‘In the meantime, we had been put on the track of the case by a distinguished physician, and had obtained a report of the case from the surgeon who operated. All, therefore, that was wanting was the name of the book from which the quotation purported to be taken. We communicated with Bishop Mylne on the subject, and we have to acknowledge the courtesy with which he received our request for information and the pains he took to procure it for us. _His Lordship was, however, unable to gain the consent of those to whom he applied to help in any way in supplying an answer to a very simple question._[12] As the matter is one of general interest not only to the medical profession but to the whole of mankind, we think it right to give the true facts of the case, of course without disclosing the patient’s identity. [12] The italics are mine. The Bishop is one whose statements, made on behalf of ‘spiritual healing,’ have been accepted by persons at any rate adequately educated. He writes a preposterous account of ‘an abortive cancer,’ and professes to quote from ‘the latest up-to-date book on cancer, which is in the hands of the most scientific men of to-day.’ On being asked to give the name of the book, he says that he cannot ‘obtain the consent of those to whom he applied.’ ‘The operator was Mr. Butlin, who has been good enough to give us permission to publish the following account. He saw the patient, who was at that time thirty-seven years of age, in 1890. There was then a very white patch, flat and sessile, on the middle of the left vocal cord, looking like a papillary growth. A month later the surface seemed to be ulcerated. The patient was seen by other well-known specialists, who, like Mr. Butlin himself, were puzzled as to the nature of the disease. Tubercle, papillary growth and malignant disease were in turn considered, but no definite conclusion was arrived at. The patient was treated in various ways for four months before it was thought right to open the larynx. Mr. Butlin then operated in the presence of an eminent specialist, a distinguished surgeon, and another medical man, a friend of the patient.’ Somewhat to curtail the account, let me simply say that when the larynx was opened it appeared that they had to do with a case either of what is known as leukoplakia or a rather rare form of papilloma. The latter seemed on the face of it to be the more probable, though evidently Mr. Butlin did not think so. Whatever it was, it was certainly not malignant. It was scraped away without difficulty: no signs of infiltration were observed, and, when last heard of, the patient’s recovery seemed to be complete. The rest of the article in the _British Medical Journal_ consists of some criticisms of Dr. Mylne’s proceedings, which certainly do not appear to me to err on the side of severity.