The Osteopathic Physician
May 1904
Vol. 5, No. 6
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
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Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
Volulne 5. .CHICAGO. MAY. 1904. NUlnber 6.
Thought •• o. H." 'Didn"t 'Pay-,- and IS THE 20 l\IONTH Then Figured Out~231 POST-GRADUATES OSTEOPATH THE BEST? to It~ Credit! HO! FOR S'f. LOUIS! Many practitioners think only of tne hundred., of pieces of good literature they send out in the Interesting View of a Prominent Ex course of a year's educational campaign that, Great Preparations On.. for' the' Six Educator. on the surface, show· no results-and they for Weeks' Summer Course. get the single pieces, or the tens, or scores out of this multitude that do bring patients anrt which a gr~at deal more than pay for all that JOIN IN OUR SHOP TALK. are wasted! IT WILL BEGIN JULY. 18. This .tendency shows in 01,11' correspondence Thill Osteopath Who III Not Narrow Believes It with practitioners every little while I and, after The World's Fair and Great A. O. A. Meeting CrIpples Ollteopathll to Specialize in Path probing deeper into the situation with them Will LOj:;"icaUy Bloss~m Into the Summer ology and Study Up Other SystemR we are usually able to show them that an out Love-Feast-Homeopathic Medical -He Argues W fl11. lay for good literature, which they had roughly College Building Secured. estimated a net loss, not only wiped out the net loss in the course of a year but stood tens 'and even hundreds of dollars to the good as "I believe, for my part, that the most effi- net profit. It' is natural, .of course, .to· think As announced in our last issue, the great CIent Osteopath is made in twenty months." A. O. A. meeting' and the wor,ld's fair with "What?" . its "Osteopathic Day" will not be'the only mag "I do." 'n~ts drawing Osteopaths to St. Loui,s. .Immedi "Why?" . a:~ely following the great meeting there will be- "I would rather trust my chances. in a se gin what promises to be the most helpful thtng vere illness with a thorough-going, dyed-in-the that has happened to Osteopathic practitioners wool Osteopath, who had studied Osteopathy since they entered field ,duty. The· great post pure and simple for twenty months-that is, graduate summer· course of.the profession will anatomy, physiology and Osteopathic therapeu then be inaugurated, and from the lines· on tics-and who then entered upon his mission of which it has been laid out, and the "talent" and healing straightway, with his mind centered ex "experience" enlisted, it· is easy to see that it clusively upon gaining rtsults by our manipu vv.ill in truth be a perpetuation of the convention lative treatment, than to .commit my chanceR love-feast, clinics and experience 'meeting for six to the same person after giving him one or weeks uninterruptedly into the summer. even two additional years of study and drill Fancy the satisfaction to the earnest practi in the field of pathology, surgery and materia tioner to share this serious, business a sociation medic~ with all the disqualifications which that with a lot of the most successful and studious sort of training brings to the practice of an practitioners of the country! What will it not exclusive' and opposing system." mean to him! How we all long for a discussion "Doctor, you paralyze me-completely para of the new problems constantly arising and for lyze me with your expression of view, for I others' experience in difficult cases, when alma know you are sincere in it, and 'r know also mater is left behind' and each one faces for him you have had an experience that commands self the serious responsibilities of the physician! attention for your views throughout the length What satisfaction, we have each said, if we could and breadth of our profession. But, tell me, be together for weeks with our old study mates, why do you think so-<1o you put a ban upon professors and some of the foremost people in knowledge? Is a little learning preferable to the profession, to exchange views, ask. ques a lIttle more learning? Is a physician apt to be tions and express our own convictions! unfitted for his important and holy work by a 'Well, that will all be here at. the American wide mental vista and a comparative knowledge School Post-Graduate course, and if you have of diverse systems of .healing?" longed for these things come and drink of the "Yes-I think so. I am convinced of it. It Py'errian springs of Osteopathy and be satisfied. may be heresy, but still I think so. I have You will not be disappointed at what you get given the question a lot of study and I honestly and, incidentally, you will get a post-graduate believe that it is easy to ruin the efftciency of diploma-if you make good-signe.d by our Ven a physician of anyone school of practice by ! Dr. Samuel 'R~ LanderJ " (, er;:tble Founder, which will be a .treasure to you drilling him somewhat in the tenets of other all your professional life. schools opposite in principles. I used to think I think it is not too much to claim that this the 'Old Doctor' na;rrow when he preached the of ninety copi.es a month that appar~ntly-yet course, as laid out and backed up with "tal straight and narrow way for the Osteopath, ut none can be quite sure about that-go abroad ent," is really the first post-graduate work re now I agree "\vith him." w.itho~t doing much good, and ',to thin)r"these ally entitled to the name that has been avail This.conversation took place recently between overbalance the teR that db "pull,!" .t5ut it is dole to our ."old grads."-as good' as all pre the edItor of "The O. P." and one of our most wrong ..to do so; it'is unfair to the docfor ,amI liminary efforts may have been in this line-· prominent and successful city Osteopaths. He is to the 'publisher; and it is not good business. anq it is to be hoped that our practitioners will a broad-minded man who has been also promi This letter will show how a situation, at .back it up enthusiasti.cally by taking advantag"l ~en~ as an educator and editor within the pro- first supposed to be unprofitable to the doctor of the great opportunity offered. . eS~lOn, and who also has built up a very influ using "Osteopathic Health," actually stood when Our science is developing and advancing. This et;ltIal practice. He is 80 to speak "one of our the case was sifted down on its merits and the d~ne post-graduate work is the way to get and give Pioneers" and has valiant ;vork to ad little patient-getter got its just dues. It is worth the best that we all know and may be learning. vance our science and profession.. He has al reading and thinking about if you believe you Its lectures and demonstrators are men of prac toa~8 done it in the best way, too. He is ethical haven't gotten the results you ought to get e tical aRd successful experience, and they will cate: core. And he is a student-a well-edu- from your promotion. It may help you to fig present the best there is ih our scientific devel man a;nd thoroughly progressive. No, be ure out that you, too, have done more than opment. It will not be a hot-air show, either. tab not a bIgot's hair in his head He is open you have supposed. The limitations, just as. well as the possibilities, . conviction and has a reason f~r everything Inee I am h' .' ;'Qsteopathic. Publishing Co., Chicag0, Ill. of our science will be considered. Our ideas are he t d sure e has gIven as much tIme tv "Gentlemen: Your favor of the twelfth inst. rapidly crystallizing on' th~se lines. Both' sides Ohe s. u Y of our professional problems as any received and I think it is up to me to apologize. will be presented at the post-graduate love-feast. 1D our ranks-including school work, its After reading over your much appreciated letter The Homeopathic Medical College building has [Continued on Page 4.J been rented by A. S. O. to hold this post-gradu [Continued' on Page 4.J ate school-so it will have a local habitation as Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO .a THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN well as a name. This building is well located, psychic disorders. 13. Possible harm from treat· coming! Careful arrangement has been made, well equipped, ample-just the place for such a ment. 14. Present status of germ theory, and that you may have a great outing, connecting school. its relation to the Osteopathic philosophy and business with pleasure. Spending the forenoon There will be plenty of clinics of all kinds practice. 15. The drug fiend; the temperance with the daily programme followed in the after obstetrical, gynecological, surgical and general crusade; Osteopathic contentions and practicp. noon by s.ightseeing, with a nice home to retirc Osteopathic cases; also dissecting material. the solution. 16. Considerations in Osteopathic to at night at the Inside inn's spacious quarters, Good boarding accommodations are to be harl technique. and among shade trees galore. Think of it! near the school at reasonable rates. Board can Gynecology. D,.. Cla,./r.. To see the exposition every po sible facility for bt: arranged for after arrival. The work in gynecology will consist of clinical the economy of the visitor's time and the sav Remember that post-graduate certificates will demonstrations (daily) of the various female dis ing of his strength is provided. Boats will be signed by Dr. A. T. Still, president of the orders. In addition to this, lectures will be traverse the mile or more of lagoons which A. S. 0., the secretary of the school and all given explaining the Osteopathic methods of surround the Electricity and .l!:ducational pal members of the faculty connected with the sum treatment·of same. Special attention will be aces, and the Intramural railway reaches every mer school work at St. Leuis. given to uterine and ovarian displacements, then' part of the grounds. Rolling chairs may be se No two classes will conflict, so that those who diagnosis, importance and replacement, with tUI'ed for trips through the buildings and else desire to do so can take the several courses. In demonstrations on actual cases. Some time w1ll where. Think of this some more! addition the world's fair and A. O. A. convention be devoted to general discussion and cqmparison The Osteopathic day festivi ties will take place can be taken in. All classes meet six days in of cases embraced in the subject matter. in the evening and Festival hall, 200 feet high, the week. Only graduates of reputable Osteo in the center of the Cascade garden', where pathic schools are eligible to attend. It is, re Ob",et,.ic". D,.. Cla,.k.. there are three cascades with the largest water member, fmally, strictly a post-graduate course. The work in obstetrics will consist principally falls ever constructed by man-90,000 gallons of Courses will be given as follows: of demonstrations in actual cases of the Ostt: water per minute, flowing over the cascades, be opathic methods of conducting labor. Some lec neath Osteopathic feet! That evening we will Di""ection.' D,.. ]Joung tures will be given as to Usteopathic ante have special music, given to us .by the exposi In practical anatomy a special effort will be partum treatment of the pregnant woman, also tion management, on the largest organ the world made in the dissections to demonstrate Osteo care during puerperium with some attention has ever known, with 146 stops and pipes five pathic pathology in the exact manner in which pajd to care of the new born. feet in diameter, wrought out of lightning-rod the luxations of bones may affect the nerve and Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear ye! All copper and tipped with cobalt-the wonder of blood supply and thus be the cause of disease. this musical age-think 0f it! Will you miss it? Particular attention will be directed to the ori· "Roads Lead To St. Louis! !! Di,.ection"'/0,. Vi"iting O"teopath" gin and insertion and the nerve and blood sup The programme committee has mapped out '10 reach the world's fair ground from the ply to the muscles. The position and relation for our national meeting in J'uly papers cov Union station, where all trains enter St. Louis of the nerves, arteries and viscera will be noted. ering not only practical and important sub to deposit their passengers, the visitors may Special attention will be given the nerve and jects, but has provided in the clinic depart take the Laclede or Market street cars direct blood supply to the viscera and the manner in ment practical demonstrations for ten varions to the Inside inn, our hotel headquarter, which which it may be disturbed by bony lesions. diseases, all of which the local Osteopaths have is in the south side of the world's fair grounds; Su,.ge,.y, D,.. ]Joung provided snbjects for. Each clinician has been or take any car on Eighteenth street, going A practical course will be given in clinical and notified who is to furnish the subject for his north; transfer on Pine street, Olive street or operative surgery. The clinical surgery will con clinic. Of all points that he desires to know 'Vashington avenue, to any car going we t, hav sist of such operations as are necessary for the about that individual case he also has been in· ing world' fair sigu on. Those coming on relief of the cases applying for treatment. It 1S formed; so, there will be no mistake or mishap special trains, which do not go through Union confidently believed that there will be a large in that department. station, but go direct to world' fair terminals; amount of such material obtainable. Members St. Louis and the c},:position will be the from there you should take the Intermural rail of the class will have an opportunity to admin Mecca to which all Osteopaths in July will be way, direct to the Inside inn, without change. Ister anesthetics and to perform minor surgICal Cut out and keep these directions, as you operations in order to further acquaint them will need them upon arrival. with operative technic. The operative surgery You're a chump if you don't and will wish will consist of the demonstration of various oper you had. ations on the cadaver, wound closure, the loca JUNE OSTEOPATHIC A bureau of information is establi hed on the tion of the various landmarks and surgical first floor, next the parlors of the Inside inn, guides, also the use and application of splints in HEALTH TALKS for the visiting Osteopaths, Committees are ap fractures. The course will be complete I'll every 1, TO OLD MEN. pointed from the local associations to answer detail. •. TO MOTHERS WITH GROWING FAMILIES. every conceivable question upon your arrival. 'P,.inciple" and 'P,.actice 0./ O"teopathy, 3. TO MEN IN THEIR PRIME WHO FEAR APO- HOMER EDWARD BAILEY, D.O., D,.. Hulett PLEXY AND PARALYSIS. Chairman of General World's Fair Committee. The course in principles and practice of Oste 4. TO EVERYBODY WHO IS CONSTIPATED. The St. Louis Meeting and the opathy, given by Dr. Guy D. Hulett, will, as S. TO THOSE WHO FEAR TYPHOID FEVER. 6. TO CONSUMPTIVES. World's Fair the term suggests, comprise a discussion of Once more we want to urge upon aU Osteo theoretic problems with a view to their possihle 7. TO WHOEVER IS INTERESTED IN OSTEO PATHIC PROGRESS. paths to attend the St. Louis A. O. A. meet application to practical conditions. Hence the ing, J llly n to 15 inclusive. No man or wom whole field of disease will be drawn upon, by A forceful stimulus to June practice. It will bring in an within our profession can afford to miss this reference to known pathology and clmical ex new friends whom you may not have reached yet. Read the editorial summary on page 14 of this paper. meeting. perience, to determine as far as may be pos Order now. . Firf;t-The strength yeur presence will give !lible the comprehensiveness, or the limits, of the cause, in swelling the number, i needed. various Osteopathic assumptions. Definite dem 1iieOSTEOPATHIC PUBLISHING CO. Second-On account of the enthusiasm and in onstrations will be made to contribute to the 171 Washington Street CHICAGO dividual strength it will give to you. interest as far as may be possible. Some of the Third-This will be by far tbe greatest gather subjects covered are herewitn given, not as the ing of Osteopaths the world has ever known, determined course, but only as a suggestion of and you should be one of them. the nature of the work: MAY ISSUE WILL Fourth-The world's fair management. have 1. The Lesion; its nature,. cause, maintenance, by their courtesy made this occasion a distinctive effect and removal. 2. The use of older forms CONVERT THEM feature of the fair, which, if but utilized as it of mechano-therapy, such as massage, Swedish Tbe May Issue of OSTEOPATHIC IIEALTH bas should Qe by our profession, mean more from movements, exercise, physical culture, aud the several features you ha,ve been wa.lting for.•'It will bring them in." IlS cOntents are: an educational standpoint than all else that extent to which they may be utilized, together has ever occurred in the history of our growth with emphasis upon the essential di t'nctions be "ASTHMA NOT HOPELESS," Dr. Henry Phelps and development. tween them and Osteopathy. 3. The Artificial Whitcomb. "A WAY TO ESCAPE LA GRIPPE'S AFTER Fifth-The rates will be within reach of all Stimulant; the argument for and against its usc. EFFECTS," Dr. Henry Stanhope Bunting. Osteopaths. 4. The Symptom; its significance and use. "WANTED-RATIONAL THERAPEUTICS," Dr. ixth-The fair alone will more than pay you 5. Abu e as a factor in disease. 6. The "ten Ernest C. Bond. for your trip to St. Louis, it being the great dency to the normaL" 7. Incurable Diseases "ACUTE DISEASES YIELD TO OSTEOPATHY," est by far of its kind cvcr conccivcd Oy th~ and Cases; why certain disorders are beyond Dr. J. F. Spaunhurst. mind of man. DISEASES PECULIAR TO MEN-APPENDICITIS hope of complete restoration, and others seem HAY FEVER - CHRONIC CONSTIPATION Seventh-The accommodations arranged for ingly so.. 8. Reflex disorders. 9. Mechanical HEADACHE - MENSTRUAL PAINS - SPINAL your entertainment by the local committee at supports as factor in cure; abdominal bandages, INJURIES - RHEUMATISM. the Inside inn are the best and cheapest thaL casts, tampons, etc. 10. Diet as a factor in Tbey say of OSTEOPA1.'HIC HEALTH: • 'Each num ber is better and better." Look in May and see. You have cver been off'ered us at any place ·in the therapeutics; emphasizing the necessity to dis wlllllke Lt. Order early and avoid tbe rusbl United States. Thompson, of the I-Iollenden tinguish between known facts and theory. OSTEOPATHIC PUBLISHING COMPANY house, is not connected in any way with the n. Rest as a factor in therapeutics. 12. Min,l 171 Washington Street CHICAGO Inside inn. Therefore you may expect to be in relation to disease; basis of treatment of comfortable and happy. THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
Eighth-Missouri, the home of Osteopathy. bids you corne, bids you welcome and in the "Fingers Were Made Before name of our illustrious discoverer, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, whose presence alone on this occa Forks"- The American School sion should be incentive enough to bring every Osteopath. '¥e invite you to come and help OF swell the throng. But unquestionably forks Ninth-Last, but not least, the privileges of are now better than fingers listening to the splendid papers that will be read by some of OUI' ablest and most successful for certain purposes. So men and women, and participating in the enthu with Doctor's handy tools siastic discussions of the same, will give to you Osteopathy enthusiasm and energy enough to doublY repay for examination and treat you for all expenses. You will go horne with ment. "Some tools are renewed courage and strength for your work. A number of Osteopaths have written the longer, finer and stronger local t. Louis D. O.'s asking for rates of out than one's fingers." What KIRKSVILLE side hotels or boarding houses, thinking to save money by so doing. To these we only wish to do you want in the' tool MISSOURI say that one dollar per day for a room any line to-day, Doctor? All where is considered the minimum price here, and that is exactly what the cheapest rooms at are the best of goods. DR. A. T. STILL the Inside inn will cost you plus the price of Add postage if goods are admittance; that means two people in a room Founder 0.1 the Science •••• President at $1.50 per day, which pays for your rooms, also to be sent by mail. Other your admittance to the fair; and you know that wise will be sent by express. your accommodations there will be first class, for not only the hotel management, but the fair as ociation are behind that hotel and re Bargain Regular The largest and foremost Osteopathic sponsible for the fulfillment of their contract. Price. Price. You take no chances there of failure to get Urethral Bougies, 16 in box S1.15 $3.50 College in the world. Ten years of splendid accommodations if you will only se Fowier Sounds, all sizes .20 .75 Soft Rubber Catheters,3 for .45 .80 successful school work. Number of cure your rooms in advance. Your time now is Female Catheter, metal .15 .50 limited; you should secure your reservation at Male Catheter, metal .25 .75 students exceeds seven hundred. This once; do not fail to do this, it means much to Male Catheter, Double Current.... .56 1.60 you and to those of us who want you cared for Female Catheter, Double Current.. .50 1.25 institution teaches genuine Osteopa Dilators, Palmer's Uterine 1.00 2.50 properly. Dllators, Goodell's Uterine, latest.. 2.75 5.50 thy-no adjuncts. Remember you must notify the hotel peopll' Dllators, Wathen's Uterine 1.66 4.00 ten days beforehand the exact date of yom' Douche, Uterine Dilatlng, Leonard's .66 2.00 Douche, Uterine plain, Leonard's.. .30 1.00 arrival at the inn; then your rooms' will be Douche, Rectal. Cole's .40 2.00 rt:ady for you. Also remember the fair man· Douche, Urethral, Talley's...... 75 2.00 agement have set aside one day, Tuesday, July Kelley CushJon. 2Ox44 2.10 3.50 Kelley Cushion, 24x44 2.50 4.50 12, .to be known as the American Osteopathic Depressor, Folding Tongue .15 .50 Teaching facilities unexcelled. Thor Association day, and in addition to this have Depressor, Pynchon's Tongue .50 1.00 given us for our use that day Festival ball, Forceps, Wlld's Ear .35 .75 oughly equipped laboratories in all Forceps. Hartman's Ear...... 55 1.00 one of the finest theater buildings on earth, Forceps, Hartman's Nasal 75 1.60 departments. Clinical advantages un the central structure around which this won Forceps, Throat, Buck's .80 2.00 limited. Faculty composed of fifteen derful exposition clusters, with a seating ca Forceps, Throat" McKenzie's 1.50 3.00 pacity of nearly four thousand people. Forceps, Tongue. Esmark...... 50 1.26 able and experienced instructors who Forceps, Tongue, Hauze 1.00 2.60 These exercises ·will be held at eigbt p. m. Forceps, Uterllne, Bozeman...... 70 2.00 devote their full time to teaching. To these exercises we earnestly urge not only Forceps, Uterine, ThomlliS .90 2.25 the pre ence of every Osteopath in the land, but Irrigating Outfit, Valentine 3.70 7.00 Anatomy taught in every term-three Urine Test Case, complete 3.60 6.50 of as many of your friends as can come. This Ophthalmoscope, 19 lens 4.50 7.60 professors in charge of this depart occasion i to be our jubilee. You should be Scolssors, 4'h stralght .30 .60 there and bring your friends. Scis&ors, 4'h angular or curved...... 40 .75 ment. Special attention give') to dis T"ly-elve Fowler Urethral Sounds 1.20 3.50 The music for this occasion will be furnished Van Buren Steel Sounds .20 .75 section and to the study of ahatomy by the world's fair organist on the largest pipe Uterine Sound, Slm's .15 .36 organ on earth. This, too, comes to us through Speculum, Ear Set" metal .35 .75 in general. Speculum, Eye, Critchet's .50 1.25 the courtesy of the world's fair management. Speculum, NlliSal, Pynchon .45 1.26 You must be there; you will have to be pre eut Speculum. Rectal, Pratt's...... 85 2.50 to appreciate the magnitude of the occasion to Speculum, Rectal, Pennington 1.25 2.50 our profession. Speculum. Rectal, Mathews 1.00 2.50 Speculum, Urethral, Carr's .40 1.00 A. G. HILDRETH, D.O., Speculum, Vaginal, Taylor's .50 1.25 President Local St. Louis Association. Speculum, Vaginal, Cavana's 1.25 2.60 Course of study covers a period of Speculum, Vag:inal, Virgin .75 2.00 About those In'CJitations Syringe, Pomeroy's Ear, metal.... .70 2.00 two years, divided into four terms of Syringe, Kramer's Ear, metal .... .70 2.00' It will be remembered that I explained in a Syr~nge, Urethral, Bumstead's met'l .70 2.00 five months each. Classes formed in former letter the plan of issuing invitations to Syrmge, Uterine. Braun's, metal.. .70 2.00 Syringe, Fountain, 2 qt. .40 .75 September and February. Next term the exercises held ou Osteopathic day at the Syringe, Fountain. 4 qt. .66 1.00 world's f&ir. The e invitations will be issuer! Thermometer, 6O-second, clinical.. .50 1.00 opens September 7, 1903. in tne name of the A. O. A., exteuding a cordial Thermometer, colored lens, clinical .60 1.50 Rubber Dissecting Gloves .60 2.00 invitation to attend its exercises on July 12. Hand Brushes, 9 for .25 .75 The programme committee has decided to hold Razor, fine, for shaving 1.00 2.00 these public exercises on the night of July 12, 60 in. Linen Tape, in case :.. .25 .75 so that the routiue work of the convention need Centrifuge, Hand Power 6.75 15.00 Dozen Pdpettes .20 .50 Write for catalogue, "Journal of Os not be disturbed. The committee promises us a Gold Point Fountain Pen 1.00 2.00 programme which we shall be proud to present Te~t Tube Rack .25 .50 teopathy," or any information. Ad to our friends. 12 Books Litmus Paper...... 25 .50 Dozen Test '.rubes...... 25 .50 These invitations will be ready for distribu Stethoscope. BowIe's 4.00 Patent dress ======tiou May 25. The A. O. A. assumes all ex Stethoscope, Snofton's .66 1.00 pense of having the plate made so that the in Stethoscope, Dennison's 2.00 3.50 Phonendoscope, Bazz'i-Bianc1ld 3.50 Patent vitations can be furnished' to Osteopaths at Safety Syringe, 4 qt. female 1.25 3.50 American School actual cost of paper and press work, which Spirometer, clock dIal 3.50 5.00 will be but a few cents .each. The offer is Invalid Rolling Chair 18.00 30.00 ~ S24 Hot Air Outfit 16.50 24.00 of Osteopathy made to all legitimate Osteopaths irrespective Knee Hot Air Outfit !15.00 20.00 of membership in the A. O. A. $15 Nebulizer 50.00 75.00 I regret that I cannot state the exact cost 3 Glass Shelf Table 5.00 10.0) $250 Static Machine 160.00 260.00 KIRKSVILLE of the invitatious, but this fact ueed not neces MISSOURI sarjly deter Osteopaths from sending in their orders. I have a number of orders already. FRANK S. BETZ & CO. Some ask for a definite number, others say they 35-37 Randolph Street CHICAGO
Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
wish to spend ten dollars or-twenty dolJars 011 IJ the 20 Month OJteopoth the 7JeJt7 these and imilar cases. He will care for ~ invitations. pneumonia patient in all confidence and bring \Ve are particularly an:-.ious to have these in [Continued from Page 1.J hIm through when many a later graduate with vitations generally distributed,..a ~Ye believe it opportunities, needs and handicaps-he is enti pathology at his finger tips will tremble-anJ to be a very nice way of bringing Osteopathy tled to be heard at length and his opinions can perhaps fail. The stJ:ict Osteopath can, il) a before our friends. Our plan i that each Osteo profitably be discussed at many a gathering of fine percentage of cases abort pneumonia an.d path should order as many as he desires; then our professional brethren and sisters. bring his patient through wi th flying colors mail them to his friends and patients, inclosing Let me say in advance that I personalJy have in apparent violation of some laws of path. his personal card. In this way each one de steadfastly held to the opposite opinion. I have ology with its periods of congestion, hepatiza rives both a general and a specific benefit. advocated Osteopaths getting an the knowledge ti0l1 and slow resolution. Now, as the nke,l Please be impressed with the importance of they can-not only of their own, but of other of the patient is to avoid j1 death-grapplo~ rather sending in at once an estimate of the number systems of healing. I stand for ad,ancing stalld than to 11resent a clinic pic.tur:'p' of his -malady you 'desire, for tbe sooner we have this in ards contillnally. I believe in the prompt adop which will satisfy eyery canons of patholo,gy, formation the more easily can our part of the tion of the three-year comse. But I admit why ~sn't that physician the best physician Who , work be done. there is so' much good, hard sense in what this can cure-whether he is Ie's learned, or not? Orders should be sent a soon as possible to doctor says on tlie subject that it is well worth It is nothing to the patient if his doctor )laS 1as~. masl~ry me at 144 Huntington avenue, Boston, printing and considering in all earnestness. :N 0 mastered the science of disease if that Very truly, matter how much we differ in opinion on pro· does not at the same time increase his abilib' JRE E HARWOOD ELLI , D.O., fessional matter', we should always be eager to to confer health! If knowledge limits that aqili. Secretary. hear the other side and learn what we can ty even a little by weakening faith, then it reno by' measuring ourselves up alongside a contrary del'S the doctor less efficient, however much opinion. Osteopaths must be b';gots never it broadens and beautifies the mind of thi, Thouaht "0. H," "DIdn't 'Poy-7Jut Found not even in liberality! If some Osteopath be physician QS a man of scieI;lce. It "Did lieve a two-year course makes better practi I contend that to give pathology equal prOll'i [Continued from Page 1.J 'tioners than a three-year or four-year course, nence with anatomy and physiology in the Oste· and an M. D. post·graduate training 'to boot, opathic cUlTiculum ,does di qualify our ~t!u I thought I would look up and see first how why, in all candor, and' even with an excitement dents appreciably in becoming successful pc1jc· much I could credit "Osteopathic Health" with, of interest, let us know about it and consider titiouers. I believe it. It is my own experiencc anyway. . the 'gronnds for such opinion. \Vell, here it is. that much reading in pathology becomes a handi Thi is the re ult: One patient directly, No Onr ex-educator, 'ex·editor and present illus cap to me in practice. It becomes an incubus vember 1, 1903, whom I bave been treating trious practitioner squared himself in an easy that I fi nd difficulty in throwing off. It d1S from one to three times a week ever since and chair, lighted a cigar and developed his case cOUl-ages me. It makes me feel the impOSSI who has paid me to date $85. Through bis in as follows: bility of doing certain things which clinical ~b· fluence I got two other patients, one paid me "It may eem very narrow, I admit, and per servation and experience make me realize that $60 the otber $20. 1 have treated other mem haps pigQted to say it, but observation, reflec Osteopathic practice accomplishe every di1( bers of the direct patient's family and received tion and experience combine to make me take Now, if an old practitioner, who is strong in from them $28.50, making a total receipts to this position ftnd I say, unreservedly, tbat many the fa,ith and who knows thftt he has str9ng date, directly and indirectly, of $193.50, to a goud Physician, not only of the Osteopathic moral force back of him in espousing a ca~~e, . which add $37.50 now due from the family but as well of all other schools, has been ruined and )I'ho also has had wide experience in b'lnc· (and which is pedectly good), making a grand by too milch education-that is, educatioll in fiting a wide range of maladies, must in
Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO I THE OSTEOPATHIe PHYS-ICIAN tics, etc., etc. I don't-you understand-be glad to be conected and to set forth the facts to and did his work well; and he was, it appears, little these th,ings for anyone except· the physi to profession in this issue. only one of several-M not many·-who . had cian who is to practice an oppos:ng and exclusive "'The O. P.' has no axe to grind but the fought for weeks to make the case "stick" and system, and I do contend that he is a better doc truth, and, like anybocl.y, may be mistaken, and who, by pulling together, did win an eventual tor if he will stick to his knitting and develop is always glad to do exact justice to everybody. victory. along his own lines than if he tried to fill his In stating our belief that Dr. Davis had saved Dr. Davis ·asks the c01Tection to be made by mind with other people's ideas, theories, exper- the day at a cr.itical moment, we did not intend us in this note: ments and success or failure. I believe a th~'ee to minimize or discredit in'the least all the val "Dear Dr. Bunting: and four-year course would be a great blessing iimt work that all the other members of the "In your kind article in The Osteopathic Phy for our students if the added time were spent profession in vVisconsin had done up to that sician for Aprn, regarding my Osteopathic ca in pursuing strictly Osteopatwc subjects and hour. That work was all recorded at the time reer I fear a' wrong impres8ion was given to doing comparative study in· j{indred lines of and was well recognized and applauded. Our some regarding the part I took-or rather the work, for there is, unquestionably much valuable error came about in supposing that when the part others" took-in securing the present ex information to be gleaned from the books of res,t of the workers wentliome the Friday night cellent vVisconsin law recognizing Osteopathy. others who have been working along mechanical preceding the week of victory that it was in dis "That you wrote as regards my part was true, lines.. There is ·a rich literature of manipulative couragement and defeat. Such, it is very evi but the inference might be taken-especially by therapeutics from which we can glean a good dent now, was not the' case. Dr. Davis was on those outswe of the state not familiar with tbe deal of valuable knowledge. And we cannot guard-mount at the capital at the c['itical hout', situation-that I did all the work, whereas, as possibly learn too much about anatomy, physi ology and psychology-additional work and prac tical work in that line would be a positive good. ~1""'l""'1""'l""'1""'l~~ But I don't see the advantage of making. our third yeat' course the excuse for giving our D. O.'s merely a closer approximation to an M. D.'s ~ education, If it is to be an·,M, D. course I insist (l THE . the 20-month preparation is the better." "vVhat about state examinations?" "Aye, there's. the rub, All the states show a tendency to make medical attainment uniform , AN~MIAS ~ for all schools of practice. This, I cannot bl1't regard as ·unfortunate. I suppose the way Qut of it is to give, first, our Osteopathic education yield readilY' to organic, or true animal iron J and then say tf) the student: 'Now, we will give r ' so many months of training merely to fit you to ... treatment. r pass an arbitrary medical examination.' Patholo gy and the various needless branches can prob- • 1 A resort to inorganic iron preparations or 'e ably be 'crammed up' through quiz compends tonics, serves only to stimulate corpuscular prolif- sufficiently to answer. such a pm'pose. But it r J is too, bad that we should be compelled by law • cration without supplying sufficient nutrition to It to give our students-not the equipment which , ",m make of them the best Osteopathic physi mature the blood cells. . cians, but the equipment which another, or • other, and opposing schools of practice have A preparation of TRUE ANIMAL IRON J formulated, ,and largely because of the desire on • that will supply every deficiency in the blood, and the part, of the practitioners already in the field r prolif~ratioll to limit competition. That's the animus of the , J1ssure the of all the corpuscles to a l. p 'ofessiooal fight which brought a fourth and already heralded a fifth year to medical train t £ulland sturdy maturity, is found in ing. It sounds virtuous and greatly to be desired 'to equip our students well,' but the influx into J the profession of medicine of young practitioners was what made the M. D.'s raise the standard "nd desire to put it still higher-it was a self prt>tective measure. Its blessings to patients were secondary. Now, I say it is too bad that over-crowded schools of practice should dominate through legislatures the curriculum that educates the Osteopath. It shoLlld be left to our own judgment." coagulable albumen, and every element of nutrition Now, brothel' Osteopaths, and sisters, too of the animal, mineral, and vegetable kingdoms. J wha,t do you think of this doctor's opinion? Is It is readily absorbed by the tissues, requires the 20-month Osteopath really fortunate or un r fortunate? 'W'e shall hear more of this subject in our "Shop Talk." , ' little or no digestion, is prompt and reliable in stim- r l ulation and support, and is a nutrient of the very J" How W;-scon-s;n Got That Good highest value. 'if I O-steopathic Lab, r'. BOVI N I NE administration causes quick Our frien.ds in ViTisconsin advise "The O. P." r that its statement last month in the "Gallery of ! increase of the leucocytes, and a consequent " Osteopathic Pioneers" to the effect that to Dr. Warren B. Davis, Of Milwaukee, is due the credit arrest of all pathological processes. J for having saved the day for Osteopatluc legisla , B 0 V I N I N E is 'advertised to the Profession (~lOn two years ago, "aft,~r the profession admit- r te~l defeat," is quite erroneous, and does a great · , only, and is a strictly:ethical physician's prepara- r InJustICe to all who participated in that long dra\vn-out campaign. 'Ve are pleased, therefore, · • lion. Its formula is open to all. '- to state' the case just as it is reported to us by r~q~est ~rlingbsl ~ou£ n a committee of three well-known Osteopaths to ·r H A hPostal our !iand-boboohk °h J whom "The 0, P." took' an appeal for a re , aemat erapy, gtV10g va ua e 10 ormatton to t t e r vision of its statement so to fit exact facts. general practitioiler and the specialist. '- Permit the editor to say here that "The l O. P.'s" statement of the case, singling out Dr. Davis for so much credit at the eleventh hour of Q THE· BOVININE, COMPANY. the fight, is the editor's own statement, and he )j alone is responsible for it. It was written from memory and such impressions of the case as he . 75 W. HOUSTO'" ST.; NEW YORK. . (( had gleaned from correspondence and conversa tion at the time, and to the extent that his view ~>J~~~>J~>J~>J~~Y may have been unfair ane. one-sided he is very Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 6 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
a matter of fact, I only did my share, and was one twelve months. If this carried it woultl \Jer on the State Medical Board and which, with simply fortunate in continuing the fight after shut out all Osteopaths at the time of its passage but few other changes in favor of Osteopaths our bill was defeated and our forces had gone not practiciing in the state. It was the unani was subsequently adopted. According to "Th~ home. mous opinion of all our advisers that this should O. P." article, the question should arise in fair "VVhat I did could not have possibly occurred be considered as a last resort. Reference to the ness, had Dr. Davis done all .his work up to but for the hard personal work done by all Os law of 1901 wm show that in the compromise this time? Of course not, and Dr. Davis would teopaths of the state, and following the weeks which followed this was the point we had to be the last person to say so. In view of all the of lobbying by several Osteopaths besides my· concede, only the feature relative to the leng'h worl;; that had been done dnring the eight or ten self, especially by Dr. Louise P. Crow, then of of course was not to be operative until Septem weeks prior to th.is Hme, the fact is very evident Janesville; Dr. L. E. Cherry, and Dr. A. U. ber, 1903. that many forces were at work, and must be Jorris, and the organizing work by the officers Both the bill providing for an Osteopathic counted in the victory won. That any individual an.d executive committee of our state association. board and that amending the medical law were credit could be given is entirely impossible. "The Wisconsin Osteopathic Association paid before the assembly. The medical men, realizing Osteouaths in the state stood shoulder to all of the expenses, by levying an assessment, that they could neither pass their own bill nm' shoulder, each using his influence and enlisting amounting, as I remember it, to about $50 each defeat ou'rs without introducing a clause which that of his friends in pulling wires. The chair for all Osteopaths of the state. Dr. J. Martin provided for Osteopaths, introduced the follow man of the senate judiciary committee alone re Littlejohn helped us greatly by addressing the ing amendment in this bill, which was placed in ceived in one mail 100 letters asking for friendly joint judiciary ·committee. the calendar for passage: cunsideration of our bill. Drs. J. Martin Little "It was a battle royal, m which' Osteopathy "Any person desiring to practice Osteopathy john and Carl P. McConnell appeared before the won, as it eventually will in all states, and all in this state, without the use of drugs; medicines committee hearings and ably championed OUl' fought well and true; hence no personal honor or instruments, shall be granted a license to ('ause. Prominent men left their business and should be given any individual for the victory. practice the same by the state board, provided appeared in our behalf, muong' them being ex "Kindly publish in the May '0. P.' and oblige. the applicant passes a satisfactory examination Governor George W. Peck; James C. Pond, "Yours fraternally, in ali of the branches required for license to general passenger agent of the Wisconsin Central "WARREN B. DAVIS, D. 0." practice medicine and surgery, except materia railway; Charles Quarles, brothel' of United "The O. P." had already asked Dr. Edwin J. medica, therapeutics an.d operative surgery, and States Senator Quarles, and one of Wisconsin's Elton, Dr. J. Foster McNary and Dr. W. A. presents a diploma from a legally chartered ablest lawyers; Ellis B. Uusher, a prominent Sanders to collaborate and recount the facts of school or college of Osteopathy holding member· newspaper man, and others. Attorney McCon the fight for historical accuracy before hearing ship in the Associated Colleges of Osteopathy nell had his hand constantly at the helm, while from Dr. Davis: They kindly give this state and that such college maintains, after the year Dr. L. E. Cherry spent eleven, and Dr. Louise ment: 1901, the same standard as to elementary educa P. Crow four or five weeks, in Madison, work. 'Recount;nll the W;"con,,;n 1Jattle tion and time of study before graduation as is ing so strenuously that each broke down physi In compliance with your request we herewith required of medical colleges." cally as a result. Dr. Cherry required three or present a resume of the facts in our state contest The medical bill passed by a small majority, four weeks, and Dr. Crow twice as long, to reo for legislation which, although now "ancient his but our friends moved for a reconsideration, and, cuperate. It was because of this illness that the tory," it is just as well to put upon record since after a very stubborn fight, a call of the house' amendment, upon which 'so much emphasis is "The O. P." has been in errol' in supposing one was demanded, the vote to reconsider being car laid, was not presented by one of these two par man, single-handed at the finish, won the vic ried and the final vote fixed for the following ties and which, because of this, fell to Dr. Davis. tory. There is probably no such thing in our \Vednesday, this being Friday. That he did his work well is not questioned, but history of legislative contests as a one-man vic After a conference as to the best plan of pro that he was the author of the amendment or of tory. Certainly such a claim in the case of the cedure, those representing the D. O.'s decided the present law is untrue. Wisconsin struggle would be entirely unfair and to introduce a substitute for the amendment of vVas it, then, a "David and Uoliath contest in out of accord with the facts. the medical bill. This substitute was drafted by which one determined tighter won the day after The history of the legislative contest in Wis Attorney McConnell, which provided for a mem- defeat was accepted?" No such thing as defeat consin is one in which united effort won the day. was ever thought of within the statc. The very \Ve will review the h.istory of the struggle. After fact that the compromise suggested early in the the arrest of a well-known Osteopath and the session was finally effected proves conclusively subsequent loss of his case, it was apparent that that the work had been done on both sides and Osteopaths must have some legislative recogni The Massachusetts that a common ground must be found. tion or be handicapped in tneir work. Accord Drs. Jorris, Elton and Davis were each at ingly the Osteopaths of the state who had been College of Osteopathy Madison at various times during the contest, looking toward the fight began to put them· rendering excellent service. Dr. Fryette's in selves in a position to obtain legal recogn'tion, ~----BOSTON----~ fluence in his home city, his practice being in Madison, was an element not to be overlooked. and .Mr. J. E. McConnell, of LaCrosse, brother Established 1891 Incorpora.ted 1898 of Dr. Carl P. McConnell, of Chicago, was re· Dr. Davis did his share to promote the common tained as our attorney. The present course of study con cause-so did others. The original bill provided for a separa~e Oste sists of THREE YEARS OF NINE The law enacted at this session proved to be 1 opathic board, and had it become a law it would MONTHS EACH (no option). ,dead letter, inasmuch as there was no penalty have been like those now in operation in Min The THREE YEAR COURSE was clause inserted. At the state anual meeting, held nesota or California. The bill was introduced inaugurated September, 1902. Next in Milwaukee, July, 1902, the question of secur· by Senator Julius E. Roehr, of Mi~waukee, and term opens September 12, 1904. ing an amendment to the medical bill providing fortunate were the Osteopaths in securing a No mid-year class. No student for a penalty and lessening the requirement so man of his prestige to champion their cause. admitted except on acceptance of far as the time of course of study, was consid After a stubborn fight, the original bill passed application. ered and a legislative committee" consisting of the senate and was messaged to the assembly, The individual instruction to stu Drs. Cherry, Elton and Jorris, was appointed. where the M. D.'s centered their opposition, and dents, the rest periods during the term, Dr. Jorris later resigned, Dr. Oium taking his where they succeeded in securing delays through a YEAR of clinical demonstration place. This committee', together with the statc which they hoped to defeat the measure. The and practice, Osteopathic and Surgi executive committee, after frequent conferences, medical law at this time upon the statvte books cal, and the dissection privileges, unanimously adopted the resolution that no ac· was such that anyone holding a diploma from a make the course ideal. tion be taken relative to the penalty clause, un· legally chartered medical college could secure a To TWO YEAR GRADUATES less concessions were made as to the time of license by filing his diploma and paying the fee. wishing extended work, a residence in course of study. Their position was this: it was The medical board was thus forced to license BOSTON of a year, with its numerous more just to leave the law as it was, with nc graduates of schools of questionablc reputation Hospital opportunities. and the ex penalty in case it was broken, and allow OstP.· Because of this they were anxious to secure the ceptional Osteopathic clinical practice opaths from outside the state to corne in, than enactm('nt of an amendment to their law em· afforded by the college, will be of to add the penalty and keep them out. At the powering them to examine all applicants. It was untold value. A year's experience in convention which followed at Madison a year evident by the passage of the Osteopathic bill in our clinic is REAL PRACTICE. later, discussion revealed the fact that .Jr. DaVIS the senate that we were strongly entrenched in Tuition $150.00 per annum, includ stood practically alone in opposing the legislative that body. As the fight prog-ressed, it became ing dissection, in regular three year committee in this position. more evident that no bill could pass the senate course. Write for Application Blank, The convention sustained the legislative com that was hostile to the Osteopaths. Catalog, College Journal and infor mittee and its work. Dr. Cherry, chairman of . Early in the contest Dr. Stevens, one of our mation to this committee, by a conference with the presi strongest opponents, had proposed a compromise MASSACHUSETIS COLLEGE OF dent and secretary of the State Medical Board, giving us a member on the State Medical Board. secured an agreement upon an amendment pro . In his proposition he held that there should be OSTEOPATHY viding for an examination of Osteopaths gradu· no discrimination in favor of Osteopaths as to 584·588 HuntingtonAvt., BOSTON, MASS. ated from a college having a twenty-months length of the course ,of study-that is, Ostopeaths course until 1905, and a three-year course from should be obliged to take foul' years of seven , 1905 to 1909. months each, no two courses to be taken in any This is our legal status in vVisconsin to-day.
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To no one man is this due, but to each bearing Dr. Irving Colby, from Syracuse, N. Y., to his share of the burden. Since the question has Westerly, R. 1. been brought up by "The O. P." we think ;t Drs. J. 'vV. Henderson and W. H. Ivie, from only 'right to present the facts in detail, as yon CRAIG'S OSTEOPATHIC Emma Spreckles' build'ing, to Ruite 623 Star suggest, and we herewith comply in justice to all King building, San Francisco. the gallant· Osteopaths who had a hand in that Dr. Frank S. Snedeker, from Salem, Ill., to fray. Alton, Ill. EDWlr J. ELTO ,D. O. Drs. Robert I. and Mary Wheeler 'Valker, J. FOSTER M'NARY, D. O. from Merchants' National Bank building, to 2"28 W. A. ANDERS, D. O. Union street, New Bedford, Mass. Location" Hooray for the Old Stampinl! Drs. H. A. and Grace R. McMains, La Porte, Ground! Ind. Dr. Charles K. Garring, Durant, Ind. T. [From the Journal of Osteopathy.] Dr. Lloyd S. Irwin, 205 Washington Tru~t Let a cavalry horse once get inoculated with building, vVashington, Pa. the smoke of battle and for the remainder of his Dr. J. H. Hook, Fruita, Col. life the smell of it iIi his nostrils fire him with Dr. G. E. Hassmann, 3043 Morgan street, St. the zeal of battle. Let the easterner taste of th" Louis. joys of the rush and rattle of a great manufac CARD SYSTEM Dr. Florence vVodetzky, 1203 N. Center street, turing city, or the westerJ'er imbibe the free air Clinton, Mo. of the plains and that section of the country The only ALL PURPOSE card system for the D. O. is Dr. N. M. Browder, Hope, Ark. becomes a necessity to his complete life. Therc Dr. Anna G. Reid, with Dr. George W. Reid. is a force in environment that makes for good 'Vorcester, Mass. 01' ill to every individual. It is true of the Oste SIN\PLE Dr. George A. Pontius, 511 Mooney-Brisbane opath and of the Osteopatbic stud nt. Let him The several cards do not make it intricate. building, Buffalo, N. Y. live in an atmosphere of indifference or of half It is designed for the BUSY D. O. Not for the Dr. Ella P. Ray, A. S. 0., Checotah, Ind. T. hearted interest in the ne,,- sy tem and his zeal. Expert Accountant. Dr. F. Payne Millard has resumed practice for the c~use will be correspondingly lax. Let Except a patient take treatment in more than 6 months or his case requires an unusual length of at 'Vorcester, :Mas . him live in a community where the system is be· description. both the whole business record and lie,-ed in and relied upon and he becomes au en clinical history are complete on One Card. Otherwise thusiast. Osteopaths \\·ho ha,-e secured their either may be continued through as many as needed. New"Patients 'Bring ~enewal.s You need the little Necessary Prospective Patient professional training in the parent school are System. It may be used in connection with any of Contracts charged by many with fanaticism, with narrow system of book keeping. Several new patients this month from "Osteo ness. They are not particularly loath to plead A postal brings samples and literature. Either system sent in box container. express or pathic Health."-Dr. H. R. Kellogg, Lancas guilty, knowing that there never yet was in postage prepaid: ter, Pa. augurated a reform in which hewing to the line ACCESSORY PROSPECTIVE PATIENT SYSTEM + .J:. + was not a necessary factor. Thi intensity of 500 prospective patient cards, 150 "Osteopathic Health" is the very best field belief and consistency in practice is so exploited disease cards and two indices. $2.50 jommal printed to-day in my estimation and it Additional hundreds, 25 cents. that "Osteopathic atmosphere" i an entirely has repaid me many times its total cost for cir tlescripti\'e term to apply to conditIons iu A. STILL CRAIG, D. O. culating it the pa t ycar.-Dr. G. M. Stern, St. Kirks\·ille. .It is a topic of COl1\'ersation on the Paul, Minn. street comers. It invades the 'chools and the IOWA CITY. IA. churches. Jt is said that so permeated is the air + + + with the Osteopathic doctrine that among the Send me 160 copies of the May issue of "Osteo pro\'isions in the contract bctween Kirksville pathic Health." VlTe would no more think of churches and their new pustor is one stipulatin::; Eo ". "'ilIard, from Brooklyn, N. Y., to 41 doing without "0. H." in our practice than we that the latter shall not quit his charge to take IIaddington building, Korfolk, Va. would our three meals per diem.-Drs. Davis and up the study of the new system. And indeed the A. H. Tribble, from Hot prings, Ark., to 334 Rice, Pari , HI. churches ha\'e need of some watchfulness in this Central avenue. + + + respect, for not a few have thus lost their J. C. Rule, from San Fl'ancisco, to 62 Alliance I return my contract for loo-a-month for an spiritual guide . building, Stockton, Cal. other year. Kindly continue the service just And this Osteopathic atmosphere is not a Charles E. Fleck, from 35 Harrison street, as before. "Osteopathic Health" is certainly all Email asset to the student. It is equal in value East Orange, to Oakwood court, 462 Main street, right. Let the good work go on.-Dr. 'V. W. to him of many a branch of biological knowledge Orange, N. J. Christie, Portland, Ore. outlined in the regular curriculum. It is a W. E. Reid, from Kent, 0., to Safety Fund + + + natural stimulus to the mastery of those branch Bank building, Fitchburg, Mass. Inclo, ed find my contract for "Osteopathic es. It give him the confidence and the courag" 'Varren B. Davis, from 912 Herman building, Health" for another 12 months. I am very weB that nothing else can give. The enthusiasm thus to 302-306 Wells building, 1ilwaukee, Wis. pleased, with the little :rr.agazine and could not imbibed during student days probably account~ F. A. W'eb tel' and Mrs. F. A. 'Webster, from do without it. Have noticed steady improve for his successes later in the field to a degree 2731 Broadway, to 245 'Vest One Hundred and ment in it. Keep the good work up.-Dr. Cora much greater than is realized. Long may it be Fourth street, corner Broadway, New York. L. Gooden, ashua, N. H. an Osteopathic atmo phere of 100 per cent. Lillie M. Benning, from Conneaut, 0., to + + + purity! Pope building, 817 Fourteenth street, Washing The April edition of "Osteopathic Health" cer [Note-That doesn't sound much hKe Des ton, D. C. tainly is an excellent number for educating the Moines had reached the point of mentioning the Alice Parker Lyman, from 216 Main street, to laity and cannot fail to bring results. I have coin-does it?] 159 Main street, Malone, N. Y. been congratulated several times this month on Dr. Ina F. Barker, from Libertyville, Ia., to sending out such a good number. I pa s thc congratulations on to you.-Dr. Edwin W. Tate. Location and ~emo'()al Notice.s Sigourney, Ia. Dr. B. M. Davenport, from 'Pine Bluff, Ark., Newark, . J. ['Ve request information by letter or postal to Hiawatba, Kan. + + + of all removal 01' changes of address among our Have used "0 teopathic Health" only two practitioners. vVe will try to keep this depart Dr. Cordelia Mooring, from Birmingbam, Ala., to Marianna, Fla. months and am already reaping some of the ment up to date with the help of the profes benefits derived from it. It had brought me sion.] Dr. H. W. Glasscock, A. S. 0., 112 ''''est Grace street, Richmond, Va. several new patients. One man read the article Drs. Jerome Knowles and Rosa Patterson on rheumatism in the February isme and camil Knowles, from Newberry, S. C., to Spartans Dr. Flora A. Frederick, from Butler, Mo., to at once for an examination. Since, then he has burg, S. C. Alameda, Cal. been a regular patient.-Dr. J-. A. Nowlin, Sophia M. heinemann, from Kirk ville, M0.. Dr. J. T. Conner, from Springfield, Mo., to Farmer City, TIL to 222 Central avenue, Faribault, linn. V/est Plains, Mo. + + + J. H. and 1ary E. 1cDowell, from 141 Third Dr. A. D. Morrow, from 'Yapello, Ia., to St. Inclo ed herewith I am sending you my check street, to 102 Third street, Troy, N. Y. Charles, Mo. to cover inclosed bill. Remittance should have Hardy 'V. Carlisle, from New Brighton, Pa., Dr. H. Haydon. fr01l1 Alamorgonlo, N. 1\1., been made some time since, but same was over to The Romaine, Paterson, N. ,f. to 2112 Greenwood street, l'neblo, Col. looked owing to rush of business, brought about E. C. Pickler an.d A. G. 'Villits. from Globe Dr. Guy vVendall Burns, from 255 Fifth ave by use of "Osteopathic Health." I do not be building, to ~uite 409, New Dayton building, nue, to 18-20 ·W·es' Thirty-fourth street, New lieve that I ought to use "Osteopa'thic Health" Minneapolis, Minn. York. any longer unle s its clever editor will agree to C. S. Kennedy, from Glenn building, to Mer Dr. A. C. Groves, from Belvidere, TIL, to furnish his friend Shackleford with a new spine, cantile Library buHding, Cincinnati, O. Flag taff, Ariz. once in awhile, "for dis old one is done brok F. E. Gamble, from Fremont, to Bloomfield, Dr. \V. H. Cobble, from Bloomfield, Neb., to down jus caus I use de '0 teopathic Health.' " eb. Fremont, Neb. Dr. E. H. Shackleford, Richmond, "a. 8 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN elect one of their practitioners (neither to be an Editor Baldwin, of the San Antc.nio Gazette, AMONG THE STATES instructor in a college) for exan1.ination in an gave a warm welcome of address to the associa of the branches taught in the best medical col tion and expressed himself as being heartily in Illinoi.s' Will Ha"()e a JIIotable Meeting leges of the United States, except materia medi sympathy with the science, promising his sup ca and surgery (which we do not practice). port whenever it was needed. During the ses The .fifth annual meeting of the Illinois Oste "Let there be ten (10) questions in each branch sion the chief executive of the state, Gov. Lan opathic Association will meet at thc Leland Ho· taugh t, as mentioned. They select one of theil' ham and Senator Marshall Hicks, of the Alamo tel, Springfield, Monday, May 30. A very inter own number and we select one of our own for City-who, by the way, championed the bill esting programme is out and it is sure to be the questioner; the M. D. to question the Osteopath, against us a year ago-were intro.duced, both best meeting in the history of the organization. and the Osteopath question the M. D. Exan1.ina giving timely talks and wishing the profession The intellectual and social bill of fare is: tion to be oral. We think this is a fair propos: Godspeed in its chosen work of reformation. Morning: 9:00-Address of 'Velcome, Hon. tion. We liked to hear Senator hlCks talk that way. James M. Graham; response, J. J. Schmidt; "As we bave stated', we have copied 'only tbe Daily sessiobs were held, consisting of clin president's address, "The Outlook for Osteop most important part of the 'circular letter,' but ics, papers and discussions of interest to the athy," J. D. Cunningham; intermission; busI enough to let tbe reading public know what the profession. ness meeting; election of officers; selection vf Medical Trnst 'is after. Of course it was never The drafting of an Osteopathic law to be sub next meeting place; adjournment. intended that the public should ev('r get Museum Of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 9 iegs are very well attended and a good pro ,. Inclosed Find FiFty Cents" actly how ~t is and not stay here under false gramme is usually presented. Inclosed please find 50 cents for another year's pretenses. I believe I would sneak out and go FRANK L. MARTIN, D.O., subscription to your most valuable paper. It home right now if I were you and take no Secretary. certainly fills an important place and a long chances of failure." felt want.-Dr. Helen E. Walker, Alberta, Can. The owner of railroads got up to go. "One word further," he said, in a grave whis Fifth /l/inoi.s· Di.st,.ict Meet @ @ @ ~ per-and it was evident that he was failing A meeting of the Osteopaths of fifth TIlinois Inclosed find 50 cents for the renewal of fast. "Did you ever help a case of gout sinCe subscription to "The O. P." Couldn't get along district was held in Dr. Schmidt's office in thIS institution started?" . Danville, April 30th. Those present were Dr. without it. 'Wish it was practical to get out Atkins, Clinton; Dr. Cline, Monticello; Dr. two issues per month.-Dr. F. P. Walker, Cando, "Yes, I must say we 'have done some good HartfoI'd, Champaign; Dr. Walker, Mattoon; N. D. work on that line. I have had good results in Drs. Albert and Sylvia Overton, Tuscola; Drs. @ :oJ @ thirty-seven cases-thirty-five of them got en tirely well and two very near well-but, as I was Jesse and Gertrude Francis, Chadeston; Dr. I inclose draft for one dollar to push along Dudley Shaw, Decatur; Dr. Ella B. May, Dan telling you before, I failed to do anything at all my subscription to "The O. P." until February, for three cases; and I can't give you any assur ville; Drs. J. J. and Ella Schmidt, Dr. Loretto 1906. It is an indispensable adjunct to any Oste Lewis, Paris. Besides, we had with us Dr. An ance but what yours will make the fourth." opathic family.-Dr. S. W. Willcox; Mitchell, But the man stayed and was cured. Sam had na Francis Turfler, of Renssalaer, Ind., Dr. S. D. Lois Robinson Hinshaw arid husband, Dr: Hin @ @ @ nothing against the man, mind you; he is just shaw, of Ridge Farm. Papers were read by Dr. honest and outspoken-that's all; and he nevel' Inclosed find stamps to cover cost of the re gave a patient any hope, it is said, if he could J. J. Schmidt on "Asthma;" Dr. Cline, on "TIll' newal of my subscription to "The O. P." I Osteopathic Profession," and Dr. Lewis, on remember a case that ended fatally, and his cannot be without it. Must be "inside." We mind was well stocked with such precedents. "Sciatica." need it in the profession.-Dr. Frank L. Mar A very interesting meeting was held. W'e meet It is said Dr. Charley used to spend most of tin, San l!l:ancisco, Cal. his time out at the front door with a grab-net, July 14 at St. Louis, as all expect to be there at ® @ @ that time, and are anticipating a good pro watching for patients who would emerge and try Inclosed find 50 cents for renewal of my sub to sneak out, looking sort of blue. gramme. Papers by Dr. Ella B. May, Dr. J. scription to "The O. P." You are giving us many E. Francis and Dr. Nowlin. Fraternally, "Where are you going?" he would say, when times the worth of our money in "The O. P." he had rounded one up and caught him. LORETTO L. LEWIS, D.O., I could not think of doing without it.-Dr. Secretary. "Going back home." Elmer Charles, Pontiac, Mich. "'Vhat for?" @ (!) @ "Because you can't do a great deal for me." Can't Hide a Lillht Vnde,. a 7Ju.shel I hasten to renew my subscription to "The "vVho said so?" [From the Joliet (Ill.) News.] O. P." Couldn't get along without it. It is too "Dr. Landes." Dr. Roy Bernard, of Chicago, registered a bright, spicy and to the point to be left off my "'Vell, you come out of his department; he's medical certificate with the county clerk to-day. list of reading matter. You are doing good overworked and wanted to get Tid of two or Dr. Bernard is one of the early promoters of work; keep it up.-Dr. H. K. Sherburne, Rut three patients to-day; go in this room and meet Osteopathy. land, Vt. Dr. Hildreth, and day after to-morrow report to him for treatment-he'll cure you sure and cel' tain-your case is right in his line." And the joke was on Landes, £01' ordinarily Gallery of O.steopathic 'Pioneer.s he did cure them. Perhaps the element of hope which the patient got before leaving that very pensations, while Dr. Charley believed that "in afternoon was the turning point in his case! A Very 'Remark-able Osteopath "I'll thwan if 'rllam can't drive away more tensive farming" was nndoubtedly better. good' pay pathents in a day than the rest of '.IS Dr. Samuel R. Landes, the pioneer Osteopath The point 1 am making is that Sam and of Michigan and president of the state Osteo Hildreth used to break their backs vieing for can scare up," Doctor Harry used to say, mop pathic examining board, is one of the best known first honors and it was nip and tnck between ping the sweat from his brow, and wondering ;i Landes wasn't affiicted with some form of ::L men of the profession. He dwells in Grand Rap them-each thinking himself the best. Dr. Mc ids where he has a creditable and successful "'luggish sliver." pr~ctice:;-perhaps Connell was in a granunar school in Wisconsin )lotI always "all he can dQ," in those grim pjoneer days. Kirksville then had But no better practitiuner of Osteopathy lives but enough to keep the wolf from the door and one post office and one bank and was a very than Samuel R. Landes to-day, and there are few to persuade the pebple' that Osteopathy has a lli~ci~. , as good. He's a lesion Osteopath-a bone-setter, very strong local representative. ' Now, it happened that Dr. Landes and Dr. a rib-clicker and hip-adjuster. If he doesn't find "Sam," as neatly all the old gnard know Dr_ Hildrcth were antipodes, psychologically consid a regular lesion he will dismiss the case-if the Landes, is a native of Kirksville, Mo. The date ered. That's the Dutch for saying that one case will let.him; but if the case hangs on des of his birth, is, uncertain, but some of the older thought what the other didn't. .lbey were good pite orders, it will, as a general thing, get well. citizens', like Mr. 'William Baird, say that "Sam" friends, you un.derstand, but they couldn't think Ex-Postmaster Tom Carroll, of Grand Rapids, was pretty close to the meridian of life when alike about cases. One usually prognosed "early used to send patients to Dr. Landes with this they .were boys-yet he really doesn't look it. death"-that was Landes, of course-while Dr. little curtain lecture: Indeed, Dr. Landes does not look a day . past Hildreth hung to an inborn faith that somehow "Now, go to Dr. Landes and tell him to treat 40, and none of the ladies will believe that the patient would recover. I say it was tem you. Mind you, tell him you have come to be he is anywhere near 70. He is a gallant old peramental, and that tells the whole story. Dr. treated. Impress that on his mind right froUl \ beau, to boot, and is very popular in .Grand Hildreth is optimistic, hopefnl and has the fac the jump. Don't let him think you came for I Rapids, which may explain why the ladles are ulty of letting a little enthusiasm, not to say consultation and don't ask him any questions. so loyal to him. sunshine, steal into his prognosis. Sam really Don't let him tell you anything about your case I said Dr. Landes was one of our Osteopathic couldn't. He inherited a serious view of life and don't listen to him if he does. Just get up pioneers. That is literally 'true-one of the first. from his Mayflower ancestors and he never couB en the treatment table and say, "Vell, I've got We have all heard or met a lot of the fellows divorce himself from stern puritanical theology rheumatism and I will let yon try my case, any who, in the ne,vspapers, helped Dr. Still to dis -a sort of Calvinistic sky to his medical out how.' And if he says your cuse is hopeless, don't cover or, found Osteopathy.- ,Vell, Sam never look. Moreover, Sam Landes is so frank and let that phase you; and jf he says 'don't come gave out an interyiew on this line, but he was honest tbat he is as blunt as an Indian's war any more,' go just the sanH', three times a week; one of that bunch. That is to say, when Oste club-he knocks you down, as it ,"ere, when he and if Sam Landes don't cure you in three opathy gave its fiTst peep from its lowly cra has anything to reveal to you gently. months, or more, send the bill to me and I'll dle in that little log shanty in Kirksville "Sam A few scraps of A. S. O. history will make pay it, and make you a present of a diamond uel R." was among those who answered "pres thi,s plainer. stud to boot." ent'" and he staid in line qnite awhile as " A railroad owner came in his special car to That's the way Dr. Landes' old patients regard pillar of the young institutiol).. His name was Kirksville with the gout. his skill and prognosis-as at right angles-but written among those of Drs. Charley and Harry "What can you do for me~" he asked Dr. Sam is sincere and honest about it, and nobody Still, Dr. Nettie H. Bolle's, Dr. Ella' W. ~unt, Landes. can say, when he gets to heaven, "That Oste Dr. William Smith, Dr. A. G. Hildreth and "I regret to tell you that it looks very dark opath promised a single l'eEult during his life others of that early date. for you," said honest Sam. time that he didn't make good." They will say Dr. Landes and Dr. Hildreth were rivals for The magnate's face also took on a shadow like of him, rather, "Behold the doctor who did "tnrning ant". the most number of patients Sam's. much but promised little." in those early years-by "turning ant" I mean "But I've had three cases like yours that '[ Dr. Samuel R. Landes is true b'lue and, in his running them through the operating room, could do abs~lutely nothing for-absolutely noth private life, full of the qU'llities of sunshine, be punching their cards and letting them go-and ing, although two of them were here ten months ing a thorough good fellow-which is, perhaps.. it is s,aid upon good authority that each used and one died seven weeks after going home. He strange-but he divorces that from prognosis, to treat on an average about sixty patients was killed in a railway accident." strictly. 'With him prognosis is a question of daily apiece-and I believe it. Dr. Harry was "And can you offer me no hope?" fate, and he always deals with fate grimly. His generally in line, too, on these wnolesale dis- "'Vell, very little. I want you to know ex- friends are legion. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 10 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN D. O.'s in the limbo of the profession who don't and examination-if the secretaries themselves care what they do trying "to make business." will take the trouble to SEnd in their names and The Organ of News anc:l Opinion for the Who will be first to institute this novelty? addresses to us for this department. Do it now. Profe~sion. You will forget :if you delay it. Two of the most precocious scholars who have HENRY STANHOPE BUNTING, A. Boo D.O •• Editor. registered for the A. S. O. summer school at Uncle 'Dobbyn Gets 'Brash W. M. BUNTING. Business Manager. St. Louis are Drs. Carl P. McConnell and Dain L. Tasker. You know these post graduate san Uncle Dobbyn says he has turned over copy Published on the 15th of Every Month by The OSTIlOPATHIC gerfaests are good things when our foremost for the "Year Book'" to his printers, and if it PUBLISHING COMPANY. 705. No. 171 Washington pl'actitioners find them both enjoyable and help isn't a fine job we can go to the devil and do it Street, Chicago. ful. ourselves next time. We fear that our Uncle Dobbyn is a bit "het up" with the exercise of SUBSCRIPTION PRICE 50 CENTS A YEAR. writing this catalogue, but his words have the Boston wants the next A. O. A. meeting-has ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. ring of honest independence about them that wc set her heart on it. Why not? New Yorkers all like, and we know we shall admire his handi Entered at the Chicago Post Office as matter of the second say they want it first-but do our Gotham work. class.. friends forget that New Yorkers themselves can't stay at home for the heat in midsuf\lmer? Let us think first of the comfort of delegates. The College Lights That Fail ! VOL. V. CHICAGO, MAY. 1904. No. VI, Boston sounds good to me. When two late officers and professors of ac credited Osteopathic colleges, in different states, Fairness I FreedomI Fearles nessl Practitioners are finding out that it is a capi within the same month, go before the public in tal stunt to have a set of Helmer & Merton's bizarre and odious fake-doctor advertis'ing cam anatomical-Osteopathic charts on the walls of the paigns, is it any wonder, brethren and sisters, EDITORIAL. consultation or treatment room, and to be that many well-meaning but misguided persons graphic in explaining slipped vertebrae, etc., by take it for granted that our profession as a whole pointing it out on the chart, so the patient will are more or less professional renegades? Not it "Hew to the line, let chip, understand it. They never forget such a les bit. Of course, many have a motive in slander fall where they will." son, ing our profession, but others who uave not All roads lead to St. Louis. may see abundant reason in the acts of a few Osteopaths are lucky to possess a system that for misjudging us honestly. 1'001' chap! IVe mean the D .. O. who can't get will bear constant repetition and re-explaining to St. Louis. without losing interest for the public. That is Let Vs Adopt the 'Proposed Code where we have the advantage, in a business way, over the drug doctors. There is nothing about The paternity of our proposed code of ethics is IVhen you see Father Andrew in a linen suit not important. The fact that it is a good code is their systems to explain-nothing that appeals Dnd panama fan in the front row of the "Beauty what signifies. Since one Ten Commandment~ to reason. The less people know of drugs the Show" "down the Pike" you mustn't let on to are sufficient for all Christendom, and one anybody that he is past fifty. better for the doctors. Declaration of Independence and Constitution were adequate for all the United States, so one Hince Des l\10ines hasn't put up any bonus bu. Our Mr. R. C. Cash can hardly wait tin he code of ethics ought to apply and regulate thE: wmds up to date it begins to look as if we would g~ts to St. Louis to give the gla.d hand to all hi.> conduct of all self-re~pecting', fair-deal ing and ju~t settle down to bu~ine~s at the old ~talllpillg friend~ in correspondence throughout the pro science-avowing schools of the broad lJrofes~ion gl'Oumls aUlI ~tay at Kirksville. fes~ioll. You see, f:lecretary Cash has beeu with of medicine. Adopt tue excellent Medical Code Puhli~hillg' thc OsteolJathic Company since he just as Olll' Education Committee present~ it to If OUl' ullcthical brethren, olle Hud all, couLl rme it~ incorporation-in fact, ~ince the hrst v.~-with such few ami ullil1llJortant JllodiJications UC Ul'ou"'ht to l:eaLi",e that fake advel'ti~ill" lh)c~ edtion of our paper~-and jie kllo\\'~ ueal'1y el'ery a~ better reO'ulate our iuternal economy in view not pay"allY O~teopath, it would be easy to pl'C lllembel' of the professon by name, and lll()~t of of the phy~i~al differences of our systell: of prac Yent the recurrence of these printer's iuk out thelll, pl'ohably, by letter, so it will seem queel', tice. l'ages. after three years of this sort of acquaintance, to meet them face to face. Indeed, there will be a Who Is the More Fatally Ignorant. By all means, fellow Osteopaths, let us adopt lot of pleasure for many Osteopaths to be meet the Educational Committee's report on "Ethics" ing for the first time members of the profession After All! this year at St. Louis. Let it not be said the and schools whom they know only as names and The American Medical Association has framed Osteopathic physician's ethics are inferior to any sources of energy up to date. this definition to medical practice, and hopes it man's. can make everybody in time stand a state exam A Spring 'Poem by Our Mr. Ccuh ination in materia medica who comes within its vVe are officially informed that Mine Host Da Little drops of H20, scope, whether mechano-terapeutists, faith heal vid R. Francis, of the greatest show on earth, Little grains of Sand, ers or what not: will not make, or allow,' any extra charge. for Each "0. P." sub-50c. "To practice medicine is to offer services and pinks this year at the Osteopathic banquet. Helps to play the band. assume the responsibilities of treating deformi· Hooray! ties, diseases and injuries." But how much more important that we should Being young, as a pl'Ofession, with our reputa An Ideal 'PicnIC get the state to compel all who come under the tion as ethical physicians still in the making, wc I. The St. Louis Exposition. definition to perfect themselves in our knowledge must be doubly careful not to do those things, II. The A. O. A. meeting. of the healing resources native to the body it such as fake advertising, which will call down III. The A. S. O. big-tent summer school. self than that the drug schools force us w per reproach upon us. This is better than any three-ring performance, fect ourselves in either of the systems of drug ===== vVhat else could you wish for? Why, nothing: poisoning, all of which we repudiate! No one can appreciate the opportunities of Come! school work like the old grad out in practice., Our 'Best Friends in 'Disguise so this A. S. O. feature of post graduate sum What 'Disease Just }Vow Claim.. Dr. J. N. McCormack, of Kentucky, the self mer lectures promises to bccome a big factor in Most of J'our Thoughts? professional interest. ' appointed Herod of the American Jhedical As IVe would respectfully invite each Osteopathic sociation, whose continuous vaudeville for a decade" entitled "Slaying the Infant Osteopa Correspondence with hundreds of our patrons practitioner in the United States and Canad,.!' who has a pleasing idea concerning Osteopathy, tlty," has won him so many banquet encomiums the past three years gives ample record that and field brickbats, is really one of the best money wisely and li herally spent for such good and. a facility for expressing it, to put it down on paper within the compass of 500 to 750 wordi< friends Osteopathy ever had-but "ur. J. N." literature, as "Osteopathic Health" is really doesn't know it. Jndge Toney is another. (He money back in pocket for the doctor. and send it in this month as an cntry in that .competitive award of "Osteopathic Health." So knows it now.) few have really entered this pri",e essay contest The sweat and fustian roar of such zealots are Dr. Asa vVillard is having a mail order clinic, this year that somebody i~ going to have a walk· the seed of the new system. One day the A. M. so to speak, on gall stones. He is to talk about over for some valuable books. vVhy not make a A. will "tumble" to this fact, pull ",1. N." out of them at St. Louis. He has asked 200 Osteopaths stab at it yourself? politics and reali",e that the fool-friends of alo to joiu this 'experience meeting. Help him if pathic medicine have done more to kill it in the you can. He will give us something good, "The ===== Attention Secretaries of Osteopathic ccnfidence of the people than even the rapid O. P." warrants. dawn of lay reasoning. ===== State 'Board..-! What a pity for Osteopathy that every state Blue and green trading stamps seem to be By reques.t, "The O. P." will carry hereafter in the union hasn't a J. N. McCormick, M. D., about the only cheap commercial catch-penny the names and addresses of the secretaries of the and another Judge Toney! dodge that have not yet been tried by those few various Osteopathic state boards of registration "God moves ill a mysterious way, Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN II His wonders to perform"- a walk-over. Send us in a good, simple, popular pear as mean and insignificant as possible, i n't But a rational, true system like Osteopathy article on whatever subject now holds your chief it a convincing argument for the Osteopathie will only bound forward like the football every attention. practitioner to be ever faithful in the monthly time some one aims a kick at it. circulation of "Osteopathic Health," that SUl'e antidote for medical and all other misrepresen [Journal of the American Medical Association 7Jeing J)oung a.s a 'Profeuion. We tations of our faith and works? please copy.] Are Judged StNJerely We, as a profession, should realize that the When O.steopath.s 7Jecome Henchmen 'world will give us credit, liOt for our ideals, but Treatment Coupon.s and Trading to ./Von-'Profe.s.sional M. D.'.s for what we do. If one per cent. of our member Stamp.s to 7Joom 'Practice Too 7Jad! ship heralds its personal skill and the virtues of By accident one "'V. E. Reid's" name got en Osteopathy on printed hand-bills, in newspaper rolled in the published list of A. S. O. graduates Dr. 1. A. Santee, late professor of pathology fake-doctor advertising, and in league with rene -this man temporarily dwelling in Boston. and symptomatology at the Atlantic College of gade M. D.'s who are Ishmaelites from their own Traveling on that circumstance and having a Osteopathy, seems to have got his trolley on the schools, be assured of it, dearly beloved, that It functionally stiff nerve and plethoric gall supply., wrong wire at Boston. He is advertised as a sort will unfortunately attract more unfavorable at this party offered himself to the discriminating of back-on-the-shelf understudy for the eminent tention and do more to brand Osteopathy as a public of Boston as one of the annointed of A. 3-column, scare-head, Sunday-newspaper advertis quack proposition than whatever the ninety-and T, till. He located at 431 Marlborough street, ing "Dr." VV. 1". Blair, founder and propounder nine can reclaim by demeaning themselves de and, to boo t bu iness, sent out ilis card with of "The Blair Medico-Osteopathic Institute," cently and professionally. this "free offer" and a coupon attached: which bids for deaf cases especially, saying it will This hould not be so, but it is. Tnat is be "Have you ever tried Osteopathy? If not, you cure them all with the certainty of fixed law. cause a lot of those who do not wi h Osteopathy are cordially invited to tear off the coupon at Now, how can an Osteopath with a fair idea well are on the qui vive to find faults in us, to the right, and present at my offices. It will en of decency and delicacy tie himself up to a scut magnify abuses and pretend that charlatanry is title you, without charge, to a consultation, ex tled pirate craft and sink into the Sea of Ob the reigning spirit of our school-which, thank amination and thorough complimentary treat livion-when he could just as leave do the other God, is untrue. But it behooves us all to be ment, to illustrate how and why my methods thing and like himself better? watchfnl and careful. Let us put down the ene will apply to your particular condition. 1 don't know. mies to the good name of A. T. Still and his "Coupon: Pre ent this coupon at my office, Ah, me! that a good man like Santee should teachings who arise from within, or at lea t wno 4.31 Marlborough street, and receive a thorough go wrong! hoyer on the outskirts of our profes ion. Let the explanatory treatment with compliments of W. ninety-and-nine find ways and mean to handlc E. Reid, D. 0." Ha.s He ./VO Shame? the one stray member, or else divorce him from Boston doesn't take kindly to fake professional fellow hip and put the brand upon fakery that An 8x14-inch hand bill, printed in stud type methods, and the Bostonians gave this "W. E. it justly calls <;lown upon its own head. on cheap paper, such ~s auction and fire sales Reid" the cold shoulder. The local Osteopaths u e, is the noisome way that Dr. J. b. Oldham, found him out and gave him wor e. The next one Kentucky 0 teopath, has of proclaiming his Old Men. 7Jrace day it snowed! Then he got out, but that is "profes ional" services nnto reluctant humanity. another story. No wonder the people shrink-and that he findR Up! The May We print the coupon as another example of practice a "dead proposition." No wonder the hOl'l'ible taste in trying to boost practice. Next, M. D.'s of his section object to Osteopaths call .. O.steopathic ~ome fakir will give green trading stamps with each treatment. ing themselves doctors and physicians, if they Health" Tell.s 'Em take Dr. Oldham's act as representative of us! Note-Do not confuse this person with OUl' For the moral of it we append the text of thi;; How to Do It. legitimate and worthy Dr. W. E. Reid, who is an hand-bill: A. S. O. graduate and is in Fitchburg, Mass. "A reduction in prices of 0 teopathic treat He was formerly at Hiram, 0., and :M:arion, TIL ment! I will make a reduction, for a short It was doubtle due to there being a Simon time, in the regular pnce for Osteopothic treat pure by that name in the fold that Dr. Quinton, ment to $15 per month. All wishing treatment keeper of the roster, etc., at Kirksville, got con should take advantage of this price. I have fu ed and admitted the wrong person. had seyen years e~..perience in the practice of o teopathy, was one of the founders of the On 'Pu.shing the Tale of O.steopath,c 'outhern School of Osteopathy at Franklin, 7Joo~.s Fa~er.s Ky., also president of school and superinten- A mong dent of infirmary. Osteopathy cures many Dr. Ida F. Rosencrans, of Kalispell, Mont., ca es where all other treatments have failed. calls our attention to two advertisements of Os If you are a sufferer do not give up until you It AI.so Tell.s of teopathic books appearing in "suggestion" and have tried this treatment. Diseases of all .. O.steopathy·.s "health" periodicals which carry the impression kinds are treated, both acute and chronic. For 7J/euing to Child that they are to instruct the lay I'eader in the further information, call at office. Consultatioll hood... It Tell.s art of giving 0 teopathic treatments, and she and examination free. Office in residence, No. asks if this is not a great mistake for our pro 1131 College street." Other Good Thing.s. fession to make offering its literature in popu· These were thrown in yards and on door '- --:~~~===~Order./Vow. larized form in such a way as to make him sup steps. po e he can easily become an Osteopath'c prac Ha Dr. Oldham no shame? titioner. We think thiS is unquestionably true. They ./VtNJer Tire of Slandering Neither should our authors of 0 teopathic textd O.steopathy ad\'erti e their books to the health-seeker as a 'Prize E.s.say.s All 7Jut 'Petered Out! In the Medical World of recent is ue, under "home course i1'\ Osteopathy, self-taught and otwithstanding the valuaole prizes which the title "Physician and Massage," DI:. J. Madi easily practiced"-or anything implying such an "Osteopathic Health" offers for goud, snappy, son Taylor stated that two masseurs applied to idea-nor should they permit their publishers to short essays of from 500 to 750 words, the pro him for work, claiming to be graduates of VI'. do so on their own respon ibility. ''''e do not fession simply isn't trying to be'in on the con Still's School of Osteopathy, and saying that they see how this mistake can fail to be responsible test at all. 'Vhat's the matter? Aren't crediLs had not learned anything from Dr. till I that for a lot of these uncouth grafters who pretend of $30 worth of books with the best medical pub they had not· known before. Our doughty Dr. to practice Osteopathy wherever state laws wj]] lishing house in the United States-Po Blakis Jose C. Howell, of Vineland, . J., who alwaYd. let them. Lon's -Son & Company, Philadelphia of course- carrie a chip on his shoulder for the one thaI; We do not share the views of some Osteopaths any consideration to our good Osteopath ? Don't tries to belittle or traduce onr science, rushed that our science should write its literature in they own and read books and want more? Are into a sub equent number with n denial and cypher, intelligible only to those who have the they not clear thinkers and writers? Are they challenge to forfeit $25.00 for each and every A. key. 'Ve do not believe in shrouding science in too voluble to state a clear proposition con S. O. graduate whom Dr. J. Madison Taylor or mystery under any circumstance. Cults can deal cerning only one disease at a time in the ample anyone else could prnduce under oath as having in mysteries, but sciences, never! cience is an scope of five to seven hundred words? '{ hen made application for employment as mas eurs. open book and he who pursnes it in any branch what is the matter? Why don't they enter? "Dr. J. 'Madison" hasn't answered the bluff up as a. incere'seeker after truth is errtitled to have There aren't enough in line yet to call the award to date. Money talks, it would seem. Al 0, of the best knowledge possessed put before him in a contest. These aWal,ds will be announced at all boisterous bluffers, the 11. D. who tackled the simplest, horte t, clearest English possible, St. Louis. You have just convenient time left to Osteopathy seems about the first to quit and because all truth, once learned, is the common step in and win a set of Deavor's Anatomies, cry "'nuff!" heritage of mankind. The world of thinkers has or something just as valuable in the book line, if Never let these willful or uncon 'cious slanders all'eady learned the most ponderous truths and yeu set about it this month. "Vill you do it'! go unanswered and unrebuked within the range the most obstruse systems of science, philosophy 'Vhy not? It's easy money. Try your haml. of YOul' influence, readers of "The O. P." Dnd art may ea 'ily be reduced to short, terse, Make the winners of this contest feel that they 'Vhen such an active campaign is always Oil concrete sentence, and that th-inking luen and' have actually done something. Nobody care for hand to besmirch our practice and make it ap- women think not the less profoundly for being Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN able to speak and write with economy of time, passing laudatory resolutions and cooperative the patient was discharged and she has shown words and gray matter. So, popular text-books measures for the dear old lady. Then we may every indication of improvement rather than are taking a gl;eat lead over old-style, dig-deep, get to holding joint revivals and all that! retrogression." dig-hard and dig-dubious text books such as our But, we do trust the ancient and honorable will It would interest our profession to know poor fathers had to wrestle with. vVe, as Oste stick to running down fakirs and not try to an more of this case, and it might help us if some opatbs, are entitled to this same advantage in noy, or discredit, any Osteopathic pbysicians who Des Moines Osteopath wonld run it down and our growing literature and every new truth sim are properly credentialed by their own profes report it carefully in tbe journal of the Associ'l ply and forcibly presented for' our science is a sion, for that would surely lead to a coolness tion. It would especially be interesting to kJ,loW new victory over our enemies. Vl'e say, there between us-and these family estrangement are how much.. Ost~opathic uttentiop the, case re fore, Godspeed to the era of modern Osteopathic always unfortunate for the whole profession s ceived-if any-from whom, at what time in the text-books, and may our tribe of authors in pecially our dignified elders. course of the malady and its recovery, wbat the crea e in skill and numbers. Can't we keep good friends, Auntie? o teopathic diagnosis and prognosis were, etc. -But~ That is a very different thing from ad It is just possible that Osteopathy may have re verti ing and pushing tbe sale of these book~ moved a deep lesion and had something to do which belong to physicians and people of ·scien· Say.r Ma-r-rage Cured Complete with the cure. On the other hand, merely ,peri tific training, among lay readers, health-cranks Tran-r'()er-re Myeliti-r pheral massage-three hours daily-may have re lIrld ignorant "healers" of all grades and preten A 'recent issue of The Chicago tlunday Ameri moved the lesion and may deserve all tne credit sicms, with the unavoidable consequence of put· can gave a front page supplement, profusely illus for it. It would be like the average medical ting hundreds of them into the field every year trated, to a most interesting account.of a cure journal to credit massage as fully as pOSSible for as pseudo·Osteopaths to discredit our science and of paralysi at Des Moines by a masseur. The a cure if perchance Osteopathy was concerned :n practice. story reads so like an Osteopathic case that we it. Dr. Rosencrans i right, and 'I'e think our Os were at once led to wonder did not the masseur Certain paragraphs of the interesting report teopathic authors should see to it that this ad use Osteopathic measures to treat his patient' printed would suggest chat perhap mind cure Yertising' campaign of their works as" etting 'Ve are not arrogant enough to say that peri· played a chief part in tbe case. The case flavors foI'th fully the various manipulation of the Os· pheral treatments alone, such as a masseur of suggestion. The patient did not walk finall:1 teopathic art," etc., is promptly squelched. would give, might not cure a case of paralysis, until imperatively ordered by the young masseur but all our reason and experience as Osteopaths to do so. Then the patient, after being cured, is would make us believe that a deep vertebral alleged to bave taken a great aversion to her re What We 7)0 to Fa1{er·.r in jVew Yor1{ lesion would very likely be responsible for such storer and to have proven ungrateful. The author of the phrase "Usteotherapy" and a condition as this case evidently presented. How about it, Des Moines Osteopaths? What sanctifier of the late legislative spasm to swallow We know nothing of the case 'beyond the news are the facts? I the case \'orth investi:;ating up Osteopathy in Tew York state under that paper report-and everybody knows Hearst's and reporting tipon?' new bizarre cognomen is discovered. Chicago American!-yet we present the story Worse than that-for him, and better than briefly as recounted. that, for the public, he is jailed and IS expected Miss Lulu Murphy, graduate of Drake Univer They Say O-rteopath-r are 7Ju-ry a.r to try a term in prison. sity, artist and teacher at Draice University; 7Jea'()er-r Incidentally we have here to record a mighty suffered from neuritis, tben typhoid fever, had a relapse, then six weeks later became paralyzed This plaint from the Joumal of the Americall good' act by the Medical Society of the County Medical Association, of April 2, 1904, on "Th~ of New York. Sometimes these dignified bodies in the lower extermities, sensation .and motion both being gone. It is alleged that two years Recognition of the Osteopaths," is worth O~ll' of the older wings of the profession of medicine careful perusal: spend their whole time persecuting the younger of treatment-allopathic, homeopathic and Os schools, like Osteopathy, and their acts are great teopathic, all failed to give help' Physicians ly to be condemned. But just now, the energy gave no hoile. They pronounced the case "com "Mucl~ as we may wish to ignore the Ostc',' of this ancient and honor~ble society-the oldesL plete tran verse myelitis in the lumbar region." paths as a school of physicians, they are se medical body in the United States-which is rep Then a young masseur, called Dr. Milton H. curing followers in such numbers, and are dc resented in the courts by Mr. Champe S. An Berry, took the case. He put her in the Iowa manding recognition from legislative bodie' drews, a brainy and hard-fighting young attorney Methodist hospital, under stl'ict regimen. Thc with such positiveness that the)' have gained of Gotham-is directed toward rioti.ng out fakirs, massage treatment required three hours each firm footing in spite of our protests. vVe h:lve root :lnd branch. Good Osteopaths of New York day for over two months; then was reduced to contented ourselves with passing resolutions in will say amen to this :lnd would probably chip one hour a day. Three weeks-:.o improvement. our Medical societies, while they have labored in-if thi reveren{l body were to pass around Then u toe wiggle, "which effort threw her into night and day with great eal'nestness. We her bonnet for a sistan.::e. a violent chill, from which it took two hours of have merely referred the' matter to our legis the hardest kind of work to get her back to lative committees while they have made pil '·Dr." Charles Conrad, alleged and so-called, is het· normal condition again." From that day fOl' grimages to state capitols and have bearded the perpetrator of "Osteo-therapy." He ran thc ward gradual improvement. Toes moved more and the legislator in their .dens. In n.rkansas, "Platen Institute, Incorporated," at 56 vVest more; then ankle; then knee; next she could sit Oklahoma, Missouri, Michigan and Minnesota 6.5th street, New York. He ran branches also. upright; at length, walk arid return to ,vork, the Osteopaths have been accorded state rec· \Vhile onrad offered himself as an educated phy completely cured. ognition and select their own cxaminers. III sician, and had four diplomas in Latin, agents Commenting on this cure, following a complete Alabama this was prevented only by the vote of the ancient and esteemed Medical Society of summary of the case, the Iowa Medical Journal of the lieutenant governor (wbo chanced to bE the County of New York aver that he is an ig concluded with this paragraph: a .doctor) after the bill had passed the house norant Torwegian sailor. He claimed the power "This ca e is reported for tbe purpose of and had gained half the votes in the senate. both to cure and issue diplomas for cash. He showinl! what persistent and intelligent mas In Kentucky and Missi ippi theO teopathsare offered to make a woman detective, 0 affidavit sage will do in this class of patients. Whether putting up a bitter and determined fight, and says, a bully-good Osteopath for $100, or a full the conditions will . remain. permanent or stand a good chance of securing favorable laws fledged M. D. for just $550, time not being nec whether there may be a relapse is a question iJl next session of the legislatures, They are essary to the ordei1l. for' time to decide. A montb has passed sincc working day and night, summer and winte:', He prospered. week days and Sundays, while tne medical pro· Mr. Andrews ran down the evidence and se fes ion of the various states pass resolutions cmed a senten\!e of imprisonment for Conrad un or refer to committee und then sink back into der Recorder Goff. their apathetic state. The title which the sailor assumed will throw JOUR.NAL OF "In Illinois, we are told, the Osteopath will some light on hi pretensions, as well as elucidat demand recognition again in 1905. The system ing the term "Osteo-therapy"-which we pre OSTEOPATHY atic work is now on; their opposing forces, the sume, .may now be considered officially dead and medical profession of the state, is doing little buried. Here are just a few of the titles he PUblished by the . AMERICAN SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHY in preparation for the fray. Twice in the past gives himself: have these disciples of the Sage of Kirksville FCllUnder, President and Medical Director of KIRKSVILLE, MO. succeded in l)assing .bills through both houses Vetus Academia Physio-Medica; Vice iPresident of the Illinois legislature. Laws recognizing of the American Association of Physicians and Subscription' 50 Cents Per Year • In Advance. Osteopaths in TIlinois would be on our statutes Surgeons; Lecturer on Psychology and Physi to-day had the action of the medical profession ology in the Old Physio-Medical College; Foun 48 PAGES IS 000 of the state been depended on to check them. der of.Osteotherapy and Pre ident of the Tew CIRCULATION ', In the admini tration of the late Gov. Jobn York Society of Osteotherapeutic Physicians. R. Tanner one bill pas ed 'both hou es and wa We congratulate our ancient sister, the Medi- l'The Mouthpiece of the Old Doctor. " promptly vetoed by the governor, though far cal Society of the County of New York, on hit· Edited' by DR. GEORGE M. LAUGHLIN more pressure was brought to bear on him to ting a good honest trail in the right gait when sign the bill by tbe 0 teopaths than to veto she 'goes out to rid Gotham of fake pretenders to Advertising Rates: One Inch, single by the medical profession, all schools and to no schools of practice. If she column, per year, $18: per month. $1.50. One inch, double column • "The last Osteopathic bill was killed only by • keeps up that pace steadily the next thing folks per year. $35.00: per month, $3,00. the vigorous veto of Gov. Richard Yates. The know our ew York Osteopathic ociety will be time may come when the state of lIlinol will Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO ·THE OST:EOPATHIC PItYSIClAN 13 not have governors who are inclined to pro· /(entuc~ Appreciation As Necessary as aTreatment Table tect the medical profession so vigorously! Inclosed you will -:find 50 cents for another year's subscription to the "Osteopathic Physi to a well appointed osteopathic office are Helmer & "A governor may come who will prefer to Merton's superb osteopathIc ch'lrts. Are worth $100 to listen to the emphatic voices of the hundred.. cian." I have found great pleasure and ,much the practitioner who is busy-or who would I':et busy. of determined Usteopaths rather than to the profit in reading this paper and feel that every Cost but $5 per set of three, each 25x35 inches, tinned whispered protest of a handful of doctor ! Osteopath hould give thanks to the publi hers Then Illinois wiIl pass favorable Osteopathic for rendering 0 great a service to the profes bills. It is not the Osteopatn alone who is slon.-Dr. 'arab H. Settle, Louisville, Ky. concerned in the matter. The establishment of , a precedent of recognizing all of the mongrel cult, one of which is born every month, will ALL PRACTtTlONERS AND STUDENTS USE result in the establi hUlent of a recognized medical paternity which will be no credit to Hazzard's the tate, and which will be prejudicial Lo every reputable medical man in the state. "Practice or Osteopathy" (2nd Ed,') "It is not fair to expect that state authori ties will close their ears to the pleas of thou sands of voters who demand recognition of Hazzard's the Osteopaths and other cults when the med ical profes ion manifests no interest in their "Principles or Osteopathy" own behalf. It i the duty of the legislators (3rd Ed.) Theory. principles. lesions, centers. details of exam and the governor to erve the most of the peo· ination and of treatment, ali fuliy explained. pIe, and there can be no chosen few who will be given favoritism, as a matter of course, ~3.00 per 'CJo/. Send/or ,sample paje,s without even the form of asking." A. S. O. BOOK CO., Gen. As-ta. Keep on organizing and clamoring, fellow Oste KIRKSVILLE, MO. opaths, till we get what we are entitled to. A Good Chance/or Somebod.s My Dear Dr. Bunting: I have decided to leave, in the near future, providing I can dispose Bartlett's Adjustable of my office furniture and property. I thought probably you might give me some assistance Treating Tables through the column of your worthy and newsy paper, "The O. P." This i a good city, and Osteopathic Advertising Literature 100,000 people, and growing rapidly. Osteopathy is on a pretty good plane here. I have been Send /or Sample,s and OPrice,s in since October 18, 1897, and have made many good friends. My practice the pa.t . edges. An ornament to the treatment room. Full of Osteopath Printing and persuasion for the patient. He sees it plainer than you five years has aveJ;aged from $5,500 to $6,300 can tell him. Saves wordy explanations. each year cash, and it ha not fallen below that Suppl,... CODlpan,... S,mel for Descriptive Circular thi year so far. I have a nice dwelling in a good location worth $6,000, seven rooms, be 608 Grand Avenue DES MOINES, IOWA IlELMER &MERTON,I36 Madison Ave., NewYork side kitchen and bathroom and halls, with ail modern conveniences, water, gas, electricity O Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN little for veracity and fairness. Now, when the hundreds of thousands of Osteopathic patients throughout this land know that Osteopathy is not I'ubbing, and tell all their friends so with persistency, what boots it to you, illustrious "regulars," continually to put yourselves in the light of being either ignorant or malicious by re peating the foolish yam that "Osteopaths are im pudent enough to pretend to be able to treat all diseases hy rubbing!" The gall of you to in sist on stating this to be the position of the Os teopath is worse than mere impudence. It is a pure, malicious mendacity-and that sort of a weapon-belieYe us, members of the county medical societies-is of no help to "regular medi cine, no matter how earnestly you freight it with your hopes to blast the new .science with ridicule. You have followed this programme of misrep resentation for ten years, gentlemen of the coun· ty and other medical sqcieties. What have you accomplished by way of entrench;ng yourself more firmly in the monopoly of treating human infirmities? Has it paid you? Have you stoppel! Osteopathy? Will you never learn by experi ence? Iota Tau Sil1ma. an Ooiteopathic Gree1(-Letter Fraternity The idea of an Osteopathic Greek-letter frater nity originated in the minds of two or three ·freshmen at A. S. O. in the June class, 1904. They took into their confidence others of their class until there were seven of that same class. These then got one each from the January, 1904, and June; 1903, classes, which made nine orig'nul members. The organization was COil ummated at a meeting held in the room of \V. C. Hall about the last week of Octoher, 1902, after which time they held their meetings at the home of O. S. Miller, he being the only married mall m the fraternity and, in consequence, could offer them room and comfort-or, rather, freedom-which they could not have in the boarding houses. Iota Tau Sigma continued to meet here until February 3, 1903, when the fraternity moved into a beautiful home of its own, for which Wagner -=_IJ it paid a 11.igh rent because no one wanted to rent their house "to a gang of boys," as they expressed it. 1:iince then the fra ternity has Mica-Plate Static Machines' , grown steadily until now It i on a tirm basis, il} a new home, with furniture that it owns. have proved that the higher the speed the higher The new house has eight bedrooms, a parlor, the tension and volume of current generated. library, reception hall and kitchen, two bath rooms complete and good furnace. The only machines that can be operated at high speed. Membership of Iota Tau .igma is limited to 21' active members, and at K.irkville is 19 at Wagner Adjustable Focus Tubes present, 14 of whom are living at the Chap ter house. There is also a Beta chapter in the will prove what properly focused tubes are Still school at Des Moines, composed of some of and what they can do. the very best students there, and Dr. Spencer, of the facul ty. The only tubes not focused by guess. The Alpha chapter of A. S. O. has an or Send for catalogue and the goods will do the rest. ganized alumni association composed of sev· enteen graduates of A. . O.-ali competent ancl R. v. Wagner CIl. Co. representative Osteopaths. The purpose of the 308 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. No.1 Madison Ave., NEW YORK. fraternity is to study, practice and uphold the Empire Bldg., PITTSBURGH. Ellicott Square Bldg., BUFFALO. science of (\ teopathy as taught by A. T. Still. ~ to as~' . another and promote fellowship. Mr~ Miller was elected "mother of the FrateI'! , , acts as chaperone at all social The "Preoiumptionl of TreatinlJ: by Anglo-Saxon. No Osteopath in the world ever unctionb hich Iota Tau Sigma enterta'ns the elite rkville's society. At a recent re- ~ubbin8 said any such thing. None ever spoke from om ranks privately or publicly who did not refute ception an· ;anquet the fraternity entertained orne doctors of the "regular" school seem al this medical slander. The statement was borne the entire faculty of the A. S. O. and their ways eager to ru h into print with the observa of people who belong to your "county," "state" wives. Iota Tau igma is interpreted Osteopath tion that "Osteopathy is a fad and will die d and "national medical societies," and it will ically to mean-well you would have to join to natural death," etc., and these oracles always probably be perpetuated by them until they grow find out, but it is fair to presume that it has win.d up with some such statement as was made wise enough to see that willful and malicious no lesions. Iota Tau Sjgma memhers will all in The Philadelphia Telegraph of April 23d by misrepresentations never hurt any just cause" join the A. O. A., it is said, and it is safe to "Dr. Beates, of the County Medical Society," but do make out those who practice such stupid predict for them a brilliant future because the who said: warfare to be a pack of hair-brained monkeys. cluh aims to gather in men who are good stu dents and ambitious for the best and who work "Meantime the Osteopaths have the impu Osteopaths do not treat by rubbing, you know dence to pretend to be able to treat all dis petter, sir. for the advancement of the science and profes- eases by the process of rubbing." We blush for you, our senile and impotent \Vhich is a lie, Dr. Beates, of the County Medi· friends of the other branch of the medical pro Write VJ If In Trouble cal Society, pure and simple-if, as men of sci fession. 0 wonder th!lt drug-giving has worn We are pleased to correspond with those in ence, we may be permitted to get down to :L out, become decadent and been repudiated by the dOJlbt as to how to proceed with promoting prac basis of agreed definitions, stated in good, terse people in the hands of men, like yon, who care so tice. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO