[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,— -Fully trained osteopaths
who go through the- training instituted by Dr. Still, the founder of osteopathy, himself a . fully qualified medical man, have urgent need to have their practice safeguarded so that the trained man may be distin- guished from those who, taking advantage of the real worth of osteopathic treatment and the growing public knowledge of it, set up their brass plates labelled osteopath, with no more than a few weeks' or months' training, and that often by corres- pondence ! Those who have become qualified osteopaths, and have gone through the lengthy training of at least four years, which includes the branches usually comprised in a medical course, except the use of drugs—which osteopaths specifically exclude—have as great a need of protection not only in their calling but also for the sake of public well-being.
The public should be made aware of the need to strengthen the hands of the osteopathic profession in pressing on Parlia- ment the necessity for their recognition and legal registration, and thus follow up the important result obtained by Mr. Streeter in eliciting an answer from Mr. Austen Chamberlain in the House of Commons.-1 am, Sir, &e.,
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