Osteopathic Truth
September 1916
Vol. 1, No. 2
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[1991.1334.111] OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH 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 I SEPTEMBER, 1916 Number 2
Scientific Honesty Compels us to Stand for Straight Unequivocal Osteopathy, Says Dr. Meacham. The New President of the A. O. A. Makes a Plain, Square.Statement Editor Osteopathic Truth: .A decayed molar and a decayed tonsil are one and If the object of this Legion is to promulgate the the same to me, because both of them have to go out principles of osteopathy, to keep these principles un of my office for the best special treatment for those diluted and uncontaminated and to further the appli conditions. I have no more hesitancy in applying to cation of these principles-then I am with you. a specialist for one than I do for the other. If an I am against the straddle-bug and the hyphenate in anodyne is needed I should never hesitate to call for citizenship, in politics, in the man who made that religion and in scientific method a specialty. principles. I hope to live to see the There is such a thing as day when the drug dis scientific honesty. penser will be a specialist Financial honesty be with a field limited to gets a man standing and tho s e extreme cases credit in his community. where, for any reason No less will scientific hon whatever, the principles esty beget for our profes of osteopathy fail to bring sion ~ scientific standing relief. and credit in the minds I am in favor of being of men. an osteopath first and a Any idea, tenet or per doctor last, if by being a son that tends to place our doctor first we must equip profession before the pub ourselves with the whole lic as a bunch of money junk in the medical chasers, willing to do any pharmacopeia. thing so we "can handle If we live up to our a case," ought to be up best opportunities of per rooted and cast out by fect osteopathic practice our professional organiza we can and will eventually tions. Whatever or who make specialists and not ever is not for us is against us. doctors out of the drug-giving bunch. But we can No man is for the scientific principles of osteopathy do this only by being scientifically honest, by adhering who uses materia medica for therapeutic effect. The to our principles, and by spurning those honors and two ideas are incompatible. opportunities that might come to us through disloyalty If our professional principles and our individual art to osteopathic truth. in applying these principles are too limited t6 reach a W. BANKS MEACHAM, D. O. certain class of cases, then let us be scientifically hon est by referring these cases to those whom we believe capable of applying the correct remedy. ASHEVILLE, Aug. 23, 1916.
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DIETETIC ADJUSTMENT. contains the necessary elements of nu heritage and lead the world in diagnosis trition seldom combine their foods com and therapeutics, or whether it is con CEO. W. REID, D. O. patibly. Dietetic adjustment is second tent to have others take first place in giv According to Dr. Still, "the human in importance only to structural adjust ing to hu'Vanity the full fruits of the machine, like the locomotive, or any ment. Let us not forget this in our Old Doctor's philosophy. "Sentiment ", other mechanical contrivance, when prop daily ministrations. you say? Not a bit of it. Simply our erly adjusted, nourished and cared for, In addition to emphasizing the import right as a profession, and because the should run smoothly into a ripe and ance of proper jiet, these deficiency osteopathic philosophy can deliver the useful old age." This statement com diseases bear testimony to the value of goods in the hands of those who prop prehends the whole function of the natural methods of treatment as opposed erly comprehend its simple truths. to artificial methods. Every new discov And furthermore, because we are as yet osteopathic physician. The human ma ery in the field of therap,.eutics seems to hut upon the threshold of this wonderful chine requires to be adj usted, nourished undermine the basis for popular as well philosophy, a statement which can be and otherwise properly cared for. as professional belief in the curative ef quickly verified by any qualified oste Thus, nutrition is'one of the funda fects of drugs. Indeed, it appears that opathic physician who has spent years in mental considerations of the osteopathic the belief in the remedial power of drugs active practice. As in all other pursuits school. is founded largely upon ignorance, both the greater experience the greater skill. The problem of nutrition embraces the in and out of the profession. Otherwise. The failures can seldom be laid at the subject of diet, as well as that of mas how can we account for the fact that our door of Osteopathy, but rather to our tication, digestion and assimilation. most enlightened physicians as well as own limited comprehension of the body Structural adj ustment places the body laity are getting away from the drug mechanism and the osteopathic philos into condition so that digestion and as 'fetish? Some years ago, Dr. Austin ophy. The indicated remedy for failure similation may take place without let Flint, in addressing a graduating class js well-defined, namely, more osteopathy or hindrance. In other words, it estab of medical students, made this significant and yet more. lishes an environment within the body statement in reference to drugs, "I sup Let u develop our own philosophy favorable to the normal or healthy ex pose th'at when we become perfect and let the other fellow take care of him pression of all its cells and tissues. physicians we will give none". Here is self. No one brain can hold all the The body. however, may be in an ex food for thought for oUT medically in learning in the world, so why not delve quisite state of adjustment and yet fall clined osteopathic brethren. into our philosophy rather than talk 0'£ a prey to disease simply because it is its shortcomings! A united sentiment not supplied with the proper nutritive for more osteopathy will solve every elements. Pellagra, beriberi, scurvy and AS DR. CAVE SEES IT. problem which confronts us, whether it rickets are diseases of this character. FRANCIS A. CAVE, D. O. be organization, legislative, collegiate or They are now known to be deficiency what not. There should be just one diseases. as they result primarily from The first issue of "OSTEOPATHIC standard for osteopathic fellowship and a diet that is devoid of certain essential TRUTH" was surely an inspiration to that should be a dyed-in-the-wool belief food elements. There is a very close me, and must prove such to the large in and adherence to the osteopathic con relationship between beriberi and pel body of our profession who believe in cept as enunciated by the Old Doctor, lagra. The former is essentially an a normal evolution of the osteopathic whose vision has given to the world oriental disease, occurring largely among principle. "OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH ,. this boon to humanity. Our millenium those who subsist mainly upon highly looks to me like a pretty husky young can be brought to pass through mutual polished rice, while pellagra is essentially ster, with plenty of bone and sinew co-operation between the profession and an occidental disease, occurring among already developed, ready for the the colleges, between the national and those whose diet consists mainly of friendly scrimmage or the pitched bat the state organizations, and the elimina highly polished corn products. tle, under the standard of " A. T. STILL tion of hybrids, by assimilation or other In the treatment of these diseases, no OSTEOPATHY", the well-c h 0 sen wise. dope. drugs, serums or vaccines are slogan for the present organization year. It has always been an open question necessary, notwithstanding the fact that (Why not adopt this slogan as the per in my mind as to how much of a medic they have been generously employed by manent slogan of the A. O. A. and non a physician could be and yet remain an our metlical friends in their endeavors to members as well?) osteopath. In spite of the immense en cure. The essential requisite is proper It seems to me high time for a return dowments and extraordinary physical adj ustment of the diet. The patients to the type of "militant" osteopathy enuip1llents of the larger medical schools must be given foods that are rich in which put us on the map in the first of the world, their graduates cannot com vitimines, and the foods that possess place, and which alone will suffice to p~re in practical all-around, efficiency these elements in abundance are green, keep us there in spite of foes without WIth the true-blue osteopathic graduate. fresh \'egetables, fresh fruits and un and within (but especially within). The difference must therefore lie 'not polished cereals. Whole wheat or gra ~o one could attend that fine con in endowment or equipment, but i~ the ham bread must be substituted for white vention at Kansas City without feefing application of the virfie basic facts of the bread, and unpolished cereals must be keen satisfaction in the thoughl that the osteopathic philosophy to the diagnosis used instead of highly polished cereal profession is now wide awake to the dan and treatment of disease. In other foods so commonly used. gers which are thrl!'Atening through the words, the osteopath must think oste Of course, it is quite probable that insidious undermining of our organiza opathy, otherwise he .cannot secure the osteopathic lesions have something to do tions by those who have never fully desired results. How, then, can' a 'pro in these diseases in the nature of lower grasped the fullness of truth of the medical osteopath expect to secure equal ing resistance and increasing suscepti osteopathic philosophy and yet seek to results with the pro-osteopathic osteo bility. But sufficient research has been inject their extraneous view-points into path? made to establish for a certainty the im our professional deliberations and insti The undermining influence of the' self portance of dietetic adjustment in these tutions. What a pit the entire profes styled advanced (?) thinkers constitutes partiwlar disorders. Indeed, proper ad sion could not have partaken of the in a constant menace to our organized ef justment of the diet seems to be the es- spiration of this up ifting .and history fort. Let us stand for more osteopathy sential therapeutic requirement. . - making convention! in our schools, on our programs and in These facts emphasize very strongly And now that the" return to first prin our individual effort. The field is un the importance of proper diet. It is ciples" is on, let us all stand squarely limited, according to the Old Doctor's reasonable to assume that if improper back of an administration pledged to own statements. and no one should ques diet is capable of producing such loath unceasing effort along progressive lines. tion his intimate knowledge of the sub ~ome consequences as represented by pel The "osteopathic" osteopath still re ject. When we have mastered the full lagra. beriberi. etc., then it is capable. mains the" progressive ", as in the be ness of the science of osteopathy it will also. of producing various gradations of ginning, while the advocates of drugs as be time enough to consider its limita trouble. Therefore, it behooves us to materia medica must necessarily be tions and not before. give 'he subject of diet our careful con class"ed as "reactionary", as. in the days "OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH" should sideration, that we may not overlook of yore. he welcomed by every physician who be the minor and less apparent consequences The showing of the next year or two Ii-eves in the basic principles of oste of dietetic errors. There are few people will demonstrate whether the osteo opathy as a needed message to humanity. who eat properly. Those whose diet pathic profession is to live up to its It should be welcomed by everyone who
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believes that we are as yet but upon the D. or. M. D., D. O. ~rofessors who re have well founded a great teaching col threshold of this mighty truth, based quire ten years to be convinced of the lege or two, osteopathy is doomed to upon the eternal laws of nature itself. reality ef osteopathy. What is. happen speedily fall a prey to those who have In short, it should be welcomed by all ing to the student body while they are damned the philosophy and held up to those who stand for genuine osteopathic being converted? There must be a ridicule that great master mind, Dr. Still; progress, and a normal evolution of our thorough house-cleaning along these for now they are slowly undermining philosophy. Long may it live to labor lines. They are killing osteopathy at its our organizational structure and any along constructive lines for the benefit of source-if not by precept, then by their keen observer can see them working all concerned. example, and thus the student is led to toward our philosophy from day to day, distrust osteopathy and either gets the and woe betide us if we are unprepared, M. D. degree himself or turns his patient so let us get together, wipe out inter "WRONG TEACHING", THE over to an M. D. easily. ':'hese condi collegiate jealousy and move mightily as COLLEGES AND THE PRO- tions are not fanciful. They exist. How one great body toward the great goal set can they be met? As we have said be for us by Dr. Still. FESSION. fore, the colleges, most of them, are un We must teach osteopathy as Dr. Still teaches it. He likens it, as compared H. M. VASTINE, D. O. doubtedly doing the very best they can under the circumstances, but they face with the allied branches, to the great 'Obj ection has been made by represen conditions which it is but of the question central sun which illuminates the solar tatives of some of the colleges to the to meet. There ought not to be more system. So ought osteopathic principles use of the phrase "wrong teaching" and than two or three colleges. In fact I am to illuminate all other branches in the also to ascribing most of our profes convinced that if we had but one, and a college. Let's teach it that way. sional ills to this "wrong teaching" in united profession back of it with their the official pledge of the A. T. Still force and money, we would begin writing WHAT IS THE VALUE OF A Osteopathic Legion. It is not surprising a new era in the history of this greatest that obj ection should be raised to a of all arts of healing. So long as we MEDICAL DEGREE TO AN charge that is so general in character, tho have the number of colleges we now OSTEOPATH? it applies differently to the several col have there must exist a competitive LOUISE A. GRIFFIN, M. D., D. O. leges; and we believe that the protest grabbing for students. We shall con comes in all sincerity from those who tinue to have the colleges poorly manned [Dr. Robert W. Rogers in a communi are truly and earnestly interested in the as to their teaching force, because they cation published elsewhere quotes Dr. welfare of osteopathy. It is simply a must secure poorly paid professors, with Griffin's question in the July number of lack of understanding, like most of life's many who receive no pay, and thus the Osteopathic Truth: "Why all this clamor problems. In stating the case, we could subject is handled in a hand-to-mouth for a •broader osteopathy'?" Dr. Rog not, of course, go into the detail of what cheap sort of fashion. Meanwhile oste ers probably was not aware that Dr. is meant by "wrong teaching". It is opathy is not taught as a great progres Griffin wrote as she did after baving this: by " wrong teaching" we mean that sive truth, and unless conditions are been in medical practise for a number of the colleges in varying degree teach oste changedits downfall is certain. Not be years before espousing osteopathy. We opathy anywhere from that of "reduced cause of wrong motives, but because of are glad to present herewith portions of a force" all the way down to that of alien impossible conditions which have to be paper of hers that was read before the teaching or our detestable hyphenates. met by the colleges. The facts are these, New England Osteopathic Association at It is no longer taught as in the early that this profession cannot supply unen a meeting at Bridgeport, Conn., some day, as a great concept, an all pervading dowed any such number of colleges. The time ago, and published in The Herald of revolutionary truth, complete and per reply to the charge that the many M. D. Osteopathy. We are promised articles fect, if perfectly applied. That it com or M. D., D. O. professors are a con by Dr. Griffin, and shall take pleasure prises a: part of the perfective plan of stant menace to the progress of oste in giving them to our readers. Ed.] creation deifies itself by reason of its in opathy is that the colleges cannot secure clusion in that grand schematic plan. It properly trained osteopathic professors, Twenty-fiv,e years ago I received a may be taught as a complete and inde because they cannot. afford to pay them medical degree from the Boston Uni pendent system, and still lack the force the salaries they ask. They do their versity School of Medicine. One year or predominance it must have on the best, but cannot surmount these things, of that time has been spent as surgical college curriculum as compared with the and I fully believe in their sincerity of interne in the Massachusetts Homeo allied branches. Thus it could be classed purpose, but it can't be done. pathic Hospital, a few months in the as "wrong teaching ". It must be taught The conditions r'emind me of a story John Hopkins Hospital during a term as an all dominating truth and all once told at a dinner party. The tale of Dr. William Osler, eleven years in branches as related to it. Taught as a sounded quite unlikely and the teller, active medical practice, and one year great article of faith, ever kept before noting the painful silence and failure to in studying and twelve years in prac the student as a guide to all other sub express approval, said-" It's true, don't 'ticing osteopathy. With this experience jects, which must harmonize with this you believe me"? They answered J feel fairly well qualified to discuss the great central truth. Osteopathy is not "Believe you, why certainly we believe nuestion as to "What is the value of a simply a catch phrase, it is as Dr. Still you but the Lord knows its impossible.~' Medical degree to an Osteopath? ,. says "a part of the Deific plan ", and And that's what's .the matter with the Occasionally I am asked by my pa must be reckoned with on the basis of osteopathic colleges. They face an im trons if I do not find that my medical an overruling principle on the college possible situation by reason of their education is a great help to me in my curriculum. How is this possible? Well numbers. osteopathic practice. I invariably reply, there are two or three necessary means If we merged our colleges into one since it is the only reply I can honestly to this end. There must be a determina or tWo great colleges, we should soon make, that the only real value my med tion on the part of the faculty to teach find endowments coming to sustain them; ical training has been to me in my oste this way. There must be a real faculty, never as the colleges are conducted to opathic work, is that it has enabled me each one having caught the true inspira day. \ATe should s.ecure the best type of to practice medicine long enough to ac tion of what osteopathy is, and then it professors, and could pay them attrac quire the practical experience necessary must be grounded into the student from tive salaries. Put the energy of the pro to become fam;liar with diseases, and to every angle in conjunction with every fession back of these colleges, and the discover the instability of the curative branch taught. How can the student student body would in a few years be action of drugs, but that it in no way with grey matter enough to grasp the come what it ought to be, the greatest helps me to find out the osteopathic osteopathic type of reasoning disease in any college of thera,peutics, and our cause of, or cure for, dise·ase. In fact, gather the philosophy and train his mind problems would find a ready solution, for several years, it actually hindered in to reason that way when some of the for' our basic ill would be eradicated. grasping the osteopathic diagnosis, deal professors insidiously .undermine this A prafession rests upon its producing ing with the mechanical cause of disease great truth by sowing the seeds of doubt source, its colleges. Until they become which it rectifies so as to give nature a and thus prepare the student to go forill great. the profession cannot build up. A free hand, while medicine looks at the a weakling, an incubator baby to do a profession is no greater than its source, effects or symptoms that name the dis man's work. . Altogether too few recog its colleges. Unless we make great ease, and quiets them with drugs, hoping nize the gl,"eatness of the subj ect they es haste and build ost~opathy from the that in time nature will effect a cure. say to present. Then there are the M. ground, by first making certain that we It seems very difficult for many people
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to grasp the idea that the osteopathic that it enables those who master its truths THE AFTERMATH OF INFAN viewpoint of disease is radically different to successfully minister to suffering hu TILE PARALYSIS: A H~EAVY from the medical viewpoint. A knowl manity .and this after all, is the essen BURDEN ON THE NATION. edge of the medical viewpoint is apt to tial test of any school of therapeutics. be· confusing unless the person has a By J. MAllISON TAYLOR, M. D. clear conception of the osteopathic phi (Professor of Applied Therapeutics, Medical De· losophy, in that it obscures a clear vision TWO STRIKING EDITORIALS partment, Temple University; Formerly Pro· of the osteopathic lesion as a cause of f",sor of Diseases of Children, Philadelphia disease. I expected when I took up the ON POLIOMYELITIS. Polyclinic; Author of U Manual of Diseases of Children.") study of osteopathy to use it as a side The extent of the present epidemic issue to medicine in certain conditions (Copyright, 1916, by The National Editorial and the unusually high mortality Service, Inc.) and certain cases, but when I became which attends it-reaching consider thoroughly imbued with its principle, I ably above twenty-five percent-to Fatal as has been the epidemic of poliomyelitis knew that there could be no successful gether with the continued confession of 1916, and far in excess as it has been of combination made, since osteopathy other visitations, concern may well be most grave of impotence on the part of the domi as to its secondary effects, its consequences in treated a mechanical cause while medi nant school of medicine in either cur cripplings and deformities. Strong ground al· cine treated symptomatic effects. If the ing it or controlling its spread, form ready exists for apprehension that this year's cause was removed, the effect would dis epidemic may prove a prelude to a nation-wide H an appalling spectacle ", as the Bos recurrence next year, adding hugely both to appear, so where would be the occasion ton Transcript says. In the Trans fatalities and disablements. for the medicine? Here, then, is a problem which takes intelli cript of August 17th was published an gence, foresight and resourcefulness, if the emel'.. I will say right here that as soon as editorial so pertinent that we give it gcncy is to be met with anything like adequate I understood the osteopathic principle in full herewith. means. I discarded my medicine case, and up At present, complete statistics have not been to the present time have seen no oc HELPLESSNESS IN THE FACE assembled. There are probably 30,000, and there may be 50,000, victims recovering from attacks casion for prescribing drugs. OF PESTILENCE. during the current year. It is but fair to sur mise that, by the close of 1917, should the ap The spectacle of helplessness which the country prehension of a great epidemic next year be ful· * * * * * * * * * * presents in the face of the danger of a general filled, there may be 300,000 individuals, out of For an osteopath who wished to give epidemic of infantile paralysis is appalling. A our continental population of 100,000,000, or his attention to operative surgery it national medical conference has been assembled, 3·10 of 1 per cent, confronting slow convales might be of some advantage to him to representing the health authorities of the States, cence from infantile paralysis, with partial or the Federal Health service and private physician. total disablement present. Such a great numb'er attend a medical school in order to get of great learning and experience, but unless wiII overtax existing facilities for the adequate the proper work and experience in sur medical opinion on the subject of the means of and prolonged care required to overcome the ap gery. But then it is surgery he is seek communication and cure of this disease bas laid palling infirmities, which cannot be eradicated i11g to know and not medicine. Surgery hold upon some point of knowledge which is now unless prompt and consistent care and treatment denied to the public, the conference will servo shall be applied and shall be maintained over a is a branch by itself. If an osteopath to emphasize the goeneral helplessness rather thllh period of years. And, even tho there should be wished to study surgery abroad, a med relieve it. Nevertheless, it is very well to hold no extensive epidemic in 1917, the demands of ical degree would facilitate his getting the conference, for it may at least formulate from 30,000 to 50,000 potential cripples in the some plan for national or interstate action to east is ample warrant for immediate actioD. into the clinics. ward preventing the spread of the disease as This year's ravages alone have produced cripples Some states require a medical degree far as it may be prevented. The hit·or·mi.. equal in number to the disabled wounded in a as a condition for eligibility for an ex quarantine, mostly under local auspices, now battle of the first magnitude on the bloody fields carried .on, often does more harm than good. of Europe. But, where the men wounded in amination for registration. In those The entrance of aJIlicted persons is not really battle can only rarel.y be restored to full use· states where a medical examination is re prevented, and panic and excitement are en fulness, the majority of infantile paralysis cases quired in order to register, osteopaths, !!,endered and goreat individual hardship inflim.,!. can be, and will be, completely restored, pro The public looks for something like authority in vided they are given right care from thc start of by studying up for them, have been able connection with epidemics or threatened epidemics their convalescence to the U'gitimate finish of thf' to take the examinations without a of this disease; and if there can be no certain treatment. medical course. The students in oste infonnation as to its cure and transmission we Precisely what is needed? The medical pro· should at least bave a uniform system of super feBsion can be relied upon to do all that s"ill opathy now have such opportunity for vision and quarantine. and devotion can do for the individual sufferer. attending the clinics in the hospitals of Nothing more extrMrdinary than the helple..· Of hospitals there are possibly enough in the larg-e cities that there is no excuse for ne," of the medical profeBsio" towal'd infantile land, with equipment fairly well fittetl to core their desiring a medical degree in order paralysis hOJ! ever been recorded. Until quite for the emergencies most commonly recurring, recently, the disease was treated as if it were but for no more. to obtain clinical privileges. To an not infectious or contagious. Patients were not What is required for this exceptional emel'gnlcy osteopath holding a medical degree with quarantined~ and~ 8trange to say, cases of com· will serve the needs of other emergencies, while a few years' of active medical practice mun-ication were very infrequent. We know now provirg of the ulmost utility even in times that it is conununicable, and it is desperately when no such necessity prevails. Every com· before studying osteopathy, his degree in epidemic in New York and some other places. munity should have a plot of ground just be· medicine means very little other than a But the powerle,·B1I£.
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by the commonwealth or by private benefaction? in clear and concise terms the great Adjustment to Nature's forces is the Clearly, it js the communal obligation to furnish the ground and tbe buildings. Any exceptional fundamental principle, the basic truth basis of evolution, and the "survival expenses incurred migbt be suppelmented by in· of life, on which Dr. A. T. Still of the fittest." Osteopathy can sur dividual gifts. But, somehow, from some source, founded the theory and practice of vive as osteopathy only if it really em systematized facilities must be provided for mini· mizing the burden that will rest upon the nation osteopathy. This basic truth is so bodies this basic truth which touches by reason of the epidemic. There is no need or broad and simple that it needs only to our well-being at every point, adjust reason to wait and make sure whether or not be stated in order to prove conclu ment to all of Nature's forces, playing catastrophe is to follow on misfortune's heel in sively that the school of medicine on, in and thru the human organism. 1917. Unless we forefend against the assured consequences of the disease, the mark of deformity founded' on it is the one and only Osteopathy is adjustment. Adjust and the curse of lifelong unhappiness is to be complete school-not "a" complete ment? "Aye, there comes the rub," found in homes by the tens of thousands today. school, but "the" complete school. doctor. The ten-finger, bony-lesion All the means, methods and practices stalwarts insist that, "anatomical ad Dr. Taylor's suggestions are good having real merit, of all schools and justment is the whole thing!" They as a general proposition and it is to all times, past, present and future, fall define osteopathy in terms of manual be hoped that in some way effective automatically into their proper places manpiulation of anatomical lesions. treatment can be provided for the as necessary parts of the complete The ultras claim to despise all means thousands of cripples who survive this school. There can be no "adjuncts" except their ten-bony-fingers, and pre epidemic. It is probable that a fair to the complete school. If it is com fer to drop out of a case when these proportion of them will come under plete, it is complete. If osteopathy fail. The less radical add a few "ad osteopathic treatment, and we trust recognizes a single "adjunct," it juncts ", with apologies, and explain in that careful records will be made, and thereby admits that it is not complete, confidence that" osteopathy cannot do due reports filed, of the results of the but a mere "adjunct" itself, predis everything; at least, not yet." Some treatment. tined to be absorbed by that "ad ever flirt with the M. D. degree, but Medical Treatment Equally Futile in junct" fattened vampire, regular medi all are true to anatomical adjustment, cine. In fact, regular medicine is al "till death do us part." These bony Other Contagious Diseases. ready smacking its anaemic lips over lesion stalwarts have been the back This seems an opportune moment to the few crumbs that its "aavanced bone of osteopathy. They have won point to the fact that our medical thinkers" have .. discovered" forty it the prestige it enjoys today, and friends are not helpless in this disease years after Dr. Still went on record. should be given due and ungrudging alone, at least insofar as cure is con They are not so slow when there is credit. But osteopathy shows indubi cerned. If anyone has ever heard of a nice, juicy" adjunct" in sight. Oste table signs of arrested development, a specific cure of the exanthemata or opathy's only chance is to get out of and there is much blind groping about other contagious diseases thru a drug the .. adjunct" class. Regular medi for the cause. Osteopathy has flour or serum, we shall be glad to be ap cine can never swallow anything so ished just in proportion as it has em prised of the fact. So far as we have great as the basic truth on which oste bodied this basic principle, adjustment observed or read, the medical practi opathy is founded. to all of Nature's forces. Those who tioner is as helpless, when it comes to But, on the other hand, is the basic place all the emphasis on anatomical a specific remedy, when he is called principle of osteopathy too broad and adjustment, help osteopathy jutf'--to to attend a case of measles or scarla deep to be firmly grasped by the ma the extent that they put anatl/mical tina or whooping-cough or chicken jority of our profession, and pro adjustment in its proper place as an pox or small-pox, as he is when con claimed as the living rock on which essential part of osteopathy. But oste fronted by the dread paralysis. osteopathy, the complete school, is opathy can never evolve into the com being built? Certainly there are un plete school of medicine so long as it No Specific in Medicine; All of These mistakeable signs that not all is well is founded on anatomical adjustment Diseases Are Self-Limited; Treat with osteopathy, and there is much alone, for that limits the practice to ment .. Expectant". groping about for the cause. There causes on the physical plane alone, and are internal stresses which will inevi makes it a mere" adjunct." The stal It would seem, then, as to treatment, warts cry, "What is the matter with that almost the sole practical differ tably produce seriotis splits, unless the cause is recognized and removed. the osteoptahy 'and the osteopaths of ence between poliomyelitis and the today? What do they stand for, any common diseases of childhood is to be Osteopathy's real danger is within, in the narrowness and shallowness of the way? Oh, for the good old days!" found in the fact that epidemics of And they sound again the good old the former have a greater fatality osteopaths themselves. There has been too much of this spread-eagle . battle-cry, " Emphasize the anatomical and leave the survivors more terribly lesion!" But it fails to inspire as of afflicted. True, the sequelre of some " We-are-the--chosen-people!" sort of pose. We shall be the "chosen peo yore. The rank and file are either too of the other diseases are sometimes rank or flirting with the latest "ad severe, but they are not so apparent. pIe" only if we prove worthy of our stewardship. Osteopathy must not be juncts or trying to "broaden" oste The treatment is always on "expec opathy. tant" lines, and according to standard betrayed by its well-meaning but blundering disciples. In fact, many seem to feel that the medical dictionaries, "expectant treat old stalwarts are out of date, have ment is that in which the disease is The fundamental law governing all existence, physical, chemical, vital, served their purpose and are in the left to nature's cure, the physician way of progress. Yet undoubtedly merely relieving the symptoms". Is mental and spiritual, is evolution. Evolution is marked by constant in they had a distinct mission to fulfi111 in there any osteopath anywhere who the past. And that mission was just does not do more than this? ternal adjustment of the organism to its environment; to the physical, this: to emphasize the anatomical ao The Conclusion. chemical, vital, mental and spiritual justment part of osteopathy. Insofar It seems to Osteopathic Truth that forces playing on, in and thru it. Na as they have helped to put anatomical no osteopath can add materially to his ture's laws are perfect, immutable. If adjustment into its proper place as an equipment for the' handling of acute the human organism keeps intelli essential part of osteopathy, the com cases by taking on materia medica. gently in adjustment with all of Na plete school, they have helped the Think it over. . ture's forces, dependable health is the cause. Insofar as they have built up reward. If we get out of adjustment, the false doctrine that "anatomical the friction with immutable law causes adjustment is the whole thing!" they WHAT IS OSTEOPATHY? pain, disease, premature death. In have hindered osteopathy. Oste opathy is suffering today from this NEVILLE E. HARRIS, D. O. fact, death, as we experience it, is al (Melbourne, Australia.) ways premature, because perfect ad narrow conception of its basic truth. [Note.-We print this because we be justment on every plane of our ever If osteopathy is ever to take its shifting environment, if attained, could place as the complete school of medi lieve Dr. Harris is sincere, and not be not be maintained. Death is a com cine, it must embody its basic truth, cause the paper actually points out a promise between perfect law and im adjustment to all Nature's forces, not way to teach or practice what he advo perfect adjustment therewith. Life is merely physical forces. Osteopathy is cates. We shall be glad if others will a continuous adjustment. The more suffering from exaggeration of the take up further his ideas and present complex the organism the more nu anatomical lesion and indifference to their logical conclusions. Ed.] merous and finer must be the adjust The object of this paper is to state ments to make life possible. (Conti/wed on Page 22)
Museum of Osteopathic Medicine. Kirksville; MO 18 OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH ------toward acquiring some other things quaintances, said "I've sat here Osteopathic Truth ourselves, one of which was a cer about an hour, and I believe I know A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF OSTEOPATHIC PROGRESS tain amount of dignity. It might everybody that has passed". Men give offense to some Museum of Osteopathic Medicine. Kirksville, MO OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH 19 done so, enclosing one dollar with stands among his contemporaries in word intensive is "stretching lll same, to Dr. George W. Goode, 687 biological science thruout the whole ward ". Boylston St., Boston, Mass. Hav world. The most familiar use of the ing no personal axe to grind, no And Andrew Taylor Still does not word is in connection with cultiva other publication to boost, no goods suffer by this comparison with tion of the soil, or " intensive farm to offer for sale, Osteopathic Truth other scientists. His big concepts ing". The Belgians and the Swiss depends wholly upon subscriptions. do not dwarf or shrink when viewed have long been famous for their in and shall try to merit a large num thus. Instead, they grow to grander tensive methods, working every ber of them from those of the pro proportions. square foot of ground, producing fession who want the truth. This issue of Osteopathic Health immense crops from small plots, and will open new fields to osteopathy. ~tilizing the same soil for two or A GREAT TRIBUTE. To be sure, Lane talks over the more crops each season. With In the October number of Oste heads of many of our constituents. dense population and with a limited opathic Health we 'find a profound But it is equally sure that this paper available acreage of land, most of token of appreciation of the man of his will gain and hold the interest the agricultural sections of Europe who gave to the world the principles of many others who do not read the (excepting Russia) have of neces of osteopathy. average osteopathic field literature. sity used. intensive methods. In It is but natural that most of the In every community, large and America, with our millions of men and women who have taken small, are intelligent people who sparsely occupied acres, extensive up the practise of osteopathy have have never learned of real oste methods have been the rule. carried into their work a more or opathy beacuse they believe it a Osteopathic Truth believes in and less intimate acquaintance with Dr. crude, half-baked method of dealing advocates intensive cultivation of Still as to externals. Many regard -rudely and harshly at that-with the osteopathic field. him as a sage, a prophet, a seer, or a few certain ailments. Such mis In taking this stand we do not a man with a great vision, each one's conceptions are fostered by many deny that there is virtue or thera mental picture of the founder de old-school doctors, and frequently peutic value in other systems and pending on his own conception of originate with them. schools. There is no need for such the osteopathic fundamentals. To place this monograph in the denial, even if there were abundant For many osteopaths much that hands of misinformed and unin evidence available to the effect that Dr. Still has written has but little formed people (especially if it is such systems are frank failures. meaning, and to most people outside accompanied by a letter calling at We shall have no time for negation of the profession his published writ tention to the publishers' introduc if we devote our energy to our own ings are sealed books. His. epi tion) cannot fail to give osteopathy work. grams mean nothing, his metaphors and osteopaths a mighty uplift in If we "stretch inward", with a are puzzling, his parables cannot be the esteem of our neighbors and single purpose, that of getting down friends. Better than this, however, interpreted, unless one has caught to the rich subsoil where we have is the fact that it will help to gain in some degree his clear vision of only' scratched the surface-if we for Andrew Taylor Still the place the lesion and its effects. remain intense, cultivating the field to which· his work entitles him It has remained for one whose that is distinctively our own, there among the benefactors of the human reputation as a scientist was well will be no occasion for us to long race. established before he came into con for the acres about us. tact with the philosophy of oste INTENSIVE OSTEOPATHY. Many a man has been ruined by opathy to catch and interpret the The editor in his opening an reaching out for more land, acquir full dual significance of Dr. Still's nouncement in the first issue made ing field after field, until he could contribution to the science of life use of a term which we have reason not work to advantage or profit the and the maintenance of and recov to believe he coined at the time. At half of his holdings. ery to health. any rate we have not seen it else There is positive danger, if we M. A. Lane, professor of path where, and it seems to us so apt attempt to spread out too much, of ology at the American School of that we make bold to enlarge upon the osteopathic profession becom Osteopathy, in writing of Dr. Still the thought it suggests. The words ing " land poor". and his work, yiews the man and his are these: Let us have an end of the acquisi real greatness from the true per INTENSIVE OSTEOPATHY. tive spirit, the desire to possess spective. In trying to see the Old The Latin root from which inten everything we see, the extensive Doctor rightly, most of us have sive is derived is tendo (" tendon" longings of the self-styled eclectic focused our vision at close range. comes from the same root), and it osteopaths, and let us cultivate In Lane critically looks at Still as he means to stretch. Literally the tensive Osteopathy. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine. Kirksville, MO 20 OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH CLINICAL OSTEOPATHY. entific knowledge of conditions they The osteopathic profession owes This book, to consist of about 700 are called upon to treat. to Patrick of Los Angeles, who pages, is published by the A. T. Still A summary of the contents was wrote" Alcohol the Outlaw", and Research Institute. published in a full page announce to Williams of Kansas City, who ment of the book in the February published it, a debt that it can pay It was written by Dr. Louisa Journal of the A. O. A., reference only by distributing a million copies Burns, and revised by Dr. C. P. to which will make every reader of this fine monograph. Unfor McConnell and a large corps of edi want to possess the work. tunately, the profession regards its tors. The price of the book is $4.00. obligations of this kind very lightly, It will rank as one of the best At least a thousand orders ought to or it would buy and use more of the contributions thus far made to the reach the publishers at once. Order distinctive osteopathic literature. scientific literature of osteopathy. from the A. T. Still Research In But that's another story. Representatives of all of the col stitute, 122 South Ashland Boule "Patient Number 24" does not leges have been called upon to pass vard, Chicago, Ill. deal specifically with alcohol or with on it, and it will doubtless come into alcoholism, but concerns itself with general use as a text-book for stu "PATIENT NUMBER 24". the question of how to treat the dents. Read this, whether you read any alcoholic. We have been privileged to re thing else in this issue or not. Just how does this interest us? view a large portion of the work in In September Everybody's Maga What has the osteopathic profession tne form of galley-proofs, and are zine is a story titled as above. The to do with the alcoholic? greatly pleased with the methods writer's name is not given, but an The experience of the editor and employed in discussing etiology, editorial note states that an actual that of many of our coiieagues is diagnosis and treatment from the experience is related. After read that by substituting for the" spoon osteopathic viewpoint. ing the story-and we hope that ful of pills" a specific sedative In the body of the text (not in every osteopath who sees these lines treatment to the jumping, crazed footnotes as is customary) have will read it-you will no doubt ac nerves, and giving other indicated been inserted many helpful para cept it as truth. osteopathic ministration, we can graphs-especially as to treatment If the writer of the story does help the alcoholic wreck to build -from well-known osteopathic au not tell of a personal experience he new, clean tissue, and enable the thorities, with the writer's name IS a genius in word-painting, and man to make good if he wills to do following each quotation. This fea "Patient Number 24" is worth so. ture alone is of much practical reading as a literary master-piece. H we will read-and profit by the value, for it makes the book actually It doesn't merely grip you; it reading-there is much for us in the a symposium on treatment. clutches your vitals and sears the story of " Patient Number 24". The typography is excellent, with pictures into your soul. For you've the exception that no definite or seen the things he tells about if you A NEW NATIONAL OSTE- consistent plan seems to have 'been ever have had to do with alcoholic OPATHIC ORGANIZATION. followed in changing from la-point On Monday, July 31st, in the afternoon derelicts. And most of us have, in a large number of the members of the type, in which the body of the book one way or another. American Osteopathic Association as is printed, to the smaller 8-point. sembled in the Convention Hall in Kan The keen edge of the story, the sas City to hear a program given by the Some errors are noted, but these thing that seizes you, -and our rea section of the American Osteopathic As will doubtless be eliminated in the sociation on Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. son for calling attention to it, are At the conclusion of the program Dr. final readings. It would be wrong found in the attitude of the doctor T. J. Ruddy came forward and offered to allow a book of this character and the following resolutions: toward the down-and-out-er him "Believing that the time has arrived value to go out with glaring mis self. How do you feel about the for a special organization in the Oste takes in construction or printing, opathic profession along the line of Eye, alcoholic? Ear, Nose and Throat work: and the proof should be carefully The world moves, according to "Be it resolved by the body of Doc scrutinized in order that they may tors now assembled that we now proceed various observers. As it jogs along to organize, and be known as the Ameri be minimized. in its casual course it smashes a can Osteopathic Association of Ophthal mology and Oto-Laryngology. Here is a book which ought to superstition here, junks a pet theory "That the chairman of the section of be in the hands of every osteopath there, and yonder punctures a time Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat shall pre side until the officers of the new body in the world. No osteopath can worn belief and sends it to the are elected. know all of osteopathy. But all can scrapheap. Faith in the value of "That the new officers shall consist of a President, Vice President, Secretary, and should have at their command alcohol as a food or a medicine is Treasurer and Auditor. a text such as this work affords, to now about on a par with a belief in "That we now proceed to elect such officers to serve for a term of one year. give them the best and latest sci- alchemy or astrology or the evil eye. "That the meetings of the Association Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH 21 shall be at such a time and place as the Weare yet working under the resolution. present teaching and practise will carry executive committee shall select. Anyone who pays fifty cents to the us back to the only real osteopathy, the That the committees shall be appointed Secretary may become a member for ten-fingered variety of Dr. A. T. Still. by the first of the year as follows: Pro this year. Noone can vote at our next I hope that by the time you receive gram Committee, whose duty it shall be meeting who has not paid his dues. this some definite plan will have been to arrange a suitable program on the The present benefits as members in the adopted by the true stalwarts of the pro Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat for the first organization are many. First, you be fession to establish and develop a school regular meeting. Membership Commit come a charter member by joining before which will inculcate these principles, and tee, whose duty it shall be to secure a the adoption of a constitution. Second, concentrate the power and energy of the list of all especially interested in Eye, you help develop Osteopathy and bring profession exclusively on our own busi Ear, Nose and Throat work, and as far it more widely before the world. Third, ness, the perfection and application of as possible get them to become members yoll. put yourself in line for specialty the idea which enabled us to be. We this year. work. Fourth, you receive the communi need more 'study in recognizing and cor " Publicity: Whose duty it shall be to cations sent to members of the Associa recting lesions by the use of our hands, draft a constitution for the Association tion. Fifth, you will be kept informed and I should be glad if our legislation with a view to its discussion, and adop of the most advanced plans and thoughts confined us within this field. There are tion at our first regular meeting. of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat work. limitations in our practise, and we will " That the dues for the first year, shall Sixth, you will be eligible to vote at grow. strong only by staying within ce only fifty cents, payable to the Treas the next meeting. Seventh, you will be them. urer-elect, in advance, and at our next in line for work on the programs to be ******* *** meeting only those who have paid their arranged, clinics, plans, addresses and I am greatly pleased to learn that a dues shall vote. demonstrations. strenuous effort is being made to right "That the executive committee shall It will be held for three days ante the osteopathic ship. At this distance consist of the officers, and chairmen of dating the meeting of the American and out of the atmosphere of the oste all the standing committees, whose duty Osteopathic Association, at the same opathic enthusiasm in which you are it shall be to transact the business of the place. Eighth, your standing as a working, the task appears stupendous. Association between meetings, for this specialist will be enhanced. Ninth, your But unless the identity of our science is year." suggestions will be solicited. Tenth, you to disappear, very radical changes, es Open discussion of the resolutions will be in line for any special features pecially in teaching, must be effected. took place, some favoring it and some that might be arranged for members. Before this reaches you the annual meet opposing it. It came to a vote and was Eleventh, there will be other lienefits that ing will have been held, and the asso carried almost unanimously. The hour will develop which are in embryo at ciation have had an opportunity of re being late the meeting was adjourned present. considering their Portland actions. I subject to the call of the temporary Every interested Osteopathic physician sincerely hope that they have seen with chairman to complete the organization. is urged to send his name and fifty clear vision, and are behind you with On Tuesday, August 1st, a meeting cents to Dr. C. L. Draper. 535. Majestic their whole-hearted support to bring was called in the Eye and Ear Room. Building, Denver, Colorado and become about our "return to normal". The following officers were elected: a charter member. * * * * ** * *** President, Chas. C. Reid, Denver, Colo CRAS. C. REm, D. O. Thanks for putting me down to re rado; Vice President, T. J. Ruddy. Los ceive the initial number of your new Angeles, California; Secretary, C. L. periodical. I shall anticipate much "ACADEMIC FREEDOM" .pleasure in seeing it, and bespeak for it Draper, Denver, Colorado; Treasurer, SPELLS SUICIDE, SAYS DR. John H. Bailey, Philadelphia. Pennsyl a great success and power to move the vania; Auditor, W. V. Goodfellow, Los PRATT. minds of our practitioners. We cer Angeles. California. tainly need a publication whose sole ob Urges Intensive Osteopathy as a Re ject is a presentation of the real truth The object of the new organization is turn to Normal. Writes from Glas to give time for technical papers and of our principles. discussion to Osteopathic specialists on gow, Scotland. FRANK P. PRATt. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat; to relieve [Dr. Frank P. Pratt, of Glasgow, the pressure and conflict of too heavy a Scotland, has written several letters con TWILIGHT SLEEP ABANDONED program and clinics of the section on cerning real osteopathy as he' views it AT JOHNS HOPKINS. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat during the and we give parts of them below, leaving BAT,TIMORE, MD., Aug. I5-Johns Hopkin. convention week. The section work out only purely personal references. Hospital has practically set its stamp of dis· will continue to give plenty of material Dr. Pratt graduated from the A. S. O. approval on the dammerschlaf, or "twilight and what the general prartitioner should in 1906, and for several years following Bleep" method, for use in childbirth. know about the Eye, Ear, Nose and It abandoned its experiments in the use of was a member of the faculty of that in the method more than nine months ago and the Throat and to advance the cause of stitution. He held successively the con~lusion now reached is that the method is too Osteopathy and impress the world by chairs of descriptive anatomy, physiology dangerous; that the menace to the life of the the broad scope of its work by even new child is too grave to warrant its use except and gynecology. More than five years UI:df:\r the most favorable circumstances. more emphasis upon this specialty. ago he went to Glasgow, where he has After more than a year's use of the twilight It is hopeo to have a meeting of the since practiced continuously. 8leep drug, scopolamin, the obstetricians found American Osteopathic Association of that it conld be safely used only under excep Tho somewhat isolated, and out of tional conditions. The question of proper dosage Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology touch, as he says, with the trend of proved so -intricate that absolutely no chances can for two or three days before the A. O. A. things, Dr. Pratt has reached ·similar be taken. and give a real technical specialty pro conclusions to those of many who are The early results obtained were such that in the subsequent cases it was necessary to ha..e gram. ne::tr the centers of osteopathic activities. two highly experienced men always at the bed· The specialists will then stay for the HIS letters are therefore highly interest side of the expectant mother as well as several A. O. A. and help conduct- the section ing. Moreover, coming as they do from nurses. work all of which will redown to the one whose sincerity and ability are un good and glory of Osteopathy. questioned, they furnish food for ear BIRTHS. The chairmen of the standing com nest thought. Ed.] mittees in this Association are as fol I need hardly tell you that the action Born-June 8th, 1916. To Dr. & Mrs. lows: Program Committee, L. S. Lari of the Portland convention and the agi Hubert Pocock, 177 High Park Ave., more. Caldwell. Kansas; Memhership tation carried on since disgusts me. Toronto, Canada, a son, Neal O'Neill Committee. John Deason, Chicago, Illi The insistence upon what is termed Pocock. nois ; Publicity Committee, Chas. A. "Academic freedom ", should it become . Born: To Drs. John C. and Elisabeth Ross, Cincinnati, Ohio; Constitution the .opinion of the majority of the pro M. (Siehl) Taylor, at l1t. George. Committee, James D. Edwards, S t. feSSIOn, appears to me to spell suicide. Mussoorie, India, July 26, 1916, a son. Louis. Missouri. My long distance from the field of your -Nearly fifty have already become mem battles, together with personal problems bers of the new organization. This beyond my control, have made it seem MARRIAGES. shows the extent of the specialty work wIse for me to take no part in the work Married: Dr. Walter H. Siehl, of among the Osteopathic profession. of the associations, but I feel very keenly Covington, Ky. and Miss Flora L. Son A constitution has not been adopted. that nothing short of a revolution in tag, of Cincinnati, 0., June 10, 1916. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine. Kirksville, MO 22 OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH What is Osteopathy? telligence and experience will allow. not informed as to the exact nature of Let us get our eyes off the obvious, his illness, but understand that he was (Continued .from Page I7) and concentrate more on the basic in a very precarious state during the lat truth on which Dr Still founded the ter part of July, his heart action being other equally important lesions or theory and practice of osteopathy, the at times as low as twelve to sixteen causes on the chemical, vital and men one and only complete school of me.di beats per minute, the bradycardia result tal planes. cne; adjustment to the physical, chem ing from a toxic condition and overwork. There is another class of osteopaths ical, vital and mental forces playing Dr. Plummer has been in practise for who, probably because the mechanical on, in and thru the human organism. ten years. He graduated from the A. S. and causative faculties are weak or O. in 1906, and located at once in Or untrained, put very little emphasis on ange, N. J. He was active in all pro anatomical adjustment. Cause and DR. KENDALL L. ACHORN DEAD fessional lines, taking great interest in effect are loosely connected in their FROM AUTO ACCIDENT. local, state and national organizations. minds, and they seem to have more He served during 1913 and 1914 as faith in "adjuncts" and regular medi The following is taken from the Bos pre_sident of the New Jersey State So cine than in osteopathy. But this is ton Herald of September first: ciety. His early death is a distinct loss not to be wondered at, for their con Dr. Kendall L. Achorn, an osteopathic to his community and to the profession. ception of osteopathy seems to be physician, with offices at 687 Boylston limited to the so-called" general treat street, died at the Massachusetts General ment." Some admit it by word and Hospital early last evening as a result of PERSONAL AND SOCIETY practice; some boast of it. They con inj uries which he received yesterday ITEMS. sider themselves broad, and rather morning when the automobile which ·he look down on the narrow old stal was driving swerved to one side on Dr. Alexander F. M'Williams of Bos warts. The truth is, these" adjuncts ", Brook road, Milton, and crashed into a ton has the sympathy of all his friends M. D. worshipping osteopaths have telephone pole and the trunk t)f.a tree. in the profession in the death of his not even grasped the anatomical ad Dr. Achorn, it was said, mistook the father which occurred in Detroit, Michi justment part of osteopathy. The stal shadow cast by the tree for a curve in gan last month. warts look on this class as the real the road. Dr. James Herbert Young, The friends of Dr. Margaret T. Finne menace to osteopathy, and with good an assistant at the Harvard Medical reason, for, while within the profession ran of Boston were pained to learn of school, his companion in the car, was the death of her mother which occurred in name, in faith and practice they are practically unhurt. outside. Their influence is not con at the family home in Jam:.tica Plain structive, to say the least. Turned Completely Over. early in August. There is growing up in the oste The two young men were returnirfg ---- opathic profession another class, who The semi-annual meeting of the New to Boston from the South Shore, where York State Osteopathic Society will be are the real hope of osteopathy, the they had spent the evening. As the car complete school of medicine. They held at Utica, October 27th and 28th. sped along Brook road, a dark thorough We hope to print the program in next realize fully that anatomical adjust fare near Blue Hill parkway, a tree cast ment is an essential part of the com a shadow across their path. Thinking month's Truth. plete school, but only a part. In addi that the road turned sharply, Dr. Achorn tion to mechanical adjustment on the Officers have been elected by the Bos swung the car to one side. It crashed ton Osteopathic Society for the ensuing physical plane of our environment, into the tree which had deceived him, there must be adjustment on the' bounded against a telephone pole, and year as follows: President, Art}1ur M. chemical, vital and mental planes as turned completely over. Both men were Lane; vice-president, Lester R. Whit well. Anatomical adjustment is all thrown headlong from the machine. aker; secretary-treasurer, Earl Scam right in its own particular field, and Dr. Achorn was picked up and rushed man; curator, ]. Louise Mason. nothing else can fill its place. But to to the Massachusetts General Hospital Dr. Eldredge de Loriea Atwood who define osteopathy in terms of manual by Dr. Frank P. McCa~hy, and his manipulation of anatomical lesions, name was placed on the danger list soon shot Dr. Wilfred E. Harris early in July and claim that comprises the complete after his arrival. It was found that his in Boston has been indicted for murder school of medicine, is a logical ab injuries included a fracture of the skull, in the first degree by the Grand Jury of surdity. This is the primary lesion' in fractures of the arm and thigh and pos Suffolk County, Massachusetts. osteopathy, and must not be ignored sible internal hurts. He died at 7.50 Dr. Ralph H. Williams, of Rochester, longer. Is addition the complete sys P. M. tem of mathematics? N. Y., spent his vacation at Kennebunk Dr. Young, although suffering from port, I\T aine. Osteopathy is adjustment, adjust shock, was uninjured. After giving his ment to the physical, chemical, vital name to the police he went to the Har Drs. Alfred W. Young, of Chicago and and mental forces playing on, in and vard Club and retired. His home is at Harry M. Vastine, of Harrisburg, Pa., thru the human organism. The the 19 Baldwin street, Newton. spent two weeks during August fishing ory, the basic truth of osteopathy, is Dr. Achorn was unmarried. for trout at Yoke Pond Camps, Maine. perfect because it is founded on the basic law of life, evolution, the product The news of Dr. Achorn's de:.tth will Among the visitors at Chadwick's of infinite intelligence. The practice be a great shock to the profession, as we Camp. Kokadjo, Maine, was Dr. A. F. of osteopathy is imperfect and always are always shocked and awed at the McWilliams, of Boston. will be so because it is the product sudden and violent ending of a useful of man's finite intelligence. Any Dr. Harold P. Frost, Worcester, Mass., life. addressed the Kiwanis club at their means that helps to adjust the human We shall miss" Ken" keenly. He was organism to its physical, chemical, vital weekly luncheon Friday, Aug. 4th, 1916. one of the really brainy men of the pro In the course of his address. he ex or mental environment, must be oste fession. During the past few years he opathic, if osteopathy is the complete p!ained, first, what osteop:.tthy is; second. develOPed very rapidly, and he was be what it has done; third, what it can do; school of medicine. Any means that coming a power. He was appointed at promises so to adjust is the legitimate Kansas City a member of the program fourth, how it does it. field for osteopathic investigation and The Kiwanis club is a business and experiment, if osteopathy is the com committee, to assist with the preparation professional men's club similar in pur plete school of medicine. of the program for the Columbus pose to the Rotary club. At the present The complete school embraces not meeting. time, there are al10ut seventy Kiwanis only adjustment of the human organ We extend deepest sympathy to Dr. clubs ;n rrfferent cities throughout the ism on the physical plane, but also Achorn's parents. ~ United States, with a membership of adjustment on the chemical, vital and seven thousand. Osteopaths should avail mental planes as well. DR. F. MYRELL PLUMMER themselves of the opportunity to become Osteopathy, first, last and all the DEAD. members of the Kiwanis as well as the time, is adjustment. Let us unite on F. Myrell Plummer, D.O., of Orange, Rotary cluhs. as they offer exceptional this basic truth, and strive earnestly N. ]., died on August 18th at Harring opportunities for presenting the claims of and humbly to give it as perfect inter ton, Maine, where he had gone in the Osteopathy to a preferred class of busi f pretation in practice as our limited in- hope of regaining his health. We are ness and professional men. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO o ST.E.:.O PATH IC TRUTH 23 PUBLICITY FOR OSTEOPATHY WISHES US SUCCESS. reality more entitled to do so by right of prior claim and practice. Free Hay' Fever Clinic Subject of Success to Osteopathic Truth! It appear> One D. O. says "I will not be limited". Much Comment. none too soon. I have no time for anything hut Another one says, "This one thing I do) because the pure brand of osteopathy as taught by it. I belie"e I can accomplish more for the relief Dr. John H. Bailey, of Philadelphia, Founder. of human suffering and the advancement of has opened a free Hay Fever clinic in ALICE P_"TTERSON SHlBLEY. osteopathy, by so doing". the annex of the Philadelphia Oste Let's quit beating about the hush and look the WE'LL SUPPLY THEM. SPEAK facts square in the face. If we refuse to be opathic Hospital, 832 Pine St. It will limited and accept anything and everything that be remembered that Dr. Bailey last Au UP. comes to us, it is a self-evident truth that there gust established a similar clinic and ac )\wnber one of volume one of Osteopathic will be times when we must use drugs. This Truth sl}ould be in the hands of every osteopath being true it naturally follows that we should complished results that are almost. ';1n in the world. ha\'e some knowledge of the dosage, action, etc., believable. His work has been recelv1l1g 'V_-\LTER J. KOVI~GER. of the drugs we will certainly have to use sooner much publicity in the Philadelphia pa or later. 'Vhere are we to acquire this knowl edge, if not in our own schools. pers. The clinic meets on Tuesdays and PREDICTS A GREAT YEAR. ERNEST C. BOND. Fridays from seven to nll1e P. M.. Dr. The first issue of Osteopathic Truth is at hand. Bailey is assisted by Dr. R. K. Eldncl~e, 'Yords fail to express my gratification. The sub THE PERSONAL EQUATION. of Philadelphia, and Dr. :'10rris M. Bnll, ject matter is all that could be desired, the paper The officiaI pledge of the Osteopathic Legion good, the type perfect. has something in it that I can't agree to. That of New York. Am preparing an article long overdue. The is in regard to the "basic cause of most of There is some question as to the per spirit was willing, but have not been in physical our professional ills". I am sure there is a lack manency of the results obtained by the condition to write. of ability in diagnosis, etc., in the field. But new method of treating hay fever. The enclosed check is for the good of the this I know, a class can go thru a whole course cause. and have among its members true osteopaths There is a question' as to whether the Strength to your pen and courage to your and mixers. Those who believe osteopathy is attacks were simply arrested or whether soul! A great year is ahead of us. Osteopathy sufficient £lncl those who believe it inadequate must win. the patients were permanently cured. for many things and that we must be U broad" NWr'l'IE OLDS·HAIGH'r. enough to include all the fakes. I have been The results of Dr. Bailey's second clinic much tried by those who insist upon trying will be looked forward to with keen in THINK OF OUR PATIENTS eV6rythi11U in seyere cases. terest by members of the profession. It ALSO. But were they taught that in any college of is hoped, also, that Dr. Bailey will give osteopathy? Indeed you m'ay cou~t on me as a member of ISABEL O. BARDER. us a report on the cases treated last the" A. T. Stin Ost. Legion". \fear whether there was a recurrence of It is high time all true osteopaths got to· TOO MUCH MIXING, TOO ~ymptoms and whether further treat gether for the protection of our profession, and LITTLE TEACHING OF OSTE of 0111' loyal clientele who have learned to look ment was necessary. to us for help. OPATHIC FUNDAMENTALS. J. D. DESHAZER. I am glad to see the profession going hack to Osteopathic Truth, for in my observation we have BOUQUETS AND BRICK gradually slipped away from the hasic principle. SHOULD HAVE SUPPORT. !,f osteopatby, there are too many adjuncts, too BATS. The copy of Osteopathic Truth at hand and much machmery, too much dependence upon the think tbat its object is a very commendable old school and its theories, too much readinest'l Some of the letters printed below are one and should have the best support that all to advocate a drug, a serum, an anti-toxin or given in full. We print only excerpts osteopaths can give. vaccination. One place to find a lesion is in our from others. We do not deem it fair F. E. ROOT. schools, they do not impress upon the student, c~mments day after day,. month after month, year after year, to publish only the favorable the .all·sufficiency of the harmonious human received from our readers, so gIve both CONGRATULATIONS. m£lchlnel'Y. Congratulations for you and your staff upon Wu. If. SEXTOK. sides. launching Vo. I No. I of Osteopathic Truth. This is in accordance with the an F. P. MILLAUD. WILL CO-OPERATE IN EVERY nounced policy. WAY. m REAL OSTEOPATHY WILL WIN. You are doing just what I have been wishing .. INTENSIVE OSTEOPATHY" After 16 long years of successful struggle with so many times somebody would do. The trouble osteopathic principles, I am more convinced with us ill.l is that we are too busy in our own THE CONVENTION KEYNOTE. every day of the truth of osteopathy! The field to gIve the thought and attention to the I had my first chance to look at "Osteopathic simon-pure kind will win victories when every profession at large that we should. You have Truth" on my way home from Kansas City, and thing else fail~. my hearty co-operation in every way. want to compliment you on it. ., F. C. LINCOLN. Fraternally yours, Your Declaration of Purpose and Polley IS ex E. O. MILLAY. ceedinO"ly good, but what made an especial hit THIS HELPS. with ::,e was your little editorial on "Sharpen HAS READ AND APPROVED t.o a Point." More power to your ('lbo\\'. The much needed I really believe that we did things in a con· apostles have arisen. Long life to you. EVERY WORD. ,tructive way at Kansas City. The tone of thIngs H. POCOCK. With pleasure I have signed the Official Pledge was right. Everywher.e, in. conrers?-t.ion .in the of the A. 1'. Still Osteopathic League. It looks lobbies, in class meetmgs, In SOrOrItIes, In fra ERNEST ASKS EARNEST good.to me and I have read every word of the ternity meetings, at the banquets, by members QUESTIONS. first 'ssue of Os.teopthic Truth and it has given on the program, there was continually voiced the me more splzzermktum than I lmve had in many I have received and read carefullv the first months. This sort of a journ:l} surely has my sentiment for intensive osteopathy, and there wa!:! I heart,v support. almost uniformly expressed a protest against the issue of Osteopathic Truth. am enclosing fifty teaching of drug dosage in. our col}eges, a!1d cents to pay for a. year's subscription, because I This first issue has the true OSTEOPATHIC against the use of drugs as therapeutic agenCIes feel there is a need for such a publication. ring and I hope you will either bring the mixers in our practice. I wish however in a friendly way to point out to their senses or drive them into the medical It \\:.flb'really an osteopathic conventiOl.l. The an inconsistency (as I view it) between tht' ranks, where they really belong. oa:- 'e~'s elected are osteopathic, and one going pledge you ask us to sign and some of the sub. The medical journals would give us more ~tance matter of your first issue. osteopathy than some of tIle stuff we- have been away from that con\'ention went away with an di~hed added fecling of confidence in osteopathy. The last part of the official pledge reads, having up to us and that we have been "Thus shall Osteopathy be known and ac asked to pay for under the pretense of it being It was an old fashioned-" Osteopathy-adjustsl cepted~ nature-cures "-sort of a convention rather than for what it is--a complete system of the very latest thought in osteopathy. healing". Contrast this witb Dr. Alfred W. nn U academic-freedom" one, or anything else With best wishes for the success of Osteopathic which is not particularly expressive of oste Young's contribution, in \, hich he says, "This Truth. opathic ende3\-01'. is the day of the speeialist and the osteopathic W. S. MIr.LS, D. O. As.• WILLARn. specialist may stand at the head in the accom plishment of good work, l'ightly done, if he will. ONLY ONE KIND OF OSTE Xo man can perfect himself in all branches of OPATHY. NO USE FOR A MEDICAL 1he healing- art and do the work of one who is devoting his entire time to one thing. Hence This is one of the best moves on the part of DEGREE. !:lpeciaJists can attain much higher efficiency than the osteopaths ever pushed and I am with you To let vou know how I feel toward the medical any general practitioner who attempts everything all in this work. degree, \vill say I was offered a degree from an and blunders fifty percent of the time". A There can be ooh' one kind of osteopathy and evening school in Chicago, when living there it little further on he says, H It is no admission of that kind Dr. Still taught us all. We are too 1 would teach a class in anatomy. weakness if ~'ou cannot handle e\-erything that easily sidetracked. I could have obtained much good from the comes to Y011r door". CH.illLES M. BLISS. teacbing, but I had no use whatever for the The writer finds himself in accord with Dr. degree. I find the more one mixes with his Young's views1 in many respects in that he be LET EVERY OSTEOPATH DO osteopathy, the w('uker it becomes, and the lesl!! lie"es that osteopathy owes all that it has HIS DUTY. SEND STUDENTS he can get out of it. Hchie\'ed so far and will continue to score its CR-AS. R. P Af,MER. greatest tt\umph, in the application of its basic TO ONLY THOSE COLLEGES and unique principle, viz. "The adjustment of THAT ARE RIGHT. FROM THE GROUND UP. the structure of the human machine ". 'Ve have The one thing we can do is to educate the pro. no more right to claim dietetic, em'ironment, fession and the one thinO" we all must do is to Just put me down as a booster for Osteopathic mentall and surgical adjustment, as osteopathic, get students into the colleges-get ,tuclents into Tr'ltth~ with all there is in me. E. H. BEAN. than the other schools have to claim it as :,. those colleges, which we believe will give them legitimate part of their practice. They are in the best osteopathy. Cut out sentiment, forget Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 24 OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH which Alma Mater is ours, and use common sense with several other state representatives with the he would find himself in difficulties. Oonsidering and discretion and put a premium right from same object in view. the handicap under whic1l the colleges have been this date on those schools which are consistently The .. Declaration of Osteopathy" written by operating, they bave acquitted themselves credi teaching osteopathy. If we do that, and arouse me in 1910 had this same object in view, and tably. Under their new organization, at least a professional feeling, which means do our duty was aimed to start the movement towards a two of them are making a sincere and honest in every capacity--not the least attend .Iocal, " Unity" in declared principles throughout the endeavor to teach pure osteopathy. They are state and national meetings-we have nothiDg to country. still working under a handicap, but they are Independent Boards, and a closer relationship doing the best they can. In all fairness, what feal~ I look at it, I signed' the pledge in effect and cooperation between state, district, local and more can be expected of them? when I accepted my diploma fifteen years ago, national organizations, together with uniform Not the least of the causes of our professional and I should feel that it was entirely unnecessary I~al regnlation are absolutely essential if we ills is the misfit. He was referred to in the to reconsecrate myself, as it were, as that pledge expect to maintain our integrity as a profession. first issue of .. Osteopathic Trutl1", but collec contemplates. Some people may feel that they Here are my heart, hand and voice in the tively he is of greater importance than this need this reconsecration. I do not feel that.I forward movement. passing mention of him indicates. There are need it. Let those who feel that they need 1t GEORGE BURT F. OLARKE. misfits in every profession; but osteopathy has make it. While I say that I do not see the an unusually large proportion because the bars need of the organization and see the harm t~at AGITATION FOR "TEN-FINGER have been down, and Tom,· Dick, and Harry have will come if it undertakes to operate a~ electIOn come in, attracted by a short course with no time as an organization, I have no fee~lng. what OSTEOPATHY" IS BIGOTRY entrance requirements and the prospect of a good ever against it and nothing but the k.iDdhest of AND HYSTERIA. THIS IS THE income after entering' practice. If in recent feelings for those seeking to promote 1t, because WORST PUBLICATION EVER. years there has been a siugle class graduated from any of the colleges without one or more I believe their intentions are the best, but. I The medical man who condemns osteopathy doubt the wisdom of it. I wish the magaz10e members who never would have made good oste· without a knowledge of either its theory or opaths even under personal instruction from the every success and certainly its editor. practice is undoubtedly a bigot and unworthy of [The above was written hy an officer of the Old Doctor himself, it is a rare exception. Let serious consideration. no one say that the colleges are at fault for A. O. A. who bas been prominentlY identified It is likewise true that an osteopath who with progressive movements for ~any years: Be having had these low standards. Without an en· condemns the practice of medicine without a dowment, it was the only means by which they cause the letter was peponal h,S name 1S not knowledge of its theory and practice lays himself published.] could survive. With the colleges out of existence, open to the charge of prejudice and ignorance. where would the profession be today? With en· To know how to fight a thing it is necessary to dowments obtained and educational standards STRUCTURE DETERMINES understand it and the trouble with many of our raised, this source of trouble will be largely FUNCTION, DRUGS ARE UN- practitioners is that they condemn the. use of overcome. medicine without a knowledge of the tlung they Undoubtedly there are lesions in the profes SCIENTIFIC, BUT- . sion; but having found one of them, let us not I have not signed the pledge and w1ll not oPfo~;"t certainly believe that materia medica fe~ give our entire attention to the one and thus until I know something more of what you should be taught in our colleges. Furthermore neglect others of equal or greater importance. lows are up to. If it means that Osteopathy 16 I believe that unless it is taught that our grad Yours fraternally, to revert to the days of its origin and refuse to uates will continue to gain their knowledge in C. B. ROWLINGSON, D. O. meet, accept and appropriate scient~fic truths ~hat medical schools. I do not think that a knowl have originated and been proven SiDce that bme edge of medicine would make us less efficient I am out. I believe thoroughly t~~t .. s~ructure as osteopaths. The agitation against anyt¥,n.g CHARGE FAILURES TO IGNOR determines function" and that the 1nternal and everything except" ten finger osteopathy 16 ANCE AND NOT TO THE SYS administration of drugs for the pUT.poses of cure exactly 100 per cent hysteria. is unscientific" but at the s~e tIme I d!, be Iu your July issue Louise A. Griffin, D.O., TEM OF OSTEOPATHY. lieve that some of the antisept1~s. and antidote.. asks "Why a1l this clamor for a 'broader I am very much impressed with the decided (some of tbe chemicals--606, qUiDiDe and seru!"" oste~pathy' that will include anything that may move to stop this .slipping away from osteopathic used internally) are beneficial and that anesthetlCs give relief?" The answer is .that. relief from fundamentals which has been noticable for the must be used. Some of your crowd are as disease is what the average patient 1S after and past few years on the part of some osteopatbs fanatical and as far from the truth as are some of he's not particularly interested whether he gets who appear not to have fully absorbed the prin the mixers. Personally I think I know ~here it through "ten finger osteopathy" or not. ciples so decidedly taught in my school days. vou stand. You are sensible and can ~elgh a Furthermore there is an ever·increasing number I have always felt that my failures and those scientific fact. There is no use in buttmg our of osteopathic physicians ~at believe that the of others should be charged up to our ignorance brains out against the truth. See? patient is entitled to thIS much sneered at of the principles of osteopathy and not to the I wish your new puhlication. well and s~all "broader osteopathy" that attempts to give this supposed incompleteness of our science as some be glad to send you somethiug If I can pOSSIbly relief from pain and disease regardless of the of our number would have us believe. grind it out. origin of the therapeutic agent employed. I certainly trust Osteopathic Truth will PERCY H. WOODALL. Personally I have not the slightest desire to accomplish the task for which it was launched. practice medicine and I don't know any oste· J. S. BLAm. [Note. Dr. Woodall graduated from the prac opath who does. The study of materia medica tise of medicine when he enter~d the ranks .of however, doesn't make an M. D. any more than CALLS FOR ARTICLES ON HOW osteopathy. He severed all of hIS former afliha one swallow makes a summer or oDe drink makes tions with medical societies because he really a drunkard. I do most firmly believe, however, TO FIND IT AND FIX IT. believed in osteopathy. He has. been. for. years that if we are to take a stand in opposition to Am very much pleased with Osteopathic Truth. -. officiallv active in the A. O. A., hIS servlCe mclud the dominant school of medicine we should have The tendency toward things medical and surgical ing a ierm as president. He wrote" Osteopathy, some knowledge, at least, of the thing we oppose. among some practitioners is becoming too ap· The Science of Healing by Adjustment ':' an e:c Enclosed please find my subscription to your parent. planatory book that should be in every hbrary.10 publication. It's the worst thing I've seen pub I believe the weak point in our system as the land. His U silent educators" have" earned lished for a long, long time. well as all other methods of curing, is diagnosis osteopathic messages enclosed with countless let Sincerely yours, of disease and its cause. ters and bills, sent out by many osteopat~s. ROBERT W. ROGERS. It occurs to me that some of our good writers, His letterhead, upon which the above was wpt who at the same time are skillful diagnosticiaus ten bears imprinted upon it a cut of a spmal RECONSECRATE ON A NO could be very useful to the profession in clearing col~mn eight inches in length, with the lege.nd up disputed points. .. Osteopathy Adjusts, Nature Oures:'. We pnnt COMPROMISE BASIS. L. O. KINGSBURY. I have always stood upon the principle that here a definition of osteopathy wntten by Dr. sy~tem Woodall and published in The Herald of Oste· osteopathy is a complete science and of healing, but am often plagued and. ~nven to FINDS OSTEOPATHY opathy for August, 1914: .. Osteopathv is a OOMPLETD AND INDE embarrassment by reports of comproIDls1Og prac SUFFICIENT. PENDENT SYSTEM of treating diseases by tice and confession on the part of my fellow Am very glad to become identified with the scientific manipulations, the purpose and intent of osteopaths of reputed good standing. Oompro movement for the preservation of the fu..d:unental each manipulation being either to correct some mises that destroy the very life germ in those principles of osteopathy. In my fifteen yea,·. ~f derangement in the position. of the tissues or to practitioners of the great principles as given by practice have found osteopathy sufficient for my increase or decrease the actIVIty of some organ. our founder--who never has compromi8ed. May needs. It is not a remedy or method applicable to some your publication prove to be the nucleus of a E. W. SACKETT. revivification and reconsecration. particular disease or group of .symptoms, J:>ut BENJ. F. STILL. is co-extensive with the art and science of heahng DOUBTFUL PRESTIGE IN and SUOOESSFULLY TREATS ALL OURABLE MEDICAL DEGREE. NON-SURGICAL, ·AOUTE AND OHRONIO DIS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE EASES. Its field not only includes all those FENCE. I wish to add my hearty support to the diseases treated by medicines, but also a great You may be sure that we were much int~rested movement as outlined in the Osteopathic Truth, many in which medicines are admitted to be in this first issue. Those of you who put 1t over first issue of which I have just received. I have useless." are to be highly commended. no patience with the D. O.'s who get .. cold We believe that Dr. Woodall is sincerely and Osleopathic Troth has the right ring and is feet" and want to add M. D. to their names, intensely osteopathic in practise as well as in plaiuly cn the "Old Doctor's" side of the fence. in order to have prestige in their community. writing, and in view of the statement .above shall Your platform of straight osteopathy will not Let them get b,I1lY and learn all there is yet for await with much interest his promIsed paper, only perpetuate the individuality of our science us in the osteopathic field. hoping that he can .. grind it out" soon. Ed.) but also our profession. ELVA J. LYMAN. You have our every good wish and sincere interest. WE HOPE TO SUPPLY THE DR. CLARKE SAYS HE BEAT F. E. MOORE. WANT. THE LEGION TO IT. The first issue of Osteopathic Truth was very Strongly Urges Platform as Outlined. BLAME THE MISFITS, NOT THE fine and I sincerely hope you will publish some I do not understand huw I was overlooked COLLEGES. thing from which I can gain some advancement in having preliminary correspondence sent me, The charge against our colleges is the pledge in osteopathy. Most of the literature is so as I have been continually urging such radical of the A. T. Still Legion is unjust and disloyal. "pussy foot" and II side stepping" and playing action in Michigan as seems to have been out· If the burden of proof were placed upon the to popular opinion that any real information is lined in this first number of Osteopathic Truth; person responsible for the statement that "the hard to find. and in the position I am holding as chairman of basic cause of most of our professional ills is the The dear public want results and so do I. the Bureau of Statistics I have been corresponding incorrect teaching of osteopathy in our colleges," KATHERINE S. MYERS. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO