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George Matthews Bennett
A 19th-century British bonesetter, he wrote a spirited defense of traditional manual healing in The Art of the Bone-Setter. His work offers a vivid glimpse of a practice that stood at the edge of popular medicine and professional debate.
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The Art of the Bone-Setter: A Testimony and a Vindication
by George Matthews Bennett
About the author
George Matthews Bennett was a British bonesetter best known for The Art of the Bone-Setter: A Testimony and a Vindication, published in 1884. His surviving public-domain work presents bone-setting as a practical healing art and argues for its value through explanation, history, and case-based advocacy.
Sources available during this search suggest he practiced in England and was associated with the Leamington area. A local history account describes him as part of a family or inherited tradition of bone-setting, which fits the strongly personal and experience-based tone of his book.
Although not a widely documented literary figure today, Bennett remains of interest to readers curious about medical history, folk practice, and Victorian-era health debates. His writing preserves the voice of a practitioner defending hands-on knowledge at a time when medicine was becoming more formalized.