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