The St. Louis Republic., 1904-06-26
Strange Cures Reported by Those
Who Have Visited William
Rae, Near Glasgow.
PATIENTS FILL HIS COTTAGE.
Some of the London Newspapers
Compare His Methods With
Those of Doctor Lorenz, but
Physicians Are Dubious.
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PTBiIC AND THE NEW YORK HERALD.
London. June 25.-tCopyrisht. l92i'-
London has been flooded during the week
with highly colored representatives Of
marvellous cures effected by William Rae.
Scotch miner living al Blan,yre. .
iittle village near Glasgow.
Special correspondents have written CO..
uElns telling how the halt were cured and
the deforned made straight by an old
man. whose medical knowledge was limit
ed To few notions OF anatomy. obtained
by a cursory study OF q hand book. Some
Of them went SO far as TO suggest that
RAGS power was sUpcrhgman.
COTTAGE BESIBGED.
His cottage. Il was said. presented q re-
msrkable sight daily. Crowds Of people
some on Crutches. others hobbling along
with walk!ngsticks. hut all full Of the
hope OF being cured, hesieced the former
miner. who it was added, was devoting
twelve hours day to treating his pa
tients.
one instance Of Rae's methods was
given by highly veraciOus correspondent
as follows:
The natient was a little boy VINO could
not walk here Said Rae: This is q case
Of dislocated hip. The doctors call it
disease. He made the boy lie down. Sud
denly Selling the limb. he gave /: Jerk.
There was a sharp crack. a sharper cry
from the boy, and before the latter's
mother. who was present. could recover
from her aStOnishment her child was
walking about the room. dclightedly wav-
ing his discarded weighted boot in the
air"
Another case termed typical was de-
1T was that Of girl who was hunch-
back In this instance the mother was
not permitted to be with the child. but in
a quarter OF an hour later the child came
out of the cottage straight as die and
shoulder"
this detailed at length in the Daily Mail.
the Daily Chronicle. the Daily Express
and several other leading newspapers
Photographs of Rae have been published
showing him to be a somewhat uncouth
looking man. with a badly trimmed beard
and heavy features. His fee never va
ries- To al lalike he charges half
guinea.
From every mart OF England and Scot
land II one is TO believe the accounts one
reads, people have Travelled to seek Rae's
Still. Rae is not wealthy, although it ap-
pears he has been CRYING on his blood
less surgery for wears.
STAYS AT HOME
His fame. indeed. is said TO have trav-
eled to America and a few days ago he
received cablegram asking on what
terms ne "OuiO cross the Atlantic. Kae
will not be tempted.
America at my years? Nay, nay" the
old man is declared 10 have said
BY some OF the daily newspapers Rae's
methods have been compared Ia those Of
Doctor LoreEz, but by medical journals
he is placed on a lower level than the late
Professor Atkinson Of Liverpool. Raes
doctrine appears to be that bone disease
is an invention of the doctors. To him
conclusive proof of this Is that neither he
nor anyone else has ever seen a diseased
bone in a living man.
The secret Of spinal curvature hip dis
ease and every other condition causing
defOrmity or lameness is contained In the
single word "bluid." for Rae's Scotch aC-
cent Is one OF his special charms.
Where that's wrang.' says this patho-
logical oracle. "a the rests wrang"
The British Medical Journal comment
ing on the affair. says there is nothing Of
this woundrous talk Of the collier sur
geon that will surprise those who know
how little education has done to dis
sipate the clouds Of ignorance and ere
dulity which darkens the public mind.
The really interesting point to know
would be how so foolish a thing was
made a subject Of successful boom.