Tanner in Explanation

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11167, 30 January 1904, Page 7

Tanner in Explanation

TO THE EDITOE. Sir,— Rp i\ paragraph wliich appeared in the N.Z. I it-Bits of 10-day's issue, which reads aa follows: — "Here % is a case of a medical man attending Felix Tanner for sonic .days, and he must have known that the town water ivas unfit to drink. Still, thin lasting man was not told to stop until .mother doctor came to see him, and eaid, 'Had I known you wore drinking the tow u water, even filtered, I would not have countenanced the fast.' So he tuerc aud then lie Avould scud filtered orator from, his own house every day till the fa&t was over. Jfoiv. why didn't the other doctor, who had examined him, find that out S* That is where doctors differ and pa<ientH suffer!'' Tn justice to the doctor referred 'to T beg to slato that )he fault was my own and not the doctor's, as he strongly advised me against the town water. But as I have never before used filtered water during a fast, I tried to avoid it on this occasion. But on the advice of the second . doctor, who offered to supply filtered water from his Q,wa house, I decided to change. — I am, etc.,

rELIX TANNER.