Quacks and Grafters.

This little book is written by one who took up for a few years the "practice" of "osteopathy," but whose intelligence and honesty caused him to relinquish it after he was fully conversant with the pretense and graft connected therewith. He then returned to the more congenial—and reputable—profession of teaching. The book is in two parts; the first deals with conditions in and out of the medical profession that have made it possible for the followers of Still to fool the public; the second treats of "osteopathy" itself and, without acrimony, exposes this quasi-scientific system of massage and throws light on the methods employed by the American Osteopathic Association to advertise and "boost" the "system." The author's attitude toward the medical profession is on the whole fair and without bias. That, as a layman, he has drawn some wrong conclusions from his observation of evils that admittedly exist in the