Medicine: Don Jaime's Ear

In the Foreign News section of TIME, under the heading Spain (Aug. 13), was printed an unconfirmed newspaper report (carried by The New York World and other journals) that Don Jaime, second son of Alfonso of Spain, was cured of congenital deafness by Dr. Curtis H. Muncie, Brooklyn osteopath. Corrections are in order from varied sources:

1) According to interviews attributed to Dr. Muncie upon his return, while his patient was said to be a European prince, it was expressly denied that it was Don Jaime. A meager description of his methods of "...

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