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

WILL BARKER'S ART

DIE WITH HIM?

MANIPULATIVE SURGERY NEEDED BY WORLD

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- | within my reach to the absolute land's greater men stepped necessity for a now generation of

will carry on his work.

off a Channel boat and slipped un-young manipulative surgeons who The 400 years old Mohammed All-Mosque in Cairo la being restored to prevent the collapse of the building. 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 and him out. A curiously magnetic man this manipulative Burgeon, who used to be pinin Mr. Barker, the bone-setier, and is

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

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

THOUSANDS BENEFITED

thousands of That there are

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

The recent discussion by a cont mittee of the House of Lords of the now abandoned Registration of Osteopath's B 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 surgeon who has done for mani- nulative 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.

n thousand and one Lilments.

The monipulative surgeon, in Sir It is determined to stop any in Herbert's own 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, lign-establisded between the Yard and ments, and tendons, and some acquired deformities,"

hotel

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

Still, manipulative surgery and osteopathy are allied arts, and Sir Herbert, while the debate was go- ing on, said his say in support of The boun fides of hundreds of the osteopaths who want to im-perfectly Innocent travellers have pose on their healing work the been investigated, and a tremend- standards and responsibility in-ous amount of routine work bas plied by State recognition. He been undertaken-just to be on the knows, batter than any other, the safe side.

long drawn-out fatigue and bitter. Pickpockets and thieves at home ness of fighting a lone hand are being watched carefully, too. against the whole medical pro-A surprising number of them found fession, and the world.

themselves in prison during the Jubilee celebrations.

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

There has also been some activity i among the floating pupulation of a few short of ever waiters normally resident in Lon- (though how many men of fiftylaton. It is quite impossible for would not envy his magnificent swarms of foreign wafters suddenly health and looks, his tough to derend on London, because muscles, his athletic energy)-he Britain Is party to an international la beginning to be afraid of the exchange agreement. For every comes to London 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

The most careful investigations

are being made before the permits

of the Ministry of Labour and Home office are granted the foreign waiters-United Press.

"What I fear," a friend recently wrote to him, "what I fear more greatly than the professional ob- scurantists is the unworthy imita- not by any means all been

Spanish dancers entertained the visitors at the opening

of the Spanish village at the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diege. They are shown in front of the Moorish Wall which fronts the Andalusian area.

RUSSIA'S

VIEW

MAKING “1919” INTO AN OPERA

Moscow, May 24.

An opers suggested by John Dos

tore of your work who will come achieved in his quiet consulting Passos" novel "1919" is now being In your name without your know-room. lodge, and that is why 1 lament He operated once in an express written by the Soviet author, V.I. the folly or worse of the pro- train, to care 1 mon who had Steynich, with the collaboration of

fessional refusal to learn your akili at your hands so that some, at any rate, of it could be carried on."

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travelled from Australia to see

him and who had no other chance the composer, A. 8. Zhivitev. but to accompany Sir Herbert on The social import of the popular a hurried journey. He cured a

Dos Passos novel, however, will be crippled clergyman on board a

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- five minutes at the great man's pose as the depiction of the "fall request so that his hands might of petty bourgeois democratie bring rellef to the suffering lato-

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

airplane recident, will be driven to

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

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 to present plans, will be ready in 1936. It probably will be pro-

Sir Herbert Barker is, first and foremost, a bone-wetter, the first genlus that this long-established system of British therapeuties has ever had. He learned the cle- ments and practice of his art by being apprenticed as a young man to his cousin, John Atkinson, a

He has been offered enor. Pacifist illusions" before the real-i duced at the Small Opera House. bone-setter of considerable re- mous foes from the rich and done tles of war. putation with a fashionable prac his work gladly for nothing for tice in Park-lane.

the poor over and over again.

Atkinson, in his turn, had learn ed from a certain Robert Jutton, member of a family of yoomen 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 sitecessful cousin had nothing more to teach him, but the fact remains that he was taught. His is not, as has often been sug gested, merely some mystic, in- communicable gift. It fa scienti- fle knowledgo akilfully and sen-- altively applied, operating by cor- rective movement on injuries, and displacements. Manipulative 'sur-· gery can be taught.

The medical profession itself- though ovon to this day the faculty does not officially admit [him-now, privately admits the value and excellence of his sys- tem; and thero can-bo-no-stronger proof of his final vindication than the_admission from the pro- fession that has, opposed him as blindly and as bitterly as it has evor opposed anything in the whole of medical history.

The story of some of his amazing euros, many upon doctors themselves-cures, in most cases, of which doctors and speciallats hind despaired antiroly-is apt to

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

Nevertheless,

star-of-a-4core of box office modern miracles, smashes in America and aliewhere they are all true, and they have

comer.

in Leningrad during the 1936-37 Thus the Dos Passos story will season.-United Press.

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