25 JUNE 1942, Page 12

FREEDOM IN MEDICINE

Sig,—It has been most gratifying to notice the subjects you have recend raised in The Spectator, and I should be obliged if you would add few words on the very necessary claim of medical freedom.

Amidst all the talk about freedom of worship and speech and minorities, it still is true that no one is allowed on the wireless or in th daily Press to state completely the claims for freedom in medicine.

If people want to go to a medical practitioner who uses the allopath system of medicine they should have a right to do so; but if people to go to a Herbal practitioner they should hs.e the right EtISOI Is it too much to ask that all who claim religious freedom, Bapu Congregationalists, Methodists and Presbyterians, should support recognition and proper registration of qualified Herbalists and who practise systems of naturC healing?—Yours faithfully,