the pretext that I had vertebrae in my back which were causing me pain. The meeting took place 
 
and I found that the doctor spoke Finnish, Russian, Dutch and German but no English. All 
 
conversations between us took place in German. The doctor agreed to give me a course of 
 
treatment which he said would extend for about six weeks. This he did, givingme a manual 
 
therapy treatment which was designedto get blood into the nerves. The treatment was
 
very painful and lasted for about an hour each day except Sundays.
 
              During the course of these treatments the doctor told me about his life, as follows:
 
             He had been a very poor boy in Finland and had suffered considerable hardships in order 
 
to complete his medical education. The development of this manual therapy treatment through the 
 
nervous system was entirely his own work. His practice had grown until, in 1928, he was called 
 
into consultation by the Court in Holland to examine Henry, the Prince Consort. He gave the 
 
Prince a course of manual therapy which was so successful thathe was retained to become the 
 
"Leibarzt" to the Prince. He settled in The