| CHAPTER I.—Bone-Setters and their Art. |
| “At present my desire is to have a good Bone-setter.”—Sir J. Denham. |
| Surgery in the past—The Compleat Bone-setter—Old practitioners—Sneers of the Faculty—Praise by Mr. Charles Waterton—Mrs. Mapp of Epsom, her success—Regina Dal Cin—German toleration—The late Mr. Richard Hutton—Testimony of the Lancet—Mr. Burbidge of Frumley—Mr. Joseph Crowther of Wakefield—Egyptian Bone-setters—Algerian practitioners. | 1-18 |
| CHAPTER II.—The Testimony of the Public. |
| “The simple energy of Truth needs no ambiguous interpreters.”—Euripides. |
| Mr. C. Waterton’s case—The testimony of Mr. G. Moore, his anguish, his hesitation, and his relief. | 19 |
| CHAPTER III.—The Testimony of the Public.—Continued. |
| “All these are good, and these we must allow, and these are everywhere in practice now.”—Taylor, the Water Poet. |
| Mr. William Chamber’s testimony—A drummer practitioner—Various testimonies—An Indian civilian—Mr. Evan Thomas—A Northant’s Clergyman on the author’s skill—Cases mentioned by Dr. Wharton Hood—Mr. Hutton’s skill—The testimony of the Hon. Spencer Ponsonby—The testimony of Dr. Wharton Hood—A correspondent of Nature, on a scientific Bone-setter. | 35 |
| CHAPTER IV.—The Testimony of the Faculty. |
| “What in the Captain’s but a choleric word is in the soldier rank blasphemy.” |
| Sir James Paget on “Cases that Bone-setters cure”—Change of opinion—Valuable testimony, and strange doubts—The opinion of the British Medical Journal—The Lancet, on the Bone-setters Art—Doubts of the faculty—Mr. Archibald Maclaren’s Independent review in Nature—His astonishment—“Is it quackery?” | 68 |
| CHAPTER V.—The Faculty in Doubt. |
| “Why what you have observed, Sir, seems so impossible.”—Ben Jonson. |
| Mr. Howard Marsh’s experience—Mr. Hulke—Dr. Monckton—Dr. Bruce Clark in doubt—Dr. Keetley—A gleam of truth at the Clinical Society. | 88 |
| CHAPTER VI.—Disparagement and Vindication. |
| “Who shall decide when doctors disagree.” |
| The Jubilee of the Medical Association—Dr. Howard Marsh on the Bone-setter—False deductions—Disparagement—Inconsistencies. | 95 |
| CHAPTER VII.—Vindication. |
| “Is this then your wonder? nay, then you shall hear more of my skill.”—Ben Jonson. |
| Mr. R. Dacre Fox relates his experiences—Old Lancashire Bone-setters—What Bone-setters really do cure—Hints for the Doubters—A Professional Vindication. | 104 |
| CHAPTER VIII.—What Bone-Setters Cure. |
| “Man’s life, sir, being so short, and then the way that leads unto the knowledge of ourselves, so long and tedious; each minute should be precious.”—Beaumont & Fletcher. |
| A Bone-setter’s Refutation—The Human Skeleton and its parts—Liability to Injury—Symptoms—The Illustrations.—Dislocations—Fractures and Ruptures—The Arteries—Mode of stopping bleeding—Hints for Bystanders. | 116 |
| CHAPTER IX.—The Testimony of my Patients. |
“—— If our virtues
Did not go forth of us, ’twere all alike as if we had them not.”—Shakespeare. |
| Testimonies from the Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire-Lady John Scott—The Rev. Dr. Dixon, Canon of Worcester—Rev. H. G. de Bunsen, Rural Dean of Shrifnal—The Rev. R. Skipworth—The Proprietor of the Leamington Spa Courier—Mr. Pluncknett, etc., etc. | 137 |
