It however goes on to say, that “in some country places and especially in mining districts, in which large labouring populations are much exposed to chances of injury, bone-setters become formidable opponents to regular practitioners, and, like their London representative, have their surprising cures to boast. It is true that they often inflict injury; but this is not the aspect of the case to which our attention should be first directed. They are not valued because they do harm, but because they do a certain amount of good; and the way in which this good is brought about is the matter of chief interest to the profession.” The _Lancet_ goes on to say “that quackery is only an expression of the extent to which legitimate practitioners fail to meet the desires of the sick,” and then somewhat unfairly and unjustly introduces the quack who pretends to cure phthisis or other mortal illness, as if Bone-setters professed impossibilities. After this inconsistent divergence it points out “that in the particular in question (the art of the Bone-setter) it is incontestible that a large number of irritable and useless joints have been restored to a natural condition by Bone-setters after a long period of unavailing surgical treatment, and that the profession has not known how this desirable result has been produced, or what has been the true nature of the lesion treated. The quack always said that a bone was “out” and that he had replaced it, and the doctor knew quite well that these statements were not correct. The doctor would not meet the quack; and the quack kept his methods secret, and would not show them to the doctor. The quack obtained more credit for a cure after the doctor had failed, than the doctor for a hundred cures in an ordinary course; and the Bone-setter, of all quacks was the one who did most to injure the reputation of the profession. We once heard a military man of considerable distinction describe how his son was instantly cured of a sprained knee by Hutton, after a distinguished hospital surgeon had treated him to no purpose; and the speaker wound up with the remark ‘you doctors are all duffers.’ * * * * *