LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE CASE OF DR. AXHAM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sia,—First of all let me thank you for allowing the sad case of Dr. Axham to be so freely discussed in your columns. This splendid and heroic upholder of the first duty of his profession has lit a torch for manipulative surgery which time will never extinguish, and those who are responsible for delaying the justice which is so richly his due will inevitably have to answer fully for it at the bar of conscience later on. Mr. A. G. Timbrell Fisher, F.R.C.S.(Eng.), who has devoted his life to manipulative surgery, and than whom no one is more highly qualified to speak of it, writing in the Times on December 11th last said : " An overwhelming majority of the medical pro- fession itself would warmly welcome the restoration of this courageous pioneer's name to the Register of medical men. Many of us feel, furthermore, if this step be not taken before it is too late, that Axham will be known to history as a martyr to science, and a blow will be dealt at the authority and prestige of the G.M.C. from which it can never completely recover."
The one redeeming feature of this melancholy matter is that io many distinguished practitioners have generously and nobly declared their desire that Dr. Axham's name should be restored. Their action proves them to be really great men.
personally, owe so much to osteopathy that it was a pleasure to read Mr. Wilfrid A. Streeter's most able and unanswerable letter in the Spectator of December 12th. This highly skilled practitioner some time ago gave me such relief in an old- standing throat affection that I bless his name every time I see it. Osteopathy has come to stay, and no prejudice, no attacks, no jealousy, and no arguments on the part of the older school of therapy can shake its rock-based foundations or hinder its triumphant progress.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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