospital. The health inspector had something to say about the public in general, and women in particular, who read up doctors' books and worried themselves into the belief that they had diseases. Borne women developed a craze for operations. 'lTioy were never happy unless they v/'we feeling miserable and v,'anted to bo cut up.

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