These two cases, taken from the two extremes of rank and intelligence in society, are fair examples of the imposition which is so frequently practised by the bone-setter upon all classes of his patients. In this connexion I will notice another class of cases not so numerous, in which the bone-setter either imagines or pretends there is fracture, when there is nothing but a sprain, or an injury of the nerves of the limb, producing inability of motion. Such cases, at least in old persons, recover slowly. If the bone-setter puts on his splints, he commits a great error, but it is an error that may not be detected. The splints are taken off in due time, and the limb has recovered through the influence of rest alone. There is another small class of cases from which bone-setters get much credit, and in which their bold practice, I will candidly allow, sometimes really does good. In the recovery of injured joints there sometimes form adhesions, which seriously impair their power of motion. I have said that the bone-setter operates on almost every case that presents, and he takes hold of these cases with a strong hand. He breaks up the adhesions, and sets the joint free. A regular surgeon would hesitate to do it, from the fear of inflicting an injury upon his patient greater than he would suffer if the joint were to remain with its limited power of motion. The bone-setter fearlessly runs this risk, for he has no very delicate sense of responsibility to prevent him from doing it; and if he does harm, he knows that a large portion of the community have so high an idea of his ‘gift,’ that they will absolve him from all blame. He may do great violence at times, and make some very bad cases; but there is little said about these, while the cases in which he has the good fortune to be successful are in everybody’s mouth.