The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-10-10
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sRoAD-MlNDEDNEss WANTED.

The Republican feels that the Board
OK Health has shown itself to be large
~ guided By a narrowness not credit
able to the membership in its scant
courtesy shown the application Of DR..
George J. Augur 70 experiment with q
treatment the Doctor believes viii re
suit in finding a cure for leprosy.
Dr. Augur is informed that he can
send bis remedy to DR.. Oliver, the
resident physician at the leper settle
ment. IN the custody OF the Superin-
tenJent. a plain intimation being car
rled between the lines, that any and
all such remedies win receive as
scaut consideration at the hands Of
the superintendent and Dr. Oliver as
the Board gave to Dr.. Augur's request
We are surprised that a body Ike the
Board OF Heath. dominated by doc
tors. should be so narrow and yet 1t
would seem to be in keeping with
many other things in the so-callsd
ethics" OF the medical profession
True. Or. Augur is a Homeopathic
physician while the medical men on
the Board OF Health are Alapaths.
But In all candor we would Ike to ask
the gentlemen what they suppose
would have been the reply OF DIT. Pas
teur 20 the French institute when he
asked permission to experiment with
what he believed to be a cure for
hydrophobia IL be had been told to
send his preparation, or remedy, TO
the medical men in charge OF the in
stitute and they would experiment for
him. What do the gentlemen think
Dr. Hankine. the diseoverer of the
propholaeuc for bubonic plague, would
have replied to the Board Of Health Of
Vienna, when be was making his ex-
periments. II he had been told to give
his preparations and remedies to some
one else 20 experiment with? What
would DIT. Yersine, the discoyerer OF
the curative serum. have replied IL he
had been told to furnish his ideas and
remedies to some one else to expert
ment withg Don't you think that all
OF these eminent medical men would
have considered such a suggestion a
gross insultg
There is no known cure or proven
tive for leprosy. No other country on
earth has so many lepers in proportion
to the population as the Hawaiian ISL
ands, Leprosy has been the great
plague here for more than half CEN
tury and yet the doctors OF the Islands
know no more about the dread disease
today than they did fifty years ago.
Those in charge OF the Board OF
Health seem 10 have worked upon the
principle that any ioetor who believ-
ed he could discover cure for lepro-
sy. II given the opportunity to expert
ment. was a vislonist who must be
suppressed.
God knows no doctor is going to
make experiments that can possibly
make leprosy any worse than it is or
make the condition Of the patient any
worse than II is. while it is possible
that by opening the doors to expert
ments some cure for the disease or at
least some remedy retarding the
progress OF the disease might be dis
covered.
The Republican believes that every
doctor who is willing to give Of his
time ami talent to experiment with
leprosy with q view to discovering a
cure or preventive OF the dread dis
ease should De given the broadcast op-
porsunity to carry on his work re
gardless Of whether he belong to the
Homeopathic. Alapathic, Electic or
any other school of medicine. The
only requirement should be that he
be a regularly graduated physician in
good standing. Il is time to ahoiish
the old nArrovness that has ruled here
Tor 50 long