Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-07
A NATURAL BONE SETTER.
REMARKABLE OPERATIONS BY AN
 UNTUTORED WOMAN.

She Was Entirely Without Professional
 Training-Her Ability to Successfully
 Treat Apparently Incnrable Cases Made
 the Surgeons Jealous.
 An interesting story of concern to Brook lyn people was recalled to me the other day:
 Anzona is little, picturesque village near Vittoria, in northeastern Italy, not far from tho Austrian Tylol It is the home of roted woman, whose fame has spread throughout all Europe by her skill to relieve human suffering. Regina dal Gin was born in tho village of Vendenciano, near Conegliano, Venetia, April 4, 1919. Her parents were Lorenzo Marchesini and Marianna Sando- rella, both of whom belonged to the peasantry oc Venetia- Following the vocation of her mother, Regina, from carly childhood, dis played taste for setting dislocated bones.
 At first practicing her art on chickens and animals, Regina's first operation, strange to ss,y, was upon her mother. Ono day, as she was going to a neighboring village, the wagon upset and her leg was broken Regina, who was now years old, following her mothers directions, set tho limb. Her mother was carried home and confined to the house for forty days, during which her daughter kescane her nurse
 THE DOCTORS ENRAGED.
 4 year later Regina went to live with her brother at Vittoria, where she began to see operations in the hospital and acquired her celebrated dclicacy of touch. At the age of IS she married Lorenzo dal Gin, a poor peas ant and was shortly left a widow with one scn, who became priest. Among her early operations vas one Gpon-a poor fellow in tho village of AlpaSo, who was confined to his bed by fracturpd legs The doctors had or dered alapatation when Regina, appearing at the time, declared she could save both legs, and ill short time the man wus able to talk
 Doctors, eEraged ct being thus outrivalcd, had her arrested and taken before the tribune for practicing without license. Her advo- cate the patient whom she had just cured. Regina was pardoned but ordered to practice no l.,ore. Yet patients came to her day by day, declaring they would see no one else. The theory of her skill was the ''reduc- tion Of tho fc,aur." poultice of marsh mallow and bran was applied and continued for longer or shorter time, accordingly as the dislocation wss new or old When the bono had attained certain softness the ma nipulation began and the disn,enbcred parts placed arisht the force being used at tho proper tiInc, and unconsciously to the pa tient, all being done without chloroform and without causing pain. It must be remarked, however, that sine possessed an almost super human strength ill her fingers, equal to that of two men.
 Annthar wnpHnrf.,l # Dr. Bellim, au invalid from hip dislocation of twenty years standing. Dr. Bellim was one of the physicians whose prejudice, twenty-five years before, she had sought to overcome. From 1S43 to 1888 she continued to practice her profession, in which her only desire was to excel From patients of ample means she always expected liberal compensa- tion, but the poor she charged nothing. Again summoned before the tribunal at Wit toria for practicing without q license, she was condemned to two months imprison- ment The case was carried to the higher court at Venice, where, defending herself with great skill, she said: "Gentlemen, you know very well how to name the bones 1 do not; but can set them, and you cannot" She was acquitted amid great rejoicing A lady of Venice whose daughter was suffering from luxation of the femur sent for Regina, and the young lady in a short time was able to lay aside her crutches
 RECOGNIZED AT LAST
 The physicians of Venice, after an inter view. now each presented her with certiii- cate. Honors still awaited her. Mir. Cane nida, rich banker of Trieste, whose daugh- ter had suffered from infancy with the same disease, and who had consulted all the best physicians of the great capital without find ing any benefit, finally sent for Regina, who operated on the daughter, and ill short time shc was cured Operations began to multi ply. Wonderful cures were effected Re;na was rendered an ovation. Surrounded on the streets and everywhere hailed with enthusi- asan she would smile and bid them thank God, for it is to him hold this gift" The municipality invited her to operate in tho city hospital before a number of physicians, and she secured their warm approval. and they rewarded her with q certificate
 The mayor now gave her grand dinner, at which were present the elite of the city and many physicians They applauded ler ever ywhere, as if she wcro Garibaldi or some other iberator of the country.
 The day of her departure deputation of patients, headed by Mir. Valerie, who had been cured of luxation of twenty years standing, presented her with magnificent album, containing over 4,00o signatures, in- cluding those of eighty physicians, beauti- fully dedicated in lines of gold The munich pality of Trieste presented her with 100 Ma poleons in gold, half of which she dis tributed to the poor. The profession offered her 800 fiorins a year and a villa to remain.
 It was Q fote day at vittoria when the Italian government sent Regina a diploma allowing her to practice. Music sounded on the streets, national airs were sung A young man whom she had cured of taxation of the femur wrote two poems, which were rendered at tho theatre during the afternoon and evening.
 Mr.. Isaac R. Robinson, of Montague ter race, Brooklyn, who was rendered lame from sickness during infancy, while travelling abroad, sought her at her home and was bene- ited to the extent of being able to walk with out the use of high shoe The cases cited arc all cures yet in some instances reluxa-