1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1349/1 And the first yeare to read Horatius Morus tables, an epitome or briefe handling of all the whole art of surgerie, that is, of swellings or apostems, wounds, vlcers, bonesetting, and healing of bones broken.

1633 S. Bradwell Helps for Suddain Accidents xii. 88 But, if in such a fall, any Bone be put out of joynt, or broken; they must get helpe of such as are skilful in bone-setting, which Art is learnt by sight, and not by writing.

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. vi. App. ii. 445 A fractured Leg set in the Country by one pretending to Bone-setting.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. iv. xiv. 101 Among the good Company which had attended in the Hall during the Bone-setting, Mrs. Honour was one. View more context for this quotation

1768 P. Pott Gen. Remarks Fractures & Dislocations 1 They [sc. the people] regard bone-setting (as it is called) as no matter of science; as a thing which the most ignorant farrier may with the utmost ease become soon and perfectly master of; nay, that he may receive it from his father and family, as a kind of heritage.

1837 London & Westm. Rev. 28 50 Busy as she is, bone-setting, driving, shelling beans, rating hypocrisy, or speculating upon human life.

1847 F. Trollope Three Cousins II. viii. 169 He has got a stout spirit of his own,..for I never saw any man bear a bone-setting with such steady resolution.

1886 H. Marsh Dis. Joints xxvi. 355 These are some of the cases in which an opening is too often left for the successful practice of so-called bone-setting by irregular practitioners.

1903 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Jan. 3/2 The higher that individual is amongst the Classes, the more apt he is to hold out his hand to bone-setting, Christian Science, and quackery of all sorts.

1962 New Scientist 16 Aug. 359/2 They had adopted the vocation of bone-setting as a means of benefiting mankind and the poor.

2002 Times 26 July (T2 section) 15/2 Osteopathy and chiropractic share a common origin in the folk traditions of bone setting, and still have much in common.

1736 Mem. Life G. Kelly i. 4 Unhappy was it for poor Harlequin, that the unparalled Bone-setting Mrs. Mapp of Epsom, had not then made her great Abilities known.

1838 Lancet 13 Jan. 28/2 The tooth-drawing druggist, the bleeding druggist, the bonesetting druggist, and the wound-dressing druggist.

1933 J. D. Beresford Camberwell Miracle viii. 144 This man..bore no resemblance whatever to the bone-setting quack he had expected to find.

2008 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 14 852 Usually, the Mongolian term ‘bariach’, from ‘barikh’, meaning ‘to grasp’, refers simply to bone-setting practitioners (who are frequently not shamans).

1770 D. du Bois Theodora II. 151 On he goes, a good bone setting trott, as regular in his motions, save when he stumbles, as ever Harris's time-piece was.

1775 R. Cumberland Choleric Man i. ii. 4 No witch, but an old bone-setting mare, with a heavy cloak-bag at her crupper, that has play'd a bitter tune upon my ribs.

1808 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 50 The bone setting or bone breaking hundred-mile road.

1839 Knickerbocker Sept. 232 Even the hard, bone-setting Jersey wagons, with their lank horses, have their charms of association for me.

1857 H. W. Herbert Frank Forester's Horse & Horsemanship II. 71 To ride a bone-setting trotter, a journey of successive days,..would have been a veritable peine forte et dure.

1882 Wallace's Monthly Sept. 574/1 With the hard, bone-setting trotter there is no temptation [to ride too fast].