Zurich Herald, 1951-11-15, Page 2"Outlaw" Doctor
With Magic Hands
The will of an astonishing man
Whose curative work involved years
of controversy with the British
Medical Association was recently
announced. He left 452,000 --yet
the fee for his first operation was
--half a crown! Even when famous
he asked no payment for much of
his work. Without medical or sur-
gical degree or diploma, without
the use of instruments of any kind
—with just two lead and powerful
hands — -he cured cases that had
been abandoned as hopeless by the
medical profession.
Just sixty years ago an earnest -
looking young man took a small
room in a Manchester by -street
and put up on his door: Herbert
Barker, Bonesetter, Then he sat
and waited for patients.
He had just completed training
under his uncle, John Atkinson, the
famous bbnesetter of Park Lane,
and was launching out for himself.
This is how he once told me the
story—for I knew Sr Herbert Bar-
ker well for thirty years.
"After a week I began to think
I had better go back to London
—no patients, and money none too
plentiful. Then into my little office,
with its cheap furniture, came a
limping man.
First: The Footballer
"I've put my knee out at footer,'
he explained. The doctors say
I'll never play again. Can you do
anything?'
"'I'll try,' I told him. His was
that trouble common to footballers
displacement of the semi -lunar car-
tilage.
"Well, that footballer left a
quarter of an hour Iater walking
quite normally."
How much did Barker get for
that cure?"
It happened the footballer was
hard up. He received half a crown.
Half a crown as direct payment,
but something else, too. A well-
known footballer restored to the
field to tell all and sundry how
and why he was able to play again,
"Within a month," Barker told
me, "my little consulting room was
full."
But life plays funny tricks. Bar-
ker built up a big Manchester prac-
tice. Then he thought he would like
to try London, but in the capital
his luck deserted him. There was
once more, the empty waiting
room, but no magical cure to start
the long procession ofhopeful pa-
tients towards his door.
So once more back to the prov-
inces—this time to Glasgow. In
Glasgow the Manchester experi-
ence was repeated and Barker soon
had a large practice. London still
called, so after some years, back
he came. His uncle had died. There
was the Park Lane practice, a
family affair. Barker took it over.
:'In those days," he once told me,
"I was terribly handicapped in two
ways. First, the medical profession
opposed the methods I employed as
dangerous and unorthodox. Second-
ly, I could not do many operations
without anaesthetics because of the
pain of`the often violent manipula-
tions necessary to break down ad-
hesions."
Struck Off Register
One day there came to Barker's
Park Lane house a little doctor. He
said, "May I see you at work?"
Barker readily agreed, for though
the doctors were, in general,
against him, he bore them 110 hard
feelings.
When he had watched for a day,
Dr. Axham said:
"You have convinced me. I'll
come and administer anaesthetics•
for you."
"You know what that means to
you?" Barker queried.
"Yes," replied the doctor, "I
shall be professionally disgraced —
struck off the Medical Register!"
This fate quickly followed and
for the remainder of his profession-
al Iife, Dr. Axham, for giving an
unqualified man assistance as anaes-
thetist, remained in professional
disgrace, with rio right to practise.
But time brings changes°
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One day, the latex Sir .Alfred
Fripp was confronted by a bone
case that even that brilliant surgeon
had been unable to set right. On
the spur of the moment he said:
"Why not try this man Barker --
I hear he gets results in such
cases as yours?"
The patient, a lady of title, took
the hint. Barker cured her. Fripp
saw the dramatic cure.
"After that," he told me, "I sent
all my bone cases to Barker."
As the years passed Barker's
consulting room became so crowd-
ed that he was forced to put up
his fees. In the end the man whose
first fee was half a crown was
taking fees running into four fig-
ures and earning an enormous in-
come writes George Godwin in
"Tit -Bits." •
But, even so, Barker did much
work for nothing. During the first
World War he treated hundreds'
of soldiers suffering from bone in-
juries, until he was officially pre-
vented from curing more.
Never Passed Exam
What, then, is the explanation of
this man whose- fame• spread
throughout the world as the man
with the magic hands?
The answer is just there — in
those hands.
Barker had a good working
knowledge of anatomy, but had he
sat for a medical exam. he would
assuredly have been ploughed.
What he had was an uncanny sense
of touch, 'This *as quite abnormal
and peculiar to him. "He seemed
to be able to feel into the bone
structure," one surgeon told me.
And that surgeon had watched hint
at work on that historical occasion
when, at the invitation of the Bri-
tish Orthopaedic Association, a
body of leading bone surgeons,
Barker operated on eighteen cases
selected for their obstinacy in St.
Thomas's Hospital. He wrought
cures in several cases, gave relief
in a number of others, scored sev-
eral failures.
But the orthodox orthopaedic
surgeons were astonished. They
saw a man who used direct me-
thods that startled them. He moved
stiff joints in a way that almost
frightened them; he drove and
wove into adhesions and broke
them down with a wizardry that
no'textbook could impart.
One surgeon said to him on that
occasion: "Now, just what did you
do then, Sir Herbert?"
"I don't know," replied Barker,
"I just did it."
If, in instructing a child, you.
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They claim that one of the earliest
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Egyptian father to his son, written
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boy about how the youth of that
day were Iow-lifes compared to
• what his generation had been,
k * *
Still, even at the risk of being
pegged as an old fogey, we can't
help wondering just what modern
sport is coming to; also where, if
coaches who think of nothing but
winning at any cost continue to
take over, modern sport is heading.
* * *
These ankle-deep thoughts are
inspired by the Pete :Karpuk inci-
dent which 'occurred in a recent
Ottawa -Argonaut football game and
what happened after that incident.
:k *
Karpixki as you doubtless know,
was sitting on, the Ottawa bench
when 'Argonaut Ulysses Curtis in-
tercepted a Rough Rider pass and
headed for the touch -down that
would tie the game. There wasn't a
Chinaman's chance of any legiti-
mate Ottawa player flagging Mr.
Curtis, so Peter promptly' had a
brain -wave. Or perhaps "blew his
top" would possibly be a more
accurate way of describing it.
* =k
Anyway, Karpuk arose from the
bench, dashed across the field, and
halted Ulysses in a thrilling but
absolutely illegal manner, immedi-
ately setting -off the finest mixup
which ever occurred on any Can-
adian football field.
* * *
Luckily. for the sport, Argonauts
finall3r won out. If they hadn't, the
results hardly bear thinking about.
At least twenty-five thousand Tor-
onto fans would have solemnly
vowed never to see another foot-
ball game—and would have kept
their vow, till the next big game
came up.
1' * :k
But k is the aftermath which in-
terests us. Safely back in Bytown,
our hero Karpuk modestly said: "I
still say it was a good play." That,
of course, was neither here nor there
as it is widely rumoured that Peter,
good player though he is, will never
be hanged for an over -sufficiency of
brains,
k * *
Cleiii Crowe is in a different cate-
gory, Clem is coach of the Rough -
Riders, imported at great expense
to teach us rude Canadians the in-
ner niceties ,01, sport. "Karpuk is
any boy," quoth Clem, or words to
that effect. "There is nothing
the rules foriiidding what he did,
and it showed that lie was right
in there every minute."
* * :k
Later it came out that a former
Ottawa coach, one Wally Masters,
also could claim a little credit for
what happened. According to Kar-
puk, and other former Ottawa. play-
ers Masters told then), "If a player
from the other side gets in the
clear, nail him from the bench. It
isn't covered in the rules."
* :k *
We would merely point out to
Messrs. Crowe and Masters that,
so far as we know, there's nothing
in the rule book forbidding the
shooting of an opposing'player who
looks dangerous—and, if you had
a few good shots on yur bench, it
would he much more certain than
trying to. tackle flim. So, when
you're arranging 3'our import, from
south of the harder another season,
why 'not put in a bid for Annie
Oakley or Sure Shot Dave? In the
meantime, a double order of air.
i
wicks. ' The whole thing smells to
high heaven—and the aroma is by
no means from violets. Or gerani-
ums either.
* * *
Here in Canada we take the view
that gambling—and especially horse
race gambling --can be wiped out
by a few denunciations from pulpits
and political platforms, an occa-
sional pinch or so of somebody
merely fronting for the big money,
and then forgetting about the
whole thing for another year or so.
Over in the States they are looking
at the thing more realistically and
• starting to hit the gamblers the only
place where it will hurt—in the bank
roll. Any attempt to do something
of the kind over here would be
met with a volume of "condoning
vice"—"licensing sin" and the like.
Still, the following from The New
York Times may furnish food for
thought to' those who believe that
there always has ,been gambling—
always will be gambling—and that
the best way to keep it within rea-
sonable bounds is to recognize the
fact. * * *
One provision of the new tax law
which went into effect last Thurs-
day was a brand-new tax, on book-
makers. Under the law bookies must
buy a $50 tax stamp every year
for display on their premises and
pay a 10. per cent excise on gross
receipts.
The Congressmen who drafted
the gambling tax provision and
pushed it through in the last ses-
sion spoke of it only—at least on
the record—as a revenue -raising
measure. Tax experts estimated offi-
cially that it would bring in $407
million a year, if paid.
But the new tax also provides
new 'legal weapons against the
books. Every state but Nevada has
laws against bookmaking, but here-
tofore there has been no Federal
law against it. Now, if a bookie
does not buy his stamp or pay his
10 per cent tax, he will risk a
Federal case—investigation by Re-
venue agents, a $5,000 fine and five
years in Federal prison. The Trea-
sury Department wants. 4,000 more
agents to enforce the provision.
* * *
If a bookie does meet all the
Federal reuirements, he may end
up in local trouble. Internal Reve-
nue offices will record the names
and addresses of bookies who file
their returns on .a list which will
be readily available to local police.
Of course, police all over the coun-
try already know all about many
. bookies and do nothing about them.
But the feeling is that listing of
names and addresses by Federal
authorities may put heavy public
pressure on local Governments to
take action.
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