The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-05-01
A NATURAL BONE SETTER.
REMARKABLY OPERATIONS BY
AN UNTUToRBD WOMAN.
She is Entirely without Profess
sional Training Success With
Apparently Incurable Cases.

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home of a noted woman, whose fame
has spread throughout all Europe by her
skill to relieve human suffering. Regina
dal Gin was born in the village of Ven
denciano, near Conegliano, Nenetia,
April 4, 1919. Her parents were Lorenzo
Marchesini and Mariana Sandonella,
both of whom belonged to the peasantry
of Venetia. Following the vocation of
her mother, Regina, from early child
hood, displayed taste for setting dis
located bones.
AT first practicing her art on chickens
and animals, Regina's first operation,
strange to say, was upon her mother.
One day, as she was going to a neighbor
ing village, the wagon upset and her leg
was broken. Regina, who was now
nine years old, following her mothers
direction, set the limb. Her mother
was carried home and confined to her
house for forty days, during which her
daughter became her nurse.
A year later Regina went to live with
her brother at Vittoria, where she began
to see operations in the hospital and ac-
Quired her celebrated delicacy of touch
At the age of eighteen she married
Lorenzo dial Gin, a poor peasant, and
was shortly left widow with one son,
who became priest. Among her early
operations was one upon a poor fellow
in the village of Alpago, who was con-
fined to his bed by fractured legs. The
doctors had ordered amputation when
Regina, appearing at the time, declared
she could save both legs, and in a short
time the man was able to walk. Doc
tors enraged at being thus outrivaled,
had her arrested and taken before the
Tribune for practicing without license.
Her advocate was the patient whom she
had just cured. Regina was par6oned,
but ordered to practice no more. Yet
patients came to her day by day, declar-
ing they would see no one else. The
theory of her skill was the reduction of
the femur." A poltice of marshmallow
and bran was applied and continued for
a longer or shorter time, accordingly as
the dislocation was new or old. When
the bone had attained q certain softness
the manipulation began and the dis
membered parts placed Alright, the force
being used at the proper time, and un-
consciously to the patient, all being done
without chloroform and without caus-
ing pain. 1t must be remarked, how
ever, that she possessed an almost SUI.
perhuman strength in her fingers, equal
to that of two men.
Another wonderful cure was in the
case of DR.. Bellim, an invalid from hip
dislocation, of twenty years standing.
DIR. Bellim was one of the physicians
whose prejudice, twenty-five years be.
fore, she had sought to overcome. From
1913 TO 1868 she continued to practice
her profession, in which her only desire
was to excel. From patients of ample
means she always expected liberal COM
pensation, but the poor she charged
nothing. Again summoned before the
tribunal at Vittoria for practicing with
out license, she was condemned to two
months Imprisonment. The case was
carried to the higher Court at Verice
where defending herself with great skill,
she said: "Gentlemen, you know very
well how to name the bones, l do not :;
but 1 can see them, and you can not. "
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
short time was able to lay aside her
crutches.
The physicians of Venice, after an in
teryiew, now each presented her with
certificate. Honors still awaited her.
Mr.. Caneuida, a rich banker of Trieste,
whose daughter had suffered from in
fancy with the same disease, and who
had consulted all the best physicians OF
the great Capital without finding any
benefit, sent for Regina, who operated
on the Daughter and in short time she
was cured. Operations began to multi
ply. Wonderful cures were effe ted
Regina was rendered an ovation. Sur
rounded on the streets and everywhere
hailed with enthusiasm, she would smile
and bid them "Thank God, for it is to
Him Ihold the gift The municipality
invited her to operate in the City Hos.
pital before a number of physicians, and
she secured their warm approval, and
they rewarded her with a certificate.
The Mayor now gave her a grand din
ner, at which were present the elite of
the city and many physicians. They
applauded her everywhere, as if she
were Garibaldi or some other liberator of
the country.
The day Of her departure a deputation
of patients, headed by Mr.. Valerie, who
had been cured of luXation Of twenty
years standing, presented her with
magnificent album, containing over four
thousand signatures, including those of
eighty physicians, beautifully dedicated
in lines of gold. The municipality of
Trieste presented her with 100 Napoleons
in gold, one-half of which she dis
trib1ted to the poor. The profession Of
fered her 300 tlOrins year and villa to
remain.
1t was fete day at Vittoria when the
italian Government sent Regina a dip
Iona allowing her to practice. Music
sounded on the streets, national airs
were sung, A young man whom she
had cured of luXation of the femur wrote
two poems, which were rendered at the
theatre during the afternoon and even
ing.
Mr.. Isaac r. Robinson, of Montague
Terrace, Brooklyn, who was rendered
lame from a sickness during infancy,
while travelling abroad, sought her at
her home, and was benefited to the eX-
tent of being able to walk without the
use of high shoe The cases cited are
all cures, yet in some instances relaxation
took place after treatment, as to which
she said Il only begin to cure; you
must do the rest, meaning the coutin-
uance of bandages, etc. lncurable
patients sought her door. discerning