Osteopathic Truth

January 1920

Vol. 4, No. 6

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A MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR THE OSTEOPATHIC PROFESSION Pledged to the TRUTH which Father Andrew saw, No favor sways US, and no fear shall awe.

Volume IV JANUARY, 1920 Number 6

"We Are Opposed to Vaccination" Dr. A. T. Still

VACCINE VIRUS POISONING DR. REID VIGOROUSLY OPPOSES SPREADS THROUGH LUI· VACCINATION AS PREVENT· PHATICS ATIVE OF SMALLPOX.

Dr. F. P. Millard of Toronto Makes a To the Editor of the Gazette. Marvellous Discovery Dr. F. P. Millard of Toronto says Sir:-For some time the friends of the lymphatic system is the keynote, medical liberty have been looking for and thllit vaccine virus poisoning political doctors in the United States spreads through the lymphatios, caus­ to take advantage of the opportunity ing diphtheria and allied throat affec­ to work on the popular fears of the tions. people in order to promote the lucra· This is surely a strong point for tive practice of vaccination because of anti-vaccination. the smallpox now existing in Canada. Dr. Millard's lecture, which he gave Our expectations have not been in in Toronto recently, together with the vain, as Dr. Chapin, a Board of Health illustrrutions, will appear in the A. O. physician of Providence, recently A. Journal. We will reprint it for the stated in the Boston Herald and other benefit of non-members of the A. O. A. papers that unless the adult popula­ tion in New England is vaccinated, we stand in great peril of a devastating OLD AND NEW Dr. A. T. Still and Dr. F. G. Cluett smallpox epidemic, because of the ex­ discussing a sacral lesion istence of this disease in Canada. Here goes an Old Year, ready for his May, 1908 The epidemic in Canada has given dying, rise to n(' little controversy over the Fun of days of honor, full of days of subject of vaccination. Enthusiasts lying, In the "early days" of Osteopathy, for the practice as usual have been Full of truth and happiness, and mauy when there was no literature such as busy trying to force vaccination on virtues olden, we have now, every practitioner had everybody, and particularly on school Full of dross and misery, and tri­ to furnish his own. I was writing a umphs shining golden, childI·en. little pamphlet for one of the gradu­ Good night, weary Old Year, we thank In 'Toronto the medical tyrant has you most kindly. ates, who was going out to practice. met with the most strenuous opposi­ Meeting Dr. Still on the street oppo­ tion. The homeopathic profession al­ Here comes a New Year, ready for his site the school one day, I stopped him most to a man has gone on record as opposed to compulsory vaccination. living, and asked his opinion as to the use The osteopathic profession likewise Ringing brilliant promises, happy in of a certain phrase I had used. He has declared against the practice. his giving, read it over carefully and gave it his Full of joyous prospects, singing in To date not one death has been re­ approval, but suggested that I add his JOY, ported from this smallpox epidemic in the words: "and that Nature furn­ Trusting, we accept his gifts, gold and Toronto. Vaccination, however, 4as alloy, ishes within the body all the remedies several deaths to its credit. A few of Good morning, little New Year, we necessary to cure disease." Just a them have come to light, notwith­ must trust you blindly. little point, perhaps, but it shows wny standing the fact that the doctors in -LOUISA BURNS. the "old timers" had such faith in almost every case make it a point to January 1, 1920. Osteopathy. F. G. CLUETT, D. O. shield vaccination from all guilt in

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death returns. I give below a brief him more susceptible to disease. This 'fAKES Ul' JI. O. H. CHALLENGE account of three typical oases: fact is very clearly demonstrated by 1. Muriel Taylor, age 6 years, 25 comparing the death rate from Influ­ Dr. JJIllarl1 'Will Post $500 to Proyc "'larchmont road, Toronto; previously enza-pneumonia in our much vaccin­ Vacciuatiou Harmful. perfect health, vaccinated Tuesday, ated and inoculated army with that of The challenge of Dr. Hastings, M. November 11; the following Sunday the non-immunized civil population. O. H., contained in his report to the complained of headache and on Tues­ The following facts are disclosed by local Board of Health, in which he day became paralyzed, and Saturday, the United States Rublic Health Serv­ defied anti-vaccinationists to present November 22, died, 11 days after vac­ ice reports. For ten weeks' from Sep­ one single instance in which a death cination. tember 20 to November 29, 1918, the has occurred or, a limb been lost 2. Beatrice Nichols, 10 years old, whole United States, with a population through vaccination, has been taken 57 Fairview avenue, Toronto; a'bout a of 110,000,000, had, according to offi­ up. Dr. F. P. Millard made this. state­ week after vaccination complained of cial estimates 350,000 deaths from in­ ment to The Telegram today: headache; two days later fell into a fluenza, or 318 deaths per 100,000. This "I hereby state that I will give $500, stupor; died Friday evening, Novem­ includes all the ailing, all the 'weak­ to be divided among the charitable in-' ber 21, without regaining conscious­ lings, all the army "rejects," and all stltutions of this city, as a call to said ness. Previous health was quite nor­ the slum population and all sOrts of challenge i~ proven. The only stipu­ mal. Doctors thought death due to treatment-fully one-third did not lation being thi·s: That a committee sleeping sickness or meningitis. have regular medical treatment. of three unprejudiced public citizens Soldiers in camps in United States 3. ' Arthur Smith, age 9, of 8 Dun­ listen to the statements of the be­ -round numbers a~ signing of armis­ vegan road, Toronto; vaccinated at the reaved p'arents, who claim to have lost tice, 1,500,000. Deaths from influenza Fairbanks school, November 7; took children, or have had children disabled for ten weeks as above, 21,994, 01' convulsions N.ovember 20, became un­ through being vaccinated, and base 1,466 deaths per 100,000. Notwithstand­ conscious and died at the Hospital for theil' decision on the statements of ing. the fact that our soldie!'s were Sick Children, November 22, 15 days these parents. picked men, men chosen because of after vaccination. "To state that theoretically no per­ their superior phys1cal qualifications. Here are three children whose lives son ever died of smallpox, but from a men who, as we are 'accustomed to were sacrificed because of medical complication of troubles following reckon ought to show the greatest ignorance, stupidity and tyranny. I , I smallpox is on a l)ar with Dr. Hast­ resistance to disease, yet the death have the facts regarding others whose ings' statement that no person has rate among them was practically three deaths unquestionably were due to the died from vaccination, but complica­ times as great as that of the civilian vaccination epidemic that has been tions arising a few days afterward, population. It should be noted also fostered by the medical profession in "There are in this city at this mo­ that the soldiers had allopathic or Toronto. ment over one hundred children an regular medical treatment, and that ''IIhen medical men manifest such adults in a critical condition: One i on top of a course of vaccination and bigotry, when they refused to give the the 21-year-old son of a medical doc inoculations a little earlier. public the real true facts in the death tor. Two physicians who have ha When we consider these figures are returns in order to bolster up and their fingers cut while vaccinatin we justified in asking what killed so promulgate the dangerous practice of have had a struggle to save thel many men in the army camps in the vaccination it throws the whole pro­ arms. One had to call in three col influenza epidemic. Are we not justi­ fession open to suspicion and distrust. leagues. fied in concluding that the vaccina­ Dishonesty of this sort is all the more "There are a number of men in thi tions, and inoculations, that were despicable because human health, life city, and one 'phoned me last nigh forced upon them had something to do and happiness are at stake. that although 'successfully vacel with lowering theh' vital resistance, People who insist in promulgatillg ated,' they had had severe cases thus making them lUore susceptible to compulsory vaccination have their smallpox in the last big epidemic the disease and its complications, and eyes closed to reason as well as in­ a few years ago. A big lumberm on this account helped to bring about Btinct. The practice of inflicting dis­ told me last week that in his lumb the high death rate among our sol- ease to avoid disease is surely con­ camp, where over, two hundred m diers? - trary to all reason. The pra'ctice of work, everyone had ,been vaccinat The lesson is obvious. Keep your contaminating the blood stream with and almost every man had smallpO blood pure, no matter whether your vaccine virus which, according to the This was in the last epidemic referr desire be to prevent disease 01' to com­ Century dictionary, is "Poison 01' to above."-The Evening Telegra bat disease. The purer the blood Slime," is one from which our natural Toronto, December 20, 1919. stream the better the individual's inntincts rebel. Any practice that in­ chances are in either case. suUs both reason and instinct has BIG SANITARIU~I '1'0 BE GEORGE RE;ID, IVI. D., D. 0 .. nothing to recommend it unless it be ENLARGED Chairman Worcester Branch Medical one purely of financial consideration. The stockholders of the SouthW Liberty League of Massachusetts. If New England is to avoid a small­ ern Sanitarium Company held a III -Worcester Eveuing Gazette, Dec. 6, pox epidemic it will not be done by iml)Ortant meetIng recently at the 1919. reason of vaccination. It will be teopathic Sanitariulll, Blackwell, brought about purely by the applica­ SOIIIETHlNG TO 'l'HlNK ABOUT~ lahoma, when it was voted to dlsso tion of the laws of sanitation and hy­ ARE YOU A REAL OSTEOPATH the pre;ent corpor,ation and rein giene. POisoning the blood, no matter OR ARE YOU RUMMAGING IN THE porate on a non-profit sharing what the pretext, serves only to lower JUNK PILE OF THE DRUG SCHOOL? the same as churches, lodges the vitality of the individual and make -McCOLE. '. other public. institutions, Plans Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH 87 being considered for the enlarg~ment I>Rf:DICTIO~ COMING TRm~ of the Sanitarium to about three times its present capacity and bonds will be INVESTM ENT }lijllltltCrill }'olJowing Vllccinlltion in issued to raise the necessary funds for Toronto. enlargement. The new plan of 01'­ is a magazine that is teaching ganizllJtion had the enthusiastic ap­ 'IV. F. Darrock. a teacher at Park­ thousands of peoplehowto make a profit on listed stocks and bonds. Ilroval of all those llJttending the dale Collegiate Institute,. who pre­ Write for this week's issue, which meeting. contains up-ta-date information about dicted some time ago that an epidemic several established securities that of diphtheria would follow the general can be boultht now to yield a liberal return. INVESTMENT IS FREE. PHILADELPHIA GIVES ITS OS1'EO­ vaccination as a direct result, was WRITE TODAY. P-ATHIC HOSPI1'AL $102,110 IX present, and pointed out that diph­ KRIEBEL & CO. SEVEN·DAY CAMPAIGN theria was beginning to make its all­ INVESTMENT BANKERS pearance. He said it will become 147 E South LaSalle St., Chicago J)r. NeWc Turner, President PellllsJ]' more prevalent within the next three vania Association, Secures About or four months.-The Toronto World. One·fifth of the Total January 6, 1920. Get· a Student

The total of Isubscriptions and pledges reported -by the forty teams (comprising 300 wo,rkers) 81t the close of the campaign, Monday. night; De­ Hundreds of the Foremost Osteopaths Are cemlber 8, 1919, re8lChed $102,110. For eight days the wOl'kers covered the Using and Recommending Our EL-AR city from center to circumference and Sacro-Iliac Supporter, for the relief of Sacro-Iliac even the adjoining counties and s,t'llJtes l:, ---I sprain, luxation and dislocation of the sacrum, as far as California., Subscripti~ns for men and women. are still pouring in. The divisions of , } Another important service performed by our the teams were commanded by Dr. , ' .. ' supporter is, tl;1at it acts as an abdominal Supporter; Carl D. Bruckner, Dr. Wm. S. Nicholl, preventing rupture and relieving all of those symp­ Mr's. E. G. Dunnington- and Mrs. A. D. tt toms resulting from an unsupported heavy, pendu- lous abdomen. - ' Campbell. The La.nd Title and Trust Cpmpany, perhaps the leading finan­ . This supporter is constructed along thoroughly ,',-". .... cial institution in the city of Philadel­ , scientific and practical lines and affords prompt and lasting relief for backache, pelvic aches and p:lins, !lhia, was. depositary, and received and lumbago and the long chain of aches, pains and tabulated the funds and pledges. weakness resulting from sacro-iliac strains, relaxa­ I .' tion and dislocation. , Luncheons were held at noon daily, .. -- _. from December 1-6, wi-th an average For particulars write to the attendance of 250. The attendance at the closing dinner was about 300. BATILE CREEK DEFORMITY APPLIANCE CO. Oampaign headquarters were on the 714 POST BUILDING BATTLE CREEK, MICH roof of the Adelphia Hotel. The cam­ paign wa.s in charge of a committee of nine, viz., Dr. Simon Peter Ross, Chairman; Dr. O. J. Snyder, Dr. John H. Bailey, Dr. J. C. Snyder, Dr. Wesley P. Dunnington, Dr. Lilliam L. Bent­ ley, Dr. Burdsall F. Johnson, Mr. W. K. Harris and Mr. Rowe Stewart. Everyone connected wtth the cam­ llaign in any capacity worked untir­ ingly for success.

THIRD POST GRADUATE COURSE . The Chicago College of Osteopathy IS to give another gre8it course of two weeks, beginning February 2d. The fee is $60.00, and the cour,se will in­ Still-Hildreth. Osteopathic Sanatorium clude DiagnOsis -Differential, Osteo­ pathic, Surgical. MACON, MISSOURI TeChnique-Scientific and Practical. DEDICATED TO THE CURE OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES Osteopathic Gymnastics-Helpful in eVeryday practice Ear . Who ,. Nose and Throat-For those Address All Communications A. G. HILDRETH, D. O. LabWish to specialize. p oratory Course - Diagnosis to the Above Institution. Superintendent athOlog'y, Bacteriology. '

Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 88 OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH Concerning Mixers L. E. Page, D.O., Newport, Vt.

A perusal of the current osteopathic at the same tim·e. Who would respect pathic institutions there should be no publications will convince anyone that a church displaying both cross and reason why he might not go to large our profession has reached what crescent? And who respects a physi­ medical clinics to observe large IlUm­ might be called the critical period of cian who claims to practice as bel'S of cases. But having done" so he its history. Among the holders of the a D.O. M.D.? One cannot act con­ owes it to his own profession to assist D. O. degree there seems to be a wide sistently upon two opposed theories in providing sufficient clinics in' our divergence of opinio~ as to just what­ at the .same time. It is doubtful if own profession so that any osteopath osteopathy stands for in therapeutics. there is a genuine mixer in existence. need not feel the necessity of depend­ It would seem that this situation had There is no doubt, however, that a ing on the medical profession for suffi­ lately arisen. There was little doubt great many osteopaths (or rather gen­ cient training. in the early days as to what osteop­ tlemen who hold the osteopathic dec We must have our own hospitals athy could do, and by osteopathy was gree) who seem to feel that they are and sanitoria. There should be osteo­ meant a drugless system of treating not fully equipped physicians. There pathic surgeons, gynecologists, and disease. The equipment of the old can be but two reasons for such an at­ obstetricians.. The training of osteo­ time osteopath consisted of a treating titude. Either osteopathy is not the paths should include the best possible table and two strong sensitive hands. system ,of healing it claims to be, or treatment for every condition. Osteo­ But today some of the osteopathic the gentlemen have not understood pathic technique is the II!ost impor­ brethren are 'having trials andtribu­ 9steopathy. What osteop,athy, is de­ tant single method of, treatment for any lations. Trials because they give" pends upon what members of the pro­ osteopath to use, but there are other drugs, and tribulations because they fession make it. The wide distribu­ methods. It is the principles which cannot. It may be profitable to in­ tion of Dr. Atzen's definition would in­ govern the treatment rather than its quire whether there is any just reason dicate that osteopathy .stands for a particular nature which determine for the controversy that has arisen system of h'ealing, which''implies that whether it is osteopathy or a nameless regarding the practice of mixing medi­ itsprinoiples apply to all diseased mixture. The most important study cine and osteopathy. states. of the whole curriculum is the prin­ We may ask three question concern­ The osteopathic physician should be ciples of osteopathy. If they :are well ing "mixers", first, what is a mixer; prepared to apply i;'tie best possible learned- there is little fear' that the second, why do they exist; and third, treatment for what:~er condition he osteopathic profession will become a what is the remedy. This article does may be called upoI1j':to treat. In the band of inconsistent mixers. The dis­ not pretend to answer these questions, majority of cases it Will be osteopathic covery of other methods of treatment but merely to offer a few suggestions technique, but it may be surgery, regu­ than the familiar spinal technique will and to urge that osteopathy be consid­ lation of diet, irrigation, etc. In the not disturb the osteop~th who know ered as a complete system of healing. course of treatment the use of anes-' the principles of his treatment. Pro­ Our idea of a mixer depends alto­ thetics and antiseptics may be neces­ fessor Lane used to say to his biola gether upon our estimation of osteop­ sary. They are not used to treat the class at A. S. 0.: "If there is 'tn athy and the extent of its usefulness. disease, but to. make conditions favor­ proven or demonstrated fact in natnr Dr. Atzen,s definition says that "Os­ able for treatment, they are no more that interferes with your religion, yo teopathy is the name of that system methods of treatment than providing a must adjust your religion to the fact. of the healing art which places the treatment or operating table. It is the same with osteopathy, if ther chief emphasis on the integrity of No one person should pretend to is any proven or demonstrated fa the body mechanism as being the most treat all diseases, but every osteo­ that interferes with our ideas abo important single factor to maintain pathic graduate should feel himself osteopathy, we must adjust our ide the well-leing of the organism in fitted to treat whatever class of dis­ to the fact. health and disease. Whereas the drug ease he prefers. If an osteopath The trouble with the osteopath shhools represent that system;of the wishes to specialize in gynocology for profession today is that hardly a h~aling art which' Places tlie:chief, instance he can do so and still be an two osteopathic physicians have emphasis on' th'e-' chemical intake to' o!lteopath. He will correct lumbar definite system of principles whi the body as: beihg the most important and innominate lesions and probably agree in all particulars. In: a single factor to maintain the well-be­ cure the majority of his patients, but schools the students are told abo ing of the organism in health and dis­ he will also operate for fibroids and the great discovery of Dr. Still a ease." carcinoma in some cases. But what­ are advised to read his books. According to this definition a mixer ever means he uses he must do it study the causes, symptoms, and ill is one who mingles the two ideas' as with the understa.nding that struc­ times the treatment from the bOO to what is the most important single tural integrity is the chief factor. written by men whose principles factor in treating disease. It is aiffi." Whether or not he uses drugs will de­ opposed to ours. No wonder there cult to understand such an attitude. pend upon which theory he holds, and mixers. What we need is a tranS There is no conceivable way to fit the if he doesn't know 'what principal he tion of Dr. Still's works which two parts of the definition together" works under he has no business in the serve as a textbook in the seho and get harmony. Anyone may make practice of medicine or osteopathy. The principles coming from a 8i either system they choose, but they can­ If a man wishing to prepare'to prac­ authoritative source would necesSa not take both any"more·than a person tice a specialty feels that he cannot agree and only the congenitally w can be a Mohammedan and a Christian get sufficient training in our osteo- minded would wish to do any ill

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Too often we read articles by osteo­ cept it when it is found. In the quest Let us make osteopathy scientific paths describing the treatment of a for truth there is no place for senti­ by providing a set of principles certain condition which refers us to ment or dogma. In our search for os­ founded on truth. To do this requires a medical textbook for causes, and teopathic truth each fact relating to that we attack the problem at the symptoms and diagnosis. Since we disease must be impartially examined. right end. For centuries the medical have no independent texts there is no If a cer:tain lesion appears to cause a profession has been using empirical help for it except to provide them. It given condition every other possible methods and their failure is apparent. takes time, money and talent to write cause must be eliminated before a They have tried to arrive at a prin­ books and they must be sold, but if a positive statement can be made. ciple of treatment by trying ever:y con­ good osteopathic anatomy, physiology, Furthermore, before it can be stated ceivable concoction that should bein­ and above all a text on pathology, that a certain lesion will cause a given vented instefLd of goi~g about the mat­ diagnosis, .and practice were written train of symptoms any time the lesion ter scientifically, and discovering the that could be used independently from occurs each individual case must be laws by which diseas~ is caused and the conventional Gray, Osler, Mallory, tested. It is very easy to malce sweep­ overcome by the body defences. and Cabot, they ought to find sufficient ing statements, but the question is, It is often said that more technique sale among our students and practi­ "Can you prove it?" should be studied, which is undoubt­ tioners. The practice of medicine is one of edly true, but is is also true that more Osteopathy has enough original ma­ the most unscientific collectlon of ex­ should be known about the causes terial at hand to revolutionize all of periments in existence. If anyone and the body defences. Having deter­ the so-called medical sciences. The doubts this let him observe the con­ mined these, the best treatment can be anatomy of bones,' muscles, joints stant reiteration of the phrases "in worked out by th.e application of com­ would have a new significance. An some cases,' "apparently it is useful," mon sense. Osteopathy has the 'op­ osteopathic applied anatomy would ~e "Dr. X- claims to have seen specific pOj'tunitY of becoming a scientific sys­ different and superior to any medical results," "the earlier claims have not tem because the facts of pathology .are applied anatomy in existence. In the been substantiated." The principles on our side if we do not commit the field of pathology the interest would of the practice of medicine will not error that prevents the medical pro­ be transferred from the healing of stand the test of scientific scrutiny. fession from offering certain results wounds and the cell changes caused by bacteria to the tissue changes caused by spinal lesions. Immunity and tissue regeneration are sUDJecLs OTTARI of vast importance to the osteopath. A complete cook on the practice of os­ AN INSTITUTION FOR THE OSTEOPATHIC CARE teopathy giving in detail the etiology, OF NON·COMMUNICABLE DISEASES pathology, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment of diseases would be supe­ ASHEVILLE, N. C. rior as a practical guide than any practice of medicine in existence. Dear Doctor: In speaking of our own contribu­ tions to the healing art we must not A mild climate, rest, diet, baths and ideal forget that pure science laid the foun­ surroundings combined with.Osteopathic care is dations of nearly all the subjects the what your post-influenza and chronic cases need. physician studies except practice. Our profession n~eds equipment and endowment Without the labors of anatomists, for research work. All profits of OTTARI go physiologists, and chemists osteopathy ultimately to the A. T. Still Research Institute. could never have been demonstrated. No dividends nor salary go to the management, . Osteopathy can not alter a single fact and our books are open to any accredited repre­ diScovered by science, but ill can' and sentative of the Trustees of the R. I. has altered their significance and ap­ Any patient can be well cared for at OTTARI plication to treatment. for forty dollars per week--including all pro­ If osteopathy is to be saved from the fessional services, board and room--but we have calamity of internal discord each suites and choice rooms at higher rates. Private lUember of th€\ profession mus~ learn and semi-private nurses cost extra, but nurses his principles from a common source. are provided at no extra cost to carry out all orders These principles must be complete 'and of the physician. ~lUbrace all questions likely to arise In the mind of the honest seeker after Help your patients--who will thank you, help truth E' . your profession--that has already helped you, by . ach subJect the student IS re- qUired to learn should be satur~ted recommending OTTARI. . With osteopathy whether it is biology Descriptive literature on application to or Ped' . . II latncs. Nothing should be hast- OTTARI, y cast aside as unosteopathic till it bas be R. F. D. No.1, If en tested and found wanting. it osteopathy is to fulfill its mission w. Banks Meacham, D.O., Asheville, N. C. t111~~:t be scientific, and to be scien- Physician-in-Charge. must search for truth and ac-

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after 2,000 years of experiment. First, ·Dr. L."M. Whiting, South Pasa- OUR GlE'TS know the causes, pathology, and the dena (add.) 5.00 natural body defences, and then de­ duct the treatment instead of working Dr. Lillian Moffat, Los Angeles 1.00 blindly trying to determine first prin­ Dr. Lura B. Nelson, Hollywood, Seek, and ye shall find within your­ f ciples by the deceptive method of Cal. (add.) 50.00 selves analogy. Some special Gift in which each may The gifts are gladly and gratefully We must search the whole field of. excel; acknowledged. health and disease for truth and ad­ Encompass it about with constant just osteopathy to the facts. We can­ This money has been added to a thought, And like the magic leaven in the loaf, not adjust facts to any preconceived fund already accumulated, and new notions of osteopathy we may have. Its quality'will permeate the whole hutches have been built. . These Of life, and blend it into concrete hutches are ninety-six in number, and form, PACIFIC BRANCH, A. '1'. S'L'II,L RE. are so built as to minimize the work From center to circumference of SEARCH INS'fITU'I'E, RECEIVES of caring f0l1 the animals.' A central which ::UOIUj GI}"fS One rhythm makes for perfect har­ aisle is wide enough to serve as a mony. work room for lesioning and examin­ Louisa Burns ing the animals. The building cost The nlind may enter in, and thus as­ $620.00, with a very few further ex­ sist During December, the following penses yet to be met. It provides quar­ By its aLLen tion; but the though of money has been sent to me, to be used / ters for all the animals apt to be Self for the work of the Pacific Branch of Must never be allowed to blur the needed for the next few years, accord~ the A. T. Still Research Institute: cleai·, ing to present plans for the work. Inspired vision, lest the holy mission Dr. C. P. McConnell, Chicago ...$100.00 Of the Gift should fail in its i'ntent Miss Verna Fish, Pasadena To grow and merge into the Common SANDS-jUcH:l~llCHAll (add.) 15.00 Good. Dr. Maud Sands Of Wilmette, Illinois, Dr. Olinda Stevens-Richardson, was married to Captain Hoy Malcolm McKerchar on December 18, :t 919, at Pomona, Cal. 8.00 'Vilmette, Illinois.

NOW OPEN The Laughlin HOSPITAL Kirksville, M,issouri The Laug'hlin Hospital of Kirksville, Missouri, has just been completed and .is·now ready for your patronage. The hospital, which was built at a cost of over $50,00~, is a modern fireproof structure of fort.y-two rooms. Thirt.y­ five of these rooms cont.ain beds for patient.s. The building is built of t.he very best mat.erial and has every con­ venience t.hat can be put. in a hospit.al of t.his size. An electric aut.omatic elevat.or has be~n inst.alled, which means a great convenience. There are t.wo operating rooms, one for general surgery and the other for orthopedics. Dr. Laughlin and his. ~ssociates will do an osteopathic and general surgical practice. "Dr. Laughlin has secured competent assistants' to help hiin in the various departments, of which there are the following: 1. Osteopathic 3. General Surgical 5. Gynecology 7. Proctology and Urology 2. Orthopedic 4. Obstretrics 6. Nose and Throat 8. X-Ray and Laboratory Diagnosis A Training School for Nurses will also be maintained, with a separate building for the nurses' home For further information address DR. GEORGE M. LAUGHLIN Kirksville, Missouri

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18TH ANNUAL CONVENTION, i'IAS· A. O. A. DEPAR.'fMENT O}' EDUCA· SACHUSETTS OSTEOPATHIC TION STARTS NATIONAL CAilI· SOCIETY PAIGN FOR STUDENTS OSTEOPATH'S COATS

Dr. Geo. \\'. Goode, of Boston, I'resldent Dr. Jl. L. Hartwell of St. Josepli, i'Io., Sold on a GUAR· ANTEE of Perfect The eighteenth annual convention of in Cltarge. the Massachusetts Osteopathic Society Satisfaction or your was held in the Egyptian Room of the A national education campaign has Money Refunded. Hotel Lenox. Saturday, January 3, 1920. been advocated by many of our pro­ The following program was giyen: Our guarantee covers fession, and it is, indeed, gratifying to every t h i ng; quality, lUornlng SesHioll see the Department of Education, workmanship, fit and 9 :OO-Some Reasons for Typhoid style. You take no risk. Fever in the A. E. F.-Perrin T. Wil­ through the Forward Movement Bur­ ~on, D. O. Cambridge. All materials are thor­ eau, plan such a campaign. oughly shrunk and all 9:30-Pyorrhea-S. L. Gants, D.O., Providence. R. I. Sending vocational literature to the colors fast. 9 :45-Acidosis and the Vitamines­ senior high school students through­ Earl Scamman.•D. 0., Boston. Discus­ We Make 25 sion-F"ancis K. Byrkit, D.O., Boston; out the land will not only educate Henry w. Clement, D.O., Providence, Different R.1. them to Osteopathy, but their families 10:00-Applied Osteopathy-Carl P. as well. Styles STYLI: 18 McConnell, D.O., Chicago, Ill. Discus­ sion-Mary Emer'y, D.O., Boston. We would suggest in addiltion to Of over 40 selected patterns. Expre.. 11:15-Pediatrics-Lucy H. Abbott, this campaign that a national essay charge. prepaid to all point-. D.O., Waltham. Discussion-George W. Heid, D.O., Worcester. contest be conducted with a full four·· Samples and instructions for measuring sent FREE. 11 :SO-Mass Diagnosis-Waldo Hor­ year scholarship in each college as ton, D.O., Boston. Discussion-Hobe'~t H. Nichols, D.O., Boston; George E. the prize. If the A. O. A. is to spend M. WEISSFELD MFG. CO. Smith., D.O., Boston. its fnnds to secure students the col­ 11:45-The Osteopathic Student's 335 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY Point of View-Miss Eva W. Magoon, leges can very easily carry four schol­ Chicago Colleg'e of Osteopathy. Dis­ NOTICE-We have no branches and are not connected cussion-Allen F. FeIn, D.O., Malden; arship students, The young people with any other firm. Patrons wbo rive orders to our C. H. Downing. will be more interested if there is a 3£ents should see that (be order (oes to us. A.fternooll Se~udoll chance' to win a prize, and in writing 1:00-Business Meeting. the essay they must study about wOl'k in the clinics of the parent­ 1 :30--Pelvic Conditions - Hutl.' E. tea.chers· association, He ul'g-ed regu­ Humphries, D. 0 .. Waltham. DISCUS­ Osteopathy. lation of diet, envil'Ol1lnent and osteo­ sion-Aubrey W. Hart, D.O., Boston. Ilathic treatment for nervous and 1'':­ I.os Angeles County Societ)' Jleetillg, tarded children, with spec,al emphasl~ 1 :45-Bedside Practice-Mark Shrum, on the adjustment of the Rchools to the n. 0., Lynn. December 8, 1919. child rather than the child to an in­ 2:00-Public Health-Helen G. Shee­ The meeting- was called to order by flexible curriculum. han. D.O., Boston. Discussion-Nell Vice President Wyckoff at 6:40 p. m. at Dr. Enlory tTIoved that ten nlinutes C. Crawford, D.O., Lexington. Christopher's banquet hall, the rap of be de\'oted at each meeting- to refer­ 2:15-Applied Osteopathy - Carl P. the gavel being followed immediately ence to the advertisers patronizing the . "lcConnell, D.O., Chicago, Ill. DISCUS­ by oyster cocletel' George W. Reid, D.O., Worcester. more Singing-, Kel'koffer inspecting the (weight 250 and 280 pounds, l'espec­ 3:45-Diet-Henry W. Clement, D.O., tonsils and vocal chords of those who l/yely) be assig'ned subjects "Whal Providence, H. 1. Discussion-Anna C. had their mouths open, yet emitting' yery little noise. A letter was next Denos' Food Does for Me." Tinlast IH:es~dent of tette, composed of Mrs. Goodfellow. the Pennsvlvania state asSOCtatl0Il. nuoat to the General Health?-Her­ Mrs. Merrill, Drs. Cunning-ham and hen H. Pentz. D.O., Boston. . E;UBLJCITY COMMITTEE. Marple, and then the reports ~f the Dr. T. .T. Ruddy, Chairman. 5:30-Business Meeting. Hospital and the A. O. A: constItutIOn .DI'. Made r'ehol'sen, The following officers were elected: committees. Dr. Emory reported the Dr. Norman W. Giesy.

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QDsf.ellpafl!ir: Q}:rufl! Anent Pennsylvania ·A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF What Is Ten-Fingered Osteopathy1 OSTEOPATHIC PROGRESS EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY Much has been printed upholding Over a year has elapsed in both in­ PRACTIC~GOSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS the testrmony given by Drs. Snyder, stances. FOR THE,' OSTEOPATHIC PROFESSION Flack and Balbirnie in the Daily Case Yet, everybody busts -a gut to fight a President and it makes one wonder why such a case where they may be allowed to R. M. Vastine. n. 0 ... : . Harrisburg, Pa. . ', 102 Locust St. worUlY ( ?) deed need be heralded give calomel, paregoric, lobelia, etc. Vice-l>residcnt from the house tops. Dr. Baldy, president of the Bureau Richard Wanless, D. 0 N. Y.. N. Y. of Medical Educ-ation and Licensure, 347 Fifth Ave. Dr, Daily An Osteopatll specifically states thalt the law per­ Secretary-Treasurer Dr. Daily is, as far as we can -ascer­ Oliver C. Foreman, D. 0 ....Chicago, III. mits an oseopathic '-physician to do ! 27 E. Monroe St. tain, an osteopath in all that the word minor surgery and all that that en­ AddreHs ,nil corresl,ondence to means-he gradua,ted from a college tails in the way of the use of instru­ 'rnE OSTEOPA'rHIC TItU'I'H PUB­ recognized by the A. O. A., and W3!S LISHING CO. ments, antiseptics, anaesthetics, etc. granted ~ license by the State Board 1421 Morse Ave., Chicago, III. of Examiners. He is not a so-called Jumping for Drugs

Editor osteopath-but is one. Although denying that drugs used Earl J. Drinkall, D. 0 ...... Chicago,·III. Dr. Daily has either been mistaught as remedial agencies are to be a part 1421 Morse Ave. or else willfully rtaught himself pre­ of Osteopathy we hear more or less , ' 1 Business. lUunager J scription writing, etc., and willfully George, W. Goode, D.O.....Boston, Mass. cons'bantly that our present educa­ 687 Boylston St. violwted the State laws, casting a tional reuirements entitle us to a Circulation Manager great refiecUon upon the pl'actice of broader basis of therapeutic liberty. H. W. Shairi, D. O...... •.... Chicago. Ill. Osteop,athy. What in the deuce tha,t is, seems be­ ,., 1421 Morse Ave. You may judge for your-seli. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS yond my gray matter. George W. Reid, D. 0 .. Worcester, Mass. A Real Test Case Passed By In a -statement ,just received from CarI.P. McConnel!" D. 0 Chicago, III. FranCIS A. Cave, lJ. 0 Boston, Mass. Thts Daily ca;se has been called a Dr. Bruckner, se-cretary of the Phila­ Geo. F .. Burton, ,D. 0 Los Angeles, Cal. delphia County Osteopathic Society Louise:.A. Griffin, D. 0 ...Boulder, Colo. test case, but in all the excuses which Nettie O. B. Stingle, D. 0 . we have received they stwte thaJt it states: "A. much larger percentage .'..••: . '. '...... •..San Gabriel, Cal. W. Banks Meacham, D. 0 . "Drugs given with an 6bjeot of cure" of the profession entertain a mlic ...... Asheville, N. C. broader conception of their profes l-lerbert E. Bernard. D.O.. Detroit, Mich. were not to be countenanced as a part E. Florence Gair, D. 0 ... Brooklyn, N. Y. of Osteopathy. sional sltatus and insist that the prac Joseph H.SuIIivan, D. 0 Chicago, III. E. R. Booth, D. 0 Cincinnati, O. In September of 1918, a year and tice of Osteopathy comprehends no Walter J. Novinger, D. 0 .. Trenton, N. J. only these principles-which are dis Asa Wahnsley, D. O..Peterborough, Onto four months -ago, the president of the F. J;'FoHjler, D.O Seattle; Wash. Bureau of MediC<'1.t Eduoation and tin'ctively the OsteopaJthic discove Ada -Achorn, D.O...•.....Boston, Mass. A. L. Evans, D. 0 Miami, Fla. Licensure issued an order to the Su­ but includes all sucll otller agenci Asa Willard, D, 0 Missoula, Mont. as h'ave been scHmtifically proven Josephine L. Pierce, D. 0 ...... Lima, O. perintendent of Nurses of the Canons­ burg Gene-ral Hospital that a D. O. be Mlpful in tile amelioration of s SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00 a year, could not order an enema nor do any­ fering imd overcoming the process in advance. Single copies 10 cents. Back numbers not over three months thing else except manipulative treat­ of disease and we believe thwt t old, 25 cents each; over three months ment and minor surge-ry. practice of Osteopathy -as regulat old, 50 cents each. by. law in this st-ate authorizes t lnstr~ct'ions for RENEWAL, DISCON­ UP TO DATE NO EFFORT HAS praotitioner of Osteopalthy to practi TINUANCE, or CBANGE OF AD­ BEEN MADE IN THIS OPPOR­ DRESS should be sent in two weeks upon that basis. (Drugs for curat before they are to go into effect. TUNITY FOR A TEST CASE. PRESENTATION COPIES. When mak­ purposes do, however, not form ing a subscription for a friend and A Better One part of the Osteopathic procedure.) you desire the magazine to stop at the end of the year, please make a state­ Under date of December 7, 1918, a WHO or whwt committee on "1 ment to that effect when addressing us. ' year and a month ago, a leUer was acy" is to scientifically prove t ADVERTISING RA'rES sent to M. J. Shambaugh, Secretary of anything Is helpful in the amelia Advertising rates will be submitted the Pennsylvania OSlteopathic Sana­ tion of suffering and overcom upon application to the Business Office ta.rium, York, Pa., from Frank Wood­ the pro'cesses of disease-shall it in Chicago. berry, Secretary of the Commi'Dtee on the A. T. Still Rese-arch Institute Lunacy of the l)epartment of Public the Rockfeller Ins'titute? JANUARY, 1920 Charities (copied after this article) in The first paragraph of the statem which Dr. Woodberry states that the from Dr. Bruckner states that "A Sanatarium may treat insane patients tain element of the Osteopathic I am not bound to win, but I am if they will comply wHh the CommiJt­ fession maintains that the practic bound to be true-I am not bound to tees illiterprCitation of the law that Osteopathy comprehends only succeed, but I am bound to live up to "physician" means an M. D., and have which consUtutes the discovery of what light I have-I must stand with such M. D.'s, in charge of the ins'ane Andrew Taylor Still and can patients. wholly or entIrely of rnanipul anybody that stands right; stand with UP TO DATE NO EFFORT HAS procedure .together such such sur him while he is right and part with BEEN MADE IN THIS MOST WON­ practice as .i.s commonly recog him when he goes wrong. DERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR A as essenti-al." -Abraham Lincoln. TEST CASE OF VALUE. This· on the face of it is erron

Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH 93 and whoever wrote the statement is Please make an effort to study Dr. MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE FUND entirely in ignorance of what Dr. Still Still's discovery of Osteopathy during Help Lift tile SCllOOI from M.· D. did discover. A perusal of Dr. Still's this year of 1920 and forever keep his Control-$20,OOO at Least Needed Platform will quickly dispell any illu­ word before you. sions that all he' discovered was a few SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND:- Obey H, for- manips. Earl J. Drinkall $100 'J'heCrux "YOUR FRIENDS DO NOT NEED George W. Goode...... 100 The crux of the whole situation, EXCUSES, AND YOUR ENEMIES 198 more needed with drugs ruled OUit by those who WILL NOT BELIEVE THEM.' HURRY! have just recently upheld them and . Read the editorials in November surgery assigned to its proper place, "Truth." would seem to revolve upon vaccines, Copy serums, and organotherapy. But tell Here is a constructive pIan, a chance me, pray, have any of them been scien­ December 7, 1918. to make one of otn' colleges- stronger and better, more o.steopathic. tifically proven by the A. T. Still Re~ Dr. M. .J. Shambaugh, Secretary, It is your move! search Institute or any other insti­ Penn. Osteopathic Sanatorium. York, Pa: Which way? tu'te? Dear Sir: How much? Dr. Still says we are OPPOSED to The application of your institution vaccines and serums as the body con­ for a license to receive insane patients tains its own vac,cine and serum if we will come before the Board of Public HAVE YOUR BACK.BREAKING Charities at its quarterly meeting on but know how to deliver the goods. December 11th. I have a letter ·from SINKS RAISED Dr. Still says we do not DEPEND Mr. Samuel Kurtz, General Council for your Institution, dated October 1st, upon adjuncts, but RELY on osteo­ stating that it is proposed to receive In the Chicago American of Decem­ pathic measures to relieve and cure. and treat insane persons in this insti­ ber 29, 1919, a long editorial appeared Note. that Dr. Still did not s'ay OP­ tution. Before granting permission to receive this class of cases, it becomes urging people to have their kitchen POSED to adjuncts. necessary for you to engage that the sinks' adjusted to fit the backs which institution shall be conducted in ac­ cordance with the rules and regulations . use them, and thereby save much suf­ Ten Fingered Osteopathy of the Board of Public Charities and fering. They emphasized their point the l""w~ of Pennsylvania. In the opin­ A ten fingered osteopath then is one ion of the Board and of the Committee by referring to our school of thera­ of Lunacy, it is necessary that the· peutics in this manner. "There is a who adheres and fights for the marvel­ method of treatment of the patients lous science that Dr. SHll discovered. Ahall be in accordance with the provi­ whole school of medicine, Osteopathy, sions of the several acts relating to the built around the relationship of the No. school, whether in Chicago, Kan­ practice of medicine and licensing sas City, Kirksville, Des Moines, Los of physicians in this Commonwealth. spine to the rest of the body and its The Committee of Lunacy does not ac­ functions, and thousands of cases' of Angeles or Philadelphi,a need teach cept the view that other persons may Materia Medica, Prescription Writing, practice medicine than those who have illness have been traced by osteo.paths a license from the Bureau of Medical to slights displ'acemen,ts of the ver­ Serum Therapy, Organo-Therapy, nor Education and Licensure, exercising powers conferred upon it by an act tebrae." electro-therapy. approved .July 25th, 1914, P.L.743. en­ titled, "An act relating to the right to California should. wipe off the slate practice medicine and surgery in the by a COUl't decision the ruling of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, etc." ENTHUSIASl\'{ Board that those ~hing to take the The Committee of Lunacy will make the following report to the Board on 'broad' license must pass in one next Wednesday: "In every insance where the word "physician" is em­ 1'he very word "enthusiasm" is branch of Materia Medica (allo­ ployed in the Lunacy' Law, it is to be pathic or homeopathic). understood to apply exclusively to those likely to suggest precipitate action, on persons who have complied with the re­ 'an impulse, heedless of the conse­ quirements of the act regUlating medi­ Surgery, minor and major, includes cal practice, approved .June 3rd, 1911, quences. It conveys also the idea of the teaching of the use of anaesthe­ as amended by the act of .July 25th, 1913, and who ar licensed by the Penn­ the profuse expression of an exagger­ tics and antiseptics, and narcotics sylvania Bureau of Medical Education ated sentiment. It hints at exuberant and Licensure. The same interpreta­ Where absolutely essential in emer­ tion and limitation is to be placed upon . language which in the cold blood of the gency cases such as accidents, etc. the "\vords llphysician," I'resident physi­ cien," and "medical attendant," as these next day's retros>pect would seem as if terms occur in the Rules and Regula­ it should have been tamed and tem­ Practice of Osteopathy will iriclude tions and blank' schedules used in hYdrotherapy, enemas, douches, and making reports to the Committee of pered. We fear the" enthusiast" as Lunacy. It is therefore necessary for SUch other simple adjuncts, also anti­ the York Sanatorium, in order to ob­ one who starts somcthing he cannot fin­ dotes for poisons. tain a license to· receive the insane, to ish or never means to finish. He is an employ physicians and medical attend . ants who have graduated at medical unpractical dreamer, a spiritual though EYe, Ear, Nose and Throat special-. schools and who have had hospital not a spirituous inebriate. He deals in ties; obstretrics, gynecology, etc., ·are training in hospitals approved by the Bureau of Medical Education and Li­ rainbow fancy, roseate prophecy and lUore or less inclUded under minor censure, and who hold a license from spectacular promise. His reac'h exceeds Surgery as to the use of 'allaestheics the only Bureau that has the power to authorize them to practice medicine in his grasp, as the poet hath it. We and antilseptics. the State of Pennsylvania." invite him to hold his horses, or to come The meeting will be held at 5:30 NOWHERE IN THE PRACTICE OF p. m. and probably will also meet on down to earth; we strive to stifle his Thursday forenoon at this office. If you smoldering fire with a wet blanket; we OSTEOPATHY IS THERE ROOM will agree to comply with the rules of entitled "The Lunacy Law and Rules beg of him to moderate the transports Fon DRUGS USED AS REMEDIAL and Regulations," as interpreted by the Lunacy Committee, please let me know. of his music to the dull monotone of AGENTS, NOR FOR VACCINES OR the roaring town; and some of us, more SEnUMS. (Signed) Frank Woodberry, Secretary. frank, inform him he's a fool.

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Yet enthusiasm, if it does not begin one aside into an ignominious obscurity. DECE~IBEn MEETING and end in mere ecstasies, is a motive But he was not working for the credit, force that has made lives great and und 'he, did not bother his head about Boston Osteopathic Society the earth better, and nearly every sort the cash returns. He was dominated by The December meeting of the Bos­ of business that the world wants done the driving force of a great purpose, ton Osteopathic Society was held in demands one who really cares a lot beyond himself and beyond the world 'II Faelten Hall, Huntington Chambers, about it to start it and keep it going. eye. He labored that he might bring One would rather have a Maeedonian, his dream true, and he had to be faith­ December 20. The scientific program with no language but a cry, than a ful to a trust. was as follows: Psychological Diagnosis-Dr. George Lacedaemonian, neither cold nor hot, Those who have influenced their time E. Smith. for the Macedonian, at any rate, wanted. and subsequent times never loafed Laboratory Diagnosis-Dr. 'Waldo something and made known the want. easily through the ,perfunctory motions There are always plenty of people who of the day's routine; they never evaded Horton. will vote in favor of doing nothing, for harel things, sharp corners and strange Following the scientific program fear of making a mistake. In their problems; but they met and strangled the evening was given over to enter­ anxiety to be errorless they make noth­ lions in the way. They believed with tainment. The hall was decorated ing at all. They are like ballplayers all their might when they believed; and with Christmas greens. There were who never go after the" ball lest they they did not stand debating when ae­ Christmas carols by seven male voices. might miss it. They dal'e nothing be­ tion was imperative. Nor did they em­ Dialect stories and Christmas stories cause they may lose something. phasize the grief and gloom of life; wet'e given by L. B. Fenderson, D. M. The world depends on the enthusi­ nor did they pull long faces and sigh D., and Miss Gordon, and a piano solo asts-the sane, clear-eyed and l"ational for asphodel meadows in the hereafter by Miss Bowman. ones-to get its work done. It laughs ere they had done their duty by the All those taking part in the enter­ at the imitator; it points out that he is flinty roads that on this earth 'we must tainllle'nt were friends of local osteo­ on the wrong track; it pulls down the tread. They would not let the fret paths. books and cites the precedents against and the attrition that each day inevita­ The entertainment was concluded by him. After it 11as 'Proved to its com­ bly brings wear down the spirit alHl refreshments. plete satisfaction that what he proposes subdue the cheerfulness whieh is as There were about eighty present. is impossible, he makes. the world a much a part of duty as it is to be truth­ FRANCES GRAVES, present of the finished product. Where­ ful, or kind, or to vote for decent men Secretary, upon the keptics announce that it was and women in 1mblic office.-Editorial, their own idea, and the credit is all Philadelphia Public Ledger, November theirs and they try to push the worthy 8, 1919. Get a Student

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Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH 95 A Mento-Occiput Presentation FOOL OR PHILOSOPHER? In 1895 I was in Kirksville on a OSTEOPATHIC OBSTETRICS visit for a day. In the afternoon just before leaving the infirmary I met the This Report Is Worth Thousands of Dollars to You "Old Doctor" in the hallway. I told him I was going back to St. Louis that CASE REPORT night to close up my business; that I had been looking over the school, and As it is an unusual presentation and I held there for about twenty minutes, that I had about decided to enter the a hard one, I thought this case might then finding my patient was getting class and study Osteopathy. With that be of interest. very nervous I sat at the hel\d of the quaint smile of his he held out his I did not take the case alone, as I bed and held what Dr. Still called the hand and said: "Well, Cluett, it's just have not had much experience. When chearoform nerve, and let the other as easy to be a fool as a philosopher." I was in IHinois we were not allowed doctor watch the birth. He soon told And I am not yet quite sure to whieh presen~ to take obstetrical oases. I treated me we had a mento-occipital class he meant to assign me. this case through early gestation, but tation, and would have a laceration, if F. G. CLUETT, D. O. had not seen case s1nce in May ti.\l no worse. morning of October 18. Well; at 11: 15 we had a nine-pound Primipara, ~ was called and reached boy, and no laceration at all. Not case a little before 8 a. m. Pains half a minute from the time the chin 'since 4 a. m. Water had been passing and occiput were free the child wa,s for three weeks, following a fright. here, and no chloroform was' used. I made an examination, and was Baby's iips and face were badly swol­ sure we had a cephalic presentation, len and very much discolored. It took but was not sure of position. I began a few moments to get him to breath­ using the method Dr. Still taught me, ing, and longer before he could cry. 'namely, slight pressure on either side That evening he could take the 'of clitoris to dilate cervix. I kept breast, and the swelling was all gone 'that up for' about half an hour be­ from face the next day. 'tween pains. Mother and child are doing finely. . , The M. D.-came at this'time, and he' The M. D. told me in my office two too thought it was 'a caphalic presen­ days later that the books said when tation, but was not 'sure 'of 'pos.itiQn, "there was a merllto-occipi1tal presenta­ and he had had hundreds of cases, he tion the child could not be born, and said. We let p,atient stand and walk that he did not know what did the for a time. 'Vhen she was tired, she dilating, but that it was done. Lookingin theGlass went back to bed, and I did some or more dila,ung. Later slipped 'fingers MARY E. NOYES, D.O., Looking in a Book down over Bartholins glands, as told 314 Blount Building, by Dr. Still to dilate perineum. Pensacola, Fla. If "Concerning Osteopathy" was at her hand-she would be reading It while waiting for treatment. THE NEW PATIENT It has a convincing appeal. It is just what you want in the In December, 1918- You may put me on your list." hand of every patient. On the 31st, to be exact, It is just what your patient wants, . too. Came a dame in fear and trembling Slowly, slowly, bit by bit, Bon~s "Better convince one than to talk Lest her bones must all be cracked. were cracked and muscles loos- to many." enedl Order a hundred now. First she donned a suit so funny, Till today we see improvement Pink or blue, bu clean and neat, In the spine, the head, the hip. PRICE LIST While the Doctor looked her over More than body was the mental (Prepaid in U. S. and Canada) From her head unto her feet. 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A I may be long and tiresome, cheer, Ten Dollars. nnd mUch patience it will take, So please accept this little offering $10.00 with the order and the bal­ ,efor e the muscles become softer ,From your grateful patient ance in 30 days post-dated checks "ntt th b . . for $10.00 each or less if the balance Th e ones slip back III shape." For a Happy New Year. is less than $10.00. In ~n the dame with faith undaunted S. D. P., Saidh~, PUnchings, thumps and twists, '-A Patient of DI'. Morris IVr. Brill, G. V. WEBSTER,, D. O. , Go to it, I will stand it- New York. Carthage, N. Y.

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Food and Diet As Related to Osteopathic Practice Edited by Dr. E. H. Bean, 71 East State Street, Columbus, Ohio

SERIES NO.2 it nicely, about one ounce, with no a child to digest. Possibly you do not tad results. How much of that should think this a' good idea for the child. January 15, 1918. she be given at one time? Is there any danger of her stomach Dear Doctor. It seemed out of the question to re­ becoming dilated by feeding her so much at one time? That is what so Your letter of the 11th inst. receIved turn her to the breast. They were many say. If so, I should think the and ,I thank you for going so thor­ too far dried up. The milk did not four feedings would be best, but you oughly into detail. return readily. seem to prefer the three, so I am From the time I mailed my first During the time I had her on the doing that, and I feel it is going to letter to you and until I received yours .formula I told you of I managed to work out fine. The eczema is much I put the baby on a four-hour sched­ regulate her bowels fine by syphoning better already. I can see that. Her ule, wit)l one feeding a night, and she more of the milk and returning less body is nearly cleared up. She still slept better than she has for weeks. whey to the cream. In the ten days has a sort of rash on parts of her face I was giving her only four ounces at she usec\ this formula she gained six a feeding (I didn't know I dared give ounces, so that seemed to agree with and neck and forehead, and the back of her head is dry still. her more), and I felt the four feed­ her very well, but I didn't know just ings were not enough, hence the night the proportions to give her for three I have started bathing her in water every other day, and the other days feeding. As soon as I received your feedings a day, so I did just as you letter I changed the milk and am fol­ said-used the straight milk with one­ with oil. What soap is best to use. lowing the three feedings a day fourth water added, and she is con­ At first I did not use any, "then th method. She has never taken over stipated again. The orange and veg­ morning I tried a very little tinctur eight ounces at a feeding, usually etable juices may straighten this out, of green soap. seven or seven and a half. She seems but in case they du not would you She takes water any time I offer perfectly satisfied at the time, ·but gets think best for me to go back to the to her, and always has. Should I giv so terribly hungry before the next formula, or should I use Squibb's her several ounces at one time and 1 feed. . This, though, you said was to liquid petrolatum you spoke of? To­ her take all she wants, or limit th be expected. I am unable to get pine­ night I gave her an enema, and she amount? I have been giving he apple juice, so am using orange in­ was quite badly constipated with some about two ounces at a time with stead. How about fresh pineapple? I undigested curds and a few little slow nipple, and. offer it to her fr can' get that. So many oranges are streaks of red. I will keep her on the quently. She sleeps wonderfully we frost-bitten that the pineapple might milk just as she is getting it until I at night. be saf!!r, but the orange juice seems hear from you again. I feel ashamed asking so ma to agree, and she takes it readily, The formula is not b.eated so much questions so soon, but this method with no bad results that I can see. for the purpose of cleansing the milk so new and different I feel that I do know anything. Then I thought I have given her the vegetable juice as it is to take out the curd, and that the time I heard from you again (celery and lettuce) once. She took seems to be the part that is hard for would have had time to tryout h bowels, and I want to do what y think best-either use the formula give her petrolatum.. I feel very much encouraged Osteopathic Educator' ready, for I really feel I am on right road. I have not felt that s was fed right since she was born u T~at is w~at The Herald of Osteopathy is. til now. In case you think best me to go back to the formula, wo IS It PublIshed Monthly Especially for the you prefer I did not use any sugar Laity. milk? As a Monthly Visitor to Your Patients it can't be beat. It Is Neat, Attractive, Up-to-date Con­ Dear Madam. vincing and comparatively Inexp~nsive. I have your letter of January Your first results from the cha If used Systematically, It will help to put routine are gratifying, but no mOl' Osteopathy on a high and dignified plane than my experience has taught m in your Community. should expect. But our troubleS Sample Copy and Terms Upon Request. not all over, for there will be m little things come up that may puz I would not advise returning to Address: F. L. LINK, Kirksville, Missouri formula. In removing the curd have removed the protein eleme the milk, arid without it the pr

Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH 97 is a very poor food, indeed, for your and indigestion result then gas will We may have a little trouble for a child. The curd you remove is not distend unduly. The little child's short time with the constipation, but harder of digestion than the remain­ stomach at three or four months will not for long. Have your osteopath ing substances if the proportion of hold six to eight ounces at a time manipulate those bowels once a day food value of the two be kept in mind. without undue distention. But each lightly for a while. Use ~n enema of If I found it necessary to make any case is individual in these details, and water when they have gone a day or more changes I would use some of the no absolute rules may be safely laid so without movement. prepared foods, Mellin's, probably, or down. Judgment is needed. In this As the child gets older the milk ma.y Horlick's, or some malted milk. connection I should emphasize that be given with less dilution. If it seems But your child is not ready for any you must look close to the size of to disagree now, more dilution ma.y be other food than good mother's milk; nipple for both water and milk. Keep tried. . we must keep that in mind. We can­ them of such size openings that the While these details may seem to not give it the mother's milk, so we baby will have to work a little to get take much of your time and of mine, it must give it something less suitable, it, especially the milk. And as soon is the ma.ster of these details that and we must expect it to have a little as a nipple is worn enough to permit spells success. After these have been trouble in becoming adjusted, in the milk to flow easily substitute an­ explained to you and you see the adapting its digestive organs to the other. Always keep abundant supply course to follow, you will be able to go new and unsuitable food. You re­ of new nipples, so you will not have to along without much help. . mark that it gets so hungry before the make the mistake of permitting the next feeding time. Then is the time baby to eat rapidly. This will help to give plenty of water. Offer the keep down the amount ta~en and as­ WILL '['AKE VACCINATION FIGH'J: water frequently at those times, and sure better digestion. TO LEGISLATURE. Jet it drink about as freely of the Initiate the use of the Squibb's oil water as it wants. Don't limit it to at once if constipation is still pres­ "We are satisfied with the two ent. It may be that the constipation two ounces, but let it have four, fiye weeks' suspension of compulsory vac­ or six if it desires that much. The is not so much the result of the food cination for school children, and are as the intestinai condition. The little stomach and intestines are not hopeful that we have heard the last of orange juice and the vegetable juice in a healthful condition'j and keeping it," declared Dr. Henry Becker last may help, but not much. Perfect di­ them distended and the walls separ­ night before a meeting of severa:l hun­ gestion is the thing that conquers con­ ated a little when empty of food will dred anti-compulsory vaccinationists afford relief from the feeling of dis­ stipation. The oil I mention will do in Foresters' hall. His statement was nothing but lubricate the intestines, tress which the child is experiencing. greeted by an outburst of applause by Of course, it would accept food-milk, and even by. its use the constipation the audience. may not be removed, but the feces if you gave it, because it affords the Instead of dropping anti-compulsory relief, but that is no reason to believe will not become so dry and harmful. vaccination endeavor, the organiza­ the food more suitable. It is not a food, not one drop being tion, according to the announcement Yes, there is a possibility of over­ digested. It is not a cathartic. Oc­ of Secretary A. B. Farmer last night, casionally there seems to be more gas distention of, the stomach and intes­ will continue its activities for at least form during the use of the oil, but tines by giving too large bulk of food three months, during which time it this seldom occurs, and I am not yet at one time. Probably seventy-five per will carry the battle into the Legisla­ sure that the oil has anything to do cent of children are pot-bellied from ture. Money, it was announced, was with it. no other reason than too much food the requisite of the moment, and in re­ Strain the pulp from the fresh pine­ and blo.ating. We must do what we sponse to Mr. Farmer's appeal scores apple, and it will be all right. Some can to avoid it, but you will find few in the audience indicated their will­ high class grocery should' carry the who know how. Most certainly, fre­ ingness to contribute monthly dona­ qUent feedings of small amounts will pineapple juice, but even if they do, tions Of from one to $25 each. Dr. l<~. not do it, but it does the very oppo­ it is no better than the fresh. P: Millard headed the list of subscrib­ site because it leads to indigestion and I don't know just how much of the ers with a promise of $50 per month bloating. I am giving you directions fruit juice or the veegtable juice the for the three months. that will prevent this if it is possible child' can take at a time. After hav­ By means of lantern slides' Drs. to prevent it, and if we fail in part I ing tried them as you have I would bel' Millard and Becker illustrated what leve yOU will be fully able to re- offer the child several ounces at a they claimed were dangerous possibil­ store the distended parts when the" time, and let it take what it wanted. ities of injecting animal poisons into child is a little older. Giving freely If giving it all it :wants does not re­ human beings. Dr. Millard declared of Water on an empty stomach has but sult harmfully tl;1at is the amount to little t . throat infection was one not an un­ f endency to distend the organ, give. If it shows a tendency to eat likely result of vaccination, and or a little of it will pass almost at more than agrees with it, I would de­ pointed to the doubling of the number °fnce and relieve the tension. Giving termine the limit by experience. reely f uf di'phtheria patients in the Province i 0 water before a feeding, that Use only what soap is necessary for in a period of widespread vaccination. ~I:wren~y glyceri~e to thirty minutes before, cleanliness. A soap is prob­ -The Globe, Toronto, January 6,1920. elIeve some of the distress of ably best, or pure castile. Green soap ellIPtine load' ss and tend to prevent over- is too harsh. Use soft water; and if tak Ing with milk. If milk or food is necessary make it soft by adding RlilMOVAL OF DR. AR'I'HUR L. HUGHES lly end' in quanilest·t· that will. be read- borax, or soda. A good proportion is :~ested one ounce of the borax or soda to-two. Dr. Arthur L. Hughes is nnw located alit distention will not occur. at 67 ParJ~ Place, Bloomfie·ld. New' jer­ even a small amount is taken and one-half gallons of water. sey. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH Hot Under The Collar? Yes!' Jane B. W. Hall, D.O., Caribou, ille. Hot under the collar? Yes, I am, are good points in that faith and some practitioners; some. of the faculty and getting hotter each time I read people preferred that to Christianity. teach Osteopathy pure and simple; but an article like the one by Dr. Fledder­ Neither will I now preach drugs to there is, nevertheless, a very strong man in the November issue of Osteo­ satisfy a mistaken public, for I know element for drugs. One such advo­ pathic Truth. I have a better method. cate tried to convert me to that theory / One doctor, whom I know, graduated Daddy Still knew drugs and their and seemed to think me lacking ,in from an Osteopathic college some inadequacy. He had a strong faith In good judgment when I replied that I years ago, but not being convinced of God and His creation, Man. He be­ would not be at all proud of an'M. D. the far-reaching effects of osteopathic lieved that man, by administering degree from a third rate school, such treatment, except "for some things," poisons (and drugs are poisons) could as the one he wished me to attend. took his M. D. degJ;ee at one of our not improve the chemical laboratory Possibly that school stands higher good M. D. schools. Later he had that God had originally put in Man's now than then, but even yet it is not special work at Harvard Medical, body for its protection and preserva­ a Class A school. I might also say Johns Hopkins, and four institutions tion. By persistent and untiring ef­ that this doctor was a D. O. and not abroad. He continued to study and fort along these rational lines, Daddy an ll. D.; however, he did not use hIs observe both methods of dealing with Still performed wonders and gave D. O. on sign or stationery, and disease, and HE says that except for Osteopathy to the world for its de­ acknowledged that he was ashamed to the specific drugs against malaria, cided betterment. Dr. Fledderman have people know he had the degree. syphilis and two or three other dis­ cites an instance wherein Daddy Still HE was a graduate of the Massachu~ eases, DRUGS ARE NOT CURATIVE; did not accomplish what he set out to setts school! '[,HEY MERELY SERVE TO r ALLI­ do, but he does not cite the thousands My D. O. degree, and what is rep !\TE THE SYl\[PTOMS, AND THAT of cases where Daddy Still, and other resents, completely satisfies me. I a OSTEOPATHY PROPERLY UNDER· Osteopaths, accomplished almost mi­ perfectly willing to learn by the ex STOOD AND APPLIED, WILL DO raculous results. Is that fair? Daddy perience of the best educated M. Ds. lWORE 1.'HAN DRUGS, SINCE I'f Still was human. The Science had, amI take their say-so regarding th WORKS TO OVERCOME THE CAUSE and still has, some limitations. But inefficacy of drugs. I know th'e valu -the symptoms will yield when the what man wants to be judged by his of hygiene, sanitation, good nursin cause is corrected; besides, symptoms mistakes, and what therapy wants to and such accessories. I also kno do not kill, it is the cause that en­ be judged by its limitations, espe­ the greater value of pure ten.fingere dangers life. Whole opinion is the cially when those limitations are due Osteopathy. So I hope our Mass more valuable-that of this man, who to man's ignorance of the marvellous chusetts school will be bought an has studied both view-points deeply, laws of Nature, and not to the theory governed by the genuine Osteopat or that of Dr. Fledderman, and his of the science at all? People need to that the majority, rather than th supporters, who though they have be educated to an understanding of minority, of its students may catc studied both lines somewhat have evi­ Osteopathic principles. The "Old Doc­ the "Old Doctor's" vision, and learn dently not gone very deeply into either tor" believed, and most, at least, of follow in his footsteps. one? Personally, I prefer the opinion our leading Osteopaths now believe, "'See Dr. Osler (recognized autho of the thorough student, especially that this cannot be accomplished by ity) on Drugs, in the Encyclope since all the best,* the most advanced our quibbling with drugs, since such Americana; also any first-class, 11 M. Ds., agree with him regarding quibbling is absolutely contrary to the to-date book on Pharmacology. drugs, and all our equally good and very fundamentals of Osteopathy. advanced D. Os. agree with him re­ Osteopathic practitioners need to }'UNDAilIENTALS OF MEMORY D garding Osteopatliy strive constantly toward a clearer un­ I also am located in a small town, derstanding of the mechanism of the VELOPMENT where the state law limits the scope human body and of Nature and Na­ of Osteopathic work" and where the ture's laws, for therein, alone, lies the !\ Book By Dr. C. B. RowUngsoD people know practically nothing about secret of prevention and cure.' S'o Los Angeles, Cal. Osteopathy. The majority think it much for that. "Fundamentals of Memory Develo unnecessary to call me Doctor. Every­ f was glad to know that the Massa­ ment" is a book of about fifty' P one considers that my method of chusetts College of Osteopathy charter of condensed knowledge of the P treating is "all right for some things" could be bought by the Osteopaths. ci-ples of memory development: -that same old story-but they want and I hope it will be. I sincerely re­ last chapter on "How to StudY a DOCTOR when they are sick. Real gret that my practice here does not fectively," is excellent, and could missionary work has to' be done here yet warrant my contributing material­ be followed by every osteopa for our Science, and I am proud to be ly toward that purchase, for I had one physician in the further studY doing it. Bit by bit people are be­ year of training at that school, and I Osteopathy. ginning to understand, and as their know the insidious and deadly influ­ Dr. Rowlingson is a graduate of understanding grows they call me ence for drugs and against mechanical Los Angeles college, and is noW P Doctor and value and respect both me . adjustment of the body structure, that ticing Osteopathy in that city. and my training. If I were a relig­ has been and still is taught by some The book retails for $2.00, but ious missionary I would stick to of the faculty of that school. Some of Rowlingson will allow a 50 per Christianity; I would not preach Mo­ the graduates catch the Osteopathic discount to members of the profes hammedanism to some because there vision and are strong Osteopathic The book should have a large sa

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Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 100 OSTEOPA TH Ie T RUTH .Is Osteopathy a Mixture of Massage and Medicine? W. F. Link, D. 0., Knoxville, Tenn.

In reading Osteopathic Truth's re­ leave off the "scientific" tag. But But how an official expounder 01 print of the Philadelphia Bulletin's ac­ that it should be admitted and asserted osteopathy on the teaching staff of a count of the trial of Dr. Dailey I was under oath as truth by a teacher in a college, comes to regard osteopathy as especially impressed by the testimony college of Osteopathy is astounding. a merger of massage and medicine of Professor Balbirnie of the Phila­ We can readily understand how an seems to call for special explanation; delphia College of Ostl'opathy to the indifferent osteopathic practician, a and it may well raise the more funda­ effect that "it depended largely on the half-hearted, mechanical routinist, mental question whether our colleges individual practitioners whether sci­ without conviction or interest in his are all properly alive to the trans­ entific massage was combined with work, may arrive at a twilight state of cendent importance of mastering and drugs to cure a patient." mind, in which osteopathy is no longer teaching both all that is known about . Assuming that the professor' was distinguished from massage. And if the structure and function of the correctly quoted, it seems a fair infer­ the low average medical view becomes human machine, in health and in dis­ ence that while, according to his ob­ congenial to him, his natural human ease, and all that is known about servation or information, some osteo­ laziness, abetted by poor success in structural adjustment as an indispen~ pathic physicians use both dr.Jlgs and practice, presently induces relaxation sable means of normalizing function. . massage in the cure of disease, the of his grasp on the osteopathic con­ others employ only massage. cept; his perception of lesions be'­ Structural adjustment is our pe­ Is tilis the present status of osteo­ comes less and less acute, and his culiar, opulent and still undevelop~d pathic therapy in the Keystone state? technique stereotyped and sterile. therapeutic domain. Shall we sur­ We are all well aware that in the Then, for him, osteopathy has become render or fail to occupy anY part of ,it minds of many of the laity osteopathy massage--.-and not very scientific at and go chasing after the futilities 01 and scientific massage are exact syno­ that-and he may give drugs and medicine? nyms. Such confusion of terms and massage, singly 01' combined, accord­ Better by far that our colleges were ideas has been much cultivated by our ing to his lights, privileges or oppor­ mastering and teaching chirollractic medical friends-though they usually tunities. than prescription writing.

Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialists Do Not DR. STILL Use Osteopathy Walter J. Novinger, D. 0., Trenton, New Jersey.

Decla~es Morris M. Brill, D.O., New York, One of the Specialists By a long life of untiring and earn­ est endeavor, with an open mind for It was with a great deal of dissatis­ they would be handicapped in their all thllit had previously been proven, he faction that I read the account of the surgical work, is to 'mymind a mis­ gave to the world a SCIENCE, a new discovery, a new conception in the evidence given by Dr. O. J. Snyder, Dr. taken idea, for the osteopaths who Arthur Flack and Dr. C. D. B. Bal­ cause and cure of disease. In per­ practice major sUi'gery will naturally haps the largest (and most beneficial birnie in the case of the State of Penn­ be credited to do so in the states sylvania versus Daily. t9 his patients) practice that -any where they have the right to practice physician ever enjoyed, he with a Being a practitioner interested in surgery, and to use such drugs as they steadfastness seldom known, through the finger surgery of the ear, nose and pequire. 'l'llp.refore I cannot accep·,. almost insurmountable trials and re­ throat, it would naturally be shp­ the plea of these doctors in justifying buffs of the; world, kept steadily on posed that I am partial to the applica­ them in using up their time, as they and· demonstrated his wisdom, gave a tion of medicine in this particular profess to do, with the teaching of definition and a set of rules (OUR .field. . The more I practice in this prescription writing instead of osteo­ PLATFORM) and so clearly eluci­ specialty the more it has taught me pathic principles and osteopathic ther· dated his gift to humanity in such that the current tendency of the ape1ltics, for in my estimation, it as­ plainly expressed thought that those osteopathic ear, nose and throat spe­ sumes a weakness in osteopathy to who ·follow his teaching most closely cialist is to fail to apply the principles fear that they may have to turn over grasp most clearly his great discov­ of osteopathy in addition to the finger cases to the medical men because of ery. surgery. their !.nability to :l(:minister drugs. It Those who take nothing from and Though I am the owner of an anes­ is not even a matter for discussion, as add nothing to his teaching and prac­ Uletic appliance, I require its use very in no way is any riability incurred by tice are easily the peer of the best. rarely, and I can ascribe the success the suggestion of :

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