In the remarks that I have made upon the mistakes of uneducated bone-setters, I wish not to be understood to claim that educated surgeons never make any mistakes in their treatment of fractured and dislocated limbs. They are not infallible, and some of them, I am free to say, know very little about bone-setting, and have very little skill in it. There is a mechanical tact which is necessary to make a physician a good bone-setter, and some are so destitute of this tact, that they are not even able to extract a tooth decently well. But I do claim, that educated medical men, generally, do have vastly more skill in this department of surgery, than the herd of uneducated bone-setters. If the claims of natural bone-setters be just—if it be true, as they say it is, that surgeons are constantly making mistakes, which _their_ innate skill is as constantly taxed to correct, then we should expect, that in those parts of the country, which are not blessed with bone-setters, there would be cripples in abundance, the victims of educated unskillfulness. But I have never heard that it is so. There has been no complaint that it is. And I have not a doubt that in the neighborhood of every natural bone-setter, there can be found more deformed and crippled limbs, than can be found in any similar neighborhood, where educated surgeons are not so fortunate as to have infallible possessors of the gift of bone-setting standing ready to correct their errors. If the bad cases which occur in the practice of natural bone-setters could be found in the practice of regular physicians, they would be frequently prosecuted for mal-practice, and damages would be recovered of them by the sufferers. But I doubt very much whether anything would be gained by prosecuting a bone-setter for the grossest mal-practice. People are generally more willing to make allowances for the uneducated bone-setter, than for an educated surgeon; though, at the same time, inconsistent as it may appear, they may claim that by virtue of a divine gift he is infallible. One would suppose that cases resulting badly would lead them to doubt his boasted infallibility. But no. They infer that these cases were beyond the reach of the highest skill in the world, and that it was impossible that they should have come to any better result. They seem to regard it almost as a sin to express the least doubt to the contrary. With this state of feeling, existing to such an extent as it does in some parts of the country, no jury could be found sufficiently unprejudiced to inflict any just penalty upon a bone-setter for mal-practice; though they would inflict it to the full, if the same facts were proved to them in regard to any educated surgeon.