The Government of Germany have permitted the publica- tion of
a report from those German doctors who objected to Sir Morel Mackenzie's treatment. They accuse the English specialist of resisting operations which were necessary, and, as we understand, of incompetence in the management of the cannula. No opinion can be formed on the merits of the controversy, even by professional men, until Sir M. Mackenzie has published his reply; but there is one broad consideration which struck the Emperor William I., and will, we think, strike our readers. The Emperor Frederick was fifty-six years of age,
and was an able man, in full possession of his faculties; and he had to decide between operations which might have killed or cured him, and a milder form of treatment which would not cure him, but might keep him alive for years. He chose the latter, and surely he was the person to choose. The German allegation is that he was deceived, and assured that he had no cancer; but there is no evidence of this whatever, and this strong evidence against it, that the German doctors had full access to the Emperor, and never concealed their opinion.
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