The use of massage and early movements in recent fractures, originally introduced by Lucas Championiere, was first adopted and advocated in this country by the present writer. In spite of the coolness and, in some quarters, the scepticism with which the treatment was at first received, there is no doubt that the method has been steadily growing in favour, and that it is now used either in its entirety or with some modification by all rational surgeons. The writer when first advocating the method was frequently regarded as an enthusiast - an entire misapprehension. The sole object of his support of the treatment was to obtain for it a fair trial with a view to bringing about a more reasonable attitude in the management of fractures than had previously been adopted by surgeons generally. The method was never advocated to the exclusion of the use of splints or of operations in the treatment of recent fractures, but it was strongly urged that a fair consideration should be afforded to a plan of treatment which, if used discreetly as an adjunct to the ordinary methods, modified as circumstances may demand, was believed to be sound in theory and advantageous in practice. This belief has, it can hardly be denied, been justified by subsequent experience. The method consists merely of the application of common-sense principles in the treatment of these injuries. Indeed, it cannot but excite surprise in the mind of any intelligent person that the stiffness, pain, and other disadvantages which so constantly follow the treatment of fractures upon classical lines should have been countenanced for so many years when they can, in the majority of cases, be entirely obviated by a treatment so simple as that described in the following lectures.