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“A NEGLECTED CORNER OF THE DOMAIN OFSURGERY.”—Lancet.
THE
ART OF THE BONE-SETTER:
A Testimony and a Vindication.
WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
BY
GEORGE MATTHEWS BENNETT,
Specialist for all kinds of Dislocated Joints, Fractures,Sprains, etc.
WITH PORTRAIT AND NUMEROUS DIAGRAMS.
London:
THOMAS MURBY,
3, Ludgate Circus Buildings, E.C.
Birmingham: Cornish Brothers; Warwick: Cooke & Son;
Coventry: Curtis; Leamington: Bailey;
Banbury: Hartley.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY G. J. PARRIS, 57, GREEK STREET,
SOHO, W.
To the Members
of the
Warwickshire, North Warwickshire,
Pytchley, Atherstone,
Bicester, and Quorn Hunts,
and all who are liable to injuries and
accidents by “Flood and Field,” this
Vindication and Testimony
is inscribed by
their faithful servant,
The Author.
PREFACE.
I have been requested, from time to time, by mynumerous patients and friends to publish some record ofthe Bone-setter’s art, to which they can refer their relativesand acquaintances, when asked for some particularsof the cures effected and the pain alleviated by those whofollow the profession of a Bone-setter. I am aware thatin acceding to the request of those who “have the courageof their convictions,” I am laying myself open to thesneers and innuendos of the medical profession generally;but as the descendant of a long line of Bone-setters, whodistinguished themselves in the profession they followed,viiiand whose name was a “household word” in Midlandhomes when broken bones, sprains, and dislocationsoccurred. I feel, as the inheritor of their practice and insome degree of their reputation, that I should not be trueto myself and to the profession I follow, if I did notcomply with a request so gracefully made by those who havenot only placed their faith in the special practice Ipursue, but who are grateful for the relief from pain theyhave felt, the ultimate cures effected, and who wish tomake their experiences widely known.
It was, therefore, with diffidence that I collected fromdivers sources the testimony of those who are beyond thereach of suspicion, as to the cures which those who practisethe “Art of the Bone-setter” have accomplished,even after experienced surgeons have failed; but I was