The Osteopathic Physician February 1909 Vol. 15, No. 2
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The Osteopathic Physician February 1909 Vol. 15, No. 2 Reproduced with a gift from the Advocates for the American Osteopathic Association (AAOA Special Projects Fund) and Michigan Auxiliary to the Macomb County Osteopathic Association May not be reproduced in any format without the permission of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine SM (formerly Still National Osteopathic Museum) Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Volutne xv. CHICAGO. FEBRUARY. 1909. Nutnber 2 are the first to exemplify the condition. All The P.sYchology of 'D;.sea.se this come from excessive thinking of and an ticipating disease. Such p'eople seldom develop chronic conditions as they are' not capable of A.s O.steopath.s Should 1(now It retaining one set of symptoms long enough to :By D,.. J. ~. :Baitey of A.shland. W;:scon.s;n. bring about chronic disease. The foregoing relates to the purely mental O close is the relationship between the he'll get up without hclp," That is a physician. conditions which are evident in health and metal and the physical that disease can And all voice the thought in the instant they sickJ;less, and all tend to illustrate the power S not develop primarily without the involve turn before going to render aid to the fallen of suggestion in the cause and cure of disease, ment of both factors. A pure psychosis can man. for in this regard we must be homeopathic and not exist as a primary condition. The physi This bring us to suggestion. Suggestion is I'ecognize the truth of the contention that any cian of today is no more justified in dismissing an impre sion registered in the subconscious thing that wiII cause will cure. And mark well, a case with "Nothing the matter-all in the mind through thc senses or reasoning- powers that the ideas which the conscious mind main mind I'"~ than would be the surgeon with "noth as a possible truth, and returned from the tains to the exclusion of others will be re ing thc matter-all in the leg!" in case of a subconscious to the conscious mind as a posi turned to the mind as truth when correlated fractured bone. tive truth. And the more firmly the idea is with new thoughts as they form the basis of Hudson, demonstrated the duality of the impressed on the subconscious mind the more comparison. This is the stronghold of sug mind of man, and took psychology from the tenaciously the consciou mind will cleave to gestion. list of abstract ciences and made it a con it as a truth. The Question of ways and means in thera crete factor in the addition of applied psychol In its relation to disease the mind may peutics is a deeper one with the 0 teopath than ogy to the armament of the physician. Para work either in an objective or subjective man with any other school of practice.. Others may celsus. of traduced memory, has been proven ner. Given a man who has never known a be satisfied with results but the osteopath is a true prophet, in his axiom, "Whether the sick day. if there be an internal upset, the a manipulative surgeon who can not be so object of your faith be true or fal e, never subconscious mind suggests to the consciou easily satisfied. He must know the mechanical theless you' will get the same re ults. *** and physical reason for his results or he is Faith true or false works miracles." not true to his profession. So the object of In the lig-ht of modern understanding the this article is not to laud suggestive thera mind is conside'red under two heads, the con peutics as an adjunct to our work, but if pos scious and the subconsciou , which are gen sible to establish a worki'Jng basis for the re erally considered as separate factors. The sllits thus obtained. conscious mind is the seat of perception and The relation existing between the mental inductivc reason. The subconscious mind is and physical man cannot be traced except by the seat of conception and reasons deductively. results, as thought and impulse are intangible The conscious mind perceives everything and factors; but we may trace the relation to the retains nothing, the subconscious mind rc extent of combining the two in health and ceives everything and retains all. The con disease. In health there is a perfect. balance be scious mind reasons through the senses-com tween the two minds, an upset of this balance re mon sense; the subconscious mind reasons sults in mental or physical disease:' The pre through impressions already implanted. The dominance of either factor makes the man dif conscious mind receives impressions; the sub ferent from the average; if the conscious mind conscious mind returns suggestions. The con predominates over the mentality, the man is scious mind through the senses and impres lacking- in imagination, artistic appreciation sions recorded, reasons and doubts. the sub and the finer attributes of modern life; he is conscious mind having no sensation, reasons simply a machine for the prosecution of his relatively and receives every impression as peculiar line. of work and knows nothing else. truth. If the subconsdous mind r.ules the man may . This brings us back to the axiom of Paracel be an artist, a dreamer, a genius, and in any sus, that any idea having preponderance in the case he will be "insane." But in no case is it ubconscious mind, be it true or false. will impossible to change the t'rend of the mental overcome the evidence of the senses and rea ity, simply by the education of the subcon soning powers until it has been replaced by scious part which' reacts on the conscious and suggestions to the contrary. does the work. The conscious mind reasons from the In the relation between the mental and the premise to the truth. while the subconscious physical, the conscious mind is the motor force mind reasons from the truth to the premi e, and expre ses itself through correlation with other truths recorded in its tablets. You are READING INDEX. awakened by a sensation of cold, as you The Psychology of Disease As Osteopaths emerge from the sleeping to the waking state Dr. George M. Smith, of Should Know It , 1 Plea to Subordinate Psychology to "the Solid in the instant between the subconscious mind 3" 3 comes above the threshold of consciousness, "something- wrong- inside," forI-the conscious A Legislative Crisis-Get In Line 3 and YOU dream. Your dream depicts a situa mind 'having never reg-istered any impressions After Ten Years Osteopathic Defendant Wins tion in which through exposure you have suf of illness, the ubconscious lias nothing with in Damage Suit 3 fered from cold. This is simply a leaf from which to correlate the suggestion and the man Dr. C. C. Teall Off for the Flowery Kingdom. 4 the inexhaustible diary of the subconscious says: "I wonder what's the matter with me; Death of Dr. A. S. Melvin 4 mind. and illustrates it's method of inform maybe I'm sick ?" If he rest and behaves Another Osteopathic Editor Has Quit the ing the conscious mind of the sensation which himself he will never know that he was sick. Field 4 Dr. Beckham of St. Louis Crosses the "Dead- awakens you. If he persists in working till he has to quit, he line" 5 The same sensory impression arou es dif calls a physician and has a run of acute ill Dr. Clarke Explains Around the World Trip .. 5 ferent suggestion in different minds accord ness, and emplants in the .subconscious mind Dr. Love Sends Pretty Post Card From Sun- ing to the perceptions recorded in the sub knowledge which will enable him to under ny Florida 6 conscious mind. Three men see a fourth fall stand illness next time. Osteopathy Overcomes Fatigue 6 on the street; the first thinks: "What an lln On the other hand we see men who are con Dr. McFadden Makes Test Case of Compul- fortunate thing, it may mean the loss of a tinuously in the "enjoyment of poor health" sory Vaccinatio·n , , 7 pre sing engagement." He is a business man. men who know the indications and symptoms The Ever·Present Necessity of Educating the. The second thinks: "Well. he's free from the as well as the physician, and. can. better diag People 8 Dr. G. M. Smith Carved a Specialty Practice cares of life for a time. if his insurance is in nose their case for. they. evolve symptoms to Out of Rheumatism , 9 im~ force he's lucky to snuff out so easilv." That smt the season, for such men have so Eleventh Hour Medical Bill Sprung In New is a disappointed man. The last thinks: "As 'pressed upon the tablets, of :the suliconsciQus Hampshire Would Force D. O.'s Out , 9 he fell it's not alcoholism or true epilepsy: 'mind all the various sensations peculiar to dis Dr. Williams Says This Is Time for Work- may be hysteria or sun-stroke; \Yonder 'if ease that·when, an epidemic is announced 'thev Let Future Historians Award Honors 9 . !' . ~. r ": - Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 2 TlHE OSTEOPATHlIC PHYSICIAN of the greater lobes of the brain, and has rule counter-suggestion at the hands of a well Babu. Who is Babu?" etc., until he induces a over the senses, voluntary motion and all fac meaning friend who "does not like the idea," trance state, when he' sees visions and as he is tors in the reach of the will and is served by but indirect suggestion corning from the mind about to grasp the secret of the infinite soul, the spinal-nerve system and the striated mus of the patient himself is not so readily over 'he comes to earth again and takes up his cles.