The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-25

ization and then swearing to another
I opposite set of facts in the district
court of Honolulu. in a case in which
he himself was the complaining wit
ness. In view of these facts 1 would
feel myself unfaithful to the trust re-
posed in me if l voted to let Wallacf
practise on lepers or any other person
l say this in reluctance in view OF
that petition from the Settlement"
DIR. BALDWIN'S POSITION IN
CHANGED.
DR.. Baldwin stated that his position
lin the matter was unchanged from
| that expressed by him at the last
meeting. He was in sympathy with
the opinions expressed by the presi-
dent, but he did not think it wise in
any case TO shift any of the RESPONSE
| bility of the board on to any commit
| tee.
I'VE will still be responsible, and
even if the committee of seven spoken
| of were satisfied with whatever cure
| Wallach might make we should still
| look carefully into the matter and see
| that we get the best expert advice on
/ the matter. The opinion of any cure
must be a medical opinion No COM
| mittee could Judge of any cure or of
any proof that Wallach might produce
| that he can cure. We are alone re-
| sponsible and it is up to us alone to
| decide whether he shall be allowed to
practise or not. I certainly do not be-
lieve that he should be allowed to
practise until he produces very salts
factory evidence concerning the cases
he says he has cured"
LEGAL QUACKS AND OTHERS.
DR.. Waysons in seconding the motion
that Wallach be allowed to go ahead
and see what he could do, stated that
he did SO because it seemed the easiest
and best way to dispose of the healer
and his claims. He defended himself
from any charge implied that he was
violating the ethics of the profession,
explaining that there were quacks in
the profession as we'll as out of it.
Although there are some politics in
this situation as it is today, / want
it distinctly understood that I am not
here representing any political party,
said DR.. Wayson Regarding Wal
ZACH and his claims I do not regard
them now as political. I believe that
of the Hawaiian people and the lepers
on Molokai. If my presence on this
board is not wanted / am ready to
resign at any time. My idea of the
ethics of my profession are as high
as are those of any member of 1t. l
have associated with men with the
very highest ethical views and / have
also seen legal quacks as well as other
ic, ranfj
in this matter at all. but my princi- |
pal reason for seconding this motion
is in order to bring the matter to a |
vote and have it settled now. The |
question as to whether Wallach can
cure feprosy or not is hard one to /
settle unless we allow him to treat a I
number of cases and see the result /
1 might bring a patient cured of tu-
berculosis to DR.. Baldwin. but If the |
patient was cured he could not tell /
if he had ever had tuberculosis, and /
DR.. baldwin is a skillfui man. The
same with leprosy, as there is a sim t
ilarity between the marks of the raw
ages of that disease and others.
Il am willing to go SO far in this I
matter as to let Wallach have num- I
Der of cases as provided for by the I
president. I know what leprosy is. I
have tried to cure cases of it. / have /
seen good results brought about, but
I have never seen a cure. I do not /
know of any cure for leprosy. ] wish
I did. But the mess which will be
stirred up while we are looking for
proof of the alleged cures of ]. Ior
WalIach and the agitation that will
come will be a darned sight worse /
than letting him try,
NOT READY FOR WALLACE ANY I
WAY.
President Pinkham explained that in
any event it would be two or three
before Wallach could be given
the proper facilities. The bids for the
new station at Kalihi would be adver-
tised for on Saturday or Monday, but
the buildings would not be ready this
year.
SELF-CURED LEPROSY.
Mr. Smith asked DIR. Wayson if 1t
would not be possible to produce proof
satisfactory to a reasonable man open
to conviction that Wallach had cured
some cases. DR.. Wayson stated that
such would be difficult to produce, as
there would be no supporting evidence
that the person had ever been a leper,
provided he were cured now.
There is no question in my nina
but that there are many cases of self
cured leprosy, the same as there are
cases of self cured tuberculosis, ne
stated. But the question now Is not
whether Wallach has or has not cured
but a question of finding out in the
quickest way whether he can or not.
II we turn him down now 1t Will not
be the end of it. Other petitions VIII
come in and we will always have IT TO
bother us. I want to see the matter
settled, and this seems to be the easl-
est way to do it,
But would that settle it?' asked
Dr.. Baldwin. 'tIn my opinion the very
east time in which anything could be
proved would be two years. Now, why
,annot WalIach or his friends bring
some of his cases to us. In the pic
ures he has published in the Referee
perhaps you have all seen them
None of us read that paper inter
POSED DR.. Wayson.
why cannot he bring some OF these