The second case which I shall mention occurred in the practice of Professor Hooker in New Haven. A man fell from a canal bridge and fractured the neck of the scapula, the bone which is commonly called the shoulder-blade. There was depression of the arm similar to that which occurs in common dislocation of the shoulder; but the crepitus and other symptoms obviously distinguished the case from simple dislocation. Professor H. dressed the shoulder in such a way as to secure a perfect apposition of the two surfaces of the fracture; and, if the man had continued under his care, a complete union would undoubtedly have taken place, and he would have had a good shoulder. But at the end of a week Professor H. found the apparatus removed and the arm simply supported in a sling. The patient had been to see a natural bone-setter, who convinced him that the Professor had mistaken the case—that there was no fracture, but a simple dislocation. He accordingly ‘set’ the shoulder. The patient was much easier than he was with the confinement of Professor H.’s apparatus, and he was gratified with the bone-setter’s assurance that the shoulder would soon be well. He continued to have confidence in the opinion of the bone-setter for about six weeks. Then, as the shoulder was no better, he went again to Professor H. It was now of course too late to remedy the fracture, and the poor man has a crippled shoulder for life, as the result of his foolish reliance upon the ‘natural’ skill of a bone-setter. The third case was related to me by Dr. Mercer, of New London in this State. It was a case of oblique fracture of the thigh. The evidence that it was a fracture was of the most palpable character; and yet the most famous ‘natural’ bone-setter in this part of the country, who has imparted his ‘gift’ to his descendants, and even to those who are connected with them by marriage, stripped off the dressings of Dr. M., pronounced the case a dislocation, and proceeded to ‘set’ it. The patient supposed that all was right, for the bone-setter was considered infallible. But many of the inhabitants of New London well remember the poor old man Bolton, who for so many years with his crooked thigh, which was pronounced so confidently by the bone-setter to be ‘set,’ literally crawled about the streets.