The Osteopathic Physician Vol. 21 No. 4 1912 April
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The Osteopathic Physician April 1912 Vol. 21, No. 4 Reproduced with a gift from the Advocates for the American Osteopathic Association (AAOA Special Projects Fund) and Michigan Auxiliary to the Macomb County Osteopathic Association May not be reproduced in any format without the permission of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine SM (formerly Still National Osteopathic Museum) Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO Volume XXI. CHICAGO. APRIL. 1912 Number 4 most rapidly growing. Accordingly we find Anatomical and Physiological Pictures of Diseases in the first place that tumors seldom occur until after forty or forty-five years, and in the Tumors second place that they tend to occur in those tissue's which normally proliferate most rap Being Chapter: XIV of This Series by Dr. E. E. Tucker, of New York City. idly. Having begun to cause growth there, they actually specialize this tissue for the func tion of liminating this growth energy, and UMORS are not isolated phenomena. The tion does not cease to accumulate during old a~ b~dy become a safety valve to the body. The re natural laws of which they are expres age,' even when the mec.hanis.m. of .the. semblance of this action to the normal func T sion are the same natural lnws which show has become so stiff that ItS eltmmatlOn IS Im themselves in physiology and pathology and in tion of growth lies in the tendency to form possible. At ·this time it becomes a danger, a embryonic tissue, to endow it with the power every phenomenon of 'life, and moreover, ,ev two-fold danger. Its non-elimination leads to ery phenomenon of life doubtless shows in of independent growth, and to develop the new growth and to autointoxication, at the power of functional ~bsorption. .. tumors. same time that the tissue, stiffening, loses its This, however, bnngs up a phYSIOlogical The study of this subject seems to divide perfect specialization. What happens then itself into three lines. First the general ten law which I think I am describing to you for alw~rs the first time. If anyone can show me a dis dency to continuous growth which is cussion of this principle elsewhere, where I present in living tissu~. ?econd, '!- speclfi.c stimulus to growth which IS found m prach can read it, I should be glad to have him do so. cally every case of tumors. Third, the local This principle might be called the principle of functional absorptiol~. Every tissue tends :0 irritation which is the local or incidental cause specialize for some function, and then to do all of the growth. The first of these is the biological cause. of that work-to absorb it away from the rest Everything that is alive te~ds t? fill the. earth, of the body. It is on the whole very simple. ea and sky with more of ItS kmd. ThiS con It is most clearly seen in the action of the tinuous growth is restrained in the bo?y only nerves. The stimulus is applied to the skin, by specialization of tissue. When l1ssue IS this stimulus passes up the spinal cord to the specialized for one thing, it of course loses to brain, and down again to about the same spot that degree, or rather it t? that d~gree .holds from which it came. Why did it travel this long route instead of traveling across the in in suspense, all other quahl1es. Tissue 111 the body, which is to all intents and purposes per finitely smaller distance from the skin directly to the muscle? Loeb has shown that in the fectly specialized, has therefore perfectly su5 pended this tendency to unlimited growth. And absence of the nervous system, the stimulus here is a biological principle to which I wish will pass directly into the muscular tissue. to call your attention as being one of the c.hief What then does the nervous system do? It factors in evolution, namely, that all thmgs absorbs this stimulus. It is more sensitive tend to complete their specialization before than the cells oT the skin, and robs them en they tend to l·eprodttction. tirely of it, so that instead of the skin grow Next to the biological energy is the bIO ing in proportion to the stimulus it received, chemical energy which is the same biological the growth takes place in the nervous system Dr. Otis F. Akin, of Portland, are., Who Has Just or brain, and there the equilibrium between energy transfor~ed by its passing through Retu'rned from a Sojourn in Europe. ' some of the specialized organs of the body. the external and internal conditions is brought about. But there are two sets of nerves ter Naturally most cases of unbalance take effect is very simply that this growth energy partly through the biochemical mechanis~, minating in the skin, in fact there are three, tends to cause further growth. It fastens it perhaps more. There are the sensory nerves, which is the stronger of the two because tiS self upon the tissues in the body which are sue energy tends to specinli~alion. ... (Continued on page 2.) The third of these factors IS local lrntatlOn. The local irritation has the same effect from one angle that the biological or biochemical stimulation has from the opposite angle. It Do You Want An ',Osteopath" Door Plate of lowers tissue resistance and tends to prolifer ation of cell . Brass Free? ow I said that there were no isolated phe nomena in nature nor, of course, in tumors O vehement and continuous has been the office or home want another one to use at the which were natural products. \N'e shall show stream of requests to obtain our souvenir other location. a beautiful illustration of this here. 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So it is in successful practitioner, write us today. 'Copyright, 1912, by The Osteopathic Publishing Com· terchangeable as a door-plate or a window ,sign. The new supply is not large, and like the pany, ·Chicago. Many of our friends who have one at the first installment is not expected to last long. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 2 the motor nerves, and the vasomotor nerves. I t is the business of these organs to do some Of these three the sensory nerves are more thing with it. They are the protection be Dr._Otis F. Akin Enthusiastic About sensitive, and they therefore absorb all the tween the body and this explosive force. European Experience stimulus away from the other two, as well as Sajous seems to hold that the source of from the skin. They carry it to the spinal ~hese enzymes, the spermin and the ovarin, is Dr. Otis F. Akin has resumed practice at centers. There the end of each nerve is in III the adrenal body. But I am forced to dif Portland, Ore., after an absence of nearly a contact with numerous other sets of nerves. fer with Dr. Sajous to this extent, that I think year.. Mos~?f this time was spent in European motor nerves, vasomotor nerves, other sensory the source of the proliferative enzymes found surgical clllllcs. Dr. Akin took the regular nerves. Why does it not cross over to the moto;' in the genital organs is the same as that of all course~ 0!Iered in the Vienna hospitals and is nerves and cause much more directly the spas other enzymes of whatever nature; namely, e~lthuslashc over the work in pathology and modic action which removes the stimulus? It that they come from all of the cells in the dlagn.os.ls.