CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I.—Bone-Setters and their Art. | |
| “At present my desire is to have a good Bone-setter.”—Sir J. Denham. | |
Surgery in the past—The Compleat Bone-setter—Old practitioners—Sneersof the Faculty—Praise by Mr. CharlesWaterton—Mrs. Mapp of Epsom, her success—ReginaDal Cin—German toleration—The late Mr. RichardHutton—Testimony of the Lancet—Mr. Burbidge ofFrumley—Mr. Joseph Crowther of Wakefield—EgyptianBone-setters—Algerian practitioners. | [1-18] |
| CHAPTER II.—The Testimony of the Public. | |
| “The simple energy of Truth needs no ambiguous interpreters.”—Euripides. | |
Mr. C. Waterton’s case—The testimony of Mr. G. Moore,his anguish, his hesitation, and his relief. | [19] |
| CHAPTER III.—The Testimony of the Public.—Continued. | |
| “All these are good, and these we must allow, and these are everywhere inpractice now.”—Taylor, the Water Poet. | |
Mr. William Chamber’s testimony—A drummer practitioner—Varioustestimonies—An Indian civilian—Mr.Evan Thomas—A Northant’s Clergyman on the author’sskill—Cases mentioned by Dr. Wharton Hood—Mr.Hutton’s skill—The testimony of the Hon. SpencerPonsonby—The testimony of Dr. Wharton Hood—Acorrespondent of Nature, on a scientific Bone-setter. | [35] |
| CHAPTER IV.—The Testimony of the Faculty. | |
| “What in the Captain’s but a choleric word is in the soldier rank blasphemy.” | |
Sir James Paget on “Cases that Bone-setters cure”—Changeof opinion—Valuable testimony, and strangedoubts—The opinion of the British Medical Journal—TheLancet, on the Bone-setters Art—Doubts of thefaculty—Mr. Archibald Maclaren’s Independent reviewin Nature—His astonishment—“Is it quackery?” | [68] |
| CHAPTER V.—The Faculty in Doubt. | |
| “Why what you have observed, Sir, seems so impossible.”—Ben Jonson. | |
Mr. Howard Marsh’s experience—Mr. Hulke—Dr. Monckton—Dr.Bruce Clark in doubt—Dr. Keetley—A gleamof truth at the Clinical Society. | [88] |
| CHAPTER VI.—Disparagement and Vindication. | |
| “Who shall decide when doctors disagree.” | |
The Jubilee of the Medical Association—Dr. HowardMarsh on the Bone-setter—False deductions—Disparagement—Inconsistencies. | [95] |
| CHAPTER VII.—Vindication. | |
| “Is this then your wonder? nay, then you shall hear more of my skill.”—Ben Jonson. | |
Mr. R. Dacre Fox relates his experiences—Old LancashireBone-setters—What Bone-setters really do cure—Hintsfor the Doubters—A Professional Vindication. | [104] |
| CHAPTER VIII.—What Bone-Setters Cure. | |
| “Man’s life, sir, being so short, and then the way that leads unto the knowledgeof ourselves, so long and tedious; each minute should be precious.”—Beaumont & Fletcher. | |
A Bone-setter’s Refutation—The Human Skeleton and itsparts—Liability to Injury—Symptoms—The Illustrations.—Dislocations—Fracturesand Ruptures—The Arteries—Modeof stopping bleeding—Hints for Bystanders. | [116] |
| CHAPTER IX.—The Testimony of my Patients. | |
| “—— If our virtues Did not go forth of us, ’twere all alike as if we had them not.”—Shakespeare. | |
Testimonies from the Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire-LadyJohn Scott—The Rev. Dr. Dixon, Canon ofWorcester—Rev. H. G. de Bunsen, Rural Dean of Shrifnal—TheRev. R. Skipworth—The Proprietor of theLeamington Spa Courier—Mr. Pluncknett, etc., etc. | [137] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| Portrait | [Frontispiece] | |
| PLATE I.— | The Human Skeleton | [1] |
| PLATE II.— | Dislocations:— | [19] |
| Fig. 1. finger; 2. thumb; 3. hand and radiusforward; 4. radius back; 5. humerus;6. shoulder joint; 7. humerus; 8. radius forward. | ||
| PLATE III.— | Dislocations:— | [35] |
| 9. elbow; 10. radius back; 11. jaw; 12. hipoutward; 13. hip inwards. | ||
| PLATE IV.— | Dislocations:— | [68] |
| 14. shoulder joint; 15. foot inwards; 16. footbackwards; 17. knee-joint; 18. elbow. | ||
| PLATE V.— | Fractures:— | [88] |
| 19. un-united fracture; 20. pelvis; 21. humerus;22. scapula; 23. jaw; 24. femur. | ||
| PLATE VI.— | Fractures:— | [95] |
| 25. humerus, lower extremity; 26. humerus;27. ulna; 28. leg (fibula). | ||
| PLATE VII.— | Fractures etc.:— | [103] |
| 29. a dislocated spine; 30. Colles’ fracture;31. Colles’ fracture; 32. fractured patella;33. fractured femur; 34. rupturedbiceps. | ||
| PLATE VIII.— | Ruptures and Dislocations:— | [116] |
| 36. Pott’s fracture (showing sinews); 37.Pott’s fracture (badly set); 38. rupture ofthe rectus femoris; 39. dislocation of themetatarsus; 40. dislocation of metatarsalbones. | ||
PLATE I.—THE HUMAN SKELETON.