UNREGISTERED PRACTITIONER IN TROUBLE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8797, 26 April 1907, Page 3

UNREGISTERED PRACTITIONER IN TROUBLE.

Death of Patient. Faith and Sugar Ineffective. Press Association. Chbistchubph, April 25. The enquiry touching the death of John Joseph Greaney, aged 18, which occurred on Sunday last, was resumed this evening before Mr H. W. Bishop, District Coroner. Greaney had been suffering from diphtheria, and had consulted a man named Stanton under the impression that he was a properly' qualified doctor. Stanton gave him some powder to take, but he died from the complaint on Sunday last. Medical evidence was given that death was due to diphtheria, and that the condition of the stomach indicated that some irritant had been taken. The life of deceased might possibly have been saved by proper skilled treatment applied three or four days before death. A. A. Bickerton, Colonial Analyst for Canterbury, stated that the powders given to the deceased by Stanton contained nothing but sugar. He found, however, that the stomach was affected will oxalic acid, which could not have gov into the stomach by natural means, and which was not used in medicine. One of the medical witnesses said that the presence of oxalic acid was in no way to be accounted for by the diphtheritic condition. The jury, after a short retirement, returned the following verdict: — " That deceased's death was due to diphtheria accelerated by the treatment adopted by Mr Stanton."