INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 6

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Sir, —Your correspondent, Mr. R. L. Thompson's, logical faculty appears to have come unstuck, or perhaps has never developed. He seems to be under an impression that disease can be reduced by tinkering with its symptoms. Quite the contrary. Not only do orthodox medical methods do nothing to abolish disease; they are themselves the second in importance of its two principal causes. Whatever has war service to do with the abolition of disease? And does it ever occur to Mr. Thompson, or to the doctors, why so many children are crippled and sick? When I, or any of the numerous others who can supply the answer, offer to explain, the doctors maintain what another correspondent calls a “dignified silence.” A poor description of a nunworthy defence. The fact is that not only do doctors not desire to see disease abolished, they are actually doing almost everything in their power to prevent that happening. If, as Mr. Thompson asserts, the doctors' great aim is to reduce disease to a minimum, why do they always ignore, ridicule, or persecute anyone who shows how to do it? Does Mr. Thompson imagine that I have for three years been contending with the deliberate opposition of my colleagues without knowing what I am talking about? By the way, my letter dealt with the cause of infantile paralysis. What have Mr. Thompson and the medicos he feels called upon to defend to say about that? Another “dignified silence"? —I am, etc., ULRIC WILLIAMS.