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?” 87