Sir Herbert Atkinson Barker, whose name bonesetters use as incantation against the curses of "regular" doctors, reached Manhattan last week from Kingston, Jamaica. Yet few on the pier knew him to be the man who for 40 years has been unlimbering stiff knees, setting dislocated joints, curing flat feet; whom Great Britain knighted for his orthopedic work on War wrecks; for whom Dr. F. W. Axham lost professional caste and died last year scorned by doctors (TIME, April 19, 1926) ; who wrote the article on "Mani-pulative...