...but sometimes it is a natural gift, like that of the bonesetters, and scrofula strokers, and cancer curers, who carry on a sort of guerilla war with human maladies. Such we know to be the case with Dr. Holmes . He was born for the laughter cure, as certainly as Priessnitz was for the water cure, and has been quite as successful in his way, while his prescriptions are infinitely more agreeable. The vo...