The other case was that of a lady, who had been long confined to her bed with a spinal disease. She supposed, and her friends did also, that it was not possible for her to move her back at all. A physician, to whom one of her friends described the case, said that he had no doubt that the disease had all been removed by the treatment which had been pursued, and that the patient could move about, and ought in some way to be made to do so. He saw that, as in the case just related, the sensitiveness and inability of motion were chiefly or wholly imaginary. And he predicted, that if she should be put under the care of a bone-setter, as her friends had contemplated, he would get her up and rub her back with his medicated applications, and she would be able to walk about in a very short time. She was carried to the bone-setter, the prediction was verified, and her father, a distinguished clergyman, gave the quack a certificate of the wonderful cure. I remark upon these two cases—that, while Dr. Smith prescribed intelligently, the bone-setter only _chanced_ to hit right—that while the discrimination of Dr. S. saved him from applying a similar treatment to cases to which it would be inapplicable, the bone-setter does much, sometimes fatal, harm to many cases by his lack of this discrimination, (cases which somehow fail to be reported)—and lastly, that while Dr. S. had no public testimony paid to the success of his discriminating skill, the _lucky hit_ of the quack has been proclaimed, by the certificate of the clergyman, as the result of pre-eminent skill, throughout the length and breadth of the land. There is still another class of cases to be noticed. Sometimes the motions of a joint are impeded, while there is no obvious deformity; and yet the case may be something more than a mere sprain, and often turns out to be so, when the subsidence of the swelling reveals the true nature of the case. It is a sub-luxation. That is, the bone is _partially_ thrown out of place, but is not fairly out of joint. In such cases merely pulling upon the joint is commonly enough to set it. As soon as the bones are sufficiently separated to allow of it, the dislocated one slips into its place, or rather is drawn into it by the muscles. I have no doubt that many such cases, pronounced by physicians to be sprains, are remedied by the bone-setter, not from any superior skill on his part, but from the fact that he makes it a practice to pull the joint in every case. One great source of the reputation of bone-setters is to be found in the flaming reports of their cases, made by themselves and their friends, _most of which are either partly or wholly false_. These reports are got up precisely in the same way that the reports of the great cures of other quacks are, and they have the same influence.