Looking For The Miracle.
W H „ EN a mother is fighting for the life of her child she never loses hope. To the end she believes that a miracle may happen, and the tragedy of it is that many mothers put. their faith in people with half-knowledge. The Salaman case shows the folly of looking for a miracle in the wrong quarter. The miracles of to-day are performed by medical men at the operating table and in research laboratories — never by the quack and charlatan. Yet human nature is inclined to expect the marvellous from the least likely directions. Parents, too, often put a dangerous trust in their own diagnosis of their children’s complaints, failing to realise that it is criminal to delay in taking a child to a doctor. What remorse there is for mothers behind the words: “If you had only brought him sooner.” B.E.S.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19236, 25 November 1930, Page 6
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