The Osteopathic Physician
August 1905
Vol. 8, No. 3
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Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
CHICAGO. AUGUST. 1905. Number 3
road which, when comple~ed, will shorten the ,New 'Recardfar 'Plea.s'ure distance 200 miles between Denver and Salt Lake. At the journey's end Osteopaths engaged in snowballing and were photographed above timber at 'Rac1(y Mauntain Cancla-ue line. .UteI' a rest of another day a second jour OR sociability, recreation and pleasure, noth Two journeys were made to the top of the ney was taken on the Colorado & Southern rail mg in osteopathic annals has ever equalled range by the osteopathic crowd in a body-and way to Silver Plume via the celebrated George f the Eighth Annual meeting of the Amt!rican jolly trainloads they made, too. One trip was up town loop. This trip is woi1d-famous and needs Osteopathic Association, held August 14-19 at the no eulogy and was alone worth the trip [rom Brown Palace hotel, Denver, Colorado. both oceans. Convention work was finished up each morning on the days w~en the visitors took Although there were apprehensions in advance these official journeys. that the usual crowd could not be taken on such Other unofficial journeys were taken plentifully a long j:Jurney, more than 300 signed the roster. profe~sion -to Eldora up the "Switzerland Trail"-which Most of the old "war horses" of the has been completed from Sunset in Boulder canon were there. Also many new ones. only this year, and which, all in all, presents Father A. T. Still was present and made a about the finest scenery of the range-if com speech at the opening session. This feature was parisons are possible! Another little jOIlJ'lley worth the price of admission to many doctors enjoyed after the meeting by many Osteopaths who had not heard "Pap's" voice since leeving was the "Short Line" (Colorado & South· school, and to still others who had never before ern) from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek, met the founder of our science. which also bears the distinction by common reo The Pacific coast delegation was a strong and pute of being "the finest trip in the Rocb.es." active one, and the profession had the pleasure There are many of these fine trips, however of making the acquaintance of a number of men all so magnificent as to admit of no rivalry be and women who have been prominent in advan tween them, each being different. Lucky, in cing osteopathic interests on the coast but who deed, wa·, the Osteopath who could spend two have not been seen at previous meetings of the weeks or so in this delightful country-as many national association. of them did-and combine attendance at th~ A. The Dt;uver and Colorado Osteopaths gave us O. A. m~,eting with a refreshing and delightful all the time of our lives, beyond a doubt, and outing. It will be many a day before the A. O. too much praise cannot be meted out to them, A. has another meeting, I fear, at which the one and all. That the whole profession of the members and visitors will have equal opportuni city and state was well organized and had la ties for pleasure. After all is' said, there is but bored as a unit for our entertainment was plain one Colorado! ly evident, since the net results of the program ,/Ve.rt 'Place if Meetinll enacted can only follow the united work of many heads and hands. The reception committee as Hotel Victory, at Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie, just named comprised "al) members of the Colorado off Toledo and Sandusky, Ohio, and in steamer Osteopathic Association," of which body Dr. connection with Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo and John T. Bass acted as president and Dr. Nettie other lakl' towns, was selected as the place for Hubbard Bolles, secretary. Such other "high holding "he next convention. Dr. Teall Jiad been privates" in the ranks as Doctors N. Allen on the ground with a view to sizing up the loca Bolles, George W. Perrin, Hasseltine A. Burton, tion, its transportation facilities, hotel accom L. S. Brown, Elizabeth C. Bass, Burt D. Mason, Dr. A. L. E'CJan.s. of Chattanoolla. 'Pre.sident modations, etc., and recommended it as an ideal Nellie T. McClain, George H. Wood, John L. of the American O.steopathic A.s.sociation place for holding an association meeting. The Cramb, Charles C. Reid, as well as members of argument was made that it would prove much their families-all residents of the city-were on the new "Moffatt Road" to the top of the di like the Brown Palace at Denver as a convention duty early and late, administering to guest-com vide in the afternoon and home by moonlight. site, affording the delegates a refreshing outing, fort, recreation and fellowship. One and all de This is a wildly picturesque trip in' which abou' WIth the opportunity for social life and intimate serve our thanks, nor can we omit from special thirty . tunnels are traversed. It is th", new acquaintance not possible in many other places. mention Miss Etta Bass and Mrs. George W Perrin, who were in the thick of the fray of entertainment throughout the week. - Speaking of the entertainment accorded our 'Palitic.s' and Electian.s' a.s' delegates, it is fitting to 'compliment the mauage ment of the Brown Palace hotel, also, for the Seen at the 'Den-uer Meeting ideal arrangements of this hostelry for the en tertainment of a convention such as ours. No LECTIONS, as usual, were not marked br nomi~ations would not be in order. So no inde- better SIte for a convention of several hundred any fervid politics this year at the Denver pendent nominations were made. , people can be found in the union. The auditor Emeeting, and, so far from parties or election These were the selections by ballot for Ameri ium, committee rooms and clinic rooms are eering for friends developing, it can be said can Osteopathic Association officials for the e.n- ample and well arranged, light, airy, free from truthfully that nobody knew a moment hefore suing year: \ noise and dirt, and the delegates who possess this election who were to be placed in nomination for the varions offices. A nominating commit President, Dr. A. L. Evans, Chattanooga, delightful retreat a mile above sea-level find Tennessee. .; themselves sole occupants of a little world of tee, comprising Drs. C. C. Teall, Howard T. Crawford, Nettie Hnbbard Bolles, Ella D. Still, First Vice President, Dr. John T. Bass, their own, quite apart from the madding crowd Denver, Colorado. in the lobby and streets beneath, where all may W. W. Steele, Ernest Sisson, Percy H. Woodall , and Janet Kerr was instructed to frame up two Second Vice President, Dr. Lena Creswell, get well and personally acquainted, F.S it is not San Diego, California. possible to do at most of the hotels one visits regular tickets and present them for balloting. Secretary, Dr. Harry Linden Chiles, Au Our thanks to the management of the Brown It seems to have been the belief that a sea· burn, New York (re-elected). for one of the pleasantest conventions that the soned committee could thrash over the situation profession has yet held. .and make better selections than might result if Assistant Secretary, C. A. Upton, St. Paul, nolninations were left entirely to chance and in Minnesota (re-elected). Side Trip,s De/illhted Vi.sitor.s dividual friendliness. Two tickets were Treasurer, M. F. Hulett, Columbus, Ohio The most conspicuous difference between th;s duly presented, either one of which seemed (re·elected) . convention and others consisted in the side trips wholly a.cceptable and any chance combination Three·Year Trustees: Dr. Cora B. Tasker, which visitors were enabled to take up the vari· of whose respective members would prove equally Los Angeles; Dr.· C. B. Atzen, Omaha, ous canons and upon or across the range. Many felicitons. Some members evinced a desire to Neb., and Dr. T. L. Ray, Fort Worth, Texas. delegates came by way of Colorado Springs and present independent nominations from the floor, Dr. Leslie E. Cherry, of Milwaukee, Wis., waa Manitou Springs, and stopped over there er. but President McConnell pointed out that the at the head of the second regnlar ticket. No route to the convention. Most everybody who resolution appointing the nominating committee sooner had nominations for the presidency been came west, wellt home that way of -course, and instructed it to present two regular tickets so as made than Dr. Cherry took the floor to ask the had this fun afterwards. to afford a choice to voters, and that further withdrawal of his own name and move the elec- Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO
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THE OSTEOPATHle PHYSICIAN 3 tion of Dr. Evans by unanimous voice. He was Not only do our efficient secretaries pull to· ruled out of order by. President McConnell, as gether in the harness well,· but it has been the voters presumably wanted a little run for 47 Business Ideas ~~~~~~ found that a secretary their money, and the very substantial vote Send us I,wo 2·ceot stamps for a book of 47 suggestions requires fully a, year to for your btl iness or profession. It will teacb )'OU bow polled by the unwilling candidate proved decid BUSIN~~S>l. "get well onto his job." to GE'L' BUSINESS and how to KEEP That is the reason the edly complimentary, especially as his succeshful THE SHAW WALKER COMPANY rival was one of the most hard-working, desen· association now fol - 151-153 Wabash Avenue CHICAGO lows the plan of civil ing and popular veterans of the organization. Factories: Muskegon, Mich. ".F .,. Presidem Evans is too well known to the pro service promotion in this fession as editor of 'The Journal of the Ameri office, giving a secre y~ar's ...... *. tary first a train can Osteopathic Association" from its founding '0 hetter selection could have been made for ;. .- to the present time, to need introduction 01' first vice president than Dr. John 1'. Bass, who ing as assistant secre· tary, then letting ilim • eulogy. Ilis good work of the past and prf'oent has proven himself a valiant Hittite for profes speaks for him, and from his close knowledgt: of sional work in seeking both court and legislative carry the full burden ~ the wOl'k of the association and profession in its recognition in Colorado, as well as in promot'ng, of the office itself, and every devartment of activity, it is well assured everything relating to the upbuilding of the a. so then, if the secretary ,~ that his regime will carryon the work of Dr, ciation. ha proven himself too McConnell's administration, with which Dr In the election of Dr. Lena Creswell, of San valuable a worker to • Evans 11as been so closely identified, without the Diego, California, to the second vice presidency, lose, perhaps giving loss of a smgle foot-pound of energy. both our women practitioners-who constitute a • him another term in office, as was the honor Everyone has felt that it was only a question lar"e and able element of the A. O. A.-and the nrt. c. A. UPTON of time when Dr. Evans would be honored by Pa~ific slope Osteopaths were accorded official accorded in the case of election to the presidency. He is one of a circle recognition. Dr. Creswell has a level head, has Dr. Chiles. of veteran workers for the science, profession been active in professional advancement in Cali· And as for Treasurer M. F. Hulett-of course, and association, including other such men as fornia and will prove a good worker for the na also! \Vho else would know so well how to col- Doctors Cherry, Tasker, Link, Rolles and Ellis. tional as ceiation. lect and hold the asso· who have not been so honored, and whom it 'is Dr. Edith Stobo Cave, of Boston, ran a close ciation's dollars? BUfcly generally believed to be only a question of bml' race for the second vice presidency, and the fact his years' of experience until the presidential lightning officially strikes that she was "a long way from home" made the ha taught him som them consecutively. This is not saying that any handsome vote she polled in competition with the useful tricks about how one of these worthies has out his lightning western candidate all the more complimentary. to get the membership rod for the n0mination, for that would not be The reelection of our efficient and hustling team to pay its dues prompt true. They are not the type of men to seel<. of of secretaries, Drs. Chiles and Upton, was a Iy and keep in good fice, while, by an unwritten law in A. 0 A. foregone conclusion, as standing. The memberR statescraft, "office must uniformly seek the under their energetic thought this so strong· man." And the person who would strive to ],aYC seeretarial regimes much lY that our Uncle Ma<:k himself elected would certainly be snowed uoder has been done to j was reelected triumph. by an avalanche of disapproval. But Dr. E,·ans strengthen our bul- antly, and 0 there will has been marked in professional opinion for pre warks, organize new be no change in the ferment some time, and while his name had not states and territories financial policy of the been talked of to any extent for election ~hi. os teo p a thically, aoci A. O. A. in the COl( ing year it seemed like a matter of course as ~oon swell the A. O. A. mem year. Pay your dues as the cominating committee had been heard bership. It must not early and avoid the from, and his election evoked generous enthusi be forgotten that it rush! asm from the rank and file of association work was during the terms of Illl. ~1. ~'. IlUI,I~·I"l' The three nominees ers. On motion of Dr. Cherry it wa made office of Drs. Chiles and for trusteeships who unanimous as soon as the formal ballot was ta Upton, as associatjon could not be incorporat· ken. secretaries, that mem ed in the gover'ling board of the A. O. A. President Evans will retain the editorship of bership in the A. O. A. solely because there was only room for three the Association Journal in addition to his execu reached and passed one of the ·;ix named were Drs. Ord Ledyard Sands, tive responsibilities, which is said to have had thousand m e m be r s ! Eo \V. Culley and VV. B. Meacham. Then why shouldn't a vrecedent in the case of Dr. George M. Gould. A-s-socioted College Afloir-s at one time president of the American Med:cal Illl. II. L. CH1L];~>l they have been reo Association and editor of its journal. elected? These cfficers were elected by the Associ,\ ted Colleges oi Osteopathy for the ensuing ) ear; President, Dr. James B. Littlejohn, of the Amer ican College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery. e-e-e-e-e--e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-o-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e Chicago; Vice President, Dr. Howard T. C'·aw I e ford, of the Massachusetts College of Osteopa ~by; I and Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. Clement A. e Whiting, of the Pacific College of Osteopathy. The Central College of Osteopathy at Kansas City, having gradnated its first class, ·made ap plication to the Associated Colleges for recogni· ONE MORE GUARANTEE tion. The Associated Colleges voted to admit the new institution, but it was presently pointed out My antiseptic treatment for skin diseases has been used by over one-half that the laws require a candidate school to be of the a teopaths in practice. It is a high-class, strictly ethical prOduct, endorsed by the "Educational Committee" of and is made up in a variety of ways at~d strengths according to the needs of the the A. O. A. before it can be accepted into the case. The formula is given to anyone using the preparation if he desires it. Associated Colleges. Central College had applied to Dr. E. R. Booth, chairman of this committee I have given an absolute guarantee in over 500 cases and never made but in June, it is said, for examination and a "cbar one refund. If you will mention "The O. P." when yOlt order I will guarantee acter," but it was then too late to give the com that the treatment will be perfectly satisfactory and will allow you to use it on mittee opportunity to make the examination. any case that you think requires an antiseptic. My fee is $5 a month for each The invitation will likely be renewed this iall, said President A. L. McKenzie, and it is believed case, and I send seven packages that should be sold to the patient for 1 each. in Associated College ranks that the candidate in· If at the end of a month's treatment you are not PERFECTLY SATISFIED, stitution will prove acceptable and duly take en your money will be refunded on request-or if a second lot is required, it will be rollment as one of the "sister colleges." sent free of charge-you to take either option you may choose. My only stipu lation being that application for refund be made not sooner than 30 days from the date of the order and not later than 35. This guarantee holds good on all orders mailed befo~e Oct. 1 1905, and provided you mention this paper. OSTEOPATHIC PRINTING AND SUPPLY 1 COMPANY Specialists in PROFESSIONAL PRINTING DR. R. H. WILLIAMS, Osteopathist, 617 :A~~:S ~?~y~ ~~~(j •• Manufacturers of fine TREATING TABLES Pl"ice liftts and fnll pal't iClllal"S sent 011 reqllel'it. 317 Mint Arcade Building, PHILADELPHIA. 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4 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••t. 'Dr. McConnell~.so ~e.soearch Wor~ Scored a Triumph The College s PROMISED in these columns last issue, systems. Diagrammatic views of the stomach in the most notable event of the Denver those cases affected with stomach center lesions -A meeting was the address of retiring Pre i in the spine were clearly ecchymotic in part or dent Carl P. McConnell, of Chicago, who rpport whole, while the beginning of degeneration in ed origin 11 work in verification of the osteopa'.hir glands wa~ unmistakably in evidence. T!lOse theory of disease as being the net result of me stereopticon pictures, in conjunction with Dr. Professor chanical lesions. During the past year Dr. Mc McConnell's address, proved of the most gr~phic Connell, assisted by Dr. :l!"'rank C. Farmer. of interest to the big meeting. .. Chicago, l,as worked patiently in the laborat(\r-es Every Osteopath was fascinated by the report to produce artificial osteopathic lesions in healthy of the work accomplished, realizing that it was dogs by causing slight wrenches of the spine and the beginning of the work which the profession and the dislocations of the heads of ribs and then keep must prove out to conclusions before the scien ing careiul clinic and post mortem records of th(' tific world will accept as valid our osteopathic • outcome. pathology with its revolutionary views concern Clinically it was found that active, healthy dogs ing disea6e causes. so treated almost at once fell sick, refused food and developed the usual symptoms of disease Dr. :.\1:cConnell gave much credit to his col Lame Back depending on the trophic centers affected. Ana league, Dr. Frank C. Farmer, for his skillful dis lysis of stomach contents from day to day pre sections and patient cooperation in obtaining sented just the clinic pictures of disease expected_ these intel-esting results, and reminded his asso NE of our well known Finally, careful dissections of the sympathetic ciates that the work he reported was [I"t a professors in the Univer system Dnd spina.! cord showed accompanying small beginning-"merely a thin entering werlge," as he put it-and that we as a profession shvuld sity of Iowa came to me ecchymos'Js at the affected spots in each case O without fail, and always corresponding accurate lose no time in carrying it on to conclusions. recently with an old copy of ly to the point where trauma had been applied. Too much praise cannot be given to Dr. Mc The rami, posterior ganglia and anterior com Connell for this excellent work. As a pioneer ill "Osteopathic Health" and missures especially showed hem'lrrhagic spots proving the principles of osteopathic etiology 3.nu engaged in the following col and tracts clearly under the miscroscope. pathology under the microscope his name will Dr. McConnell had prepared a series of micro be remembered, we predict, long after a lot of loquy : photographic slides of the e various dissections, other good work that he has done will be for II I Have you a lame- back?' faithfully colored to reproduce the ecchymoses gotten. Hi tail opens up a brand new depart which showed under fresh dissection. He also ment of laboratory research, and with the pul says this little magazine. exhibited a recent section of a portion of a dog's ting of this Denver address into proper form it " I have," says I. cord and its accompanying sympathetic struc will become impossible for those who follow tures, between glasses, which served to how the along in this channel later to overlook or faq to " . Have you ever consulted a actual size and relations of these twin nervous acknowledge their indebtedness to this work. physician about it?' it asks. " I have," says I. . II I What did he tell you?' it Let V.so 'Di.sopen.soe with continues. "Nothing," says I. Flapdoodle in Our 'Prodram.so " I Are you satisfied?' it asks. RATlIER sensational feature of the pro' the science and profession should the Ii ttle pa "I am not," I reply. gram of the American Osteopathic Associa tient !la-Ie succumbed to the ordeal and thc Ation's meeting at Denver was the atteml,teu anesthetic?" I heard asked, in substance, by :t " I Then are you ready to reduction of a congenital hip dislocation by Dl·. 11. dozen people when the task was all over. consult an accredited Osteo VV. l<'orbes, formerly of the S. S. Still College, Stop and think, how much damage might ['ave Des, Moines, and now of the Pacific College. It been done our cause by an untoward outcome! path,' it persists, I who can is well to designate these cases "attempted re Would other medical schools have taken the give you a sensible reason for ductions" until they have run the usual course same risks under similar circumstahces? And of treatment and the plaster casts have been to what purpose-to demonstrate Osteopathy or your lame back, with its sore removed, at which time it is possible to d(·ter an oste'Jpatmc principle? Not at all. To imi spots, and relieve the same, mine whether any case is a success or not from tate a strictly surgical operation. This rh;ld the standpoint of the patient. They often 100k presented a "fresh case," which had had but a with proper treatment?' all right to the doctor while the operation is in month's preliminary treatment, it was said, and. "You bet I am, says l progress, while after results do not show that according to the general view a few treatments the expected cure was accomplished. are not sufficient to change a Lorenz ca e into and here I am, Doctor! Now, This cosc was a little girl, Mabel Riis, seven another other sort of a case_ Certain it is, too, honest, do you really think you years 'Jld, the patient of Dr. Charles C. Reid, that this case required all the force and vioknce of Denver, and she had received one month. of demanded by every case of Lorenz surgery. The can cure a very bad lame back? " preliminary osteopathic treatment. Her father child is older than Dr. Lorenz will accept as a The professor was cured and is Mr. \V. G. Riis, 4 95 Gallup avenue, Denver. satisfactory case. So the odds were all ag;unst Assisting Dr. Forbes were the Drs. Spencer. Osteopathy, and that everything apparPJltly bas become an enthusiastic sup Dr. Reid and Dr. T. J. Ruddy. The operation transpired all right for the time being was a porter of Osteopathy. He is required about one hour and twenty minutes. It piece of good fortune for which we cannot was performed in the middle of the conver.tion thank our own prudence and foresight. Of but one of many friends whom I hall on the eighth floor of the Brown l'alacl? course ;t was interesting to the practitioners have secured by uSing" Osteo hotel .lbout noon. to most of them, although few, indeed, wi'l Among the rank and file of members of the enter that line of specialty practice-but when pathic Health." My perpetual associatio!l there was heard. a good deal of ('pen human lif<:> is at stake and the reputation of the gratitude to the little field mag- criticism at having this kind of a feature opo the entire profession is in the balance the mere mat program. There were very scant facilitie.~ for ter of afi"ording entertainment and giving in _azine that" pulls patients! " such a :;trenuous operation on the ball room Boo£" structio'l tc the doctors is not to be considered. of a hotel cn a very sultry day in mid-Augu~t in We topk 8 foolhardy risk, to say the least, and Fraternally, a crowded room. Sufficient fresh air-the one these words are written in the hope that the thing needed after an operation for the safE'ty of error will not be repeated. ARTHUR STILL CRAIG, D. O. an anesthetized patient-was wholly lacking. At Then there was another feature quite as objec times the operators did not have the needed ma tionable D_nd to which, it is likely, we as a pro Iowa City, Iowa. terial at hand Then, too, it is at best a ver~ fession may yet have to make answer. The news P. S.-The Unh"ersity of Iowa foot ball team severe operation, and one that makes frightful papers -made sensational reports of the clinic, as now elDl>lo)'S an OsteoJjiLth. demands upon the vitality of the patient. might ue _expected, and announced under "scare "Did nobody responsible for this operatioll at heads" fbat we claimed it was a more successful this time and place consider the possible co~t to operation than Dr. Lorenz and his strictly medi- Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO
THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAl:-. 5 cal followers could do-which obviously is bun ought to be taken into aoccount in getting up na e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢ comb, considering that the case had just come tional programs and we, the profession, wJ:.ich ~ ~ to Osteopathy a month b~fore, and that Osteop has much to say in criticism of "pyrotechnical athy is a great advance on the Lorenz method .operations," ought to be the last to bait the ~ in these congenital cases where, be it observed, same hook. i The Long Search practically all we do-as in this case-is to imi But '1ne thing we will all agree upon, whether tate the work of the celebrated Austrian. This we approve of taking needless and well-nigh claim .is foolish where, manifestly, we are m,~rely profitless risks of this sort or not-the A. O. A. i of Dr. Curtis ~ imitatorg, and as yet we have records of so very should follow up this case and bring the little e • <- few cases combining our preparatory treatment girl before our next meeting at Put-in-Bay. Hav with the Lorenz operation that we are not justI ing used the case to educate our practitioners, ~ Was Not Vain ~ fied in op~ning our mouths to make any sort of let us v,ivc them the benefit of knowing thc re e ¢ claims whatsoever, let alone advertising that we sults. Jf it proves successful we want to l~now ¢ e e ¢ have made great advances on Dr. Lorenz's meth it, and jf it is not, we are still entitled to know ¢ M1'. VERNON, ILL., July 25. e ods. Dr. Lorenz bases his deductions upon the all about it. Meanwhile we suggest that the e ¢ cxperience of over 1,000 cases. profession rest on its oars in these cases and ~ DEAR DR. BUNTING- ~ If individuals in our ranks are foolish enough gather it few statistics before authorizing the to make such claims-and I don't know one of us newspapers to print flap-doodle that we might ~ I have just read your article in ~ who does-then the A. O. A. officials who ar later have to be very much ashamed of. If we ~ "Osteopathic Heal th" for ~ range these programs ought to see that no oppor are still experimenting-and from the best lmow ¢ August entitled, "Do You Know e tunity is afforded for individuals or newspa]Jcrs, ledge I can glean we as a profession are hardly ~ ~ by inferences, to make preposterous claims for the yet well into the experimental stage of combil'ing Why Osteopathy Cures," and I profession that may bring ridicule upon us. our own "preparatory treatment" with this ~ think it is decidedly the most ~ Then t!lere is the po~sibility of a later reckon straight Lorenz operation-then let us do it in e unique and convincing expla- ¢ ing that we- may yet have to make for this case. secret, as becomes the physician not sure of his ~ nation of Osteopathy for general t. What if after six months it should prove one of ground, 3nd when we know all about the net re ~ distribution that I have ever ~ those "unfortunate cases". and the hip should not sults of Lorenz-plus-Still, perhaps we will be jus be found to have been properly set at all! That ~ read. For a long time I have ~ tified in performing public operations-providing certainly is within the bounds of possibility. ¢ been looking for something that e How would that make the osteopathic profession we make sure we have the ordinary facilities to ~ to my mind was ideal in force- ~ insure the comfort and safety of patients during. look after its alleged boast of doing Lorenz work ~ ~ bctt.er than Lorenz himself? All these things and immediately following the ordeal. fulness and simplicity, something e much better than I could write ¢ ~ myself; but I have never yet ~ ~ seen just what I wanted until I ~ A Change in 'Publi.s-hing ¢ read this article. To my mind • ~ it is as near ideal as it is possible ~ the Official Year 'Bool( ~ to get a definition of Osteopathy ~ HE trustees of the American Osteopl,thic sand people, many of them migratory. e for the lay reader. n Association have been dissatisfied with the We ;nust have an accurate year book for 1906, ¢ e T servJCe rendered in the Osteopathic Year fellow Osteopaths! It cannot be produced with ~ FREDERICK G. CURns, D. O. ~ Book for 1905, which was published under con out your efficient editorial collaboration. Yo:! e ¢ urg·~d ¢ e tract by a Minneapolis firm. Complaints have are to write the editor at once and report ¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢e¢ene been general on the part of members that this all errors in names, locations, etc., as well as directory is grossly inaccurate, while it was omissions which you have discovered, in the months late in making its appearance, and tl:ere present volume. Put "Directory Dep't" on yom: was widespread failure on the part of members. envelope when writing us on this business. in addition, to receive the copies due them and This new year book will appear not later lhan paid for by the association. February 1, 1906, and, if efficient editorial work Dr. Reagan Believes The :leed of an accurate, strictly up-to-date di can be gl'aranteed within a shorter time, the rectory of the profession has been felt by all of trustees of the A. O. A. and the editor alike de " Bloodless us for several years, and this want has been sire to have the directory appear by the first uay growing stronger every year. The failure of thosc of January. who had this work in hand to satisfy the de· Presidents and secretaries of all our associa Surgery" mands of the profession finally compelled new tions are hereby appointed Assistant Editol"3 of bidders to come forward and offer to do the the new year book, and are invited to begin at is the Right Phrase work next year. The award fell to The Osteo once correcting up lists of city and state Osteo pathic Publishing Company, of Chicago, publish paths to facilitate this work. Please do not wait ers of this newspaper, and the editor will at once to be solicited individually, but lend us a helping KNIGHTSTOWN, IND., AUG. 23. set about preyaring and issuing the Officinl Os hand and by the first of the year we will pT'om teopathic Directory for 1906 which, with the co ise the profession to present a directory under HE September number of operation of individual Osteopaths throughout the auspic'es of the American Osteopathic ...\sso "Osteopathic Health," is, I the land, as well as all those in official positions ciation that all will be proud of. T think, one of the best educa and the schools, he will make as nearly com Fraternally, tors I have seen, containing, as it plete, 'l.ccurate and reliable as it is possible tf) do HENRY STANHOPE BUNTING, D.O., Editor, does,"The Osteopathic Catechism." in a profession numbering more than fonr thou- 171 Washington St., Chicago. I wish to double my order. About the hardest job I have is to tell just what Osteopathy is without mak ing a long, tiresome explanation School Matter.s- 'Pre.s-ent and "0. H." is always an easy refuge in such a plight. I hand it to my inquirer in concluding a a Variety of Change.i brief talk, saying, "this little mag ·YA merger arrangement entered into at the teopatlw did not fully realize how mnch money, azine explains just what we are Denver meeting the Atlantic College of as well a~ toil, it requires to conduct a success discussing fully, and does it even B Osteopathy is no more. It will not re ful school when they entered into a contract better than I can do it myself, open ';n September, and its students are to be to move the Atlantic College from Wilkesbarre, without going into great details transferrcd to Kirksville to finish their courses. P!!-. Fjndmg themselves cramped for means either." I believe we would do This consummation was brought about at the to conduct the institution, and not being will well to adopt for our science the instance of President C. W. Proctor and Sec ing to maintain a school on anything but a explanatory term of "bloodless retary .J. \/iT. Banning, of Buffalo, who succeed thoroughly creditable basis, they preferred to surgery." That tells much about ed in enlisting the cooperation of Dr. Charles close its career, rather than see it deteriorate. our. system without inculcating E. Still and Secretary Warren E. Hamilton, of The '.e:tchErs and officers are all identified with any errors that have to be over Kirksville, Mo., to take over the Buffalo insti private practices in Buffalo, and their conclu come later. tutIon and complete the course due its students sion is no surprise to those who have been Fraternally yours, at terms satisfactory to those who have com on the tnside of the school situation the past prised the Atlantic institution. two .yenrs. THOMAS EDGAR REAGAN. The truth of the situation is that the offi Another circumstance which helped to pre cers and teachers in the Atlantic College of Os-' cipitate this action is that the medical men of Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO
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New Yark have shifted the attack upon Os est on thiR investment, as well as having taxes teopathy to the Board of Regents, which, under and insurance maintained, giving the college the the university Jaw of the state of ew York, option of buying the property at the actual pur has the power to pass upon all medical colleges, chase price any time it may get the money. and ay whether .01' not they come up to the W'ork will begin by advanced students in the The American School legal requirements. The Board of Regents had new instit.ution eptember 4. The Iowa news but recently served notice on the Atlantic Col papers say that Dr. C. W. Johnson, of Boone, OF lege that it was not legally incorporated un Iowa, has been selected for the chair of ob der the ew York laws, and had granted it stetrics. The new institution has issued a col diplomas to about twenty graduates last corn· lege bulletin called "To·day in Osteopathy." mencement illegally. An attack was begun in the courts upon technicalities, which the busy Final Line Vp at the "Pacific College practitiollf.rs behind the institution were not The final transfer of Colonel A. B. Shaw, Dr. Osteopathy disposed t,) take the time and trouble and money H. W. Fcrbes and Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Spencer necessary to fight. Secretary J. W. Banning from Des Moines to the Pacific College of 0 was arrested August 4 at the instance of the teopathy has finally come about, but not in Erie County Medical Society for an alleged mis any degree in the manner at first heralded by demeanor in conducting a medical college not trumpet a~ a sort of "bolting" down of the KIRKSVILLE regularly chartered, and the outcome of his case western school whole by the Iowa contingent. is yet in doubt. The Colonel Shaw party did not buy four·fifths MISSOURI ~tock The assistant district attorney claims that of the for $40,000, as given out, nor at the certificate filed in the office of the ccretary any othpr price. Indeed, the Iowans did not of state by the Atlantic College when i~ reo buy a controlling interest, or any interest what ever, it appears, but after a good deal of bluff DR. A. T. STILL movcd from another state is insufficient to {'om· Founder 01 the Science •••• President ply with the university law of the state. Dr and bluster, and finding a directorate at Los Hillllling was released in bonds of $1,000 for Angeles that could not be stampeded, they were content tl' tie up their services for three' years a hearing August 31st. on a commission basis, their tenure of office de The action of the A. S. O. people in aboorb pendiug upon satisfaction being felt by the old in'" the Atlantic College of Osteopahty is not, school authorities meanwhile. th~refore in the line of forming a trust in Os There waf; considerable opera bouffe in the deal The largest and foremost Osteopathic teopathic' education, but was plainly a friendly before this adjustment was arrived at. A College in the world. Twelve years of aecommoch:.tion to our busy Buffalo Osteopaths catalogne was i ued from Des Moines about by way of saving them the annoyance of sudain six weeks ago purporting to be the tenth an successful school work. Number of in~titutioil ing an without adeqnate funds already nual catalogue of the Pacific College of Os students exceeds seven hundred. This embroiled in costly litigation. It likewise is teopathy, for which the college does not stand, a move by the parent college to keep up the and which wa promptly superseded by the regu institution teaches genuine Osteopa tandarus of Osteopathic college work. This lar catalogue issued by the College with the au· thy-no adjuncts. denouement is also in harmony with a predic thority of the trustee. Of course this st.ruck lion ma.de in "The O. P." over a year ago that outsiders as being a bit funny, to say the least. one or more of the eastern schools would ere "Colonel Shaw and his friends have not bought. long consolidate with the parent college. out the Pacific School, and are not in control of it," said Dr. Clement A. Whiting, chairman of Southern School LoS' .Not "Dead the faculty, "and will not be in control of it. Teaching facilities unexcelled. Thor When President R. ,Y. Bowling, of the oath ViTe believe they are goed, hard workers, sincere oughly equipped laboratories in all crn School of Osteopathy, Franklin, Kentucky, and capable, and upon their urgent request we sold out his interest in tnat institution to the have taken them in and made a place for them. departments. Clinical advantages un projectors of the new Still College at Des Moines, We will give them every opportunity and en limited. Faculty composed of seven and made a contract transferring his services couragement to do good work, and hope that and such students as he could carry to the their commg to us will be fraught with much teen able and experienced instructors Des Moines institution, it was commonly sup good to Osteopathic education and to our in who devote their full time to teaching. posed that our southern institution was offi stitution. It can be said emphatically, however, cially dead. Such proves not to be the case that the stockholders and faculty will not stand Anatomy taught in every term-three liot yet, at any rate, and from what was said for commercializing the Pacific College, .and it professors in charge of this depart at the Dc-nver meeting by Dr. Collier and others must be generally understood that the institu who remain behind' the school, it is not only tion has not changed hands or undergone any ment. Special attention given to dis reorgamzed, reincorporated, and very much aiive, revolutionary changes." section and to the study of anatomy but in better shape than before. The towns Dr. \"iTm. R. Laughlin, for seven years pro people rallied as they had never seen the ne fessor of anatomy at the A. S. 0., has accepted In general. New $25,000 hospital cessity of doing before when they found the the chair of anatomy at the Pacific College. for the use of the school will be com school about to leave, and a fund of $10,000 was pleted by September 1st, 1905. subscnbed. Hon W. J. Gooch, the business Amon/l Tho.u }\lot 'P,.e.sent manager, is said to be a hustler, and the stu Some familiar faces and strong voices were dents and alumni are said to be determined to missed hom the Denver meeting. Dr. C. M. Tur make the school live and prosper. Dr. J. Earle ner Hulett, who has become one of our institu Collier is spoken of to succeed Dr. Bowling. W. tions, ';0 to speak, was absent, owing to the J. Gooch, Gerald T. Finn, W. H. Bryan and sickness of his wife. Dr. Charles Hazzard had ct>urse of study covers a period of B. F. Ga,dner are the main incorporators, and not ret:lrned from a trip to Panama, whither he three years of nine months each. the capital stock is $10,000. Everybody speaks went as the physician of a high government offi of Dr. Bowling's departure as a great loss to the cial. Dr. and Mrs. idney A. Ellis are travel· Next term opens September 4, 1905. college, but say that his going caused a reawak ing in Europe. Dr. and Mrs. Achorn, of Boston, ening of support which leaves the institution and Dr. and Mrs. Whitcomb, of Br.ooklyn, were in even a better position than before. not present this year. Dr. Melvin, of Chicago, Still College 'BuyoS Old "Property was detained at the last minute. Dr. R. H. Gravett, of Piqua, Ohio, another trustee, was s has been expected for some time, the back not on hand. Neither were Dr. Wilfrecl L. Write for catalogue, "Journal of Os crs of the new Still College of Osteopathy at Des Harris, Walter J. Novinger, M. W. Pressly, O. J. teopathy," or any information. Ad Moines have finally purchased the property for Snyder and a lot of others from the far east. ll1erly lJelonging to the S. S. Still College and In Still, the west was well represented, the attend dress ======firmary oi Osteopathy in Locust street, Des ance was excellen t, and, to make up for the fa Moines. The A. S. O. people who recently ac miliar faces not there; all were plea ed to see quired the property by purchase offered it for new fac~ a.nd to feel the impetus of much uew American School sale at a bargain price to the new college hack blood in the organization. New workers are ers more than once, and it had begun to look coming into the organization right along, and it ~ as if it would go begging for a buyer. How is the best sign of the future for the A. O. A. of Osteopathy ever, the capitalist, Mr. F.· M. Hubbell, one of that new recruits take hold of association affairs the backers of the Thompson-Carpenter institu so easily, while the old and tried 'deck hands" tion, rallied about August 12th and paid $25,000 hang on and continue to render substantial ser· KIIlKSVILLE MISSOURI for the property. He expects to derive as vices for which experience and loyalty have well rental from the new college a fair rate of inter- fitted them to perform. .. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO
rUE OSTEOPATIHe PHYSICIAN 7 'Prodram a-s it wa-s Enacted The MassaChusett~1 at the 1JenetJer Meetind HERE were some modifications in the IJro mingham, Ala. Discussion led by Dr. Lena Creswell, San DI-ego·, Cal. College of Osteopathy gram at the Denver meeting as the sam€' Business-Reports of officers and trustees. T was announced, owing to the absence of Paper, "The Non-Manipulative Part of Osteo- BOSTON some who were to take part and the necessity pathic Therapeutics"-Dr. Clara L. Todson, ml which developed of telescoping and inverting oth gin, Ill_ E8TABLI8HED 1897 INCORPORATED 1898 Address by President Carl P. McConnell, of Member of the Associa.ted Colleges of Osteopathy. er features, while a few were omitted altogether Chicago. The present course of study consists 'We are beginning to learn that it is a mistake to TUESDAY. P. M. OUTING. frame up such crowded programs at our profes Excur·sion on the "Seeing Denver" cars. The of THREE YEARS OF NINE MONTHS convention was photographed on returning in EACH (no option). sional meetings and we predict that the Denver front of the capitol. The THREE YEAR COURSE was meeting will be the last where it will be at WEDNmSDAY, AUGUST 10. 9:00 a. m. Paper, "The Practical Conduct oC inaugurated September, 1902. Next tempted te discuss so many subjects. Fbwer subjects, better discussed, with more attenllon Contagious Cases"-Dr. Frederi.ck H. Williams, term opens September II, 1905. Lansing, Mich. Read by Dr. E. W. Culley, of No mid-year class. No student ad to clinics and the free debating of professional Flint, Mich. Di8cusslon led by Dr. H. A. Bur mitted except on acceptance of appli issues ~uch as legislation, education, ethics and ton, Denver, Col. associati9n-building would interest the mem~Jers Clinics. cation. Gynecology-Dr. Jennie B. Spencer, Des The individt:al instruction to students, more and, we believe, prove more profitable. Moines, Ia. Discussion led by Dr. Charles E. a YEAR of clinical demonstration and In line with this idea several Oseopaths are Fleck, Orange, N, J. practice, Osteopathic and Surgical, the recommending that the papers prepared be Business. printed in one volume each year, while the As Paper and Demonstration- new Osteopathic Dispensary located in (a) Technique for 'reductlon of the different the north end, and the dissection priv sociation Journal be used for other papers 3Jld forms of dislocation of the h'lp. ileges, make the course ideal. matter nol· heard at the annual meetings. it few (b) Reduction of a dislocated hip-actual even advoca te that the papers prepared for the case-Dr. Charles E. Stili, Kirksville, Mo. Dis To TWO YEAR GRADUATES wish cussion led by Dr. Herbert Bernard, Detroit, ing extended work, a residence in national meeting be so printed without even be Mich. BOSTON of a year, with its numerous ing read before the meeting, on the theory that WEDNESDAY P. M. OUTING. Hospital opportunities, and the excep other fo-called "live" discussions and abundant Trip over the Moffat Scenic railway to the top clinics would entertain the profession better and of the Continental DIVide, where the party was tional Osteopathic Clinical Practice af again photographed. forded by the College, will be of untold afford them more profit, since the "heavy" dis THURSDAY AUGUST 17. value. A year's experience in our clinic cussions could then be read at horne quietly 9: 00 a. m. Paper, "Emergencies at Childbirth" is REAL PRACTICE. throughout the year and be given more minute -Dr. Jennie B. Spencer, Des Moines, Ia. Prize essay awarded to Dr. A. L. Evans, of Tuition $150.00 per annum, including attention! Chattanooga. dissection, in regular three year course. However that might be, we have undoubtdly Clinics- Write for Application Blank, Catalog, passed the climax of too prolific programs, and (a) Hemophilia-Dr. W. H. Cobble, Fl-emont, with next year's meeting at Put-in-Bay will Neb. Discussion led by Dr. H. E. Penland, College Journal and information to . Eugene Ore. doubtless inaugurate a change in the direction of (b) Empyema-Dr. Daln L. Tasker, of Los Massachusetts College of Osteopathy conciseness. It would really have required two Angeles. (c) InCantile Paralysis-Dr. William Horace 688 Huntington Ave., Cor. Vancouver St· extra days to have carried out the program as originally scheduled for the Denver meeting. Ivie, San Francisco, Cal. Discussion ied by BOSTON, MASS. Dr. Oliver Van Dyne', Utica, N. Y. The program as rendered was full of interesting Business-Election of officers; fixing place of things, nct.withstanding, and the necessary P,llTy next meeting-. I to pass along over t.he ground was the chief regret Paper and demonstration, "An Osteopathic Modification or the Lorenz Operatlon"-Dr. H. felt by ~hc membership. This WliS the program W. Forbes, Des Moines, Ia. Discus·sion, Dr. J. as carried out by the ninth annual meetin.! of ErIe Collier, Nashville, Tenn. . the Americ'an Osteopathic Association at Den-ver, THURSDAY P_ M. OUTING. ===='THE==== August 14-19, 1905: Trip to Georgetown. Loop over the Colorado & Southern. MONDAY. AUGUST 14. FRIDAY AUGUST 18. 8;00 jl. m. Call to order. Opening remarks by 9;00 a. m. Paper. "The Future of Osteopathic Pacific College the president, Dr. C. P. McConnell, Chicago, Ill. Educatlon"-Dr. J. S. White, Pasadena, Cal. Invocation-Rev.. Flournoy Payne. Discussion led by Dr. W. E. Buehler, Chicago, Address oC Welcome-Hon. Robert Speer, may- Ill. or or Denver. Paper and demonstration, "Osteopathic and of Osteopathy Response-President McConnell. Physical Examination of a Case ·or Pulmonary (INCORPORATED) Address by Dr. A. T. Still, Kirksvilie, Mo. '\'uberculosl's"-Dr. N. A. Bolles, Denver, Col. Welcome of Colorado Osteopathic Society-Dr. Business-Installation of officers. LOS ANGELES. CALIFOR.NIA Nethe Hubbard Bolles. Clinics. Response-Dr. Paul M. Peck, San Antonio, (c) Subluxatlons of Innominate-Dr. Ernest. Member of A880ciated Colleges of Osteopathy. rrex. C. Bond, M,ontezuma, Ia. Discussion led by Established 18ge;. Music. Dr. Etizabeth Broach, Atlanta, Ga. Informal reception. Paper and demonstration. "Physical Exami TUESDAY, AUGUST 15. nation or a Case oC Valvular Lesion; the Diag THREE YEARS' COURSE 'OF STUDY 9:00 a. m. Paper; "Are the Osteopaths to be nosis of Valvular Lesions"-Dr. Robert D. Em Swa;llowed Up?"-Dr. J. T. Bass, Denver, Col. ery, Los Angeles, Cal. Discussion led by Dr. J. Paper and demonstration, "Tubercular Knee." C. Rule, Stockton, Cal. The Pacific College of Osteopathy has long -Dr. Frank P. Young, KIrksville, Mo. Final adjournment. stood for thorough professional training and Clinics- FRIDAY P. M. OUTING. this policy will be continued in the future. (a) Spinal Men'lngitls-Dr. A. L. McKenzie, Visit to the mint. smelters, etc. New college building thoroughly modern in Kansas City, Mo. Di,scussion led by Dr. C. B. SATURDAY, AUGUST 18. Atzen, Omaha. Neb. All flay trip aro,und the famous "Georgetown every respect. (b) Tubercular Hip-Dr. P. H. Woodall, Bir- Loop." . Well Equipped Chemical, Physiological, Histological, Bacteriological and Anatomical Laboratories. Tho-se Who Were 'Pre-sent at Clinical Advantages Unsurpassed. Work Throughout Based Upon Laboratory the 'Bid 1Jen-uer Meetind Methods. IGN[NG the roster at the national meetings Dr. Mary B. Cornelius, Carthage, Mo. Faculty Composed of Specialists in Their Dr. Annie Ingles Peters, Kansas City Mo. of the American Osteopathic Association has Dr. John Fowlie, Kan~as City, Mo.' Several Lines, Who Sbecome one of the features of this an'lUal Dr. K. Virginia Hogsetle, Butle, Mont. Have Had Wide Experience in Teaching. gathcring of the osteopathic family. Most e,rery Dr. A. L. Evans, Chattanooga, 'l'enn. The Required Course of Study Fits the one przsent this year at1;.ended to that solcmn Dr W. Miles Williams, Nashville, Tenn. duty. A few even forgot arid signed twice. And, Dr: J. D. Cunningham, Bloomington, Ill. Student for Practice in Any State in Mrs. J. D. Cunningham, Bloomington, Ill. Which Osteopathy is Legalized. unfortunat.ely, as usual, some who were' there Dr. WIIrlam L. Link, Knoxville, Tenn. forgot to sign at all. The list as publisher! con William R. Dobbyn, Ph. D., Minneapolis, Excellent Opportunities Are Offered for Post tains 340 names, and if all who were in attend Minn. Graduate Work. ance had been included it is certain that the Dr. H. A. Roark, Boston, Mass. Dr. Carrie A. Bennett, Joliet, Ill. roster would have exceeded 350 names. Those ~ Dr. H. D. Craig, Harrisonville, Mo. For catalog or further information address signing were: Dr. E. C. Link. Kirksville, Mo. C. A. WHITING, Se. D., D. O. ~Dr. A. T. Still, Kirksville, Mo. rs. E. C. Link. KirksV'ille, Mo. Chairman of the Faculty Dr. A. L. McKenzie, Kansas Cily, Mo. Dr. A. G. Hlldreth, St. Louis. Mo. Dr. Lou May Noland, Springfield. Mo. rs. A. G. Hildreth, St. Louis, Mo. Dr. Harriet Crawford, Kansas City, Mo. Miss Ina Hlldret.h. St. Louis Mo. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO
8 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Dr. G. P. Jones, Watertown, S. D. Mrs. M. K. Westendrof, Denver, Col. Dr. Thomas L. Ray, Fort Worth, Tex. Dr. Edythe F. Ashmore, Detl"{lit, Mich. Dr. C. H. Burton, Denver, Col; Mrs. Thomas L. Ray, Fort Worth, Tex. Dr. E. R. Booth, Cincinnati, O. Dr. Amy R. Foote, Denver, Col. Dr. Genie Summers, Colorado Springs, Cool. r. A. D. Glascock, Owosso, Mich. Dr. W. Frank Bates, Ft. Collins, Col. Dr. John W. Shearer, AbIlene, Kan. Dr. L. H. McCartney, Hoxie, Kan. Dr. Henry Stanhope Bunting, Chicago, Ill. Dr. Bertha Hllton, Denver, Col. Mr. T. Morris. Columbus, O. Mrs. Henry Stanhope Bunting, ChJlcago, Ill. Dr. C. E. Taylor, Grand Junction, Col. Dr. George Still, Kirksville, Mo. Mrs. Chrissie, S. Bunting, Kansas City, Mo. Dr. S. E. Morse, Longmont, Col. Dr. C. H. Hoffman, K>irksville, Mo. Mrs. H. D. C'-'Van Amus, Grand Rapids, Mich. Dr. T. P. Weir, Winterset, la. r. Charles E. Still, Kirksville. Dr. Charles Cornelius, Carthage, Mo. Dr. A. D. Ray, Cleburne, Tex. rs. Charles E. Still, Kirksville, Mo. """'-'Dr. W-Illiam R. Laughlin, Kirksville, Mo. Dr. W. A. Sanders, Denver, Col. r. Hezzle Carter Purdum Moore, La Grande. Mrs. W. R. Laughlin, KirksviUe, Mo. Dr. Maude Sanders, Denver, Col. Dr. Frederick E. Moore, I,a Grande, Ore. Mr. H. W. Dobbyn, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. Edith R. Dlckson, Canyon City, Col. Dr. Jessie H. Willard, Chicago, Ill. Dr. J. L. Shorey, Marquette, Mich. Dr. J. Homer Dic~son, Canyon City, Col. Dr. Jenny B. Neal, Cleveland, O. Dr. B. O. Burton, Shenandoah, la. Dr. William Hartford, Champaign, Ill. -'Dr. Frank p. Young, Kirksville, Mo. Dr. R'obert D. Emery, Los Angeles, Cal. Dr. E. Agnes Goble, Denver, CoL Dr. Herbert Bernard, Detroit, Mich. Dr. W. H. Johnston, Ft. Wayne, Ind. -nr. WIUlam B. Ervin, Milledgeville, Ga. Dr. Joseph H. Sullivan, Chicago, Ill. Dr. J. M. Moss, AShland, Neb. Dr. Jessie L. Cathaw, Albion, la. Mr. Raymond H. Sullivan, Ch
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The fourth annual competition is hereby for W;nner~ of the 1905 mally ar;nounced as open to all comers, and in our next issue we will announce the list of E~~ay Conte~t prizes which are to be awarded at the Put-in 'Pr;ze Bay meeting next summer. Among these WING to failure to receive complet!' re Se- IV THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN After the close of the convenlion the edltor School in MalpractIce Suit THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN of "The O. 1'." was tendered a banquet at the Fred \\'illiams, 40 Pooley Place, .Buffalo, BUlt The Organ of News ancl Opinion for the Adams h.l' the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Alumni As cd lhe Atlantic College of Osteopathy for $10,000 Profession. sociatiorl, of Denver. Having established the for alleged malpractice while under treatment first ch~pter of his college fraternity in Colorado for hip dIsease. Case was settled out of Court Published on the 15th of every month by The OSTEOPATHIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, 603, No, 171 Washington at the ·;talc university in 1890, this is a pleasant for $100. Street, Chicago. little formality which always awaits him when he visits that city. Fifty were present, including Too Anxiou.s HENRY STANHOPE BUNTING, A. B., D. 0., M. D. l'epresenlntlYes from the chapters at the State Uni\'ersL~r, Timkins-I hate that fellow l'lantem. lIe IS President and Manager. Denver University and Ihe Colorado talki~g 'chool of Mines. always shop." Dr. Andrew Taylor Still ran a narrow risk Simkins-Plantem, the undertaker? SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. 50 CENTS A YEAR. Timkins-Ye. Every time I meet him he ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. of being injured on his way to Denver, as his train was in a smash-up in Kansas. He sus asks after my health. Entered at the Chicago Post Office as matter of the second tained a neck strain only, which, however, made class. everybody solicitous for a day or two. Ii did 'Dr. 'Paul 'Put.s the 1J/ame not deter "Pap" from making a talk at the My practice was never so good before. It IS VOL. VIII. CHICAGO, AUGUST, 1905. No.3 opening session, but induced him to leave for double what it was at this time last year md home before the meeting ended. While m Den I "blame" Osteopathic Health in large m~sure ver he was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Bolles. for it. It has paid me well lo use it liberally FairnessI FreedomI FearlessnessI Upon taking his departure suddenly he sent word and I shall keep right oll.-Dr. Arthur II. Paul' to the convention that he was "feeling a good Hl'i(lgeport, Connecticut. ' .. deal likc Leing a homeopath since lhe shake-up," and he l\uessed he "would go home to rna." EDITORIAL. l.s It Another 1Juilding? Dr "'anen Hamilton, secretary of the A. ::;. "Hew to the line, lit chip. 0 ..' .was in Quincy July 28th, says the Qu;ney fall where they will," \\ lug, conferrmg with architects relalive to a proposed $40,000 addition to the college build Con-cJent;on Gossip mg. Is thIS another lJuilding, or the new no pilal being made larger than at firsl planned? Dr. Bc.sie Duffield, of Nashville, 1'enncs ee, Jid the Yellowstone after the Denver meeting. Football Team Under O.steopathlc Care Dr. J. 'V. Banning didn't look like a man out on bonds as he trod the tile floors of the Brown John Chalmers, coach of the Iowa niver- sit.I' football team this year, has introduced a Palace. novelty mto training hi men by inducing lhe Dr. and Mr . K. 'V. Kaufman and daughter ~niversity authorilies lo engage an 0 ·teopatb, went on to the l'ortland fair and other points it IS Said, who will de\'ole his cntire time ou the coast after the convention. "rounding" the players into shape. Mudl hope Dr. Harry P. 'Yhitcomb did the cOl1\'ention is placed 'm the result. returning from California, where he has so journed for six months, to his Vermont hOlue. Eddyite.s Win Victory Dr. C. 'V. YOllng set a new record for moun The county judge of "'Vestchester county, ew tain climbing in bare feet when on the Moffat York, has given a decision quashing indictmen~s wad excursion. He is a sort of back-to-nature for manslaughter against three well-known man, you kno\v. Eddyites who permitted a child to die of diph "'hen going through so many tunnels on one of theria without assistance. The case has been our Denver side trips, Dr. N. Alden Bolles ven fought for three years in the courts and is tured the remark that Osteopathy had never a big victory for that sect. ' been run in the ground so much before. Dr. F. P. Yonng fell a victim to altitude upon Flr.st Con'();c,'ion in Mi.s..rour; reaching Denver, and, developing a fever and other annoying symptoms, left for home without II. H. Moniss, of Marshall, Mo., pleaded waiting fcr the adjournment of the convention. gUIlty July 25 to practicing Osteopathy without Dr. ,md Mrs. George M. Laughlin and Dr. a licen 'e, and was fined $50.00, which is the and Mra·. E. C. Link, of Kirksville, formed a first case lo be pushed under the new Osleop party which toured Yellowstone Park and vis athi? stalute. Secretary J. H. Cren haw, of St. ited the Pcrtland exhibition before reaching the LOUIS, pushed the .prosecution. Morriss is not convention. a graduate, and has no license. Mis wife, Mro • Marie V. Morriss, is licensed, however, ''let Dr. Ellen Barret Ligon and Mrs. Ralph G. Mo 'siss was practicing with her at Marshall. Richard, of Mobile, went up Pike's Peak and 'Dr. Car~ 'P, McConnell. 'Retiring 'Pre.sident of continued their journey westward to various the Am~r;con O.steopothic A.sJociation Oregon and Washington points before returning True Zeigler Luct, outh. Good Luct, Motto Dr. L. C. H. E. Zeigler, self-styled an Osteo Dr. and Mrs. Henry Stanhope Bunting were ac Throwaway the pills; path, but not from one of our recognized compaDl-,ld to Denver by their mothers, Mrs. Osteopathy cures ills! schools, will be compelled to wait several years, Chrissie S. Bunting, of Kansas City, and Mrs. -Motto of Dr. D. B. Fordyce, Lacona, Iowa. anyway, bcfore he can collect the $10,000 givl'u H. D. G. Van Asmus, of Grand Rapids, Mich. him in the probate court for his services while The party spent two weeks visiting at Manitou Cannot 'Do Without It in the employ of Mrs. Harriet G. McVicker. prings and adjacent points, taking the various Kindly send by express 500 copies of your Au· The Dlinois Trust and Savings bank, executor cenic tripa in eastern Colorado. gust "0. n." I find I cannot get along without of the will of Mrs. McVicker, has appealed from "0. H .."-Dr. J. J. Buck_hanan, St. Louis, Mo. The Denver meeting was festive ,vith three the decision of the probate court to the cir bridal couples in' attendance: Dr. and Mrs. J. C. cuit court, and at least three years will pass, Rule, ·)f Stockton, California, who were mar Hi.s Idea it IS said, before theJ:e can be a decision in the ried just before the meeting at the bride's home First Magazine Editor-Why do you have so casco Dixon, Illinois, and Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Cunning: many blood medicine ads in your periodical? ham, of Bloomington, Illinois, who were married Second Magazine Editor-To improve its 'Jlr College Alumni 1Janquet in Denver a day or two before the conn~r,tion culation.-San Francisco Call. Thc alumni of the American College of 0; opened, and Dr. and Mrs..J. H. Hook, of Fruita, tcopalhic Mcdicine and Surgery, of Chicago, gave Col., also newly wed; yet, strangely enough JO- Maf(e.s a 'Difference-Doe.sn't It? an claboratc and enjoyable banquet June 27, al 1J0dy threw any rice, either! ' . Irate Creditor-Now, look here, I waul Illy tended by fifty members and friends. The Nobody had a better time at Denver IhalJ Mrs. money. tables were beautifully decorated, the music W1S Ambrose P. I'Ebbs, of Salt Lake City, who, with Impud'omt Debtor - 0, that's all right; 1 charming, and everyone expressed themselves her ltttle boy, accompanied Dr. Hibbs. Mrs. thought .perhaps you wanted mine. as having a delightful time. Toasts were Hibbs' old home being Kirksville, it is easy to given as follows: "Osteopathic Legislation." understand how many happy reunions she' en 1Jact, Journal of O.steopathy Wanted Dr. David Littlejohn; "Our Alumni," Dr. C. E. joyed. "Bishop" Hibbs himself-as his Mor Dr. George H. Tuttle, 686 Congress St., .l:'Ort CushJ!lan; "Osteopathic Journalism," Dr. Wil mon patients npw call him-looks fine after his land, Maine, wants a Journal of Osteopathy for liam Hartford; "Political Economy and Oste court and legislative battles, and is truly our July, 1902, to complete his file. Who can ac· opathy," Dr. C. L. Logan, and a dramatic rearl.- in "big man" Utah, commodate him? [Continued to Page 12, Col. 1.] Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 11 mumbling to himself-"that's ,the question," of O.steopathic 'Pioneer.s And between times he repeated an extract from Gallery the constitution of the United States vouch· 'Dr. John T. 'Bau-"The O.steopathic ventor of Troy's wooden horse. Failing to safing everyone, save murderers, wayfarers and Tartar" get any evidence that the Osteopaths used drug safe-blowers, ''life, liberty and the pursuit of in the treatment of their cases, the astute Dr. happiness." R. JOH~ T. BASS, of Denver, the new Van foisted up a plot by which Dr. John T. This particular court fight lasted six days. first vice president of the American Os Bass was caught red-handed in the act of using Trial was by jury. The M. D.'s of Oolorado were Dteopathic Association, has won for himself a stethoscope! Yes, sir, he was-actually listen- . behind the defendants. Dr. John T. Bass and in medical court and legislative circles in Ooio ing to the beat of a human heart through a the stubborn facts he had carefully collected tc rado the n~me of "the Osteopathic tartar." Tha~ hollow tube! The man who owned the heart . inc 'iminate the state board and S. D; Van tille is applied to him in recognition of the fact was produced in court to prove the' infringe Me er, M. D., stood before the defendants all lhat he is a "hit-back fighter," who has never ment on medical prerogatives and lese majesty through that stormy week. Dr. Bass was suing yet been defeated, either in open combat. or against the "regular's" statutes! Dr. Bass was ar for a money balm to heal his wounded feelings. when ambushed.. Dr. Bass also bears a umque rested. That was in September, 1902. Judge He had quit fighting, merely to score points and distinction among all those Osteopathic lambs Oarpenter was a man of fine humor. Dr. Bass win glory. He had learned that it costs money who have been led into court for slaughter by was acquitted, and again a Oolorado court af to be selected as the target for medical humor, pitiless M. D.'s. He has a penver cou.rt decl firmed that the practice of Osteopathy was not and while not by nature extortionate, he wanted sion standing in his favor, whIch will ent~t~e him the practice of medicine. some of the money back that he had been -com one day to draw down about $700 of dIvIdends Second blood for John T. Second knock-down pelled to turn loose. Also he wanted a salary for his past trou.bles.. .Surely> the A. O. A, for Van Meter. Third deci.sion favorable to for the time he had been forced to give up made no mistake m pICkmg thI~ doughty cham Osteopathy in Oolorado. while taming Van Meter and his associates. He pion of Osteopathic.l!berty fo~ hIgh office, and It Dr. Bass had his dander up now, and he con thought about $10,000 would make him feel all is only just recogmtIOn of hIS labors as one of cluded he would be let alone, or find out if a right. our pioneers who does things. life devoted to doing good was worth living. The jury found for the plaintiff, as might be Any sketch of the affairs of Dr. Bass. as a expected, and awarded Dr. Bass damages of conlroversialist would not be complete WIthout $700. including his estimable wife, for it happens that Thus ended lhe fourth lesson to our oppressors, Dr. Elizabeth O. Bass was the first "fighting and there was entered upon record a fourth vic Osteopalh" who developed in the Bass family. tory for Osteopathy in the state of Oolorado. This was perhaps more luck than chOIce, bul It Of course Van Meter 1'1, al. took an appeal came about that when the medical men of 0010 to the Oolorado Oourt of Appeals, where th!lY rado began to seek trouble with the Osteopaths are to give one last expiring gasp trying "ttl in 1901 it was Mrs. Bass who found herself se drive our practitioners from the state," and re lected as the first storm center. On SUIng a frain from giving up any of their own cash. former patient before a justice of the ~eace to This case has not been called yet, but the collect a bill for treatments, the M. D. s mter Oolorado Osteopaths have full faith in the re fcred by working Judge Toney of Kentucky's sulls, and all expect the verdict to record the "decision" 101,0 the evidence WIthout apprlRmg fifth official victory for Osteopathy in the 0010' his local honor that the same decision had b('en orado courts. promptly undone, so the verdict was aga}~st the You hardly realized before that Dr. Bass was Osteopath. The case. was .appealed. Ihe ue such a good fighter-did you? If John only fendant patient lost his motIon for nonsUIt; . but hadn't used that stethoscope-oh, mammal-his upon testifying that Mrs. Bass had preSCrIbed record would have been without blemish! But drugs-which the Osteopath vehemently demed we all make our mistakes! So does "Silly" the right to collect the fee was denied by the D. Van Meter, rex of the regulars for the rIm magistrate. rock regIOn. But he is going to quit one day. This first battle of the Basses, while eeming! You don't think $700 are to be picked up evely technically, a defeat, was really a fine vJdory, day, do you? since a first-ra te court ruling was secured m the John T. Bass, D.O., is a product of the course of the case to the effect that Oste~pathy Bolles Institute of Osteopathy, afterward the was already a recognized school ~f heal10g III Oolorado Oollege of Osteopathy, class of 1901. Oolorado-and that principle was lmmeasurably Mrs. Bass is the elder Osteopath, as well as fight of greater moment than the fee in dispute. er, although, of course, a much younger person, The Oolorado State Board of Medical Exam having graduated at the same college two years iners became wrathy at this juncture, and ~e earlier. Dr. John T. Bass became a member of cided to wipe Osteopathy and the Bass famIly the faculty in eptember, 1901, and for two off' the map. All the eight Osteopaths 10 years was demonstrator of Osteopathic manipula practice in Oolorado ,~~re prom'p~ly ar:ested o~ tions. He took the post graduate couse of the the grounds of practIC10g medlcme WIthout II A. S. O. in 1904. He has been president of the census. Then our "Uncle John '1'." took a hand in 7),.. John .. Tartar" 1Jo.s..r. Fir.st Vice- "Preai Denver Osetopathic Society.. and is now presi affairs and he has been whipping the M. D.'s dent of the Amer,can OJteopathic A.s.sociation dent of the Oolorado Osteopathic Association. for their presumption ever since. Dr. Bass is somewhat of a gentleman agri While six of the eight Osteopaths effected com He inquired of Dr. Van Meter if the Medical culturist in his wayside proclivities, having promises of their cases, Doctors John T. and Board would now play quits. The high priest pitched hay on a farm in boyhood and served Elizabeth Bass scorned "to be let off easy," or of the Oolorado "regulars" swelled up about in later years as president of the Banner County in any other way to avoid the open settlement three notches further, and replied that the (Colorado) Agriculturay Society. He was alder of the broad issue. They appeared befo:e Judge medical board of which he was the proud cap man once at Woodland Park, Oolorado, but es Johnson in October, 1901, to defend theIr cause, stone mean I, to rearrest Bass as fast as he caped before becoming inoculated with the love whereupon the indictments were quashed, as no could swear out warrants, and that he would of politics. In disposition Dr. Bass is geIlIal specific charge had been made agamst them. arrest all the Osteopaths, until the last of the and generous, in character, loyal, strong, warm This tasle of M. D. blood in the second Osteo bunch had been run out of 'the state. hearted and true. pathic victory for the state of Oolorado is sup Then our "Uncle John" did a stubborn The Doctors Bass enjoy a splendid practice in posed to have determined Dr. John T. Bll~S thing. He got his attorneys and other sup Denver, and without intending it, or even being to 0'0 in training for the career of an OsteopathIc plicants to go on bended knee and beseech the responsible for it, are living exponents of that gladiator-at least, it would seem so to Dr. medical Herod to kindly not execute the infanr, Ohinese adage: "It pays to advertise"-thank Van Meter, of the State Board of Health, look science of Osteopathy any further, and in par to the efforts of S. D. Van Meter, M. D., who ing backward. ticular to be merciful unto a family named has used his good offices to induce them to move Upon beinO' notified that Osteopaths would Bass, that conducted a flourishing infirmary for over to Kansas! have to take" the regular medical examination, healing the sick at 1157 Broadway, Denver. and refusing to do so, Dr. Van Meter and his Letting his belt out still two more notches in fellow medical Sauls-of-Tarsus set about arrest order to give his girth the swelling that 'befit •• Jac1(" Caught jVapping ing the D. O.'s as fast as possible; .and they his professional and official dignity, Dr. Van Dear Dr. Bunting: Inclosed find the "0. gave it out that they ;yould be haule~ mto co~rt Meter then told others in turn what he meant P." subscription. Durn it all, why should you by day and by night, Just as fast as 1OformatlOn to do to Dr. John T. Bass. The evidence then quit sending us the "0. P." just because we and warrants could be secured against them. being complete, our modest champion brought forget to renew our sub? It is the only Then the now celebrated "Silly" D. Van Meter suit against Dr. Van Meter and the State place we can find out everything doing in Os executed a piece of strategy that ought to go Board of Medical Examiners for damages. fhe teopathic lines. Please send last two months' down in medICal history. Surely it puts 'lim case came up in the court of Judge Mullins. copies. Don't let it occur again.-Fraternally, in the same class of cunning ones as the in- "To be-or not to be," our Uncle John kept "Jack" Stearns, Washington, D. O. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 12 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN [Colfeae Alumni 'Banquet Continued] ings in its history. Clinics were held at the Sharpen your pencil and subscrlbe for "The [Continued from Page 10.J Springfield club. Thirty-five were in attend· Osteopathic Ph)'sician." ]71 ·Washington street, Chicago. ance, including most of the old time leaders of ing by Dr. E. M. Spates-all of which were the state. On-the other side was this inscription: loudly applauded. Officers for the ensuing yea~ It is plain you should use "Osteopathic Health"-l00 wpies a month will ~mooth the elected were: President, Dr. H. H. Fryethe; O"teopathy ;n Japan wa)- to profitable practice. Dr. J. H. Lucas) Vice President, and Dr. W. S. Karmzawa, Japan, July 24.. Hartford, Secretary and Treasurer." \Ve 'lre up in this little mountain town for a vacation during the hot weather of July :lni ConocJention ]Vew" Hade U.s Late August :it Tokyo, but as this is a favorite re This number of "The O. P." was held la\.e on sort for the foreiguers, we are not having much purpose to give the convention news. We rest. It IS very cool and delightful here. could not bear to go to press just before the You '1.re right in supposing the remittance big meeting, and give our report a whole month was to apply on Osteopathic Health. Kindly late. change next issue to this place. We could not As yet the Brown Palace has filed no claim get along without "The O. P.," either. It puts against us for damages done to piano legs and Hi""ou,.ian" Hold Annual Heetina us back into the world of Osteopathy each The Mif,F,ouri Osteopathic association, at month, and makes us forget the dreary leagues ~ Springfield, June 9th, hand one of the best meet- of sea that divide us from the profession. We expect to send in a number of votes for . Dr. A. T. Still for the Noble prize at an early . date. \Ve have made many true friends for ,<' > < Osteopathy here in Japan. I Fraternally yours, OSTEOPATHIC FINtiERS GF.RTRUDE REMINGTON, D. O. 'l'hls cut shows the only rectal dilator made upon FJ~STAL fine bric-a-brac by such youthful Osteopaths as scientific prInciples. It Is made of hard rubber, Is CRAIN, D. O. elastlc, will not rupture the tissues and the dilata PermOtnent address, 312 Tsu Kijii, care of J. may have· tried this jack-plane for its actual tion Is done so gradually tbat little or nO pain Is ex merits in carpentry. perienced by the patIent. This dilator Is used and rec M. McCalet. ommended by many of the oldest and most successful Osteopatbs In tbe field, and this little instrument Is the ...... ++++++++++++++++++++. +-++++ secret to their success in particular cases when others of the same scbool had failed. While In tbe A. S. O. I Califo,.nia Ha" Happy He"t;n' sold many ot these dilators and have since that time ~;I~l~~df~O~Yo~h~~;~oomh~~~s~::~:lrcifc~~~7~~:lu8e~ The fourth annual session of the California Osteopathic Association was a hummer. .I!'rom OSTEOPATHS ~:~l:~g:~~~~i~~Y~:~~;~~~ THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 13 When it has been said of a Book Tftat "It would not only be a good book with which a student might begin the study of medicine, but every boy and girl between the ages of I4 and 20 should read it. It deserves to become popular and sell by thousands."-Dr. J. D. B~tek, Dean of Pulto .AIedical College, Cincinnati, O. That· "Dr. Pratt has clothed dry facts in gar ments that giisten. He entertains while he educates."-Birmingl!am (Ala.) Ne1-os. That' "It instructs more in two hours than one can possibly obtain from any exist ing library in two months."- Walla Walla, WasIL Ma.s.sachu.sett.s Colfeje:'Pioneer in Three-Year now ready to meet by educating an increased That Cou,..se number in the science of Osteopathy. KE Massachusetts College of OsteopatLy, The eqUIpment of the college has been gradu "It should be adopted as a text book Boston, Mass., was one of the earliest os· ally enlarged, the corps of instructors increased, in every school and be found in every T teopathic educational institutions organized, and facilities for extending the course improved. house."-.Tanesville Daily Gazette. being founded in 1897, and is one of the seven It was the first osteopathic school to extend its Osteopathic schools at present in operation recog course to three years; it was the first to require nized by the American Osteopathic Association advanced educational qualifications for admis That and by states legalizing the practice of Osteop' sion; and is the one school at present havicg "This book should be studied by every athy. It was established in Boston, the educa· only regular three-year-course students enrolle 14 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN f>ubliJher' J 'Department History of Osteopathy The "Catechi.sm" in September AND o MANY requests have been received the past year to repeat the "Osteopathic T Catechism," which proved so popular in. Twentieth Century Still College "Osteopathic Health" in 1901, that we have complied by republishing it in our September Medical Pracfce number. It has been carefully revised and con ====OF==== densed, and beyond any question makes an ex By E. R. BOOTH, Ph. D., D. O. ceptionally happy and convincing campaign docu 603 Traction Bldg., CINCINNATI. OHIO ment. This article is a matter-of-fact every-day talk, 460 pages, including 20 pages of engrav such as is passed between the Osteopathic prac ings containing 40 cuts. titioner and his callers every day in the year. Price, cloth, $4; half morocco,$4.50. Express prepaid. Osteopathy Questions are asked which the public ask; oth ers which patients ask-some of them, too, rath er foolish, as that query so often put to us: "r. Osteopathy a cure only for diseases of the bone?"-and all are answered intelligently, point (S.C.O.l edly and "understandably," so that he who runs Still College Book Store may not only read, but comprehend satisfac- AMEDICAL STUDENTS' SUPPLY HOUSE Named in honor of the torily. ( How many people want to know "if you have Des Moines, Iowa . founder of Osteopathy. to believe in it to be benefited?" This tells :Miedical Books of all publishers at lowest them. How many would take our treatment, possible prices. We have many bargains but for understanding that it is "too rough" on our list all the time. Offers a graded three year for their constitutions! This corrects that dc course of study. lusion-nay, slander. How many women dread The BARTLETT and other the awful ordeal they imagine necessary to be OSTEOPATHIC TREATING TABLES I gone through with in being treated stark naked' Rubber Goods, Surgical Supplies, Etc. Equipped with all the This corrects that foolish idea, also. So other "The very best goods at the lowest pos vital, if also elementary, truths are made plain modern methods of teach sible prices. II A trial will convince you. to the people in this copyrighted article feom ing progressive Osteopathy. the pen of the editor. O<>O<>O THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 15 in proper channels. "Osteopathic Health" has etiquette about taking the last biscuit. Most If in doubt how to begin, take our prescript'on, made them by the thouoand in the cities and people are sensitive about taking the last copy which is 100 copies of "Osteopathic Health" hamlets of this union. It is still doing it every left. Keep plenty there. It is indeed a limit monthly on the annual contract plan. day and night of the year, and will continue no ed field that will not absorb 100 copies a ing it until the world is Osteopathic to the month, every month in the year, on such a The 'Proof of the 'Pudding core. basis. - Inclosed you will find my contract for the It is one of the chief missions of "Osteopathic Follow this plan, and you will truly say: "My next twelve months of service with "Osteo Health" that it educates the doctor's patients; patients advertise me," and likewise "hurram for pathic Health," 100 copies a month. Having makes them intelligent, convincing and uncon asteopathic Health!" tried this fonn of promotion for the past year, C)uerable missionaries for our system-and for Then there is that other plan of mailil1g them out and found that it paid, I gladly renew my their own doctor in particular; and fits them direct to the public, which has proven its suc standing order.-Dr. Mark Shrum, Lynn, Massa to "advertise" Osteopathy creditably and eth cess in hundreds of fields-but we are now only chusetts. ically and bring in new recruits. Of course the considering how good field literature enables patients get all the credit for doing the work one's patients to proselyte successfully. Do ]':l th~se cases usually, and ofttimes the maga your patients advertise you as they should? Are I.s .vour O. 'P. a Sample? zme IS forgotten. That is like praising the you using the helpful agencies offered you for More than 200 of our friends who have not straw that lifts the golden head of wheat tn practice-building? yet apprised us that they desire to be en the gleaner, while forgetting the soil, the air "When there is a harvest just ahead, it is POol' rolled as subscribers of "The O. Po" are being and the sunshllle that made the plant what it thrift to be stingy of your seed corn," wrote sent this convention number with our compli -was . Thomas Carlyle. ments-the first sample copy they have received . Nor can the D. O. tell in advance what pa for six months. We hope they will find it "n tient wJ!1 become the most valiant missionarv tertaining enough to cause them to subscribe It Doe.s 'Patient.s Good to Thin/( for drugless medicine. The way is to take n~ for it. Next issue we will present a lot o'f new patient should have a copy of chances, but edncate them all alike. If some VER'i entertaining matter including a story entitled the September "0. Ho" put into his haud will not get much interested in popular litera "Alonzo Brown, Osteopathic Vet." after the first treatment, so that he will ture, never mind. Others will. Give a g00d E vut himself en rapport with his physician, and monthly diet to them, one and all and let each huve SOille intelligent grasp of what his doctor :Bactt .Number.s- in )Vame Only a~similate according to his needs. ' is driving at. The.se E ....cellent jVumber.s of"O. H." Are StilI The way to do is to send "Osteopathi~ Do you never half despair, Brother and Sister to 1Je Ordered at Two Cent.s a Copy Health" regularly every month to one's entire Osteopaths, that some patients upon whom you DECEMBER ISSUE: All gone. li~t of former patients-keep as many as pos devote the hardest work, seem, after the ex JANUARY ISSUE: Still in stock. Two cents sible alert in their interest and active in spread penditure of your best thought and effort, to a copy. Articles: What Dr. A. T. Still Has I ng the cause of truth among their friends. Done for Women, Rheumatism, A Little Talk I,ave almost no comprehenslOII of what the rac Keep another supply on the office center table to Men, How Osteopathic Patients Are Treated tors are with which you must work, what proc Asthma, etc. ' anel teach your patients to help themselves, and esses you are slowly contrOlling, what handicaps FEBRUARY ISSUE: All gone. be sure they know that they are welcome tv MARCH ISSUE: Still In stock. Two cents a must be lifted before benefit or cure can be ·copy. Articles: Tonsilitis, Appendicits, La carry off just as many copies as they like to Gnppe, Health Hints About Diseases of Chil ~upply .expected? Isn't it discouraging? their friends. Never let the current get I"tn'thermore, do you not believe that those pa· dren, Why Most Cures Are Slow, Be Sure of cntlrel:{ exhausted. Rememher the old rnle of Credentials, No Reaction Against Osteopathy, tiellts make the most satisfactory progl'ess .who Asthma, Affections of the Voice, Constipation grasp '·the Osteopathic idea" the best, and sym and Dyspepsia. APRIL ISSUE: Still in stock. Two cents a pathize with the Osteopath in his efforts tll copy. Articles: Pain at the Coccyx Writer's SEPTEMBER Ileal '! Cramp, Stomach TrOUbles, "Broken Necks Re "THE OSTEOPATHIC CATECHISM" Then-do yom full part to help each Jlati~nt paired," Sore Spots in the Back, Letter to a being a simple expla.nation in question and answer ulI(l~l'stand tile system you practice. You Masseur, How Dr. Still Became an Osteopath, form of the things people commonly wisb to know What Elbert Hubbard Says, etc. about O~teop I thy. It is one of tbe most helpful cannot be expected to take time to lecture MAY ISSUE: Still in stock. Two cents a pieces of Osteopatbic literature ever printed. You them, in turn, about Osteopathy, nor would it copy. Articles: Breaking a Fever by Osteop cannot make a mistal 16 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 'Pe,..&onal Dr. WlIliam Homer Elmore, A. S. 0., June, Dr. Kate Child Hill and Dr. J. Leroy Near, at '05, at li3'h South Main street, Louisiana, Mo. 2121'h Center street, Berkeley, Cal. Dr. Edward Everett Beeman, of New York Dr. Mollie Rhodes, A. .S. 0., June, '05, at Dr. Mary E. Pittman, Stlll College, June, '05, cIty, spent July In the Yellowstone Park, Ore 505 NInth street, Brooklyn, New York. and Dr. W. V. Goodfellow, 513 South Maln gon and CalifornIa. Dr. Fred W. Hamilton, A. S. 0., June, '05, street, Aberdeen, S. D. Dr. Elizabeth Broach Is convalescIng after at Plattsburg, N. Y. Vi.&.&olution 'Pa,.tno?,..&hip protracted Illness at her home. 379 Washington Dr. Edna M. MacCollum, Atlantic, '04, at 226 of street, Atlanta, Ga. Wyoming avenue, Scranton, Pa. Dr. R. A. Glezen and Dr. R. B. Peebles, Dr. A. P. Kidwell is recuperating at New Dr. J. Clinton McFadden, Still -(:ollege, '05, Kalamazoo, Mich. Dr. Peebles remains at 111 Hampton, Mo., from injurie~ received by a at Waitsburg, Wash. Pratt block, and Dr. Glezen moves to 114 same kIckIng horse. Dr. Frank Edwin Dayton, Ameri,can College build'ing, taking into partnership Dr. Frances Dr. G.. S. HoiSIngton, of Pendleton, Ore., took of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, at 41 Platt. a vacatiOn of several weeks 'in the mountains South Elizabeth -street, Flat 9, Chicago. Drs. Durrett & Durrett have succeeded to the this summer. , Dr. T. 'L. Herroder, SUll College, June, '05, practl-ce of Dr, A. P. Kidwell, at 302 Central Dr. S. S. Still Is In Europe, sailing from Can at Rooms 3 and 4, Gibson building, Glens Falls, block, Pueblo, Col. ada July 6, in company with Mr. Peter Chris N. Y. Ma,.,.ied tensen, a Des MoInes student, to be gone three Dr. Ray Hamilton, at Catskill, N. Y. months. Dr. William Most, at Cheney, Wash. Dr. J. C. Rule, Stockton, Cal., to Miss Kath Drs. Spencer and Spencer, of the Pacific Col Dr. 'I'heodore Paul, at Savannah, Mo. ryn Peacock at Dixon, Ill., July 27. Dr. W. W. lege faculty, vIsited their parents at Gilboa Dr. W. E. Owen, at 11 Main street, Kingston, Blackman, Elluffton, Ind" a classmate of the Ohio, and HumboWt, Iowa, in July. ' N. Y. - groom, was best man. Dr. E. M. BI'own, of Dr. H. W. Forbes, president of the Pac"lfic Dr. C. B. Hutchinson, at Excelsior Springs, Dixon, gave the bride away. College faculty, visitEld his old home,. Kirksville Mo. . Dr. Joseph Ferguson, Fifteenth and Eighty In July and then sojourned at' Romeo, Col.' Dr. Lizzie Heberer, at CarrIngton, N. D, second street, Brooklyn, N. Y" to Miss Mabel with Cbl. A. B. Shaw until the date of the Den~ Dr, S. Ellis Wright, at 713 Washington street, McIndoe, at Brooklyn, July 24. At home after ver meeting. Marion, Ind. September 1. Dr. E. A. West, formerly of Portage, Wis., Drs. L. H. Fisher and MlIlie Rhodes, at 505 Dr. A. P. Kotmer, S. C. 0., June, '05, to Miss has had charge of the practice of Dr. J. E. Ninth street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Gisella Fischer, ,at Chicago, Ill., August 16. Dr. Hodgson at 615, 177 Hyde block, Spokane, Wash., Dr. WilHam H. Richardson has moved from A. P. Kottler will locate 'in Los Angeles, Cal., while the latter took a vacation-the first in Cleveland, Ohio, to 18 Staten Island, N. Y. for practice and will lecture on topographical over six years. Dr. Mabel Vance has moved from Kingston, anatomy in the Pacific School of Osteo-pathy. Dr. Franklin Fiske, of Portage, .Wis., wrt'tes N. Y., to 237 Main street, Oneonta, N. Y. Dr. Arthur E. Dewey to Dr, Nina Wilson, a~ that he has enlarged his offices recently and Dr. J. O. Smith, at Monroe, Wis. Montezuma, Iowa, July 5. DI's. Dewey and that the "conductor" mentioned in a rheuma Dr. E. M. Sasvil, at Huntsville, Ala. Dewey are to take up the practl.ce at AtJlantic, tism story in a recent issue of "0. H." called Dr. Addie Burgess, at Carrington, N. D. where Dr. Arthur Dewey has been located later and was cured of sciatica in two treat some time. ments. Dr. John Henry Hook, of Fruita, Col., to Miss Dr. H. J. RIchardson has taken a nice resi Chloe Wire, at Palisade, Col., July 26. At home dence for hIs practice at .Excelsior Springs, after August 20. , Mo., opposite "Excelsior Club," which he calls Dr. M. A. Mitchell to Dr. Lavonia B. King, "Osteopathic Home." It is his idea to develop HOOP-LAH! both A. S. 0., June, '05, class, and are in prac it ultimately lnto a sanatorium. tice together at 801 East Warren street, Hud Dr. George W. Goode, A. S. 0., June class Kick it again,Doetor ! ,son, N. Y. ,is practicing for the summer at Magnolia: Of course, it's some :Bo,.n Mass., a sea shore resort. Dr. C. W. Ackley, 1307 Auditorium tower, Chi body else's fault that To Dr. and Mrs. George A. Pontius, Lock your name and ad port, N. Y" August 12, a daughter, Dorothy cago, was so unfortunate as to lose his branch Jeanette. ,.. office at Morgan Park by fire recently. More dress were incorrect To Dr. and Mrs. George T. Cook, Buffalo, unfortunate still, he carried no insurance. in the last Osteo The Drs. Bowers, of Newberg, Ore. were N. Y., August 12, a son, Clarence. in the Newberg Graphic Juiy 13 with an' excel pathic Year Book, the To Dr. and Mrs, F. P. Millard, Laporte, Ind., lent two-column communication, explalning one before that and, a son, 10'h pounds. Osteopathy. per hap s, in most Vied Dr. W. H. Jones, Adrian, Mich., -spent his other lists of Osteo Mr. C. O. Markey, husband of Dr. Mary "vacation" In Chicago doing post-graduate paths that have been Markey, at Salisbury, Mo., July 17. Interment work at the National Medical College and Cook at Kirrosvllle. county hospital, as "is his custom each summer. printed! But did you Dr. George D. Wheeler and Mrs. Wheeler, of take the trouble to State :Boa,.d Item.& Melrose, Mass., spent a month's va,cation auto write the editor and The following Osteopaths took the lliinois mobiling through Maine, the White mountains give him the correction? Would the state e:>