5 DECEMBER 1925, Page 15

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —If I have a

tooth extracted by a dentist' a registered medical practitioner gives me an anaesthetic. Why may he slot do the same if I have a 'dislocated shoulder put right by an osteopath ? If the medical practitioner is not guilty of " covering " in the first case, why is he to be held guilty in the second ? If the answer is that the dentist is registered and the osteopath is not; then I want to know why the 'medical profession objects to the osteopath being registered but does not object to the dentist.—I am, Sir, &c.,

H. P. Mrrenur.L.

3 Neville Terrace, Onslow Gardens, S.W.7.