Osteopathic Truth

February 1921

Vol. 5, No. 7

Reproduced with a gift from the Advocates for the American Osteopathic Association (AAOA Special Projects Fund)

May not be reproduced in any format without the permission of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine,SM Osteopathic Truth A MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR THE OSTEOPATHIC PROFESSION

The mope you talk, the less you say.. .DO SOMETHING!

-Dr. A. T. Stil1

20 cents a Copy February, 1921 $2.00 a Year

Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 82 OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH

Washington Bills Instituting State Medicine Must Be Defeated

How many copies of the above named Pamphlet can you use?

Order at once from Dr. P. S. Spence of Hartford

This is where we need the OSTEO­ letter, "gives the complete description establishment of the worst form of PATHIC SERVICE LEAGUE organ­ of how TWENTY MILLIONS OF DOL­ AUTOCRACY. The people howled at ized down to a knat's heel to help us LARS ($20,0000,000.00) will be appro­ Germany, so turn the light on the kill these bills quickly, but alas and priated from the U. S. Treasury to AUTOCRATIC A. M. A. and. legions alack the HOUSE OF DELEGATES carry out this plan of intrigue by the may be raised over night to fight the decreed that the 0: S. L. was not a part A. M. A. to implant a system of STATE menance to country and home. nor should it ha-ve any guilding con­ MEDICINE in our country that would The price is 10 cents a copy; 15 nection with A. O. A. We should have have the police force to carry out its copies for $1.00 and 100 copies for $6. an organized laity if we ever expect orders and the strongest kind of prop­ HOW MANY CAN YOU USE? to keep the hangnails and other nails aganda to spread its teachings nation­ from nailing us to a tree. Dr. Cave wide. Some of the bills introduced started an admirable thing, let.us into Congress would establish Allo­ J. J. SHIELDS, A LAYMAN PUB. carry it on. pathic tyranny such as we have never LISHES A BOOKLET Dr. Philip S. Spence, chairman of known of in our country.. This pamph­ the State Legislative and Publicity let convicts the A. M. A. of a conspir­ Mr. J. J. Shields of Davenport, Ia., Committee of the Connecticut Osteo­ acy to capture the children of has published a small booklet about pathic Association is attempting a America and to examine each one of osteopathy under the title of, "I AM mammoth taslt of getting this 32 page them (FOR A PRICE) between 6 to ONLY A MACHINE." Beside writing pamphlet before the public at large, in 18 years and all males up to 45. The the booklet he is also going to the ex­ order to awaken them to the conspir­ SMITH-TOWl\TER BILL AND FRANCE pense of putting it on the market. acy that the A. M. A. is trying to put BILLS ATTEMPT TO PASS THESE That is what we call enthusiasm. over the people of this country. The MEASURES." The motive behind the publication pamphlet is 6x3lh inches. Let your patients and friends know of the 'booklet has our most hearty "The pamphlet," states Dr. Spence's 'how the A. M. A. is attempting the commendation.

The Reclamation of Spinal Cripples

Osteopathic practltlOnets experienced in the treatment of curva­ ture and displacement of the spinal vertebrae are often disappointed to find that all the effects and benefits of manipulation obtained from one treatment are frequently lost before the patient returns for the next treatment. In such cases the need of some firm, mechanical support for the spine and back is plainly indicated. By the aid of the Philo Burt Spinal Appliance the benefits of each progressive treatment are preserved intact and a substantial improvement or complete cure is materially expedited. We make this assertion on the authority of a large number of osteopathic physicians of high repute and extensive experience in the use of the Philo Burt Appliance as an a\lxiliary in the treatment of spinal cripples and invite any interested reader of this journal to write us for full information. 30 Days' Trial Free If you will describe to us any case in your care at this time we will send descriptive literature and supply full information concerning the Philo Burt Appliance and show ita advantages in the particular case. Address

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Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO ~steopatbtc 'Ututb 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 V FEBRUARY, 1921 Number 7

/ Adjusting Upper Rib Lesions

'Illustrated by the Author, E. E. Tucker, D.O., New Y:ork

Lesions of the upper ribs were the lows: Patient lies prone across the bane of my professional struggles for ,table, arms hanging off. Supposing a number of year,s, and until 1 devised upper right ribs to be in lesion, oper­ the technic shown in the first illustra­ ator stands on patient's right; lifts I I tion. Now they are among the easiest both arms, twisting. patient toward to handle. him, until left shoulder is as nearly in line with the original direction of the spine as is comfortable, w~th a little tension. Left arm is flattened oui along the edge of the table. Operator leans against table as though to sit on this arm, though of course resting no 'Veight upon it. The right arm, he draws across his lap. Operator's left thumb then locates the lesion and presses against it, ven­ trally, laterally and toward the head, while with right hand against vertex and· side of head, h carries it to full lateral extension, with tension, and at. the same dme dorsally as far as re­ quired to release the ribs, or as is the lesion with his right thumb, press­ regarded safe. ing as before. When all is ready, the 1 have found neither great discom­ patient then releases his breath sud­ fort nor so far as'l know any damage denly, the operator quickly carries the to arise from this technic, though my wrist to 'full extension of the arm over reason has always urged me to cau­ the patient's head, and maintains his The pelvis lies prone against the tion particularly in producing the dor­ pressure on the lesion, or reverses it table, the shoulders are twisted as sal extension; 'the tissues and articula­ to a ventral caUdal pressure. near the vertical as comfortable, by tions not being designed for or nor­ This technic is available for the up­ drawing the lower arm under and lay­ malized to motion in that direction. per five or six ribs, though 1 have ing it along the table; the head is car­ The second pictUl'e shows a develoI/-. found it effective as low as the twelfth. ried downward and backward with ment of this technic that may add to The same position is valuable for tension; by this the upper ribs on the its effectiveness in stubborn cases. correction of dorsal lesion, 'by lifting stretched side are carried to a position The position is the same, except that the head; or by letting the head hang, of fUllest extension. The operator's the operator's left hand deals with the and pressing against the side of the thumb, pressed' against them at the patient's right arm instead of his spinous processe~ angle with a pressure straight for­ head. The .wrist is grasped, carried ward or forward and up, exaggerating (Pictures Taken at N. Y. Osteopathic as high up under the armpit, with Clil;ic) still further the position, can usually slight pressure backward, as is not succeed in reducing the stubborn too uncomfortable; at the same time lesions. the patient i.nhales a deep breath; at ~IORE 'l'ECHNIC AT CLEVELAND Details of the procedure are as fol- the same time also the operator finds A. O. A. CONVENTION .

Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO . 84 OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH Atzen's Model Bill

The first draft of the model osteo­ there is in this definition, as it stands In Sec. IX., he states the Standard pathic bill by Dr. C. B. Atzen, of the alone. There is nothing there to con­ College Curriculum. In this curri­ Legislative Bureau, has been out for trast it with, as Atzen lIas presented culum none of the drugs are men­ a while. We voted in favor of a defi­ ,it so many tillles in contrast with th~ tioned. - How is one to study these nition to be put into the bill. We also drug school, as laying emphasis on drugs named in Sec. VII., without they favored the idea of putting the col­ chemistry and the psychologist, plac­ are taught in the Standard College? ing emphasis on the mind. Having lege curriculum into the bill,-in de­ Then if they are taught a man and he heard Atzen place these three things fining what a college of osteopathy is. must have a knowledge of the use of We are still in favor of this kind of in contrast with each other so many them before he may practice as an os­ a bill, but we do not favor the bill as times, both in print and speeches, we steopathic physician, why deprive. him it stands. know what he has in mind when he uses this definition of osteopathY and 'of the use of them where they may be In the first place, the definition as we unconsciously place a meaning into needed in his practice as an osteo­ it stands, is nothing more than a the­ it that is nowhere found in the lan­ pathic physician, for surely the oretical,' glittering generality that guage he uses here. Therefore, a judge amounts to nothing/ in law, but it is osteopathic physician should be al­ interpreting this definition or anyone lowed to practice obstetrics and he Atzen's definition and \ of course he else other than an osteopathic phy­ needs these things in cases of' ob­ wants it put in there as it was adopted sician, taking it out of its connections at a Sunday afternoon educational stetrics. if he needs them at all? as the osteopath knows -it, would never meeting viva voce because Dr. Hil­ schem~ be able to read into it what we osteo­ One other defect in the is dreth made a motion to adopt it and paths understand by it. For this the arbitrary division in the practice then made a few feeling remarks upon reason, we say that if this statement of surgery. We believe that all os­ the subject. The definition does very is used as a definition of osteopathy teopathic physicians should be licensed well for a mass meeting on Sunday in a law it should be interpreted by to practice surgery just as the M. D.'s afternoon when the elect are telling definite language following it or a sub­ are so licensed and that we should their "experiments," as the old lady stitute definition should be used that give an advanced degree and a spe­ said, whether that meeting be a re­ means and says in definite terms what cial license to those who desire to ligious one or "experiments" in osteo­ we do in osteopathic practice. Vve make a specialty of surgery. There pathy. But seriously this is no defi­ need no scientific, theoretical, meta­ are times when anyone of us may need nition for osteopathy to be put into a physical, speculative language in law. to do emergency surgery; many, many law. We want something definite in a Such things, in a way, are out of things just as M. D.'s do. We should law. Take the expression "stnlCtllral place there. It should be stated in be as much qualified as they to take integrity of the body mechanism." definite language that we recognize care of our clientele. If we adopt any What does this mean? It means most maladjusted structure as one of the such' law as this, we are put to a dis­ anything. A regular drug doctor most frequent causes of disease and advantage with the M. D. that prac­ would tell you that he woul.d not be that the adjustment of these tissues to tices in our community. In cities averse to accept this statement as the their normal relation as the funda­ where the great surgery work is done, basis of his system of drug treatment, mental condition of recovery. We men make a: specialty of surgery. for if the "structural integrity" is accomplish this adjustment, by manip­ Those who want to make a specialty maintained in the body, the body needs ulation chiefly, which manipulation re­ of this branch of practice should be no attention. The whole text of path­ places vertebrae, ribs, relaxes con­ required to do some extra work and a ology is a treatise on the lack of tractures of muscles, ligaments, tones special degree representing a spe­ "structural integrity" in the body me­ up the nerves or relaxes them as a cial distinction and an additional li­ chanism; hence, the chief emphasis is condition to the adjustment of other cense given them which further dis­ laid upon the structural integrity of tissues as well as for breaking up con­ tinguishes them. the body mechanism by all schools of gestions, hyperemias, and inducing healing. Then, can it be said that this In Georgia the license of the medical certain reflexes, all of which goes to is a characteristic of osteopathy in men reads: To practice MEDICINE, making conditions mor~ favorable for contrast with other schools, or the OBSTETRICS, SURGERY. The osteo­ the recovery of the normal through drug school in particular? No, it can­ pathic license: OSTEOPATHY, OB­ nature's self-recuperative powers. not. But Atzen or someone defining STETRICS, SURGERY. We should this definition might say that it has There are other defects in the bill. like to see all osteopathic licenses reference to the mech~nical relations One of these is an inconsistency. In read the same as we have ours here in of the microscopic parts of the body, Sec. VII., Professional Education, he Georgia.-Dr. Hardin in the Osteo­ viewing it as a machine especially. says that to practice as an Osteopathic pathic Bulletin, Oct.-Dec. Then if that is what he means in' the Physician he must be educated so-and­ use of the definition, this ought to be so; "and embodying necessary instruc­ put in the definition itself. No one can tion in anesthetics, antiseptics, germi­ SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!' read into a man's language a thing cides, paraciticides, narcotics, and that does not appear in the language antidotes. To have all rights Are you a real Osteopatll or are yon used. In a definition one should use except to do major surgery and to use language that is definite, not a few drugs not taught in the Standard Col­ rummaging in the junk pile of the glittering generalities. So that is all lege Curriculum." drug school ~-~[cCole.

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/ CHARGES ALLOPA'fHS SEEK TO D01UNA'fE

Dr. George W. Goo(le A.ttack~ nills We take pleasure in presenting . Prel>ared for Presentation to Congress Dr. J. H.- TILDEN'S BOOKS A "conspiracy" on the part of allo­ path doctors to dominate the practice of medicine in the United States, to Impaired Health, Its Cause and Cure (set of two vols.) . $10.00 the exclusion of all other schools of Volume I contains the fundamentals upon which medicine, including osteopathic and Dr. Tilden has bas~d his practice. Volume II deals homeopathic schools, was cnarged to­ with the' cause and treatment of disease. Both books day 'by Dr. George W. Goode of Boston, are written in a semi-professional style. president of the Massachusetts Osteo­ pathic Society, at its 19th annual con­ Food (set of two vols.) $4.00 vention at the Lenox. This set of books is most excellent as it goes into Dr. Goode attacked the bills now be­ detail about the great fundamental principles of the ing prepared for presentation to composition, preparation, combinations and effects Congress for the estabiishment of a of food. Not only should you have the/books, but federal department of health. The your patients, also. bills propose to have a health officer Diseases of Women and Easy Childbirth $1.50 in the President's cabinet. "It is a part of a medical conspir­ Your patients ;Who read this book will not be easy acy of the dominating school of prac­ victims to surgical insanity. tice to have autocratic control of all Care of Children.' $2.50 medical practice in the country," said Have this close at hand for reference and direct your Dr. Goode: "This conspiracy includes new mothers to follow its directions rather than the also an ironioal boycott of osteo­ usual medical books. pathic physicians, surgeons, and spe­ ciaiists, regardless of the medical de­ Pocket Dietitian $1.00 grees, or of their surgical or hospital Here is a wonderful book. A pocket edition of the experience, and even their surgical ex­ Food books, giving the fundamentals and many perience in the world war, by every suggested combination for all seasons. Keep a hospital in the United States." quantity on hand for sale to your patients. They are "Stan(la.rdization" as handy as a pocket in a shirt. Dr. Goode said the American Medi­ Venereal Diseases ',' " $1.50 cal Association calls this conspiracy by the poiite name of "hospital stand­ This is the best book upon the subject ever written ardization" and c;amoufiages it by and is osteopathic to the core. classifying it under the department of Appendicitis $1.00 medical education. "The conspiracy also includes the Cholera Infantum 1.00 prosoly;ting of all the pubiic school Epilepsy .50 children by compulsory equcation, and Hay Fever...... 50 even compnlsory examination and treatment of school children by allo­ Criticisms of the Practice of Medicine, Vol. I. .' 1.00 pathic means only. The osteopathic treatment of disabled veterans 'of the WE WILL SHARE OUR PROFITS WITH YOU war in cases where allopathic and Surgical methods failed is absolutely With every $7.00 order either from you or your patients we nrohibited, even when desired by the will give a year's subscription FREE to "Philosophy of soldiers arid 'by individual surgeons Health." Usual price, $1.25. and specialists' employed by the gov­ ernment to examine them."-From a With every $10.00 order from you we will give a year's sub­ Boston Paper. scription FREE to "OSTEOPATtIIC TRUTH." Price. $2.00. DR. HARRY L. COLLINS RETURNS With eyery $15.00 order we will give you a year's subscrip­ TO CHICAGO tion FREE to both "Osteopathic Truth" and "Philosophy of Health." Price, $3.25. Dr.· Harry L. Collins announces his retnrn to Chicago for the practice of Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics. OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH PUBUSHING CO. Dr. Collins will have his office in 1421 Morse Avenue •• CHICAGO, ILL. the Goddard Building at 27 E. Monroe Street.

Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 86 OS'TEOPATHIC TRUTH Help} Buy the Massachusetts College

. Twenty Thousand is needed to start this college to a more substantial Osteopathic foundation. When the charter is puicliased from the M. D. who now owns it, the school will be

placed. under the management of the Educational Department. - of the A. O. A. The purpose of this campaign is to C. D. Thore '...... 100 C. D. Mott. '.' . 10 purchase the charter of the Massachu- M.. T. Mayes 100 Bozo Club M. C. 0 . 10 setts College of Osteopathy from the W. C. Bryant. ·.. 100 W. C. Dawes, Bozeman, Mont. . 10 MD who now owns it, and then to D. W. Coburn 100 P. Everett : . 10 present it to the Educational Depart- C. G. Hatch 100 T. O. Monteith . 10 ment of the AOA who shall manage B. F. Riley...... 100. Burnsinsky . 10 and conduct the' college fpr the ad- Allan A. Fehr 100 Granville Shibles . 10 vancement of Osteopathy. This col- E. W. Carter / 100 C. Downing . 10 lege will thereby become a college Maude Williams ~ .. .. 100 D. Wing . 10 owned by the profession in fact. There A. Tinkham, Paid 100 C. W. Wood . 10 is a bonded indebtedness against the S. C. McLaughlin...... 100 M. W. Brunner . 10 college which we believe the college G. F. Muntz 100 Mrs. E. T. Walker . 10 with the proper professional backing M. Demerais 100 Mrs. A. Luther . 10 behind it will be able to pay from A. E. Were, Albany, N. Y .. ' 100 W. B. Meacham, Paid, gift from eal'nings, or otherwise if the Educa- Senior Class M. C: O...... 100 friend . 5 tional Department chooses. Freshman Class 100 Dr. E. C. Elderkin,. Paid . 5 Let us put this school on the proper K. P .. D. Field Members 100 Dr. Lottie D. Faul. . 5 basis - Osteopathically Owned and Alice A. Robison, Springfield, C. A. Vinnedge . 5 Controlled. Mass. ($100 Bond) 110 M. L. Hartwell . 2 Send your pledges (not checks) to Dr. F. W. Wetmore, Paid $100 F. E.' Moore . 2 Dr. E. J. Drinkall, 1421 Morse Ave., A. J. Boucher...... 50 George R. Boston, Newton, N. J. 2 Chicago (Osteopathic Truth). I. T. S...... {)O K. P. D 50 IN FEBRUARY JOIN US P. S. G...... 50 Dr. Lizzie E. Osgood, Pittsfield.. $100 New York Osteopathic Assn $500 Sophomore Class 50 The Loyal Twelve...... 500 L. Plaisted, Leominster, Mass · 50 New England Osteopathic Assn 150 M. K. Cole...... 50 LIBERTY HOSPITAL REPORTS Earl J. Drinkall 100 A. H. Paul, Bridgeport, Conn.... 50 PROGRESS George W. Goode ,...... 100 F. C. Nelson...... 50 J. Oliver Sartwell. 100 A. P. Watson, Lawrence...... 50 The Liberty Hospital of St. Louis W. Arthur Smith...... 100 Junior Class 25 reports. very satisfactory progress dur­ Helen G. Shee;han...... 100 O. Gossett 25 ing the past year. Dr. John H. Cren­ Geo. W. Reid...... 100 R. Humphries, Paid...... 25 shaw is the physician-in-chief and also C. O. Fogg...... 100 H. L. Pease, Putnam, Conn...... 25 . I conducts the obstetrical clinic which R. K. Smith...... 100 A. B. Ames...... 25 is open to the osteopa,thic physicians I H. H. Pentz,...... 100 E. Heath Clark...... 25 of the country. W. W. Fessenden...... 100 W. B. Meacham :...... 25 Sever~l other clinics are operated in Elizabeth F'. Kelley...... 100 L. M. Dibble...... 25 the same manner. Charles Grapek 100 C. A. Lindquist '... 25 Peter J. Wright. 100 The Emseeo :...... 25 C. L. Watson...... 100 M. P. Reid, Newton, Mass...... 20 CHICAGO OST~OP ATHIC ASSOCIA· M. B. Barstow...... 100 Helen King ' ,...... 20 TION HOLDS FEBRUARY Charlotte. Richmond 100 E. L. Meader...... 20 , MEETING' Ralph A. Manning...... 100 F. C. Heney...... 2'0 Harry J. Olmstead 100 vi.. M. Kingman...... 20 Mr. Wm. T. McCoy, a teacher of the Mark Shrum 100 W. Lindquist 20 Wendell Phillips High School and Francis A. Cave...... 100 Dr. Lancaster .. ,...... 20 President of Chioago Federation of R. K. Smith (total $200) 100 Dr. Greenwood 20 Men Teachers, was the spe·aker of the C. W. Bruninghaus...... 100 C. W. Estey, Westfield, Mass..... 20 evening, using as his i?ubject the "Sit­ Earl Scamman .,...... 100 G. W. Estey, Attleboro, Mass . uation of the Schools." Mr. McCoy'~ Frances Graves 100 M. Pease 15 address dealt with the general con­ Anna L. Hicks...... 100 Edgar S. Comstock" Secretary dition of schools and' the public. Lizzie Osgood 100 Chicago College . 10 Dr. James Fraser spoke on the sub­ Anna Slack, 146 Westminster, Laura Meader , . 10 ject of "Efficien y in Gener-al PraC­ Pr@vidence, R. I...... 100 S. L. Gants, Prov., R. I . 10 tice, What it is, How 'to Attiain and Agnes Fraser 100 , T. A. Darling " . 10 Maintain it." Providence, R. I...... 100 M. B. Johnson . 10 The eeting was held Thursday George Bridges, 146 Westminster, J M. Winslow . 10 evening, February third, at the Hotel H. F. Collier . 100 H. B. Rowe : . 10 Sherman.

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NEW JERSEY ADOPTS "MODEL own stationery; letters to be undated as are de'emed necessary to make our BILL" and unsealed but in addressed envel­ campaign a success. opes. Report Blanks will be furnished to Here is Their ~[anual of Instruction These letters are to be held in prac­ all District Chairmen in order to pre­ for Osteopathic Workers in the titioner's office until released by serve uniformity of records. Legislative Campaign of 1921, notice from State Chairman. When Rellolis of Ca}ltains with Reasons Why They Believe State Chairman gives notice to mail Each Captain is required to send in the "Model Bill," Based on letters, each worker will date, seal a report to his District Chairman :Four Months of Study and send nine (9) letters daily to every Tuesday and Friday evening. members of the Legislature; six (6) This report should include the work Tllings to Remember to the House and three (3) to the done by each Private and contain any Senate. BE SURE AND DATE THE additional comments deemed neces­ Three things are to be accomplished LETTERS. sary. These reports are to be made through the organization of New Since the distribution of, literature upon the personal stationery .of the Jersey Osteopaths into an army with will confirm patrons' belief in OSTE­ Captain. re~sons District Chairmen, Captains and Pri­ OPATHY, give for their activ­ (Continued on Page 90) vates. ity in procuring Osteopathic patrons, First-To familiarize as many lay­ constitute a nieans of confirming men as possible through the distri­ patrons' belief in one particular Osteo­ Equipment of Quality bution of literature, with the justness path's ability and knowledge, each of ou~' cause. . worker is expected to purchase his Is a Profitable Investment Second-To secure letters from own material. This may be securec) every friend of OSTEOPATHY ad­ frolTt the business office of the A. O. dressed to Legislators, urging the A" Main St., Orange, N. J. members of the Legislature to pass Reports of District Clmirmen our bill. Each District Chairman is requested Third-To train our profession in to report to, the State Chairman every co-operative work; demonstrate the Saturday evening. This report should Style 2250 Table effectiveness of organized effort as state the' work done by each Captain contrasted with spasmodic individual and each private in his district. This The Allison Tables are substantially effort; present a clear explanation of made, nicely finished and give good report should give an outline of any satisfaction. the basis of our Sc.ience to all who difficulties encountered and such sug­ Several designs are shown in Supple­ will listen in order to lay that foun­ gestive criticism of methods employed ment A-I which will be sent on request. dation for the growth of OSTE­ Ask your dealer for Allison Equipment. OPATHY, which we all know it de­ 1000 Prescription Blanks, $2.00 serves. LINEN FINISH BOND-l00 IN PAD This work will make all who serve 1000 Professional Cards _.. $4.00 W. D. ALLISON CO. 1000· Drug Envelopes $2,50 broader and better men and women as 1000 Noteheads. $4.00 1000 Statements, $4.00 Manufactur'er's well as better physicians. This 1000 "Actual" Typewriter Letters, $5,50 922 North Ala Street Prices Include Parcel Post Charges organization will permit our work to A. H. KRAUS, 407-409 Chestnut St., Milwaukee, Wis. be uniform both in .charac·ter and INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA method of presentation. It will prove the existence of an organization which is one of o],Jr strongest arguments.. What You Are to Do Hundreds of the Foremost Osteopaths Are Each Private, Captain and District Chairma~ will distribute not less than Using· and Recommending Our EL-AR lfive pieces of literature daily to patrons and friends. The literature Sacro-Iliac Supporter, for the relief of Sacro-Iliac is to consist of five different kinds; sprain, luxation and dislocation of the sacrum, each patron or friend to be given one for men and women. of each kind.· The literature to be Another important service performed by our used is: No.1, Health Hints; No.2, supporter is, that it acts as an abdominal Supporter, preventing rupture and relieving all of those symp­ Address before Rotary Club; No.3, toms resulting from an unsupported heavy, pendu­ Osteopathy the Science of Healing by lous abdomen. Adjustment, Woodall; No.4, Osteop­ This supporter is constructed along thoroughly athy, A Brief Sketch of its Develop­ scientific and practical lines and affords prompt and Ulent and its Institutions; No.5, Value lasting relief for bac,kache, pelvic aches and pains, of Osteopathic Treatment, by J. Ryel. lumbago and the long chain of aches, pains and weakness resulting from sacro-iliac strains, relaxa­ Each Private, Captain and District tion and dislocation. Chairman will secure from one or nlore patrons each day, three. letters For particulars write to the addressed to members of the Legis'la­ BATTLE· CREEK DEFORMITY' APPLIANCE CO. ~ure, from patron's district; two let- erg to representatives, one letter to 714 POST BUILDING BATTLE CREEK, MICH. SenatOl:S. Letters to be on patron's

Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 88 OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH

QDst~llpatqi~ Q}xutl! What State Medicine Means A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF OSTEOPATHIC PROGRESS We have been favored by Judge Rog­ WHERE HAVE WE BEEN EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY ers, legal adviser of the Alabama Op­ SLEEPING1 PRACTICING OSTEOPATHICPHYSICIANS tometry Board, with a copy of an FOR THE OSTEOPATHIC PROFESSION opinion which he sent this week to the Up to the present time we do not board, in res-ponse to its request, in 'recall having received any item of President relation to the Holmes Medical exam­ any kind from any department or R. M. Vastine, D. 0 .....Harrisburg, Pa. ination law enacted at the last session bureau of the Am!'rican Osteopathic 102 Locust St. of the legislature. The opinion sets Association with reference to the Vlce-Prealdent forth a condition of affairs that, in Smith-Tower bill or the Fess-Capper Richard Wanless, D.O N. Y., N. Y. our judgment,- will give an idea of bill, and it would seem that in form­ 347 Fifth Ave. what State medicine means, or at ing an Education Department under Seeretary-Trea.ure~ least of the foundation which it has the Smith-Towner bill that every Oliver C. Foreman, D. 0 ....Chicago, Ill. laid in Alabama for such a machine Osteopathic college, every school and 27 E. Monroe St. and which may yet be i.nitiated in college in fact, would be controlled Addrea. aU correspondence to other states. by it, which would be merely one THE OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH PUB­ means of the M. D.'s getting control LISHING CO.' To understand the full effect of the 1421 Mor.e Ave•• Chicago. III. Holmes' law, asking mandatorily for of our colleges. the examination of the school child­ We are loath to think that any com­ Editor ren as to physical health and physical mittee or bureau of the American Os­ Illarl J. DrinkalJ, D. 0 Chicago, Ill. defects, it is necessary to note certain teopathic Association is in the control 1421 Morse Ave. provisions of the Public Health Law of men who c;l.esire to see the American Husine.. Blanager of that State. Under that law, now Medical Assocjation put us out - of George W. GOode,D. 0 ..... Boston, Mass. in force the State .Medical Associa­ bus,iness. 687 Boylston St. tion is the State Committee of Public Circulation Manager Health. NA'I'IONAL LEAGUE OF WO:J}IEN H. W. Shain, D. O.•...•...... Chicago. Ill. County Boards of Health are identi­ VO'l'ERS WORKING FOR 'I'HE 1421 Morse Ave. cal with the Board of Censors of Coun­ SHEPPARD.TOWNER BILL CONTRIBUTING EDITORS ty Medical Associations, organized un­ George W. Reid, D. 0 .. Worcester, Mass. der the provision of the constitution The National 'L~ague of Women -Francis A. Cave, D. 0 Boston, Mass. of the State Association, and subject Voters of which Mrs. Carrie Chapman Geo. F. Burton, D. 0 Los angeles, Cal. to fhe supervision of the State Board, Louise A. Griffin, D. 0 ...Boulder, Colo. Catt is the Honorary Chairman have Nettie O. H. Stingle, D. 0 . that is, of the State Association. just sent out a letter to all their mem­ ...... •....•.. San Ga:briel, Cal. County Health officers are elected by bers asking them to write to their W. Banks Meacham, D. 0 ,...... Asheville, N. C. County Boards of Health, that is, cen­ respective Senators and Legislators Herbert E. Bernard. D. O. : Detroit, Mich. sors of the county association, subject urging the immediate passage of the E. Florence Galr, D. 0 ... BrOOklyn, N. Y. to the State Association. The election Sheppard-Towner bill. Joseph H. Sullivan, D. 0 Chicago, Ill. of every county health officer is E. R. Booth, D. 0 .... " Cincinnati, O. The Sheppard-Towner bill is for ·the Walter J. Novinger, D. 0 .. Trenton, N. J. further subject to the approval of estabIishment of Maternity and Infant Asa Walmsley, D. 0 .. Peterborough, Onto the State Committee of Public Health, Care, or what would be called the Pre­ F. J. Feldler, D. 0 Seattle, Wash. that is, the censors of the State Medi­ natal Care. This is merely another Ada Achorn, D. 0 Boston, Mass. cal Association. A. L. Evans, D. 0 Miaml, Fla. way for the insiduous control of the Asa Willard, D. 0 Missoula, Mont.~ The law provides that no other M: D. over the people. This carries Josephine L. PIerce, D. 0 ...... Lima, O. board or body of any kind will en­ with it an appropriation of $1,480,· gage in any public health work in 000.00 for the use of the Secretary of SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 a year, that State. Agriculture, the Surgeon General of In advance. Single copies 20 cents. Back numbers not over three months The examination of the school child­ the Public Health Service, and the old, 25 cents each; over three months old, 50 cents each. . ren in Alabama is to be made by United States Commissioner of Edu­ Instructions 'for RENEWAL, DISCON­ means of this well oiled machinery. cation, whom it is. hoped to establish TINUANCE, or CHANGE OF AD­ The educational authorities are per­ through the Smith-Towner bil. DRESS should be sent in two weeks before they are to go into effect. mitted to co-operate by making ar­ PRESENTATION COPIES. When mak­ rangements for the examination and SHALL WE ALLOW THE CON'I'ROL Ing a subscription for a friend and yOU desire the magazine to stop at the the medical machine will do all the O}' THE PEOPLE FROlU BEGIN· end of the year, please make a state­ rest. NING '1'0 END '1'0 BE UNDER ment to that effect when addressing us. We are not surprised, in view: of. 'l'HE :J}l. D. ADVERTISING RATES these facts, that Judge Rogers char­ Advertising rates wlll be submitted actel'ized the Holmes Law in strong Opposition ill the East l1.P0n application to the Business Office In Chicago. terms. It fits i.n perfectly with the other workings of the medical ma­ The Massachusetts Society, The Os­ FEBRUARY, 1921 chine in Alabama. We doubt if any teopathic Society of the City of NeW other State has a machine so all pow­ York, the New Jersey OsteopathiC TlIere is a duty to tlIe living more erful in its workings. Society, the Connecticu.t Society, and important tllan any clIarity to tile The above was taken from the Op­ 'the Maine Osteopathic Society have dead.-Works of Edgar Allen Poe. tometrical Journal, "Of New York City. already joined with the Hartford Den-

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tal Society and the Connecticut Di­ and realize what is being done to you PHILADELPHIA. BIDS }'OR THE vision of the National Federation of and your neighbors regardless of the A. O. A. CONVENTION IN 1926 Public School Neighborhood Associa­ health side of it and that we must tions in a protest against the passage FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! Plliladelpllin to Have n World's }'air of the Smith-Towner bill and the Write immediately and get some of to Commemorate tile 150tll Anni. Fess-Capper physical education bill. the pamphlets from Dr. Spence of versar)' of American Inde­ Dr. Phillip Spence, of Hartford, the Hartford with reference to these bills l)ellllence in 1926 chairman of the Legislative and Pub­ which we have mentioned in another licity Committees of the Connecticut article. Send them to your patients, Association, is working hard against friends and to your neighbors. Get At the last meeting of the Philadel­ the passage of these bills, and he asks busy and fight to kill these bills. phia County Osteopathic Society of that we get into the game, learn what Write to your Senators and Legisla­ which Dr. Charles J. Muttart is the bills are, fight against them, or tors and tell them your wishes-the President and Dr. Carl D. Bruckner, fight for their amendment. killing of these bills. Secretary, the following resolutions. were ad~Pted to be presented to every There is no time to be wasted. member of the A. O. A. FIGHT AND LIVE. OPTO~IETRISTS :AND DEN'I'ISTS ~ Whereas, the preliminary steps have SLEEP AND DIE. .ARE OPPOSED TO THE BILLS been taken to hold in Philadelphia in 1926 a "World's Fair" to commemo­ The optometrical journals have been HEARST NEWSPAPER GETS OUT A rate the 150th Anniversary of Amer­ full of articles against the passage of ican Independence, and these bills, 'and all over the country FEATURE STORY IN LAS'f SUN· Whereas, Philadelphia distinguished 'we have heard of the organization of DAY'S PAPER WHICH IS A in Coloni'al history-The Cradle of the various optometrical and dental CONFIRjlIATION OF Liberty-The First Capitol of the societies in protest against the passage OSTEOPATHY (Nation)-with its innumerable places of these bills which means the estab­ of historic interest will be the lishment of STATE MEDICINE undH The Hearst's papers of which Wm. MECCA to which not only the United the control of one s,l5hool-the allo­ Randolph Hearst is at the head is one States, but the whole world will pay pathic. of our good boosters of osteopathy, or at least non-drug treatment. homage in 1926. The story in last Sunday's paper RESOLVED: THEREFORE, in NEWSPAPERS AGAINST THE BILLS was with reference to Lillian Lor- Executive session of the Philadelphia I raine's fracture 'of the cervical verte- County Osteopathic Society to extend The Enquirer of Oincinnati, Ohio, bl;ae, and telling how she fell on the to the Executive Board of the Ameri­ says, "Under the guise of nationalizing. icy sidewalk, broke her neck and par­ can Osteop3Jthic As~ociation and to the the public schools of the United States alyzed her body from the shoulders profession at lal'ge, the invitation to efforts are being made to introduce down. hold the Annual Convention of the As­ through Congressional enactment pre­ This story is written by a Dr. I. L. sociation in 1926 in Philadelphia. cisely the system that the Prussian Nascher. Beside the two pictures of autocrats utilized a half century ago. ALL ROADS LEAD TO PHILADEL- the actress it shows a picture of the PHIA IN 1926. It is proposed to direct the curriculum spinal column with a spinal cord run­ CHARLES J. MUTTART. and the training of teachers from the ning down in it and_ three pictures of banks of the Potomoc, and to place in CARL D. BRUCKNER, the vertebrae whefe they are fractured ARTHUR D. CAMPBELL, the President's cabinet a Secretary of and compressing the spinal nerve Public Education. There are proffered WM. OTIS GALBRAITH, trunk as it comes through the inter­ JANE SCOTT. to financially weak States and dis­ vertebrae foramen. tricts subventions from the public Committee. The story although not mentioning treasury. -----.-- osteopathy brings out the fact that An end, and a sudden end should the vertebrae in their deviation can STILL-HILDRETH OSTEOPATHIC be put to these machinatio~s." compress the spinal cord or the SAN ATORIU~[ ISSUES THEIR The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette nerves. The story tells how such mis­ 25tll BULLETIN says, "This bill provides that the Fed­ placements have to do with the dis­ eral government in conjunction with turbances of the body although not The i;;till-Hildreth Osteopathic Sana­ State governments shall aid in the requiring surgical treatment. torium of 1acon, Missouri, has just physical training of school children The story gives a very good discrip­ published their 25th bulletin, which is with medical eltaminllltion and a corps tion of the spine and of the various for the third quarter of the seventh of nurses. It would mean, the adding things that can happen from partic­ year, and deals particuJoarly with con­ of many thousands of bureauocrats ularly just such a fracture. ditions as a result of arterial and kid- to the payroll and many millions to I The Hearst papers are very good to ney diseases associated wtih mental the national expense. osteopathy and we should help them symptoms such as strokes, convulsions along whenever we can in the good or disorders of the mind itself. ~HALL WE FIGHT OR SLE"EP1 work of spreading the gospel of ad­ The bulletin reports most excellent justment. results in these types of conditions Up to the present it would seem that and from those which have been un­ We are sleeping, '~\l.t we will trust Dr. Mary Maxwell Hathorn .is lo­ der observation for a long enough time that ere this magazine reaches your cated at the Winthrop, 425 West 118th the results have seemed to be per­ hands that you will begin to wake up Street, New York. manent.

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NEW JERSEY ADOPTS A.O.A.BILL health to do this in a free and com­ is based upon the assumption that the (Continued from Page 87) plete manner. law of Physics is of most importance Reports of Privates As a citizen I seek your aid in in regulating and perfecting physical making this "bill" a law. action. We assume that physical Each Private is requested to send 4. The Osteopathic profession has action precedes and makes possible a report to his Captain every night, demonstrated that three laws govern both chemical and psychical action, stating the number of lette,rs secured, human life. They have introduced a and further, if there is a proper har­ the number of pieces of literature bill in accord with this. While it mony and co-ordination of physical given out and, any further comment shows their practice to be physical action other expressions may vary in or news of importance. rather than chemical, it allows them marked degree without impairing The arrangement of our bill is log­ to dove-tail into these laws, This is what we term good health. ical. If you note the arguments for needed to permit them to render a its sections you will see 'that it is Reasoning in this manner the first complete service to Osteopathic pa­ . the outgrowth of the definition. The copy of the "model bill" was put into trons. definition is both logical and scien­ form. It was built in sections that I trust you will use your in­ tific in that it has' its origin in the filled the needs of different states and fluence to have this "bill" enacted basic law of physics. given legal form. This first draft was into a law. Every worker is requestea to study then reviewed by many and presented the literature of Dr. Atzen anu the t6 the House of Delegates at the last argwnents prepared by your com­ A. DESClUPi'ION OF OUIt BILL A. O. A. convention. At this meeting mittee as carefully as any patron. many changes were made ana these These are all based upon law or The A. O. A. "model bill" which the .changes incorporated in the law. public interest and make it unnec­ N. J. O. S. has decided to adopt and Since last July to date, a constant essary to enter into controversy. introduce dm'ing the coming Legisla­ revision of the measure has been made Since they are the basis of all 'our ture, has a history. It,is not simply by consultation with State organiza­ practice you are requested to re­ a group of regulations thou,ght nec­ tions, comments made by our colleges, frain from using any other in your essary and arranged by a legal agent the profession as far as tney would discussion. into a proper statute. That is the respond, the personal thought and If this is done uniformly through­ procedure which it has been our cus-. study of Dr. Atzen and the assistance out the State, it will make possible tom to follow in all past actions of given him by a legal friend wl 0 en­ the greatest Osteopathic victory ever this nature; but this time we have abled him to give us the present meas­ planned more carefully. ure. achieved. This bill had its origin in the mind This bill was then taken to Mr. LETTERS TO LEGISLATORS of Dr. Atzen, our National Legisla­ Ernest Lum, of Lum, Tfumblyn, & . . SHOULD BE BRIEF tive Chairman, when, after analyzing Colyer who has been retained as our our past failures, he. realized that attorney, and he made the necessary In "Health Hints" third page, you everything is based upon law. modifications of the less important will find everything those letters need He first formulated the conception sections in order to have it comply contain. The wording may be that life is dependent upon the expres­ with legal procedure in New Jersey. changed to make them a personal ap­ sion and co-operation of three laws. This i~ a brief resume of the build­ peal of the patron. Until you order These are-the PSeYchic law, the ing of our proposed new regulation your supply of "Health Hints" the fol­ Chemical. law and the law of Physics, for Osteopathic practice. Only a few lowing may be used: From this basis it is easy to continue of the most striking point~ in this our reasoning and determine that history are touched. In fact it is an 1. Osteopaths have proven their medicine depends, for its curative re­ explanation with most of the history ability as physicians, to my personal sults upon Chemistry-that its power left out. Perhaps its greatest value knowledge. Tlley have introduced a lays not in the importance of this law consists in showing what the right "bill" to change their legal status but upon the vast amount of capital man in the right place can accomplish' that accords with their growth. invested in this conception and the when we as a profession are willing I trust you will give this your enormous organization which has to co-operate. attention and assist in its passage, molded public opinion and established It is hoped that every Jersey Osteo­ so that others like myself may receive custom. OSTEOPATHY depends for path will realize that he is something a more complete service. its curative results upon the law of more than an individual practitioner 2. Osteopathy has grown in public Physics rnd its success is the best earning a living by applying the prin­ esteem and public usefulness. The obtainable evidence that this law ciples of the law of Physics. It is present regulation imposes ,an unfair transcends in importance the other hoped that our effort this year and limitation upon this practice, and a t~o. It is evident that no one can our program of procedure will bring new measure has been introduced that ignore the fact that three not one a new growth. It is hoped that out is more' in accord with Osteopathic' law governs life. In conseque~ce nb of the understanding produced by Dr. practice. physician should be limited to practice Atzen's findings we will learn we have I trust you will use your in­ within the scolle of action of aneY one a new place and' a greater duty than fluence to make this measure a law. law, if the service he is required to tha't of individual success. It is possible 3, I desire to call your attention to render shall be what a patient has a for us to learn now as never before the Osteopathic Bill. This measure is right to expect. / that OSTEOPATHY is a Science. We primarily intended to permit the It is our purpose to define as ex­ can unite a mutual acceptance of Osteopath who takes care of my actly as possible that our practice natural law and co-operate in a fash-

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ion that will permit us to make the have a public value and serve a hu­ scientific basis of a regulating pro­ working of that law universally man need is continuous. It is pro­ cedure that is reducable to clear in­ understood. There is no limit to gressive, because it can be added to terpretation of practice. It permits progress for OSTEOPATHY or our­ and enlarged upon ~ntil it becomes a regulation that although it does not selves as exponents of that Science, more comprehensive and more in­ curtail growth will allow proper legal except those we ourselves impose by clusive. supervision. neglecting to .change the personal for OSTEOPATHY has proved its value Sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 outline' the organizatio.n view. Together we so effectively that its practitioners method of procedure as required by may accomplish all we could hope for have been trusted with the care of law, to guide those whom the State and even more. Alone we must be every type of ailments to which the determines shall be the executors. satisfied to plod and strive with only human being is subject. Hospitals, Section 7. Shows the preliminary that type of progress which requires sanitariums, and institutes for the education to be equal to that deter­ years of individual effort, whereas care of mentally deficient are now mined necessary in all states of high through organization results can be conducted by Osteopaths. The time standing and which time has proved produced as though by magic. Magic has' arrived when the law of 1913 is necessary for a proper education upon indeed it will be. Since the law of no longer a fair regulation of this which to base the training of a phy­ progress is built upon unity, not science, and in consequence this bill sician of any school. separation, it will work through those i.s introduced to correct what other­ Section 8. This fixes the standards who uphold truth and right for the .wise would be an unfair regUlation. of professional education. Further, progress of the race as surely and Section. 1. Science demonstrates it defines two types of education, pro­ rapidly as does nature in her changes. that there are three natural laws ducing two differently equipped types OSTEOPATHY began sirrply as all utilized in the physical functions of of practitioners. things begin. Because Osteopathy our body. All modes of practice have 1. The Osteopathic physician-his was founded upon natural law, their origin in one of these laws. ~ork is defined with exactness. It scientific and fundamental in its prac­ OSTEOPATHY is the pioneer in bas­ can be readily understood that Obstet­ tice, it grew. In 1913 the Legisla­ ing its practice upon the law of rics, minor surgery,' fractures and ture of the Stat,e of New Jersey :physics.· The definition found in this dislocations, are a physical disturb­ decided it had grown sufficient to Act incorporates the basic principle ance. That correcting these by need recognition and legal regulation. in words which allow this to be under­ assisting nature in their correction is This was done and the Act of 1913 stood and made a legal procedure. a form of practice t'ased upon the law covered in a very fair manner the The definition as stated provides of Physics. All the curative agents status of OSTEOPATHY at that further that the entire law may be used by Osteopaths are based upon period. Growth for all \~eas which read as a logical building upon a this law. It can be 'further under-

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stood that although the basis of pnic­ The sum total hours spent in college Eight Nurses Graduating :From the tice has its or~gin in one law, it is remains a fixed item. A. S. O. HOSl)jtal Training School I impossible to ignore the existence of Section 10. This Section deals with the other two. The present legal the ~'equirements for obtaining a An announcement has just been re­ statute regulating OSTEOPATHY license. It shows the requirements ceived telling of the Graduation of admits the right of an Osteopath to for the license given to an Osteopathic Nurses from the Training School for practice Obstetrics. Science demon­ physician; also those for an Osteo­ nurses at the A. S. O. in Kirksville. strates the need of antiseptics for the patl:\ic physician and surgeon. The commence~ent exercise will be in purp'ose of cleanliness; anesthetics to Section 12. Permits a reciprocity combination with the graduation cere­ ease pain and narcotics to relieve suf­ based upon equal standards. In monies of the American School of Os­ fering when small tears are repaired Section 3 a clause is introduced per­ teollathy on Monday morning, May 30. in the practice of this branch of the mitting any Os.teopathic physician The Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker curative art. Under the present regu­ who has been accepted in the army will deliver the graduation address. lation Osteopaths are denied the right or navy to practice in any state or Miss Cora Gottreu the superintendent to use these aids which are intended territory that his duties require him of nurses will present the class pins to make the suffering of a patient to visit, without further examination. and the Florence Nightingale Oath. much easier. This is a courtesy clause extended tu Dr. George A, Still will present the Osteopathic patients may find them­ the Federal Government admitting its diplomas. selves afflicted with external para­ ability to determine the qualifications The nurses graduating in this class sites, or an Osteopathic physician may of its officers. are: be called to prescribe an antidote for The Sections which deal with the Laura E. Sullivan, Ann D. Nesheim,­ some poison taken by mistake. Our display of license, privileges and A. Marie McGehee, Freda E. Baldwin, present .Act does not permit the obligations and right through to Una F. Wheeler, Unice Thacker Wil­ Osteopathic physician to use any of Section 19, explain their purpose with­ liard, Thelma Rebecca Walters, and these measures and their introduc­ out need of.. further comment. Note Aurela Tripp. tion into the present law is made to Section 19. This is called a Saving correct this. Clause. By that is meant .3. clause DRS. L. D. and DAGJlIAR Ill. SMITH 2. In this Section we change past which segregates each section of tpe LOCATE IN CHICAGO- procedure. It is generally conceded bill. that special training is required to In the event of ·its being necessary Drs. L. D. and Dagmar M. Smith equip a surgeon, but hitherto no at­ to test any section in relation to the have located at 4224 Irving Park tention has been paid to this legally. State Constitution, the introduction Boulevard, Chicago, for the practice The State heretofore has left this to of this clause provides that only the of Osteopathy. the intelligence of those who prac­ section and not the whole. bill will Drs. Smith are graduates of the be judged and possibly declared un­ tice. In the formation stage of any Chicago College of the class ot June, science that is wise, but surgery has constitutional. 1920. now passed that stage and experience A. P. Firth, D.O., Chairman, enables us to determine the time and Legislative Committee. SUBSCRIBE FOR st~y required to equip a physician to TRUTH begin the practice of this branch of $2 THE YEAR-}'RO.U NOW the curative profession. For these Cleveland in July reasons, and because Surgery is a dis­ tinct practice" it is so defined and regulated in this Act. Section 9. It is deemed necessary for the welfare of our citizens that colleges as well as Osteopaths be regulated. This permits everyone to be assured that those who seek per­ mission to practice have had a kind and quality of education that is stand­ ardized. It prevents anyone raising a ques­ tion of doubt as to what studies are taken or hours devoted to those Still-Hildreth Osteopathic Sanatorium studies. It further makes it impos­ sible to state that our colleges do not MACON, MISSOURI properly prepare students in accord DEDICATED TO THE CURE OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES' with standard requirements. In order not to .place too difficult a restriction upon our schools, a clause is introduced permitting a Address All Commu.nications A. G. HILDRETH, D. O. modification of hours devoted to any to the Above Institution. Superintendent one subject up to thirty per cent.

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HAVE YOU ORDERED YOUR COpy· Sue through the child. $4.00 is the and Brooklyn. The subscription 'price O}' TlIE NEW BOOKS FROi'I price. will be $6.00 a year. THE RESEARCH "Applied Anatomy" by Dr. Carle H. From all appearances we would I TSTITUTE~ Phinney is based upon twenty years' judge that the magazine will be an ex­ work by the doctor and his associates. cellent one in. its particular field. Dr. Burns Needs More Subscriptions Dr. Still' has repeated that we should Before Printing know anatomy. Send your subscrip­ tion order at once-$4.00. '['HE FEBRUARY i'IEETING OF THE LOS ANGELES OSTEOPATHIC Dr. Louisa Burns, dean of the Edu­ "Cells of the Blood" by Dr. Louisa SOCIETY WAS ADDRESSED cation Department of the A. T. Still Burns. This is Volume 4 of Dr. BY DR. W. E. WALDO Research Institute reports that not Burns series, "Studies in the Osteo­ enough subscriptions have come to her pathic Sciences." You may not ever for the new' books which are to be is­ look into a microscope but you The following program was given sued b.y the Institute, to permit print­ at the last meeti~g of the ~os An­ should know I about the ·blood. This ing. The Research Institute does not volume is cheap at five times the price geles Osteopathic Society with Dr. have enough cash on hand to swing asked.-$6.00. W. E. Waldo the President of the such a large order as these books will American Osteopathic Association as Hurry with your subscriptions. require and therefore the publication the main speake.r of the evening. of these much needed books depends Dr. Waldo spoke on the subject of upon the subscriptions sent in ad­ '['HE Ai'IERICAN JOURNAL OF OB. "Osteopathy and You." Dr. Edward vance.. S'fETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY Merrill, chairman of the Public Health Bulletin No. 6 which will be a con- . Department of L. A. O. S. had a re­ tinuation of the previous five will be A i'Iosby Production port. Dr. J. H. Edmiston, the Chair­ sent for $2.00 postpaid. It is well to man of the Public Education Depart­ keep in touch with what has been done The American Journal of Obstet­ ment also had a part on the program, scientifically as it gives you food for rics and Gynecology is a new journal and Dr. Henry F. Miles, Chairman of thought and the knowledge may help published by the C. V.' Mosby Co., of the Legislative Depart~lent made a to clinch an argument or two. St. Louis, Mo. report. on the Legislative situation at "Osteopathic Treatment of Children" The journal will represent the the present time. is by Dr. Ira W. Drew and others. American Gynecological Society, the From all repor,ts Dr. Waldo evi­ That is enough said, and we know American Association of Obstetricians dently created quite a sensation on his that although you abhor the treating and Gynecologists and the Obstetrical trip around the Western Osteopathic of children you get grandpa and Aunt Societies of New York, Philadelphia Association clinic circuit.

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Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 94 OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH President of Illinois University Denounces Smith-Towner ,Bill in' Strong Words Centralizing Government

Illinois State Register, Springfield, Illinois, Saturday, January 15, 1921 The people of the United States seem how they should conduct their educa­ the means at hand to do the things in to be aw.akening to the 'danger to their tional institutions and the studies that question. liberties caused by the insidious ad­ should be prescribed. In his address Among the greatest evils of the day vancement of the doctrines of Hamil­ Dr. Kinley said: is the rapid tendency toward federal tonianism in our governmental affairs. "This federal-state plan is known in centralization, the growth of federal Insidiously the advocates of Hamil­ education circles as the fifty-fifty control of economic life to the detri­ tonianism are endeavoring to secure principle. It is strange to me that so ment of ,local and state authority and federal control of the people's educa­ many people, even in a state like responsibility, and the control of their tional institutions from the public Illinois, have regarded' it as bene­ own affairs by the citizens of the primary and ward schools to the uni­ ficent. The federal ,government takes state. In a ~overnment which rests versities. Bills have been introduced a dollar from Illinois, returns perhaps upon public opinion every piece of leg­ 'in Congress to establish a Department twenty cents of it on condition that islation which does not have back of it of Education with various bureau at­ Illinois will furnish another twenty a majority of public opinion is bad. tachments which will in effect assume cents and permit the agents of the fed­ For 'it not only tends to produce dis­ jurisdiction over studies and the man­ eral government a thousand miles away respect of law, but it continually agement of the public schools and uni­ to tell her what to teach her children weakens the sense of duty and re­ versities, thus centralizing at Wash­ and how to teach it. Of the whole sponsibility to the individual citizen. A ingtoiJ. the educational systems now federal revenue from internal revenue ,long continuance of such a process controlled by the states and by com- taxation ot all kinds, four or five states will result in time in imposing on the , munities. furnish approximately three-fourths. people, even of a democracy, govern­ The State Register is glad to say Illinois is one of the group. It is right mental and bureaucratic control over that the doctrines of Alexander Ham­ ,and democratic that the rich states a large part of their lives and actions. ilton favoring the centralization of should contribute something to help No democracy can endure when this' power in Washington are becoming educate the children of their poorer state of things comes to pass, It will more and more obnoxious to the sisters. But they should never in be true in our democracy, as it was in thinki.ng people, and that the doc­ doing so surrender to the federal gov­ that of Athens and Rome, that when trines advocated by Thomas J effer­ ernment actual control over their citizens acquiesce in the general son and Abraham Lincoln, favoring own educational system. propositiol). that the government is to a government of the people, by the do everything for them, the seeds of We all need to educate ourselves people and for the people, are gain­ decay will have been widely sown." more on these propositions. ,It is ing in their hold upon the public through study of them by the average Dr. Kinley has spoken words of mind and heart. The people of this citizen, and that means you and me, truth and soberness. They are demo­ country are becoming intensely jeal­ that right conclusions can be reached. cratic and right. ous of their rights' as communities, We need to educate ourselves anew Governor Lowden, in several ad­ of their inalienable rights as sover­ to a living belief in the old American dresses, delivered some months ago, eign citizens. In other words the cen­ I{rinciple that we ourselves will do appealed to the people whom he was tralization of 'all power in the fed­ for our community and state and cOJln­ addressing not to adopt the plan of eral government at Washington is dis­ try the things needful for her welfare asking the federal or even the state tasteful to the people's sense of justice and will not shirk civic duties because government to do for them what they and thoroughly' out of harmony with they are irksome and will not leave could do for themselves, He held that their views of liberty. their discharge and the determination such a course was a surrender of It is high time to cali a halt on of their character to a bureaucratic that power which the people should assumption of powers ,by federal bu­ agent, even though he be an agent of retain for themselves and weakened reaus at Washington before it be­ our own. The present tendency in all their self-reliance and their liberties comes so strong and universal in its this legislation is likely to destroy as citizens. application that plain citizens cannot that system of checks and balances Since the Civil war the centraliza­ use a public highway without the con­ thut is the very essence of our form of tion of government in the United sent of a bureaucrat at the federal government. We are drifting toward States has been achieved,. largely capital. a political system which will lodge through pleas of "patriotism" made by President David Kinley of our authority in practically all matters its advocates-pleas that have deceived state university, in a recent address of public importance in the hands .of many citizens who have failed to see before the Mid-Day Luncheon club the federal government and leave the the insidious designs of the Hamilton­ in this city, made a strong protest states themselves and nlany of the ians. against the passage of federal laws communities in the states dependent Democratic citizens of this repub­ giving Washington bureaucrats au-' upon action from Washington and lic, repu'blicans as well as democrats thority to interfere with and dictate powerless to do otherwise, because the and indepen9-ents, must no longer be to the state and local school officials federal government will have taken all deceived or they will eventually lose

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their freedom and be bound hand and $500 as a Life Member. The Woman's has passed its first year with flags foot to the chariot wheels of Ham­ Auxilary is also prominently featured. flying, We can readily imagine the iltonianism. They must guard' their The articles of incorporation and satisfaction any group of doctors liberty or lose it. the by-laws are a ~al'it of the year book would have when the first year mark The State Register is glad to see and a financial ,stafement is given. is passed successfully. that many of the republican public The curriculum for all four years is We wish them greater. success dur­ men are having their eyes opened to given in detail. The clinics are ing the coming years. the purpose of the Hamiltonians, and' all mentioned 1s to what they are making it clear that they have do and those w~o are in charg,e found out that to preserve the lib­ of them, There is also a, list of all TO HAVE ANOTHER MOVIE, erties of citizens of their country they of the members of the school-205 in ,..1 _ must oppose centralization of power nunlber. The question comes up now Dr. R. K. Smitll of Boston is Working and authority in Washington. as to what the school will do with a I On a Most Admirable Project Political parties are derelict to large class which b ley expect to enroll public duty when they make the hold­ next September. The Chicago Co lege of Osteopathy ing of office and public patronage Dr. R. K. Smith of Boston, our Effi­ I the chief object of their org~nizations. is beginning a moJe or less prominent cient Publicity Expert, is working on In thus making party success instead drive for life members. The object a most admirable project in getting is to have at least 300 life members of principle the purpose of their or­ out a moving picture called "THE who have paid $500 each. This will ganizations, they are selling the peo­ LIGHT THAT DID NOT FAIL." ple's liberties for a mess Of, pottage. give a fund sufficidnt for the main'ten­ ance and the operation of the college This is to be a five reel picture and is to bring the story of osteopathy be­ CHICAGO COLLEGE OF OSTEO· and hospital. I fore the people in a unique and fasci­ P ATHY PUTS OU'l' AN It would be pos ible to take all of nating manner. EXCELLENT YEAR the ~'chools of the country, and amal­ BOOK gamate them, finance and operate Each osteopathic physician is asked them along the lines adopted by the to contribute $10.00 toward a fund of The Chicago College of Osteopathy Chicago College of Osteopathy. $17,000 to place this film upon the has' just put out a very excellent year market. book, conrtaining the narues of the WAYNE.LEONAUD SANITARIU1U Each doctor who contributes $10,00 officer's and the members of the cor­ P ASSES FIRS MILE STONE will then have the picture shown in pora,tion. The corporation list is com­ his own town without furtll,er expense: posed of peopl'e from all over the Another of our IprdmiSing institu­ Vole wish ,the greatest success to United States who have contributed tions, the Wayne-Leonard Sanitarium Dr. Smith and his picture.

I I ,The Laughlin HOSPITAL Kirksville, Missouri

Tile Laughlin 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 $50,000, is a modern fireproof structure of forty-two rooms. Thirty­ five of these rooms contain beds for patients. The building is built of the very best material and has every con­ venience that can be put in a hospital of this size. An electric automatic elevator has been installed, which means a great convenience. There are two operating, rooms, one for general surgery and the other for prthopedics. Dr. Laughlin and his associates will do an osteopathic and general surgical practice. Dr. Laughlin has secured competent assi'stants to help him 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'Thr'oat 8. X-Ray and Laboratory Diagnosis A Training School for Nurses will also be ma,intail ed, with a separate building for the nurses' home F or further information address DR. GEORGE M. LAUGHLIN Kirksville, Missouri

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