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THE HONGKONG “TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1935.

WILL BARKER'S ART DIE WITH HIM?

MANIPULATIVE SURGERY NEEDED BY WORLD

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BY MARGARET LANE

Many people who to-day owe their physical well-being to the manipulative surgery of Sir Herbert Barker are wondering, now that the Registration of Osteopaths Bill has been abandon- ed, what is being done to continue his work. In the following article Margaret Lane, who can herself testify to his healing skill, pleads, for re- cognition of the manipulative surgeon and for opportunities for imparting Sir Herbert's special knowledge to the coming generation.

FEW weeks ago one of Eng- land's greater men stepped off a Channel boat and slipped "un-, obtrusively into London. Every time he leaves his sundrenched palace in Spain or his house in the Channel Islands, and briefly looks in on London, waiting hun- dreds find him out. A curiously magnetic man this manipulative surgeon, who used to be plain Mr. Barker, the bone-setter, and is

BEWARE TROOPS

A new device for asfaly on the road for the troops in England. A bicyclist ahead with a notice mounted on a large board and studded with glass reflectors to warn when troops are approaching.

now, and has been for the past thirteen..yeurs... the world-re nowned Sir Herbert Barker, whom princes and millionaires cheerfully cross continents to see.

Lean, gentle, brown-faced the has always been a sun-worship- per), with quiet eyes under a big forehead and irrepressible mop of grizzled hair, he has the rare gift of making you. the moment The comes into the room. confident and at ease. This gift has done the past, in him good service the days before any doctor had the courage of the inte Dr, Axham, who faced professional ostracism for his sake, to become his anesthetist. Even simple opera- tions can be painful, and the con- fidence inspired by the soft-- spoken, brown-faced man carried many a patient cheerfully through momentary pain.

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of

THOUSANDS BENEFITED

thousands That there are healthy, active people in this country who would be cripples to- day if it had not been for Sir Herbert Barker, is undeniably true; and because I myself am because with one of them, and every passing year the danger of his secret dying with him grows greater, I would like to call the at- tontion of every man and woman

within my reach to the absolute necessity for 'n now generation of

young manipulative surgeons who The 400 years old Mohammad Ali-Mosque in Cairo is being restored to prevent the collapse of the building. will carry on his work.

The recent discussion by a com- mittee of the House of Lords of the now abandoned Registration of Osteopaths Bill made many people think sympathetically and indignantly of Sir Herbert Barker -sympathetically, though not very correctly, for he is not an osteopath, but the manipulative Burgeon who has done for mani- pulative surgery what the late Sir Robert Jones did for orthopedic surgery.

ANTI-CRIME WAR

SCOTLAND YARD'S CAMPAIGN

London,

Scotland Yard is doing its utmost

An osteopath treats us by mani-to keep undesirable aliens out of pulation (chiefly of the spine) for London.

One bilmenis.

a thousand and

The manipulative surgeon, In Sir

Herbert's own

It is determined to stop any in- words, "confines flux of international crooks whether

his activities to the narrower and they are card-sharpers, pickpockets, more highly specialised sphere blackmailers or just petty thieves. of dealing with injuries and

Very close co-operation has been derangements of the bones, liga-establisded between the Yard and Any visitor ments, and tendons, and some hotel detectives. acquired deformities."

whose credentials do not appear to be all that could be wished is care- fully checked up by the Yard.

The bona fides of hundreds of

Still, manipulative surgery and osteopathy are allied arts, and Sir Herbert, while the debate was go- ing on, aald his any in support of the osteopaths who want to imperfectly innocent travellers have pose on their healing work the been investigated, and a tremend- ous amount of rooting work has standards and responsibility im-

plied by State recognition. IIe been undertaken-just to be on the knows, better than any other, the safe side. long drawn-out fatigue and bitter- ness of fighting a lone hand against the whole medlen? pro- fession and the world.

He is sill, in his emelency and excellence, as much alone as he was in the beginning. Now only

Pickpockets and thieves at home are being watched carefully, too. A surprising number of them found themselves in prison during the Jubilee celebrations.

There has also been some activity among the floating population of

a few years short of seventy waiters normally resident in Lon- į (though how many teu of fifty don. It is quite impossible for would not envy his magnificent swarms of fereien walters uddenly health and looks, his tough to descend on Landon, because muscles, his athletic energy!)-he Britain is party to an international agreement. For every is beginning to be afraid of the exchange

comes to Lonilon a men who, not having troubled to waiter who learn his art from him, may try to British waiter goes abroad. carry it on when he is gone.

IMITATION

"What I fear," a friend recently wrote to him, "what I fear more greatly than the professional ob scurantists is the unworthy Imita- tors of your work who will come in your name without your know- ledge, and that is why I lament the folly or worse-of the pro- fessional refusal to learn your skill at your hands so that some, at any rate, of it could be carried

on."

Bir Herbert Barker in, first and foremost, a bone-setter, the first genius that this long-established system of British therapeutics has

ever had. He learned the ele ments and practice of his art by being apprenticed as a young man to his cousin, John Atkinson, a

considerable bone-setter of putation with a fashionable prae- tice in Park-lane.

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Atkinson, in his turn, had learn- ed from a certain Robert Hutton, member of a family of yeomen far- mers who had practised a crude form of manipulative surgery for more than two hundred years.

There is no doubt that the boy had a specially fine instinct for the work, that before long his successful cousin had nothing more to teach him, but the fact remains that he was taught. His

ie not, as has often been sug- gested, merely some mystic, in- communicable gift. It is scienti- fc knowledge skilfully and sen- altively applied, operating by cor- rective movement on Injuries and displacements. Manipulative 'sur- gery can be taught.

The medical profession Itself- though even to. this day the faculty does not officially admit |bim-now, privately, admits the value and excellence of his sys- tom; and there can be no stronger proof of his final vindication than this admission from the pro- fession that bas opposed him as blindly and as bitterly as it has over opposed anything in the whole of medical history.

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A recent study of Joan Crawford,sound a little like a chronicle of

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RUSSIA'S VIEW

be altered to eliminate or at least play down the element of bind fate which surrounds characters in the novel. For instance, Elizabeth Trent, instead of perishing in an

are being made before the permits MAKING "1919" INTO airplane accident, will be driven to

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AN OPERA

suicide because the after-war life in Paris has destroyed all her illusions and left no reason for her

Moscow, May 24: bean An opera suggested by John Donto live. not by nny means achieved in his quiet consulting Passos novel "1919" is now being

room.

all

He operated once in an express written by the Soviet author, V.I. train, to cure 3

who had Steynich, with the collaboration of

the compușer, A. S. Zhivitov.

travelled from Australia to see him and who had no other chance but to accompany Sir Herbert on The social Import of the popular a hurried journey. He cured a board a

Des Passos novel, however, will-ba crippled clergyman on

version. steamer bound for London from changed in the Soviet Jamaica, the gangplank up and

the bont ready to go, delayed for Steynich has announced his pur-

The treatment of Elizabeth, generally referred to as "Daughter" In the novel, will be sympathetic. She will be depicted as a worth- while character who is a victim of her age and environment.

The score of the opera, according

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mous fecs from the rich and donetics of war. his work gladly for nothing for the poor over and over again.

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