tibia, he will find himself neither better nor worse for his venture.” * * * * * I have quoted Mr. Howard Marsh thus far without comment in order to show that he is something like the Old Bailey advocate, who thinks to serve his clients best by abusing the attorney on the opposite side. He seems neither to have learned Sir James Paget’s admissions, or was anxious to pose as a dogmatic teacher at the expense alike of truth and experience. His whole knowledge and deductions are made from the two or three cases related by Dr. Wharton Hood, for so learned a doctor was not likely to look for facts in the domain of general literature outside the schools. He then proceeded to say—“But how is it that Bone-setters sometimes succeed where surgeons have failed? My answer is the following:—There are a considerable number of minor ailments of and around the joints that interfere with free movement, or produce pain, such as adhesions, slipped tendons, hysterical affections, rigidity of the muscles, &c. These conditions, though they differ widely from each other, and are met with under a great variety of circumstances, have yet this one point in common, that they may be cured by free movement. “Now, how have Bone-setting and surgery respectively dealt with these cases? What is Bone-setting? Bone-setting is a system embodied in a single clause. Ignoring alike anatomy, pathology, and diagnosis, it begins and ends in a summary act of treatment. It consists in the process of carrying the affected joint through its full natural range of movement in all directions, especially in the direction in which there is the greatest resistance. Thus, a Bone-setter, who says, in every case alike that a bone is out, and that he can put it in, is like a practitioner who should tell all his patients alike that their complaint was constipation, and should promise to cure them all with sulphate of magnesia. Now, although sulphate of magnesia given for strangulated hernia or typhoid, or Bone-setting employed for sarcoma or a scrofulous joint, can do nothing but harm, there are many cases in which both these agents do real good; and these genuine successes, like the fragment of truth that lies at the bottom of every method which shows any sustained vitality, are enough, when they are seen through the glamour that surrounds this system to outweigh in the eyes of the public the failures that stand on the other side of the account. How has it been with surgery? Surgery is no stranger to the use of manipulation. The method has frequently been employed, and is fully discussed in the writings of many surgical authorities; but it has always been unpopular; and for this reason.