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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18508, 20 March 1922, Page 6

“TREATMENT OF A NEW SORT.” TO THE EDITOR, was much interested in the letter by “Antichiro” under the above heading in to-day’s Otago Daily Times. The familiar advertisement of this form of treatment, accompanied by a well-executed woodcut of the vertebra of the spinal column held at arm’s length, cannot fail to imprpss the general public (“the great, big stupid, as Thackeray well called it), and to bo able to introduce the name of Viscount Grey in connection with “chiropractic is very good business indeed. 1 “Chiropractor ie a comparatively now name, though .we are all familiar with the good old chiropodists who would, for a consideration, pare the corns on our hands and feet. Sixty years ago, a near relation and a well-to-do friend who was afflicted with corns decided to try the treatment of a renowned chiropodist. residing in the Strand, London. The door was opened by a man in livery, and they were shown into a handsome consulting room. The chiropodist, a. diminutive foreigner soon appeared and requested to see the afflicted loot. He then went to a cabinet and brought out a small vial containing an opaque yellow fluid, a drop of which ho placed on tho coni and, after a short interval, extracted with a small silver forceps a minute particle looking like a. tiny fit* cone. "Looking straight at them, he said: “There are 40 of these in your corn I charge two guineas for each one extracted.” Needless to say, they wore happy to escape with the payment of the preliminary fee.—l am, etc., March 18. Anti-humbug.