Friar Moulton gives a recipe of a similar kind to be applied whilst the bone is “setting.” Cateron, in his _Travels in Algeria_, gives a instance of the same mode of treatment. He writes, “On our return, I called upon the Schiek, Lisaid-Mansor, I found him stretched on a couch built of stonework, cemented with clay, covered only with a few rags, and with a stone for a pillow. His leg surrounded with bandages and herbs, was firmly tied up in and kept straight by a thick slip of bark. His foot was immovably fixed to a stake, stuck in the ground. He is obliged to remain in this condition until the bones are united. This severe treatment is not unfrequently fatal, but, if the Arab has a good constitution, and gangrene does not set in, he recovers with a limb more or less straight. The poor Schiek was busy flipping off with a handkerchief tied to a stick, the swarms of flies which were attracted to his wound. At the foot of the couch was the Tebib or surgeon, himself reciting incantations like his Egyptian predecessors, and prayers over the broken limb. He appeared much put out by my entrance, for the Arabs think that all Europeans understand medicine; but he was re-assured when he saw I looked on without interfering.” There have been many, and are still Bone-setters of eminence in different parts of the country, who are ready with their welcome and useful services, when other Denhams cry out for “a good bone-setter.” The benefits they have conferred in the past on the sufferers by external violence will be indicated by the testimony of well-known public personages in the next chapter. [Illustration: PLATE II.—DISLOCATIONS. 1. Dislocated Finger. 2. Dislocated Thumb. 3. Dislocation of hand and radius forwards. 4. Dislocation of radius and ulna forwards. 5. Subglenoid dislocation of humerus. 6. Outward appearance of ditto. 7. Subcoracoid dislocation of humerus. 8. Dislocation of radius forwards (outward appearance).] CHAPTER II. _THE TESTIMONY OF THE PUBLIC._ “The simple energy of Truth needs no ambiguous interpreters.”—_Euripides._ In answer to the frequent questions as to what special good Bone-setters have done in their special calling I have thought it best to let the relieved patients of others speak before my own. First, because they are well-known. Their cases are indisputable, and they show that Bone-setters understand their art. I have culled these cases from various sources, all of which I have acknowledged as far as possible. I have already quoted Mr. Charles Waterton’s opinion of Bone-setters from his “_Wanderings of a Naturalist_.” I will now direct attention to the cure he vouches for by the Yorkshire Bone-setters:—