The Osteopathic Physician

February 1909

Vol. 15, No. 2

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Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN

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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

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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. The subconscious is the dynamic force come. reiteration. Thus we see in Christian science o'f the little brain and the solar plexus or ab­ The elements involved in cure of disease an old system under a new name, the meta­ dominal brain and its outlaying gangilon. It are hope and faith. and both must be present physical eliminated for the physical and in the has control of all the unconscious and invol­ or you will fail of results. Hope is the mental ultimate it is self-aPplied, direct sltggestion. untary functions of the body and is served by prototype of the tendency to the normal, in the The mental scientists and new thought ad­ the sympathetic-nerve system and the plain physical man, it is always present, no matter muscular fibers. vocates deny evil; all is good positive or nega­ how deep the involvement the man always tive; God is good spelled witli' one 0; devil is The subconscious mind having rule over the hopes for recovery. Faith must be added to evil with the prefix of the D, viz.: Devil, evil, vital forces of life is the most important fac­ the mental attitude or you will have negative vii, il. They recommend a course of reading tor in health and disease. It is an axiom of results in any case. The Christian scientists to this end and by continually keeping before osteopathy that "Nature tends to the normal" struck the key note to this idea when they laid the mind their contention, together with argu­ and any slight upset in the internal forces of down the law. "No healer shall attempt a cure ment and reasoning from able pens, they im­ the body are repaired and the machine as a until the patient has paid the fee." This is not press upon the conscious mind their ideas whole goes on in the regular way without con­ a mercenary proposition, but the guarantee of which are returned from the subconscious scious notice, but when the balance between faith involved in the transaction in the ob­ mind as truth. It also is personally applied in­ the two departments of the mind is not I?er­ ject of the rule. A man who pays or engages direct su~gestion. And be it said that they fect little things become exaggerated 1I1tO to pay for treatment has faith to believe that do much good for they aim to the elimination, greater or the opposite greater causes pass he will get a return for his investment. This not only of disease, but distress and poverty. unnoticed. is all the faith you need in starting as it gives The conditions leading to acute disease have you a ba is upon which to increase the element It is evident that the mental healing and new been touched upon in this article and the men­ as you progress. thought advocate are the best prepared of any tal involvement commented upon. people to respond to rational treatment of any Dr. A. T. Still recognized this idea, too, kind 1S they are .doing their part of the curc Chronic disease is a different proposition, a when he told his earlier graduates to collect without aid from the physician and intelli­ chronic involvement may be a pure psychosis fees for a month's treatment in advance. gently applied osteopathic treatment in sitch in the long run but in the beginning it had a Indirect suggestion is the method of supply­ ~nd cases cannot fa.il to produce the best of re­ physical cause began in an upset of the ing the patient with fuel for the organization sults. nice equilibrium of the subCOnSCIOUS forces. of hope, and anticipation of certain improve­ An' example of the procedure .is as follo.ws: A ment as the treatment progresses. A patient Now Brother Lesion Osteopath, Ltd., let 'man has an attack of la gnppe, the 1l1dlCa­ who knows what is the matter with him better us reason together for a moment. The gross tions are of liver involvement. a medical than the physician is a good subject for this lesion which you find, remove, and cure your physician is called: th'e symptoms are treated method. Agree with him as to his diagnosis­ patient, must have passed through several and relieved and the man is pronounced if it be not too absurd-explain why and how stages before it came to you. In the beg1l1­ "cured.'" His' condition"passes hom sub-acute nature acts in bringin9g aoout cure; tell him ning it was the cause of an upset in the nice to chronic as the original slight focus of in­ the subjective sensations he will feel as he balance of the involuntary functions, this reg­ flammation in the liver center of the spine en­ progresses toward recovery; and if he main­ istered an impression in the subconscious mind larges and involves' the adjacent tissues, until tains his faith in you and your methods he of the patient, "Something wrong inside," when he comes to an osteopath he is a which was received by the conscious mind and will evolve the sensations, himself, if neces­ correlated as distress physical suggestion from chronically sick man. The le~ion is tre~tep. Sal'Y. And on your part you adjust the physi­ and removed the diet and hygiene prescnbed cal disorders so that all works harmoniously within; the distress was relieved and again during the stage of glandular repair,.and the and the cure is complete. By this method you returned several times before you were called man is pronounced "cured," and phYSically he carry the mental with the physical and your in, by which time y.our pati.ent had learned to is a perfectly well man. But he .does not know results are most satisfactory to all. correlate his sensatIOns as Illness and to place it and no amount of treatment m any form of the cause of the distress where it belonged. Another, and large class of patients-'Mis­ and his subconscious mind was equipped to a purely physical 1iatl~re will eve.r convince sourians"-cannot be reached by either of the him lmtil YOI~ change hIs mental at/ltltde. tell the conscious mind just what sequence foregoing methods; they must reason the mat­ would follow in every condition. and it al­ This man is sick throu~h suggestion, a state ter out for themselves. A good method with ways carne true. of mind in which the tablets of the subcon­ such people is to interest them in the subject scious mind are so deeplv impressed with the and furnish them reading matter-good ex­ Now w'hen you remove the lesion and give idea of certain conditions. that the evidence of planatory literature like Osteopathic Health the blood and nerve supply a chance to build the senses and inductive reason are overcome containing 'information and thoughts on the up the physical man. the subconscious mind by the deductive reasoning of the subconscio!!s lines you wish to impress upon the mind. Have does not immediately find it out, having be­ mind, and the man suffers from the psychiC them learn the subject from the ground up on come so habituated to the old conditions that element, fear.. He dare not eat wholesom~ food, a rational basis. Their prej udice lies in the the man is in doubt as to the true state of fearing indigestion. he dare .not exert himself, fact of the evident absurdity of the claims of things. If you do not in some way educate fearing vertigo or otherwise. he dare not ex­ the purely mental systems extant. You can him 'he is liable to fall back into his old ways, pose himself, fearing rheumatism-in ~act ~is apply any form of mental treatment indicated not 'only in thought but in lesionary fact, for we recognize that lesions may be primary or whole disease is now fear, not a phYSical 111­ and the result will be good. Such patients volvement. His cry is: "I know if I did so prove to be the most satisfactory as no amount secondary and in either case the result is the and so I would be ill." If you would cure him, of adverse suggestion can overcome their con­ same. change fear to self-reliance,) change the bur­ victions, once their perceptions are the result den of 'his thought from disease to health. of research and reasoning. H Again we· will define suggestion: Any idea A word as to the mental systems at this UJe of Word u'Doctor transmitted to the subconscious mind through point will not be out of place. Christian 'ReJtricted. the senses or inductive reason as a perception. science takes advantage of the element of and returned to the conscious mind as a truth. faith in God and adds Mrs. Eddy to the popu­ RECENT state supreme court decision It is obvious that in hypnosis we have the best lar deities to make a trinity upon which to handed down at Olympia, Wash., con­ and most" direct means of accomplishing our work. The patient simply denies the existence A strues in its strictest sense the state law result. Hypnosis is induced sleep, the COll­ of disease. If he does this with faith and be­ making it a misdemeanor for any person who scious mind of the patient being dormant is lief he will implant in the subconscious mind has not a license authorizing the practice of 'replaced by the mind of the physician, who suggestions w~ich will become truth t? him medicine or surgery to use the terms "doctor" th rough the sense of hearing stamps upon the against the eVidence of the senses and 1l1duc­ or "physician." This applies to osteopaths ~nd subconscious mind of the patient the percep­ ti ve reason. forbids them using .the term as well as fakirs. tions needed to change his mental attitude. The patient of Christian science is taught Now for a remedy in the legislature! In the use of direct suggestion the osteo­ that a patient having healed himself. it is his path is handicapped by the lack of general un­ duty in turn to become a healer and thus per­ Triumph of Mind. derstanding of his methods. The medical prac­ petuate the system. To this end he is told to titioner applies hypnosis and it is received as read the book of Eddy, and understand it. He Victim of Delusion - Doctor. I'm awfully afraid I'm going to have brain fever. a part of his system, but let the osteopath do reads: "Is, is, is? Is, is, is not ? Not is, is? Doctor-Pooh, pooh. my dear friend! That Is ,0 and ·the patient says: "Oh! I see; osteop­ Not?" and so on through a maze of c.ontra­ all an illusion of the senses. There Is no athy is a new name for mesmerism~" and. the dictions and reiterations until his conscious such thing as. fever. 1;ou have no fev­ er. you have no br-h'm!-no material sub­ doctor' immediately loses caste. It IS obVIOUS mind is fatigued and the key thought, "There stance upon which such a wholly Imaginary tbat 'lirect suggestion is a dangerous .sys~em, Is no disease" is the onlv idea he can grasp. and supposititious thing as a fever could find but it is encouraging to note that 1l1dlrect The Hindo sits by the shrine until the volun­ any base of operation." Vlctim-O doctor, what a load you have tak­ suggestion is more lasting and as easily ap­ tary muscles become dormant, and repeats the en from my:"-from my-I have a mind. haven't plied. Direct suggestion may be overcome by question: "Who am I? I am Babu. Babu, I, doctor? Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 3 Why? Because they try to g-o back of all phe­ laid out by Dr. Heine for a national legislative 'Plea to Subordinate body for our profession. nomena. It seems to me time we begin to Every state association at their next regular 'PJychology study this matter from the basis of physical meeting should elect their standing legislative phenomena, and placing- psychology in the committee. Dr. Heine's plan in full Is for each state to create the elective .officers of a to ""the Solid 3:" same class with physiology it would appear st.anding legislative committee to be· composed :By Tho.s. J. "DeVaughn of Lo.s Ange/u. as a more legitimate part of scientific oste­ of five members, each member to be elected v,.. opathy. for five years. (The first committee would of course have to be elected one for one year, one HAVE read with considerable interest Dr. Socrates thought that fire and water were for two years, and so on, until five were Grubb's article in the current "0. P." on separate and distinct elements, but we· now el·ected.) Then each year this committee of I psychology. The doctor has broken a lot know that they are merely diffe.rent·· condi­ five are to elect one of their number to attend tions' of one thing, matter. the A. O. A. meeting and meet with the na­ of ground in his article and I agree with him tional legislative committee, thus creating the in much that he has said. The modern theories of matter support the National Osteopathic Legislative body. These It is true that we are apt to get into ruts idea that all mental phenomena can sometime committees should by all means be elected and become ossified in our "beliefs" concern­ be satisfactorily explained from a physio­ this year. No state should fail to do this now. If your constitution does not permit it, amend ing therapeutics. If we would prevent oste­ chemical basis. And. after all, our thoughts are the constitution. Put in your notice for the opathy from degenerating, or being swaIlowed probably material things and are not to be amendment now; get busy and do this work. UP' by the M. D.'s, we certainly must broaden overlooked in the treatment of disease. No matter whether you have a good law or a poor one, or no law at all. Elect this commit­ our concepts and bury our prejudices. I con­ tee and make it their duty at all times to keep tend that osteopathy does not consist of mere­ in touch with all medical legislation. We can ly laying a patient out on a treating- table in A LegiJIQti"()e do a world of good along this line. and it is our duty to do this work. No state associa­ a pink kimona and pummeling over his anat­ CriJiJ-Get in Line tion in this Union should fail to have its .Iegis­ omy. lative member at the A. O. A. convention in We would do better to spend more time over :By A. G. Hildreth. V.O.• St. Loui.s. Minneapolis next August. the consultation desk if we would gain public N the December issue of the A. O. A. Jour-' nal ther'e appeared an article entitled "Read, confidence in our consultation and advice, for I Think and Act," from the pen of Dr. F. E. it requires as much skill to know what not to Moore, of LaGrande, Ol·egon. After Ten J1earJ do, many times, as to know what to do. Dr'. Moore, from his 'cIose relation to the A. I do not wish to decry manipulation. but I O. A. and the responsible positions he has so OJteopathic have· about as much respect for exclusive ably filled .in that body, and as the osteo­ pathic member of the present State Medical "Defendant Win.s in "Damage Suit. "simon pure," hard-headed ·lesion osteopath, as Board of Oregon, speaks from the standpoint for a narrowminded M. D. or a Christian of acquaintance with conditions as they are. HE supreme court of Vermont has ren­ scientist, for a "little knowledge is a dangerous And he simply knows what he is talking about. ~ered a verdict favorable to osteopaths In the above mentioned article he quotes T ~n thing." Let us be at least one-half conserva­ largely from the records of "The Council on , the damage suit of John S. Wilkins, vative with our radicalism, as Hashimura Toga Medical Education," of the American Medical admllllstrator of the estate of Lucia T. Wil­ says. Association as given in their Association Bul­ kins,. his 2d wife (John now has a 3d), against letin of May 15, 1908. Every osteopath on I thil)k we can stand upon "The solid three" earth should read that article and then file it WIlham W. Brock, D.O., of Burlington, Ver­ and still be safe, that is; Structure, Physiology away and reread It at least once a month mont. This now famous damage suit has been and Environment, and assuming pathology to until they get it so indelibly stamped into dragging along for ten years, and until this their hearts and lives that it could never be be the perversion of physiology or function, effaced.. And it seems to me that no living time the osteopath has been given the worst we have a pretty broad concept of therapeutics. osteopath could; after knowing the position of of it, and it has appeared to us, without jus­ I have purposely omitted psychology because the old schools toward ostMpathy, as quoted tIce or warrant. therein by representatives of their profession The supreme court backs up this view and to me psychology is merely higher physiology in their standard organization that represents or physiology of mind. I can see no well de­ all of this country from ocean to. ocean and holds that a verdict should have been granted fined line where physiology ends and psychol­ from the Great· Lal,es to the gulf, any longer Dr. Brock and his associate, Dr. Lyda K. ogy begins; the difference is only in degree. question the necessity for our own independent (Rozell) Stewart, and sends the case back to boards. Tho~e of you who have advocated the And I should certainly not place it paramount composite boards read that article and then the county court for new trial. Judge Rowell's to the other three. The mind is a great thing tell me of 'one single good reason why we opinion is that an osteopath must decide but it has its limitations and methinks a much should go to them or be associated with men whether treatment is proper or improper. who take the unjust, biased, prejudiced posi­ larger book might be written of power of fhe tion they do toward us, to seek fair laws and "I believe the profesison should know what -body over mind than mind over the body. justice for ourseives, and for those who wish to expect at the hands of a jury," writes Dr. The doctor makes some strange assertions to patronize the osteopaths. Brock to The O. P., and likewise know what a Surely we should "Read, Think and Act." supreme court says in regard to the same sit­ however, when he says: "I contend that it The crying need of the hour is professional (psychology) is far m01'e imp01·tant." (Mean­ back bone of the Andrew Taylor Still stripe, uation. I therefore send you a review of the ing structure, physiology and environment). with our faces to the front, our bodies erect, case in full." stimulated by a just pride in our rich and And further: "Both psychology and physiology growing successes. There can be no need for Dr. Brock continues: are manifestations of that intelligent some­ alarm if our people but do their duty. Never The case of John T. Wilkins, administrator thing-call it what you may-that is back of has there been a time when our opportunities of the estate of Lucia '1'. Wilkins, his ~econd were greater, nor when the future guaranteed wife. against Dr. William W. Brock for alleged all phenomena." *** more than now. But we can only reach and malpractice was finaliy brought to trial at the Such statements smack too much of meta­ l'ealize the fullness and richness of our pos­ March terms of Chittendon County Court, 1907, physical speculation to go parading in our session by bearing our full share of responsi­ at Burlington, Vermont. journals as science. Herbert Spencer said bilities, and by being alive and awake to all The history of the case Is: The suit for the demands of our profession upon us, after $10,000 damages was brought back in 1900. Wil­ that when you "go back of all phenomena, all reading Dr. Moore's article no man or woman kins allowed the case to continue in court at science is lost in nothing-ness." Let us stay can conscientiously question but what one if least six years, until we forced trial. I began within the realm of phenomena. not the most important of all the questions to treat Mrs. Wilkins September 9. 1898. and that now confronts us is legislation. October 11, 1898, is the day they claim shc was To quote him further: When an organization like the American injured. I had known the woman as frail and "The psychical world-also the Medical Association with all its powers and somewhat of an invalid for a good many years. world of independent ideas, the spirit force spends nearly all of one of the sessions October 11th she came to my office, as she had world-acts by will through the mo­ of its "E'ducational Council" in discussing before, but this was the first time that she came osteopathy and the best methods of control alone. The reason she gave for so doing was tor and vaso-motor system determin­ for us, it is sure time for our own people to that she felt so much stronger. ing changes in the structure and the awake to a sense of their duty to themselves. We proved that that particular day she physiological worlds, to say nothing They have a legislative council. and it is far­ walked out of the office and got on to the car reaching, both In organization and influence. unassisted. There was one fact that remained about the external world of nature." Should any of our people after reading Dr. in the dark. We were unable to prove by Mr. The doctor evidently believes the "psychical Moore's article still doubt what should be our Wilkins or any of his witnesses how she got world" and the "spirit world," "also the world course as regards legislation and an independ­ from the,car to her house. Their mouths were ent board, I beg of them to get the January always sealed to that fact. Mrs. Wilkins was of independent ideas" (whatever that may number. of the Journal of Osteopathy pub­ found upon the doorstep _of her house, having mean) are separate entities that flow through lished at, Kirksville, and read there on page fainted. and afterwards complained of a great the nervous system much as the blood does 37 a paper read by M. Clayton Thrush, M. D., deal of pain in her back. through the vascular system, "determining of Philadelphia. entitled "Osteopathic Versus We were unable to find any evidence as to Drug Treatment." This paper was read at the what happened on the car or how she got off changes" in "physiological worlds," "to say 59th session of the American Medical Associa­ from the car or got from the car to the door­ nothing of the external world of nature." I tion held at Chicago in June, 1908. read it­ step until the very last day of the trial. We am sorry he did say anything about the bristling full of antagonism, criticism and hurried the witness to Burlington, but when he ridicule for the osteopaths and osteopathy and arrived the jury had the case. changes "the world ·of independent ideas" then tell me in heaven's name what sane ex­ M,'s. Wilkins fell off the car, but not one of makes upon the "external world of nature." cuse anyone can offer for us to accept mem­ their witnesses would explain anything about It is just such twaddle as this that has bership on anyone of their boards. Read it how she got off the car; 'of how she got from carefully, digest it, read all they have to say the car to the house. Peculiar, was it not? caused scientific men to become indifferent to about controlling of us, and what kind of leg­ (She lived with her husband a year and a half this important field of threapeutics. islation they advise. Read what he has to say afterwards.) One thing further: Mr. Wilkins Metaphysicians and others have tried to of osteopathic. state boards-read it! and then received the bill for the month's treatment of tell me 'should we in any instance accept com­ his wife at this time, which never was paid. explain mind and psychology on the separate posite boards ·with them? Nothing has ever He had a reputation for not paying his bills. entity basis for centuries, and they· are no been proposed .by our. profession that means March 13 or 14, 1909, Mr. Wilkins hustled his nearer a solution now than when they began. more to us than the execution of the plan as wife off to Burlington to gain a residence In Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

4. THE OSTEOPATUIC PHYSICIA.1S 'Death of 'Dr. A. S. Mel'()in of ChicaRo. Madeto Measure The many friends of Addison S. Melvin, of Chicago, were shocked to learn of his death All Appliances made by us are constructed strictly to on the date of January 27. Death oc­ the physician's measurements. Absolute accuracy is thus curred from Bright's disease at the Royal obtained and a perfect filling and beneficial support is Palm Hotel, Miami, Florida, where the de­ assured. There is no beller apparatus made for use in that con­ ceased was attended by Mrs. Melvin, and Dr. dition recognized by Osteopathic physicians as Irritable A. D. Melvin, a brother, of Washington, D. Spine. c., who is a veterinary surgeon in the em­ The spine and spinal cord are often the real, though ployment of the government. Interment was unsuspected, .!ause of most of the common nervous diseases at Morrison, Illinois, the old home of the of women. Certain it is that many of the worst of these Melvins. Scarcely any of Dr. Melvin's inti­ ases have evidently been due to intervertebral nerve mate friends in the profession had any suspi­ essure, r a short time after the parts are perfectly sup­ cion of his ailment. p rted a d the pressure removed these most annoying It was well known that he was not enjoying 8 mpto disappear. good health, but when he retired from prac­ Asi .e from its use in this special class, there is no tice about a year ago to go abroad for an ex­ appar tus at the present day that is 80 efficacious in the tensive rest, it was believed by him that he more serious forms of spinal trouble as was just entering upon the enjoyment of ma­ terial fortune that had just come to him and Our No.1 Appliance. there was no suspicion that the doctor was to It has ev~ry advantage over the plaster, leather and steel bc the victim of a chronic ailment, Since re­ jackets, It is light in weight, can be readily removed so as turning to America, however, and especially to permit frequent examination or treatment. It will not in the last two months, his decline has been chafe or irritate, easily adapts itselE to movement of the very steady. body and will not show through clothing. Adjustment can Dr. Melvin was a stalwart worker for the be easily made from day to day, so as to keep pace with the profession's interests and rendered signal progress made by the patient. services to the II1inois Osteopathic Associa­ We can help you in your work. Write lor our literature. tion at Springfield in some of our previous legislative efforts. He was a former presi­ PHILO BURT MFG. CO. dent of the Chicago Osteopathic Society and 141 2nd Street. .JAMESTOWN, N. Y. served as a trustee of the A. O. A. His inAuence will be missed in osteopathy. Appropriate resolutions of sympathy were Chittendon County, as he never could have thrown out of a carriage and hurt, while riding adopted by the Chicago Osteopathic Associa­ tried the case here in 'Washington County be­ with her husband. tion, Drs. Young and Gage serving as the cause of his reputation. Washington County This was purely a case of blackmail. My committee. had been their home a greater part of their father sued \Vilkins to collect a bill. Wilkins Iiyes. :3wore revenge and brought the suit in conse­ '\'Ve showed that she had been ailing and had quence. The jury ignored all of this testimony trouble with her back for eight years, since and granted ,Vilkins a verdict of $2,70H.33 Another OJteopathic } 90. During that time she was gradually grow­ against Mrs. Rozell and myself separately. Af­ ing worse; had at different times used a cane, ter Wilkins had put in all his testimony we Editor RaJ Quit crutches. pushed a chair in front of her to as­ asked the court that a vel'dict be then and there sist in walldng, used a pillow at her bacl< In a granted us, as there was not evidence of mal­ the Field. carriage when ri'ding; was up and then down; practive 01' injury. This the court refused to do. that it was a slo,,·. pl'ogressive paralysis tllat The case was calTied to Supreme Court. and R. M. C. Hardin, of Atlanta, who for began at least eight years before I treated the Supreme Court decision is that the verdict her; and that it was the same trouble. only should have been granted as we askec], as there several years, as a side issue to his in a more. advanced state. that caused her wa& no evidence of mal-practice. The court D professional practice, has published a death. w11ich was March 27. 1900; that the suit remanded to the County Court for a new trial monthly field journal, known as "Osteopathy," was not bl'Ought until after her death, which and assessed the costs against \Vilkins. This was a year and a half after the claimed in­ trial 'jn Chittendon County lasted three weeks. has wearied of the extra burden entailed by jury. and that the trial clid not result until editorial work upon the hours of a busy prac­ nearly seven years atter. when he (Wilkins) titioner, so the Atlanta paper has migrated to 'vas living \vith his third ·wife. Chicago, and merged its identity into that of .John T. Will'ins testified that· Mrs. Wilkins 'Dr. C. C. Teall Off told me in bis presence that I injured her 'back "Osteopathic Health." and that she had not been able to walk since for the Flow'e'ry While editorial work was exceedingly con­ that treatment. This we oroved was untrup. genial to Dr. Hardin, he was forced slowly to as we sho\vefl bv witnesses that she did "r:;llk KIngdom. unassisted after said treatment. I could Say the conclusion that a practitioner who does nothing, although I saw and treated her at her R. c. C. TEALL visited "The O. P." full justice to his patients and his library has home October 16th and 20th, after the claimed no time or vitality to spare to give to a pub­ injury. as the law in this state is that when toward the clo e of last month on his one party in a suit is dead the other cannot D \Yay to San Francisco where he ailed lishing business. The doctor also is good testify. Mrs. Rozell, who was at that time in on the 30th ult. for Manila, Hong Kong, Can­ enough to say in his correspondence that while my employ and assisted in the treatment of doing his best under such circumstances-and Mrs. Wilkins October 11th. wa also silenced. -ton, Shanghai, Tsien Tsien and Pekin. Dr. as the Supreme Court held that she was a part~. Teall goes on a private enterprise which will his product was very good, at that-he was in the suit. keep him in tJ,e Orient probably even or still unable, in his own candid judgment, to Dr. Flanders, their expert. who had been con­ eight months, and he expects to visit Tokio realize the uniformly high .standard of ,~x­ yicted of mal-oractice in Rutland a rew years cellence in office and field literature charac­ before, testified that Mrs. Willdns told him that and Yokohama on his way home. she was injured bY a sudden fO"ce on Septem­ He will resume active practice upo'n coming teristic of "Osteopathic Health." ber or October. 1898. We asked the court for back to the states. He has enjoyed a grati fy­ So Dr. Hardin accepted a proposition from exceptions to all of this testimony. and the court granted the same. as this evidence did ing practice at Middletown, N. Y. this paper to wind up his publishing enterprise not show any indication of injury or mal-prac­ "Teallie" is looking exceedingly well and and place a standing monthly order for a con­ tice. This was the only convicting evidence has entirely recovered his health and stre)lgth siderable quantity of Osteopathic Health. The and there "'as no e,'idepce whatever showing injury or' mal-pl'actice. but simply that the pa­ in the past year or two while engaged in active doctor is a strong believer in the efficacy of tient was worse after the treatment than be­ practice. The editor is pleased to make this ethical, dignified, conservative, simple field fore and that the disease was the same as eight statement because it means something to the literature-such as Osteopathic Health always years before, gradually gl'owing worse, all the exhibits-and his plans contemplate using a time. profession that its practitioners-who, like all We further showed that Wilkins had knocked other mortals, sometimes get out of form and minimum of two thousand copies a month, his wife down by strildng her in the face; had develop sickness, are able to recover strength and from that up to several times that quan­ thr'own red pepper in her eyes; had picked her and recuperate lost vitality even while con­ tity of our magazine some months. up and thrown l1er out of a bed. before I treated her. and that· afterward he yanked her around ducting a busy practice. One sometimes hears Dr. I-lardin's notice s'ent out to his former on the bed by the heels. that osteopathic practice is quite wearing on patrons was as foliows: We showed l'y abollt thirty of the repJ'esenta­ practitioners. It is gratifying to see in the live men of Montnelier, Water1)ury, Waitsfield. case of Dr. Teall and a good many others Dr, Hardin',s Editorial Va/.dictory. Moretown apd Stowe (towns where Wilkins To Whom It May Concern: had lived). that .Tohn S. Wilkins' reputation that notwithstandi)lg' this belief'it is quite Notice is hereby given that the undersigned. for tr11th was bf'low par. Dr. ,T. Henry .Jackson. possible for the hard working osteopath to re­ proprietor and editor of "Osteopathy," a journal one of the leading medical physicians in Ver­ cover health and strength in the professional of field literature published in Atlant~. Ga.. for mont. was called in cOllncil and testifif'd that some years past, has been sold to Dr. ·H. S. he examined' Mrs. Wilkins abollt a month after harness. Success to you, Brother Teall, on Bunting, editor and proprietor of "Osteopath Ie I treated her and that Mrs. Wilkins told him your journey, much ducats, and an auspicious Health,'" the best known journ'al of field osteo­ that her condition was the result of being return to your professional laboTs! pathic literature, said "Osteopathy" together Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

THE O~TEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 5 with his good will, etc., and from this date Its ern research, however, has revealed to us that publication will cease. these cases can be cured. The vitality of the I take this opportunity to thank those of the sexual organs can be so restored, that they will profession who have patronized and encouraged retain their strength in proportion to tIle other me during the years that I have published my organs of the human economy as long as life magazine and In retiring from the field I desire lasts. The Pacific to commend to my former patrons Dr. Bunting In our study pf the human body, we find it to and his magazine,_ "Osteopathic He-alth." Dr. be a great system of machinery, capable of be­ Bunting is the only one in the profession who ing adjusted similarly as other machines are, devotes his whole time to the preparation' of This we accomplish by a system of scientific ·College· of field literature and he has always given us a manipulations. These rrianipulations control the good, thorough exposition of true osteopathy. circulation of blood, remove obstructions to a Sometimes we have not seen things exactly free flcw of al\ the fluids of the body, stimulate alike, and Dr. Bunting is a man of convictions nerve force, exercise the rnuscles, create new Osteopathy and he speaks right out just what he thinks; nerve energy, tone up the "Vvhole lllachinery and [ INCORPORATBD 1 and there are those who think that he some­ restore the entire system to its original strength times speaks before he thinks-thinks much, at and power. A cure by this method is perma­ LOS ANGELES. CALifORNIA least-but when he does this he has always nent, because it is in harmony with Nature's Member of Associated Colleges of Osteopathy. made It all right when he did think afterwards. laws. I always did admire a man of convictions and While we treat satisfactorily all chronic ail­ Established 1896. one who does not hesitate to speak his convic­ ments of both sexes, we have made a special tions, and no man should ever expect a man of study of sexual debility and are having marked THREE YEARS' COURSE of STUDY convictions to think just exactly as he thinks on success with these cases, as many gratefUl pa­ all occasions. tients could testify. NEXT CLASS ENTERS February 9, 1909. I commend "Osteopathic Health" to the pro­ Should you or any of your friends be interest­ fession and I am only asldng you to do what I ed, we wQuld be pleased to explain to you fully This college has long stoo~ for thor­ expect to do when I ask you to use this field lit­ our methods. ough and practicalprofessional training, erature in profusion in your own territory. I Respectfully yours. expect to use 2,000 ~er month. It ask~ the favorable consideration of • Why do I do this? JAMES J. BECKHAM, D. O. I have had years of experience in the abund­ .P. S. We have been nine years in our present such men and women as wish to base ant use of field literature. The fact tel\s its suite of offices, and number among our patients pr~ctice Osteopa~hy own story. It pays to educate your own com­ many of the leading business and professional their hf upon a munity in our methods. The man who does men of the city. thoroughly sci~ ntific fountlation. this and thus pours his own life into his profes­ sion need never be out of a job; nor need he This is one of the 1110st deplorable thiligs lnstructor:ll~ look for more fertile fields, for if his neighbors that any osteopath has recently done in the Thirty nd Leetureri know fUl\y his system of practice they will not Well Equipped C emica1. PhY.~loIOglcal, Histolog­ let him leave for want of worle hope of advancing his financial interests. By ical, BacterioloeJ, al and Anatomical Laboratorie•. Let us encourage Dr. Bunting to give us the this act Dr. Beckllam alienates the good will best possible field literature, by giving him our Clinical Advanta es Unsurpas'sed. suggestions and patronage. A letter of friendly and confidence of his profession and makes criticism and 'suggestion will be appreciated by himself a pariah who is no longer entitled to Work Throu/lhou Based Upon Laboratory Methods. DI·. Bunting. As an editor I I

6 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN STILL COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY DES MOINES. IOWA THE attention of the profession is called to the fact that we are in a position to take care of all kinds of cases needing surgical attention. Both clinic and pay cases receive superior surgical attention and have the very best hospital service. Th~ college IS equipped with the very best X-Ray machines, is able to do radiographic work speedily, and satisfaction is guaranteed. We are in a position to serve the profession to its satisfaction. Next Freshmen class enters May 17th, 1909. Students who desire to do so, can earn their living expenses. The most thoroughly inspected oste­ opathic college. The largest osteopathic clinic in the world. Send for catalogue. WILLIAM E. D. RUMMEL, A. M., LL. B. C. E. THOMPSON, A. M., D.O. Sec.-Manager President

'Dr. Lo"()e SendJ ern and western states and with unrelenting and re idence set among shade trees, palms vigor make miserable the existence of the and flowers. In the corner is in erted a min­ 'Pretty 'POJt Card genus homo. His winter location is De­ iature portrait of the doctor him elf. On Land, Fla., and he is quite an enthusiast over the reverse side is a brief recapitulation of Greetind from the beauty of the town and its climatic and the attractions of De Land. It is a high in­ social advantages. Just to show his many 'and town, environed by orange groves and Sunny Florida friends in the north something of what they pine woods. Has pure water and invigorat­ R. S. R. LOVE, of Brooklyn, N. Y, is are mis ing and· as an invitation, to those who ing air. No malaria, abundant sunshine, one of those fortunate persons who were able, to visit De Land, the "Athens of beautifully shaded streets, good hotels and is D can flyaway to warmer climes when Florida," Dr. Love had made an artistic the site of the John B. Stetson University. cold snaps and blizzards descend on the east- photographk post ~ard showing his office After- reading Dr. Love's postal card and ex­ amining a booklet showing some more "beauty spots," we felt inclined to "jump the job" and take the first "limited" south. All testimony seems to agree that De Land holds an unique position for intellectual association, splendid climate and beautiful location. Dr. Love is certainly to be cong'ratulated on hav­ ing his winter residence in so charming a spot.

OJteopathy O"()er­ ICOmeJ Fatidue Editor of Osteopathic Physl'cian: I have had occasion recently to observe the effect of osteopathic treatment in a field that, so far as r know, is practically new. The auestion I have endeavored to solve is whether it is possible by our methods of treatment to sub­ stantially promote functional muscular activ­ ity-functional accuracy and endurance-in athletes and those who find it necessary to call the muscles into strenuous use. For several months I have had under my care a number of professional baseball play­ l"rs, members of the Nashville team of the Southern league. Among the number have been three pitchers. In one of 'these a cerv­ ico-brachial neuritis was quickly relieved and in the manifold ins of these athletes our treatment appears to be the remedy par ex­ Offices and Residence of Dr. S. R. Love, DeLand, Florida. cellence. One pitcher invariably had his "bad Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

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il~nings'" at the beginning of the game. He appeared to be unable to get the necessary muscular tone by practice and was somewhat "wild" during the first, part of,the' game. I suggested treatment on the day he was to work. The change for the better was so strik­ ing that this plan was foIl owed during a num­ ber of subsequent games with the result that he has been accurate from the first ball over BOVININE the plate with a pronounced increase in endur­ ance, and he has won every game pitched on the day of taking treatment. His enthusiasm Is an ideal Food and Tonic to in the matter led to his bringing a co-worker to'me w'hose weakness was lack of endurance build up and sustain and while he was usuaIly effecti ve in the box for scven innings, he invariably weakened in the eighth or ninth and usually permitted a AIN swatfest in the tail end of the game or had to he suoolanted. Treatll1ent on the date of his BODY performances enabled him' to put the baIl across as effectively in the last as in the first ir,nings, notably increasing his endurance. 'BLOOD Experiences with other players corroborate these results and appear to prove that osteo­ and pathic treatment notably increases muscular function and muscular endurance and may therefore be of substantial value to athletes BONE who make deep draughts upon muscular energy. In pitchers with "sore" shoulders it It does not disturb digestion and is readily has invariably been the ci'rcumflex nerve in­ volved, probably from, the strain of curving absorbed into the circulation the ball. SEND FOR Metabolism in the tissues is represented by SAMPLE the afferent and efferent' blood streams, the one carrying the albuminates, fats, carbo'hy­ THE BOVININE COMPANY drates, salts and materials necessary for the 73 West Houston St., Non", York City restoration of the tissues, the other removing tlie tissue detritus" urea. carbondioxid, water, salts, etc., through the eliminating organs, and it is the accumulation of the last-named cohstituents that enfeeble normal muscular SAVE YOUR BACKS, D. O.'S tissues and render them "tired." It is a prop­ while "breaking up" the lumbar spine. ~You need not lift the legs of that 200-pound osition sanctioned by physiology therefore patIent off the end of the table and swing his feet in mid-air at the cost of your own ...,hen· we maintain that mechanical stimulation, strength unless you like it for mere exercise. ~Even if .you like that sort of strain and, which greatly accelerates the influx and effiux have no fear of rupture, or puIlin,.g down of your own organs The Common Sense of blood streams in the tissues, contributes Treating Table and Adjustable ;Swing is still better than ordinary Tables for many notably to' the function and endurance of reasons. g It is light, strong, durable" portable, movable, comfertable and beau- those tissues, tiful, and is not an expen­ sive table. ~No man afraid Of course the distinctive methods of oste­ of rupture or vaIu· opathy are not so much involv('d in this mat­ _Rotary ing his own vital· ttr as the less important que~tion of the val ue ~~=. ity, can afford to ~ _Adjustable .use any other ta- cf mechanical stimulation and relaxation, but ble. ~ No woman there is nevertheless a point involvec1 that is _____Rotary mindfulofthe oi practical value to our profession, and I am special handicaps of her sex WILL use any other. ~Adapted to everyone's needs alike. sending this to the 0, P. in the hope of arous­ Write for circular and prices. Everything ing interest and discussion, and indulging the in the book line also, ~Orders shipped further hope that others may contribute simi­ the same day as received and lar experiences to your journal. Root pays th~ freight cha~oes on books only. R. S. COLLIER, D. O. Patented April 2. 1907 H. T. ROOT, ,Kirksville, 713 Stahlman bldg" NashviIle, Tenn. Mo.

"Dr. McFadden Ma1(eJ J: ·P: Ronald and F. Guion, says the Seattle ,"Dropped in the 'Pro.sperity 'Parade .Times'. "I _have had a phenpmenal busines~ h~re TeJt CaJe of Com­ 'Dr. McFadden writes us:' "I am' seCl'etary in Anderson this summer. I cannot under­ pulJory Vacci­ and treasurer 'of the "An/£-Compulsory Vac­ 'stand, it myself, ~onsidering the times."-F. c£natiari League" alid ~e' have' stirred the city ,\iV. I-lanna, D.O., Anderson, Ind. nation in up over the question. We have raised a fund of over $600 for legal and general expenses "I have don,e the***biggest year's work thi~ Seattle. and expect to fight the filthy practice 'of' vac­ year of any since J came in the field."-H. W: cination to a finish. There were over 2,000 HE question of whether or not a child Glascock. D.O., Raleigh. N. C. children out of school for a week and one .* attending the public schools shaIl be vac­ day, all being allowed to return this morning .* * T cinated before he shaIl be permitted to "My business is ve'ry good, about all I can excepting my own boy, who will have to await J,a'ndIe. It has been good ever since I loc'ated continue in the public schools has been officiaIly the settlement of. the case in the cour·ts.'~ . brought to the attention of the superior court here two years alld 'a half ago."-Fred L. of Seattle, Wash" by J. Clinton McFadden of Anti.Compulsory Vaccinatio~ Fight' in Ta- Montgomery.' D.O.; Puyallup, Wash.' '. the University district. coma. .. * * *' While no mention was made of the order of "I am enjoying all the practice'I can take the school board requiring inoculation before Tacoma, Wash., ,is also' to have a lively vac­ care 'of an'd not break down, in "fact I, some­ attendance be continued, it was generally ac­ cination . fight. Drs. Blanch: Baldy; J as. B. 'times' think I wiH have to take 'a 'year off', cepted by the school authorities that the case 'Baldy a,nd WiIliam- SneIl have interested 'them­ sooli."-Frederic 'W. Sherbui-ne, D.O., Bos­ was brought to test the authority of the board . selves in the situation ;wd at ,a:' meeting 1.oo,M~s.· " in requiring vaccination, in the offices of Drs. ,Baldy" the -"Ant£­ * '*" * The nature of the action is a mandamus CO'l:n,p~tlsOI''i -Vaccin'ation' Society 'of Tacoma:' '~From next to nothing 'we ha:vedevelop'ed a proceeding brought in the name of the state 'was' organized with Attorney· E. '- L. Cul­ ·flo·urishing practice' here 'in two'years. 'From of \iVashington on the relation of J. 'ver ,as president.' An effort will be --made 'the p'roceedsof - our practice' we' have built Clinton McFadden, D, 0" against E, Shor­ ,to; seclire' p.Qstponement of summary action in a 'modern hOli,e. e'lectric 'lig-hted alld :second rock, president of the board of school 'di­ the enfoicemelit of the 'compulsory vaccina­ to none in the' city."-Dr. Homer D: Bower's, rectors. and the other meii1bers. John Schram, tion law until test cases can be decided. Newberg Oregon. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine; Kirksville, MO

8 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN to such a degree that osteopaths are not real penny to educate the people of their commu­ physicians in the broadest sense of the term. nity about osteopathy. Many do nothing to The Organ of News and Opinion for the How can the profession purge itself of neutralize the false impressions that are pur­ Profession. these shames, and prevail upon the erring ones posely circulated by the competitors of osteo­ Published ou the 15th of every month hy The OSTEOPATHIC to. cease their matricidal methods? pathy. PUBLISHING COMPANY, 603, No. 171 Washington How on earth can men and women who Street, Chica~o share this common fate of being misunder­ HOW THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSO­ stood and who are so persistently maligned HENRY STANHOPE BUNTING, A. B., D. 0., M. D. CIATION LENDS ITSELF TO SLANDER. and who well realize this situation-who know President and Manager. We recommend those osteopaths who doubt that the people at large view their practice as RALPH ARNOI,D, Assistant Manager. the need of constant and steady osteopathic simply "rubbing" and not on a par with other printed propaganda to establisb the truth about medical schools-how these D. O.'s can sit osteopathy in the public mind to read an ar­ calmly by and never do a thing to spread the SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. $1.00 A YEAR. truth and share the benefit of a correct under­ ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. ticle in the J oumal of the A'/'neriwn Medical Association, published at Chicago, December standing, is beyond me to fathom. Why do they do it? Are they deluded by false pride? Entered as second-class matter April 7, 1903 at the Post­ 19th, 1908, entitled "Osteopathic versus Drug office at Chicago. Illinois, under Act of M'arch 3,,1879. Treatment." This article is by M. Clayton It is true in their case, as Scripture puts it, Thrush, M. D., of Philadelphia, and was read that they reap what they sow, and sowing in the section on Pharmacology and Thera­ nothing in the way of educational literature, VOL. XV. FEBRUARY, 1909. NO.2. peutics at the American Medical Association they reap little or nothing in the way of the meeting in Chicago last June. It covers rewards that a conscientious exponent of our eleven columns of this journal and its length profession is entitled to expect and receive Fairness! Freedom! Fearlessness! prevents us reprinting it, as we would like where his practice comes to be fairly well un­ to do. derstood. This article purports to give a fair historic We commend the experience and advice of EDITORIAL and scientific review of the osteopathic prac­ Dr. Hardin of Atlanta to any osteopath who tice and its opinions but its "facts" are taken needs more practice and who has as yet not utilized the possibilities of a carefully writ'­ "Hew to the line. let ckiJs entirely from little pamphlets put out by sev­ 'till where theY will" eral practitioners. (An argument to use only ten, truthfully put, conservative and simple the best field literature!) It sneers at osteo­ educational campaign, such as any twelve num­ pathic education and attainments and is full of bers of "Osteopathic Health" in series consti­ DR. JENNINGS DISCLAIMS RESPONSI­ such references as this: "Doctor (never re­ tute. BILITY. ceived M. D.) O. J. Snyder, president of the Osteopathic field literature is not a luxury; We tire glad to say that Dr. C. H. Jennings Pennsylvania Osteopathic Association," etc. it is a necessity; it is made so by vigorous of Grand Rapids, Mich., disclaims all. respon­ It refers to osteopathy as a "cult or sect." The misrepresentation and misunderstanding; and sibility for the advertisement recently printed spirit of this article th roughout is to sneer at it will remain a necessity just as long as the in a Grand Rapids newspaper making him and misrepresent osteopathy at every turn. people continue to misunderstand osteopathy, offer a reward of $100 for any case of head­ Now, after reading this kind of "authorita­ just as long as OUI" friends, the M. D.'s, con­ ache that he is not able to cure by two months tive information" which emanates from no tinue to preach and publish, in season and out of treatment. Our readers will recall that we less a source than the American Medical As­ of season, that osteopathy is "rubbing," "a crit,icised the doctor severely for this unpro­ sociation. if any osteopath can be found who very limited practice," "just what the medical fessional and foolish thing. Upon receiving tries to believe that the M. D.'s do not openly men have been practicing, all along, when "The O. P." Dr. Jennings hastened to inform insult osteopathy, in public and private, offici­ needed," "hard on delicate constitutions," "a us that this article was written by an enthu­ ally and individually, in ,season and out of ,form of treatment administered to patients siastic patient of his, a newspaper \11an in his season, when~ver they have t.he chance, we who are stripped," "a fake," "the same as city, who in his superabundant enthusiasm for refer him to the signs of the times and ask Christian Science," and other misrepresenta­ osteopathy undertook to make Dr. Jennings him to I"elocate or readjust his observatory. tions and falsehoods that are all so damaging suddenly famous and succor all ailing man­ Dr. F. E. Moore has spoken words of wis­ to the financial interests of our people. kind without consulting him about it. The dom recently in his article "Read-Think­ Good field literature is the best way to neu­ doctor says he was even absent from the city Act." tralize these errors and it is the ditty of every when this boomerang boost took place. Dr. Frank E. Heine is also talking wisdorn osteopath in practice to llse good literatll1'e of Of course' the Grand Rapids public will not on the same subject. SOlne SOl't all the year arou,nd. If the litera­ understand this, and the damage has been Dr. Hildreth has a good article and a warn­ tu re that we publish doesn't suit you, then use done to the good name of osteopathy, just ing in this issue, also relating to this very somebody else's. There are several available the same; but we are exceedingly glad that subj ecl. magazines that are good, and it is the solemn Dr. Jennings disclaims responsibility for the The net results, as they occur to me, is that duty of every active practitioner in our ranks incident and expresses his own deep chagrin we should continue our fight fo·r independent to use 100 or more a month of one of them. and regret over the occurrence. osteopathic boards in every state and territol'y Whatever seeks to curtail the extended cir­ The claim was just what one might expect of this union and also increase the circula­ culation of this best form of office and fidd from an enthusiastic layman who does not tion of correct authoritative and truthful field literature is a body blow at osteopathy. and appreciate t.he limitations of science and hu­ literature for the fmther education of our coming in whatever guise it may-either as man endeavor, and we have no doubt that the patients and the general public. There is an indifference to the best interests of osteopathy, situation came about as Dr. Jennings re­ organized propaganda to debase and slander or a struckling to the medical profession, fear­ ported it. osteopathy, sanctioned by tlle A. M. A., and ing to displease its practitioners by continuing Our practitioners cannot be too careful nothing but utilizing our utmost resources can to tell the plain truth about osteopathy, or as about this sort of thing, and where they have stem this tide an.d keep the public properly open hostility to osteopathic field literature­ newspaper friends who are willing "to boost informed about osteopathic thel"apeutics. whichever forlll this o/'Posit·ion takes, it osteopathy," they should tell them in advance amounts to one and the same thing in the end to let the doctor supervise these well-meant -it is a body blow delivered at the heart of efforts so as to prevent such troubles. osteopathic progress. It is an effort to stay The E-c.Jer-'PreJ'ent osteopathic growth and prevalence. BAD WORK IN WICHITA. Our practitioners can WE'll afford to' give fYeceJ'J'ity of Edu- this problem their serious consideration and In this same connection we regret to see catin1 the 'People. all should join hands in the use of one or an­ flaring display advertisements in a Wichita, other of osteopathy's success ful educational Kansas, newspaper. of the current month HE experience of progressive practi­ magazines. which is being put out by Doctors Shoemaker tioners like Dr. Hardin of Atlanta, To all who realize the wisdom of this ad­ and Blanchard, advertising under the name T given on another page this month, vice and are not as yet aligned with any of the Wichita Osteopathic Institute. This s.hould be both guidance and inspiration to publishers, the editor extends an invitation to form of advertising is always a grievous mis­ many of our practitioners who have not been use Osteopathic Health and he invites corre­ take and the men who do it must realize all progressive and who l1ave not done their part spondence, seeking to ascertain the merits of the rest of their days that they have been to disseminate reliable information about this pioneer patient-educator of the profession. traitors to their profession and to the cause osteoI,Jathic practice. "Let there be light!" of Andrew Taylor Still. Is that cause worth No wonder that many of our practitioners while? Beyond doubt the worst knockers and find it hard to pay board and office rent, let Rastus-"A h done proposed to Liza Coon er­ 'enemies osteopathy has are the men who are alone enjoy a modest share of the luxuries of bout a yeah 'fore yo' married her." -:'dose.­ guilty of these practices committed in cold life and that they must relinquish all thought "Am dat so?" Rastus-"Yassah: an' "-\h liad blood in osteopathy's name. No wonder that of getting ahead financially, considering the mah rabbit's foot on mah pusson at de time, but she done turned me down." 2\10se (sigll­ the great majority of people have such hazy fact that· many of t.hem, year in and year out, ing) "Yo' all shore wuz lucl,y in havin' dat ideas about our science and practice and think nevel' turn a hand over and never invest a rabbit foot wid yo'." Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

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'Dr. G. M. Smith Car-()ed a Spec- [ilycoThymoline ialty'Practice Outof'Rheumati.sm

R. GEORGE MILTON SMITH, of Mt. beneficial effects of the baths. It seemed to Clemens, Mich., the new president of the him that, combined with scientific and rational D Michigan State Board of Examination osteopathic treatment, these waters presented and Registration, is a pioneer who has won great possibilities for the cure of obstinate success and recognition by consistent ad­ ;:;ases of disease, especially rheumatism. herence to his determination to specialize in He made up his mind to stay a year and certain obstinate diseases. At the outset he specialize in that disease. The year's practice decided to study rheumatism and, as he says, confirmed his first impression of the possibili­ he is "still studying," but his success in ties of the proposition and so he staid on. The the treatment of this disease as well as cases years have slipped by, each bringing added of paralysis and nervous exhaustion-which friends, reputation and clientele-j ust as they have made up a great share of his practice­ should-until today, and largely as the result indicate that he has not studied in vain. His of his skillful and conscientious work, the patients 'have come to him from all over the value of osteopathy has received full recogni­ United States and in fact foreign countries. tion at Mt. Clemens Springs, practically' dis­ Dr. Smith early saw opportunity at Mt. placing such forms of mechano-therapeutics as Clemens for both osteopathy and himself. He massage and electricity and winning the rec­ took a chance at carving out a narrow field for ommendation and indorsement of some of the his efforts but he "made good." He has made prominent homeopaths and allopaths. himself a factor at the springs and placed os­ To accommodate his patients more con­ teopathy in high regard. But in one sense his veniently, Dr. Smith is now erecting a build­ opportunity has been peculiar, many sick peo­ ing designed for his use. It will be of brick ple and ·chronic rheumatic invalids visit Mt. and stone construction, and have eight rooms, Clemens, attracted by its medicinal springs. all on the ground Aoor, divided into flve treat­ KRESS OWEN' COMPAM: This appealed to the D. O. as an ideal place to ment rooms, consulation office. secretary's of­ & apply osteopathic therapeutics to these cases. fice and reception room. It will be equipped 210 fulton St.. 'N ewYork First, the cases were there to be treated and with latest ideas for comfort and convenience sccond, they were usually discou raged and and with every facility for prompt service. ready to try a new system. The net result has Building these modern and commodious of, I Liberal Samples Sent Free to Physicians been that hundreds have come to hold an en­ fl:,es is indicative·of'lthe substantial financial suc­ hanced appreciation of osteopathy and go away cess which Dr. Smith enjoys. as well as social sounding its praises. In fact, whereas at one respect and honor-the reward that awaits the 'Dr. WilliamJ SayJ time patients came to Mt. Clemens solely for intelligent osteopath who works hard, sticks the baths, now, we are told, many come on to study and pushes his profession to the front ThiJ IJ Time for Worl\. the recommendation of friends of osteopathy by dignified promotion. -Let Future HiJtorianJ to get the benefit of osteopathic treatment Dr. Smith keeps in touch with his fellow combined with the baths. Thus it has fallen practitioners by membership in his state as­ Award HonorJ. to Dr. Smith's lot to be instrumental in ex­ sociation and also in the Minnesota State As­ READ The O. P., or much of it, each tending the general appreciation of osteopathy sociation. The fact that his busiest season 1110nth to learn the professional "shop by demonstrating its efficiency to many people always comes at the time the National A. O. I talk," and have been ve.ry much enter­ of note and influence. Among some of the A. conventions meet has prevented him from tained and considerably amused at the new con­ well known people who have received treat­ being an attendant at these gatherings, but bis troversy going on in its columns as to "vVho ment from him and who are avowed osteopath­ selection as president of the state board IS 'vVas the Father of the Research Movement?" ic ·boosters. are: Augutus Thomas. of New an evidence that his work for osteopathy is ap­ "Research" is the slogan of the profession York the J:layright: William C. A. Gans. New preciated by his fellow practitioners in Michi­ today, and rightly so, and immediately the York'state comptroller and ex-Governor]. Q. gan. old question of "\'Vho is to get the hotior?" A. Brackctt, of Boston, Claus Spl'eckels, which seems to be a chronic complaint in the of San Francisco. Patients have come to profession, begins to start bees buzzing in Dr. Smith from Paris. London, Berlin, Glas­ Ele-uenth Hour Medical \'arious brains and bonnets. Having had gow, Rio de J aniero and other distant cities. nothing whatever to do with it, I can "butt No doubt some of these people have become 'Bill Sprung in New in" without fear or favor. missionaries to carry ,the story of ostcopathy The controversy starts most insidiously to distant lands, and this may help to pave the HampJhire Would when "A friend" rushes into print and claims way for the reception of ou l' science in these Force 'D.O:J Out. the honor for "The Original Pioneer" and distant conntries. boosts his efforts with laudable admiration of Dr. Smith was born in St. Paul, Minn., in T last the \cgislative kettle is boiling in his ability. The fight is on and it wages mer­ 1862. It's the old story-how he came to be an New Hampshire. On the last day for rily, and we he

10 "j'HE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIA:N tract from the able assistance rendered me by the gentlemen you have already heard, to in form you that it was I, 'Hitum High,' who evolved this wonderful idea from my massive The brain, and with my characteristic liberality PROTOS wish to make a present of it· to the profes­ sion at large.. In recognition of my great Vegetable Flour benefaction you may present me with a leather medal inscribed with the seal of the Recommended for A .. 9,. A. It is enough. The last word is Philadelphia s.atd. Malnutrition, Convalescence. Now in the language of that philosopher and great student of human nature, Chimmic STOMACU TROUBLES GENERALLY Fadden, I would fain express my sentiments, "What t' ell, boys-what t' ell?" Positively Non·Gas Forming To a disinterested observer this' waste of College and "south wind" about, "vVho was the father of IN THE TREATMENT OF the A. O. A.?" "Who are the charter mem­ DISEASE BY OSTEOPATHIC bers of the ,Osteopathic Hall of Fame?'.' METHODS, Protos will be "Who are eligible to the 'All-American team found to be a valuable assist­ of osteopathic celebrities for 1908?" and ant. The sick individual cannot "Who was the father of the research move­ Infirmary of eat, digest or assimilate food, ment?" looks very much like a free-far-all which the normal individual grab bag for laurel wreaths in the hall at fame. can. How about putting these classics away on In the treatment of stomach the shelf and consigning thereto all other in­ cipient "ego" booms as soon as they appear, Osteopathy and intestin I diseases, in which digestion a d assimilation are to keep company with those celebrated always oor, Protos is the food classics entitled. "Who stole Charlie Ross?" par e cell nce because it is and "Who hit Billie Patterson ?" HE prospective student of Oste­ This research movement is not a balloon easily digested and readily as­ requiring hot air for motive power, bnt it is opathy wants to look about similated. Used with good a freighter, heavily laden with theories travel­ ( him carefully before choosing success i typhoid fever. ing through a new country, bound for the his school. land of proven facts. Its road is not a boule­ vard, but is full of ruts and mires, and noth­ Philadelphia is the center of Amer­ ing but "push," plus, is going to make it go, ican medicine. The first American Protos Food Mfg. Co. and only the dynamometer gauge is going to medical school was established there. show who puts in the work, and when all is It is the work-shop where Leidy, 57 Washington Street, CHICAGO said and done the profession and the public won't need a self-recording apparatus to know Gross, Agnew, Pepper, Piersol, Spiller, SEND FOR SAMPLE who have been the wheel horses on the road. Ossler and a hundred more set the Cnt out the pyrotechnics. boys, and push! standard for American practice and -With best wishes for your prosperity for American teaching. the new year. I remain. Brother Bnnting, Ifraternally, Ralph g. Williams, D. 0), This is the environment of the Phil­ Rochester, N. Y. adelphia College and Infirmary of Osteopathy, established in 1899 and Dr. Smith's since enlarged foqr times to accommo­ date the increased attendance. In 'D. O. Land The Philadelphia College draws clin­ Lectures ical material from a population of fif­ Ho! j'tlow for the Mi.ui.uippi Valley teen hundred thousand. Dr. B. F. Still writes as O-steopathlc A-s-sociation Meeting. It has acquired the unrivalled dis­ VERYone should begin to prepare for a follows four days after three days' osteopathic feast again at secting facilities of the Philadelphia E Kirksville. The Mississippi Valley Associa­ College of Anatomy. a lecture delivered at tion meets with the Missouri State Associa­ Elizabeth. N. J. tion at Kirksville, Mo., Thursday, Friday and It has access to all the famous clin­ Saturday, May 27, 28 and 29, 1909. This meet­ ing has every promise of being a grand suc­ ics of Philadelphia, and to the unique cess. Already the program committee of both collections of the Wistar Institute of "*** Hit impressed this man who is associations are hard at work, and they have a scholar and man o(affairs it should im­ the promise of some of the best and most Anatomy and the Academy of Natu­ prominent osteopaths of the country for their press all w 0 were present, and as a program. The State and M. V. O. A. will di-' ral Sciences. substantial cho of't e entertainment 'vide time. ,7i'e are promised splendid clinics at the hospital. and many other features that And its Faculty enlists the teaching I have already enrolledfive new patients should ma]'e this a remarkable meeting. Those services of some of the foremost prac­ who were there last August to the A. O. A. and hear of several more who are ex­ meeting know the value of these conventions. ticing Osteopaths in the country. pecting to come. A medical trained and those who were not there should sure at­ tend this one, so centrally located, and thus Students from every part of the nnrse who was present at the meeting get in line to help do the work so essentiai U nited States and from foreign coun­ told me to- ay that she had induced to osteopathic growth and development at this time. All osteopaths of the great Mississippi tries, seek the Philadelphia College of two prospective patients to comelfor Valley are invited to attend and all others will Osteopathy. examination thi week, and she herself be welcome and be with us at another great Kirksville gathering. "Pap" will be there, and Next class matriculates September is considering e tering the A. S. O. next his kindly welcome to all his children is well worth the price of the trip. Besides every­ 14, 1909. September." thing possible will be done to make the pro­ gram second to none ever presented at any Write to the Registrar for osteopathic convention in the U. S. Remem­ catalogue of the Phila­ ber the date; and let our watchword be once For Press and other ITIore "On to Kirl{sville," vVe are coming, delphia College and Infir­ Father Andrew, many hundreds strong-com­ mary of Osteopathy, and opinions address ing to greet you and to again drink from the a copy of the Journal. fount of life, the original spring from which we are all now enjoying the fruits so much. Look out for our program announcements.­ 1115 North Broad Street DR. WI LtlAM SM IT" A. G. Hildreth. D.O., President M. V. O. A.; Mary E. Noyes, D.O., Secretary M. V. O. A. PH ILADELPHIA, PA. KIRKSVILLE, MO. A. S. 0.· Commencement. The graduating exercises of the famous "Skidoo Class" of the A. S. O. occurred during Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

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the week of Janual')" 17-23. On January 17, Rev. Templeton preached the doctorate sermon at the First Presbyterian Church. In lieu of class day most of the members wrote on the Missouri state board examination. This class entered the A. S. O. with twenty-three mem­ Mt. Clemens, Mich. bers and with the changes that must inevitably occur, graduated the same Dumber. They waited accordingly until the 23rd, to hold their exercises which commenc d promptly at twen­ ty-three minutes past ten. Mineral Springs. . The invocation was deliv red by Rev. Everly, after which Dr. G. E. Still said "We meet here These mineral waters are powerful iodo=bromo=sulpho=salines, to graduate to-day the famous twenty-three class, the only one of its kind in captivity, obtained from wells averaging a depth of 1,200 feet, having a which graduated with exactly the same num­ ber present as at the beginning. It reminds specific gravity of 1.116 and a mean temperature of S6 Fahr. One me of a story of the young man whose bride told him he should be a model husband .and hundred and twenty=five'pounds of aggregate minerals are con= he found that meant a good imitation of the real article, so this class is a good imitation of tained in each bath of about 65 gallons. The water is heated to a our ordinary big classes, but they have learned osteopathy and since they know it I know they suitable degree ready for immediate use in the bath houses. will achieve success.-Journal of Osteopathy. The class address was delivered by Dr. WaI­ Mt. Clemens Mineral Water Baths are indicated in the follow= ter Williams, Dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, who took as his ing diseases: subject "Hospitality." Dr. A. I. Still gave the class a characteristic talk. Acute, Chronic and Muscular Rheumatism. Those receiving the degrees were: Ammer­ man, Margaret, Appleby, Anne; Carson, Henry; Diseases of Women, Anemia, hlorosis, Toxemia. Diseases of the Christy, Belle; Conover, R. H.; Coryell, R. S.; Davis, Anna L.; Fleming, F. B.; Gallagher, Skin==Eczema, Psoria lis, Liche , Pityriasis, Acne, Prurigo, Urticaria, Dollie; Kinzie, J. W.; Lumley, Leila; Lyman, Elva; Powell, E. S.; Smith, Julia L.; Smith, Etc. Chronic Catarrhal Conditions of the Digestive Tract, Larynx, Nose W. E.; Sowers, H. F.; Spohr, C. D.; Stoddard, and Throat. Diseases of the Kidneys and Liver. Autointoxication. Katharine; Tittsworth, Eliza A.; Tittsworth, R. F.; Walker, C. N.; Wolf, .r. M., M. D.; Woolson, Tedious Convalescence resulting from La Grippe, Typhoid, Etc. Diabetes Clement. Mellitus and Diabetes Insipidus. Metal Poisoning, Etc. A New Disease. Over 200 bath houses, hotels and boarding houses for the accommo= The doctor (to patient, who is married to a wife ·who is wealthy, but about twice his age dation of patients, at aft prices. and the possessor of a temper that makes his life unbearable)-You know, my dear sir, you're suffering from a very peculiar disease, "matri­ monial dyspepsia." Your wife's too rich-she OPEN THE YEAR ROUND. doesn't agree with you.-The Sketch. Delightful situation, 20 miles from Detroit. Through trains from East Legislative Fight On In Colorado. Osteopathic physicians of the city will take and West via Orand Trunk Ry. System. Detroit suburban electric cars an active part in attempting to defeat the bill every half hour. Illustrated book of Mt. Clemens mailed free. Address recently introduced in the general assembly of Colorado seeking to put the members of their craft out of business In the state. The F. R. EASTMAN, Sec'y, Chamber of Commerce, Denver County Medical Society is said to be back of the measure that seeks to make illegal Mt. Clemens, Mich. the practice of osteopathy.-Colorado Springs (Col.) Telegraph.

Pacific College Graduates Class. Commencement exercises for the 1909 class of the Pacific College of Osteopathy, Los Angeles, were held February 4th at the Woman's Club House, 940 Figueroa street. Degreees were con­ fOOD SCIENCE BY CORRESPONDENCE ferred upon: Olive J. Austin, Carollne V. Com­ stock, D.O., Charles F. Fingerle, Mary E. Giles Etha B. Hemphill, John C. Richey, Lorenzo A: You can qualify yourself to practice scientific dietetics, and earn the title Rockwell, Warren R. Shillings, and Dale W. Thurston. of Food Scientist, through my Professional Correspondence Course in Applied The following program was carried out: March, Miss Tillie Burns; Music, P. C. O. Quar­ Food Chemistry. tette; Prayer, Rev. W. W. Logan, D. D.; Ad­ dress, Mr. C. B. Boothe, President of the Cali­ You will be able to apply the principles of Food Chemistry and the Chem­ fornia Association for the Study of the Preven­ istry of the Human Body to individual conditions, so as to cure all curable tion of Tuberculosis; Solo, Mrs. Fred R. Dorn; Address to the Class, Dr. Carle H. Phinney' diseases. Presentation of Class for Degrees, Dr. Clement A. Whiting; Conferring of Degrees, Dr. John There is no more nobl nor more remunerative profession open to-day O. Hunt; Presentation of Flowers; Music, P. C. than the practice of scient c dietetics. O. Quartette. .' This Correspondence choo has proven its practical value by the un­ Commencement Exercises at Los Angeles. The senior class of the Los Angeles College qualified success of its st ents. of Osteopathy held their commencement exer­ cises .January 28th. There were fifteen gradu­ Graduates recognized' erywhere. ates and an interesting program was carried out, Dr. Harry W. Forbes being the principle Special Terms to Ph icians, Osteopaths, Trained urses, Etc. speaker. The graduates were: Emma C. Abplanalp, E. Mabel Andrews, James E. Biby, Glen H. Write for Free Prospectus Copeland, Alsa R. Elder, Raymond C. Ghostley, Ferd Goodfellow, Walter S. Kingsbury, William uT~e Chemistry of Man" F. McConnell, James A. McNamara, Albert P. Monatt, Victoria A. Nash, Elmer L. Smythe. With Full Particulars Sylph Sturgeon, Laertes T. White. Organize Chapter of Iota Tau Sigma. Osteopathic physicians of this city and sur­ EUGENE CHRISTIAN rounding towns have formed a college fraternity to be known as the Delta Chapter of the Iota FOOD SCIENTIST Tau Sigma Fraternity. The organizers of the chapter are: Drs. William S. NIcholl, Robert Dept. F. E. Switzer, Vane Sigler and Thomas H. Nicholl, 7 E. 41st Street. New York City of Philadelphia; Dr. Robert Carey, of Easton, .' / and Dr. L. K. Tuttle of New York. The fraternity will qualify for membership In the National Association of College Fraterni­ ties.-Philadelphia (Pa.) Ledger. TABLES TABLES Third District I. O. A. Mee,ting. The Seventh BI-Monthly Meeting of the Third We manufacture t~ta es that look well District Illinois Osteopathic Association was and wear well. Pr'ce 1st and samples of held at residence of Dr. Ada Chapman, Gales­ burg, Wednesday, February 3. The program covers sent on re t. Folding tables, included: "The Needs of the Profession." Dr. strong and durab ,$6.00. H. P. Ellis, Canton; "Enuresis," Dr. Etta O. Chambers, Geneseo; "Diabetes Mellitus," Dr. B. Dr. George T. Hayman,317 Mint Arcade,PhIladelphia J. Albright, Kewanee; "Influenza," Dr. Fred B. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

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DeGroot, Rock Island; "Our Ethical Standing and How to Improve It," Dr. Lola L. Hays, Moline.

Six Graduates at Central College. TheAme'rican School A class of six was graduated from the Cen­ tral College of Osteopathy, Kansas City, Jan­ OF uary 21st. Dr. J. W. Hofsess, president of the Our Special school conferred the degree of "D.O." upon Louis S. Adams, GreenwoOd, Mo.; S. J. Tilden Bartlett, Lone Jack, Mo.; Harry H. Bennett, "Stock Number" Halifax, Nova Scotia; Thomas H. Glovel~ Cam­ bridge, Kas.; Thomas H. McKenzie, La Crosse, Osteopathy vVash., and John Venters, Lincoln, Neb. Success of the Blind in Osteopathy, Offer Holds J. W. MachIin, the blind student at Still Col­ lege, Des Moines, who will graduate next Spring, will not be the only blind osteopath, as Good Until KIRKSVILLE was stated of him. Among the blind D. O.'s in practice are: Dr. C. H. Collier, Clarinda, Ia.; MISSOURI Dr. F. P. Beslin, Aberdeen, S. D.; Dr. J. C. Herman, Magnetic Springs, Ohio; Dr. R. W. March 15 Bowling, Los Angeles, Cal.; Dr. J. R. Shike, Earlham. Ia.; Dr. Jno. K. Shuster..1ilwaukee, DR. A. T. STILL Wis.; Dr. Fred B. Teter, Davenport, Wash. Dr. . A. W. Howland, Boston, Mass. We have some "stock numbers" that rounder of the Sclenoe. President we will close out quickly. They repre­ Considered Him A Tough SUbject. sent too much capital tip.d up and un­ The country doctor, after examining his patient, a ruddy, fat farmer, decided that available. They are the best of cam­ leeches properly applied. would benefi t the old paign material and have all been used man, so he told the much perturbed wife what with marked success in osteopathic to do. Upon hi return a day or two later he was surprised to find the patient much thinner, promotion. his face expressing much uneasiness, when he asked the housewife how the leeches had acted, This is a great promotion and edu­ she hastened to reply. catioual opportunity for wide awake The largest and foremost Osteopathic "Well, I thought them little leeches wouldn't do him much good so I put a couple of ferrets and progressive D. O.'s who are willing College in the world. Fourteen at hilTI." to advance the popular nnderstanding of osteopathy and at the same time in­ years of successful school work. Num­ Dr. G. A. Gamble Says Newspaper Reports Were Misleading. crease their own practices and prestige ber of students Exceeds seven hundred. Dr. G. A. Gamble, of Salt Lake City. Utah, --and do these things in an ethical, has had some, to him, very unpleasant news­ dignified manner. This institution teaches genuine Osteo­ paper publicity lately in connection with his divorce proceedings. He thinks the profession Spec;al price $:2.00 a hundred, print­ pathy-no adjuncts. has gained a wrong impression. In an open Jet­ ter to the Joul'l1al of Osteopathy he says: "I ed with professional card and delivered object to the statement in the Journal whIch in your city. ee January O. P. for says 'Dr. G. A. Gamble is in hard luck'. I Jist of available numbers and contents. consider I am the luckiest man in Utah. I have been blessed and prospered more during Teac&ing facilities unexcelled. Thor- the past year than ever before in my life. I was a victim to a blackmailing scheme, with ou hly equipped laboratories in five thousand dollars at the bottom of it, but it The Osteopathic Publishing Co. flattened out and I hope all parties are as well 171 Washington St., Chicago. all departments. Clinical advantages satisfied as I am. I trust ~'our readers will take those misleading newspaper I'eports ,vith a grain unlimited. Faculty composed of sev­ of salt." enteen able and experienced instruct­ Another Victim of "Martin," Alias "Sterling." Dr. 'Varren B. Mitchell, of 1 ewarl" N. J., ors who devote their full time to advi es us that the bogus subscription agent calling hill1self sOlnetilnes "l\1artin" and some­ The Edinburgh University teaching. Anatomy taught in every titnes "Sterling," worked his galne on hinl a short time ago. Osteopaths should be on the term-three professors in charge of look out for this man. He offers liberal pre­ Stereoscopic Anatomy mium inducements. one being the "Red Dwarf" this department. Special attention ink pencil. If he sho,vs up in your neighbor­ hood, notify the Cosmopoli tan Magazine; they Cunningham and Waterston . given to dissection and to the study of are anxious to get hold of him. anatomy in general. New hospital Osteopathic Athletic Association Gives Dance. The annual dance of the Athletic Association Contains 250 Dissections for the use of the school now in of the ~'fassachusetts College of Osteopathy, Cambridge. was held .Januar)· 21st at the New­ Reproduced from the Cadaver operation. towne Club Hall. North Cambridge. The mat­ rons were Mrs. ,Villiam E. 'I':Tarris. Dr. Grace B. Taplin. ~1rs..John H. Smith and 1\1rs. Nell C. Cutler. The committee consisted of Thomas A. WIswell. '09. president of the association. Reading; C. Vernon Paterson, '09. Hopedale; CI,vde It. Cowan, '10, vice-president. Bakers- . field, Vt.: J. B. McKee Arthur, '10. New York: Next Class Will Begin S. ,\. Cool" ']], secretary-treasurer; R. D. Head. '11.-Boston (~lass.) Berald. September 15th. 1909 ~ New Members on Michigan State Board. New appointments to the ~Iichigan State Board of Registration ha\'e recentl~· been an­ nounced. Dr. Glenn Hiel\". of Jacl\"son, suc­ ceeds Dr. F. H. Williams, of Lansing. Dr. B. A. Bullock. of Hastings, in April takes 'Dr. S. R. Landes' place. Dr. Edythe Ashmore. of De­ troit, will be secretary and treasurer of the new board.

Field of Osteopathy Unlimited. Write for catalogue, "JOURNAL OF A week ago ,,"e purchased twelve ',Vyan­ or any information dottes (white)-Wednesday we had a Texas OSTEOPATHY." Norther-Thursday mOl'l1ing when I let the -----Address---- chickens out of the house I noticed that one A.re you up on your anatomy? of the hens had limber neck. Water was run­ ning from her mouth and the necl< was Can you mstantly demonstrate it to stretched full length and head down. I picked pat~ents American School her up and gave her a general osteopathic your ? treatment. In five minutes she was going with the bunch and there has been no return of the This new method is a good one, very helpful to trouble. I write this that you may publish the students and practitioners in their anatomical '?f Osteopathy letter if you choose, but I don't care to have studies. I cordially recommend it to the osteo­ my name published because my friends would pathic profession. thinl< I am seeking notoriety. I am not an ANDREW TAYLOR STILL, M. D. osteopath. but I have been treated by them so Send for descr

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manipulated do\\;nwtlrd \vi th illY left hand, using within the bounds and restrictions of my pro­ the thumb and first finger, beginning at the fession." mouth. Then I worked the neck and back of MAN, WOMAN-KNOW THYSELFl the neck to body. Then the breast and back to ) 1llt1a1CSIBootOll~P"Y~CS.Z2Spaf'S.32C Pic:twes.. PricLSZ.OO Dr. McKenzie's Rumpus Fizzles Out. the "pope's nose." Don't rub, but manipulate, The expected row among osteopaths at the and very gently. If this strikes you just right By DR. E. J. BARTHOLOMEW, 161 State St., Chicago meeting of the State Board of Osteopathy here the chicken wOI'ld will clucl< your welcome.­ A SCIENTIFIC EXPLANAl'lOH OF THE EFFECT OF THOUGHT. (Kansas City) dId not materialize. Dr. A. L. American Poultry Advocate. McKenzie said he expected an effort would be Dr. Asa Willard, of Missoula, .10nt., send in WHAT IS MIND? PRESSURE Olll A WID made to oust him from the board and that he PUTS OUT Oflll: UQHT. A the above clipping. Truly the universal truth of FROM WHENCE COMETH DEPECTIVE OR HAIlIDI_ was prepa.red to resist by bringing charges CAPPED DVM'AMO PUTS osteopathy is sinking into the popular mind. WHAT IS MIND TO BODY? our ALL. L1QllIn. against other osteopaths in the state. The .AflI la Dla••••o I" WHAT IS BODY TO MIND? L.lltE ••" ...... PR&S_ meetIng, however, did not develop any fight on North Dakota D. O.'s Want Examination SURE ON A IlIEICV& (THE Dr. McKenzie. "It· wasn't exactly harmonious" WHAT IS NERVE FORCE? UL.NAR NERVE OR w,"UN_ Clause. YOUR VITAL BANK ACCOUNT NV BONE,w YOR EX"'M. he . saId last night, "but no charges were The osteopaths of the state want to be placed Pj..£IWI1.1. DIS·EAS£ THE. Probabl~ HAVE YOU OVERDRAWN-IT? LITTL.. "."••It AND brought on either side. the whole upon a basis similar to that of the medical pro­ 1t1''''11 ,.1....It. H ...NDICAP matter will be dropped."-Kansas roity (Mo.) HOW CAN YOU REPLETE IT l' WIRES THE wHUMA'" DYIlI...MOw fession in the state, in that they may have a fTHE BRAIN1 BY U"'CON. Star. board of examiners and regulate the m:actice of HOW CAN YOU MAINTAIN IT l' ~:g'T~~Du~rJl~U::o~ osteopathy. The present law grants osteopaths WHAT DEPENDS OPON IT l' DYNAMO WILL •• ol.w...... O. Virginia Osteopaths Elect Officers. MI"o 15 THE ENOl­ the right to practice upon the holding of a di­ To KNOW THYSELF SPaLS WEJ\lTH! NEER The Virginia Osteopathic Association held ploma from a regular school of osteopathy. To 1I0f1, ...'1ltISnSTUl(."EU~. their annual meeting January 16th at Lynhaven this the osteopaths in the state desire to add an The Hum.n Bod)' como.red with an EIKtri<: Lichti".. Plant Hotel, Norfolk, Va. Officers elected were: examination, further to regulate' the practiCe of INORQo\I)-AG£/f1S) President, Dr. vv. D. Willard, Norfolk; vice­ their profession.-Bismark (N. D.) Tribune. president, Dr. Maria B. Walkup, Roanol

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osteopaths are not narrow; that we do not opathy and the llcenslng and examining of "Picturing the 'Rela­ practitioners of that school. believe or claim that all sorts of diseases are A blll similar to the present one was Intro­ tion of UJoint.s H due entirely to one thing; that we do not say duced at the last session of the general assem­ there is always a "bony" or even another sort bly and passed both houses, only to be vetoed by Governor Stuart. to 1Ji.sea.se of tissue lesion as the first cause of every It is said that Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, state possible form of sickness. We establish that commissioner of health, was Instrumental In AIJO Showing Why OJteopathy IJ jIlot a our patients get as careful nursing and treat­ having the governor veto the former blll, but Harp with 'But On. String. the growth of the number of citizens of the ment as those of any school and osteopathic state who are Interested In the passage of the "' 11 E make a new departure in the March adjustment beside. We definitely cite some present blll wlll, It Is .expected, cause consider­ issue of Osteopathic Health by intro- able pressure to be brought upon the governor V" of the other different things besides tissue­ and the friends of the blll except that he wlll ducing pictures to illustrate osteo­ lesions which cause sickness. It's convincing, this time make it a law.-Wilkesbarre (Pa.) pathic lesions. Several hal~tones h~lp to il­ too. News. ' lumine our text and make It clear Just how Now, many broad-minded and progressive the body gets out of mechanical order. We practitioners of osteopathy criticize much of In Our Ca.J'e There WaoJ'n't Any beO"in at the "foundations of the body," so the osteopathic field literature put out as being Culprit. to "speak the pelvis, and show its weak points too narrow, too exclusive, too bigoted. They Referring to the recent criticisms of the A. anatomi~ally-the tendency of its "joints" to object to being eternally branded as "harps O. A. In The O. P. and the responses thereto, your experience with your friends, each of "err" under strain-and the way this causes . with just one string." They like the public to whom thought you were after him, reminds me disease is, we think, made very plain. ' understand osteopathy as a broad system of of an Incident that occurred at Maryvllle, Mo. This is the first issue of Osteopathic Health practice, having even more, instea,d of less, (where I once lived). A local paper stated that a clerk had been to be illustrated in its eight years of history, resources than the other schools-which is caught tapping the tlll of his employer. and we trust that the innovation will be well literally true. The next day the same paper said: "Since received by our patrons. Its favorable recep­ March Osteopathic Health is the issue for our report yesterday that a clerk had been caught tapping the tlll of his employer, each tion will mean the repetition of. this feature at them. of seventeen clerks has called to ascertain if stated intervals. It is also the issue for all the rest. he was the clerk referred to."-Dr. S. S. Stlll. This article (from the pen of the editor) Read it-and you will decide it is too good D. O. not only explains what is new about osteop­ a light bearer not to send out to illuminate the athy but it presents it in a somewha~ n?vel dark in your community. Personal. way' to-wit: the viewpoint that the begmmngs What's your order, Doctor? Dr. W. W. Caswell of 755 Boylston street, Boston, is taking work at Tuft's Medical of disease and disability are in the "joints" School. of the body, that is, disturbances in the rela­ Special "Price.s Create Dr. Glen C. Hicks of Jacl,son has been ap­ tionship of the tissues that make up the pointed a member of the Michigan State Board "hinges" or unions between the 200 odd bones 'Big 1Jemand for of Registration. of the body. This idea of "disturbed joints" D,'. J. C. Goddell has returned to Covina, Cal., after a short stay in Escondido, where he was is one very easy for the lay reader to grasp. ,Stocl( jVumber.s. associated with Dr. Ernest A. Plant. Many will understand that way of putting it 'HE profession "took up" our special of­ Dr. Maud M. Goodwin of The Ilkley, 176 who wouldn't understand another phraseology. fer on "stock numbers' in a gratifying Huntington avenue, Boston, is taking a course Purposely technical phrase has been omitted 1 manner, The sales have been "bully in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. and the talk of plain people substituted. Dr. Warren B. Mack of Boston, Mass., suc­ good." The "Women's Number" is sold out, cessfully passed the November examination of Our patrons well know how successful also the September '08 and the January '09. the State Board of Registration in Medicine. Osteopathic Health has been in developing There are some fine numbers left, but stock on Dr. E'loise F. Jacobs has opened an office at just one simple idea at a time in its issues and many of them is down low. If you want to Lynn. Mass., in the suite formerly occupied by "driving- that idea home." We have always "get in" on this really unusual offer you should Dr. MacCallum, who has removed to Pennsyl­ contended that it was better to presept a few vania. "get busy" at once. The January "0. P." gives Dr. Carl P. McConnell of Chicago will give a truths about osteopathy and fHake them stick contents of the available numbers, Under the scientific lecture before the members of the strongly in the minds of readers than canvass special offer they cost you only $2.00 a hun­ Boston Osteopathic Society "WIednesday, Feb­ many points and put each of them forth but dred, printed with professional card, and de­ ruary 17th. dimly. Dr. Agnes Fraser, whose main office is at live1'ed in your ofiice. Remember! this price Methuen, Mass., has located a branch office at This March issue follows in our series of is good only to March 15th. 105 Winter street, Haverhill, where she is on brochures which have presented osteopathy Mondays and Fridays. successively and luminously from so many Dr. J. Birdsell Banker of 112 West 72d street, new and true aspects. ' Will 'Report Fa«}orably New Yorl" has added to his offices and now has five treating rooms. He has a very at­ At one time we show how most diseases are tractive sui te of rooms. of spinal origin; at another 'time we develop on OJ'teopathic 'Bill. HE judiciary general committee of the sen­ Dr. Alice Lynch, a graduate of the Philadel­ the thought that they are often due to nerve . ate, after a session that began yesterday phia College of Osteopathy, 1909, has taken pressure; again we present disease as an im­ T afternoon and lasted Into the night, decided charge of the practice of Dr. Mary L. Sims, at poveris,hment of the blood, a pollution of the to report favorably next Monday, when the sen­ Union, S. C. Dr. Sims will remain at Columbia. ate again meets, on a blll creating a state board Dr. ,Varren A. Rodman, professor of psych­ blood stream; at still other times we show of osteopathy. The blll provides tliat the board ology at the Massachusetts College of Osteo­ how disease is a failure of nutrition: next,' Is to be kept separate and apart from the state' patllY, delivered a lecture on "The New Psy­ illness is at some stage a stoppage of elimina­ medical board. Among the other provisions of chology," before the New Century Club of Bos­ tion-a glandular failure; again it means the proposed law are the recognition of oste- ton, January 19th. "vital bankruptcy" due to spending nerve force faster than the brain can generate it, due to mind-leaks, nerve-waste, etc. These di fferent How "Bad" Mechanism in our "Joints" Make Sickness views of disease through osteopathic spec­ ILLUSTR,ATED WITH FIVE HALFTONES tacles are all scientific, literally true and ac­ is the offering of the editor of for the forthcoming March issue. It curate. Our literature is, we believe, the only Osteopathic Health is a simply written brochure, talking to the plain people so they can understand what osteopathic promotion service that has paid osteopathy is driving at. g It is not merely an explanation of bony leSIOns-although due regard to these various phases of disease it explains them admirably in picture. It will make the publIc take notice that and developed each phase in turn so that the osteopathy is essentially a broad-minded practice. Itdistinctly states t.hat osteop~~hy picture was one never to be dimmed in the recognizes and deals with all other disease causes which science recogmzes 111 additIon mind of the lay reader. to physical lesions. (]I If you are- such a strict lesionist .that you don't believe that In this issue we add still another viewpoint anything but a "bony" slip ever produces dIsease, you Will want thiS number bec:a~se to our already sprightly and variegated mode it Sh0WS the "lesion" idea lucidly on paper. (]I If you are such a !tberal dIagnostIcIan of presenting osteopathy. that you recognize and deal with all classes 0) disease causes and practice osteopathy It is a developing- of this idea that disease conscienciously without often finding actual ('bony" lesions-sttll Will you want thiS originates in the joints very largely. issue, for your position is presented ably. (]I Every D. O. must read thiS March Issue , Yet you must not jump to. conclusions and of Osteopathic Health to see for himself just how pleasingly It. states hl.S pOSitIon. suppose we are narrow or foolish enough to say CJI This number embodies the suggestions of many ostheopathlc practItIOners who that every disease begins as a joint disturb­ accepted the editor's invitation to write him just what they thought ought to be ance. No such thing. But the lay man or lay embodied in our explanatory literature. woman who reads this "joint" discussion will '\[ Place your'order early and avoid the RUSH. There will ,e. a RUSH for it is a/ready oni Our January come off a stauncher believer in osteopathy. issue is all gone, and scarcely a dozen orders of our February Issue (The OsteopathIC CatechlS~) rem~ln on That is one and the most apparent purpose our shelves, They will hardly last until the new March issue is out. (We have some "CatechIsms" In the old form, however.) This quick sale of these record breCl-hng Jan4,,;ry and February Issues speaks vo]u,:,es for having written this brochure. Of itself for the approval and enthusiastic appreciation of Osteopath."c Health s new SIze and make-up. It IS bemg it is good 'enough to stand alone. But there generally commended both by practitioners and patients. is another, and to many D. O.'s it will seem What will your order be for this March issue? even a deeper purpose. The Osteopatbic Publishing Company, HenrY~t~~h~~~t~~ntlng. 171 Washington St., Chicago This easy conversation about "joints" be­ comes the vehicle for establishing that we Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

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Dr. M. E. Church of Calgary, Canada, has LOCATIONS. 'ust returned from a trip East, where he Dr. J. H. Robuck, at Trinidad, Colo. brought his sister through a case simulating appendicitis and also attended several cases of Dr. Jeanette Byers, at Hotel Manavista, Bra­ measles in the family. dentown, Fla. Dr J. H. Jefferson of Mount Ayr, Iowa,' re­ AManual of Dr. Ann Fairchild, at 35 Mt. Pleasant ave­ centiy had to undergo an operation at Des nue, Roxbury, Mass. Moines. He is now attendmg to practIce agam Drs. Nettie E. and Flora L. Satterlee, at 611 and by exerClsmg care expects to catch up and Osteopathic G necology Montana St., El Paso, Texas. keep up with his work. Dr. An~a Stanley, at 425-427 Barnes, blocl<, Dr. 'James Decl{er of Stafford, Kans.,,, is de­ By PERCY n. WOODALL, M.D., D.O. ''''ichita, Kan. livering a course of lectures on the Spmal Column" before the High school students and MARRIED. teachers of the city. The lectures were in re­ SEOOND EDITION sponse to an invitation from' the supel"111tend­ Dr. J. A. Reeser, of TOI'onto, Canada. to Miss ent of schools. Revised, ¥nlar,ged and Illustrated Alice L. Shelley, at Redlands, Cal. Dr. Frank G. and Eva Mains Carlow of Med­ NO READY Dr. R. T. QuiCk and Miss Alta M. Gilmour, ford Ore., have taken offices in the new Mis­ of Sioux City, on December 19th, 1908. At sion' block, a fine building recently completed. PRICE REPAID, $3.50 home at Kirksville, Mo. It is strictly modern, the offices bemg steam Dr. Susan Ina Patterson and Dr. Laureston heated, electric lighted and supplied with hot F0 sale by the author Rawston Livingston, of Kansas City. Mo., at the b"ide's home, Holyo]

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