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"I'll tell you what they do," said Peter; "they strap the broken man down so that he can't resist or interfere with their doctorish designs, and then someone holds his head, and someone holds his leg the broken one, and pulls it till the bones fit in with a crunch, mind you! Then they strap it up and let's play at bone-setting!" "Oh, no!" said Phyllis.
"A a foolish accident," replied he, putting on a careless manner. "I fell and sprained my ankle." The young girl knit her brows with an anxious expression; then, after a moment's hesitation; she said: "Will you let me see your foot? My mother understood about bone-setting, and I have been told that I inherit her gift of curing sprains." She drew from the basket an empty bottle and a handkerchief.
"A a foolish accident," replied he, putting on a careless manner. "I fell and sprained my ankle." The young girl knit her brows with an anxious expression; then, after a moment's hesitation; she said: "Will you let me see your foot? My mother understood about bone-setting, and I have been told that I inherit her gift of curing sprains." She drew from the basket an empty bottle and a handkerchief.
Among the good company which had attended in the hall during the bone-setting, Mrs Honour was one; who being summoned to her mistress as soon as it was over, and asked by her how the young gentleman did, presently launched into extravagant praises on the magnanimity, as she called it, of his behaviour, which, she said, "was so charming in so pretty a creature."
"I shall refuse to leave you before you are well," replied Helen with a little laugh. "You are my patient, Mr. Stane the very first that I have had the chance of practising on; and you don't suppose I am going to surrender the privilege that fate has given me? No! If my uncle himself showed up at this moment, I should refuse to leave you until I saw how my amateur bone-setting turned out.
Burton's skill was taxed to the uttermost. There was no doctor within at least a hundred miles. One of the fishers at Seal Cove had set the broken collar bone, the work being very well done too, although the man was only an amateur in the art of bone-setting.
An' so he tuck up with bone-setting, as was most nathural, for none of them could come up to him in mendin' the leg iv a stool or a table; an' sure, there never was a bone-setter got so much custom man an' child, young an' ould there never was such breakin' and mendin' of bones known in the memory of man.
The bone-setting and the attendant fever were discounted by his vitality, and his progress toward recovery, was marvelous. Crane heard of the accident on one of his visits to Brookfield a couple of days later, and of course must hurry to Ringwood to see his employee. It happened that the Reverend Mr. Dolman graced the Porter home with his presence the same evening that Crane was there.
It was the first practical test of her theoretical knowledge of bone-setting and because of some misgivings her swagger was a little more pronounced than usual when she accompanied him across the street. The child lay upon the bunk in the front of the wagon and her eyes were bright with the pain of the dull ache, and fear of more that the doctor might inflict. "Is it hurtin' bad, Rosie?"
Surgery was a matter of tooth-pulling and bone-setting, and though post-mortems were performed, we have no knowledge of the skill of the practitioner.
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