“At all events, for good or evil, the treatment pursued by Bone-setters will now be fairly before the profession and scientifically educated surgeons will soon be in a position to define accurately its merits, its dangers, and the limitations of its usefulness. Its application by ignorant men to unsuitable cases has often been followed by injurious consequences; but no such consequences ought to occur in the hands of the profession. We have little doubt that Dr. Wharton Hood has really called attention to a neglected corner of the domain of surgery, to morbid conditions that have been only very faintly described in books, and scarcely at all recognised in practice, to precautions that have been either unfounded or exaggerated, and to a method of cure at once simple and intelligible. We hope to see as the result of his labour, that the art of the Bone-setters will become extinct, after having been for a time exercised only upon those cases for which treatment by movement would be really unsuitable, and, as a necessary consequence, hurtful instead of curative. “There may be other forms of quackery also under which some valuable knowledge may lie concealed; and no better service can be rendered to the profession or the public than to bring quack knowledge to the light of day, and to make it available for the general good.” The publication of Dr. Wharton Hood’s book had however a different effect on the public mind than what was intended. There was previously a sort of general belief that the doctors might be right in dubbing Bone-setters “quacks” without much discrimination as to who the bone-setter was. Some of the complaints which appeared in the _Lancet_ prior to this, were like the petulant utterances of a child deprived of its plaything, rather than the opinions of a scientific inquirer, for it must have struck the thinking part of the faculty, as it subsequently did Sir James Paget, and gleamed on the writer in the _Lancet_, that the fame of the many cures could not have been the effect of chance, or the “luck” of ignorant charlatans. Mr. Archibald Maclaren, who noticed Dr. Hood’s book in _Nature_, seems to have been aware of this. He pertinently says with reference to his work _On Bone-setting_, “It will be asked, What is Bone-setting, who are the Bone-setters, and who are their patients? And it will be readily answered Why, of course, Bone-setting is the art of setting bones that have been broken, or joints that have been dislocated, and this is done doubtless by surgeons; and equally doubtless, and of course their patients are persons whose bones are fractured, or whose joints are dislocated— “There needs no ghost come from The grave to tell us that.”