Cases of hip-disease, as it is commonly called, are often supposed by bone-setters to be cases of dislocation, and sometimes are unfortunately treated as such. I might relate many instances of this kind, but I will detain the reader with but one, which I take from Ticknor’s Medical Philosophy. In this case “the complaint had existed for some time and produced a great degree of emaciation of the affected limb, which gave to the joints an unusual prominence; and, as is common in this disease, the limb was in a flexed position. This patient had been attended by a respectable practitioner, who understood the disease, and who had done all that the art can do in this much dreaded complaint. But the natural bone-setter was sent for. He pronounced _the hip, the knee, and the ankle dislocated_; and straightway commenced furiously pulling at all these joints to get them in place. The boy shrieked, and entreated him to desist. The diseased parts being exceedingly tender and painful on the slightest motion, the complaints of the boy only made his tormentor the more confirmed in his opinion and the more persevering in his efforts to ‘set the bones.’ He did persevere till the child repeatedly fainted; and being fearful that he had _cured the patient to death_, or killed him outright, at length concluded his manipulations, by saying that he had _got the bones all in their places_. The disease was so aggravated by this cruelty, that in a few days the child’s sufferings were at an end.” The last case which I shall relate under this head, is a case of tetanus or locked-jaw. The patient had his foot crushed. He was for four days under the care of a regular surgeon. During this time such a course was pursued as was calculated to prevent the occurrence of tetanus, and the patient was in a very promising condition. But the bone-setter was sent for. He discontinued the remedies which had been used, and simply dressed the foot with a salve, which was of course of an _all-healing_ character. The foot soon became very offensive, and symptoms of locked-jaw came on, and in a few days the patient died. The bone-setter within twelve hours of his death assured him that he would get well.