The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-12
Mender Of Diamond Stars Receives BIG Fee

a duly registered practieian for treaim.,,
Ia which drugs play leading part. bns
in wooing back velocity to the old 6r;n-
AIM and speed to the nirnblc foot. Res.s
apparently has something on them ar
Reese has been refused certifcats al
practice by the State Board at Co)un.
bus, Ohio, because be is not q graduate
Of any medical school. 30 hs still re.
mains Bouesetter" Reese, the mill man
and official physical repsirer 10 the ma.
tional game In spite of this the M.
toriety ne has achieved through his sue-
cessful treatment of ball PLAYERS h,s
oronsnI him many patients from other
walks OF life from all parts Of the coun.
try, and he now numbers among his
cures men and women Of wealth vho
probably wouldn't be able. 10 tell N.
difference between passed ball and a,
left uppercut. =
Reese admits that ne il unable r. -
plain his abnormally developed sens.
Of touch that is the secret Of his snr,
cessful diagnosis of cases that have nn9-
zled trained surgeons. II appears fo
be power that is-s-qft of nature, on.
OF those strange psychological pbenon
ena that defies all the doglnas and sets
ASIDE all the rules OF the a1act science
able 70 transmit to Others in eyen ths
slightest degree. For the rest R.ssa
claims nothing more than q mere knoyrl,
edge Of anatomy tnet has been deriz-d
from close study and reading and a
keen insight into the requirements of
the case, together with the uatursl
strength of forearm and hand necesssrv
70 apply the practical Cure
John D. Reese, who Ia a native NJ
Wales, IL q man Of about IS Years of
age, and without any education other
than what has been acquired in ertep
sive reading of books, mostly on surgery
He came to this country tventy.six Tesrs
ago and went TO work in the iron mills
Of Youngstown, where he worked his
way up to the position of roller, and il
was IN the treatment OF his injured fei-
low.workmsn In the iron mills that he
first began to practice the remarkable
cures that have since made him ia.
nous the country over rs "BonesetterD
Reeee, and for which he received no
other remuneration than tears of graft.
tude from these rufortunatee.
l1 was while Jimmy NcAleer was ss
bis home. III Youngstown nursing a
Charley horse" score OF years aga
that scquaintanc OF his who bad heard
of Reese and his work among the mill
men advised him to consult this '.uill
surgeon and to this Incident baseball
owes the acquisition OF its official phys;.
cal repairer, Other ball players soon
followed McAleer into Reese's dry dock
on the advice Of the Cleveland out6eld
er, and the mill man soon became known
throughout the baseball world as 'Bou.-
setter Reese. An i6iotn of the ball
tosser, as there is no hQnesctting about
il.
The. msdjcal profession et f5rst re.
garded "Bonesetter Reese as an In
poster and q fake, and this was fos
tered through the ignorant ascribing In
Reese all the powers OF the divine
healer" but since kis successful treat
ment Of ball players in many cases
whore doctors and surgeons had been
unable to benefit the injured athlete
has become generally known, regular
practitioners have come 10 recognize q,
Bonesetter Reese man. who is pc
eulisrly gifted with, power that is en-
tirely practical and wholly outside the
been rendered lucrative positions in
many institutions, al of which he has
religiously declined.
Reese, who now lives in q. pretty home
on Park svenuc, Youngstowp, says that
he inherits TO a certain degree his eS-
ceptionally sensitive Development Of the
tactile sense from his fathers ancestors
through four generations, his patanal
parent and his paternRl ancestors four
generations before him possessing the
same powers in a more modified form.
He claims that it IL sense frequently
found in 2 highly developed state among
the Welch and Coster English.
While Ireland and Germany have hos.
ged things more or less in supplying
talent to Americas great national frolc-
something better and furnished our ma
tional pastime with its official phyaical
repairer- Bonesetter' Reese.