FAMOUS DOCOTOR

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11768, 15 October 1932, Page 9

FAMOUS DOCOTOR

' ; method's 'TO BE TESTED. ",' LONDONs'OcVS. After.3o years of conflict,.with:oVfcliodox medicine, in which at times embittered disputes-arose, the fatuous bone-setter, Sir Herbert- Barker has consented to demonstrate his methods of manipulative surgery at the Hotdon Hospital if ; he is offered facilities. The announcement -is made -in itho courso of' correspondence in ; “The Times’’ which began when an anonymous doctor- expressed regret that the British Medical Association’s recent appreciation of manipulative surgery did not . recognise 'Sir bert Barker’s claim, to honor .tor-de-veloping it to its-present-efficiency*', »- •Sir Herbert, he stated,' had.’endured years of violent, hostility because he dared .to praciiso an.art, of which doctors generally were ignorant. Sir Bruce ; Brucc-Porier,' the , anatomist, recalled that doctor's openly .isupported', ySir 'Her- 1 bert. Barker. 'Lesser physicians took their* patients to him in .fear, of-the fate of, Sir. Herbert Barker’s, anaesthetist, Axhafn,’ iwhom the Medical Council expelled; they -copied Nieodemus,’ “who went to the greatest .of all Physicians by night.’' ‘