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Bonesetter
A bonesetter is a practitioner of joint manipulation. Before the advent of chiropractors, osteopaths, and physical therapists, bonesetters were the main providers of this type of treatment. Bonesetters would also reduce joint dislocations and "re-set" bone fractures. ==Later years== In Japan, bone-setting is known as ''sekkotsu''. Other "lay" bonesetters still practice in some parts of the world. Author Evelyn Waugh, in his 1934 novel ''A Handful of Dust'' mentions the term in the following passage: "If Brenda had to go to London for a day's shopping, hair-cutting, or bone-setting (a recreation she particularly enjoyed), she went on Wednesday, because ..."〔''A Handful of Dust'' by Evelyn Waugh. Back Bay Books,New York, 1999. p.47.〕
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