happily with the best results. I have never needed the use of crutches since, and although it was some time before I gained much strength in the leg, I am now able to walk as well as before the injury. I forgot to mention that before leaving Mr. Hutton’s house I walked up a flight of stairs and down again, a feat I had not accomplished for years.” As a contribution to the patient’s point of view, and as a pendant to some remarks made in the course of the preceding pages, Dr. Hood thought it desirable to print a portion of the letter that accompanied the narrative:— “_May, 1871._ “MY DEAR SIR,—In my communication I have confined myself to a relation of facts only, abstaining from all comment, but I should now like to say that I think you are doing great service to the public in bringing the subject of (so-called) bone-setting prominently before the profession, so as to induce them to give it a measure of attention, instead of pooh-poohing it, as has been their almost invariable practice hitherto. In my own case, after submitting to Mr. Hutton’s manipulation, I was instantly relieved from that pain, tension, and coldness in the joint that I had suffered for six years, and was able to walk. This recovery, which to myself and friends seemed little short of a miracle, was thus accounted for by the faculty:—Mr. A—— (whose patient I had been) on the subject being mentioned to him, laughed, and said, with a significant shrug, ‘Yes, yes! a nervous knee! we all know what nervous knees are! ay! ay!’ Mr. B——, who, as a friend, had seen my knee frequently (though not professionally) assured all who mentioned the case to him that I might have walked twelve months earlier had I cared to do so. Other medical men accounted for the manifest change in my condition on one hypothesis and another, whilst all affected to smile at my ignorance and delusion. “Thus much as to the profession, but what were my own thoughts and those of my friends and the public generally? I was like the man spoken of in the Gospels, who had been blind, and now could see I had been lame and in pain, but could now walk and was at ease. I cared nothing for professional sneers as to nervous or not nervous; and had the whole College of Surgeons clearly demonstrated to their entire satisfaction that I could not possibly have been benefitted by Mr. Hutton’s treatment, my opinion would not have been shaken by it.