Matters Medical.

White Ribbon, Volume 3, Issue 35, 1 May 1898, Page 11

Matters Medical.

The journal of the Medical Nonconformists’ Defence and Protection League, England, has among others been forwarded to us. If it carries out all it at present intends it will be a boon to “ the people ” for whom it caters. Its manifesto is full of strong intent, it declares itself “ established to uphold the rights of the people to choose for themselves that form of medical treatment they put faith in, irrespective of Medical Registration ; the suppression of unnecessary surgical operations, which are converting our hospitals into so many abbatoirs; compulsory vaccination, vivisection, and the rapidly growing custom of registered medical martinets to regard and use our hospitals as endowed schools for experimental research on the poor and helpless, who are compelled to seek an asylum within their walls. “ The advocacy of a natural and therefore more rational system of medication than at present in vogue, and the exposure of quackery (i.e., medical rascality) no matter by whom practised. ‘ Deo adjuvante non timndum.' Edited by J. P. Dowling." This, if carried out with reasonableness, righteousness, and justice to ail sides will be a source of power. There is certainly great need for radical reform, and the months and days which may intervene between the desire for justice, and the bringing about of justice in action, will be filled with Me cries and suffering of those tortured beyond bearing. We certainly hold that no torture is justifiable, and heartily sympathise with any attempt to bring to an end the shamefully numerous opportunities for torture now held by unscrupulous persons with the sanction of the highest authority.— Shafts.