those who have trusted our skill and who have seen no cause to regret it. There may, indeed, be persons who call themselves bone-setters, who are ignorant, presumptuous, and destitute alike of skill and experience, whose blunders are charged on the profession generally—there may be many such whose names are even in the _Medical Registry_—but no one can read the testimony of men beyond the reach of bribe, and who have no personal interest to serve, without admitting that there are Bone-setters who have both skill and experience as well as the ability to use their acquirements for the benefit of suffering mankind. The art, it is true, may not be taught in schools, but it is at least as old as Hippocrates, if not coeval with mankind’s “loss of Eden.” I have felt it a duty to myself, to my relatives, to my patients and friends, as well as to my fellow professors of the art to publish this testimony and vindication. I have acknowledged as far as possible the sources from which I have taken the information in the following pages, if any have been accidentally omitted, I hope this apology will be sufficient. To those friends who have helped me with their advice and supervision of these pages I tender my warmest thanks, as well as to those patients who have offered their testimony to my own skill and success, and allowed me to add them to those collected from public sources for this book, as Turner wrote in his edition to “The Compleat Bone-setter” some two hundred years ago is not intended for Sutorian or Scissarium doctors, but I leave them amongst the Caco-Chymists, to boast of their _arcanas_, but not of their reason, whilst I shall modestly remain GEO. MATTHEWS BENNETT, Milverton, Leamington, Easter, 1884. _ERRATA._ Page 16, line 10, for “Captain” _read_ “Copt.” Page 32, line 14, for “hind” _read_ “him.” Page 85, line 4, for “former” _read_ “latter.” Page 123, line 10, for “hreak” _read_ “break.” Page 132, line 4, _dele_ “which.” PLATE 4, Figure 18, “tibia and fibula” are misprinted for “ulna and radius.” CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.—BONE-SETTERS AND THEIR ART. “At present my desire is to have a good Bone-setter.”—Sir J. DENHAM. Surgery in the past—_The Compleat Bone-setter_—Old practitioners—Sneers of the Faculty—Praise by Mr. Charles Waterton—Mrs. Mapp of Epsom, her success—_Regina Dal Cin_—German toleration—The late Mr. Richard Hutton—Testimony of the _Lancet_—Mr. Burbidge of Frumley—Mr. Joseph Crowther of Wakefield—Egyptian Bone-setters—Algerian practitioners. 1-18 CHAPTER II.—THE TESTIMONY OF THE PUBLIC. “The simple energy of Truth needs no ambiguous interpreters.”—EURIPIDES. Mr. C. Waterton’s case—The testimony of Mr. G. Moore, his anguish, his hesitation, and his relief. 34 CHAPTER III.—THE TESTIMONY OF THE PUBLIC.—_Continued._