The San Francisco call., 1904-07-11
MEN ananMAaSEERS In
THE E0RIsZ he WORLD
MONTE

ing II RIGHT.
do you guarantee a cure in every
case?"
Ma. na," he answered. shaking his
head mot in every case. Those aw can
du nothin for aw leave alane, but
maist times something can be done if
they're ma too Old
Rae was born at Larkhall. then
sparsely populated village some fifteen
miles from Glasgow, anu when a lad
began to earn his living by working in
a colliery. He rose to be pit-head fore
man at LarkhaIl, but before he was out
of his teens, yielding, as he says to
something that told me aw had ii in
me - he began to practice bone-setting.
giving his services gratuitously at first,
but as experience rendered him more
expert so numerous became his patients
that he found he would either have 10
rchnquish his work at the colhery OF
abandon the practice Of bloodless sur
gerry. He decided to stick 10 the latter
and in a rough way. by means of such
books as he could get hold Of he
studied anatomy. but in the school of
experience he has gained nearly all his
training. For doctors generally he has
a great contempt. which is not un-
natural. seeing how many come to him
for relief, and often obtain it, too,
whom doctors have failed to benefit
and pronounced incurable.
Doctors he exclaimed scornfully,
what du they knaw aboot these
things? Maist of the puir people that
ccme TO me have had doctors enoo
fooling with 'em an ma guild have they
done EN- They just TAX their money
an label their trouble with wrong
names an maybe, after lot of expert
menting. tell 'em they can't be cured.
I've had lots O. such cases that just
/ needed some bones being set straight TO
max all RIGHT. There's doctors for ye.
When he had finished his pipe he
said. "Aw must begin wark again.
moo: there's lots waiting for me, but
he acceded to my request 10 be al
4 lowed to remain and see how he op-
/ Grated. The first case was little chap
with a six-inch pattern fixed on to one
boot. His mother brought him in and
told the old story that the doctor
must have heard hundreds of times
before. He hardly seemed to listen to
4 it. though his face lightened uD. for
/ the case was good one.
Il was saying just moo he observed
F to me after having carefully examined
the youngsters thigh. that the doc
tors know nothing aboot these things.
/ Here's an instance. They ca this hip
I disease an do nothing TO cure it. It's
JUST a dislocated hip; that's what ii
is. Juist watch what I'll do with it"
Suddenly seizing the limb he gave
it a jerk. there was sharp crack. a
! sharper "Ow"' from the boy and the
doctor seated himself in his chair
again and relit his pipe.
"Ye may poot him in level boots,
moo" he said 10 the mother, and be-
fore she realized what was happen
ing her ''laddie" was walking about
the room. delightedly waving the pat
en-weighted boot in the air.
An old man next entered the room
One leg was fairly straight but the
other bent inward, so that he rolled
rather than walked. He had been that
way for nigh on fifty years" he said
The examiner passed his hand care
fully over the leg that WAS all awry
only TO confirm the judgment he hac
indicated to me l a significant glance
when the man entered the room tha
his case was a hopeless one.
''Ye've bin over hang. mon.' he said
returning to his chair. ''Ye should
ha' haed this seen 10 when We were
bairn." The disappointed sufferer
slowly pulled on his socks and boots
and then as slowly put his hand il
his pocket.
"Na, ma" said Rae. with wave o
his hand, ''ye can poot that back an
gang ava hame, my mon"
A youth of about sixteen, whose sap
pearance plainly proclaimed curvature
of the spine, was the next patient.
Look at that moo" exclaimed RAJ
angrily, after the lad had pulled vi
his shirt and exposed his back. ''H'
wouldna have a humpit back if hi
fouks had brought him in to me whel
he was a bairn. No man in the worlC
need ha a humpit back if it's takel
in hand early enoo'.'
He made the boy lie breast to breas
: with himself and began handling tn
/ spine, apparently with the object o
pressing il into place. This process h
continued for quite five minutes. Whel
at length the lad stood up he declare,
that he felt much better and, encour
aged, presented a thumb that had bee
damaged by a ball in a game of cricket
Rae felt it, pulled it, there was a clicl
and the boys face lighted up as h
; bent it to and fro.
Gum it's a RIGHT" he exclaimed
''an I'll be able to play in the mex
match
So things went on for the couple o
hours that / remained in the room
Two little mites. swathed almost fror
head to foot with bandages and sur
gical appliances were brought in b.
their mother. She said the doctors ha
told her they were suffering from hi
and spinal diseases, and held out smal
hope of cure. When she -eparted wit
them, radiantly happy, the surgical ap
pliances had all been discarded Sew
eral other cures were wrought on tn
spot In nearly every instance Rae wa
able to afford some relief When h
could accomplish nothin he would &C
cept no fee. In other cases his charg
J was 10 all the same-$2 so. But whe
5 patients were obviously too poor to pa
: it he bestowed just as muSh care o
: them for nothing. So great have bee
the demands on his skill that the rail
way has run special excursion train