The Osteopathic Physician December 1901 Vol. 1, No. 3
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
The Osteopathic Physician December 1901 Vol. 1, No. 3 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) CONTENTS Osteopatby, tbe Twentletb Century Medicine, by OpleRead tID BDITORIAL Wlir on tbe Mosquito. Bone-Setting as a Fine Art. How to Prevent Spreading TubE:rculo sis. Veget.arlanlsm a Maudlin 8entlmental Its. Tbeorles Regarding Immunity ......70-72 The Pbllosopby of Osteopatby Boiled Down.••.. 'is 1:be Bread Pill Doctor a Martyr. 74 Tbe Tongue in Healtb and Sickness 6 Dangers That Lurk In Antitoxin.•••...•......... 76 nae Nervous Origin of Disease .•••...•••...•..... 'is OSTEOPATH!C CATBCHISM Wbat Is a Lesion? Wby Does Osteopatby Claim to Go Back to First Causes? Can O!;teo- patby Reduce a Fever? 86-87 Plasm. n, tbe New F'ood. a Valuable Discovery•. 88 What Osteopathy 1B Doingfor the Sick 00 OF HUMAN INTEREST Hygienic Advantages of Evening Dress. Japan Trying to Exterminate Rats. Pension Asked Through Heredity. Biting tbe Finger Nalls. 00 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE OSTmPATHIC PHYSICIAN PUDUSUING m 601-002 MAQ..QUETTE BLDG,CHICAGO 10 CENTS A COpy 51 A YEAR C Still National Osteopathic Museum, Kirk$viUc; ~O PROFESSIONAL CARDS. THE ST. LOUIS: NEW YORK: DR. HERMAN F. GOETZ DR. NORMAN D. MATTISON OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Osteopa.thic Physician Osteopathic Physicia.n HENRY STA HOPE BUNTING, A.B., D.O., EDITOR. , Phon< : 200 W. 57th St. Phon.: 248 C.ntury Building. A Popular Journal to aid those "Who, having health. "Wish to keep it. and others "Who Hours: 9 to 12-1 t04. 362-Columbus. HOUfS: 9 to 12-1 to 4. 1740 B, Kinlocho. having lost health. "Would regain it. CHICAGO and KENWOOD: PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. Editorial Ollice: 57 Washington Street, Suite 500. 50 4. DR. HENRY STANHOPE BUNTING DR'. F. J. STEWART, ASSISTANT Publication Ollice: 601-602 Marquette Building. OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS ~A Canvasser is wanted In every community in ~Single Subscriptions, 10 cents the copy, $1 the United States and Canada. Address Publication Weat.m Methodist Book Building, 4681 Lake Av.nue (corner 47th St.). the year. Every subscription must be paid in advance. 57 Waahington St., Suit. 508-510. Tu•••• Thur.., and Sat}'. mornings, ~If any person who has not paid for it is re Ollice. ~THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN will undertake 8:30 to II:30 a.m. ceiving THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSTCIAN, it is because Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to secure a representative practitioner for any good Tc1cphon.: Centra12169. T elephon.: Blue 40I. J some one has subscribed in his name. Every paper is stopped at the expiration of the time paid for. field where an Osteopathist is not available, if urgent X-RAY. CHEMICAL AND MICROSCOPIC eXAMINATIONS MADe' ~Liberal Terms to clubs of five or more sub demand is made by our readers. Address Editorial A IImit.d number of ca.es tak.n fo~ home treatment cribers. Ollice. 01 VOL. 1. Chicago, Ill., December, 19 . NO·3 OSTEOPATHY TREATS SUCCESSFULLY ence, which always is in hand with Spinal Disorders: nature, less medicine will be given. Lame Backs; Backaches; Weak Spines; Stiff Spines; Spinal Curvatures; An old practitioner of today looks back Slipped and Rotated Vertebrre; Tender, Sore, Irritable and Hysterical Spines; with a shudder upon the days of his Railway Spines; Spinal Concussion; Wry Neck; Lumbago; Intercostal Neuralgia early life when the practice of medi and Pain in the Coccyx; Typhoid Spines; the Sequelre of Cerebro-Spinal Men ingitis; Rheumatic Spines, and Stooped Shoulders. The progress of Pott's cine consisted in constant dosing. It Disease can usually be arrested and the patient very greatly benefitted. seems that as surgery advances the Slipped Ribs; Rotated Ribs; Dropped Ribs; "Stitches" in the Side and' giving of pills and powders decreases, Back; Rachitic Chests;'Arrested Development of Chest, etc. and I believe that the time soon will Joint Disorders: come when the taking of medicine will Acute and Chronic Sprains; Acute and Chronic Dislocations; Lameness; be rare." Chronic Hip Troubles; Neglected Dislocations; Stiff Joints; SynoVoitis; Arthro Many of the leading thinkers of both pathies; Displacements of Cartilage, Ligament and Tendon; Sub-Luxations of Europe and America believe that the the Pelvic Bones; Slipped Clavicles; Dislocations of the Coccyx, etc. most pronounced advancement in the curing of bodily ills is to be along the Nervous Disorders: line of osteopathy. It is a fact that Nervous Debility; Nervous Exhaustion; Nervous Collapse; Nervous Head· aches; Hysteria; Insomnia; Brain Fag; Neurasthenia; St. Vitus' Dance; throughout the country no science is Neuralgia; Neuritis, including Sciatica and Tic Doloureux; Loss of Sensation; OSTEOPATHYTHE TWENTIETH making more rapid progress. Even in Exaggerated Sensation; Numbness, Tinglings, Twitchings, Spasms and Cramps CENTURY MEDICINE. remote communities where all ad of Muscles, such as in Writers', Telegraphers' and Musicians' Cramps and other OPIE READ. vancements are slow and where a new Occupation Neuroses; Palsies; Paralysis; Asthma and Ha~Fever; Bronchitis and An old physician when asked as to idea is looked upon with grave sus La Grippe; ex-Ophthalmic Goitre; Rheumatoid Arthritis; Rheumatic' Fever; Chronic Rheumatism; Diabetes MeIlitis and Bright's Disease, in the early stages; what in his opinion was to be the most picion, osteopathy has forced its way, Phthisis in the early stages, especially when dependent upon Spinal Lesions; noted advance of medicine within the against prejudice and organized oppo Locomotor Ataxia, in the early stages; Atrophies, and forms of Insanity where next ten years, remarked: "The de sition. So strong has been this preju dependent upon Neck Lesions. crease of medication. Following sci- dice that'the legislatures of the differ- (Conllnued on back Inside co.er page.) [Copyright, 1901. oy the OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN PUBLISBniG COMPANY. All RIghts Reser\"ed.] '. (Copyrill'ht, 1901, by the OSTEOPATHIC PHYSTCIAIl PUBLISHING COMPANY.) © 1 Still National Osteopathic Museum, Kirksville, MO I 66 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. ent states were called upon to pass work and can no longer exercise their "As some of you gentlemen know, I " 'Dock' said he, when he began to laws declaring the practice illegal, but full duties for health, because struc have practiced medicine in the swamps grow better, 'I reckon a man is a good instances of notable cures were so fre tures get out of natural shape am! for tiJirty years. During that time I deal like a watch. Oil ain't no good quent and so unmistakable that this position. It is a new kind of exercise have administered more medicine than poured inside when the spring needs movement resulted uniformly in vic to the body and a new kind of medi could be hauled in the band wagon of settin'.' " tory for the new science. cine which the osteopath gives, that a circus. With quinine and patent This new science has not only made A school of medicine is like a creed. puts everything back in its place. medicines I braced myself against the its way into the swamps of America, It must be defended against all ad I am tolc! by those who ought to chills, and sometimes I would hold but into the populous European cities. vancement, and as time moves on, know that this is as much doctoring them down, but they would break out It is to be the renovator of the twen bringing broader thought and greater as the body needs to make it get well. afresh. It would seem that the whole tieth century man. development, this defense becomes If it has got the get-well element in community was shaking. One day I more and more necessary. Religious it it will get well by such treatment. said to an old fellow: Following Orders. dogmas find it essential to submit to That is, by merely enabling the blood "'Bill, how long have you lived liberalizing revision in order to stand to course freely and naturally and the down here?' before the people, and schools of medi nerves to work automatically and in " 'All my life.' cine, which if anything yield to ad full force, all the organs will work up "'How long have you been shak vancement in ideas slower than relig to their best and health will return ing ?' ious dogma, seem to think it neces will return by the aid of this natural, " 'All my life.' sary to organize a similar protecting simple thing of exercise. Now, if the "'Then you don't know what it IS process. body has not this get-well power left, not to shake.' Of course there Will always be great it is, common sense that it will not " 'No, I have allus shuck.' Higgs-"But why do you put your knife into your physicians, but the great physician is get well with any amount of drugs "'Then why don't you move away mouth while eating?" Jig-~s-"Simply because my physician says I need a man of great common sense. As driven through it. -up among the hills?' more Hon in my system." !ong .as he remains well within the So after all is said osteopathy in " 'Whut?' said he, gazing at me, boundary lines of his medical creed application is a high-grade sort of ex 'move away from here and ketch some In Memoriam. he is ordinary. It is the stepping be ercise in spots where it is really need new-fangled disease? I reckon not. [From Tit-Bits.] yond that has made him great. ed. That's the way it appeals to the 'When I've got the shakes I know "I presume you carry a memento Everyone must acknowledge the layman and as one who has tried it what's the matter with me.' of some kind in that locket of yours?" value of exercise.