Dr A. James has asked Health Minister Jago to help him win a Nobel Prize.
"Let me, by my discovery of the cause of asthma, create a healthy nation of Australians," he said in a letter he posted to the Minister.
He said his asthma cure and the results it would obtain if taught in official Government clinics, would make a Nobel Prize "an imminent reality."
"And you, as well as Australia, my step-mother country, will be proud to take part in the fame and glory of one more Australian Nobel Prize winner," his letter stated.
Dr James was referring to a statement made to him in Brisbane recently by Professor B. Rose, immuno-chemistry and allergy director of Royal Victoria Hospital, Canada.
Dr Rose told Dr James that if his claims of a 100 per cent cure of asthma were correct, he should get the Nobel Prize.
Dr James was in Brisbane to attend the Australian Medical Congress and to promote his drug-free method of curing asthma.
Dr James, in his letter to Mr Jago yesterday, asked him to change the terms under which a "Dr James Clinic" could be set up at Wollongong Hospital.
Dr James, 90, of Bourke Street, North Wollongong, has been seeking official recognition of his cure for 30 years.
Last July Mr Jago approved the setting up of an asthma clinic at Wollongong Hospital to evaluate scientifically Dr James' method. However, Dr James refused to take part in the clinic under the conditions the Minister laid down.
The Minister's conditions included a supervising committee of representatives of the University of Sydney and the University of N.S.W., the Health Department and the N.S.W. branch of the Australian Medical Association.
Yesterday he asked Mr Jago to replace these conditions with "an ordinary clinical trial of my methods".
He said Dr R. Boden, president of the Council of Honorary Physicians in Wollongong, was in full agreement with his opinion that the usual clinical trial would be sufficient in evaluation or assessment of the efficiency of his method.
Dr James told The Mercury he was anxious to see a "Dr James Clinic" set up at Wollongong Hospital.
"But it must be under my supervision and not that of a Government or any other body," he said.