Perhaps not, but the answer is quite wrong for all that; quite the reverse, indeed, of what is actually the case, for _Bone-setting is_ NOT _the art of re-setting broken bones or dislocated joints; Bone-setters are_ NOT _surgeons_, or regular practitioners in any sense of the title; and then patients, even when they have suffered injury to joint or bone, have been pronounced by the regular practitioner _cured_ before seeking the help of the Bone-setter.” The writer very properly calls this “a triple paradox,” and quotes what Dr. Hood has to say in explanation:— “A healthy man sustains a fracture of one or both bones of the forearm, and applies at a hospital, where splints are adapted in the usual way. He is made an out-patient, and the splints are occasionally taken off and replaced. “After the lapse of a certain number of weeks the fracture becomes firmly united, the splints are laid aside, and the man is discharged cured. He is still unable to use either his hand or his forearm, but is assured that his difficulty arises only from the stiffness incidental to long rest of them, and that it will soon disappear. Instead of disappearing, it rather increases, and in due time he seeks the aid of the Bone-setter. The arm and forearm are then bent nearly at a right angle to each other; the forearm is intermediate between pronation and supenation; the hand in a line with it; and the fingers straight and rigid, the patient being unable to move them, and also unable to move either the wrist or elbow. Passive motion can be accomplished within narrow limits, thus produces sharp pain, distinctly localised in some single spot about each joint, in which spot there will be also tenderness in pressure. “The Bone-setter will tell the man that his wrist and his elbow are “out.” The man may object that the injury has been in the middle of the forearm, perhaps from a blow or other direct violence. The reply be then; perhaps the arm had indeed been broken as alleged, but that the wrist and the elbow had been put out at the same time, and that these injuries had been overlooked by the doctors. The Bone-setters would then, by a rapid manipulation hereafter to be described, at once overcome the stiffness of the fingers, and enabled the patient to move them to and fro. The instant benefit received would dispel all scruples about submitting the wrist and elbow to manipulation, and these also would be set free in their turn. The man would go away easily flexing and extending his lately rigid joints, and fully convinced that he had sustained grievous harm at the hands of his legitimate doctors.”