Osteopathic Truth Vol. 2 No. 6 January 1918
Osteopathic Truth
January 1918
Vol. 2, No. 6
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[1978.257.10] MEMORIAL TO DR. ANDREW T AYLOR STILL FOUNDER OF OSTEOPATHY ~steopatbic '!rutb A MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR THE OSTEOPATHIC PROFESSION No compromise with materia medica for therapeutic purposes
Volume II JANUARY, 1918 Number 6
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THE PROFESSION AS NEVER BEFORE HAS BEEN held memorial exercises. At the monthly meeting of the STIRRED BY THE PASSING OF DR. STILL Boston Society, Dec. 15th, several members present were The death of Dr. Still has stirred the osteopathic called upon for remarks and reminiscences of the Old Doc profession to its "ery depths. His passing has given rise tor. to an introspective as well as a prospective turn of mind Special funeral services were held by the A. T. Still throughout the profession. It has given rise to seL·iou. Osteopathic Association of California in the offices of Dr. contemplation on the part of all regarding the futUle of Grace 'Wyckoff, Story Building, Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. --- - 14, 1917 at 3:30 P. M. Dr. Nettie Olds Haight-Stiilgle delivered the oration which we herewith print in full:
TRIBUTE TO DR. A. T. STILL On Aug. 8th, 1897, in an address before his fellow townsmen, Dr. Still said: "I am now 69 years old; next .year makes seventy. I do not expect to have many more such celebrations. My father died at seventy-one, my mothor at 89. As long as I live I shall be an uncompro mising defender of Osteopathy. I hope for a brilliant future for Osteopathy. When I am dead, if I get to come back here, I expect to see Osteopathy ahead of all other 'pathies' and men growing up with better minds, brains, nerves, and better all over." Twenty years and four months were added to his life beyond the years of his expectancy, and in those twenty years he realized in large measure, the fulfillment of his hopes. It is difficult to comprehend that this' great man is dead, gone from this sphere of activity as we u~~ it. It is absolutely incomprebensible that the c~Qf hi;; urain, ;,n.. gn::at. 'l'HOUGH'!' WAVES set in motion by hia cerebral dynamo, the powers and influences for GOOD re sulting from these 89 years of devotion to the cause of human happiness,-I say, it is incomprehensible that these things should pass away. Indeed, the history of humanity seems to confirm the thought that death is but the door through which every world genius must pass to larger fields of usefulness. Perhaps this is natUl'e's compensa tion for the sorrows of death. Dr. Still voiced the law ST.~TUE OF DR. STILL AT KIRKSVILLE and his pleasure in its contemplation when he said "When I am dead, if I get to come back here, I expect to see our grand science,-the best methods for developing, pro Osteopathy ahead of all other 'pathies.''' mulgating and perpetuatin!!; it. No greater consolation or comfort could a.ttend am'Wo Funeral exercises for the Old Doctor were especially in the hour of his death than the certain knowledge that impressive. Following Dr. Still's wish, Dr. A. G. Hil the work for which he had given the full measure of his dreth, president of the Macon Sanatorium gave the funeral life's toil should go on, and actually attain to heights address. (Full text of address appears on another page.) of which he could only dream. If any cloud of doubt or Several Osteopathic societies throughout the country misgiving crossed his mind in these latter days, we can
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feel that it was but a passing cloud which But he knew the profound effect of opathy on whose fluttering folds are only served by contrast to make still precedent and that the average mind is emblazoned in letters of glittering gold: brighter the sunshine of his hopes. unconsciously and oftimes unwillingly "One science, one God, one faith, and one To-day, in every part of the civilized the slave of hoary customs; and so we baptism." world, will be told the history of this find his early lectures to his students In this solemn hour, oh followers of great and glorious life. Friends of Os filled with warnings of the trials and this great and glorious soul, let us plight teopathy will recount with reverence and temptations that were certain to befall anew our faith in Osteopathy; let us re pride the noble deeds, the toil and suffer the men and women who went out into solve anew to follow to the letter the man ng, the endurance, the patience, the dis the world to practice Osteopathy. Every dates of him, our fallen Leader, whose couragements, the victories, and above. possible snare and pitfall was described. wondrous vision and masterful under all the boundless faith in Nature's God Every power of his wonderful intellect standing we may never hope to possess, and love for his fellow beings. These logic, reason, analysis, wit, sarcasm-was yet upon whose bier we may lay the are tributes we pay to the dust of our used to prepare his studcnts to withstand tribute of emulation. His life's work honored dead. But to those of us gath tbe opposing forces of the medical hier stands to-day like the mighty oak, of ered here, in tbis hour of final departure archy. He said to them: "Under this which he has so often spoken in allegory, of the human form we knew and loved so hanner we have enlisted. Under it we girded about by a golden band upon which . well there is another tribute we would expect to march, and go into a fight that is inscribed the one word KNOWLEDGE. pay, a tribute not found in the highest will cover more territory than was covered To the degree that we attain and apply encomiums, . the most fervent eulogy by Alexander, Napoleon, Grant, Lee and this knowledge shall we do credit to our known to the customs of men-the TRIB Blucher; and to conquer by FACTS a selves, service to our fellowmen and honor 'UTE OF OBEDIENCE. greater enemy than has heretofore been to him who freely laid the offering of a . "If ye love me, obey my command conquered by the world's gr~atest gen long and arduous life upon the altar of !nents;" so runs the text laid down by erals; waging a contest of greater moment human service. 'ancient philosophers. Obedience is the to the human race than any effort ever The following resolutions were psssed ,acid test of love. put forth for the establishment of a at this meeting: He has said: "Keep the temple of political, religious or scientific principle." vVhereas, Dr. A. T. Still, the Philoso Osteopathy pUle and undefiled." We rejoice to-day that our Great Com pher-Founder of the Science of Oste In 1874, when Dr. Still gave Oste mander lived to see this enemy so nearly opathy, has passed 'trom the sphere of :opathy to the world, drug therapy was conquered that he has abandoned the human activities, at the mature age of thoroughly entrenched in th~ affairs of fair and open field of battle altogetber. eighty-nine years and four months, and 'mankind, not only as a so-called "science But methods of warfare change and the Whereas, we are not unmindful of the -of medicine" (for drugs were actually day has not yet come for the sheathing of great blessing to Osteopathy and to those thought to be scientific) but in the po our sword~. But we have not been left who have found relief and health in its 'litical and social life as well. The aver without a plan of campaign. Aye; even ministrations that this great and useful 'age human mind has a profound respect to the very last, from out the ever-deep man should have be~n privileged to live ,for precedent. Customs of the fathers ening shadows of the tomb itself, came the out the full measure of his usefulness and forge the anchors which hold the minds of voice of this Great Commander saying to fall in Nature's rest time; and the children. It is difficult to· cut loose "This law have I given unto you, my Whereas, we believe that the name of 'from these anchors. P~rhaps this fact followers. It is founded upon the eternal Dr. A. T. Still must forever take first has served a good and useful pnrpo~e in rock of TRU'l'H. It is part and parcel of rank among the names of the wOlld's the conflict of the ages. Perhaps but for God himself. My life is drawing to a bencfactors, and the ability to persist in that which is close and it rests with you, sons and Whereas, we, his followers, are not in )alse we should be unable to persist in daughters of Ost~opathy, to carry for sensible to the magnitude of the task im that which is true. In the end the law ward the banners of this great science. posed upon us of ca.rrying forward the proves its efficacy because experience Do not let them trail in the medical mire. work he has mapped out; therefore eventually se'parates the chaff of enol' You can no more mix medicine and Os Be it Resolved by the A. T. Still Asso om the gi'ltltl of truth. Experience is teopathy than you can oil and water. ciation of California that we stand with e sch'Mlffi~r of Life,-a stern, severe Beware of mongrel institutions, snares bowed hearts in grief at- the loss of one aster, nevertheless the only one at set to capture the unwary. If you are we loved and revered, but with eyes for ,- hose hands the children of men have going to be an osteopath, don't be a ward to the future his life and work has 'been ahle to learn the lessons of progress sham but a genuine osteopath. Do not made possible,-a future upon which no 'and civili7.ation. Dr. Still knew that warp your intellect or stain tbe good shadow of sickness or premature death 'when he raised the flag of Osteopathy, name of Osteopathy by straying after. shall fall; and further 'every gun of precedent, custom and social strange gods. Always bear in mind that That we pledge ourselves anew to the 'usage would be leveled against it. But it Osteopathy will do the work if properly work of developing Osteopathy; and that .happened that he received the EXPER applied. If Osteopathy is not complete we shall seek consolation and suppcrt in IENCE in advance of his fellowmen which within itself, it is nothing. It walks his message: "It has taken many years enabled him to separate the chaff of error hand in hand with nothing but Nature's to prepare the ground to sow the seeds of 'from the grains of truth,-which enabled laws. Hear me again! You are the this as well as any other truth that has to know that the theory of drugs is only true soldiers in the great army of come to benefit mankind; so be patient, comPatible with the science of biology freedom, battling fOI' the liberation of have faith in God and the final triumph of e la'Ws of life. No martyr's coat was fettered bodies. Live up to the great TRUTH, and all will end well." is! Girded about with the armor plate Cause of Osteopathy. D. O. means DADDY'S PASSING of his new found TRUTH, he went forth DIG ON. Let your light so shine befOIe 'like David of old, to slay the arch-enemy men that the world will know that you FUNERAL ADDRESS DELIVERED BY DR. of human happiness and to bring back the are an'osteopath pure and simple, and A. G. HILDRETH roses of joy and health to the pallid cheeks that no prouder title can follow a human We have gathered here today to pay . of suffering humanity. name. Stand by the old flag of Oste- our respects and to perform the last duties
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to all that is left mortal of one of the most almost beyond the power of human en and all of these same thousands who know loved at men. We should come, not to durance, yet it is also true that in his of his passing away are mourning with us grieve, but to rejoice with him over the case, as in thousands of others, the tl'ia,]s today, and too, are grateful that he lived. change that has taken place in accordance ' and hardships and heavy bmdens seem to More than six thousand men and women with the gTeat life principle, natural have been the needed fire through which who have been educated as physicians in law, in which he has believed implicitly he must pass to pUl'ify the metal in the the schools that have taught the science and which he has taught so beautifully man, to best fit him and qualify him discovered by him know as no other peo-' and of which he was the greatest expon for the' high purpose of the great work he pIe can the real worth of his work. Hun ent of his age. was to accomplish. He has been the in dreds of them, nay all of them, have been A few weeks before Mother Still passed strument wisely chosen in God's hands to given opportunities that could never have on when she was nearing the end, it was give to the world a new treatment for the been dreamed of through other channels my privilege to be in Kirksville and I cure of disease. It was through the in life. Ah! the influence of his existence shall never forget a little incident that study of the human body and his know has been felt by more people and in more took place between the "Old Doctor" ledge of its divine perfection when in ways than any other man of his age, and and myself; it was late evening and we normal condition that led him into the the beauty and the glory of it all is the were out in front of the home on the wonderful field that eventually gave to fact that his influence and the far reach lawn. Knowing the great trial just be the world the scien(:e of Osteopathy. ing effect of the same have ever been to fore him, I said to him, "Daddy, how your You-his friends and neighbors-know enrich the lives of those who came in boys wish there was some way that they the history of his struggles, yO,i know contact with the same. He has brought could bear a part, at. least, of the great as no others can, or ever will know, his hope into hearts and health into lives burden that now rests upon 'you in this real worth. As a friend, a neighbor and where only 'despair existed. Talk about trial hour of your life. " And to my SUl a citizen you have known him, a: rare statues to our dead created from souness prise he said, looking me straight in the privilege you have enjoyed, and one marble and stone, he has created in the face, "You,boys need not worry over me, which the entire world in time will envy living, throbbing human hearts of men for over twenty years I have been teach yon. It was he and his efforts that made a monument that is destined to last for ing Natural Law to you and to the world, the little city of Kirksville so dear to so ever; marble and stone may crumble and and Mother's going is only the fulfillment many of us, that made it the best known .decay, but not so his memory and the of that Natural Law; another step in the city of its size throughout the civilized influence of his wonderful lire; they are progress of her life is being fulfilled; a globe; Kirksville is known as no other destined to live forever. change from mortality to immOl tality; city can ever be known; it is the birth The family said it was his requcs.t, as she has lived a good useful life and the place of Osteopathy, a science that in a well as theirs, that I make this talk. His time has come for her to pass on into quarter of a century has become a world last task assigned to me, so sweet, so greater usefulness; her change is but the influence; it was due to him and to his dear and so valued, but oh, so hard to fulfillment of life's divine plan; I would be efforts through the growth of the school perform! Only those 01' you who have a rank coward to break down now." made possible by his discovery that known him and these sons and daughter Those of you who were present at the Kirksville has made the prosperous, splen well can know how intimately and how time of her passing cannot help but re did growth it has. He was your neigh closely interwoven his life and theirs and member how well he bore his burden. bor, this city's most distinguished citizen, mine have been through this great pro That was but one of the many examples ·one of the big men of this state and of fession that he has left as a heritage to of his most wonderful iortitude, of his the United States, one of the world's mankind, and few, if any, can realize how indomitahle 'Ivill p,ower, of his undying most noted discoverers and humanity's tame words seem, how far short they fall faith,-no not faith but knowledge of greatest benefactor. in expressing what. my heart feels and so lite, that has contributed so much to his Wonderful discoveries have been made longs to pour forth at this hour. great life's work and we today enjoy as the people of no To this family who stand so near and Death, when it comes, is always more other age have ever enjoyed conveniences . dear to me let me say, first, to the daugh..: or less of a shock, let it corne when it and comforts and privileges that were not tel' who has given so unselfishly of her will, whether it be in early life-which it even dreamed of fifty years ago; we owe a life to him and his every want tor years, should not according to the teachings of debt of g:ratitude to the great brains of the that no daughter could have done more this' great man who lies before us-or men ~ho have made the conditions of than she has and that her demonstration whether it comes when well beyond the today possible, but to Dr. Andrew Taylor of parental love, devotion and self-saCl'i allotted time, death leaves heartaches Still all the people of all the nations of the fice will ever be a lasting example of duty and vacant places that are hard to under earth will ever be under lasting obliga wonderfully fulfilled by those who know stand and to bear; yet with this dear tions. For what do privileges amount of the all she has passed through. And man, who has left his family, his friends to, or all the wealth of the earth count, to these sons, upon whom has fallen the and the world such a heritage, such a without health? He has given to man mantle of his great life's work, you should vast wealth of everything good, we should kind the simplest, most common sense, not grieve. you knew him as no other not grieve for the reason that we know rational treatment of disease that has could have known him, you knew his could he speak to us today across the ever yet been discovered, '!- scientific faith-no, not faith, but his knowledge veil that divides this life from the great method for the cure of disease; hence, he of life and the great beyond; you know beyond, he would say we should rejoice is, as time will prove, humanity's great that he knew this change was coming and with him in the change, after so many est benefactor. You who have known he eli d not fear it, nay, he even welcomed more years have been allotted to him than him so intimately and well may not be it b,S another step in the divine plan of to most men on earth-wonderful years able to comprehend the ALI, of this state life; hence, I say to you, that you should in which to enjoy, as few men have been ment, but time will prove the correctness not grieve, your heritage is great· and privileged to enjoy, the fruits of his own of the same. while your burdens may seem heavy and life's work. God has been good, so good Countless thousands scattered all over your responsibilities many, you have so ' to him; while it is true that his burdens the world know through experience the much to be thankfu~ for that you should were great and seemingly at times heavy power of those dear hands of his to heal,. rejoice with him in all that has comet.o
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him and to you, and to humanity through Of finding the center of truth and love. deserted by every one save his wife and his living. And out of that Center a voice is crying children. To the men and women of the osteo That our dead are not in their low gr'aves The little property he had was soon ab pathic profession, whose hearts I know are lying, sorbed and then without patients, without with us here and now, even though not But are living and loving us, close and money,'...without friends, without profes permitted to be present in person, to you near, sional associates, began one of the most I say his life should ever be a lhing ex So long as we hold them dear. remarkable struggles in the annals of all ample of what may be accomplished the world. through unwavering, untiring efforts and Yes; living and loving, and trying to We would not overdraw the picture. devotion to principle and to trutb. His guide us- Those.who knew Dr. Still best, however, success and what he has accomplisbed Invisible helpers, by God's sweet will, know that this, in the best sense, can by living should be a lasting inspiration; Who oftimes move through the day be scarcely be done. our work given to us through him is one side us. Others have struggled in poverty, ot service and it has given to us a great But aiding us most when our minds are against seemingly overwhelming odds; privilege and most wonderful advantages. still. others have been reviled and ridiculed; We have been blessed in having given to I tell you the curtain is being lifted-- others have worked and waite rt Yes, The silence broken, the darkness ritted us the opportunity of spending our lives true, but in the case of.:Dr. Still we must And knowledge is taking the place of faith in a field of such vast usefulness, and to add the word ALONE! We must realize On that vast subject, Death. him belongs the credit. God grant we that when he announced his discovery, may be given the wisdom and strength Daddy, Dearest of Daddies, to your his professional brethren became his ene of purpose to carry on to the hill;hest thousands of children who love you so mies, and that through their influence his possible degree of perfection this great dearly, we give you up to a better life, patients and friends were so completely work-yet in its infancy.-and oh, may reluctantly, with a full knowledge that all laienated, that he did in fact, stand alone. recording angels in heaven hear and now is well with you. Nor did he stand alone, surroUllded merely record a vow from the hearts of every by indifference. His enemies were active living osteopath at this sacred hour of and malicious. They planned his down the passing of our beloved teacher that. DR. A. T. STILL, FOUNDER OF OS fall. They caused his arrest. They we will never falter in carrying on his TEOPATHY sought to ruin him~to make him an great life's work, that the flag of trut,h S. C. MATTHEWS, D. 0., New York City outcast-and they succeeded. which he unfurled to the world and fought "The river of another life has reached Columbus waited many years and en for so valiantly while he lived shall never dured many hardships before the expe the sea." be lowered, shall never be stained or con All that is mortal of Dr. Still has van dition was finally fitted out to put his taminated, or associated with ignorance or ideas the test. ished in the gr'ave, but he has left to us to untruth, so help us God. and to all future generations two priceless While most of the scientists of his day ridiculed his idea that sailing westward It seems to me that one of Ella Wheeler legacies-the truth he discovered and the Wilcox's latest poems entitled "Know example of his noble life. would bring the navigator to the coast ledge" which appeared in the December To know his life intimately is to place of India, they looked upon him as an Cosmopolitan expresses in Dr. Still's him at once among the greatest who have innocent dreamer. They were not his own language just what he would like to ever lived. enemies. The way he met his hardships have said here and now: Dr. Still was an absolutely honest man. shows that he was of heroic mold. And He was kind to everyone. He was sober, yet these hardships were mostly those of I tell you the shadows are growing thinner poverty and years of waiting. But, with Between this world and the world of industrious and generous to a fault, No children ever had a better father, no wife al, while be waited, he had companion the dead; ship and friends, many of whom really And only the fool cries, "Fool!" or "8in- . a more considerate husband. He was in every way a good citizen, and was always believed in his idea. ned" No one can read the life of Washington To one who looks into the life ahead. on the side of justice, law and order. He was extremely sociable and loved to be without being thrilled at his heroism and I tell you the curtain is being lifted- what he endured to make the Colonies The silence broken, the darkness rifted with his friends and neighbors. He en joyed their conversation and companion free. And knowledge is taking the place or faith His little army, half-clothed, and half On that vast subject, Death. ship, His mind was clean and pure. He was genial, good natured, agreeable and fed, with little army equipment, was de feated again and again. It was literally Yes; now in the place of faith comes companionable in every way. As a knowledge, physician he gave to every patient his driven from place to place. One marvels For the soul of the race is awake to very best regardless of whether the pa how he continued to .fight under so many truth. tient was rich or poor. His fight was defeats and under such trying circum And it rests no longer on school or college against disease and no person who suffered, stances. And yet when we seek the Or the crude concepts of the world's however poor, ever called upon him in answer', we find it in tbe fact that he was surrounded and supported by men fully first youth. varn. From a larger fountain our minds are And yet this kind and generous man as determined as himself. drinking- who had in the very highest degree every He had enemies in England and in the The deep, high Source of divinely think virtue as a citizen, husband, father, friend, armies that were continually following ing- physician, was on the account of an idea, him; but no general in the field was ever And searching for God in the heart of man; completely ostracized by his profession. supported by a more loyal or a more de It is so we are learning the Plan. And the makers of this ostracism were termined government. Yes; searching for God in the heart of a vindictive to such a degree that they Wasbington endured much for freedom brother, spread its influence to his patients, friends but he was surrounded and supported by And not on a far-away throne above, and neighbors. He saw these one by loyal friends who encouraged bim in every Is a surer method than any other one turn from him until he WIIS eventually move that he made.
Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH 81 ------The same statement can be made of New teachings generally filter down test among the upper class, they were Lincoln. ward to the poor and humble after being found to be just as effective there, as It haR been said that "Lincoln bore presented to the rich and powerful. But they had been among the poor. upon bis shoulders the cares of a nation. " in this case, as in the case of the Great But wealth iR both power and influence. ,And yet it must be remembered that in Teacher, the powerful would not listen And when a wealthy lady who had been all that Lincoln did, he realized to the and this regular process was reversed. bed-ridden for months despite the best fullest extent, that the majority of this To viRit the home of a lowly 'wash efforts of many doctors of the old school, great nation had said to him, by their woman whose child was dying of flux, to was made to stand up and walk-made vote "you are right and we are with you. " treat the child in such a way that the whole-in ten minutes time by Dr. Still To be put off year after year and still rush of blood was instantly Rtopped; to and when similar remarkable works were not lose faith in an idea, as did Columbus; meet a poor colored man on the Rtreet, done amol).g people of influence, the tide to lead thousands in a great cause and reset a joint, and send him on his way re was turned. stand firm against great odds, as did joicing and carrying his crutch-·these PatientR, iriends, honors, money, all Washington; to inspire a. party and a and thousands of similar cures though began flowing to him now. But his arch nation with confidence, when confidence wrought among the humblest of the enemies, the drug doctors were just as was wavering in the balance, as did Lin humble, began finally to have their effect. determined now as of old to defeat his idea. coln,-all of these, are of course, qualities The medical profession, then as now, That Osteopathy had been proven commendable in the highest degree. was a powerful' organir.ation. It could efficacious where drugs had failed, had They show the hero, the highe~t test ostracize, it could cause arrest. on framed nothing to do with their opposition. of leadership whose acts are not to be up charges, it could besmirch a good They sought to do now by the force of beclouded nor value under-estimated. name, all of these to such a degree as to legislation what they had failed to ac But if to remain steadfast through leave one "naked to his enemies." compli~h by slander. years of waiting, if to lead thousands who And yet powerful as the medical pro They introduced a bill in one of the believe as you believe, it to stand firm fession was, it was not powerful enough states prohibiting the practice of Oste with thousands who think as you think to withstand the effects of Dr. Still's opathy under penalty of fine and imprison if these prove the qualities of a hero, and cures--even when these cures were made ment. they do, what must we say of the quali among the poor. This bill and similar bills in other states ties of that man who leads in a cause with Human beings are so constituted that were defeated by Dr. Still's friends-by not even one to tollow, who stands alone, when they Ruffer they ask relief and are those who had tested the new method of unmovable on a principle, with no com practically always loyal to the man and treatment and proved its value. panion but the trut.h, and no friends but his methods who brings it to them. So the- struggle was carried from state the facts, while on every side he was being· Hence it was that in time, here and to state until Osteopathy won recognition attacked by the wolves of calumny and there, one among the so-called better throughout the union and throughout hate. classes who suffered and failed to find re practically every nation in the world. These were the qualitieR and these were lief from drugs, medicines and old meth Dr. Still tested the principles of Os the acts of Dr. Still. ods, called in the outcast doctor (generally teopathy before he announced them. He And it must also be remembered that bringing him into the house through the knew they were true and being true could these trying circumstances prevailed not back door and kitchen) who was doing not fail finally to win recognition. for a week, nor a month, but from the such remarkable work among the poor. He lived to see thousands of his grad time they commenced until even a fair The principles of Osteopathy apply to uates in the field upholding the banner degree of recognition was conceded to kings as well as to peasants. All that which he had strug!!:led so many years him, more than twenty years had flown Dr. Still ever asked was to put them to and against such overwhelming odds to and Dr. Still had passed from middle age the test and when they were put to the unfurl. to an old man. When he first announced the principles of Osteopathy, the medical profession demanded in so many words that he renounce and disavow his discovery. The medical doctors of his community demanded that he should think as they thought, believe as they believed, and practice as they practiced. To these demands Dr. Still could not concede and then began that struggle lasting more than twenty years with Dr. Still standing firm on the principles of his discovery and the medical profession of his town, his state, and the nation, ar Still-Hildreth Osteopathic Sanatorium rayed against him. MACON, MISSOURI In the end Dr. Still won, but human speech can never telr what he really en DEDICA:TED TO THE CURE OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES dured. Ostracized, made an outcast by his powerful and numerous enemies, he was compelled to go among the extremely poor Address All Communications A. G. HILDRETH, D. O. of his home town and adjoining towns to SUPERINTENDENT make even the scant living which he had, to the Above Institution during all those long and weary year~.
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He lived long enough to see the prac judge that the example of A. T. Still de closer together of each of us individually tice of the whole great medical profession veloped that side of my nature. He was and professionally. In this way can we modified as the result of his teaching; not practical (?); he was possessed with best serve and promote and further devel long enough to see his "disgrace become a an idea-the desire to plant the osteo op a work that means so much to us. crown of glory. " pathic lesion on such a firm foundation This, it seems to me, is the logical course , He was a friend of liberty. He worked that some day the world would accept his to follow. to strike the shackles from the slaves. work as the basis for a therapy that would We must follow, widen and lengthen, He believed in intellectual freedom as well bring relief to human beings afflicted with and still further organize all the forces of as physical liberty. every possible ill. I trust that I have the Blazed Trail. In his case vituperation and slander caught even more of his spirit, of his im We are wonderfully blessed in having a combined to do their very worst. And practical idealism than I have of his Beacon Light always ahead. of us. A while they tore from him everything but science of mechanical adjustment. light that shall grow brighter so long as hi<; honor and his family, through it all he Many times in my life I have envied we hold to the Truth. . lived his religion-the religion of the the Hildreths, McConnells, Huletts, and Undoubtedly Dr. Still's fervent prayer golden rule. Ligons their close personal contact with 'has been for us, each one individually, His whole life was spent in doing good. the "Old Doctor;" not so much for what to add his mite to the perfecting of some His influence will become greater \vith he might have given me of his wonderful niche of the superstructure. The founda each passing year. technic, but for what I might have gained tion has withstood for these many years from his incomparable spirit. the gieatest strain and stress that can be WHAT DR. STILL HAS BEEN TO For nearly twenty years I have been as brought against it. MY LIFE busy as the average osteopath trying to Osteopathy has dealt with the actual, W. BANKS MEACHAM, D.O., Ashevil,le apply the practical material part of Dr. the conciete, and has not been found N. C. Still's philosophy. But my greatest pleas wanting. Abstract theory has its place, During the summer /vacation of 1898 ure has come from studying the mental but much lumber has been definitely I received as second class mail a lot of make-up of the man A. T. Still; hi" mind cleared away by the Master. leaflets, catalogs, etc. from some place was as odd in its workings as was his body Several of us the other night at the in MissoUli. Within a few days I had a in dress and action. Yet his mind always Macon Sanatorium heard Mr. Martin, letter from D. Webb Granberry saying he worked to a logical conclusion, for no one the vice president, most eloquently enter would soon come East to join me for a has yet been able to show a false con a plea that the future not alone depended year's study in the University I was at clusion reached by Dr. Still. Unlike upon the colleges, no matter how great tending; and he also said he had had this other great thinkers of the world he stated their responsibilities are, but that every literature on Osteopathy mailed to me. his conclusions often, then demonstrated osteopath in the field has an absolute and I then took interest enough to look over his position by his own works, leaving the unquestioned duty to perform. A duty the printed matter I had received, but neophyte to search for his reasons. that no one else can do-a holding to and .I saw nothing in it to convince a con In argument he was eliptical, even alle performing of the work that has been servative skeptic. gorical, was never false, never dull, never vouchsafed us. In this way only, by In the fall of '98 I went to an osteo prosaic. Such a character has interested c1.osest mutual cooperation and organiza path, on a bet; I lost the bet, but won and stimulated me more than has all the tion of all our personal and professional for in two treatments a supra-orbital writings of all the greatest scientists and attributes can we attain to further de neuralgia of years' standing was cured. philosophers. velopment. Is this not our simple duty And right there, in the adjustment of a Dr. Still has been my lode star, with his to humanity, to Dr. Still and to our true clavicular lesion that undoubtedly came idealism, which few have seen behind his selves? from a fall I had when I was four yeals rough exterior, he has made living profit old, Dr. A. T. Still entered my life. able and life interesting to me. WHICH WILL YOU CHOOSE? I was then twenty-sL'C, I had been CHARLES C. TEALL, D.O., Weedsport, absolutely on my own responsibility for THE LOGICAL COURSE TO FOLLOW N.Y. thirteen years, I had my life's work picked CARL P. MCCONNELl" D.O., Chicago, Ill. "The King is dead: long live the King." out. I had even spent three years in Dr. Still has left us a heritage that not But who shall he be? What is to become special work preparing myself for my only has effected each one of us most of a propaganda that has been so a part chosen career. I was at that time con profoundly but has stamped a certain of a single man and dominated by his sidering an offer of a position to take up hall-mark upon the science of the healing individual ideas when he comes to his my work for which I had been preparing. art for the ages to come. No doubt we end? The prophets of old held sway for But that clavicular leSion, and the re are living too near to his personal life to a time and then died and with them, in sults of its adjustment, would not be fully value the many confluent forces of many cases, also died the cult. This is downed. It was a regula!' Banquo's his revolutionary contribution. We can particularly true of religions without ghost. If any reader wants to feel what safely leave to the future the full sig number while others have held on and the I felt, let one fight one's way for seven nificance and importance of his work. followers become more fanatical than the years in college with an initial capital The loss of his inImediate personal in foundel. History is replete with inci of sixty-eigbt dollars, finally struggle in fluence can not be replaced. But this of dents of the rise of men with ideas far in sight of financial freedom and three square course is inevitable. We should be most advance of their times who have flourished meals a day-, then renounce all previous thankful that he has been spared to us for for a day and then, when the compelling day dreams for a further struggle of two so many active and productive years. influence of their personality was lost, years, then one may know that while the His life in many ways has been unusually their followers have wandered and the anatomical lesion was corrected, a mental replete. old eentral idea of the movement has been commotion was set up that stirred my Dr. H. L. Russell, the other day in stolen and incorporated with something ambition to new depths. Kirksville, struck a keynote invaluable similar and the incident became a mem I have been accused of being an Im for our inImediate and future action. ory. practical fanatic. I fancy I am. I also ~his is the further banding and drawing Dr. Still attracted to his standard, say
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6000 active wOlkers and tluough them Dr. Still was a proud spirited and up Dr. Still's writings his Bible. He should many hundreds of thousand converts right man, with a clean and simple heart, "bone" day and night. Study everything to the faith of drugJess health through and a native dignity that never failed. Still wrote; study all osteopathic books works. Long before his death have heen He never thought of self. He never cal and publications; study physical diag scisms, aIguments and interpretations as culated his own advantage. He was nosis and modern methods of diagnosis. to what he really meant by his teachings Nature's gentleman no less t.han Nature's A man cannot be a successful oRteo and he has been compelled to speak in lover and devotee of Jature's truths. If path unless he gets the vision that Father tones of sorrow and anger at the deviations we be half the man that he was, we should Andrew. saw. Still is it true that the of his iollowers from the well marked path be proud. best osteopaths of today are the fellows he made through the wildellless. If He is our ideal and our shining example. who got the VISION. Some of these, like heresy has been attempted during his Dr. Still never ceased to study, nor should Steele, or Helmer, or McConnell, he took life what, will happen after his influence we. When Dr. Still conceived a new idea "out back" under the trees and in simple has passed? If an object lesson is needed he became obsessed with that idea. It phrase and homely illustration, taught take a glance at the history of homeopathy never left him. He ate and slept and them the vital truth, the animating prin after the death of Hahnemann and the lived with it, until he had it mastered and ciple of Osteopathy. Many a time he results of his disciples failing to follow in the form he wished it. How else could has taken my hands in his, placed them the teachings of their master. It has he have perfected the idea of Osteopathy? upon the lesion, and carried them through dwindled in colleges and practicians. It was his obsession. He never wavered; the manipulations. Or he has askod for On the other hand, Jook at Christian sci he never tired; he was never diverted. my anatomy text, and ",rith his pencil ence which has gone on without the least Loss of his medical practice, poverty and has marked out upon the illustrations the inte~uption after the passing of its found want, loss of friends, ridicule, the emnity thing he wishes to impress upon my mind. er for its followers permit no deviation of the medical men, nothing could turn That was his spirit always. He was al from the word. him aside. So should an osteopath never ways anxious to explain to a student, While all osteopaths must have given cease to study. There is still enough for always eager that the student should be thought as to the results to follow the us to learn. Every D. O. should make taught straight Osteopathy. blow that has fallen yet there are none who can forecast the influence it will have on us as a profession. It can act in one of two ways. It can solidify and our sor -OTTARI row bring about a reconsecration of our lives to the principles for which he stood AN INSTITUTION FOR THE OSTEOPATHIC CARE and we will go on and on a separate school OF NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES of healing as a boon to posterity, or it ASHEVILLE, N. C. can looee the rein of restraint and we will split into numerous factions and end in a memory to be recorded in a paragraph Dear Doctor: of medical history while the wonderful discovery he gave to man will be jointly I have sent patients to OTTARI and have stolen by the respectable medical investi been a guest there myself this past summer. I gator and the disreputable imitator. know the climate of Asheville, the care, methods Those are the paths-which will ye choose? and plans of OTTARI. 1t is "a littJ.e bit of FUTURE OF OSTEOPATHY RESTS heaven," beautifully simple and simply WITH US beautiful I CHARLES HAZZARD, D.O., New York City The veriest epicure or dyspeptic could not Father Andrew's gone, and to us, each complain, for the diet question is resolved to and every loyal child of his, falls the duty now to "carry on." Father Andrew perfection. will be looking on. His reward lay not in This knowledge enables me to endorse accumulated wealth or the llixuries of life, but in seeing the truth he found and OTTARI and the work of Dr. Meacham. I hope it fought for thrive and grow, and the sci grows and grows and grows. ence he fathered spread its beneficence (Signed) Elizabeth L. Broach, D.O., throughout the world. This we must never forget; nor will we Chairman Public Health, 5th Dist., A.O.A., forget it if we have "seen the vision." Dr. Atlanta, Ga. Still's death should lead to a revival of osteopathic learning; a renewed study of his great science. It should take us back to the books-his books and his thoughts wherever expressed. For rates and literature, address He was a man of homely phI ase and OTTARI, simple ways, and kindly heart. Who ever R. F. D. #1, knew him but to love him? Who ever saw him try to squeeze a dollar's profit w. Banks Meacham, D. O. Asheville, N. C. out of the truth, or reap a personal ad Physician-in-charge. vantage? Who ever saw him turn away from suffering?
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If we stick to Osteopathy, and give the and who has taken treatment from many The saying that a prophet is not with people Osteopathy, which is what tbey osteopsths told me the other day that out honor save in his own country is only want, Osteopathy will never die out nol' some of the osteopaths whom he had met partly true of Dr. Still. He loved Kirks be absorbed. The future of the science seemed more or less pessimistic and ville and Kirksville loved him in return rests with us. thought that a large percentage of the with their whole heart. They honored D. O.'s would gradually slip back into the him too, but they were too near to him to IN MEMOIR easier methods of indiscriminate drug realize his greatness as a prophet. When C. B. ATZEN, D.O., Omaha, Nebr. giving. He said it would be a pity, if I was in Kirksville at two conventions Our leader has departed, his part of after being released from the bondage of that helped celebrate his bilthdays, I the work has been finished here on earth; dmging, we should be compelled to go heard much more of his kind deeds than the continuation of the work for which back to it. I did of his wonderful achievements. All he suffered and endured persecution, I don't believe anything of the kind will remembered how in his days of poverty, ostracism, and viJification, must now be happen and I tried to reassure this patient he would share his last dollar with some assumed by those- of his followers with on that point.. The entire trend of the needy family. I remember the vigor and courage to stand unflinr.hingly for the times is against any such a thing. The earnestness with which he declared he principle that he expounded. whole scientific world is against it and did not want to go around with his shoes I have perfect confidence in the per with us on that point. But certainly the polished, making unhappy other people' sonnel of our profession, proving equal world will not permit us to abandon the who were not able to wear shined up to the responsibility now placed upon methods which have given it such com shoes. It well expressed the far seeing their shoulders-we may differ some in fort and relief. If we fall short someone tenderness of the man. I met a little the minor aims of our professional policies, else will take up the methods which we darkey boy in the street. He saw illY but I feel confident that thele is no di should use. Mechanical therapeutics are badge. I shall never forget the shining vision in our ranks on big and abiding too deeply established to be dropped even face and sparkling eyes. "I know the natural truths fundamental to our practice. though some of us should be foolish 'Old Doctor'," he said, "I cleaned spit Dr. A. T. Still's sacrifices will not have enough to tIy it. toons for him and he gave me ten cents been in vain, I am sure, for his followers To Dr. Still / belongs the credit for apiece for my work." Yes, the Old will continue to strive to make his hopes initiating the reform which will make Doctor had given what the boy had con and work their aspirations for the benefit his name famous throughout the ages. sidered a good price for the work, but he to the people of the world, until in due Such fame as his can never die. States gave much more, he gave a touch of time his memory will be held in reverence men, soldiers, scientists, doctors ~re. kindness that made a little colored boy not only by those who follow in his foot usually forgotten after a few short years. go on his way radiant and happy chmish steps as practitioners, but the great rank There are a few "supermen" who are ing memories of a kind old man that will and file of common humanity will recog never forgotten. I believe that Andrew last a life time. nize that he gave to the world in his Taylor Still can be counted among this Dr. Still knew that he had discovered a teachings, not only a great thelapeutic small company of the elect. DR. FRANKLIN HUDSON has removed from 12 Lansdowne Crescent to morp. commodious principle, but likewise an inspirational quarters at 14 Charlotte Square, Edinhurgh. truth that will act as a sustaining, sup DR. A. T. STILL-A LOVER OF HU porting, and comforting spiritual uplift MANITY to all those honestly striving to know the C. W. YOUNG, D.O., St. Paul, Minn. E. F. MAHADY CO. one-ness of the Universe, the universality December 12, 1917 will be made mem Surgical and Scientific of law, and the beneficence and kindness orable in American History as the date of Instruments of the great spiritual force fundamental to the death of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, all things. whose massive greatness will be more ap Hospital and Invalid In this spirit let us again dedicate to his parent as distant years obliterate mem Supplies memory our best efforts, our faithful and ories of smaller contemporaries. Other unfaltering devotion to the principle for illustrious men discovered unknown lands, 671 Boylston St., BOSTON (near Copley Square) which he faced the world and endured or made inventions useful to trade or misrepresentation, persecution and os commerce, or helped the political life of a REPRESENTATIVES tracism-that the truths whispered into nation, or did some beautiful work of art, W. B. SAUNDERS CO. his listening ear' by the "Great Spirit" but he founded a great system by which MEDICAL BOOKS might be perpetuated. To be worthy of men can soothe pain and conquer disease. this task now placed upon our shoulders, I first saw him at the St. Louis Conven Meet Us at the Next A. O. A., 1918 we must prove our unfaltering allegiance tion in 1904 at the Inside Inn Banquet. by our-deeds not mere WOlds, this I feel He received admiration and homage that The Western'Osteopath confident we will strive to do. would have turned the head of many a Progressively Osteopathic man. But he showed not a trace of Some day you will want to live in the WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BE? conceit or egotism. He was made very Great West. WAV1'ER E. ELFRINK, D.O., Chicago, Ill. happy but it was happiness he shared with Get acquainted thru this journal, and What will be the future of Osteopathy all present. At the hour of triumph he catch its spirit. now that Andrew Ta)lor Still has gone? was thinking of others. I. can feel the Among our regualr contributors are: Will the osteopathic profession go on warm hand clasp to this day. I remem Drs. Riley, Atzen, Wimmer-Ford, witl> the work which was so well launched ber the sweet intangible something that Van Brakle, Louise Burns, Brigham, in the eally years? made your heart glow. It was magnet Forbes, Tasker, Penland and others. I believe that Osteopat,hy is just in its ism. It was southem hospitality. It Owned and published by the California infancy. I fully expect to see a greater was greatness. It was love. All blended State Association, hence big value for future. I believe that the profession will in a rich hal'monious influence that made small outlay. Subscription price, $1. rise to the need of the hour. you love in leturn and made you so de C. J. Gaddis, D. O. Editor A patient who has travelled widely lighted to be in his plesence. 1stNat. Bk. Bldg. Oakland, Cal.
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mine of truth, a thousand times more 'one instance of the former kind--one world began to accept his theories suffi valuable than all the gold of California that is typical of countless others, and ciently so that he could start a school. and he longed to share all these great shall mention one of the latter kind. A The school was added to three different riches with all this world. He would little over three years ago dUling my fath times in the succeeding fourteen years have scorned to sell the mine and use the er's last illness, the Old Doctor sent him all of this under his direct guidance. money himself. He gathered about him a word that were it not for his own dis Shortly. before his death graduates of his few chosen prospective miners and told ability, caused by a ClipplP.d shoulder, school coul.d enter all but three states in them to dig and dig and dig on, until he would come to see him. It touched the Union, legally, and several thousand they could pour the glittering wealth my heart profoundly when I heard of it, of them wele successfully" practicmg into the lap of poor humanit} throughout and was added proof, if proof were neces throughout the world. the world. They say he was not a good sary, of tpe gleat heart of the man who At his death the medical profession teacher. He was greater than a teacher. despite the burden of his yeal"S and in was treating diseases, like typhoid and He was an inspirer and a lover of men, firmities would take the time and thought tuberculosis, with less dlugs than he, and men loved in return. The chosen to send a kindly message to a stricken himself would have dared treat them in few will always remember the big heart. comrade. his earlier days. They will always remember tbe love. I rejoice to know that in his last days From his front window he could see a They can never lose the inspiration. the Old Doctor was conscious of the surgical hospital where every patient is They have dug and dug and dug on, and blessings of innumerable hosts of people treated, for post-operative complications, they are teaching others how to dig, and whose lives were brightened and made by Osteopathy. the time will surely come when all hu happier because he had lived and wrought. He could see a Nurses Home where manity will be happy with the great riches Indeed, to few gleat benefactors of man thirty-five young women lived, who were discovered by one destined to be one of kind has it been given in gl'eater measure learnirIg to nUlse the sick under purely the most illustrious men in the wolid's to see the fruition of their hopes and osteopathic directions. history. labors than it has to our hero, the Father He could see an immense statue erected and Founder of Osteopathy. to his genius by thousands of friends. PERSONAL REMINISCENT AND It is, perhaps, too early to fix Dr. Who shall not say that both the man TRIBUTE Still's place in history, but we who are and the genius looked back on life as one By A. L. EVANS, D.O., Miami, Fla. proud to serve under the standard he has hundred pel cent successful. Others will doubtless wcite of Doctor set up have faith to believe that his We know he looked mto the future Still as a discoverer and benefactor, but figure will loom larger as the years go by. without fear. I can only think of him now as neighbor, doctor, and friend. Writing so soon after SPONTANEOUS IMPRESSIONS AT IN MEMORY OF DR~ STILL his passing, the impression of wPich I am THE DEATH OF A. T. STILL ERNEST R. PROCTOR, D.O., Chicago, Ill. most conscious is a deep sense of personal By GEORGE A. STiLL, D.O., Kirksville, What a strange sensation came over us loss. Memories of the man, rather than Mo. when we heard that Dr. Stili-the I< Old of the philosopher or reformer, come Vely few discoverers in history ha"e DoctorI, as he was so affectionately called trooping through my mind. For more had the good fortune to Ihe fOIty-three had passed over the Great Divide. What than thirty-five years I have known Doc years after announcing theil' discovery, a large pIa ce he filled m the lives of so tor Still, and have peculiar reasons to and to witness, during all that time, a many of usl And, now, he is gone. It hold him in grateful remembrance. progressive tendency on the part of the was becal,lse of him that most of us lett Doctor Stili has !;>een physician both world to accept the discovely. other purposes of life and took up the to' my mother and my father. In the To the true genius, who makes a dis study of the physiological functioning of winter of 1882 the la,tter suffered an ex covery, the world's acceptance or rejec Life, to use it later for the benefit of cruciating attack of sciatica-an ailment tion, means little, but to the man who is humanity. This man had walked with to which he was subject-that had kept an essential pait, even of the genius, the US, had talked with US, had entered mto him in bed tor about a week. It was then world's acc~tance means a great deal. our difficulties, had encouraged us, had that the Old Doctor was called. He came Looking up at the genius, either in !riven us mspiration; we liked him, we and adjusted his hip, the sciatica dis history or in real life, we are apt to o"er admired his high purpose and his gleat appeared with the removal of the cause look the man, yet the man is very hu knowledge of the human system. To and never afterward recurred. The inci man. know Dr. Still in thi~ manner was to dent that stands out most vividly in my Gallileo, the man, was forced by the love him. mind in connection with this event is priests to deny· his belief, but Gallileo, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still was the' first not so m]lch the apparently miracLllous the genius, as he turned flom his confes man, whom we know of to study the cure, as it is the fact that the Doctor in sional, whispered "Damn them, I am human system as a perfect creation of fixing his fee took into account the fact right at that. " God's handiwork. Others soon caught that at that time dollars were scarce in Blakelock, the artist, Schimmelweis, his vision; the new buth splead until our household, and came only by hard the physician and many others, as men, today, upon his foundation, there has been labor. When asked for his bill he Ie have been bwken by their critics, al built a great osteopathic profession, gath marked, almost gruffiy-·I< A man who though as geniuses their work will live ered from all walks of life, followirIg in has a team of horses in the stable eating forever. History is full of examples the footsteps of our great Founder and their heads off is in no condition to pay a showirIg both the duality, and yet the Master. big doctor's bill," and he named a sum unity, of the genius and the man. So many of us know of his kmd r;ersonal pitifully small, but one that showed the To me it seems that the life of A. T. acts, I remember once when walking down bigness of his own heart, for dollars then Still furnishes one of the finest examples Osteopathy Hili, the "Old Doctor" were not so plentiful with him, either. of the complete victory over earthly sauntered across the street, and J waited Many incidents have been related il obstacles, both as to the man and the that I might be near him. He slipped lustrating Doctor Stili's generosity and genius, that history records. his arm over my shoulder, saying, "Proc, loyalty to his friends. I have above given After eighteen years of struggle, the are you learning anything,?" To whi
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replied, "Sometimes I think I 11m getting or thought he created a system of therapy En~neer, verifying the Intelligence of an of his devoted career and in no other way Fruit Nut a little." Then he said, "Well, li you in consonance with every then known all-wise Creator.' could that he done so readily and effeet HOTEL OXFORD don't learn anything more than this, you and yet discovered fact of physiology In Dr. Still's presence in olden days, ualiy as by establishing the philosophy 46 Huntington Ave., will learn to understand your God and and anatomy. }Oll were impressed with his genius. On which he proclaimed upon a foundation of Boston, Mass.-Copely Square Creator better by learning of His handi Spencer fabricated an ethical State, our porch one night, the dear old man demonstrated science. The best monu Cereal work." Darwin catalogued the creath·e steps of asked us to count the stars. On our de ment to Dr. Still will be the recording of When we first entered school the pro the Almighty, Newton formulated one clining to do so, he said, 'Can you count invincible proof, based upon actual and ~ Block to Convention Head fessors would tell us, "Now when the universal materia.] law. But Dr. Still's the red or white corpuscles in a man'? diverse experience, that the principles he quarters. 250 rooms with or 'Old Doctor' comes in, be very quiet and mentality observed, formulated then cre No!' Right there I got my first osteo made known to the world are sound in without bath Doctor, a day never passes that you listen, for he always has something to ated; and, beyond all this, he steps into pathic lesson. Man a miniatwe uni theory and in practice. do not find a patient in need of a say, something for you to learn which will the laboratory of disease and by his cre verse; health? a proper, free movement of Fortunately, the means of accomplish be of benefit to you in after practice." ative technic proves the efficacy of his the corpuscle in its orbit. Thank God ing this through clinical evidence is at laxative food. $1. Per Day and Upwards And it was true. His study, research, creation. for Dr. Still. Rest in peace. hand. The Academy of Osteopathic and knowledge of the human system was so No wonder the disciples of Dr. Still ale Clinical Research affords to every prac Fruit Nut Cereal is the ideal natural Meals a la Carte laxative. great that it was said of him, that it often lost in the maze of pis mental pro TRIBUTE OF J. L. HALLOWAY, titioner opportunity to contribute to the seemed as if he had the power of the cesses. His simple phrase "watch the DALLAS, TEXAS building of the great structure of osteo It contains figs, raisins, walnuts, Divine Spirit aiding him in diagnosis, sweetbreads" in tuherculosis will take "Life's work well done, pathic demonstration. wheat, bran and malt thoroughly and directing him where to put his hand the life work of a dozen Kochs, WIights Life's race well run, There is more than an opportunity, Don't Cut Tonsils dextrinized but not predigested. to correct the abnormal condition. and Von Rucks to fathom. "The rule of Life's crown well won, tbere is an urgent duty, thus to honor the Those who did not know him rersonally, the artery is supreme" commands Ehr Now comes rest. " memory of the founder arid give to. our Cure Them! It is nutritious, delicious and easily surely wele deplived of a gIeat blessing, lich, Flexner and Noguchi to Herculean science permanency and ever expanding These words were inscribed on a card Read How-"Tonsils and Voice," $2.00 but, yet, through his works and ideals labors. He observed, he created; the value. digested. attached to a floral wreath placed on the "Tonsils and Adenoids: Treatment and and teachings they have come to know neophyte can stop to search for his rea Even while we feel the loss of his de coffin of the lamented Garfield. They Cure," $1.00. Send for samples and information. him and to love him as we do who came sons. parture, let us consecrate ourselves anew are equall} appropriate as a fitting mem "The Tonsil and Its Uses," $1.00. in personal contact with pim. But the marvel of Dr. Still's mentality to the vital task. We know-we have orial of the founder of Osteopathy. By RICHARD B. FAULKNER, M. D. (Co We are glad that he lived to see the lay not greater in his observation and proved by numberless experiences-that Dr. Stilt's life is a high and holy testi lumbia University) fruits of his study, and we believe that creation than in his unconscious execu Osteopathy is a tlUe and complete sys monial of what a man is capable of giving Everybody should read these books. his name will go down in history, as well tion. An artist works by observable tem of therapeutics; but, it remains to to the world's good, if he bas singleness of Written from the physician's standpoint as in the minds of the profession. as the laws, but the artistic Inind is unconselous record the evidence ilTelutably in the vision, con~tancy of purpose, and the love in preference to that of the surgeon. New England first and greatest osteopat.hic physician. of these laws. precise and tested results of office and of truth in his heart. These are the ele THE BLANCHARD COMPANY, Dr. Still unconsciousl}, and not as a clinical practice. Ii members of the PIO ments of real genius, and he possessed Lock Box 445R, Pittsburgh, Pa. Breakfast Food Company THE MENTALITY OF A. T. STILL pose, chose the place, the style of his fession contribute case reports faithfully them to a surpassin!! degree. His distaRte living, the manner and form of pis speech and systematically to the Academy, West Somerville, Mass. W. BANKS MEACHAM, D.O., Asheville, for sham, his undisguised contempt for best adapted to the e~tablishment of the they will erect thereby the only memorial N. C. the hollow mockeries of conventionalism, idea that obsessed and posses~ed his being to Doctor Still that would be comparable I fancy that much will he written about his absolute indifference to the seraphic the idea of making mechanical relations to his service to humanity. the life, the character, the work and the song of fame, were as pronounced as his of the human body the foundation of a HELP THE philosophy of the"Old Doctor." I envy searching directness for truth and his correct, logical efficient therapy. ADVOCATED SQUARE DEAL FOR those who can write personal recollections worshipful love of nature. The world is WOMAN .., from contact with Dr. Still in life. In observation, in meditation, in for too near the time of his discoveries to ~ BORDENS WAR ORPHANS ~ Because my a~sociation with him in mulating philosophic theories, Dr. Still place a correct estimate upon them; but' ROBERTA WE,IMER, FORD, D. O. ~ may have his mental peers; in creation, Funds to be given through life has been limited to a few hOUlS and with the prospective of years his genius The past century has produced no bet Malted because my college days were not inspired in execution he stands alone. will shine with added luster, and history ter friend for woman, than Dr. Still has Milk by his virile personality, I can speak only will accord to him, as it accorded Colum been. By his discoveries he alleviated ~ INnol"
Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 88 OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH ------89 ~~ttopatbic D. C., who gave us a splendid aIticle on fight to keep it as we have it, and not per without our help our brothers in France plow and not look back. WE MUST DR. eRAVEN HONORED tErutb "The Common Sense of Osteopathy. mit the truth to be absorbed by other must suffer more greatly. We also know WIN. But we cannot win .unless we all Dr. Jane Wells Crayen, D.O., of Pittshurg, Pa.• A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF General Gorgas Casts an Official· Black systems to the detriment and discredit that organized medical effort is working pull on the same rope. Congress ap the sister-in-law of Dr. Chas. Hazzard of New ball Against Progressive Healing Sci of Osteopathy. This fight is in the hands York, has recently been decorated with the French OSTEOPATHIC PROGRESS against our attempts to give our services pears to be with us,-the public we know Croix de guerre. for bravery under tire and devo EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY ence," in its November issue, and another of every true osteopath who has seen the where they are most needed. ARE WE is with us. Are we going to prove worthy tion to duty. PRACTICING OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS splendid tribute to Dr. A. T. Still, our proper light and knows that he knows he GOING TO STAND FOR IT OR ARE of their confidence and of the great truths Two years ago Dr. Craven raised a fund in FOR THE OSTEOPATHIC PROFESSION Founder, in its December issue. I don't has the true system of therapeutics. WE GOING TO FIGHT? In the name which are our heritage or are we going to Pittsburg. and took the Pittsburg field ambulance know Mr. Jones, but he apparently is a The Old Guard have done much, but it and ambulance corps to France. She joined the of God and humanity, LET US FIGHT sit idly by and hope that the other fellow French hospital service, and has been upon duty Editor great believer in Osteopathy, and is remains still in the hands of the Old and let us keep on fighting until we have GEORGE W. REID Worcester, MAss. will fight and win for us? Results will for 2 years in base hospitals behind the lines. Slater Bldg. "illing to "do his bit" to further its Guard to see that the Young Guard are won. It can be done, it should be done, tell. The great test is upon us. Are These hospitals were often bombed by the Ger mans, and ROme of her companion nurses were Assistant Editor interests. The booklet is printed month properly and osteopathically educated. IT WILL BE DONE, but only through we worthy to live as a profession or do killed. EARL J. DBlNKALL ...... •...... Chicago. Ill. ly, and costs One Dollar per year....,...(). C. The question of the day is the schools the united effort of all of us, my brothers we wish to consign ourselves to the scrap Dr. Craven has lately been made Assistant Sur 1421 Morse Ave. F. and how shall they be maintained. How and sisters, and our share in this great heap? ~ geon to one of the great French Surgeons. She Associate Editors PNEUMONIA AND THE SOLDIERS are they to teach Osteopathy if they war which imperils the very foundations Send to Secretary Chiles for some more is said to be the first American woman upon whom CARL P. MCCONNEJ.L , Chicago, 111. don't secure those who know it to teach of civilization itself is to fight the fight literature for distribution among your this distinguished honor has been conferred. FnANClS A. CAVE Boston, Mass. It is more than our paramount duty it. It is a call to the colors, and recruits down at Washington UNTIL WE HAVE friends and patients. Send your contribu Enclosed is my subscription for the Osteo GEORGE F. BURTON Los Angeles, Calif. to pass our laws before Congress. Think pathic Truth. I am with you heart and soul. LOUISE A. GRIll·FIN Boulder, Colo. must not be lacking. Men have volun WON. tions to him for the coming battle. Get of the deaths by pneumonia up to the We need just such a virile osteopathic publica GEO. M. MCCOLE •...... Great Falls, Mont. teered, men who have made success in Not for our own sakes do we ask it, but to work among the influential people of tion. It keeps us freshened up on Osteopathy. present time-almost eleven hundred, NETTIE O. H. STINGLE San Gabriel, Calif. the field have volunteered to go back a for the love we bear those dear ones who your community and see how quickly they CRAS. HAZZARD, N. Y. W. BANKS MEACRAM Asheville, N. C. and the army is not out of this country. ~' certain number of weeks each year and have left our shores to fight the brutal will respond to our call for" A SQUARE C. Kendrick Smith, son of Dr. Kendrick Business Manaller Bring this to the attention of your Smith of Boston, has enlisted in the army for im give the student the benefit of their egotists who would enslave all of mankind DEAL. "A fair field and no favor is GEORGE W. GOODE Boston, Mass. congressman and pound home the fact mediate service overseas. 687 Boylston St. knowledge and experience, but they are unto themselves. For their dear sake, all that we ask and we can get it if we that if they were under osteopathic Treasurer not inclined to do so as long as the insti we must sacrifice time and money and want it badly enough. What shall we care for everything except pure surgery AN UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR AN OS RICRARD WANLESS New York City tutions are operated for the benefit of a effort until we can go to their sides with make the answer to the unspoken call of TEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN FOR SERVICE there would be no deaths at least none 347 Fifth Ave. few commercially inclined who are not our message of cheer and comfort. our boys in the Army and Navy? Real IN FRANCE from pneumonia. Circulation Manaller interested in the furtherance of Oste work and not pipe-dreaming will give us Many of the orphaned children from the in OLIVER C. FOREIIIAN Chicago, 111 Fight for the lives of our young men, Shall we permit those who know not of opathy. Our Leader has gone on before the answer. We must fight for the care vaded districts of France are in need of osteopathic 27 E. Monroe St. give them at least a fighting chance to Osteopathy to frame t\;1e rules and regu care. The Comite Franco-American * is us, but we must elect a new leader to of our dear ones. Our moral obligation *.. Chairman Advisory Committee " come back. " lations by which it is governed in such a one of the strongest and best among the 'many 01' HARRY M. V""TINE , Harrisburg, Pa. carry the work on to greater success. time as this, when our President calls to is a heavy one, but a united and conse ganizations looking after these children. My work Secretary A CHANCE TO ENLIST IN FRENCH We have made strides unheard of before every man to do that work for which he crated profession will prove equal to the with this Comite will be resumed in a few months. E. FLORENCE GAIR Brooklyn, N. Y. in medical history, and we must and are task. Just send a wire to President Riley and the assistance of another osteopath is sought. HOSPITAL UNIT is best fitted? Shall we sit calmly by ar:d This opportunity f or gratuitous service now and going to make greater strides in the next Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year French Sur~eon Wants Us. see the flower of our young profession that you are with him' to the absolute later for establishing himRelf in private practice few years. Everyone must help carry finish and see how it will encourage him in France is most attractive. 1 shall be pleased to For Advertisin~ Rates Apply to Col. Georges Don Jon, a surgeon of drafted into trench service, when they the flag, no room for 'slackers.' Come to lead us on to victory. And don't fail give particulars to any recent graduate from 8. Business Manager .the French Army is seeking an Osteo willingly dffer their lives in the more use join the ranks for our own glory as well as to send that $3.00 assessment to Dr. regular osteopathic school who is between twenty pathic Unit to work with him on the ful and equally dangerous role of physi five and thirty-live years of age. and who will pre- • that to our beloved Dr. A. T. Still. Chiles to help pay the cost of all this work JANUARY, 1918 Western Front. The osteopathic physi cians? Shall we remain quiet while our sent written indorsement as to professional ability at Washington. It all costs a lot of - and personal character from older and well es cians are to do osteopathic work. colleges are depleted of their young man "A man without a vision is usually THE PARAMOUNT DUTY hood at the same time that students in money, but, remember, we are working tablished practitioners, and will give good busines If you are interested and this is a and social references. Traveling 'expenses as hi~h The bugle-call has sounded and duty for those boys in the Army and Navy who a JT,lan without a ideal and a golden opportunity to aid the cause of allopathic schools are granted a furlough least will be paid from New York to Paris. if det hi~h bids us respond quickly. Our workers need our ministrations and ,yet cannot man without a ideal, never Osteopathy in France, communicate with to continue their studies? Shall we con sired. 1ivin~ for recognition at Washington have given ask for them because of their enlistment. -CHARLES E. FLECK. knows the full joy of so as to Dr. H. L. Chiles, Orange, N. J. at once. tinue to "turn the other cheek" while we win his own self-approval." us the crystallized product of many are the recipients of constant insults at SIGNIFICANT GATHERING AT months of hard service, a service freely the hands of medical politicians who It is lather disappointing that the MACON given "for the Great Cause." But their place a mere trademark ahead of a man's newspapers throughout the country did Following the flmeral of the Old Doc work without ours must result in flat ability to really do things? Shame upon not gi\>e more space t.() the discussion of tor, a party of visiting osteopaths ac failure. Do we realize our portion of the us if we do not arise and smite t.hese lm Dr. Still and his discoveries, but the fault cepted Dr. Arthur Hildreth's invitation responsibility? worthy representatives of a great profes undoubtedl» is ours. Comparatively few to visit the SaIlitarium at Macon, to have House Bill No. 5407 has been presented sion. Shame upon us if we do not use newspaper editors and writers appreciate dinner and spend the evening. Dr. in the House of Representatives at Wash our utmost strength and spend our money the magnitude of Dr. Still's discovelies, Hildreth is blessed with a chef worth ington, a bill seeking merely a "square "until it hurts" in our efforts t-o secure for therefore, his passing was of but little having, and at very short notice, he pre deal" for the osteopathic profession, with our profession the Army and N~vy status moment to them. A few osteopaths pared a spread that was a credit to the out favor or faintest suspicion of class to which it is in simple fairness entitled. seized the opportunity and secured good twenty doctors who sat down to eat it. legislation. The great public loves a write-ups in their local papers. Dr. Geo. Thousands of our boys now in the Following dinner a tour of inspection' square deal and will back us up if we V. Webster, Carthage, N. Y. had a most Army and Navy are looking to us to was made, after which we adjourned to but ask them to work with us. Our pa excellent two column article in the Water "fight the fight" for them, so that they the large living room; the regular guests tients are interested, thousands and town Daily Times, December 15th. The may receive the osteopathic care to which having all retired. We formed a circle, thousands of them, and will work hard Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Dec. 23Id, con they have been accustomed. Thousands and with Dr. Hildreth as chairman, we for our success. But they will know tained a splendid alticle by Dr. E. Flor of others will soon be drafted and will held a meeting that was greatly appreciat nothing of our troubles if we do not tell ence Gair. Similar articles might have likewise look to us to take care of them. ed by all. Each in his turn was called them, and the one big job which each one been published from one end Ofthe coun They cannot speak for themselves. Criti upon to make a talk for the good of Os- of us has on hand this very minute is to try to the other, had we individually been [1 cism of their superior officers is unworthy . teopathy. Many viewpoints were ex make known the unfairness, bigotry and awake to our opportunity. and subjects them to severe punishment. pressed, but if the balance of the profes jealousy which prevents our profession They must take what is given them. In addition to our friend "Life" who sion were all as loyal as those present that from doing its unique work in the relief What are we going to do about it?, boosts Osteopathy whenever it has an night, there need be no question regard of our war-stricken boys at the front.. Let our response be unanimous-WE opportunity, we must add "Achieve ing the future of Osteopathy. That the We know that we can often relieve WILL BACK OUR COMMITTEE AND truth shall continue to live was accepted where others fail, can restore the hopeless ments" WIitten by J. E. Jones, and pub PRESIDENT RILEY TO THE LAST NEW QUARTERS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY lished by U. S. Press Assn., Washington, but there was the suggestion tha.t we must to health and happiness. We know that DITCH. We must put our hand to the . LOCATED IN THE BEST SECTION OF BOSTON, MASS.
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chanical stage costing $16 in addition, for Laboratory Necessities for the Osteop athic Physician it puts everything on the square and NO. III. Bright's Disease Drines under absolute control and saves hours of WALDO HORTON, D.O., 500 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. time and annoyance. ACUTE TYPE: In many acute infec (EDITOR'S NOTE-This department on Labora tube-shaped masses of amot'phous salts, tory Diagnosis is to be a regular feature of Osteo tions or where suspicious symptoms of an pathic Truth. Dr. Horton will be glad to receive casts, unless they show a defiriite smooth acute nephritis appear, careful urine questions and suggestions bearing on the subject from all who may be interested.) wall or surface. Remember casts are study is a great help. It is usually best CHRONIC TYPE: All urines of low cylindrical. Study pictures of different not to wait for a 24-hour collection but to specific gravity or low solid output (ex casts in several text books or under a estimate that amount. The specific grav cepting in young neurasthenics) should be teacher in laboratory. Most urines will ity ranges from 1.016 to 1.032 and any carefully tested for albumen and studied show a rare hyaline or fine granular cast. amount of albumen may be present, with the microscope for tubule casts and It is where you get several in one drop always decidedly more than in the chronic cells. In all beginning or suspected that they are abnormal. The high dry types. eases and in every case with diastolic power is used for classifying casts when Under the microscopic, granular and blood preSSUle above 105, it is advisable found and for studying epithelium, small epithelial casts predominate, with some to segregate the total day collection from crystals, fat and bacteria. Only an ex times pus, blood, brown and fatty casts the total night collection (let 8 A. M. and pert can differentiate between tubule present. Red blood corpuscles are pres 8 P. M. be the division pours), and care epithelium and leucocytes (particularly ent as a rule and often to the extent of a fully measure and study each. Finding lymphocytes), but as most nephritis large number which give the cbemical the night collection of greater quantity urines produce both, it is not so important Benzadine blood test which I shall de and of lower specific gravity is often your scribe later. They are recognized as first clue to a chronic Bright's. In a few semi-colorless discs, 1-3 smaller than the cases secondary to and in latter stages of a medium round cells present. Round and general arteriosclerosis, the reverse may pus cells are usually present in large be found, (low gravity, large amount dur numbers; often caudate cells from l-idney ing waking nerve strain hours). pelvis, also. Calcium oxalate, sodium The albumen test is quick and easy. urate, and uric acid crystals are often Simply heat top of urine colUlDll in small present or much increased. test tube nearly to boiling; white cloud Next issue: Diabetes Drines. precipitate means albumen, albumose or phosphates. Oyerlying strong nitric acid "PRIVATE" PEAT CORRECTS AN with urine in test tube or wine glass pro ERROR duces white contact ring of albumen or 5409 Blackstone Ave.. Chicago, Ill., albumose; gently heating this ring causes January sixth, 1918. the albumose to partially or totally clear. To THE EDITOR OF OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH: Serum albumen remains coagulated. A scarcely visible cloud means very slight Dear sir:-In the December issue of the Chiropractic Magazine, there ap~ trace of albumen (less than 1-10%). Dense white coagulum means large amount of peared a letter from Dr. C. E. Parsons, addressed to all the members of the Chiro albumen (1-2%). A reddish brown ring above contact means excess of urates. practic profession, stating that I was a Exact quantitative measurements are great C. B. (Chiropractic Booster). best made with the 'rycos or Abbott Having become during the passed a!bumenometer outfits, using the Good seven months more closely associated with WALDO HORTON, D. O. man phosppotungstic acid as reagent. the osteopaths, it occurs. to me that your They cost complete, about $2. to do so. Absence of much pavement profession, not being acquainted with the Microscopic study will usually give us epithelium from bladder and absence of facts, might easily misunderstand and the positive chronic nephritis signs long excess of bacteria point away from C) s believe I was seeking publicity from the before albumen appealS. In fact, I am titis and toward kidney origin for the pus various associations; therefore, may I coming to believe that in most chronic cells. Small fat globules point toward state briefly an explanation of Dr. Par kidneys, albumen does not appear till chronic nephritis. They take a crimson sons' letter: kidney decompensation attacks begin in refractive stain with a drop of Sudan III. Last spring, while on a tour in Western the latter stages when the osteopathic Time required for complete microscopic Canada, it was our pleasure to meet Dr. prognosis is not so good. study, 10 to 15 minutes. Parsons; at that time neither Mrs. Peat Unless you let the urine stand in a The mimoscope is our most expensive nor myself had corne in contact with sedimentation glass, it is necessary to labOlatory necessity, and I believe it is as either Chiropractic or Osteopathy. We procure a centrifuge, ($-1 to $10), to quick much a necessity as the compass to the became good friends, a friendship which ly obtain the sediment. Examine a drop mariner, or the transit to the engineer. still continues. Dr. Parsons noticed the of this on slide under low power without It is going to be one of the things which strain under which Mrs. Peat, due to the cover glass first. Tube casts will be differentiate between the Chil'O and the experiences in the war zone, was laboring. mostly found near periphery of drop. trained scientist and physician. But He explained Chiropractic to her and gave The first essential which all beginnels there is no necessity of paying $200 to her several adjustments with immediate must observe is to absolutely ignole all $300 for an elaborate one when one meet and wonderful effect for good; he also detritus which is inevitably present and ing all the requirements including bac gave me adjustments. Since the time often constitutes prominent outstanding teriological work can be had even in these we then spent together, we have not seen objects. Do not confuse cotton or vege war times for $70. I prefer the Spencer Dr. Parsons, but we have had one or two table fibres for casts; also do not call model 45H. I insist on having a me- letters from him. While lecturing in
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Canada I gave due credit to Chiropractic for what it had done. Some of My Early Recollectiens in ConnectIon With the exception. of our experience with Dr. Parsons, we have had no fur With the Beginning of Osteopathy ther Chiropractic work; however, coming to the States in May 1917, we became H. M. STILL, Kirksville, Mo. acquainted with Osteopathy and it is a When Father broke away from medi oned. Of course, Father knew different privilege to say that Osteopathy has done cine I was a boy some eight or ten years ly. I remember he said, "My son, cool me a wonderful good. It has brought my old. I remember now a few of the pet down. Remember one' thing, many a wounded arm back to nearly normal, and names he was called at that time-the patient has been saved by the doctor all Osteopaths know that I boost their magnetic healer, spiritualist, humbug, being late. You will live to see theday profession most enthusiastically from the crazy bone crank, and various other suit when the doctor will give very little platform and in private. Mrs. Peat able names, in their opinion. Even his medicine if any, "and 'this is one ofthe and I are both in the care of osteopathic own brother thought insanity was the sole principles I am striving for." This is physicians. trouble.· Some of his mutual friends went only one case in hundreds I could relate, It was very kind of Dr. Parsons to pub so far as to write to the good Brother which has come under my personal ob licly commend me, to which I am sure Masons to inquire regarding his sanity. servation in childhood. you will agree, but it was entirely with I remember hearing some of his old pa Later on I was blessed with the golden out my knowledge or instigation that his tients say, "What in the world has gone opportunity of travelling ·with my father letter appeared in his journal. All I wrong with Doctor Still? Why did he for several years; travelling over the know of Chiropractic is the beneficial denolillce medicine as a curative and give country in the practice of his new dis results from Dr. Parsons' treatment to up his practice when he was one of the covery. As a general rule, after arriving Mrs. Peat and myself. We have exper leading and most successful practitioners in a city it was not long before the whole ienced great good from various osteopaths in the West?" He was even petitioned town was awakened to the fact the new with whom we have treated. by some of his ardent patient friends to Healing Wonder was there. In a great I am greatly interested in your Legis rive up the idea of being a dreamer and many cases Father got results almost in lative Campaign; I assure you I shall con get back in the field of the practice of stantly. The excitement was alarming tinue to boost for Osteopathy and osteo medicine. Little did these people think, at times. He always made it a point to paths, and if there is anything I can do all the time Father was quietly getting lecture every day in the open to his pa further to help the cause of Osteopathy, I away from the poisonous drugs, and at tients, provided the weather would per am yours to command. the same time some of these people were mit. Somethimes hundreds attended Very faithfully yours, taking the drugless treatment without these lectures. At the conclusion of a (Signed) 'PRIVATE' HAROLD R. PEAT. their knowledge. Oft times when Father lecture the big continuous show would GENTLE READER was very busy with his practice he would start, which would last until Father was send one of his boys to deliver the medi completely exhausted. He never made Osteopathic Truth promotes everything cine to the patient with strictest instruc it a point of putting a price on his work that makes for true osteopaths and the tions. We never realized at that time and would only take money under the betterment of the profession. It hopes that the patient was only getting dough greatest protest. In many cases the poor to make us all TRUE followers of pills and colored water in place of medicine. old soul would have to borrow money to Andrew Taylor Still One special case comes to my memory. get home on, as his great heart, soul and and worthy of the privilege. Osteopathic One morning a young boy rode up to our life 'was to relieve suffering humanity Truth has the endorsement of practically hom(,'l very much excited. He wanted to without any thought of compensation. every prominent and successful ten-finger know if Father was at home and if so Once after one of his talks a fine looking ed osteopath in the field. The Old Guard wanted him to come to their home im old gentleman stepped up and asked if glories in it, and the new guard welcomes mediately, which was in the country; said he could do anything for insanity. Father's it. Osteopathic Truth asks your sup his brother was very sick probably due reply was, "I will not be able to give you port because it merits it; it benefits by the to an over dose of medicine that Father my opinion until after I examine the endorsement of its principles which your had left last Summer. Of course, it was case. " It happened his daughter was in subscription indicates. my job to hustle up the horse and buggy. an asylum in the same city where we were We ask all who have not subscribed Hearing the conversation of the young located, so the next day the patient was to do so at once. Send your dollar at man with Father, naturally, I was very removed to her home. Father and I went once to much alarmed, so I ran every step and to the place and the young lady was DR. RICHARD WANLESS, returned with the horse as soon as pos almost raving. She did not know her 347 Fifth Ave., sible. I remember running in the house people. With some difficulty she was New York, N. Y. and shouting to Daddy, "I am ready, come placed on the bed. Father immediately We have accomplished much good in.· on. " To my great surprise he was fast examined her and in a few minutes in one year and one half and will do much asleep. I rushed to him and shook him structed the parents to let the patient up. more if you will help. as if the house was on fire, which almost The father and mother said, "Doctor, OLIVER C. FOREMAN, D.O., cost me a spanking for my hasty actions. what do you think?" My father replied, Circulation Manager. I finally succeeded in getting him in the "I think she is going to get well, as I have buggy, which seemed to me almost a life just removed the cause," which was a Mrs. Barret, mother of Dr. Ellen Lee time. We certainly started the coun lesion in the third cervical, caused by a Barret Ligon, died at Mobile, Ala., Jan. to try in a rush as I was laying the lash on fall. This, of course, caused a great deal 9. Mrs. Barret was a most estimable the poor old horse. Father suddenly of rejoicing with the father and mother, woman. stopped me and said, "Do not whip that and I can truthfully say before we left "Here's your dollar for more "Truth" horse any more, give him all the time he the house the young lady recognized her about Osteopathy pure and undefiled." wants. " However, the fact was still in parents. I need not mention how grate S. W. WILLCOX, Oakland, Calif. my mind the patient was probably pois- ful these parents were, but this is only
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one instance in thousands of cases that I Michigan City, Ind.; Dr. Harry Vastine, amining physicians connected with this local could call to memory with a little thinking. Harrisburg Pa. board, would resign, owing to their objection of serving with Dr. John H. Bailey, an osteopath, Often when I stop to think of the trials The talks of both Dr. Fannie Carpenter who is the medical member of this local hoard." troubles and almost tortures that this and Dr. Hildreth will appear in an early Furthermore, it is the opinion of this local board grand old man has had to go through in issue of this or other osteopathic per that sucb agitation on the part of the Philadelphia developing Osteopathy, he must have been iodicals. County Medical Society, or a small part of it, ia bordering on the point of interfering with the "e right, or GOd would not spared him to FLORIDA OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION lective service law and the penalties therein pro live to be almost ninety years of age. vided. The Florida Osteopathic Association held its The osteopathic profession is fortunate in hav Father realized more than any man in annual meeting in the Commercial Club Building ing in its ranks a man like Bailey. If anybody can the world that he had a principle, crowned at DeLand on Monday, December 3rd. The win against medical tyranny, Bailey can. He is profession was well repregented although several with truth and justice, backed up with just as determined in his opposition to medical members were prevented from coming by unavoid undying fortitude, courage and back bone. t.vrrany, as he is in the conquest of Hay Fever. able circumstances. The 8es.~ion WR.S intensely profitable and interesting. The next meeting CHICAGO OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIA will be held at St. Augustine on the 2nd of Decem OUR WAR STATUS TION MEMORIAL SERVICES ber, 1918. C. D. SWOPE, D.O., W....hington, D. C. The following o"lcers were elected: The osteopaths and friends of Oste Regarding the situation in the army draft, I President, Dr. A. L. Evans, Miami; vice-presi have not heard of any new suggestions and I pre opathy paid tribute to the memory of dent, Dr. Julia IJarmoyeux, Jacksonville; secre sume the advice of last summer still stands. Andrew Taylor Still, the beloved Founder tary-treasurer, Dr. Grace E. Miller, Clearwater. Students, of course, must obey the call-but of our science in service on January 20, PROGRAM claim exemption under the medical student regu 1918, at Central Music Hall, Chicago, Invocation, Dr. A. E. Berry. lation. Address of Welcome, acting Mayor Bushnell. If local board does not allow exemption claim, Illinois, attending the programme given Response, President, Dr. R. P. Buckmaster. nothing to do but follow the boards instruction. under the auspices of the Chicago Osteo "Why Women Osteopathic Physicians should Graduates sbould make request, that with any pathic Association. give Special Lectures to Mothers and Daughters," change in the regulations of the Surgeon-General's di~cussion by DIS. Wheeler, Ryan, Davis and office-they be given the opportunity to change to The service opened by the audience Berry. the medical service. singing The Star Spangled Banner, fol .. Sequelae from Lumbar and Innominate Les I think the outlook is hopeful for our bill in lowed by repeating the Lord's Prayer in ions," discussion and demonstration by various Congress, but it means much work on the part of unison. members. everyone. .. Catarrh of Respiratory Tract," discussion and Talk it to your patients, to everybody, let the Mabel Preston Hall, soprano of Chicago demonstration of treatment led by Dr. E. P. Er people know the status of political medicine. Opera Company, sang "I Know My Re win. Public education and proper replesentations at deemer Liveth" from the Messiah, and "Flatfoot, U paper by Dr. Larmoyeux. Washington will win the measure. "Woman's Department Bureau of Public Dr. Lester R. Whitaker, who is attached to the "Homeland," by Hascom. Health, .. discussion led by Dr. Withers. Infirmary of the 301st U. S. Infantry, Camp Dev Dr. Joseph H. Sullivan, Dean of the . .. Osteopathy in Public Hospitals," Dr. J. R. ens, Ayer, Mass. writes: Chicago Osteopathic College introduced Moseley. . .. I am getting a lot of valuable experience. I Dr. Fannie Carpenter, president of the Business held in afternoon. get pretty good recognition as an oilteopath. We Dr. Evans gave a public address in the evening are warm enough here, in fact very comfortable in Osteopathic Woman's Club, who paid a on U Prevention of Spinal Curvature." every way." most beautiful tribute to "Daddy" on GR.-\C~ E. MILLER, Secretary. behalf of the women in Osteopathy. DR. C. M. T. HULETT, MANAGER OF THE A. T. STILL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, ORGANIZED MEDICINE WILL GO TO ANY Clarence S. Darrow, Attorney, spoke on UNDERGOES OPERATION LENGTH TO GAIN ITS ENDS "Medical Freedom" and cited the fact Dr. C. M. T. Hulett, Manager of the A. T. flWI All of their efforts to Ollst Dr. John H. Bailey, Research Institute underwent an exploratory op the' "Old Doctor" had fought for the osteopathic member of one of the draft hoards of eration on December 6th at t,he Littlejohn Hospital. privilege of doing Jjght as he understood Philadelphia have been futile, but they are still It was found necessary to remove the right kid it and had lone-banded hlazed the way for active. It is probable, however, that they will ney and on last report he was preparing to have now keep quiet as they have been informed that his thousands of followers. this operation performed. It was a disappoint they are treading on dangerouS ground, viz: that ment to him not to be able to contribute to the Amy Emerson Neill, violinist, con of interfering with the selective service law. tributed a Melodie by Tschaikowsky, and The Public Ledger of December 19th contained Memorial number of Truth. Schubert-Wilhelmy's "Ave Maria." the foUowinR item relative to this matter: "Teapot Tempest" Over Draft Doctor. BOUND VOLUME LEAGUE BULLETIN Dr. Arthur G. Hildreth, life-long friend In the opinion of members of the local exemption Volume No. 1 containing twelve numbers of the of Dr. Still, gave the Eulogy to "Daddy" board as contained in resolutions made public Bulletin of The League for the Prevention of and all he represented, in beautiful words. last night by its chairman, J. W. Gardiner, II agi Spinal Curvature has been bound in cloth and a tation on the part of the Philadelphia County few copies are offered to the profession at 11.00 The stage was decorated with palms Medical SocietyI or a small part of it," against each. This volume makes a strong appeal to the and a large picture of Dr. Still, draped by a the retention of Dr. John H. Bailey, an osteopath, public because of the numerous drawings and il flag and spring flowels at the hase-flow as the board's medical memher, lIis bordering on lustrations it contains. It is a splendid medium ,,~th ers he loved so well. A large American the point of interfering the selective service for osteopathic publicity and the profession as well law, and the penalties therein provided." as individual practitioners may profit hy its use, flag was suspended from the curtain. Adoption of the resolutIOns followed a meeting Send order to F. L. Link, Kirksville, I\-fissouri. The services closed by the audience yesterday of the board. singing"America. " It was announced that the three physicians had "Osteopathic Truth should be contin The programme was due to the efforts denied that they were dissatisfied with the per sonnel of the board. ued as a dignified, truthful, non personal of the chairman 01 the Programme Com Doctor Jump was said at his residence to be out monthly osteopathic news journal."- mittee, Dr. Oliver C. Foreman. of tbe city. E. R. BOOTH, Cincinnati, Ohio. The attendance was large considering The resolutions follow: the extremely cold weather and difficulty Resolved, That this local board protest against "I would not care to do without the the action and puhlicity given by the Philadelphia of transportation. Among the visiting County Medical Society at a meeting held on Truth. It has the true ring, as did the osteopaths were Dr. Gerdine, Kirksville, Wednesday, December 12, 1917, at the College of literature in our pioneer days, when we, Mo.; Dr. Burner, Bloomington, Ill.; Dr. Physicians and Surgeons, Twenty-second and full of enthusiasm and the "know how" C. E. Medaris, President Illinois State Ludlow streets, in which Dr. Henry D. Jump, presi helped to lay the cornerstone of Oste dent of the County Medical Society, is quoted as Osteopathic Association; Dc. Baughman, making the statement that "Dr. G. V. Ciccone, opathy. Success to The Osteopathic Connelsville, Ind.; Dr. Julia Fogarty, Dr. Igoazio Cortese and Dr. W. B. Morford, ex- Truth. "-MINNIE POTTER, Seattle, Wash.
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distrust and Inisconception it would only TRIBUTES TO THE OLD DOCTOR have shown that he was a man of ordinary (Continued from page 87) mold and temper. Those who improve must change, those THE FUNERAL hours of the services, the institutions of who change must necessarily disturb and The funeral of the Old Doctor was in Kil'ksville all honored the Old Doctor alarm men's prejudices. keeping with the life he had spent; a with resolutions, and although it was much What he had to encounter was only a simple passing of a great man whose life below zero, we marched in respect of demonstration that he was a man superior was devoted to a great ideal, and the de him, as we did in 19]3 in the heat of to his age and therefore admirably adapted velopment thereof. Unfortunately, the August. How weak we are to show ap for the work of progress. elements were against any great demon preciation, even though we do all that is Requiescat in pace. stration upon the day when that which possible; better, though, to resolve NOW the great spirit inhabit.ed was placed in to further honor him by strict adherence DR. ANDREW TAYLOR STILL tlfe earth, but whether' it was possible to his philosophy and principles of that TRIBUTE BY HELEN G. SHEEHAN, D.O., for them to be in Kirksville or not, there great child of his. mind, Osteopathy. Boston, Mass. were thousands of followers and friends Among the visiting osteopaths were Dr. My first personal touch with Dr. A. T. of Daddy who bowed their heads on the Wash Connor, of Kansas City; Dr. Hugh Still was' at the St. Louis Convention in afternoon of December 14, 1917, in recog Russell, of Buffalo; Dr. Joseph H. Sul 1904. He was a kindly man and as he· nition of that great law of nature which livan, Dr. Frank Farmer, Dr. Geo. H. stood up straight as an arrow, he reIninded had made its claim upon our Beloved Carpenter, Dr. John Deason, Dr. Oliver me of Lincoln as pictured at Gettysburg. Founder. Telegrams and flowers poured C. Foreman and Dr. Carl McConnell, It was the time of the World's Fair and into Kil'ksville and ~any in spite of the official representative of the A. O. A., of the grounds were crowded. He grasped extreme cold and delayed trains succeeded Chicago, Dr. C. E. Medaris, president of my hand wannly and remarked with a in reaching the town in time to attend the Illinois Osteopathic Association, Dr. smile he was glad to meet a gal from Bos the services. These were short, and I W. F. Englehart, of St. Louis; Dr. E. M. ton. At another time as he was ap believe would have met with the full, Browne, of Galesburg, Ill.; Dr. Ernest proaching the railway station inside the approval of the Old Doctor; Rev. Christy Powell, of St. Paul, Minn. j Dr. J. L. fair grounds with his son Dr. Charlie, I of the First Methodist Church offered Fetzer, of Dalton, Mo.; Dr. Mabel Still, asked him to pose for a picture which he the prayer and spoke a few words, calling Milwaukee, Wis. did without reluctance and I snapped both attention of those present to the Philoso A CONSTRUCTIVE REVOLUTION the Old Doctor and Dr. Charlie. It is a phy of Life as written by Dr. Still, statin1 picture I prize highly. IST that Dr. Still was ready and willing for Dr. Still was a true American and his that change which is imminent; a quar Tribute by DR. ASA WILLARD, Missoula, memory will live for all time, for he gave tette oi students from the A. S. O. sang Mont. to the world a wonderful philosophy. several sonll;S, and in keeping with Dr. Dr. Still was a constructive revolu Still's request, Dr. Arthur G. Hildreth tionist, one of heroic yet kindly mould TRIBUTE BY F. P. MILLARD, made the address of eulogy. a scientist who believed in his Creator TORONTO, ONT On Thursday afternoon, Dec. ]3th, the and who studied His works-who believed The passing of the "Old Doctor" was body lay in state at the residence and was that "The God whom I worship demon an event that caused universal SOlTOW. visited by the townsfolk and student strates all His works" to him who would In every chilized country the science of body; on Friday afternoon, only the study them deeply enough. While his Osteopathy is being practiced. relatiyes and representatives of the dif theories have already forced a general While the world has sustained a loss, ferent organizations, visiting osteopaths consideration and while tens of thousands yet his spirit will guide his followers to and members of the G. A. R. were pres are happy and call his name blessed be greater tbings. ent; the funeral cortege was formed first cause of health restored through his It was my privilege to come in personal by a representative body of the Students' teachings applierl, the influence of his touch with the "Old Doctor" while a stu Relief Corps, in uniform, then the student work has but begun. His discoveries, dent some twenty years ago. His teach body in classes, the Masonic body, vis his philosophy will revolutionize the ings have stood the test of time, and his iting osteopaths, faculty of the A. S. 0., healing art-will change and doIninate personal instruction stands out in relief, relatives, and members of the G. A. R. in preventative medicine to an extent and is cherished byond description.. carriages; the pall bearers were from the scarcely conceived in the fondest dreams student body, and the honorary pall of his present followers. DR. STILL bearers were G. A. R. members. At the Tribute by S. A. ELLIS, D.O., Boston, grave, the ceremony was in the hands of TRIBUTE TO DR. ANDREW TAYLOR Mass. STILL the Masonic body. Perhaps the greatest figure of the thera In keeping with Daddy's wonderful By GEO. W. GOODE, D.O., Boston, Mass. peutic world is gone. It was indeed a devotion and love for his country, a large A true scientific patriot has gone to his calm, strong heroic figure. But we must American flag draped his coffin and was reward. It was sometimes deplored by not forget that the great calm and strength buried with him. those who admired and loved him that of his spirit is infinitely more potent and Those who loved him showed their he was thwarted occasionally in his un inspiring ·than anything material-no love all through his life, and those who dertakings and that he was not duly ap matter how imposing-could possibly opposed him were respectful and ap preciated. But these are not cil'cum be. The spirit of Dr. Still remains to preciative of his great worth even though stances for regret but for congratulation. guide us, and in times of doubt and diffi they might not agree with him. His was They prove the leading and original Inind culty the thought that should sustain us a life to emulate; one of love for mankind, which has so long and so advantageously in our work is what would he do, what expressed in his saying 'I love to love and labored for the science of Osteopathy. would he have us do under the circum to be loved.' Had he not encoutereed these obstacles, stances. When we are inclined to sur The business houses closed during the had he not been subject to this occasional render, when our faith fails us momentar-
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ily, the thought of his sure confidence and Pearl of great price. lt is up to us to ical, mental or material. Those hungry quiet strength will reassure us. The jealously guard and keep it and let its for knowledge or struggling for health, great, keen constructive mind is gone but luster shine out on the world. His' one they knew him best; he gave most where the kindly courageous spirit of this splen thought was for this gem. What of it~ need was greatest. An appeal to him did man will go forward with and about future? Let us help to make its future was never in vain, he gave generously of the profession for all time. secure by our combined efforts for its ad himself and his philosophy to those who vancement. understood. THE COMING OF DR. STILL ------TRIBUTE BY DR. J. A. DETIENNE Egotistical ignorance he set aright with THOS. L. RAY, D.O., Fort Worth, Tex. BROOKLYN, N. Y. humorous, but telling emphasis, sending it on its way abashed or inspired to new We say coming for the reason that he The "Old Doctor" is gone. Many will thought according to the mental calibre shall be more and more with us as the rise up and call him blessed. Time gave of the offender. glories of his achievement and the ex to a suffering world no greater physician. Loving and gentle in nature as a wom actness of his science shall be made mani May his death renew the allegiance of his an, he was the bravest of the brave, in fest. followers to his concept of Osteopathy. As Christ came into the world to save defying universal opinion with his original that which was lost spiritually, Still came TRIBUTE TO THE OLD DOCTOR discoveries of principles, which no amount to save physical man from the rocks and By DR. LOUISE A. GRIFFIN, Boulder, Colo. of persecution could cause him to aban shoals of medical superstition. Some years ago I had the good fortune don. When time's scroll shall be reviewed we to meet the"Old Doctor" at his home and In history he will stand grouped with a shall see in a galaxy of the brains of the enjoy a long talk with him about his work very small coterie of great spirits, who great men of the world one that stands in Osteopathy. consistently abandoned every idea of out as Pikes Peak does above the Rockies There is no doubt that he was a philos personal aggrandizement, or material with this inscription in letters of gold as a opher and as such he evolved and demon gain, to pursue the development of a halo: "Dr. A. T. Still, The Savior of strated the most practical curative sys specific idea-sublimely sacrificing every the Medical World." tem the world has ever known. His personal advantage to this end. If, in that final day, the hosts of Os statements regarding infection and im lt has always been a source of regret teopathy shall be reviewed by their peer munity made early in his work in Os to many who had received untold bene less leader, the "stra.ddle bugs" will teopathy have been corroborated by the fits through the Old Doctor and the off say, we have cast out disease and done leading scientists of the present day. The spring of his great brain, Osteopathy, many mighty works in the name of Os principles of his practice are so simple that there never seemed aught to be done teopathy. He shall say in the language yet so stable that they can be depended in return, for the rich blessings, through of the Master to the "straddle bug" in upon when followed to the letter. him enjoyed. The probable reason for religion, "depart from me ye accursed, I When he gave to the world his practical this was that he was superior to all aver never knew you." demonstration of Osteopathy he left to age human needs, but love, which was Come, arouse thou that sleepest! Let his followers' the work of perfecting the richly bestowed upon him by thousands, us buckle on the osteopathic armor of system he had only time to begin. The and henceforth to his memory will be scientific adjustment and merit the great future of Osteopathy will therefore de dedicated an enduring gratitude and commendation when he shall say, thou pend solely on the work his followers do worship of love which will last as long as hast fought a good fight; thou hast kept along strictly osteopathic lines. beats one heart of those who had been the faith. "Heterodox Osteopathy" which the allowed the great privilege of living close "Old Doctor" abhorred, is diluted Os enough to him to look into his face and TRIBUTE BY DR. E. FLORENCE teopathy. The Osteopathy that will catch a bit of the wonderful inspiration GAIR, BROOKLYN, N. Y. stand the test is "Orthodox Osteopathy" which actuated the noble spirit of Dr. If there is one thing above all else that formulated and proved by Dr. Andrew Andrew Taylor Still. we women of the profession have to thank Taylor Still. So long as that is kept pure the "Old Doctor" for and bless him, is 'that long it will survive and the memory TRIBUTE BY DR. JENNIE A. RYEL, was his generous attitude toward the wo of the "Old Doctor" be kept green. HASBROUCH HEIGHTS, N. Y. men's place in his chosen profession. Be We must leave for the grandchildren DR. ANDREW TAYLOR STILL sides that, he always gave so freely of his of this generation the full appreciation gifts to us-always ready to lend a helping By Dr. BERTHA S. BUDDECKE, St. Louis, of the work of A. T. Still for humanity. hand or give a ready word of encourage Mo. We know that we of the osteopathic pro ment, and a God-speed on leaving. His lt is with a sense of devout humility fession have been sitting at the feet of the nature was so broad, so tolerant and so that I attempt to pay my tribute to the great teacher, but for the measurement of loving and generous. I knew the four great man whom we have so many years that greatness, there n~cst be shed on our years I spent under his roof was the turn lovingly claimed as our "Old Doctor." truth the light of decades, even centuries. ing point in my life; under his influence How can anyone do justice to a man Certain it is that the name of our beloved I saw life from a much larger and fuller who stood isolated upon the pinnacle of Founder is destined to live down through aspect, to me it has meant one of the genius as did Dr. A. T. Still. However the ages. greatest privileges of my life to have far above us he stood in his greatness, he To Dr. Still, there was given a vision known him as I did. . came wonderfully close to every human of the true meaning of man's physical en Now is the time for each and everyone of soul that needed him. There was none of dowment as the handiwOlk of a Divine us to show our appreciation of the Old the proud aloofness in our dear Old Doc Architect who wrought perfectly, and the Doctor's gift to us by exerting every in tor, which we commonly find in the busy therapy which he created has already fluence to bear to place it higher and higher man who has arrived. In the responsive blessed mankind. But Dr. Still saw more in its l'ightful place before the world; but heart of this great man, there glowed ever than Osteopathy. He recognized the above all else keep his conceptions of this a consistent and deeply humanitarian body as the instrument of the higher im Truth pure and unsullied from medical interest in human beings-especially in perishable spirit. In his latter days taint. The Old Doctor has given us a those who were in distress, whether phys- (particularly after the passing of Mrs.
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Still) he talked much of things spiritual person was as good as tbe other. In fact, en out in usefulness unto limitless horizons. and it is a distinct loss to the world that the poorer the pa,tient, the more attention ot mere methods alone, but right think there is left no record of this thinking, hp, received at tbe hand of the"Old Doc ing from the standpoint of definite and which none of us were big enough to fol tor". All were the product of the" Su practical therapeutic philosophy, is the loy;. His favorite mataphor was of the preme Architect of the Universe", in immense lever which must eventually chick in the shell, and with the bursting whom be had implicit faith and trust. move the world toward health and long of the shell, Dr. Still looked for the be His religion was practical. He despised evity. ginning of life. And now this man of a hypocrite, and had little use for dogmas The Old Doctor's vision is symbolized vision has cast off the earthly shell and has and creeds. His religion was also positive. in the picture hanging in bis home, show entered upon the bigger Vision and the He helieved in doing, not conforming to ing the emergence from darkness into bigger Life. theories. "Well done, thou good and light, a vision we should all richly inherit. I believe that Dr. Still came to give us faithful servant.--enter into thy reward." Our duty is plain-FIGHT THE FIGHT a new physical standard, to lead mankind FOR TRUTH, HUMANITY AND OS into a better understanding and higher TRIBUTE OF A. G. WALMSLEY TEOPATHY. concept.ion of themselves. Through the PETERSBORO, ONT. bony lesion he ma11e the teaching tangihle Today's paper brings tidings of the HEW TO THE LINE and we must remain true to our faith in passing ot the Grand Old Man, one of the .JOHN A. MACDONALD, D.O., Boston, the bony lesions, but our obligation is world's really great men and a benefactor Mass. greater than just this. We must impress of the race. 1 teel profoundly affected The Old Doctor has left us to our her the world with the lesson of the perfection hy the loss of the Old Doctor, but there itage; ours to foster and to guard, as he of the handiwork of the "Divine Archi is some consolation in the fact that he would have it fostered and guarded. tect" if we tllke up the work which Dr. lived to see the child of bis brain come into This heritage of service to the world Still has laid down. full fruition, and to receive of mankind can be established only by the further in some slight measure the recognition study and development of Osteopathy. THE SHADOW that bis untiring lahors so well deserved. This development will come if we keep to By J. A. VAN BRAKLE, D. O. Portland, Ore. Of him we will be able to say, as the years our principle; it will never come if we The "OLD DOCTOR" is gone-t-o meet pass by, "he being dead, yet speaketh." depart from our principle. the One he often reverently spoke of as It now devolves upon us to see that the Some great "'Titer has said: Any great The Great EngLTleer of the Universe. great work to which the Old Doctor de institution is the lengthened shadow of a He leavt!'s behind h;m an Idea which voted the best part of his life is not allow single man; The rugged soul of our founder has been bitterly assailed by the followers ed to come into disrepute. At no time was proof against tbe sneer of the scoffer of the narrow therapeutic way from which has there been greater need of unity in our and the stupidity of the conventional he broke loose. This same idea a suffer ranks than now. thinker. Let us give thanks that he ing world has gladly welcomed and upon lived to sucb a ripe old age. His guidance A HERITAGE AND A MISSION that welcome he has built a school of heal through the years was necessary; we are ing that is rapidly gaining the unswayed FRANCIS A. CAVE earnest and we intend to "hew to the approval of science. A great man has passed out and lett a line" but we needed the living presence To you and me, who are members of heritage greater than all the material of the master mind. this school, he has left a Shadow. A wealth of the hemispheres, the possibility TRIBUTE TO THE OLD DOCTOR Shadow of painful regret that he, with his of life, health and usefulness to countless kindly wisdom is no longer with us to millions who as yet do not even know his By DR. F. E. MOORE, Portland, Ore. guide and direct. name, yet who become his beneficiaries Dr. Fred Moore was able to pay a And this Shadow is also something more through the natural growth and evolution very high tribute to Dr. Still in securing a than one of passing sorrow and sadness. of the principles first propounded by him. notice in all of Portland's leading news It is the MANTLE of bis MESSAGE which we Only once in centuries is it given to any papers. The Oregon Daily Journal on are to loyally carry on to the world that man to perform such good work as this, their Editorial page gave twenty-three ever waits in pain. to lead men from the darkness of super inches of space to the article and cut of Out of his loss, I hope that we as a pro stition and death into the light of reason "Daddy" and Elbert Hubbard. T:,e fession may gain and hold the heritage and life and health. editorial of the Portland Oregonian is that may be so richly ours. Who can measure the worth of a man copied below. The other papers were the like Dr. Still, with the brains to formulate Evening Telegram, Portland Journal and TRIBUTE OF DR. MARION E. CLARK such an hypothesis as the osteopathic the News. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. principle, and the courage to face all ob The Portland Oregonian: The death of May I add one little tribute to the stacles in its behalf? History will accord Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, widely known as many due the wonderful man, Doctor him his rightful place among the great the "father of Osteopathy," at the age Still. I recall when I first began to teach humanitarians of the ages. His philosc of 89, will recall to the public mind a man at the A. S. 0., how often he would come phy, among the thoughtful and scien who labored assiduously and sincerely to to my house early in the morning and say, tific, is becoming the foundation stone found a new school of health, and who in "Clark, come on, I want you to go with for medical reform, and verily "the stone his lifetime overcame a good deal of preju me to see"-so and so. Invariably the which the builders rejected is become the dice and opposition, and lived to see his patient was a clinic, and a very poor one head of the corner. " work widely extended. It is said that at that. Many a time have I seen him As his devoted followers, a solemn re there are now some 8000 doctors of Os shake hands with the patient, in parting, sponsibility rests upon our profession, a teopathy in the United States, the product and leave a five-dollar bill in the patient's . responsibility which can only be met by of less than thirty years of growth. Leg hand. Charity in the true sense was close organization and united effort. islative hostility has been generally over practiced h)- him. To visualize the truth of the Old DoctOr's come and the school has won recognition He played no favorites. He did not viewpoint that Osteopathy is "A philoso in most of the states. cater to money, power or influence. One phy as broad as the Universe" is to broad- The theory of which Dr. Still was the
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exponent found fertile soil in which to perfect manner, producing the only ited place among the few practical phil sprout because of deepening belief of substance that can be utilized in the osophers of the world. His teachings were many persons that the dominating schools economy of the individual. No mat u.ll fundamental truths, sans scientific of healing were placing too much reliance terial other than food and water t9ken in verbiage, and as such they must live upon the therapeutic value of drugs. satisfaction of the demands of the appe through all the ages-truth cannot be The"dosing" habit of the American peo tite (not perverted taste) can be intro obliterated, it must eventually be ac ple seemed to be growing and there was duced from the outside without detri cepted by all. increasing skepticism as to the value of ment." ------the results obtained. ExtI:emes always If we accept this philosophy we are TRIBUTE OF DR. LOUISA BURNS, prepare the way for reaction, and Dr. osteopaths. If we add to or take from it RESEARCH INSTITUTE Still crystallized a sentiment when he we are not osteopaths any more than the A great man has done a great work, proposed a system that looked to other Kaiser is a Democrat. and has departed. The good he has done methods for its success. Brother and Sister Osteopath, we can lives and grows. The stone monument Scientists of the older school will be pay no greater tribute to the memory of in Kirksville, the school he organized, the slow to concede that it was the influence our beloved founder than to renew our lives of his students and those they have of Dr. Still that brought it about, but it is covenant with the beginning of the new taught, the lives of his patients, and the probably true that less so-called "medi year by resolving to work heart and soul, patients of his students, all these repeat cine" is administered today than was the collectively and individually toward the and multiply his own work. The A. T. custom when Dr. Still began to practice. upbuilding of the great science that he has Still Research Institute bears his name If m'ankind has not begun to throw physic given us. and should everlastingly develop the to the dogs; it at least is more discrim The Bible never gave us a greater bit principles he taught. Whether Oste inating in the use of it. And, measured of philosophy than "Where there is no opathy is to be worthy of its founder de by the testimonials which they are able vision, the people perish. " pends now and always upon the work of to disseminate much comfort in a world every one of U8. of gloom. It is to the credit of the founder ANDREW TAYLOR STILL "No greater honor can we give himself that he did not preach the dogma DR. HERBERT BERNARD, Detroit, Mich. To noble plant, than let it live. No greater praise the dead can know of finality. He believed himself to be No great movement ever yet lived only on the edge of the great discovery. Than in our lives their teachings grow, without having some appealing person Than through our deeds their best It is fair to him and to Osteopathy to ality behind it. Osteopathy had such a thoughts glow. " absolve them from responsibility for personality-it had for its motive power many of the fantastic and unauthorized a noble example of a man's man-Dr. TRIBUTE BY JENETTE H. BOLLES claims made in their behalf. Andrew Taylor Still. He stood for the DENVER COLO. Dr. Still's age at the time of his death highest type of clean manhood. He was I place Dr. Still among the great scien is particularly interesting. If it is not self-controlled, heoric, reverent, truthful tific discoverers of all time. His work conclusive, it is at least contributory, and picturesque always. As I knew him was to discover and proclrim to the world evidence that 31 good deal can be done to he was insistently and continually ques a great natural law, and the discovery is prolong life and health without drugs. tioning after TRUTH. Now that he has one that touches humanity more nearly Many influences are in operation to modify gone we can only keep his memory green than does any other scientific achievement our ideas as to the preservation .of good by our love' and devotion to the great of modem times. Every man, woman, health, and there is no doubt that Dr. Truth that he discovered-that child of and child is concerned in the law that Still's had been one of them.-Dec. 14, his brain-Osteopathy. health depends upon anatomical adjust 1917. TRIBUTE BY C. M. BANCROFT. ment. It is a discovery that will be even THE GREAT PHILOSOPHER more valuable a thousand years hence, Secretary of N.. Y. Osteopathic So than now, and its usefulness extends to DR. GRACE WYCKOFF, Los Angeles, Cal. ciety, Canandaigua, N. Y. every human being born into the world. One of the world's greatest philosophers, It is difficult to put into the few words Dr. Still's death is a distinct, personal Dr. A. T. Still, our beloved founder, saw you request as my appreciation of Dr. A. T. loss to every osteopathist in the world, the "vision" and unfolded the following Still and his discoveries in the therapeutic and through them to countless others to truths: world. I have always been. filled with whom they have brought relief. Per "Osteopathy deals with the body as an admiration but the feeling does not crys sonally, I feel that I have lost my very intricate machine which if kept in proper tallize into words readily. best friend and the greatest source of in adjustment, nourished and cared for, will The creative type of mind possessed by spiration that ever came into my life. run smoothly into a ripe and useful old A. T. Still has always been the source of age. As long as the human machine is the greatest wonder to me. Many men TRIBUTE BY DR. WM. ALLEN in order, like the locomotive or any other are capable of improving upon basic GRAVETT mechanical contrivance, it will perform thoughts or conceptions, but a mere Dayton, O. the functions for which it was intended. handful in the history of the world have I have tried to put into practice the When every pai·t of the machine is ad been able to give birth to ideas absolute- precepts of Doctor Andrew Taylor Still justed and in perfect harmony, health ly new and revolutionary. . as it has been given me to understand; will hold dominion over the human or The science of Osteopathy was dia I may have fallen far short of possibilities. ganism by laws as natural and immutable metrically opposed to the accepted thera The magnitude of his fundamental con as the law of gravitation. Every living peutic thought of the time of its birth. ception overwhelms as it continues to organism has within it power to The fact that a human mind could so unfold before me. Its applicability seems manufacture and prepare all chem alienate itself from the mental trend of universal. I believe that he who grasps icals, materials and forces needed to the times as to oppose all known and ac its full significance will best serve his build and rebuild itself, together with ~epted facts is a mark of superiority fellow man, I care not what form of thera all 'the machin'ery and apparatus re little appreciated. peutics he may elect to follow, physical, quired to do this work in the most Posterity will give to A. T. Still his mer- mental or chemical. The present gen-
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eration has stood too close to Doctor It seems like throwing a grain upon a contention of his faith unto himself than Still and his philosophy. With so near a mountain of sand. by telling of a little occurrence on one perspective and a range of vision humanly The one big thing which impresses me of the few times that I had the pleasure narrow, we have failed to sense proper as I thinlc of Dr. Still is a personal one of coming in personal contact with him. relationship. It remains for future gen and while it is the fundamental reason Along in 1905 or 1906 the Old Doctor erations to voice an appreciation com for the origin and success of Osteopathy made his first and only trip to New York. mensurate with Doctor Still's influence it is in itself not related to it. We gave a banquet in his honor at the old in the general field of medicine. When I thinlc of the Grand Old Man I St. Dennis. Dr. Still had been seeing can think of but one thing, a quotation New York during the day and was pretty PERSONAL REMINISCENCE from Shakespeare, just where I do not tired by evening, much too tired for a WALTER J. V. FORD, D. O. Seattle, Wash. recall, but it matters not: "This above man of his age to wisely indulge in a all: To thine own self be true,' and it banquet.' But he came.· I had the honor Dr. Still was a genius, with the ability must follow, as the night the day, thou of which I am very happy of sitting next to discover things valuable to mankind. canst not then be false to any man." to him at the speakers table. The first He then did the noblest thing a human can Everything I have ever known; every and second course of oysters and soup . do, he gave this to others, and taught thing I have ever read or heard of Dr. were served and he left them untasted. them to extend the good work. Still reminds me of that axiom of the great Then he turned to me and said "Son, do The OLD DOCTOR remarked to me once writer. Man-made conventions, cus you suppose the boy could bring me some upon a time, "Osteopathy was a science toms, costume, manner of life meant bread and mille" Did he get it? He did. which we had to understand ourselves be nothing to him. He did not ignore the Much to the surprise of the head waiter fore being able to impart to others;" say dictates of society, they were simply non who was shocked at the thought of the ing further, "everything anti-drug is not existent to him. He did not ignore the guest of honor eating so plebian a dish; . Osteopathy, but it is building on a solid modern trend of thought; his mind simply and much to the discomfort of the good foundation and cannot fail if each of you would not fit into that kind of a rut, and Doctor's daughter who tried to eat both do your share of developing work. " lilce the wide tired brain that it was it his d,inner and her own. simply went over the ruts made by little But there was. a man true to his own TRIBUTE OF GEO. F. BURTON brains and thought, without knowing of convictions. True to himself. He knew LOS ANGELES, CALIF. their existence. he was too tired to digest a meal of that Eighty nine years and four months of He appeared to defy the conventions character. The fact that he was a guest ripened intelligence and pyramidal a of society as to clothes, manner of living of honor for whom a banquet was being chievements! With one foot firm.iy plant au'd the many little things that make up served did not alter the fact that he knew ed upon the cumulation of the facts and what is known as the social code. Not so. that such a meal was not good for him, fancies, the truths and vagaries-the To him it was simply a question of ex and while he had not the slightest ob combined polyglot practice of the ages pressing his own personality, "being true jection to anyone else eating it if they Dr. Still reasoned with a hope which en to himself." He felt that all of these liked his mind did not consider that any abled him to reach out wit,h the other foot things were matters for the action of the one might think that custom demanded and phtce it upon the "Terra Firma" of a individual and his mind could not con that he eat if he choked in the attempt. new world-the universal laws of which ceive of society as a mass concerning it He was unembarrassed for his mind saw are unerring in their veracity for the de self as to what the individual might or not even amusement in the situation. velopment of the physical m:;i.n and for should do. His mind was the kind that He was simply being true to himself. the swift advancement of the entire could not grasp any scheme of things . It is the men who are true to themselves human race. which interfered with each individual ALL THE TIME that make the world move. Thinker, Toiler, Student, Discoverer, being"true to himself. " It was the force that conceived and ma Philosopher, Founder-the name, Dr. In the biggest thing in his life "Os tured Osteopathy and it is the force A. T. Still, the only real synonym for teopathy," was this hewing to the line of which if possessed by even one-tenth of Osteopathy, stands for honor, integrity, his own principles more manifest than the followers of Dr. Still will make his purity, emulation and advancement; and elsewhere, not perhaps in greater degree name and that which he created the big his spirit hovers over his boys and girls gest thing in the world in their lifetiir'.d. who are following his footsteps. but in greater quantity, for with un"arying consistency through his life in the con Five hundred men as true to themselves and their convictions as Dr. Still was, as PUTS US TO THE TEST ception, practice and demonstration of his life idea he remained true to his con unselfishly so, will make Osteopathy what "His well earned rest puts us to the viction and nothing, absolutely nothing, few of us have ever conceived of its being. test of loyalty in keeping his discovery was permitted to interfere. Had it not If we get nothing more ret us hope that pUle."-WALTER J. NOVINGER, D.O., been so Osteopathy would have died when his mantle fell, that upon us fell Trenton, N. J. aborning. His mind and purpose in life that power, that determination, that were not influenced by the thoughts and unconscious desire to "be true to our TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE-A actions of those around him. Influenced selves" and to Osteopathy so that hence TRIBUTE is not the word, for to be influenced pre forth it "will follow as night follows the By RALPH H. WILLIAMS, D. O. supposes a consciousness of these thoughts day that we shall not be false to any man. " Rochester, N. Y. and actions, and so great was his concen It seems almost superfluous for me tration upon his own thoughts and ideals LIFE'S TRIBUTE who had but slight, pe.rsonal acquaintance that he was hardly more than remotely Dr. Still ship with the Old Doctor to say anything conscious of the contending and warring Many great men have a habit of dying concerning him personally, and yet that ideas around him. before they are recognized, and before is the only way in which I feel that I can It is the apparently little things in the their ideas have become the general speak. Anything I can say in reference life of a man which prove most in regard property of manldnd. Sometimes, how to his great gift to the world is puny be to his fundamental characteristics and I ever, a great man lives long enough to see side evidence of it everywhere around us. do not believe that I can better seal my his own principles vindicated and his
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Dr. C. C. Reid's enemies and critics vanquished. Such a put behind the parent school of Oste Post Graduate Courses man was Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, the opathy at Kirksville, Missouri. for Osteopaths founder of Osteopathy. Dr. Still belonged to the old school who Dr. Still, however, had more than the called frying pans by the name of frying 1. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat-Ca pans, and spades were spades when he daver Course. common handicap which confronts most This course will help you to be a spec great men, who have only to fight the chose to write about them. cialist. It is continuous and can be ordinary prejudices of human beings. Would that we had more of that kind started at any time. Personal instruction In addition to this, Dr. Still had to over of literature in these later days, when is given on the various operations on eye, censorships, finicky postmaster generals, ear, nose and throat. The student does come the darkness of the medical pro the work and learns to do by doing. Clin fession, which, so far as admitting any and hysteria have transformed the things ical work is also given along with the ced thing new into its ken is concerned, is sold people to read into statements of aver course. about on the same plane as the Ordnance facts, or repetitions of fiction, and twad 2. Course on Refraction. dling editorials that make up in their This course enables one to take up re Department. fraction in conjunction with osteopathic They tell us that Dr. Still looked a good total of bootlicking for the absence of work. Eye strain, many headaches and deal like Abraham Lincoln, and was as intelligent information they contain with nervous troubles are relieved. Course unconventional. He was born August reference to the great fundamentals under continous. Personal attention. lying world disturbances. 3. Course in Osteopathic Technique. 6, 1828, and died on December 12th Latest and best technique in its most last at the age of eighty-nine. He was a Had Dr. Still been a newspaper writer simplified form enablmg one to handle native of Virginia, was the son of a phy here in Washington, he would likely have a heavy practice and conserve his own sician who was also a Methodist preacher. been suppressed for telling the truth. strength. This is the technique used 'by But Dr. Still was a teacher, and writing the most successful Osteopaths in the Before the Civil War he moved to Kansas, country. Personal attention. Course was a great friend of John Brown, and in was only incidental. When he died at the continuous. 1859 was a member of the State Legisla age of nearly 90 years, he left as a monu 4. Osteopathic Post Graduate Ef ture. He was in the Union army during ment a system of healing that is recog ficiency Course. nized and practiced by thousands of pro Clinical and didactic review. Eye, ear, the Civil War as a surgeon, and attained nose and throat, hayfever, deafness, etc., the rank of major. fessional men and women in every part for the general practidan. PERSONAL of the country. He gradually broke away from the TOUCH IN PRACTICF, Refraction, Labora I have just received a letter from Dr. tory, surgery, technique, zone therapy, medical profession, was classed as a here Oliver C. Foreman, of Chicago, aria- a"'~ diagnosis, etc. This course IS given one tic and a crank, ostracized by the pro sentence or two from it will serve as a month twice a year. Next course opens fession, and in pursuit of his idea lost Feb. 1, 1918. Number of enrollments fitting conclusion to the tribute this little very limited. EVERYTHING OSTEOPATHIC. most of his property. Now Kirksville, story is intended to convey. Dr. Fore Each course lasts one month. For further Missouri, where the first osteopathic man says: "Dr. A. T. Still was my friend information, address, college was established, is a monument and teacher, and I appreciate greatly any C. C. REID, D. O. to his enduring fame. The big osteo Majestic Buildin~, Denver, Colo. effort in behalf of Osteopathy. I attended pathic college, with its mass of buildings, his funeral last Friday-a simple passing has a student body of over eight hundred, of a great man, whose life was simple and United States Physicians' and the wide world now testifies to the true. Possibly now that he is gone the Exchange value' of Osteopathy. It has the personal world JIlay awaken to his real worth." endorsement of many of the. most promi Furnish "Anything a Physician Wants" Decel~ber Issue of ACHIEVEMENTS, Wash Specialties Our Specialty nent men of the day, and has even com ington, D. C. pelled the medical profession reluctantly Apparatus, Books Charts, DeLyte Sur to recognize it. Many doctors privately WAR, WOMEN AND OSTEOPATHY geon, Microscopes, Tables, etc. send their patients to the osteopath. Write Us for Anything You Wish A. A. KAISER, D.O., Kansas City, Mo. The supreme value of Dr. Still's great (Osteopathic Quarterly, Sept. 1917) Printing and Engraving discovery lies in the bed rock of Amer The World at War! Imagination can Department ican co=on sense, and is founded upon principles so simple and so sound that not picture the actuality. No pen can 603 Ellicott Square no thinking man can dodge them. portray the story. TO magic brush can BuUalo. N. Y. depict its awful scenery. Beyond ex Dr. Still was true to his ideal. He never pression by human tongue; it touches wavered from his path. He is one of the every individual, affects every industry, ALERT great benefactors of mankind.-Issue of is felt in every line of endeavor. Jan. 17, 1918. Iu trend with all others, the osteopathic PROGRESSIVE profession ml.st help to count the cost. DR. A. T. STILL Hundreds of young men who had intend ENTHUSIASTIC By T. E. JONES ed entering the osteopathic colleges this Last month I read a good deal of the fall are preparing, in the various training OSTEOPATHIC writings of Dr. A. T. Still, the founder camps, to follow tl:e flag of Our Country of Osteopathy. The story he tells of his wherever it may go. They have po~t I early struggles sounds almost like fiction poned or given up the call of Desire to THAT IS THE in the light of the successful achievements respond to the call of Duty. of the system of healing that he intro As men go to war, the 'Women must I duced into the world. Dr. Still was not take up, more and more, the works Men Kansas City College the kind of a writer who would ever be left behind. And so we find women of regarded as a "successful author." But gradually taking their places in every Osteopathy and Surgery he knew how to take the skin off of carp line of industry. That they are able to do TROOST, AT 15TH ing critics, and he threw that same won so,. speaks well of woman's ability to Kansas City, Missouri derful personality into his books that he tand responsibility, to adapt herself to s
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