The publication of Dr. Wharton’s book, added to the published testimony of so many patients, awakened the “faculty” to the knowledge that after all there was something more than luck in the Bone-setter’s art. The change of tone was however gradual, with occasional relapses into the old line of thought, not by any means without misgiving. When professional attention was publicly drawn to the subject many instances came to light which showed that Bone-setters proceeded on true scientific which were neglected by, if not unknown to the faculty at large. As frequently happens the earliest instance of professional adoption of the art of the “Bone-setter” occurred in America. After the publication of Dr. Hood’s work. A correspondent of _Nature_[4] seeing a review of the work wrote to describe an accident he met with, the failure of the surgeons at New York to cure him, and his subsequent cure by one he calls “a scientific Bone-setter” who, of course, was not an “empiric,” though he adopted the practise of the Bone-setter’s art. The correspondent in question, Mr. Joseph P. Thompson, who dates from Berlin, May 22nd, states that more than _twenty_ years ago in the city of New York, while swinging upon parallel bars in the gymnasium fell backwards, and to save his head threw out his left arm, thus catching the fall upon the palmar head of the radius, and as it proved fracturing the head of the radius at the point of articulation with the ulna. I sent for one of the most eminent surgeons (then professor and surgeon) to a large hospital, but several hours elapsed before his arrival, and by that time the swelling and inflammation of the elbow had all the appearance of a sprain, and the fracture was not detected. Some days afterwards the surgeon found out that there had been a fracture, and that a false adhesion had begun. This was broken up, and the arm set in splints, according to the approved method. After the usual time the bandages were removed, but the forearm was incapable of flexion, extension, or rotation. Every appliance was used to restore it to its normal condition, such as lifting, friction, sponging, &c., but without effect. The arm became useless, and began to shrivel. It was examined by the first surgeons in New York and other cities. Some thought that the radius had adhered to the ulna, others that it was a deposit of interosseous matter, but none could suggest a remedy. It was some nine months after this, Mr Thompson goes on to say, that he chanced to be in Philadelphia, and called upon Dr. Klea Barton, who, though he had retired from practice, consented to look into the case. After a careful examination he said, ‘If you will consent to suffer the pain, (it was before the use of chloroform) I will agree to restore the arm.’ He went on to say that pressure demonstrated a slight crepitation at the joint, and also a slight elasticity; and this assured him that the trouble was in the ligaments; that in consequence of the long imprisonment of the arm in splints, while under inflammation, a ligamentous adhesion had taken place, and the synovial fluid had been absorbed. He then applied one hand firmly to the elbow, and the other to the palmar end of the radius, and diverting my attention by anecdote and wit, thus relaxing the resistance of the will to pain, he gave a sudden wrench, there was a sound like the ripping of cotton cloth, and the arm lay outstretched before me, quivering with pain, but capable of motion. Mechanical appliances for a few weeks, so far completed the restoration that I have ever since had about four-fifths of its normal use and power.”