Osteopathic Truth

October 1920

Vol. 5, No. 3

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There is no more sense in a medical man examining an Osteopath, than "there is in a Catholic Priest examining a Mohalumedan. .I would like. to see a Baptist preacher examine a Catholic Priest. -Dr. A. T. StilL"

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OSTEOPATHIC WOMEN'S NA. TIONAL ASSOCIATION Montana Holds Twentieth Annual Conven­

In line with the general organiza­ tion at Billings, September 21-22 tion plan of the association, two new At the twentieth annual meeting of or associates himself, or herself, with local clubs and one state unit have the Montana Oste~athic Association the schools or organizations of any been organized. an amendment to the Constitution was practice wllicll is in reality sub-stand· The Omaha women led out with the adopted in accordance with the vote ard Osteopathy, the principles of formation of the first local club. Dr. of last year making the Association Osteopathy under any other name, or Florence Mount is the President, and a Divisional Society of the A. O. A. by any imitation of Osteopathy and the Secretary is Dr. Josephine Arm­ adopting the following resolutions: wl)ich is generally taugllt in shorter strong. The Osteopathic Women's courses and under lower standards Club of Seattle has for its president "This society shall be known as the than tIle courses and standards as Dr. Roberta Wimer-Ford, and for Divisional Society of the American recognized by this association as the secretary, Dr. Margaret L. Moore. Osteopathic Association, and its offi­ minimum for Osteopathic colleges." This group of earnest women report cers shall act as the local officers of The association also voted to put that at present they are making a the American Osteopathic Association "CONCERNING OSTEOPATHY" by survey of all the charitable, reforma­ in all matters desired by the asso­ Dr. Geo. V. Webster, in all the tory and penal institutions of their ciation." libraries of the state. city, to enable them the better to "The Executive Committee at each determine the line of' work they annual meeting shall appoint a Bu­ Great Falls was selected as the next should adopt. reau of Legislation; a Bureau of meeting place and it is planned to. Every woman in the profession Clinics and Statistics; a Bureau of hold a week of clinics immediately should be a member of the O. W. N. Public Health, Publicity and Educa­ preceding the convention. A. If you have not already joined, tion; a Bureau of Membership and a Following were elected: send in your application for member­ Bureau of Ways and Means and De­ President-Dr. Geo. M. McCole, ship today to the secretary, Dr. Kath­ velopment, and shall name a member Great Falls. erine McL. Scott, New First Nat!. of the board to preside over the Bu­ Vice President-Dr. Fred Taylor, Bank Bldg., Columbus, Ohio. reaus as chairman. These bureaus Lewistown. FANNIE E. CARPENTER, D.O., shall co-operate with similar depart­ Chicago. Ch. Press Com. ments of the American Osteopathic Sec'y.-Treas.-Dr. W. C. Dawes, Association in all matters relative to Bozeman. (This has been a continu­ KANSAS CITY COLLEGE the state.' ous performance since 1911). Pursuing "Go Get Them" 'Policy- The following was also adopted as Delegate to House of Rep., A. O. A. \ Success to Them an amendment to the Constitution: -Dr. Asa Willard, Missoula. "It shall be considered as evidence Alt. Delegate to House of Rep., A. We have been very much interested of ineligibility to membership in tllis O. A.-Dr. W. C. Dawes, Bozeman. in the recent campaign carried on by association for a practitioner to use Trustee-Dr. F. H. Martin, Helena. the Kansas City College through the in connection with llis or l)er name, series of letters mailed to the pro­ letters or words indicating that he or W. C. DAWES, fession on the Southwestern Oste­ she is a graduate of, or who practices Sec'y.-Treas. opathic Sanatarium stationery. We have styled it a "go get them" campaign or in other words the same • tactics employed by the large mer­ cantile businesses to get new cus­ tomers are being applied to one or our allied businesses. Running a college, running a sana­ tarium, or running our own practice requires up-to-the-minute bus.iness methods and we wish heaps and heaps of success upon these two institu­ tions. Any of our institutions that will put A. T. Still Osteopathy to- the fore and deliver the goods, osteopathically, de­ Still-Hildreth Osteopathic Sanatorium serve the support of the profession. MACON, MISSOURI Judge them by Dr. Still's platform and those that measure up to it should DEDICATED TO THE CURE OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES have your patronage and those that fall short of the mark deserve noth­ ing. May we have more true blue in­ Address All Communications A. G. HILDRETH, D. O. stitutions for the dissemination of to the Above Institution. Superintendent Osteopathy. • Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO ~a~eopatbic ~rutb

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Volume V OCTOBER, 1920 Number 3

California Allopaths for State Medicine

The Osteopaths of California are Waking Up to a Grave Danger. The Following Circular is being sent to all Osteopaths in the State:

(From "The Truth Teller." September 22)

The attention of the osteopathic pre!­ emphasis upon the structural integ­ colleges in this state to have con­ fession has been called to a political rity of the body mechanism. fidence in the assertion that the aim challenge contained, we understand, 3. The "mental school" which in­ of the coming campaign is to kill the in a magazine of the State Medical . eludes the followers of the belief that osteopathic school, thus clearing the Profession known as "Better Health." through mind or divine appeal, heal­ field of all the competitors of the allo­ This article was commented on a few ing may te obtained. paths. •days ago by Edward H. Hamilton, The osteopaths accept all three sys­ The large endowments from pri­ political writer, and was in the nature tems as having their place and their Yate individuals and state appropria­ of a warning to those seeking legis­ field. We do not seek to interfere tions that have been obtained by the lative office that they would be ex­ with their progress and by the same allopathic institutions have made it pected to accept the program of the token we do not wish the progress of possible for them to stifle all competi­ medical profession. osteopathy to be hindered. We con­ tion. New ideas in the treatment of It is not the desire of the osteopaths cede to no one the right to interfere the human ills have to fight for their to take issue with others in the med­ with our freedom, so long as we func­ existence with small capital and lim­ ical profession, nor is it their wish to tion through trained and experienced ited facilities. The old system has meddle in politics, but the issue hav­ students who have harl an education developed a powerful political organi­ ing been raised, we certainly will fight equivalent to that of the medical doc­ zation which maintains the myth that back with all the strength we can tors. We are as keenly anxious to their system includes "all that is of command. We believe that the pub­ rid the field of so-called "quacks" as service in treating human ills·." lic is as much opposed to state medi­ anyone else, but resent as keenly any As examples of their broadness and cine as it is to state religion. intrusion upon legitimate practition­ open-mindedness, we would cite the In anticipation of this brewing ers of any of the three healing sys­ facts that they refuse to work in such trouble, which was not of our seeking, tems. public health organizations as the We take this opportunity that our case It is very evident from the activi­ Parent-Teachers' Association unless may be clearly before you. Our case ties of the "League for the CO}1serva­ osteopaths are excluded. Osteopaths is so simple that once it i'8 presented tion of Public Health" (State Medical have cared for their patients in many We feel certain that the public will Society), that a strenuous endeavor Is of the best hospitals in the country See the justice of it. Briefly, it is thus: to be made to establish state medicine until recently when these institutions Three JUetllOlls or Healing in California. A number of the mem­ were notified that unless they excluded There are in the world but three bers of the last legislature who voted osteopaths their rating as hospitals methods of healing- for bills introduced by the osteopaths and the standing of their nurses would 1. The system Of "chemical 'in­ have been notified that they will be suffer. No charge of inefficiency or take" represented by the medical doc­ opposed for re-election unless they record of bad results was offered for tors or the "drug school." This school pledge themselves to accept the pro­ this action, but rather as the late Sur­ Places emphasis on chemical intake as gram of the "League." geon-General of the United States said being the most important single factor The medical laws of the state are to our representatives, we were unfor­ in maintaining' well-being of the or­ made for the protection of the public tunate not in the extent and character ganism in I disease or health. and not for the protection of the doc­ of our education but in the trade mark 2. Direct treatment of the mechan­ tors; however, you need only I to be we carried, 1. e., D. O. ism itself. This is the system empha­ told that legislation in this state has Summary of the Legislative Situation. sized by osteopathy which places chief killed the homeopathic and eclectic California's first Medical Practice

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Act was passed in 1876. This law lhe Medical Board changed its course, him. It may be signi~cant that his provided fur three separate medical and refused to admit them to examina­ private secretary, who handled this 'hoards, Allopathic, Homeopathic and tion. This was accomplished through correspondence, resigned immediately Eclectic. For twenty-five years these the disapproval of our colleges. thereafter to assume the position of boards licensed applicants to practice This action of the Board was based attorney for the Stat~ Board of on credentials, no examination being upon a report so false and malicious Health. Another noteworthy fact was required. These credentials rangen in character that the Board was forced the appointment of our chief opponent from a few months in a doctor's office, to reverse itself. The writer, a former to the position of Superior Judge in the doctor acting as a preceptor, to a member of the State Board of Medical San Francisco, in spite of the fact college course, in some instances two Examiners for. six years, will gladly that his experience was acquired and years of six months each. Some few verify above from minutes of Board. practically limited to that gained in colleges gave a course of three years The next pretext for refusing to ad­ the position of bond and warrant cler of six months each. Osteopathic phy­ mit osteopaths to the examination was' in the district attorney's office of San sicians were licensed without exami­ based upon the refusal of our colleges Francisco and attorney for the Stat nation for a period of six years. All to install drug dispensaries and dis­ Board of Medical Examiners.-Call osleopathic colleges during the period pense drugs to our clinic patients, fornia Osteopathic Association. osteopaths were admittetl on creden­ which would be in contradiction to all tials gave a course of at least twenty osteopathic principles. IT CAN DONE! months. The crux of the situation resolves BE 'The medical profession, becoming itself into--What constitutes the prac­ Somebody said that it couldn't alarmed at the rapid growth of os­ tice of osteopathy? The osteopaths done, teopathy, appealed to the legislature are not willing to concede the right of But he, with a chuckle, replied to create a composite board a,nd com­ definition to those who are endeavor­ That "maybe it couldn't," but pel the osteopaths to take an examina­ ing to destroy us. We contend that would be one , tion. They argued that a fair exami­ osteopathy is what is being taught in Who wouldn't say so till he'd nation would eliminate the nuisance. the osteopathic colleges. So he buckled right in, with a The osteopaths welcomed the oppor­ lYe do not use drugs as curative of a grin tunity to prove their fitness to prac­ agents, but need them as anaesthetics, On his face. If he worried he tice. The result was the Act of 1907, antiseptics, antidotes, parasiticides, it. creating a board consisting of repre­ etc. Osteopathic colleges give a thor­ He started to sing as he tackled th sentatives of the four schools of medi­ ough course in the above means that thing cine. are used in the osteopathic practice. That couldn't be done, AND/ H For thirteen 'years the osteopaths This course has enabled osteopaths to DID IT. have taken the identical examination pass State Board examinations in the­ given the drug doctors; and so far as rapeutics and materia medica of the the examination is concerned, with re­ other schools of. medicine. Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll nev sults satisfactory to osteopaths. The osteopathic profession 'has al­ do that; At least no one ever has done it. The osteopathic profession was ad­ ways conducted open and honorable But he took off his coat' and he too vised by cou.nsel that this law requir'­ fights: We are known in this state off his hat, ing osteopaths to take the same exami­ as the California Osteopathic Associa­ And the first thing we knew he' nation required of the medical profes­ tion. Our 0I?Ponents are trying to begun it, sion accorded them the same rights hide under the misnonier of "The With the lift of his chin, and a bit and privileges. This act contained the League for the Conservation of Public a grin, proviso that "any license issued by Health," which in reality is a league Without any doubting or quiddit; any previous board under authority of for the conservation of medical prac­ He started to sing as he tackled any previous Act shall have the same tice. That organization, with the ex­ thing value a.s· though issued under this ception of ·its attorney and secretary, That couldn't Act." is composed in its entirety of politi­ DID IT. The osteopaths held that this Act cians of the State Medical Society. validated all licenses previou1\ly is­ The .merits of this controversy were sued as unlimited. The medical board, threshed out t-efore the last legisla­ There are thousands to tell you holding that the osteopathic licenses ture. After hearing all the arguments can't be done; were limited, caused the arrest of an the medical profession could offer There are thousands to propheS osteopath on the charge of practicing against the hill giving unlimited rights failure; medicine without. a license. Superior to osteopaths, the bill was passed. There are thousalids to enumerat Judge Ogden, before whom the case The hes.t argument in favor of the one by one, .The dangers that wait to assa. was tried, decided in favor of the os­ measure is the fact that 90 per cent teopaths. Under the authority of this of the big men, the men who stood you; decision the osteopaths practiced with. right on all moral issues, the strong But just buckle in with a bit of unlimited rights until the Supreme men who could not be browbeaten, grin, Then take off your coat and g Court reversed this decision in 1919. voted for this measure. No one contends that the public suf­ The bill was given the pocket veto to it; Just start in to sing as you tack} fered as a result of these twelve years by Governor Stephens notwithstanding the thing of freedom in their practice. that tens of thousands of letters and That "cannot be done," Having failed to keep the osteopaths telegrams from California's finest citi­ out of the state through examination, zens requesting him to sign, were sent AND YOU'LL DO I

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Stick Together

As I have talked recently with Os­ where the call for Osteopathy is not to be living in the Hudson River North teopaths from various localities in the greater than the capacity of the D. District where there is no jealousy state, I have been surprised and im­ O.'s who are there and so our ener­ and no knocking. We organized in pressed with the open spirit of jeal­ gies might better be directed toward 1906 when we had a common enemy ousy that exists between some of the attracting more young doctors to lo­ to fight and when our very existence members of our profession. Usually cate there and in that way helping depended on sticking together. We it manifests itself in some such b"e­ ollrselves by augmenting the profes­ did especially good team work for the ginning as, "Now take so-and-so up sion's usefulness in the opinion of law which was passed in 1907 because in our district for example. His the community than in hurting our­ we were at the scene of action and methods of adjustment are a disgrace selves by hurting the profession thru could do it. We all saw the great to the name of Osteopathy and his small attacks on the reputations and t enefits of organized and united effort charges, whew'" and so it runs on abilities of our fello'w practitioners. and have continued our organization into criticism that smells of the politi­ If you have criticism for Dr. So-and­ until now we are almost as one big cal muckraker. Such a spirit and so ove~ on Main Street of your town, family. In these times when there especially the open manifestation of give it to him first. It may do some is less to fight for there is more of it is frowned upon as unethical in all good that way, but lit simply can't the social and educational to ,our professions and should be even more result in any good 'by dishing it out gatherings. We held our annual pic­ so in ours. 'When we consider the as a scandalous morsel at the state nic on June 19th and it was a rous'er attitude of the M. D. in general to­ convention or telling it to an influen­ from the hot dogs to the Virginia reel. wards us all, I think we should be, and tial patient in the home town. Those who had cars took the rest of indeed we must be, even more closely I am glad to be aole not only to us to the doings. Our regular meet­ allied than the run of professional theorize on the evils of this spirit, ings are from October to May on the people. We ought to be willing to but to be more constructive in giv­ first Saturday night of each month help and co-operate with every mem­ ing you an. example of how and where and our motto is "Don't Knock, Lend tel' of the profession in our vicinity. it has been beaten and real co-opera­ a Hand." Try it out-it works.-M. There are few localities in this state tion substituted for it. I'm fortunate E. McDOWELL, "The Blotter."

The Laughlin HOSPITAL Kirksville, Missouri

The 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 orthopedics. 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 Throat 8. X-Ray and Laboratory Diagnosis A Training School for Nurses will also be maintained, with a separate building for the nurses' home For further information address DR GEORGE M. LAUGHLIN Kirksville, Missouri

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The New York Osteopathic Society

Notifies its Members of the Annual Convention in the Following Letter

Carthage, N. Y., Oct. 8. 1920. Dr. L. Mason Beeman has been sup­ cent conventions. Time, twenty-five Dear Doctor: plementing his regular Osteopathic. minutes. The program for the New York work by exercise prescriptions that A subject which has received little State Osteopathic Society's Arrnual have brought very satisfactory re­ attention on the state programs for Convention is complete. The dates sults. You will hear him at 10: 30 a number of years is that of gynecol­ set are October 22nd and 23rd. The Friday morning. Time, twenty-five ogy. Dr. J. R. Miller, of Rome, has place is Hotel Utica, Utica, N. Y. minutes. been doing special study along this This letter is written from the view­ Dr. Chas. S. Green, of East 42nd line and has prepared for this meet­ point of the Chairman of the Pro­ Street, who has made a success in the ing a lecture on "Osteopathic Prob­ gram Committee to tell you what you merchandising of Osteopathic service, lems in Gynecology." Time, twenty­ will miss if you are not present. First will tell us of the kind of "Tech­ five minutes. of all you will lose a session of good nique" that commands blue ribbon The last period of the afternoon Osteopathic fellowship. There is fees in the big city. Time, ~Yenty­ session Friday will be devoted to nothing that contributes more to the five minutes. special demonstrations and clinics. pleasure of Osteopathic practice than Every professional man loses Dr. C. Earl Miller will demonstrate association with fellow practitioners money, chiefly through faulty collec­ "Auto-Anti-Toxin" Technique and who view life from the same angle. tion methods. Dr. L. J. Bingham, of Dr. Thorburn the opthalmoscope with The efforts of the program commit­ Ithaca, claims to have perfected a the schematic eye. Dr. Hugh L. Rus­ tee have been directed toward ar­ method of getting the tardy fee just sell, of Buffalo, will show an efficient ranging a convention that will be as easy as Jack Frost "gets" the method of strapping the foot in arch practically a little post-graduate maple leaves. He will give the rest and ankle weakness. Dr. N. C. Hawes, of Gouverneur, will demon­ course covering the points which the of the profession the benefit of his questionnaire revealed were of par­ experience in making collections un­ strate the value of spinal tracings in diagnosing individual group verter­ ticular interest to the profession and der the title of "A Business Problem utilizing, in ·so far as possible, the of Professional Men." Time, twenty­ bral lesions. Time, fifteen minutes. talent within our own numbers. The five minutes. The big event of the day will be schedule is full, and I have Dr. Ban­ the banquet, and we are assured of At the national convention in Co­ lots of fun at this festive gathering, croft's promise that it will be run on lumbus, Ohio, the man who stood out the minute. for Dr. C. D. Clapp will be master .prominently in that gathering as do­ of ceremonies, and Clapp likes a joke The sessions will open at nine ing something worth while for Oste­ and a song right well. Here we will o'clock Friday .morning when "The opathy was Dr. F. M. Nicholson, of hear Dr. Jennie A. Ryel orate on Man Who Knows," Dr. L. Von H. Chicago. Dr. Nicholson has been "Osteopathy as a Fine Art." Gerdine, Macon, Mo., will give us trailing spinal lesions in research With the banquet over there will be "Points on DiagI).osis and Treatment work for years and is at present close none of the "early to bed" advice to of Nervous Disorders." The mere an­ on their trail. He will lecture twice be followed. Dr. C. B. Atzen will be nouncement that Dr. Gerdine will be at this convention and show the stere- . present, representing. the legislative there should fill the hall at the open­ opticon slides which he has made. committee of the American Oste­ ing gang. Time, twenty-five miniltes. No one can hear him and leave the opathic Association. He will present At the Chicago Convention, Dr. C. convention hall without a better un­ the plan and purpose of the A. O. A. Earl Miller, of Bethlehem, Pa., derstanding of lesions. It will be Legislative Committee. His subject brought the profession that which was worth real dollars to every Oste­ will be "Life or Death for Oste­ new and of value in the treatment of opathic physician to hear these two opathy." Then will come Dr. Nichol­ aCllte diseases in what he is pleased lectures by Dr. Nicholson. Time, son's stereopticon exhibit. to term "Auto-Anti-Toxin." Dr. Mil­ twenty-five and forty minutes re­ Saturday morning the cock will ler will give us a lecture on his ob­ spectively. crow early. Some will have their servations, discoveries and the tech­ It was only two years ago, I be­ breakfast and some will have merely nique of this specific treatment. lieve, that the use of the opthalmo­ the memory of the banquet for sus­ Time, twenty-five minutes. scope was the subject of a lecture tenance, but all will be on hand at In Utica is located Dr. M. W. at our State Convention, but the im­ nine o'clock to hear Dr. E. S: Det­ Johns, M. D., who has made a wide portance of this instrument for diag­ willer, of London, Ont., in his lecture reputation for himself in the use of nostic purposes is so great that it on the Endocrine Glands. The ques­ the X-Ray for diagnostic purposes. seemed wise to have a further lec­ tionnaire revealed the fact that a He will present a series of plates and ture on the instrument and a demon­ large percentage of our membership demonstrate the value of the X-Ray stration of its use-this by Dr. Thos. was interested in the ductless glandS, in the diagnosis of obscure thoracic R. Thorburn, of New York, whose and Dr. Detwiller seemed the logical conditions. Time, twenty-five min­ lectures have been of such help to man to present this subject. Hear utes. the members of the profession at re- him. Time, twenty-five minutes.

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Dr. A. Z. Prescott, of Syracuse, has noon with special demonstrations of State was adopted and will be re­ burned much midnight oil and lost technique by Drs. A. G. French, of ligiously prosecuted. several winks 0' sleep in the study Syracuse, Maus Stearns, of Schenec­ The formation of a new Osteopathic of Exopthalmic Goitre. He has an tady, R. C. Wallace. of Brockport and Association, termed the Ohio VaUey interesting series of cases, and his Wm. Craig, of Ogdensburg. Time, Osteopathic Society, and comprising observations and deductions will be fifteen minutes each. the states of Ohio, Kentucky and worth an attentive ear and a retentive The program committee has en­ West Virginia, was discussed at memory. He will crowd years of deavored, first, to find out what the length. A committee was appointed study into twenty-five minutes of con­ profession wanted and, second, to pro­ to further this plan. vention time. vide the material to satisfy that want. The subjects of Publicity, Public Education and Public Clinics were The big subject of Public Educa­ A program like this one should be subjected to much discussion from tion which is ever before us will be sufficiently profitable to the individual both sides-pro and con. handled by Dr. Jennie A. Ryel, of practitioner so that every member of The Society voted unanimously to New. Jersey, who for two years was the State Society would close their put the "Double ~Iembersllip Clause" chairman of the A. O. A. Public Edu­ offices Thursday night, October 21st, into effect immediately. cation Committee, and by Dr. R. K. "'take a little vacation and sing as they Dr. J. H. Robinett of Huntington Smith, of Boston fame, at present were being rocked to sleep that night was chosen delegate to the House of Press Director of the American Oste­ in the PuUman, "Ho for Utica!" Representatives for the next A. O. A. opathic Association. Both of these Great expectations? Certainly, we meeting, and Dr. G. E. Morris of doctors have a message and they can are expecting YOU. Clarksburg, alternate. hand it to us from the platform far Sincerely, The next meeting of the Society will better than they can by letter. Time, G. W. WEBSTER, be held in May at Huntington. fifteen minutes each. Chairman. The association invites correspond­ Next, the mysteries of pain below ence with any Osteopath who is de­ the diaphragm (from renal-colic to sirous of practicing A. '1'. Still Oste­ green apples) will be tabulated, rub­ WEST VIRGINIA opathy and is seeking a good location. ber-banded and pigeon-holed so that President-A. C. Tedford, Hunting­ the diagnosis of acute abdominal The West Virginia Osteopathic So­ ton, W. Va. symptoms will be as easy as pedicu­ ciety held a special meeting at Sec'y.-Treas.-G. E. Morris, Clarks­ losis-this by the eminent Osteopathic Parkersburg, W. Va., October 16, burg, W. Va. Surgeon of Pennsylvania-Dr. O. O. 1920. The convention was held in Bashline. Time, twenty-five minutes. the Y. M. C. A. The Legislative Com­ PRICE $1.10 IN U.S.A. .. THE RAP H 0 N E" Mr. S. L. Howe, superintendent of FOREIGN $1.20 New Standard Clear#Voice mittee gave a comprehensive report DELIVERED \W bispering Mouthpiece ,is un­ the Oarthage Schools, father of Dr. of the work being done in the state equalled for Privacy, Hygiene, Distinctness, Hi g h P 6 w e f, Waldo Howe, A. S. 0., 1917, (who and expressed themselves as being Durability and Beauty. Trans· mits voice over troubled lines suffered the loss of both feet while satisfied with the laws as they exist, like magic; penetrating like the with the American Expeditionary SJn rays of tbe morning dew. since the Osteopaths have all priv­ Check or C. O. D. 5atisfac­ Forces in France), has been .a stu­ ileges the practitioners of any other t ion Absoilltely Guarantee/I. dent of psychology for a lifetime. He The Evolulion Phone Co .• 'n' • school enjoy. A program to secure 48 Greenwich Avenue has taken special courses in the sub­ more Osteopaths for the Mountain New York Cily ject from several universities. He knows psychology as it was and as it is. His subject is "The Evolution of Psychology." His interest in his subject and in the Osteopathic pro­ Hundreds of therForemost Osteopaths Ar~ fession assures the convention an in­ tensely practical lecture. Time, Using and Recommending Our EL-AR twenty-five minutes. Sacro-Iliac Supporter, for the relief of Sacro-Iliac Miss Flora Otis, of Oswego, N. Y., sprain, luxation and dislocation of the sacrum represents the State Department of for men and women. ' Education in the work which it has Another important service performed by our undertaken in behalf of mentaUy de­ supporter is, that it acts as an abdominal Supporter, fective children. She will teU us of preventing rupture and relieving all of those symp­ the State's work for these unfortun­ toms resulting from an unsupported heavy, pendu­ ates and show how the Osteopathic lous abdomen. profession may co-operate with the This supporter is constructed along thorou>:hly State Educational Department for scie?tific ~nd practical lines and.affords prompt and their uplift. Time, twenty-five min­ lastmg relu;f for backache, I?elvlc aches and p:tins, lumbago and the long cham of aches, pains and utes. weakness resulting from sacra-iliac strains relaxa- Dr. Nicholson and Dr. Bashline . tion and dislocation. ' cannot "say it all" in one period. For particulars write to the Each is given a s·econd lease of the time of the convention that we may BATTLE CREEK DEFORMITY APPLIANCE CO. more fuUy profit by their presentation 714. POST BUILDING BATTLE CREEK, MICH. of the subject assigned. The session closes Saturday after-

Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 40 OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH QDsf.ellpat.4i~ QJ:rufll Here is Some Unvarnished Truth A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF OSTEOPATHIC PROGRESS Now, What Do 'YOU Think of That? EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY (From the Fountain Head News. October 2. 1920) PRACTICING OSTEOPATHICPHYSICIANS The Osteopathic Physician (August, tising chiropractic and chiropractors; FOR THE OSTEOPATHIC PROFESSION 1920) has some interesting sidelights. third, build their schools larger rather I'll give you some of them. than cutting down the number (as' President First. Page 5 is a full-page ad of suggested) ; fourth, that they quit H. M. Vastine. D. 0 .....Harrisburg. Pa. the American School of Osteopathy, hammering us as the medics used to 102 Locust St. Kirksville, Mo. In this ad we find the hammer them; fifth, that they reduce Vice-President following: the educational killing requirements Hichard Wanless. D.O N. Y.• N. Y. From present indications we con­ now imposed upon themselves at their 347 Fifth Ave. fidently expect an entrance class of own request by osteopathic legisla­ Secretary-Tres8urer 200. After we have booked up to that tion; sixth, that they become more lib­ Oliver C. Foreman. D. 0 .... Chicago. Ill. eral in building up osteopathy and 27 E. Monroe St. capacity we sball have to hang out a sign, "Standing Room Only," and re­ that they leave chiropractic alone­ Address all correspondence to fuse to take additional matriculants. if anyone of these simple things were THE OSTEOPATHIC TRU'rH PUD­ I,rSHING qO. Two hundred freshmen would mean folloiWed we believe that osteopathy 1421 ~Iorse A ve., Chicago, Ill. 800 students in four years. When they could become mo.re than it is in a have reached 800 they have reached quicker time than it is. Editor the top notch, then they stOll. The And, if I again might be so liberal, Ij;arl J. Drinkall, D.O Chlcago. Ill. very t est that this 'one largest school I would like to suggest the most 1421 Morse Ave. of ostepathy can do is 200 graduates simple solution of all the troubles that Business Manug-er a year. ''\Then you realize that a cer­ osteopathy (and chiropractic) is suf­ George W. Goode.D. 0 ...•. Boston. Mass. tain percentage drop each year, as fering with, yiz: 'I'hat rour schools 687 Boylston St. they go along, and drop over into the endeavor (harder than Ule)' are) to Circulation Manager chiropractic pot, you can see that make osteopaths rather than alleing H. W. Shain. D. O Chicago. Ill. ther don't graduate any 200 and that medical men. Osteopath)', so-called, , 1421 Morse Ave. the Palmer School of Chiropractic today is 90 per cent medicine in theol')', CONTRID"UTING EDITORS does graduate a trifie more than that. tl'aclling all(l Ilractice. If that could George W, Reid. D. 0,. Worcester, Mass, Fcllowing the principle of aver­ be eliminated and every so-called Francis A. Cave, D, 0 Boston. Mass. ages, letting them stand still at 200 osteopath could be prought back to Geo. F. Burton, D. 0 Los .angeles. Cal. Louise A. Griffin. D. 0 ...Boulder. Colo. per year and us going on into 2,000 the old-time, old-day A. T. Still simon­ Nettle O. H. Stingle. D. 0 . every eighteen months, and it won't pure osteopathy, I believe, you would . .. ,. ".San Gabriel. Cal. be long until "Osteopathy" will be one find less competition between. your­ W. Banks Meacham. D. 0 ...... Asheville, N. C. of the lost arts and "Chiropractic" selves and ourselves. ~Ierbert E. Bernard, D. O ..Detroit, Mich, will be the art of the hour. I know these suggestions are free E.- Florence Gair. D. 0 .. ,Brooklyn, N, Y, The 200 per year can't out-advertise (and true) and perhaps that is why Joseph H. Sullivan. D. 0 .. , Chicago. Ill. E:. R. Booth, D. 0 ... , .....Cincinnati, O. the 2,000, can they? Hardly! they will hurt. Walter J. Novinger. D. 0 .. Trenton. N. J. And then again, over on page 15 we Asa Walmsley. D. O..Peterborough, Onto find this squib: F. J. Feidler. D. 0 , ,Seattle, Wash, F.IXING THE LESION Ada Achorn. D. 0 Boston. Mass. '1'00 lUan)' Osteojlathic Schools A, L. Evans. D. 0 " , .Miaml. FIn. Asa "Villard. D. 0 Missoula, Mont. Semi-annually the American Medical When by experience you find that Josephine L. Pierce. D. 0 ...... Lima, O. Association advertises the osteopathic the method you are using will not ad­ schools as not being equal to a grade just the perverted structure back to SUBSCRIPTION ~RICE $2.00 a year. C medical school. Ask the manage­ normal, what do you do? In advance. Single copies 20 cents. Back numbers not over three months ment of an osteopathic school about If our technic was not delivering old, 25 cents each; over three months this and get the reply: "We are do­ the goods we would find one that old. 50 cents each. ing the best that we can with our lim­ would do the work. Instructions for RENEWAL. DISCON­ TINUANCE. or CHANGE OF AD­ ited amount of money and the profes­ May we not learn a lesson from the DRESS should be sent in two weeks before they are to go into effect. sion is to blame for not supporting our criticism shot at us by our imitator? PRESENTATION COPIES. When mak­ schools better." Would it not be well What are we doing to build larger ing a subscription for a friend and schools? What are we doing to so you desire the magazine to stop at the' to reduce the number of schools to end of the year. please make a state­ those necessary to educate the stu­ teach our students that they will ad­ ment to that effect when addressing us. dents studying osteopathy? With here to A. T. Still Simon-Pure Osteo­ ADVERTISING RATES fewer schools the profession could ob­ pathy? Advertising rates will be submitted tain better equipment and secure bet­ Are we suffering from educational upon application to the Business Office In Chicago. ter instructors. Results-better prac­ killing requirements in some states? titioners of osteo'pathy.-C. A. Dod­ We wduld say we were. OCTOBER, 1920 son, D.O., Little Rock, Ark. '['lie A(ljustment '['ecllllic If I might be so presumptious, I Theq~ is a duty to tile living more would like to suggest to the osteopathic After having determined the lesion illlllortant than any charity to tile schools that they, first, get something then comes the adjustment. Some dead.-Works of Edgar Allen Poe. the public wants; second, quit adver- lesions we are forced to proceed

Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO OSTEOPATHIC TRUTH 41 slowly with and others we can adjust 1110re or less easily. New York Has a Student Recruiting The adjustive technic we would sug­ Committee gest is of a two-fold operative meas­ ure. First put the Osteopathic Service Report of Student Recruiting Committee League on the map and make it a go­ ing concern. Second, amalgamate all The Student Recruiting Committee very encouraging as a medium for' our schools under one central head attempted during the past year to bringing Osteopa'thy before those still and make it a big business proposi­ carry forward the work started by considering professional study. tion, teaching the student osteopathy the same named committee during the The following recommendations are as given to the world by Dr. Andrew previous year. submitted for the consideration of the Taylor Still. By calling attention to the indi­ Society and the committee carrying The full organization of the Service vidual members of the profession, by on the work during the next year. League will take some time, but as our letter, to the importance of interesting I. Increase by monthly letter and own doctors begin' to realize the po­ new blood for this state in our pro­ other means the interest of the indi­ tential power of such an organization fession, some results were obtained. vidual members of the profession in for the upbuilding of our profession The committee sent out about six this important work; constantly im­ they would break their necks to get letters to each Osteopath in the state. pressing the fact that support of reg­ things started in their locality. The We obtained from the profession the istered colleges is imperative. organized laity will help the build­ names of,eighty-two prospects. These II. Continue advertising campaign ing of larger student bodies and larger names were submitted by twenty­ in High Schools and other institutions buildings to house them properly. The eight members of the profession. in the state beginning advertising organized laity will help us kill edu­ The names and addresses of pros­ early in school year. cational killing legislation not of our pects were sent to the Chicago Col­ III. English co-operation of the asking. The organized laity will help lege of' Osteopathy and the Phila­ state registered colleges in the ad­ us counteract state medicine througn delphia College of Osteopathy with vertising campaign to extent of their the establishment of clinics of osteop­ request that their literature be sent undertaking portion of expense and a athy. to the prospects. Flow many of our consistent "follow up" campaign be The amalgamation of our schools is prospects have matriculated, will be used in all cases of prospective stu­ up to the house of delegates. 'When impossible to report until the Col­ dents. they are put together as provided for leges open in September. IV. The society should work out a basis on which a scholars p might in Drinkall's amendment of the by­ An advilrtising campaign in the laws, or a better one, then they are a be used in this state and following high schools of the state was insti­ . the matter to a successful conclusion. fighting unit, teaching the same sub­ tuted. A quarter page advertisement jects in practically the same manner copy below, was carried in the high CllOose in each of our several schools. The school publications and college pub­ OSTEOPATHY policy oE these amalgamated schools licatiohs where it was possible. Ad­ For Your Profession will be determined by the policy com­ vertisements were carried in thirty­ mittee of the house of delegates, three publications in twenty-three in­ 1. Great Public Demand for more Osteopathic Physicians. Profession whereas at the present time the policy stitutions in the state, three of which not crowded. of each school is at variance with the were colleges, one a normal school 2. Matriculation Requirements- policy of the A. O. A. Centralization and nineteen high schools. Your Standard four-year High School of power is the crux of a big busi­ Committee received inquiry in three Course. ness. The training of our future pro­ instances directly in result of this 3. Four-year Course in a Regis­ fession is the biggest business our pro­ campaign. These fndividuals were fession has to face and success must immediately assigned to a practitioner tered .College of Osteopathy. crown its efforts. in their city; such c~talogues and lit­ 4. Colleges registered by Board of Regents: erature by the colleges; sent a per­ Chicago College of Osteopathy. sonal letter by the committee ac­ Philadelphia College of Osteopathy. '1'0 DIl. ~r. ~r. BRILL lmowledging the inquiry and stating 5. An opportunity to enter a pro- the advantages and prospects for one fession with unusual possibilities for practicing Osteopathy in this State. Your touch is like a fairy wand, Success. The committee still waits a report It chases 'way the pain, For further information, address And after just one treatment, from those practitioners to whom I felt quite new again. these names were referred. STUDENT RECRIDTING CO~[· I hobbled to your office, The Committee respectfully submits MITTEE And thought I couldn't live, the following c.onclusions from its ac­ 3~3 West EJ,d Ave., New York City But oh! what a difference, tivities: Or the Nearest Osteopathic Physician When I had the treatment that you I. The profession as a whole is not Respectfully submitted, give; alive to its responsib'lity and its P0f<­ H. V. HILLMA . A Smile from your secretary, sibilities of interesting new students Or a touch from your soft hands, in the work. Dr. George W. Goode, of Boston, Contain more magic than a ton II. The advertising campaign while has been appointed examiner by the Of goat or monkey glands. not wonderfully productive in its re­ State Boxing Commission of Massa­ -Sydney S. Samuels. sults was merely a start. It proved chusetts.

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bright. With the restrictions thrown President Bancroft Reports for the New about the Osteopath added to the York Osteopath Society above we have a battle to fight which we must win or become extinct as a species. It is very simple to review the work within each Osteopath in the State The need of an organization was accomplished during the year just to play the game according to the never so great for without it we passed because nothing of note has rules right to the finish of the string. cannot, as individuals, exist. Those been started or finished. Due to poor Why not stick to the letter of the licensed at the present time have judgment in selecting a President at law in toto or else openly become much to be concerned about, even if the Rochester meeting, an entire year outlaws, invite everyone into the their imagination does not bring the has been wasted in so far as I can State, and let the devil catch the details to their field of vision. see. Without a helmsman a ship runs hindmost? At least we would do With the Red Cross denying recog­ an aimless course and our course for away with the mockery of invoking nition of any kind to Osteopaths, with the past year can be called nothing the law with one hand and defying it their activity in promoting the pri­ more than that. with the other. Hypocrisy is not an mary steps of state medicine, we can When the work done in the past attribute. While the moral issue of well refuse to further their campaign ten years in this State is reviewed this matter is for individual decision by contributions. It would be folly we must come to the ~onclusion that (you must live with yourself, and to aid those who seek to destroy us. much effort has been misspent. Each .surely the world sympathizes with I ask that you consider these mat­ year we have done just what has some because of it), it is noli. a ques­ ters and that the usual graveyard been thrust upon us and no founda­ tion which anyone person can de­ for recommendations be unused in tion has been laid for future years. cide for the New York Osteopathic this instance. I recommend that we decide definitely Society. It will he discussed in de­ CLAUDE M. BANCROFT, what we wish to accomplish and then tail at our next meeting. President. stick to the main argument year after I recommend that the Student Re­ ye~r until succes's crow~s our efforts. cruiting campaign be revised and If we choose but a few objectives carefully followed year after year. A R,ECENT R};PORT FRO~I THE we will certainly be able, some day, It may ultimately be necessary to COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC to point with pride to a .structure gain our ends through politicians, and PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS completed. In retrospect I can see politicians listen only to votes in OF LOS ANGELES but little to be proud of now. It is quantity, therefore we must increase no wonder that discouragement and our numbers through new practi­ Reorganization of the Board of disinterest is rampant-it cannot be tioners or by amalgamation with Trustees otherwise until we have a definite other drugless practitioners. There is goal toward which we work year after no alternative. In connection with re­ Under the efficient management of year. cruiting students it is to be hoped Dr. T. J. Ruddy, the new president of I wish to call particular attention that the colleges registered in this the board, there has been a complete to a lesion within our ranks-that of State will soon prepare a campaign reo~ganization of the Board of Trus­ employing or associating with unli­ of letters and booklets through tees, together with the election of some censed Osteopaths (unlicensed in which they can persistently follow up new members. The board has been New York State). Many people are those names sent in as prospective divided into committees and this year boldly practicing osteopathy in this students by our members. If we sell instead of the old haphazard and care­ State today without legal right to do to our members the desire to get a less way of calling meetings, which so. Some are practicing alone while student then it must be the work of have never been on time, and which others are sheltered (they think they the colleges to sell the necessary edu­ never did business in an orderly man­ are sheltered) by licensed Osteopaths, cation to the select lists furnished. ner, the work of the board will be both members and non-members of Without co-operation failure is sure done largely at the committee meet­ the New York Osteopathic Society. to be our lot in the long run. ings. The board being only called For many years we have kept our I recommend that our legislative ef­ together to O. K. or to refuse to O. K. ranks mighty clean of transgressors forts at present be at a minimum. I the action of the several committees. but our morale seems to be deteri­ believe that our prospects will be bet­ The several activities of the com­ orating. Can there be ultimate profit ter by far if we institute court pro­ mittees will be headed by men who in this? I believe not. Bolshevism ceedings in an endeavor to abrogate have had much experience in the is but the defiance of established the present Medical Practice Act under graduate department, the post­ laws and an accentuation of selfish­ rather than to appeal to the legis­ graduate department and the hospital ness. It leads to a catastrophe which lature. In the course, numbers do committee all being officered by men is inevitable. This spirit of feeling not count and we can expect a fair who have had the best training in above the law is Bolshevism within chance but the same cannot be said their line. our ranks and its adherents cannot for the legislature. The Business Department survive. I recommend that the new With the trend toward state med­ The college has just received word officers of this organization take im­ icine which is evidenced by the grow­ from Mr. 'Edward H. Light of San mediate steps to prosecute those who ing number of clinics and other ac­ Diego that he will accept the position are evading or assisting in the eva­ tivities fathered by the Department of of promotion secretary to take the sion of the law and that no further Health and the Red Cross, the future place of the present business man­ warning be given. It is a great pity of those who practice the healing art ager, resigned. This is a big step to­ tbat there is not enough manhood in this State is not particularly ward solving some of the educational

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and business problems which are con­ dent shou)d have training second to for the College for this year and for fronting the college. no institution in America today. the future is very rosy. Mr. Light has been for eleven years ED WARD S. MERRILL, promotion secretary of Beloit College, Educational Department Chairman Publicity Committee of Beloit, Wisconsin. He is a graduate Board of Trustees, College of Oste­ of Denver University and later post­ Under Dr. Louis C. Chandler, the opathic Physicians a~d Surgeons. graduate of Beloit College, and is a new president of the college, and a member of the Beta Theta Pi and man who is thoroughly up in educa­ THE INTERESTING REPORT OF Phi Beta Kappa fraternities. In his tional work by reason of his connec­ DR. R. H. WILLIA1US 0:1" THE official capacity at Beloit College he tion with educational institutions NEW YORK BOARD 0:1" cemented the Alumni to the college throughout the country. The work 1'IEDICAL EXA1UINERS and succeeded in raising $100,000 two in the College has been divided up years ago from the alumni of that in departments with a head of each September 14, 1920. institution for the college endowment. department who shall stand as or­ Dr. C" !VI. Bancroft, He has had charge' of the commons ganizer and who shall stand respons­ Pres. New York Osteopathic Society, and of the student activities, has con­ ible to the Pres.ident for the work Canandaigua, New York. trolled the dormitories and boarding in the several branches underneath My Dear Doctor: places, has installed an organization him. By this system the old inco­ As representative of th'e osteopathic for the internal working of the col­ ordination whidh has hampered the profession on the New York State lege itself and has doubled the number growth of the Institution will be done Board of Medical Examiners, I have of students in the college by his faith­ away with, and one can put his finger the honor to submit to you the fol­ ful work and in coming in contact upon any weak point in teaching lo~ing digest of my activities in that with the high schools of the Middle force. Lecture Iwork is largely sup­ capacity during the past year. vVest. planted by clhtical and l.aboI1ator'y During the past year eleven differ­ 'fhe Clinic work and the student is given the ent students have taken either the benefit of the latest pedagogical re-· Dr. Edward Abbott, who has had his partial, the final or the total exam­ interneship from the Los Angeles searches. ination: There were five who took the par­ County Hospital, has been dr:awn from The new Dean, Dr. Henry S. Miles, tial examination. Five took the final the private practice to take charge of who comes. to the College from Sac­ examination, and four took the total the clinical department of the college. ramento, is eminently fi.tted by edu­ examination. He is now surrounded with a large cation and temperament to carry out There were ten who took the total group o'f clinical instructors· which his part in this work. He already and final examinations and of this will supplement the work of full time has the confidence of the students number I regret to say that only paid professors in the science depart­ and his characlter and loyalty and three were successful and are en­ ment. The patients will be handled wide experience in Osteopathic cir­ in the clinics as they are in some of titled to a license. '1'hose licensed cles makes the Board feel that the are as follows: the big diagnostic clinics of some of relationship be'tween the student and Julia E. Krech. the major hospitals in the country. the faculty will be well taken care The attending physician will take the Lucius M. Bush. of this year. Lawrence J. Kellam. patient to his particular department, which seems to be indicated from the The Purchasi~lg Department this Mildred L. Maybee received a li­ original complaint, and then he will last week bought 42 new Bausch & cense last year too late to be indi­ be routed from one specialist to an­ Lomb sub-staged equipment micro­ cated in my report. These names should be added to your lists of li­ oth~r until he has all of the examina­ scopes and thi, together with the tions that are necessary, including the completion of the new physiological censed osteopaths in this State. laboratory work, and then all of this laboratories of i,500 square feet, in­ During the past year there have inaterial will be summed up and he sures better wo~k in bacteriological been no changes in the matter of edu­ cational requirements, which remain will be put in the hands of the stu­ and physiological lines than is given dents for appropriate treatment. in any University in America today. until 1925 as follows: Preliminary education necessary, a college en­ In addition to this method a large Prospects are Ifor more than fifty trance high school course followed number' of practitioners around Los in the freshman class. In view of by a four year course in an oste­ Angeles have signified their intentions the defection of several of the older opathic college registered by the of coming into the clinic and taking members of the faculty and the Board of Regents. The Chicago Col­ over the actual treatment of the pa­ Board and the consequent slowness lege of Osteopathy and the Philadel­ tients and working with the students, of reorganizati0l} even to the point phia College of Osteopathy are reg­ giving them their ideas. In this way where no catalog has yet been issued istered by the Regents. The other each student will have the benefit of by the College, this is a remarkable A. O. A. recognized colleges of oste­ having some thirty or forty physicians tribute to Dr. Ruddy and to Dr. opathy are accrMited schools and over him, showing him their particular Chandler in thehi reorganization abil­ credit for three years work is gIven methods, over the course of a year. ity. With the optimism and the en­ for the completion of a four years With the work in the County Hospital thusia'sm which !will come not only course therein. Graduates from ac­ and the Receiving Hospital of the to the student blody but to the pro­ credited colleges desiring to come to police department and the out patients fession in the state from the new New York and having the necessary work of the last year, which is pro­ teaching order and the installation of preliminary education may be admit­ vided for in the curriculum, the stu- true Osteopathicl ideals the outlook ted to the licensing examination on

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the completion of one year in'and widespread need is rapidly becoming We the undersigned members of the graduation from a registere'd Col­ extinct. These we can and must sup­ Osteopathic profession, promise to pay lege, ply, but to do it satisfactorily we to the Dean of the M. C. O. the amount I desire to remind. the profession must clear away some of the impedi­ set opposite our names, on or before that there is osteopathic reciprocity ments under which we practice. The January 1, 1920, said amounts to be with the State of New Jersey, and restrictions against the practice of used only in the purchase of the said any graduate •of a college of oste­ surgery and the necessary accom­ Massachusetts College of Osteopathy, opathy registered by the Regents who panying use of anesthetics and ano­ and only on condition that it then be has been licensed after examination dyn.es must be cleared from the placed under the exclusive manage­ by the New Jersey Board may have statute books in order that the gen­ ment of the Educational Department his license endorsed for practice in eral practitioner may meet all of the of the American Osteopathic Asso­ New York. The same applies to oste­ emergencies which will arise in the ciation. opaths licensed in Indiana by exam­ more remote communities. Our col­ Earl J. Drinkall, $100 leges are today giving adequate edu­ ination who are graduates of colleges George W. Goode 100 cation to fit 'their graduates to do all registered by New York. I will be J. Oliver Sartwell 100 of the things necessary in a general pleased to heal' from any such licen­ W. Arthur Smith 100 practice and it remains for us to see tiates in New Jersey and Indiana who Helen G. Sheehan 100 to it that their graduates are given may desire to come to New York and Geo. W. Reid 100 the right and the opportunity ,of doing will give them the necessary infor­ C. O. Fogg...... 100 the things that are necessary to meet mation in reference to procedure. R. K. Smith...... 100 the requirements of the situation. These are the only two states with H. H. Pentz: 100 which New York has osteopathic I would theyefore urge that your W. W. Fessenden...... 100 reciprocity. legislative committee give serious Elizabeth F. Kelley 100 As time goes on it becomes more consideration to the preparation of a Charles Grapek 100 and more apparent that we have bill which' will bring about the re­ Peter J. Wright. , 100 reached the maximum of preliminary llult as indicated above, The time C. L. Watson...... 100 and professional requirements which has arrived where we can delay this lVr. B. Barstow...... 100 may be demanded of the osteopathic no longer, The purpose and intent Charlotte Richmond 100 colleges and the profession must be of the organized medical profession Laura Meader .'...... 10 prepared in 1925 to make the neces­ is too apparent and we must start a, Ralph A. Manning...... 100 sary representations to the Board of program at once which will check­ C. A. Lindquist ~ 25 Regents to secure a continuance, in­ mate those adverse intentions. M. L. I-Iartwell...... 2 definitely, of the present require­ There is still a failure on the part F. E. Moore...... 2 ments for admission to the licensing of too large a portion of the pro­ Edgar S. Comstock, Secretary examination in this State. It would fession to thoroughly understand Chicago College 10 appear that the medical profession many of the phases of the law in has over-reached itself as we have reference to preliminary educational Raised at N. E. O. A. Convention predicted it would in the continued requirements, the colleges, students Harry J. Olmstead $100 increase of entrance requirements, and so forth. I am pleased at all Mark Shrum 100 The shortage of physicians in this times to answer any and all ques­ Francis A. Cave 100 State is, growing more and more ap­ tions, give information and advice in A. H. Paul, Bridgeport, Conn.... 50 parent. The Medical colleges do not reference to these problems and in­ R. K. Smith' (total $200) 100 graduate sufficient men to meet the vite your corresp0J?dence on these C. W. Bruninghaus 100 normal losses to the profession and a subjects. . Earl Scamman 100 medical education is becoming so ex­ I wish to express to you my ap­ Frances Graves '" 100 pensive that after graduation a man preciation of the co-operation I have Anna L. Hicks...... 100 canIfot afford to go to the smaller or received from yourself and the offi­ Lizzie Osgood 100 rural communities for practice where cers of the New York Osteopathic Anna Slack, 146 Westminster, the fees are necessarily smaller than Society. R. H. WILLIAMS. Providence, R. I...... 100 in the large cities. The result is Agnes Fraser 100 that the smaller towns and rural com­ George Bridges, 146 Westminster, munities are being drained of their "Any young man who enters the Providence, R. I...... 100 physicians at an alarming rate. medical profession with the idea of H. F. Collier...... 100 There can be but one answer to this getting rich quickly is making a great W. B. Meacham...... 25 problem, a lessening of the Prelim­ miscalculation. For a few men there L. Plaisted, Leominster, Mass.... 50 inary education requirements and is wealth to be obtained from the M. K. Cple...... 50 perhaps even an increase in the num­ practice of medicine, but there are by Allan A. Fehr 100 ber of properly equipped colleges for far too many young doctors being E. W. Carter...... 100 the graduation of pl1ysicians. Herein turned out each year to allow of quick Maude Williams 100 lies the oportunity of the osteopathic returns for the majority. C. D. Thore...... 100 profession, Our requirements are "Although we have many more M. T. Mayes : 100 the same that have proven adequate to medical schools in America than in W. C. Bryant 100 provide the necessary number of phy­ all of Europe, fully one-half of them D. W. Coburn 100 sicians. The medical profession is are poor, ill-equipped, and, as a re­ C. G. Hatch 100 educating specialists and the general sult, turn out doctors unfit for their B. F. Riley...... 100 practitioner for wllich there is a work."-Dr. Richard Cabot. Helen King...... 20

Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO OSTEOP.NTHIC TRUTH 45 Help Buy This School We Have $7,500 Toward Massachusetts College Fund $5,700 Raised at New England Convention-New York Association Gives $500.

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From a Medic-It is Significant Study the Vertebral Column

I note with pleasure the broad confess that I obtained this informa­ among them deafness. While under mindedness of the publishers of tion from a Chiropractic College. To my care, she was persuaded to go to a Clinical Medicine, and their readiness accept all that was taught or to re­ specialist here, and he, knowing her to print articles that might have a ject the teaching, was my privilege; to be with me, assured her that her tendency to stir us up from our self­ being a man of mature age and ex­ case was hopeless and advised her satisfied position and induce us to perience, I was able to select what I strongly to go home and save her investigate any methods advanced, by considered worthy and refuse what money. She did not accept his advice anyone, in the healing art. seemed doubtful. and, now, has recovered her hearing; Until proper investigation has been A normal spine is rarely found and her blood pressure is reduced, like­ made by our profession (unless we slight deviations may cause compres­ wise her dropsy, and she sleeps like a want to be made a laughing stock to sion on the nerve sheaths, which con­ babe. One case of stuttering was others), it would be well for us to tain nerves, blood vessels· and lym­ cured with one treatment; likewise, a refrain from criticizing new methods phatics, proceeding through the ver­ case of regurgitation of the food of treatment. tebral foramen and continuing on to through nose and mouth. Medicine and surgery have not ar­ their respective organs or tissues. Many cases of paralysis of the arms rived at such a state of perfection Such infringement may cause numb­ have been cured after few treatments, that we can claim to be rich and in ness or pain, if exerted on the nerve; while indigestion, kidney and blad­ need of nothing, nor should we ignore faulty circulation, if affecting the ar­ der troubles disappear rapidly under or scorn the advent of small things. tery; autointoxication, if it involves this treatment. In spite of great advancement in the lacteals. While much of the benefits accrue the past, the human family still con­ These abnormalities may be recent from the adjustments of the spine, al,l tinues to suffer, and we as a profes­ or of long standing; they may be the credit cannot be attributed to this sion cannot afford to rest on our result of accidents, of faulty positions treatment. For, I do not ignore medi­ laurels nor close our eyes· to what assumed in play or work; at times, cine or surgery, electricity and X-ray goes on around us. Let us assume they are due to prolonged dietetic er­ in all its varieties, radiovitant heat, that the different healing cults have rors or to pernicious habits. the traction couch; indeed, I use any­ some virtue. This may be little or Our first requirement when exam­ thing that will assist in removing the much. Proofs are available; let them ining a patient is, to make sure of the cause of disease. I wish to urge every be weighed in the balance. I do not malposition, next, to attempt to re­ doctor to get busy and study this part know .any class or profession better move the cause and replace the faulty of the human anatomy. The direct qualified to judge as to the value or part to its original location or as treatment brings results, both to the merit of their claims than our own. nearly as this is possible. doctor and the patient. Every doctor Yet, in order to warrant and uphold If this is done, a larger flow of should be a spine specialist. Most of confidence, a true spirit of investiga­ blood is propelled through the vesseJ,s_ the patronage now passing by a doctor tion, free from all prejudice, must be to the organ or organs, oxygen is car­ and going to others proves that, for maintained. This only will satisfy ried to the part,. waste is burned up once, we have been caught asleep at the demands of justice. and elimination increased. the post; and, the sufferers are being The sooner such investigation is As a matter of fact, I now examine relieved by outsiders, to our shame. undertaken, the better it will be for the spine of all patients. If I locate It is high time for us to awake from us and the public. The confusion el:­ trouble, I adjust it, usually to the our lethargy. Let us prove that we isting now is driving people to accept satisfaction of my patient and my­ are capable of adjusting more faith­ almost anything from Spiritism to self. fully, concussing more wisely than Christian Science. Public opinion is I purpose speaking a little on my those outside the medical profession. fickle, flighty and more or less results and experiences. My first H. W. SCOTT. tyrannical. case treated was that of a man who Regina, Sask. Truth will come out, however. Let was injured in a coal mine and The American Journal of Clinical us deny it, and its denial will bring afflicted with periodical, severe and Medicine. down the axe and the censure on our prolonged vomiting spells. I found, own heads. in the mid-dorsal region, two ver­ . The physician's first duty is: To tebrae considerably out of alignment. Let Us Not be Caught cure his patients, earn his fee. His Nine treatments entirely cured him next duty is: To communicate his. after all other methods had failed to ASLEEP knowledge to his associates. do so. My second case, in a girl of For some years, I have been study­ sixteen, deaf since birth, was found Keep Awake ing the spinal vertebrae, with grow­ to have displacement in the upper by studying ing interest. Becoming convinced cervical vertebrae. Twenty-one treat­ DR. A. T. STILL'S that many ailments were due to mal­ ments were taken and she recovered alignment of the vertebral column. I her hearing. Research and Practice decided to learn more about correct­ Recently, a patient, 54 years of age, of Osteopathy ing these abnormalities. I frankly came to me for various ailments, In cloth . $6.00

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\ Lessons We Can Learn George W. Goode, D.O., Boston,,Mass.

"No person can study chiropractic, The Chiropractors know this has Have we done it? No, except spas­ know chiropractic, be a chiropractor, been our weakness and they have not modically. practice chiropractic and be a mixer hesitated to make capital out of it. We have not seen our possibilities. and be honest about it, with it and There is no use bl'lating around the Have we not been too ethical? We through it." bush. have a good thing to advertise, then The above quotation i~ taken from The Chiropractors are getting re­ why not let the public know 'about it the Fountain Head News of August sults, They have _their mixers, but as we should? 14, 1920, and is written by Dr. B. J. they are in the small minority, while Palmer in answer to a medico-chiro­ we have many more mixers _in our In a letter to me under date of practor who ' elieves in adjuncts and ranks thail we ha ebone~etters. August 12, 1920, a' former' president uses them in practice. The remedy lies in teaching "'more' of the A. d. ,A. writes,: "It is a fact What can we learn as osteopaths palpation and technique in our col­ that the great public is practically from this idea? In my judgment leges as well as the Ifundamental prin­ ignorant of our work. We have been many things. ciples of osteopath~. asleep in this matter and have al­ If we had hewn to the line as our lowed the purveyors of propagandic founder taught, us and- ,practiced· oste­ Another essoll literature to fill a field ,that should opathy in ali its purity, today we To quote again from the' Fountain have been filled differently. They have d~ne well in their way and I would not fear the competition we Head News: "Eter~al vigilance is the have to meet from other healers. Dr. price of our chiropractic liberty, only wish a hundred pieces of their Still wanted us to be 100 per cent When the public realizes just what our literature had been used to everyone osteopathic. science is and what it will do public that has been used. At the rate we have been going for the past twenty As a class we are not,' for there is opinion will be 0 erwhelmingly in years osteopathy will never be widely a tendency to lean toward other things favor of ,it. ,The ,only way t,o attain in our practice in order to satisfy the that end is. to scatfe'r publicity, day known as a treatment of universal patient. Many of us never grasped the after day, month aft r month and year application." osteopathic concept, hence the muscle after year, constantly, incessantly and The remedy: Co-operation, support rubbing we are guilty of. everlastingly." i and publicity.

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