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Definition of Bonesetters
1. bonesetter [n] - See also: bonesetter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonesetters
Literary usage of Bonesetters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1876)
"Dr. Roth was no believer in wonderful cures by spinal supports, neither by the
so-called medical rubbers nor bonesetters, and expressed his regret to hear ..."
2. Oxford Loose-leaf Surgery by F. F. Burghard, Allen Buckner Kanavel (1920)
"That bonesetters do harm in some cases is self-evident and universally agreed—
that they do good in some is equally certain. To say that the bonesetter's ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"George Fischer tells us that quacks of all kinds, ' cutters ' for stone and
hernia, cataract operators, and bonesetters, flourished in the land. ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1891)
"Hospital. A verdict of death from misadventure was returned at the inquest.
He left one child, Gladys Hutton. [JM Jackson's bonesetters' Mystery Si. ..."
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