12 DECEMBER 1925, Page 16

THE CASE OF DR. AXIIAM

[To the Editor of the Sexereroa.]

San,—Will you permit me to say how profoundly I approve of the weighty and righteous support which is being given to the movement to reinstate that courageous and far-seeing practitioner, Dr. Axhaan ?

Probably no single action of the General Medical Council has so lowered its prestige and damaged its reputation as this most regrettable blunder. It was left to His Majesty the King to honour that long persecuted pioneer, Herbert Barker, for the work Dr. Axham was privileged to further ; and the delay on the part of the medical authorities to make the amender honorable to Dr. Axham will not make a pleasant page in surgical history.

The Spectator has added one more to its lengthy list of public services by giving space to the discussion of this important matter, and the distinguished medical men who have so nobly supported the plea that their colleague should be restored to' his now doubly rightful position on the Register have advanced. their reputation amongst all justice-loving people.—I am,