DR. AM - UM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As one
of many thousands personally benefiting from the skill of Dr. Axham I should like, with your permission; to add my voice to the rest in the hope that the G.M.C. will of their grace call a meeting to consider, if the " discipline " put upon Dr. Axham has not been overdone. In such times as these a little grace would be a wise thing, for some valuable contributions have been, and will be, made to the healing arts by persons the Council may be glad to recognize. What would they do with a doctor who helped a layman to apply a positive cure -for, say, cancer ? Would they penalize him ? But is not Dr. Axham's position just that ? No surgeon would touch my knee, insisting that I should be either stiff-legged for life; or hook-legged. For twenty years I got about as I could. Then friends sent me to Mr. Barker— as he was then—and inside half an hour I was in and out of his house and walking to the station as any normal man— and never any trouble since. Surely, Sir, it is deplorable beyond any words of mine or of speech itself to penalize a man for assisting in a beneficent work of this kind, especially as a mode of cure was adopted which the orthodox profession has overlooked.—I am, Sir; &c.,
SYDNEY J. ENGLAND.
8 Kent Gardens, Ealing, London, W. 13.
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