The Osteopathic Physician November 1910 Vol. 18, No. 5
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The Osteopathic Physician November 1910 Vol. 18, No. 5 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 .'_..,.....:.>. •..f· ... •... CHICAGO. NOVEMBER. 1910 Number 5 capacity of 300. The seats are so arranged College Buys Its Building and Grounds Valued at that all may see the work shown in the pit.· The room is also used for practical demonstra $65,000 tion on the cadaver and is conveniently con nected with the dissecting room, from which HE Still College of Osteopathy, Des ology, Physiology, Chemistry and Urinalysis. the cadaver is introduced for demonstration. Moines, has purchased its college build These are lighted by skylights as well as win The south end of the floor is occupied by the ing and grounds and now owns outright dows. Thorough arrangements are .made to dissecting room. It is about 30x50, cement his property, conservatively valued at $65,000, rid these rooms of foul gases. On this floor floored, well ventilated, welI lighted, and will s well as its Hospital building, worth $15,000. is the clinical amphithea~er, having a seating accommoclae 120 students. This should be glad news to the profession videncing as it does the continued steady and ubstantial advancement of osteopathic insti utions to higher and more secured position. Newly Invented "Revolving" Treating Table Said to Be It also emphasizes in a most emphatic man er the splendid success and progress of this Wonderful Back Saver. Has Won the Approval articular college. Much credit is dUe to Dr. E. Thompson, the broad minded and effi of Well Kno:wn Osteopaths ient president; to Mr. F. C. Hubbell, the vice resident; to Mr. F. M. Hubbell, for lTIany NE of the latest devices presented for the on the physician, also securing at the same ears a staunch friend and liberal financial attention of the osteopathic profession time betel' relaxation for the correction of le acker; to Mr. William E. D. Rummel, the en O is a "reVOlving" treating table invented sions and to enable the operator to do as good rgetic and capable secretary and general man by Dr. C. W. Albright, of Danville, Ill., and de or better work than he is now doing with the ger, and to the whole associated band of ed signed to relieve the physical labor of the prac- regular table. cators and business men who have made this After patient work, study, and experimen notable success possible. tation along mechanical lines, Dr. Albright has They have made StilI College a strong, high perfected a table one-half of which is station rade, influential institution that the osteop ary while the lower half revolves. He says thic profession may well be proud of. there is no doubt it answers all the require Step by step our colleges are advancing to ments. lore secnre. financial position 'wd to larger The operator has only to place his patient :scope and prestige. May they continue to de on his side, face, or in the "twist" position, elop and enlarge until in endowment, equip as Dr. Albright calls it, and by a mere swing ment, scientific prestige, and therapeutical ing process with the revolving leaf extend, learning they shall be regarded as leading :1.n rotate, or side ~end any part of the spine, stitutions of the country. as the case reqUires. The hospital building of Still College wa~ Furthermore, much of the heaviest treat purchased about six months ago. The final ment may be given sitting down. Posterior transaction securing the college building and conditions of single or groups of vertebrae grounds was consummated November 3d, when are able to be corrected, it is claimed, with Mr. F. M. Hubbell formally transferred the the patient lying on the side. Lateral lesions deed to the property to the trustees of the are to be corrected with the patient lying on coll$:ge. the face or in the "twist" position. Rib lesions The actual cash consideration was $34,000, are to be corrected with the patient lying on the price stipulated in the option which was his back. A most excellent liver treatment given the college by Mr. Hubbell about ten may also be easily given on the table. 'years ago, when the scho,)l first took a kase It is possible that this rev<'lving table may on the property and which represented bnt a revolutionize to a great extent the technical slight advance over the purchase price of the practice of osteopathy from the viewpoint of property at that time. At:cording to the cur the .physical energy it now requires. At least, rent real estate valuations in Des Moines the that is Dr. Albright's view of it. and it seems present value is easily $65,000. that others agree with him. Leading men at The buildmg is a four story structure of recent state conventions are said to have brick and stone with 30,000 feet of floor space. shown great interest in Dr. Albright's conven I t contains sixty rooms and was especially tion, and have not only invested' in the device designed and planned to meet the needs of themselves, but are endorsing it strongly to .an os,teopathic college. Dr. Chester W. Albright, of Danville, III. their friends. The first floor contains a reception room Speaking of this new table, Dr. T. L. He-r -for ladies and gentlemen, both students ~lI1d roder, of Detroit, Mich., said, "It took the patients. Here are the offices, both private titioner and at the same time increase his convention at Bay City by storm. In a word ,;.nd general, and the X-Ray Laboratory. A efficiency. I believe it will revolutionize our osteopatic 'large hall runs through the center of this floor, The practice of osteopathy necessitates con practice. As is commonly known, busy o'ste ,:and on either side are found twenty-five treat stant physical exertion and when handling a opaths do not last very many years and be ing rooms, used by the students for treating large number of patients the severe physical cause of this perhaps a considerable numher patients. On the second floor are recitation strain has proved a serious problem to many of excellent practitioners are driven from our rooms, a cloak room, the edito'rial room of practitioners. There are many complaints of ranks much too early for the good of our pro The Still College Joumal of Osteopathy and tired backs and any invention that will lighten fession. With Dr. Albright's tahle I believe Surgical amphitheater. ' . the .burden and at the same time keep oste we can be doubly useful to humanity and I On this floor is the main auditorium, which opathy on its pre~ent high plane will be most am satisfied that the so-called harshnes!' of has a seating capacity of 500. It is used for welcome. our treatment can be eliminated with it.' It recitations, lecture work, chapel exercises, and With this end in view, Dr. Albright has been is extremely expensive not to be progressive, social functions. laboring for a year on the idea of a "re therefore, I believe this table to be the most At the north end of the third floor are the volving" treating table, which would do away ineJj:pensive article on the osteopathic market laboratories of Histology, Pathology, Bacteri, with all lifting and other heavy physical strain of today." Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 2 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN tel' of general interest to p;-esent a statement written by Mrs. Eleanor Evans herself: "Los Angeles, Cal., Atlg. 27 1910 ''If:2spital of t~e Pacific College of Ost~opathy. As I am mformed that conflicting state ments have been made in regard to my case I wish. to make a brief statement myseli. i w~s adltted to the County Hospital about the middle of November, 1909. My caSe was dia<> nosed as Transverse Myelitis and I was told that I would be able to sit up in about three weeks. At the time of my admission I was ~nable to raise .myself in bed or move my Itmbs. I was given what was said to be a tonic and two codeine tablets each day. As I had little faith in the treatment I was rc- o ceiying I asked at this time for the attention of a.n osteopathic physician. This request was demed. "Abopt March first I w:as !nformed that my case wa~ hopeless. At thiS time my treatment wa.s enttrely. f<;>r the puqlOse. of relieving my p,am and qUletmg the twttchmg of my limbs. Dr. C. W. Albright's Revolving Leaf Treating Table. J< or the latter purpose I was given corrosive sublimate which finally brought on severe Dr. J. Martin Littlejohn, of Chicago, wh.o o If' this Washington society succeeds in its ob had the table exhibited at the Littlejohn Col ject, it will be a precedent for the whole country stomach trouble. The superintendent of the lege, gives this as his opinion: "I have ex and anti-vaccinationists everywhere should se~ hospital expressed great anger ,when he found amined and demonstrated on the 'Albright Re that it would hasten realization which they other my deplorable condition and immediately or volving Treating Table' and find that to the wise may work for for years yet to come.