BONE-SETTER’S METHODS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 244, 15 October 1932, Page 5

BONE-SETTER’S METHODS

DEMONSTRATION OFFERED THIRTY YEARS’ CONFLICT LONDON, Oct. 2. After 30 years of conflict with orthodox medicine, in which at times embitrered disputes arose, the famous bonesetter, Sir Herbert Barker, has con-

sented to demonstrate his methods of manipulative surgery at the London Hospital if he is offered facilities. The announcement is made in the course of correspondence in the Times, which began when an anonymous doctor expressed regret that th e British Medical Association’s recent appreciation of manipulative surgery did not recognise Sir Herbert Barker’s claim to honour for developing it to its present efficiency. Sir Herbert, the doctor said, had endured years of violent hostility because he dared to practise an art of which doctors generally were ignorant. Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter, the anatomist, recalled that few famous doctors openly supported Sir Herbert Barker. Lesser physicians took their patients to him in fear of the fate of Sir Herbert Barker’s anaesthetist, Axham, whom the Medical Council expelled; they copied Nicodemus, “who went to the greatest of all physicians by night.”