The Osteopathic Physician

December 1909

Vol. 16, No. 6

Reproduced with a gift from the Advocates for the American Osteopathic Association (AAOA Special Projects Fund) and Michigan Auxiliary to the Macomb County Osteopathic Association

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Volmne XVI. CHICAGO. DECEMBER. 1909 Number 6

The Atlas Club had a large float droped in red Hospital Saturday at the Home of Osteopathy and white, the club colors. It depicted a wan and emaciated patient en route to the charity HE third Hospital Saturday observed by shared the man's prize for the most unique ward and the. same patient, fat and sassy, the students of the American School of costume and characterization with Winip, after osteopathiC treatment. The Atlas men T Osteopathy was the greatest success of Class 1911, who represented a popcorn vender, also pulled off a thrilling prize fight. Most all, the untiring zeal of the students collecting red-headed and just from the country, it being noticeable among their "stunters" was the $856.71 for the charity ward of the A. S. O. impossible to decide on either one of them. cadaver who slipped out of the storage box in Hospital. The Delta Omega Sorority, dressed in green the dissecting room to walk about among the The parade presented an heterogeneous, ka­ and gold, sold candy at a green and gold crowds and watch the fun through a small leidoscopic maze of colors and costumes, the booth, making $76.96 and winning the prize peep-hole in his mummy like wrappings. students appearing in every conceivable and for the organization of ladies collecting the The seventeen house-to-house collectors inconceivable make-up. The student "stunt­ largest amount. added much to the fund. They wore red ers" had an hilarious time while the crosses on the sleeves of their nurses' parade was forming, cavorting about aprons. The aprons were all made by in high carnival. Even the band ~1iss Anna Smith, a graduate nurse-of found its own music irresistible and the Nurses' Training School of the jigged and waltzed to the tunes as they played them. A. S. O. Hospital. One of the col­ Dr. William Smith, who started lectors, Herman Pease, Class 1911, won the Hospital Saturday observance at the gentleman's prize for the largest the A. S. O. and who has ever been collection by an individual. His the leading spirit of the movement, amounted to $25.00. and worked tremendously for its suc­ The largest individual collection was cess, was here, there and everywhere that of Mrs. William Smith the among the students, inspiring all authorized collector from plac~s of with his contagious enthusiasm. business on the Square. As she was Forming before the A. S. O. the escorted by two Friars' Club mem­ parade marched to the square, where bers, Mr. Hill and Mr. McWilliams, the students presented an all-day she turned her collection of $110.00 continuous performance of amusing over. to the Friars' Fund, waiving stunts, carried out in the highest ex­ her nght to the ladies' prize for the uberant spirits. largest collection. This therefore "Old Glory" at the head of the went to Miss C. Elsie Houriet Class parade was carried by Merril Thomas 1912, . who impersonated a 'squaw of the senior class, who has been. carryl11g a papOOse upon her back, color bearer on previous Hospital and collected $29.00. Saturdays. Miss Bailey, Class 1911 as Aunt Following came the A. S. O. band, Dinah, receiyed the ladies" prize for most fearfully and wonderfully ar­ the most ulllque costume and imper­ sonation. Miss MacDonald, Class rayed. Only- a couple of the band 1912, as the Hollander, came a very boys survived the suffragette move­ close second. The Friars' Club held ment, but the lady musicians, how­ a Kangaroo court session in their ever, responded to the white para­ club r~om, "Judge" Bledso gravely sol baton of "Miss Topsy" Dejardin occupymg the bench, and trying with with the same dash and gusto that all due judicial procedure the large characterizes Band Leader Dejar­ number of suspects, law-breakers din's masculine musicians. and dodgers brought before him by The float of the New York State the energetic star-bedecked police Club, borne on the shoulders of four force. sons of the Empire State, was par­ The Friars gave a successful dance ticularly attractive and aroused much in the evening. The result of their enthusiasm and applause. Upon the efforts was $251.17, which won for float stood their distingUished fellow them the prize for the largest amount ew Yorkers, Cook and Peary, gaz­ collected by an organization of men. ing upon the much discussed north pole, surrounded by their Esqui­ The students of the freshman maux, their igloos looming in the class were enabled to raise a good snowy distance. Splinters from the sum by Dr. William Smith very north pole were sold as souvenirs by kindly giving, at their request, his the New York Club. The Iota Tau splendid lecture on Osteopathy, with Zigma had a fantastically dressed its steriopticon illustrations. The· band, a pair of cannibals from Jungle musical organizations of the school, Town, whose wild, barbaric "charm united in giving a concert for the: fund's benefit. . dance" was the hit of the day. The Dr. E. C. Pickler, president of the American Osteopathic Association, who Gold-Dust Twins, French Doll, and has been a practitioner at Minneapolis, Minn., for nearly fourteen years, is a Through the efforts of the Lucky' many others united in giving a min­ former Kirksville boy and was graduated from the A. S. O. with the class of Thirteen Club several of the amuse-· strel show that was great. 1895. He is going to make one of our most vigorous presidents and do much ment places of the town contributedl The Theta Psi boys presented a to advance the association. liberally of their receipts for that: double-header - the Burns-Johnson day. Prize Fight and the sensational final cham­ The Stillonians and Axis Club members The lunch stand conducted by Mrs. Learner" pionship baseball game between Pittsburg were active individually, but did nothing as Class 1910, assisted by a large corps of lad'ies" and Detroit. These burlesques were acted organizations. served home-cooked foods to the hungry crowde: with side-splitting and coin-accumulating The British Association was headed by and made a nice sum for the fund. The mayotf success. The Theta boys also had a Great Britain's flag, carried by a sailor boy. and town marshal gave the students carte blanchte steam piano in the. latest up-to-date up­ They had a decorated carriage and a number for the day. To the great gratification o'f alll right model and sang a wide variety of of fetchy costumes, particularly conspicuous there was not one single obj ectionable feature;, songs. One of their "stunters," Johnson, Class being the couple from Holland, who made a hitch or accident to mar the perfect success oif 1912, who impersonated a jolly black mammy, decided hit. the day.

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2 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Hindrances to Osteopathic Progress paths are both graduates of the A. S. O. Al­ osteopathic. Where is the state that has enough though I have been in practice almost three osteopaths? 'Where is the one in which all peo­ Glyde Wade Bumpus, A. B., D.O., East Liver- years, I can see that I have years to work before ple who need it are having osteopathic treatment? pool, Ohio. I can give the safe and positive diagnosis and There are none and will not be for years. We prognosis given by the successful early graduate. T HAS been suggested that this article be en­ Osteopaths do not work together enough, they need 100,000 good D. O.'s in the United States titled "Knocking, knocking, knocking," and do not call one another in consultation and and 10,000 to establish our system in the for­ f possibly you will be in accord with that view, share the responsibility in cases where it is eign countries. Are we not too well contented but the above heading will make the jar a little needed. None of us are perfect, but even if we with our lot, and less ready to aid or assist an easier to some of us who may come in close do know we are right, if we find that another unfortunate practitioner than we were a few contact with it. Has our beloved science any D. O. agrees with us, we have more confidence years ago? Do a maj ority of the profession read in ourselves. Let us work together. Instead of. our journals and publications and keep up with calling an M. D. in consultation, call your neigh­ the profession? bor osteopath. It makes a good impression on Which is the better with our new cases, to con­ your patient and his family and helps the osteo­ demn the former drug treatment they have had path. Again, practitioners who are graduates of or say nothing and then deliver a better treat­ certain schools knock those in their vicinity who ment? How do you answer these questions, are graduates of other osteopathic col'eges. What Brother Osteopath? Have you thought of them? could be more unprofessional? Can't we see that It's worth while. when we knock a D. O. we 'knock ourselves? Re­ Are we to condemn the younger colleges be­ member, we are all human. cause they haven't large capital to build fancy The differences in the schools can all really college buildings and expensive laboratories? Do they not do their best and improve each year? Where is the college that is revenue producing? None of them would stand long without the support of their alumni and the profession in general. The tendency toward surgery and collateral therapeutics has been sanctioned and condemned. Can we not be conservative surgeons and advise Iota Tau Zigma Cannibals' Charm Dance. our patient in such cases without hurting osteop­ athy? Why not use common sense? real hindrances? Who can say she has not? I believe we need a thorough knowledge of Really, as we stand today there is not even one surgery, and if any of our profession wish to point on which we are all agreed. That is a specialize in that line they really will be helping strong statement,. but who can prove it to be us, as they can handle cases for us that need untrue? Look at our journals, schools, and even surgical attention. If a D. O. believes in drugs ourselves. Practitioners are knocking each other, and practices them, he is not an osteopath, and if the journals and catalogues of the different schools he fall out of our ranks we are better off. I are showing dissension-saying what others know of two D.O., M. D.'s that do nothing should do or not do and at the same time over­ but give drugs, as they say ours is too hard looking errors of their own. No, I am not hit­ work. ting at anyone school or practitioner. We are Some are opposed to field literature. I be­ all to blame in this matter. Possibly the great­ lieve it is a good thing. It may keep some pa- est difference' with practitioners is what consti­ tutes an osteopathic treatment. Some are con­ demned if they give hard and specific treatment, others for giving easy' ones which resemble and are even mistaken for massage, and still many others for giving drugs and using osteopathy as a kind of a "chaser." To iIIustrate-I was told by a friend that a friend or relative of his had had treatment from an early osteopathic grad­ uate, :who said the condition needed specific treat­ ment and adjustment, but did not need to be treated more than once or twice a week. She had shown great improvement and was satisfied with his treatment. Later she went to a neigh­ "Ride a Cock I-Iorse." boring city for a visit and was instructed by her regular D. O. to have treatment from the resident D. q. of that city while there. She be covered with the one word, selfishness. Some went to him, told of her condition, the previous say we have too m~ny schools. I don't think we treatment, and of the diagnosis of her physician. have enough. None of our colleges are perfect, He examined her and told her that her physician but they are all doing good work, and they had not correctly diagnosed her case, had treated would be much better thought of if they would her wrongly, that she needed three treatments a discontinue throwing mud at each other. They week for a year, also that her physician was not all have faults. scientific, as he bad graduated ten years ago and The defining of osteopathy has been discussed. all D. O.'s of that age were not scientific. This Some are of the opinion that we hurt ourselves early D. O. is very successful and as well known whenever we give or'attempt to give a com­ as any in the profession. He is very thorough plete definition of osteopathy. Surely we should The Theta Phi Pugilists. in his work and has a large practice. The other give it a wide definition, because we are grow­ one has been in practice for three years, belongs ing and broadening as a profession and the scope to no osteopathIC societies and has never been of osteopathy as a complete science cannot be tients from us, but it brings many to us and heard of until this. Now, what was wrong that reckoned. Such instances as in New Jersey this helps to teach osteopathy to the people. I know this should occur? Here it is-this lady is year, when the M. D.'s tried to define it as prac­ of a D. O. who. sent Osteopathic Health regu­ wealthy, and the people she was visiting told the tically "rubbing of the back." If we should get larly for five years to the postmaster of an D. O. in .their town of this. He thought he a law with such a legal definition of our system, eastern city before he ever heard from it in any could gain her confidence, keep her under his we could not handle a general practice. It is way. In the first six months of the sixth year treatment, and relieve her of a portion of her better not to define our system than to give an he got at least three of that family for regular cash. He was not successful. She returned to incomplete definition of it. patients. Did it pay? Who can say it did not? her regular D. O. and told him what had oc­ Politics in the profession has had its share of But how many of us would have been so per­ curred. She also told him that she had faith the limelight. Do our politicians get anything sistent? in him and would continue treatment with him. more than they deserve? If they don't, why be How many of us are really in favor of re­ The result is that this young D. O. made a bad envious of them? search work? You will find a .good number that impression on that patient, made an enemy of a In some sections of the country the older prac­ actually oppose it. Why do they? Can it be brother practitioner, and likely lost the confi­ titioners are charged with trying to keep out all that osteopathy will not stand close investigation? dence of the family in his town. These osteo- new ones. Is this loyalty? It is certainly not It is true that young D. O.'s can't give mucJ1 Museum of Osteopath,ic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 3 financial assistance to aid in this work, but they slurs at? The facts are that this man was. a Lately, there has been brought to my notice, can surely give it moral support, knocker and unliked by his associates and class­ cases where physicians have charged their Methods of advertising are ma'ny, and are all mates the entire time he was in college. Because brother practitioners full rates for an office treat­ more or less condemned. Who is wrong in this the faculty considered the source, and paid no ment and have demanded that the charge be paid. matter? Some of our practitioners use bad meth­ attention to his knocking in school, he now Not long ago I myself was stricken with ods and really do our system an injury, but fre­ throws these brickbats. Where is his gain? an acute attack of renal colic, and called in a quently we see a D, O. using good material in What would he be able to do without the sheep­ great, good hearted fellow practitioner who did ads. and getting good results. Other osteopaths skin from the college tltat he ridicules? everything in his power to relieve the agony of Really, Fellow Osteopaths, don't you think that if we will get down to work, quit our kicking on all sides, we will grow faster and there will be no danger of the M. D. eating us? I think if all internal dissension was removed there would be no external dissension. You know we believe in removing the cause. Why the knock and the. growl? Let us chloroform them I

Friars at Work. The Band in Full Blast. in his town may condemn him, but his advertis­ ing is likely bringing them work and really they my suffering, but fearing it might prove to be should thank him for his effort's. Who can an operative case, he asked permission, which I justly say that printers' ink, carefully used, is granted, to call in another physician for con­ injurious? Why can't we all agree on lines of sultation. The other party came and suggested treatment and let the individual do as he sees that a genito-urinary specialist (a medical man) fit to get practice? The advertiser reaches a be called. This I declined, and the consultant class that the conservative D. O. would never ,left. Several days later I received a bill from reach. Are we sincere in our ideas or do we this party for ten dollars, for services rendered, sometimes get selfish and jealous? . but thinking it a mistake, I paid no attention to We' hear of the D. O. giving drugs and that it, and on the first of the month I received without any license. Why does he do it? Where another statement for a like amount. The man is the real osteopath that has more faith in who worked over me for several hours and the drugs than in osteopathy? Why does he give whole dozen others who kindly volunteered their the drugs? Isn't he just after the money and services, declined pay in any form. Since this not thinking of the future of our system? happened I have done a little investigating and How about the D. O. treating M. D.'s and I have found that this practice is not a local one teaching them osteopathy? Some of our mem­ by any means. bers are teaching osteopathy to students in medi­ What has become of our vrofessional courtesy, cal colleges. There are a number of us who our vaunted fraternal friendship, our brotherly have been offered that chair in their colleges. regard? Have these all been sacrificed to the How could we hurt our future more than by greed for money? Has the physician been accepting that offer? "Manuals of Osteopathy" and material of that caliber is frequently found. Is it good for os­ teopathy? Patients don't like the looks of them, M. D.'s benefit by them and we really lose by them. Why not show up their promoters and keep them out of our ranks?

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"Miss Dolly" Toward the End of the Day.

Is Professional Courtesy Declining? Walter L. Beitel, D.O., Philadelphia. ROM time to time, various matters of mo­ ment are brought to my notice, and I F. have found that some of these are not entirely local, but concern the entire profession. Among other things I feel that it is time some County Pop Corn Vendor. effort was made to correct what I believe to be abuses of professional courtesy. Leading the Procession. I do not refer to the petty jealousies which Only recently we see an osteopath knocking seem to be so prevalent in our ranks, nor to the absorbed by the mercenary commercialist? What the methods of teaching in the school of which s"landerous tongues, which take' every opportunity about the "Code of Ethics?" he is a graduate. Now, really, if this person is to "knock" every competing osteopath, but I refer These are direct violations of our professional competent to judge, where did he become com­ especially to the crushing of the fraternal spirit code, and in' speaking to several practitioners I petent but in the very school that he now throws under the weight of commercialism. mentioned this fact, and was told that there were Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

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many things in the "Code of Ethics" that did Dr. Frank P. Young, now chief surgeon of isville City Hospital and served for one year. not meet with their approval and that they had the Los Angeles College of Osteopathy, has been He then became lecturer on microscopy and his­ not the slightest intention of living up to them. proniinent in osteopathic affairs since the early tology at the Louisville Medical College. This is indeed a sad commentary on our esprit days. His work, "Osteopathic Surgery," is a text Becoming interested in osteopathy, he served .de corps and I would like to see a crusade-an two years as surgeon at the Columbia College of awawening-

THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 5 More D. O. Notables Get in the and is now one of the bans of our profession. Too much commercialism and not enough of A TREATISE UPON Lime Light how. UR official photographer is still traveling Dr. Forbes, in an able article on vertebral THE PROPER CARE around. Picture No.1 of this issue shows lesions, in the same issue of the A. O. A. OF THE O Los Angeles Osteopathic Quartette practicing Journal, seems to accept Lovett's conclusions its slogans for the 1910 Convention. This will on the normal movements of the spinal column; MOTHER IN CONFINEMENT be the official music-making body of the great but like Lovett, does not point out specifically AND OF California meeting. Dr. T. J. Ruddy sings bass, the characteristic part or parts that characterizes Dr. Charles H. Spencer, falsetto, Dr. R. W. such movements. If he had done this it would THE NEW BORN CHILD Bowling, tenor, and Dr. Harry W. Forbes, alto. have cleared up the situation completely. Lovett The company has just finished the last verse in in his work, "Lateral Curvatures of the Spine BY DRS. C. E. AND DELL SCHOOLCRAFT this picture and are in repose, all except Dr. and Round Shoulders," emphasizes the normal Spencer, who is putting in the falsetto thrill, but fundamental movements in the various regions PRICE, 25 CENTS A COPY he will be through in another moment. of the spinal column, but seems to minimize the The next group of osteopathic notables was or $1.50 a dozen, with Envelopes taken on the bridge at Minnehaha Falls some EXPRESS OR POSTAGE PREPAID time before midnight at the recent A. O. A. Con­ vention. In the order of grouping they are: Dr. Send orders to Laura M. Bedwell, of Emporia, Kans,; Dr. Les­ DRS. SCHOOLCRAFT lie S. Keyes, of Minneapolis; Dr. Mary E. Pitt­ WATERTOWN, S. D. man, of Wauneta, Neb.; Dr. Kate Williams, of Indianapolis, and Dr. Wm. H. Bedwell, of Em­ poria. The photographer did not learn in this instance who told the funny story. All are smil­ ing. He will give a prize for the first one who picks the raconteur out of this group. Now, let this good work of snap~shotting osteopathy go on apace. Those who have good films showing osteopathic notables are requested to communicate with "The O. P. photographer." We would like to put not only a few, but a few THE STRETCHER dozen of these sort of views in each issue of our paper through 1910. Will you help? The Spinal Joint. What ~s It? The Los Angeles Quartette, Drs. T. J. Ruddy, Charles H. William L. Grubb, D.O., Pittsburg, Pa, Spencer, R. W. Bowling, Harry W. Forbes. T has been a little more than a year since I rode my hobby in public-"The Law of the fundamental factors which characterize such I. Movements of the Spinal Column," or the movements-the articular facets-in favor of the basis for a scientific technique founded upon the intervertebral disks. It would appear that he natural movements of the various regions of does not understand specifically himself the true the spinal column. In the meantime, however, spinal joint. I have been practicing what I have' been trying It seems almost like a paradox to ask an .NOT AN ADJUNCT, but a physiological to preach with most gratifying results. I also osteopath what a spinal joint is, after the anatomy appliance, the embodiment of Osteopathic know of other osteopaths in Pittsburg who were of the spinal.column has been drilled into him principles. Invented for the Os~eopath, very skeptic at first, but were possessed of the from the time he enters the freshman class un­ and revised and corrected to meet hIS needs. spirit to investigate-"Try all things; hold fast til he is ushered out at commencement. But The entire body, or any important section to that which is good"-with the result that their the experience noted above warrants the asser­ of it,can be stretched in the degree desired, technique has been revolutionized. Anyone who tion that we are facinl(' a paradox. The current with the patient lying face downward or will make the application of "The Law of the works on anatomy, of course, describe all the upward, leaving the entire ar~a op~n for Movements of the Spinal Column" impartially Osteopathic adjustment or ma11lpulatlOn at will have the same experience as those of us who the same time. It produces relaxation, have demonstrated the principle. bringing- the muscles and ligaments into The greatest obstacle in the way of progress condition to respond to the general or is previous education and the habit of following specific Osteopat~ic a~plicati(:m. It saves those who have a reputation, so-called. It is labor time. It WIll build busmess because harder to unlearn than it is to learn, and in it is ;ane sensible and scientific and appeals order to minimize this tendency, we should en­ to the p~tient. Mechanically simple, effi­ deavor to do more thinking on our own responsi­ cient neat durable, light, compact. Hun­ bility. dred~ of Doctors of Osteopathy, Medicine There was a very interesting as well as a very and Physiculturists using it daily il;1 eyery instructive article in the May A. O. A. Journal state and civilized country. The pnce IS so from the able pen of Dr. McConnell in which reasonable that it will payfor itself in a week. he emphasized diagnosis from the standpoint of the structure. But if he had specifically pointed THE STRETCHER Company, Cleveland, O. out the spinal joint instead of taking it for granted that everyone who might read thp article would know what he meant, the diagnosis would have been simplified. From a specific Who Told the Tale? Drs. Laura M. BedwetlJ. Leslie S. canvass among our osteopaths, I regret to say Keyes, Mary E. Pittman, Kate Williams, w. H. Bid­ that I have only found two who could point well. out specifically the true spinal joint. This DR.. J. ./I. PR.ICE canvass was not confined to practitioners in Pitts­ structures connected with the spinal column and burg, but covered a wide area; neither was the its joints, but not realizing the great importance II LIKES OUR STYLE" canvass made by letter but by personal contact. of the joint as viewed from the standpoint: of In view of these facts I think it is time that osteopathy, have not stated definitely what is Here goes for another year's we know what a spinal joint is first before we the true spinal joint, and what are accessories service. Osteopathic Health is try to diagnose its abnormalities. to it; neither have any of our osteopathic up-to-date. It puts osteopathic I do not doubt what the doctor got in school, authors. as it is plainly stated in his practice of osteopathy In a true anatomical joint certain characteristic ideas in style to my liking. The -we all had the same basis for our technique. structures are found, and such structures are common people can grasp it. If, however, the doctor still uses the same basis never found in any other situation, as far as I Don't let me miss the Septem­ for his technique, and calls it a technique founded know, except in true joints-hyaline cartilage ber number. I Must Have It.­ upon the "The Law of the Movements of the and a synovial membrane. Even in a joint like Spinal Column," then I must insist that he is the sacro-illiac synchrondrosis-so-called-these Dr. J. A. Price, Guthrie, Okla., still fundamentally wrong. Weare not discuss­ typical j oint structures are found. August 30th, 1909. ing our ability to get results. This has been Where are these differentiating structure. 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~ , SuII CoIleile of Osteopathy. Des Motnes. Iowa J-.""~~~~~~~~~~,", found in the spinal joint?' Nowhere except on between the intervertebral disks. I cannot ac­ New Osteopathic Work the articular processes. This being true, then cept the current teaching that the intervertebral the articular processes, inferior and superior, sur­ disks are compressed. These disks being' con­ PAMPHLET that contains much com­ rounded by synovial memlllrane, constitutes a structed out of fibro-cartilage, and not being mon sense crowded into small space has typical spinal joint, and all of the other structures A just been published by Drs. C. E. and about the spinal joint are simply accessories. elastic in nature and composition, therefore, I Dell Schoolcraft, of Watertown, S. D. The importance of this fact cannot be overesti­ do not see how they can be compressed-not­ It is entitled "A Treatise Upon the Proper mated. We now study the spinal joint as any withstanding our authorities to the contrary. Care of the Mother in Confinement and of the other joint is studied, from its individual con­ When we understand the spinal joint, its con­ New Born Child." While there are some struction. The importance of the facets, inferior struction and functions, and apply such knowl­ statements with which all will not agree, they and superior, and their different construction in edge definitely and practically, we will then be are not such as to affect the general value of the lumbar, thoracic and cervical regions begin in a position to have a spring house cleaning, the work as a brief, concise guide to arrange­ now to be appreciated as the important factors clearing our offices of such junk as the vibrator ments, procedure and conduct during this im­ in the characterization of the movements of the portant period in the home. spinal column. This gives us a scientific basis and other mechanical and electrical appliances equally as worthless from the standpoint of in­ Chapters are devoted to the following sub­ for a technique founded upon the characteristic jects: "Pregnancy," "Parturition, or Child­ movements of the various regions of the spinal trinsic worth and merit. Ido not want to forget Birth," "Second Stage of Labor," "Care of column. To bring the spinal joint plainly to your to include habit from the use of such instru­ Child," "Third Stage of Labor." The book is minds, we will give the difference found in the ments, and the disposition to take it easy, which thoroughly osteopathic and is simple in style construction of the joints as found in the lumbar is the natural result from using these mechanical and language and should be easily understood and thoracic region's: The superior facets in appliances. by readers of even limited education. A strong the lumbar region are concave, look backward Usually the first step iIi an M. D.'s evolution plea is made to avoid undue haste and artificial and inward, while the inferior facets are convex, from the lIrug therapy is to fill his office and reliefs and to give nature a chance to do its look forward and outward. The superior aspect work in a natural way. of the joint is a little wider than the inferior treating room with vibrators, other mechanical and electrical appliances. The first step in Copies will be furnished the profession at aspect, which has some significance. The facets a $1.50 dozen, postpaid, and including envelopes. of the thoracic region are different as you will regular osteopath's devolution is when he fills see. In the thoracic region the superior facets his office with the various electrical and me­ are directed backward, slightly outward and up­ chanical appliances. Not because of their intrinsic An Apprecia.tion. ward; while the illferior facets are directed for­ worth as a therapeutic agent, but because the You made a big "hit" with me with the Christmas ward, a little inward and downward. patient thinks he wants them and the devoluting Osteopathic Health. You are certainly capable of getting osteopath becomes a partner to the deception the "GO" out of things. You put Hginger" into your As I mentioned in a former article, there is work and that is what we want, for it is the synonym a normal testing position of the spinal column, that the man of drug placebo has been practicing of "go." The earth sets the example and the moon and and a degree of deviation or fraction thereof from on his unsuspecting patient for centuries past. stars typify it; the rolling waves of the sea accentuate this normal resting position (it is not exactly In conclusion, I wish to say that the only way it the theme; the roar of the wind storm and the to prove or disprove "The Law of the Movements rolling thunder and flashing lightning come in the grand the same in each individual) and maintained con­ chorus, and it is one continual round of H go" from fife stitutes a bony lesion. of the Spinal Column" is to lay aside precon­ to death. Sur~ thing. if we do not get a move on us we It seems obvious enough with the spinal joint ceived opinions, and what we may have learned don't 'count. specifically differentiated that its functions be­ heretofore, try it conscientiously, not in one "The earth sets the pace come very plain and simple. The joint move­ case, but several; then you can know for your­ As it flashes through space, ments 'takes place between the superior and in­ self. You will have to do the work individually, And unless you respond to the call, ferior articular facets, assisted by the vertebral if it is ever done at all. Saying there is Just, a jerk or a whiff , bodies moving en masse, or swinging en masse, nothing in it without a fair and impartial in­ And you are gone in a jiff, and this movement is further assisted by. the vestigation does not prove anything but your ig­ Like a fly calsomined to a wall. curves as well as a slight torsion taking place norance. -Eva M. Hunter, D, 0., Livingston, Mont. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN "I A.?'Jeee€e$E:eeE:e€s:):~:~sssesss~:r~~~i' The Tree of Life "'.'~ '"~ Rose U. Klug, D.O., Milwaukee. ~~ "In this vast garden," salth the Lord, i Toilet:$-Hygienic To Adam and to Eve, I give thee right to move about November As free as flying leaves; From ev'ry tree I bid thee eat, ~~ Save this one tree," He salth, m~ ANTISEPTICS ~ "And he who violates my law Osteopathic ~ a Must answer It with death." ~ After trying various agents ~I~ ~I~ recommended for the hygiene of ~I~ But then did Satan visit Eve; ~g We've heard It o'er and o'er, Health m the toilet without satisfactory And told her of the wondrous things ~ results, give Tyree's Powder a ~~ There'd be for her In store, ii! chance. Try a twenty.five cent ii! If she'd but taste the luscious fruit "A .Splendid Number" ~~ box. It bas the highest indorse- ~I~ From that forbidden tree; Assured her there was naught to fear, ~~ ments from scientists and practitioners, $ No dreadful penalty. The November "Osteopathic Health" ~I~ w~o ~ ~li is a splendid number and ought to bring have. ';1sed it for great many years a great many patients to our osteopathic ~~ wIth unfaIling results 1D Leucorrbea, Gon- ~i ~ti Her curiosity aroused, practitioners, - M. Elizabeth Shupert, (I'~: orrhea, VaglDl . T IS, P.runtus, etc., as weII as 'Ii She straightway tastes the fruit. D. U.. /(ock/ord, lit. "~ Prickly Heat, Ulcers, Poison Oak, Tender ~i And then by coaxing just a bit, Dear Adam follows suit. W Feet, Offensive Perspiration, Hives, Ec- W F YOU HAVE not yet secured a sup­ ~I( So honestly do we poor things zema, Old Sores, and Catarrhal Conditions * Come by weak minds and wills, ply, get your order in NOW. It is an ~l~ of the Nose and Throat. ~ And pay for breaking Nature's lB.1... I ~~ It neither pains or stains. Is odorless W With bitter dopes and pills. issue of great value <;m Winter com­ and economical, without tbe all pervading ~r. plaints, and the time to educate and cam­ f. Our curiosity aroused, ,{; tell·tale odor of Carbolic, Iodoform, etc. ~ paign along this line is right now, before ~! ~t! Like Adam and like Eve, Be sure you get Tyree's Powder, A We wander from the given path the troubles have taken hold and old, un­ ~'( sample and booklet containing its compo- ~r. And promptly come to grieve. ~ ~~ For Nature's laws must be obeyed, satisfactory methods for relief adopted. sition, bacteriological and clinical poten- Her rule Is firm as steel, 'Ii des furnished the profession free upon \Ii And just as we with It comply Let the people understand there is a \Ii8$ appl'lcat'Ion. \Ii~I~ So have we woe or wea.l. better, safer way of checking "colds" and ~ J. S. TYREE, Chemist, Washington, D. C" ~ When Mamma does her duties leave coughs than by doping with drugs. Don't To talk of gown or hat, hide the light under a bushel, let it shine. And leaves dear little Johnnie home ·:.r-~~L::.~~tiI'!.,:c:~~.~~.~ ...... ~._~~~~~~~ ..... ".JP 'C':~~~e .....·.....·....·e:...... ·....·.....·....·~:,·,~~~~::;Ir.717~ To play with pussy cat, She must expect that "Johnnie, dear," Of pussy will soon tire, THE And to explore forbidden realms His mind will then aspire. OSTEOPATHIC PUB. CO. And naturally to pantry shelves CHICAGO AManual of He first turns his attention, And makes a raid on jam and cake And pickles, not to mention. And Mamma wonders In the night What makes dear Johnnie 111, Osteopathic Gynecology And almost kills the little chap With dope and sugar pili. By PE~CY t1. WOODALL, M. D., D. O. At night we see the charming belle SECOND EDITION In gorgeous ball attire, C~llege With spirits gay and springy step, Central Revised, Enlarged and Illustrated And eyes that flash like fire, But morning flnds another state, NOW READY She holds her throbbing head­ Finds magic wafers all In vain, PRICE, PREPAID, .$3.50 And, frantic, seeks her bed. of Osteopathy For sale by the author INCORPORATED And politicians by the score­ That most unselfish class- Established 1903 615 First National Bank Building How oft they sacrifice their health To aid the world en masse. BIRMINGHAM, ALA. They must attend the festive board, And mingle with the "boys," ,. Our grounds and build­ It's for the good of that dear cause And not for their own joys! ings centrally located; best

But now, since 'tis the bent of man college location in the city. THE PRINCIPLES of To do what Is forbld,- And honestly we come by It TASKER For that's what Adam dld- ,- Our students, by city OSTEOPATHY 'Tis well we have a friend In need, A friend both tried and true, ordinance, have access to 352 Pages, 166 illustrations, Best Namely, Osteopathy, Book Paper, bound In Silk Cloth That wondrous science new. all clinics at the city hos­ ,./would have give" a hundred dollars to hav. had that book fa" into my ha..ds on the day "Poor Johnnie," writhing In his pain, pital, in addition to clinics tltat / first enteret!on thestUtty .jOsteopatlly." At once may find relief -fl. S. BUNTING, D. O. Without the aid of sugar pills, at the College. ~ Which lead to further grief. He'll ever bless that kind, dear friend PRICE $5.00, EXPRESS PRBPAID Who stopped that "tummle-ake," ,. Three year course. But likely, when he gets the chance, Will eat more jam and cake. DArN L. TASKBR,'" D. O. ,- Faculty of eighteen suc­ The belle of fashion, all worn out 526·9 Auditorium Bldg.. LOS ANGELES, Cal. With her mighty revelry, cessful practitioners. No surer aid need try to seek Than Osteopathy. And to our politician friend, ,- For catalog or any infor­ With stomach much abused, We otrer great encouragement, mation regarding Osteop­ TABLES TABLES TABLES If he'll but pay his dues. athy, address We manufacture the tables that look well In fact, the science of the day and wear well. Price list and samples of Is Osteopathy. covers sent on request. Folding tables, It.'s practical In all It does, All thinking minds agree. DR. GEO. MOFFETT, Sec. strong and durable, $6,00. It Is B. friend to each and all Of Nature's sutrerlng lot. Kansas City, Mo. Dr. Geo. T. HaymaD. 317 MiDt Arcade. Philadelphia Its merits must success ensure, However strongly fought. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

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These partial failures, however, were more than .t'ennsylvania Association at one of its meetings THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN offset by splendid victories in Georgia, Florida, raised $2,000 for the fund. The Organ of News and Opinion for the Pennsylvania, and l~ ebraska. In these states we fhe work of educating the public through Profession. won full and complete recognition before the popular literature has been carried forward vigor­ Published on the 15th of every month by The OSTEOPATHIC law and independent examl11ing- boards. The ously and intelligently. The standard of the ma­ PUBI.SHING COMPANY, 603, 191 Market success in Pennsylvania was particularly credit­ terial used has been raised and in make-up and Street, Chicago. able because of the conservatism of the people appearance has advanced to a higher plane of and the long and stubborn fight against it and typographical and pictorial excellence. A great­ HENRY STANHOPE BUNTING, A. B., M. D., D. 0 .• the strength of the political influence of the op­ ly stimulated demand has shown the public ap­ President and Manager. position. The Georgia law is notable for its com­ preciative and eager to be informed. The field RALPH ARNOLD, Assistant Manager. prehensiveness, osteopaths being recognized. as is wide and the prospect for the harvest great. physicians and surgeons with the right to perform It will tax the capacity of the workers, but hap­ SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, 81.00 A YEAR major operations. pily they are re~dy and willing. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. On the Pacific coast laws were secured in In the National Association harmony reigns. Washington and Oregon with representation on The thirteenth annual meeting at Minneapolis Entered as second-class matter April 7, 1903, at the Post­ office at Ckicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. a composite board. A new law was also obtained was full of enthusiasm and a success in every in Massachusetts. way. New democratic procedure was put into Our colleges have been making substantial pro­ effect permitting to the fullest extent the partici­ Vol. XVI. DECEMBER. 1909. No.6 gress. The Still College at Des Moines pur­ pation of every member in all its activities. The chased outright a five-story brick building for a great, broad, fundamental interests of the pro­ Fairness! Freedom! F eariessne•• I new hospital and furnished it with all newest fession can be safeguarded and advanced by the American Osteopathic Association to a degree not possible by any other agency. Its officers have EDITORIAL been capable and efficient. The record of the year shows it to be alive, aggressive' and pro' gressive. "Hew to the line, let chips There is much work, tribulation, and joy fall where they will' ~ ahead of the osteopathic profession but we can look back over 1909 and say "well done" and turn our faces to the future with courage and Our Christmas Greeting to You! conviction. E wish you all the good things for Christmas that Santa Claus, Good For­ W tune. Good Health and an Approving The O. P. Company's New Home Conscience ever brings to anybody! HEN this December issue of The O. For a New Year's greeting we hope that P. comes to you The Osteopathic Pub­ osteopathy will wax stronger, greater and W lishing Company will have moved into faster than ever, that you will get your full its handsome and commodious new quarters at share of it, and that you will say a year hence 191 Market street, corner of Quincy street. "it was the best in my history." We have taken a long-time lease on the entire We have-all, much to be thankful for as a eleventh floor of the new .fire-proof steel-con­ profession at the closing hours of the first structed building at that location. The build­ decade of the twentieth century. Let us show ing is of marble finish inside, has electric eleva­ our gratitude by clean hearts towards our fel­ tors, private mail chutes, etc. lows, open minds toward truth and all due The building was designed and built ex­ humility in the hour of recognized professional pressly as a home for magazine publishers and prosperity. is equipped with a costly plant of .the most And don't you think, one and all, it would modern pTesses, folding and binding ma­ be a fitting thing to start a little personal note chinery, mailing and shipping facilities, etc. of gratitude and affection on its way to "Father We have the best floor in the building-the Andrew" at Kirksville, to help gladden his best for light, air and temperature, with the Christmas and let him see his children in their largest immunity from street noises and dirt. thousand homes have not forgotten him? I We enjoy the benefit of southern exposure. would like to see the poor mail carrier on Our quarters have been fitted up with oak Osteopathy avenue, Kirksville, U. S. A, stag­ and plate glass partitions especially designed ger under such a load of Christmas greetings for our comfort and the convenient dispatch of to "Pappy" Still that he would have to borrow our business. We have a fire-proof vault for a wheelbarrow or charter an express wagon to the protection of our subscription and contract deliver his loving freight. Isn't it coming to lists, card files, accounts, historic files, etc. "Pappy" Still, considering all. he has done for The floor has private toilet rooms. Intercom­ us? municating telephones connect each department of the office and also put each department on LOOKING BACKWARD. the public phone system. We have better Another year is speeding to its finish. Soon facilities and immeasurably more room for we shall cease to write 1909 on current documents stock and shipping. More room for each de­ and the customary clean sheet' will be prepared partment means better equipment and the for the records of 1910. What is the record of most up-to-date machinery for the despatch this closing year for osteopathy. Does it show The New Home of The Osteopathic Publishing Company. of our business. That all means, of course, progress; do the successes over balance the fail­ better, and still better, service to our patrons. ures; is the net result loss or gain ? Well it has We have installed the phonograph system been an eventful year. with some discourage­ equipments. The Los Angeles College at Los of dictation. That means that when the editor ments but also much progress and on the whole Angeles put up a four-story addition, with an or the assistant manager sends you a type­ the osteopathic profession can look back over it assembly hall seating 500 and a surgical amphi­ written message hereafter it has very likely with a good deal of complacency. theater seating 175. The rtmerican School at been "talked to you" personally-into a pho­ In legislature we lost out in New Jersey, Kirksville has installed much valuable and ex­ nograph of the Edison type, and not taken Colorado, and Illinois, but the fights were well pensive new equipment. A new three-story his­ down by shorthand at all. Most of the edi­ fought and a big moral advantage gained. The pital has been opened in connection with the torials and news matter you read in our col­ amount of public interest worked up in these Philadelphia College at Philadelphia. In Los umns will take form in the same way. The contests was remarkable; some of the strongest Angeles property has been purchased for a big editor can now sit in the seclusion of his pressure exerted in our behalf came from out­ hospital under osteopathic' auspices which with wooded bluff on the shores of Lake Michigan, side the ranks of the profession. The determina­ property, building, and equipment will represent an up near Waukegan-thirty miles away from tion of so large a part of the public to help nvestment of close to $200,000. Reports from the rush and roar of a busy city-and literally our cause proves that an intelligent appreciation the colleges indicate that they are all in excellent "talk" to "The O. P." family and to "0. H." of the value of osteopathy is growing rapidly. financial condition. readers while drinking in inspiration from a The conscientious work of our practitioners and Interest in research work has been active show­ clear sky, the song of birds, the soughing of our systems of popular education are bearing ing that the profession is alive to the importance rugged pines on the heights and the lash of their fruitage with increasing abundance each and necessity of this line of endeavor and fully lazy waves upon the shore. If that all can't succeeding year. determined to keep in the van of progress. The inspire good work-what will? Then a hand- Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 9 satchel full of phonographic "manuscripts" comes define his terms at the beginning, there would kind things against his local competitor, or back to town-and the connection is soon be less liability of a misunderstanding or against one who is doing work that he cannot made direct with our correspondents and grounds for criticism. do. As a member of an association, he opposes readers. B<;>osting means pushing up or assisting in everything that is proposed, without offering But-this is digressing. We start~d out to makmg advancement. This may be divided a substitute that is better, in his opinion, say how happy we are to get into our new into egoistic boosting of your own business, which would change him from a knocker to a home-the second move only that we have by advertising or by doing your work in such booster. Too many forget this in their opposi­ made in our decade of history-and to say we a manner that you become the talk of the tion to a new idea, and thus unconsciously shall be happy to have you come in and shake town, or altrustic boosting, which may con­ become knockers. We have no right to knock hands with us in our new quarters. We are sist of contributing financial aid to associa­ unless we can offset it with a boost for a sub­ proud of our growth and expansion, and of tions, writing articles to be read at the asso­ stitute. the success which has made this sort of enter­ ciation meetings, or to be published in the Now for the "Grafter." He is of various prise possible; and we thank you and every journals of the profession for the benefit of kinds and different methods of operating, but other customer we have in the profession for the profession. These articles should be on generally on the move, because he fails to, de­ that loyal support which has made success of subjects of interest and boiled down to the liver the goods, which makes him a grafter. the right sort possible. real bone and muscle of the subject, with a1l He thinks more about fees than curing the the surplus fat eliminated, which could possi­ patient. He has much time to spare, and often The Conservatism of a Radical ~ly prevent a clear understanding of just what studies out some skin lotion or device, which IS meant. he tries to sell to the profession for ten times E are in receipt of a pamphlet by George Now, one of the easiest, cheapest and best its real value. He not only takes the money M. Gould, M. D., of Ithaca, N. Y., en­ ways to boost is to read the articles carefully, from those who purchase his "soap" or his W titled "Fifty-seven Varieties of Medical and, when we find one that pleases, drop "booft:," but he destroys their confidence in and Ophthalmic Blunders." The doctor attrib­ a letter to the writer and tell him that we have advertisements, which prevents them from pat­ utes a large percentage of the prevailing diseases read his article with interest and that we es­ ronizing the things having real merit and of body and mind to eye strain and brain strain, pecially appreciate certain points. This will worthy of patronage. caused by defective vision. Dr. Gould is a pow­ emphasize the points in our own minds, and If the A. O. A. had a committee to pass on erful and fluent writer and he condemns in no repay him for the time and labor of preparing books and appliances offered to the profession, uncertain terms the carelessness, ignorance and the article, besides stimulating him to'further much of this grafting could be eliminated. indifference in· the treatment of eye troubles, study, and encourage him to write again. There are many meritorious books published which, he claims, exist today to an alarming If there are points with which we do not by members of the profession, that ought to be degree, the dire results of which have been agree, we should state our point and ask him in the office library of every member of the brought to his attention in his personal experi­ to give further explanation in a future article. profession, if they were only properly en­ ence. There is no doubt much truth in the con­ If a reply is made through the press with severe dorsed, and offered at a price equal to their tentions of Dr. Gould, but in a man who poses criticism, it may have a tendency to discourage value. Many of these books have to be sold as fighting for the recognition of a new truth, and him, as well as others, in preparing future arti­ for more than their value because their sale is who, presumably, has felt the discouragement of cles. Every writer does, or should, write for so limited, it is necessary in order to meet conservative indifference and bigoted ridicule, it the good of the profession; and to publish an the cost of publishing. If each author had his is disappointing to find a. narrow attitude when article questioning his good intentions before book reviewed and endorsed by competent it comes to new truths outside of his own particu­ understanding just what he meant is knocking. authority before it was published, and knew lar hobby. In "An Appeal for the Sake of Man and I have practiced writing cards and letters to that he would have sale for one thousand of Medicine," osteopathy is classed with quackery authors of articles and books, and it is quite copies as soon as it was off the press, he and faith cure, in a passage reading "American common to receive replies like this: "Your could fix the price within the value, and thus quackery, eddyism, osteopathy, faithcure, optom­ card, or letter, was the only one received ex­ promote sales, which would result in greater etry, and a hundred such nonsensicalities." In pressing appreciation of our article." One benefit to the profession, as well as to the spite of many such sneers from the medical pro­ writer says: "Your letter alone fully repays publisher. fession, osteopathy has proved its worth and me for a1l the time I have spent in research Another matter should be ruled out, and. made for itself a permanent place in healing work for the benefit of the profession." Now, that is "rehashing" that which has' been writ­ science. In "Fifty-seven Varieties of Medical if one letter is worth that much, what would a ten and rewritten from the same point of view. and Ophthalmic Blunders," Dr. Gould says: thousand be worth? If you are going to use a fact patent to every "The conservatism of bigotry is for the conserving of What research workers desire, above every­ member of the profession, change the point the bigot, and is not due to love of or care for ·science.' thing else, is to know that their efforts are of view, or make a new application, without It is weIl to guard against the acceptance of new and which you are grafting. Be original at least erroneous theories, but in medicine a new truth not ac­ appreciated by the members of the profession. cepted means the death and suffering of multitudes. The How are they to know their work is appreci­ in your view point, if you cannot make a new fifty years during which the 'leaders' refused to recog· ated, if we do not express personally our ap­ application of· an old truth. nize and practice the published truth of the role of the preciation. It is a well-known fact that if We need more books of the size and style mosquito in transmitting yeIlow fever cost millions of lives. The thirty or more years they have refused to we wish to get the best out of a speaker, we of the "Old Doctor's" Philosophy on new sub­ admit and practice the truth of the eyestrain origin of must give him our applause, and the same law jects, and presented in the author's own style many systemic diseases have been far more expensive and holds good with writers. We will have no and view point, without any rehashing or shamefu'l. A famous physician with an uneasy con· science has said that there are great and vitaIly impor­ trouble in getting research work done if we imitation of other writers. tant truths which may not be acknowledged as truth hy will only show appreciation. Then we need a reform in the method of medical and scientific men. As to authority in medicine The "Research Fund" is likely to be needed getting such works to the profession, so as to it is evident that the established or dominant opinion must come from a dead not from a progressive science. to pound into those who lack appreciation the reduce waste in the cost of production, which The rejection of authority is therefore the beginning of news ideas discovered. It is well known has to be added to the price of the book, and advance." amopg manufacturers that it costs more to thus limits the sale. It is hard to reconcile this condemnation of introduce and sell a new article than to manu­ A profitable subject to discuss at our blind conservatism with his own attitude toward facture it. The same is true with the intro­ association would be "what subjects need osteopathy. duction of a new idea. Think of what it has books written to elucidate them from the oste­ cost to introduce osteopathy. A million times opathic standpoint." Some subjects have been more than it did to discover and work it out. worn threadbare, while others have not been Boosting, Knocking and Grafting Money will never repay the "Old Doctor" for touched. what he has done for humanity; words of ap­ s. W. Heath, D.O., Sioux Falls, S. D. preciation is the currency that must help to HE old Scotchman's advice was, "before repay that debt.' Some will say that it would A. S. O. Has Additional Equipment. beginning an argument, first define your take all an author's time to reply these cards Realizing the importance of bacteriological study, the T terms; there may be no difference to and letters of appreciation; but it has not been American School of Osteopathy has added to its equip­ argue after there is an understanding of terms." so in the past, and if in the future they are so ment a large number of new microscopes imported from Our differences may be in our view point or a numerous, the writers may thank us through Germany. These make the equipment in the laboratories, misunderstanding of statement or meaning of the professional papers, and give the names so for individu'al laboratory work complete. The instru­ ments are equipped with oil immersion microscopes. A terms. There is a tendency in our profession that the profession may know who are appre­ new apparatus for examining disease germs without stain­ to consider the term "Principle" to mean the ciative. If, then, they are too numerous, he ing, the Dark Field Illuminator, is a valuable addition to same thing as the term "Practice," and there can simply state that he received so many hun­ the laboratory equipment. Its chief use is in hunting for is where we get into an argument over "Ad­ dred. parasitic organisms such as the trymponesomes and for juncts and Mixing." From a misunderstanding Osteopathy means adjustment, and to adopt quick study of these parasites. To the laboratory course ,of the meaning of the terms "Drug and Food," this idea will require the great majority of the much more histological and pathological laboratory work we fail to make the proper discrimination, and has been added this year. The laboratories have been members of the profession to readjust them­ increased in size, a new room being outfitted for the misunderstand what is intended by the writer. selves, for they need readjustment just as well histological work, and the chemistry laboratory being If each writer would not take too much for as their patients, or they will become knockers. doubled in size, with an enlarged storeroom and experi­ granted on the part of the reader, and would A "Knocker" is one who says mean and un- mental laboratory for the instructors in chemistry.

/ Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 10 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN· The Pacific Question Box ---.,- Information Wanted on Dr. Overall's Book. College of Who knows whether Dr. OveralJ's book on "Non· Philadelphia operative treatment of prostate, sexual neuroses, etc!' is worth getting? Is it a book you would recommend an osteopath to gct, and use in his practice ?-A., care of Osteopathy The O. P., Chicago. . (INCORPORATED) LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA Are You a Member of Modern Woodmen? College ·and Member of Associated Colleges of Osteopathy. We have a call for a list of osteopathic physicians Established 1896. who are members of The Modern Woodmen. If you belong to this organization send in your name. TUREE YEARS' COURSE of STUDY What Is Life. .Infirmary of This college has long stood for thorough 1. Can inorganic salts be assimilated and become ele­ ments or constituents of the human body? and practical professional training. It 2. What control (if any) has biological power, force, asks the favorable consideration of such or energy over chemical force or energy, within the human pr~c­ system?-Evan Williams, D.O., Los Angeles, Cal. men and women as wish to base their I know no one in the osteopathic profession qualified tice of Osteopathy upon a thoroughly to answer your question because we have no physiological Osteopathy chemists who are authorities. However, I can tell you scientific foundation. what I have learned from others. It is generally under­ stood that soluble salts are absorbed. (See Halliburton Thirty Instructors and Lecturers. or Pohlman.) Your first question then could be answered by "yes. JJ Inorganic elements such as iron, for instance, HE prospective student of Os­ Well Equipped Chemical, Physiological, Histological, may be a"sorbed and perform a function in the corpuscle, Bacteriological and Anatomical Laboratories. but it never becomes living matter. It is as necessary, teopathy wants to look about however, to the economy of the organism as the vitalized ~ him carefully before choosing Clinical Advantages Unsurpassed. elements. In order for an inorganic element to be vital­ ized in the animal or, in other words, raised to protoplasm, his school. Work throughout based upon Laboratory Methods. it must be transformed by the plant from the inorganic Faculty composed of Specialists in their several lines to the organic. If your question then were to be changed Philadelphia is the center of Amer­ who have nad Wide Experience in Teaching. to read "Can inorganic salts be assimilated and become vitalized elements of theh uman body?" the answer would ican medicine. The first American Excellent Opportunities are offered for Post Graduate be "No." medical school was established there. Work. The distinction is very important. By your second question I believe you mean, HWhat It is the work-shop where Leidy, For Catalogue or Further Information Address control has vital force over chemical force within the human body?" This is a question that biologists and Gross, Agnew, Pepper, Piersol, Spill­ chemists have never settled. The biologist claims that er, Ossler arid a hundred more set the that something that he calls vital force holds the scepter c. A.Whiting, Se. D., D.O. over all processes in the body, while the chemist claims standard for American practice and Chair-man of the Faculty that all bodily processes are simply chemical processes and that the so-called vital processes are simply the man­ American teaching. Daly St. and Mission Road, LOS ANGELES, CAL. ifestation of the chemical processes: 1When we can answer the question HWhat is life?" and "What is chem­ This is the environment of the ical affinity?" we can answer No.2, but not before.­ Philadelphia College and Infirmary of H. H. Fryette, D.O., Chicago. Osteopathy, established in 1899 and since enlarged four times to accom­ Blizzards, Equators and Other•. WHAT OSTEOPATHY modate the increased attendance. Miss Clara Evelyn McHugh, a teacher in one of the Topeka schools, read at a recent teachers' meetinlr The Philadelphia College draws from a collection of quaint f;xamination answers that MEANS TO WOMEN she had been gathering for some years. clinical material from a population of The gems of Miss McHugh's collection ·were: "A blizzard is the inside of a hen." fifteen hundred thousand. liThe equator is a menagerie lion running around It has acquired the unrivalled dis­ the earth." HOW IT RELIEVES AN'D CURES, "Oxygen is a thing that has eight sides." secting facilities of the Philadelphia liThe cuckoo never lays its own eggs.)J WITHOUT RESORT TO THE "A mosquito is a child of black and white par­ College of Anatomy. SURGEON'S KNIFE ents."-Chicago Journal. It has access to all the famous clin­ ics of Philadelphia, and to the unique With the Insurance Companies collections of the Wistar Institute· of IBIEING the Octob"" '09, ;ssue N order to make our insurance record of Anatomy and the Academy of Nat­ of OSTEOPATHIC HEALTH. A any value we should have more reports from ural Sciences. = standard number always I the field. From the different positions taken = useful, always in· demand. at various times by some of the companies, it And its Faculty enlists the teaching Your educational literature is not i$ evident we need to have actual experiences services of some of the foremost prac­ complete without special informa­ to show just wbat is the attitude of any com­ ticing Osteopaths in the country. pany. When we have secured a representative Students from every part of the tion on this important subject. list and sufficient evidence it is our intention fj Women constitute three-fourths to address the head officers of each company United States and from foreign coun­ of the average practice. They in- and put the matter squarely up to them for tries seek the Philadelphia College of _fluence half of theremainingfourth. decision. To secure any consideration it is Osteopathy. Therefore it is of tremendous im~ essential that we show a lively interest in the profession and widespread determination to portance that women understand patronize and "pull for" only those companies what osteopathy means to them, that recognize our science by appointing our what it can do for them. Cj[We practitioners examiners. Write to the Registrar for have not a very large stock of this catalogue of the Philadelphia exceedingly interesting number, Suggests A. O. A. Insllrance Branch. College and Infirmary of Os­ teopathy, and a copy of the but while they last they are $3.00 Why does not the A. O. A. institute a branch of fraternal insurance? I am not a member, but expect to Journal. per hundred, delivered. If you be later.-Hendrik Olson, D.O., Rochester, Pa. want some, order at once, or you may be too late. Get Busy on W. O. W. 1715 North Broad St. The Head Camp of the Woodmen of the World will THE OSTEOPATHIC PUB. CO. meet at Portlapd, Ore.bnext summer. Dr. H. F. Leonard, of that city, urges all . O. to get busy with their Wood· Philadelphia, Pa. CHICAGO. man friends to see if we cannot get recognition at the meeting. Dr. Leonard says he has promise of help at Portland. Now is the time to work together on this.

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tr. S. Accident of Saginaw "0. X." Last March I examined and treated a man who had fallen from his porch and injured his spine and shoulder severely. He carried a policy with the United States Accident and Sickness Company, of Saginaw, Mich. When he was able to go about his work again, I made out his papers and sent them in; a settlement was made inside of a week. Soon after the general man­ Write for Catalogue,

Woodmen Appoint in Michigan. The American School of Osteopathy I am examiner for the Woodmen of the World, of KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI Omaha, Neb. I received my commission March 9th, '09. I made six examinations for the Knights and Ladies of DR. A. T. STILL. Founder of the Science, President Security, of Omaha, which were accepted. Later they refused to issue me a commission, because I was an ""steopath. Dr. Rose H. Rice, supreme' physician, wrote The largest and foremost Osteopathic College in the world. Fourteen years of me that the rules of the organization forbade the ap­ lJOintments of osteopaths.-B. A. Bullock, D.O., Hastings, successful school work. Number of students exceed seven' hundred. This insti. Mich., November 20tb. tution teaches genuine Osteopathy-no adjuncts. Prudential Company Evasive. Teaching facilities unexcelled. Thoroughly equipped laboratories in all depart­ Last year, at his own request, I applied for appoint­ ment as medical examiner for the Prudential Insurance ments. Clinical advantages unlimited. Faculty composed of able and experienced -Company, through Mr. A. O. Cope, assistant superin­ .tendent at this place. Later he informed me that the instructors who devote their full time to teaching. Anatomy taught in every appointment was declined because the company did not ·employ osteopaths. I wrote them stating that as presi. .term-three professors in charge of this department. Special attention given to dent of the Michigan State Osteopatbic Association and not as a personal matter, I would like to know tbe reason dissection and to the study of anatomy in general. New hospital for the use of why osteopatbs were not employed. I briefly referred to ·our legal standing and our connection with other old the school now in operation. line companies. Dr. Robert L. Burrage, medical director, replied very tersely under date of December 17, '08, --ADDRESS-- that "this company has medical representation at Hast­ ings. In the consideration of your name, no other fact was considered, and we declined to appoint because your American School of Osteopathy services were not needed." KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI .W!thin one week a~ter ~hei~ reply they issued a com­ mISSIOn to an M. D. tn thIS CIty, and within fOUf weeks New York City. Reported by Dr. Louis A. Lyon, Wells­ D. Berry, Rochester, N. Y. ·of Hastings, Mich., The Pennsylvania Casualty Com­ boro, Pa. National Protective Legion, of Waverly. N. Y. Re­ pany, of Scranton, Pa., addressed this letter to their Bankers' Life Insurance Company of Illinois. Re­ ported by Dr. Clinton D. Berry, of Rochester, N. Y. agent: Mr. O. R. Bishop, Hastings, Mich.-Dear Sir: ported by Dr. W. S. Maddux, Brush, Colo. Fidelity and Casualty Company of New Yor'L City. We regret very much to be compelled to ask you to , Independent Order of Puritans of Pittsburg, Pa. Re­ Double rate to osteopaths on accident insurance. Re­ ported by Dr. W. S. Maddux, Brush, Colo. ported by Dr. Maude B. Holcomb, Jackson, Mich. return us for cancellation, Physician's Defense policy National Accident Society of New York City. Re­ Royal Arcanum, of Boston, Mass. Reported by Dr. No. 20001. issued to Benoni A. Bullock, an osteopath ported by Dr. John M. Treble, Warsaw, N. Y. V. L. Springer, Princeton, Ind. physician of your city. The company informs us they Royal Court of Los Angeles, Cal. Reported by Dr. ·cannot allow this policy to remain in force for at the Jessie A. Russell, Los Angeles. physi~ians present time they are not covering of the United States Casualty Co. of New York City. Re­ Travelers of Hartford Writes Good Policy. 'school under this form of policy.-Wm. Schmidt, As­ ported by Dr. H. F. Morse, Coulee City, Wash., and sistant manager of Agencies. Dr. W. S. Maddux, Brush, Colo. I have been paying the Travelers Insu'rance Company Fraternal Brotherhood, Los Angeles, Cal. Reported of Hartford, Conn., $8.50 per $1,000 for the past four by Dr. Lawrence M. Hart, Seattle, Wash. '. or five years. It is a Hform G" accumulation policy and Modern Brotherhood of America of Mason C,ty, Iowa. a good one. They issue another at $7.50 _per $1,000 or Pacific Mutual Not Prejudiced. RejJorted by Dr. I. E. Hancock of Independence, Kans. $37.50 for $5,000, but it is inferior. When in Lo. Fraternal Bankers Reserve of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Angeles the Fidelity and Casualty Company, of New York On the strength of this friendly letter to Dr. W. S. Reported by Dr. 1. E. Hancock of Independence, Kans. City, to which Dr. Maud B. Holcomb, of Jackson, Mich., Maddux from the general agent in Colorado of the Travelers' Accident Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn. refers, offered me a policy for $30. E. H. Porter, the Pacific Mutual Insurance Company we have placed .their Reported by Dr. W. S. Maddux, Brush, Colo. local agent, wrote me under date of October 22d, as name in the list of companies accepting osteopaths as Foresters of America of In New York follow: examiners: state. Reported by Dr. Norman C. Hawes. Gouverneur, "I have to say that accident companies have very gen­ Dr. W. S. Maddux, Brush, Colo.-Dear Sir: In reply N. Y. erally been classifying osteopathic physicians as more National Reserve of Charles City, Iowa. Reported to your favor of the 26th ult. with reference to your hazardous than the general medical profession, and charg­ by Dr. G. B. Wolf, Ottawa, Kans. ing an average premium of $9 per $1,000 of accident recollection of the agent who refused to utilize your Woodmen of the World: Omaha, Neb. Reported by insurance. I am therefore pleased to inform you that services as examiner, I am confident this could not apply Dr. G. B. Wolf, Ottawa, Kans. the Fidelity and Casualty Company has liberalized the to a representative of the Pacific Mutual, from the fact Missouri State Life Insurance Company, of St. Loui., rule in this respect, and we are nOw able to issue our that there has been no one in that locality that has Mo. Reported br Dr. Warren Hamilton, l{irksville, Mo. latest improved form of accident policy in any sum that written any business except myself about eight months Kansas City Llfe Insurance Company, of Kansas Cit)', may be desired at the same rate that most companies Mo. Reported by Dr. Warren Hamilton, Kirksville, Mo. charge the general medical practitioner." since and I must plead "not guilty." Our secretary in­ Atlas Insurance Company, of St. Louis, Mo. Reported forms me that our company has not as far as he know. Dr. Holcomb can probably get a better rate if she ap­ by Dr. Warren Hamilton, Kirk.ville, Mo. plies again.-G. P. Long, D.O., Rockville Center, N. Y., been called upon to take action one way or the other Pacific Mutual Insurance Co. of Los Angeles, Cat. November 24th. to take examinations by osteopathic physicians. He states Reported br Dr. W. S. Maddux, Brush, Colo. that we have quite a large number of physicians in this Royal Hlghlanders of Lincoln, Neb. Reported by Dr. W. S. Maddux, Brush, Colo. school on our books as policy holders in Los Angeles, Standard Accident of Detroit Not Prejudiced. some of them the leaders in their profession and are amongst the best boosters for this company in its home Insuranoe Companies Refusing Osteopathio Ex­ The Standard Accident Insurance Company, of Detroit, city. I have a personal acquaintance with several of amination•• Mich., has advised its 'agents that as regarding statements the gentlemen who I esteem highly. They are very in the presentation of claims, osteopaths are treated the same as doctors of other schools. The Armstrong-Roth­ friendly. both to him and to this company. Now I am Homesteaders' Insurance Society of Des Moines, Iowa. RejJorted by Dr. W. S. Maddux, Brush, Colo., and Cady Company, agents at Buffalo, N. Y., in a letter com­ confident that there is no reason for arriving at a con­ Dr. E. J. Martin, Coffeyville, Kans. menting on the attitude of the company, call attention to clusion that we would not, when necessary, employ the Fraternal Aid Society of Lawrence, Kans. Reported a new policy they are now writing at the reduced rate services of one of your profession. bJl' Dr. W. S. Maddux, Brush, Colo., and Dr. G. B. of $30 per year, which provides $5,000 for loss of life Dr. Geo. W. Perrin of this city is a personal friend Wolf, Ottawa, Kans. and $25 per week indemnity, and gives all the benefits of mine, a policy holder, and he has, upon several Phoenix Mutual of Reported by Dr. that are given under any policy on the market. We occasions, made certificates as attending physician in W. S. Maddux, Brush. Cal, understand this is a liberal policy and as the company Royal Neighbors of ----- Reported by Dr. gives proper recognition to our profession it is entitled adjustment of accident claims which have been most G. B.' Wolf, Ottawa, Kans. ' to support. We suggest that any of our readers needing satisfactory to our company.-Ira B. Jackson, Denver, Occidental Society of Salina, Kans. Reported by Dr. accident insurance, write to the Armstrong-Roth-Cady Colo., November 24. G. B. Wolf, Ottawa, Kans. Company for information on this policy. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

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to the treating staff. Dr. Becker also instructs in anatomy. Osteopaths as Expert Witnesses Dr. Roscoe Lyda, graduate of the A. S. 0., who has been the "old doctor's" private secretary, is now on the treat­ HE record of the achievements of oste­ ing staff. opaths in this particular line of work is T growing slowly. Surely there must be Meeting of Trustees Iowa Association. many among our readers who could add an The Board of Trustees of the Iowa State Osteopathic experience. Let us hear from you. We want Association met December 3d at the Hotel Chamberlain, a record we can be proud of. Des Moines. Resolutions deploring the rumOr that the Special Sale of Iowa Osteopathic Association is divided on legislative questions were adopted. The board outlined the plans Becord of Cases in Which Osteopaths Have Testi­ of the association for the year and approved the work fied as Experts. done by those in charge of the opening of the new hospital in East Des Moines. Those attending the meet­ Aculee vs. St. Louis & San Francisco Ry., Chickasha, ing were: U. S. Parrish of Storm Lake, president; Dr. Okla. District Court, June, 1909. Judge Frank M. S. B. Miller of Cedar Rapids, Dr. J. R. BulIard of Osteopath'ic Baily. Verdict for plaintiff $1,100.00. Dr. W. S. Marshalltown, Dr. A. C. Brown of Council Bluffs, Dr. Corbin, expert witness for plaintiff. B. O. Hoard of Cherokee, Drs. Wagner and Wagner of Macon Ry. & Ligbt Co. vs. Mason, 123 Ga. 773, Creston, Dr. J. S. Baughman of Burlington, Dr. T. C. H. N. 5. Dr. Frank F. Jones, Macon, Ga. The Georgia Stephenson of Cedar Falls, Dr. J. K. Johnson of Jeffer­ Court of Appeals held that "One who is a graduate of a son,.and Dr. U. M. Hibbets of Grinnell. colIege where anatomy and physiology are taught, and Health Stock who is engaged in the practice of osteopathy and has gained experience in the treatment of nervous disorders, Educators Visit A. S. O. may be examined as an expert witness, upon these facts being made to appear, notwithstanding he is not a Mr. Abraham Flexner, the distinguished educational licensed physician and does not administer drugs to hi. authority, and Dr. Caldwell, members of the Carnegie patients." Institute for the Advancement of Education, visited the Stone vs. M., K. & T. Ry., San Antonio, Texas. American School of Osteopathy recently, on their tour of Numbers Fifty·seventh district court. March, 1909. Verdict for insp~ction of professional schools. plaintiff $7,500. Dr. A. G. Church, Lockhart, and Dr. R. L. Stephens, San Antonio, expert witnesses for Hard to Get in Texas. Excellent standard pro­ plaintiff. Wurzel vs. Pennsylvania Ry., Lisbon, Ohio. Common I have just retlirned from a trip through the great motion material at excep­ pleas court. March, 1909. Dr. G. W. Bumpus, Ea.t state of Texas. I was favorably impressed with the tionally low cost. Liverpool, expert witness for prosecution. country. At every stop I found the osteopaths, though Millspaugh vs. Erie Railroad. Scranton, Pa. U. S. few in number, doing well and anxious for more help. court. March, 1909. Dr. John T. Downing, Scranton, The possibilities, both osteopathically and for invest· These numbers have' all expert witness for plaintiff. ment, are great. I was led to believe betore taking this Haase vs. Morton & Morton, Eldora, Iowa. District trip, that having an Illinois certificate secured by exam· given satisfaction. They are court. March, 1906. Judge Evans. Verdict for plaintiff. ination I would be qualified to practice in Texas through Carried to Supreme Court; verdict of lower court sus­ reciprocity. It is generally believed that this is the case, simon-pure Osteopathic tained. Dr. C. L. Parsons, now of Roswell, New Mex., but I found the fact to be otherwise. The state board talksthat interest,fascinate, expert witness for plaintiff. of examiners met at Greenville, November 9th to 10th. I went there for the purpose of arranging for a certificate, Birchell vs. Central Colorado Coal and Mining Co., convince. Canon City, Colo. Judge Lee Cham~ion. district court. but was SOOn informed by. Dr. J. F. Bailey, of Waco, May. 1909. Dr. E. Wm. CadwelI, Canon City, expert the osteopathic member on the board, that the only way witness for plaintiff. Verdict for plaintiff. I could secure a certificate to practice in Texas was to We don't want to carry take the entire examination in all the twelve studies Irwin vs. East Liverpool Traction & Light Co., Lisbon, required by the Texas board. Until recently, he told me this stock any longer. It Ohio, August, 1908. Common pleas court. Dr. G. W. they had received the Illinois certificates as far as they Bumpus, East Liverpool, Ohio, expert witness for plain. went, and by the applicant taking the additional six represents too much capital tiff. First osteopath to testify in this court. Defendant stu'dies, which they claim to give more than Illinois, they tied up. Also, to avoid ex­ attorney objected to osteopath appearing as expert. Ob­ were granted certificates, but a new ruling of that very jection ovcrruled and osteopath afterward congratulated important board does away even with that, and we must pense of handling sma II by judge on the competentness shown. Verdict for now take the entire examination or stay out. Something orders, we want to close plaintiff. ought to be done toward getting a better law in Texas. Smith vs. City and Elm Grove Railway, Wheeling, As it is we are at the mercy of the state board. The them out in assortments of W. Va. Circuit court, January 21, 1908. Dr. G. W. osteopaths in the various cities I visited almost unan­ Bumpus, East Liverpool, Ohio, expert witness for prose· imously complained that our representative on the board good size. cution. First osteopath called to give expert evidenee has not done even what he could have done. Dr. Bailey in West Virginia. Verdict for plaintiff. told me that the IlIinois state board would not recom· Progressive D. O.'s, who C. D. Young vs. People's Gas & Electric Co., Burling­ mend osteopaths even though granted a certificate after ton, Iowa, District Court, November, 1903. Verdict for examination. This certainly indicates that there is a dark are anxious to make an im­ Young, $1,100. Supreme Court sustained decision. Dr. plot existing between the two boards.-W. A. Cole, D. a., W. S. Maddux, now of Brush, Colo., expert witness for Kirksville, Mo. pressive educational prac­ Young. tice-building campaign, will Northeastern pennsyvan1a Meeting'. find this a rare opportunity, Favorable Decision in Georgia. The Northeastern Pennsylvania Osteopathic Association as we will co-operate by I send you a decision on osteopaths as expert wit­ held its regular monthly meeting at Wilkesbarre, Novem· nesses from the Georgia Court of Appeals. This was my ber 13th. Dr. Martha Freas, of Berwick, gave a very selling the necessary mate­ first experience before a court of law, and so far as 1 interesting case report, with clinic. Dr. Gertrude Evans, know it was the first time an osteopath had been called of Scranton, talked on foods. rial, in quantities, at rock­ on to give expert testimony in Georgia. This was in 190•. bottom prices. Since this decision was handed down I have served as expert in a number of cases, all of which have been satisfactory.-Frank F. Jones, D.O., Macon, Ga. Bochester District Elects O1Ilcers. Write for sample copies. The Rochester District New York Osteopathic Associa· tion has elected new officers as follows: President, Dr. State quantity desired and R. Harry Graham, of Le Roy; vice·president, Dr. ask for special quotation. Gertrude S. Berry, of Rochester; secretary-treasurer, Dr. In D. O. Land Rose E. Breitenstein. of Rochester. Denver Meeting. In Order With Itself. The Denver Osteopathic Association met at the Dis· So the doctor had decided pensary, Dectmber 4. A paper by Dr. Parmelee on After doping her in vain, The Osteopathic uAxis ann. Third Cervical Lesions," was read. Dr. San~ "Just a simple operation ford led in the discussion which followed.-Cora G. Will relieve you of your pain," Parmelee, D. a., Secretary. Her objections were surmounted Publishing And to it she agreed, New Faculty Members at Xirksville. Now, to him, it all amounted To a gratifying fee. Several changes have been made in the personnel of the Company faculty of the American School of Osteopathy. The Chair of Neurology is filled this year by Dr. F. N. Waggoner, Strange it seems, she thought it over, M. D.} D.O., who has recently completed a special course And she reasoned to herself, at Yale. Dr. Waggoner is an A. S. O. Graduate of the "Will an operation truly class of 1905. Bring me back to life and health?" 191 Market Street The Chair of Pathology is filled by Frank Bigsby, M. D., D.O., a graduate of the A. S. 0., also of the Then a thought itself suggested Keokuk Medical School. Dr. Bigsby has recently com­ Seemed to light anew her path, Chicago, III. pleted a post-graduate course in Pathology and Surgery In that moment she decided, in leading New York and Chicago schools. Dr. Bigsby "I will try an osteopath," will be the Anesthetist at the hospital. The Chair of Chemistry is occupied by Dr. C. D. Swope, a gradu'ate So today life is a blessing, of the A. S. 0., who was assistant in chemistry while a She's restored to vibrant health, student. For the human mechanism Dr. A. D. Becker, graduate of the Still College at Des Is in order with itself. Moines and post-graduate of the A. S. 0., has been added -Ella H}'-ll, D. a., Fargo, N. D. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 11

Wants to Share Ofllce. Such Is Fame. Dr. E. H. Beavin, of Cedar Rapids, Ia., has more Dr. Laughlin tells an amusing incident that happened than he can attend to and would like to share his office recently in Kirksville. Elbert Hubbard was to deliver with a good man. No partnership is contemplated, sim­ F.J. Stewart, D.O., M. D. a lecture at the opera house and the Mayor of Kirksville ply a joint use of offices. There is a big Catholic fol· was to introduce him to the audience. When the signal lowing that can be turned over to the right man. 126 State Street, CUICAOO was given the Mayor arose and, standing not far from Mr. Hubbard, said: "Ladies and gentlemen: We have Confines his practice exclusively to venereal and with us this evening a very distinguished visitor; a man New Oflleers for Coast Society. whose fame encircles the globe, and whose name is a skin diseases and solicits the reference to him by ho~sehold phrase in every American home. And so, The King County Osteopathic Association met at osteopathic practitioners of their stubborn cases of ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to Seattle, Wash., November 16th, for its annual election. syphilis, gonorrhea, gleet, chancroid, etc., requiring present to you this evening-" Here the Mayor paused 'The new officers are: President, Dr. Walter J. Ford; and, turning to Mr. Hubbard, said, uExcuse me, but vice-president, Dr. Augusta Brewer; treasurer, Dr. C. V. specific treatment. The profession may feel sure what is your name?" McNeal; secretary, Dr. Roberta Wimer Ford. that the patients, the professional interest of those who refer cases to Dr. Stewart and, as well, the inter­ ests of osteopathy itself will receive the most careful Dr. George Still on Lecture Tour. Iowa Sixth District Meeting. consideration at the hands of Dr. Stewart. "The Dr. George Still is on a lecture tour in the East. The sixth district Iowa Osteophatic Association met O. P." is named as a reference for the character, The trip will occupy about a week, and he will return November 16th at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Papers were to Kirksville in time to finish the school year. He will -contributed by Dr. W. H. Gamble, of Missouri Valley, equipment and professional standing of Dr. Stewart. lecture at New York, Philadelphia and Boston, and pas' and Dr. C. E. Clark, of Onawa, and Dr. C. B. Atzen, of sibly at Portland, Me. Several other societies tried to Omaha, Neb., delivered a lecture, "Osteopathy Defined." arrange for lectures on this trip, but it was impossible Officers were elected as follows: Dr. Charlotte Mc­ to get long enough extension of time to arrange for Cluskey, Council Bluffs, president; Dr. J. K. Johnson, any more dates, as the hospital and school work is rush· Jefferson, vjce~president; Dr. C. E. Clark, Onawa, secre­ ing. tary; Dr. W. H. Gamble, Missouri Valley, treasurer. Good Practice For Sale D. O.'s Discuss "Hookworm." D. O. Invents Fire Alarm. The Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas Osteop· = at Moderate Price = athic Association met in regular session Novemher 27th. Dr. Hendrick Olson, of Rochester, has applied for a Papers read and discussed were: "Hookworm," Dr. patent on the Olson automatic fire alarm and in a short If you have a few hundred dollars you can J. L. Boswell, Joplin; "How to Diagnose a Case of time will begin the manufacture of what experts claim secure a fine connection in a thriving wes­ Malaria," Dr. F. M. Geeslin. is one of the best alarms ever invented. It is a very tern city of 20,000 population. Nice office simple affair, similar to an ordinary alarm, but the and complete furnishings. This practice is patent is in the fact that the heat detectors arranged in sure to be taken quickly. If interested Jaeger-Hillery Supply Company In Tronble. any part of a building and connected by wires will set write at once. Full particularsupon request. off the alarm when heated to 110 degrees or any heat It has been reported to us that the J aeger.HilIery Sup­ desired. When the detector is heated it usually rings Address 4444 ply Company of Des Moines, Ia., are in financial diffi­ the alarm in about 40 seconds.-Beaver Falls (Pa.) culties. We have been obliged to place our account for Trib1lne. The Osteopathic Pub. Co. advertising in the hands of a lawyer and we are advised by Dr. Preston R. Hubhell, of Flint, Mich., that he has 191 Market Street been unable to get any satisfaction on an order placed New York City Meetings. CHICAGO last September for which cash was paid in advance. If The Osteopathic Society of the City of New York has YOlt have paid anything to this conecrn for which you ,;tarted a very successful year. This was formerly the have not received value you should make formal claim for settlement at once. We suggest that claims be sent Greater New York Osteopathic Society well known to Nathaniel T. Guernsey, room 916, Fleming building, throughout the profession. At the September meeting, Des Moines. as he is handling our account. although the Hudson-Fulton celebration interfered with the attendance, Dr. Olive Clark spoke on the subject of "The Diagnostic Points of Pelvic Disorders." This "Annals of Surgery," Fiftieth Volume. lecture was very fine and greatly appreciated by those FOR SALE On January 1, 1885, there appeared in the literary fortunate enough to hear it. At the October meeting, Dr. medical world the first number of a new journal, given George Laughlin was the speaker of the evening and his Splendid practice in central Indiana up entirely to general surgery. This radical departure work needs no explanation. There were about sixty of from the old lines had the full endorsement of a large the profession present and the subject, "The Diagnostic town of 2500 population. Estab­ number of the leaders in surgery, hath in Great Britain Points in Some of the Nervous Disorders," was presented lished 4 years. Wealthy district. and the United States, among whom was Lord Lister, in a clear and forceful manner. At the November meet­ whose name led all the rest on the title-page. The ing Dr. Pennock of the Philadelphia College took up the Strong osteopathic sentiment. Reason seed was good, the soil fertile, and the journal grew and prospered. Today it's the Annals of Surgery of ,UDiagnosis of Organic Heart Lesions." During the for selling and full particulars to in­ Philadelphia. In December it blooms-blooms in full, lecture he demonstrated the use of the sphygmomanometer, terested party. Price right. Quick and its subscribers will be treated to a choice collection which was very interesting as well as instructive. This of twenty-two original articles in the form of a jubilee mcnth we cxpect Dr. George A. Still. The meetings if you mean business. Address number. Eminent surgeons from England, Scotland, so far have all been on the subject of diagnosis and are "OVERWORKED," care the O. P., Denmark, France, Italy, Hawaii, Canada, and the United States will contrihute to this issue. held at the Waldorf Astoria.-Joseph Ferg1lso", Secretary. 191 Market Street, Chicago.

New Osteopathic Hospital in Los Angeles. Dr. Jennette Hubbard Bolle's Lecture•• The purchase by the General Osteophatic Hospital As­ Dr. Jenette Hubbard Bolles, of Denver, Colo., is doing her part to educate the puhlic osteopathically by giving sociation of the property at the northeast corner of "MAN, WOMAN-KNOW THYSELF." Orange and Witmer streets, on which to erect a hos­ popular talks illustrated with skeleton and chart. On Practical Psychology Illustrated. A Scientific Mind October 23d she lectured at Ft. Collins, Colo., on October pital building, will place in that section of the city a Wa...-ter. . and Hody Health-Book. 225 pages. hxplains the origin, 20th she addressed the "Social Union" at Denver, and -ta.nK ]rs,ln development and ofticeotthe ~lind or Soul-Itsrelo.tioll very handsome structure. The plans as prepared call for to the ROOy. Tbe interdependence of Mind snd on November 5th and 6th she gave home talks at the a four-story absolutely fireproof building, of the Ionic Body_ How possible for an expectant mother to residences of Mrs. Nienhiser and Mrs. Anglum, the order of architecture. The property was purchased for give birth to a criminal, genius or saint-How the Ma· latter being a meeting of the uQueen's Daughters/' jority of Diseases [especially Nervousnt>ss] is produced ~65,OOO. The lot has a frontage of 260 feet and a depth 'fbrough The )lellt8l1t,., and How to recover your of 270 feet. The idea is to combine in it for guests and health in " N..tural Way without the use of drugs. Study the Pleturf': The body compared to an Denver Association Elects Ofllcers. patients all the advantages and comforts of a first·class (f) Oft'iee lIuHdlng. hotel. hospital and sanitarium. It is expected that many ~ One 'Ceoalll. can be deprh'ed of water [life] by a At the meeting of the Denver Osteopathic Associa· of the class of patients had by the Battle Creek Sani­ ::I! pressure upon the pipe [nerve] through which he ce· tion, held at the Dispensary, November 6th, officers were ~ cehes his supply. All the Tenants can be deprh'ed of tarium wiII be attracted here. The building will accom­ water [life] by a Leak in the \faler-Tank. elected for the year: President, Dr. M. W. Bailey; modate one hundred and eighteen patients, and will have MaD I, Vise.sed iD Like !lanDPr [in Two ways): l'refi­ first vice-president, Dr. Katharine Curtinj second vice­ dghty private rooms also. The operating rooms will be sure upon a nene [see picture) \'fill Dlsus.. th Organ president, Dr, J. A. Stewart; treasurer, Dr. C. C. Reid; or Part which it supplies with nerve·force [energy]. secretary, Dr. Cora G. Parmelee.-Cora G. Parmelee, among the finest and best equipped in the Southwest. A. "Leakasre" of net\'e·force {brain·6uid] from the "Bu· D.O., Secretary. The roof will have a sun parlor and palm garden. The man Tank" [the brain], due to "Mental·Weeds" [Iuch as hurry, worry, envy, anger, hatred, resentment, over· building will cost about $100,000 and will be built so indulgences, etc.] Will Disease The Entire Body. that additional wings or stories can be added at any "lIan, Woman-Know Thyself" is a ready reference Gulf States' Annual Meeting. health-book for both the Jlome and Physician's office. time. Work will be commenced upon the foundations in It explains the (''''llie of disease and tells in a simple The annual meeting of the Gulf States Osteopathic thirty days, and it is expected to have the structure way How to Get Jle.llh and How to Keep it. Association was held in Atlanta, November lOth. Officers ready for occupancy by early fall of next year. The Keep the book one week-if then you do not feel that you can he greatly benefited by its teachioJts return the elected were: Dr. C. E. Lorenz, Columbus, president; hospital will have as head and manager Dr. C. P. Drum, book and receive your money back. Price '2.00 post­ Dr. Paul Daws, Jacksonville, Fla., vice·president; Dr. C. the president of the association, which numbers among paid. l11ustrated circular free. Address the author G. Hewes, New Orleans, treasurer; Dr. E. N'. Sasvil, Montgomery, Ala., treasurer.-Atla..ta (Ga.) Journal. its one hundred and seventy stockholders many physicians DR. E• .I. BARTHOLOMEW, 161 STATE ST.. CHICAGO and some of the most prominent business men of the city. 'The hospital will be strictly non-sectarian and non­ partisan and will be open to all reputable schools of Central Kentucky Association Has Good Meeting. healing.-Los Angeles (Col.) Exami..er. Physician's Office Scales The Central Kentucky Osteopathic Association met at We supply Fairbanks Standard Scale for Carlisle, November 9th. A proof of the enthusiasm Physicia,s and Insurance Examiners, manifested was the attendance of every member. The Irregulars Start Alleged Osteopathic College. Graduated in metric system or pounds program included: "Anatomy and Physiology of Nose and ounces. Measuring rod attachment and Throat," Dr. Virginia Amos, Georgetown- "La The Hudson College of Osteopathy and Electric if desired. Grippe," Dr. Martha Beard, Augusta, and Dr. Ella Y. Mechano Therapy, Town of Union; capital, $2,000; in­ THE OSTEOPATHIC PUR. CO. Hicks, Maysville; "Tonsilitis, Adenoids," Dr. Josephine corporators. Dr. Henry Behm, Dr. Eliza Behm and Dr. Hoggins, Frankfort; "Elimination,H Dr. O. C. Robertson Frank H. Schwartz. The company is to conduct a college 171 Walhlnllton St.. CHICAGO Cynthiana; "Pneumonia," Dr. Adaline Bell, Cynthiana: of osteopathy.-Tre..to.. (N. J.) Times. "Bandaging," Dr. S. W. Longan, Paris. ' Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 14 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Colorado Annual Meeting for 1910. ANew Publishing Record Made for Of course we believe that our magazine is the The Colorado Osteopathic Association will hold its best-far and away the best-for, if we didn't. next annual meeting January 7th and 8th, at the Albany December we would promptly change it so as to make it hotel, Denver. A fine program has been prepared. so. But there are others and good ones, too. HAT was a splendid ovation our friends and no practitioner is doing his part who is not Student Says Poem Made Him Tired. gave us on our December issue of helping on in this great work of evangelizing the T Osteopathic Health. I don't mean three Chiropractry and its features are concerned in a suit people for osteopathy by taking a part in this filed in Magistrate Olson's court this morning by D. D. cheers or anything like that. No, no-much educational enterprise. Palmer, the professor of chiropractics, against W. E. better. They sent in the orders; sent lots of "And ye shall know the truth and the truth Slater, a student in the school who, the doctor allege~ them. Sent them in. a hurry. And, incidental­ shall make ye free," sayeth Scripture. agreed to pay him $150 tuition, but didn't pay it. The ly, in their letters, said things about our maga­ reason he didn't pay it, he alleges, is that Dr. Palmer This can not be applied to moral and spiritual was addicted to the reading of a poem of his own com­ zine and service that pleased us greatly. subjects with any more fitness than to health position in recitation p,eriods. This poem was entitled Here's what happened. Although we printed ?ste~pathy. "The Wandering Calf,' and grew very tiresome to the mat!ers and When the people fully students, according to Slater, because they felt they had as big an edition of Osteopathic Health for De­ reallze the SItuatIOn about the case of Adjust­ not come, to school to take up veterinary work, and any­ cember as ever before in that month, expecting ments vs. Drugging as a means of cure there way chiropractry, they supposed, dealt with another part a good demand for it, our entire edition was will be such a mighty influx into our oste~pathic of the anatomy than the calf. Slater alleges that Profes­ sor Palmer spent much time when he was not reading his sold out two days before the first day of De­ offices that our colleges will be taxed beyond poem in attacking "Backbone," a magazine which he dis­ cember. Think of it! Not a December copy their capacity to supply practitioners to meet liked exceedingly, and in doing what he called "nailing left unsold before the arrival of the month for the demand. lies" about himself and his branch of the medical pro­ fession.-Oregon Daily Journal, Portland, Ore., Novem­ which it was prepared. The fact that this situation does not exist to­ ber 19th. Orders kept coming in. day is due solely to the fact that the people do Old contractors wanted a double supply. not understand about. osteopathy. Chiropath Loses His Suit. New customers wanted to break the ice of The way to make them understand is to edu­ ultra-conservatism and get a supply for the cate-to educate-and still to educate. D. D. Palmer, who asserts that he is the discoverer and inventor of the "chiropracticll method of treating dis~ first tiine. The best way to educate is to use high-grade eases, furnished amusement yesterday afternoon in Justice There was nothing to do but run a new edi­ popular magazines and circulate them thor­ Olson's court in a suit brought by him against W. E. oughly in the home territory of each practi­ Slater to enforce the payment of a note for $150, given tion. It was done-15,000 extra copies for for tuition. Palmer had recently come to Portland and good measure. tioner. Will you put your shoulder to the wheel opened a school.' Among his pupils was Slater, who Considerably before this second edition was of progress and do your part, Doctor? We of­ agreed to pay $250 for tuition. He paid $100 cash and delivered to us on the 10th instant, lo! it also fer you Osteopathic Health on annual contract gave his note for the remainder. After attending the as the best means possible to evangelize the peo­ school for some time, he ceased, calling the system a had been over-subscribed. and there was noth­ farce. Slater defended the action on the ground that he ing to do but say, "Second come, second ple for osteopathy. had not receivd the value of the note. The jury brought in a verdict for the defendant. Palmer was asked to tell served," and after allotting this edition to those the jury what he knew about the chiropractic system. He who got in their orders on time, to write the answered that it would take him a week to describe it.­ rest we were painiully sorry not to be able "Most Diseases Are of Spinal Ori­ Oregon Daily Journal, Portland, Ore., November l'9th. to supply them also. Unfilled orders for six thousand copies lie gin," Our Opening Gun] Luminous Article Discovered. on our desk and more come in by every mail. for 1910 There can't be any third edition. Time won't Dear Doctor: Below I give you copy of an article in Clinical Medicine (November) which throws a "new permit it. Already page proofs are O. K'd HEY insist on having it. Say that once light" (?) on our diagnosis and treatment of those sore for our January issue and it goes on the press in two years isn't often enough. Wanted. spots along the spine. It is too good to keep mum about; tomorrow. Nothing succeeds like success. T it last fall. And are still insisting. So, besides it will save a lot of hard work!-H. D. Stewart, naturally, they're going to get it. D.O., Fairbury, Ill. . Gee! but it makes a publisher feel good to be "A source of backache in women seldom recognized is appreciated. Orders and subscriptions are ap­ Of course, we mean the J,1ew January edition a chronic periostitis of one or more spinous processes­ preciation applied. of "Most Diseases Are of Spinal Origin." the lumbar or sacral vertebrae being mo t frequently After a withdrawal from public gaze and an affected. It may be recognized by the extreme sensitive­ We thank you for this sort of demonstration, ness to pressure. This form of backache is likely to be friends of the profession. absence from the profession's program of worse when the patient is in a warm bed or on awakening We shall make sure that we deserve its con­ popular education for two long years, this suc­ in the morning. There may be slight daily elevation of cessful campaign brochure again makes its ap­ temperature. The pain radiates sideways or downward; tinuance all through 1910. never ceases on its own account, but lessens and gradually In fact, we are candidates to have the same pearance as the opening feature of our 1910 will cease entirely under treatment for periostitis, which sort of appreciation and large employment of propaganda. It has been revised and improved in this affection is one application of two leeches close with usage and criticism until it appears to be to the spinal process from which the pain proceeds; and our good offices go right on this month for our this promptly secures decided relief. The next step is January issue. It will be a famous campaign as perfect and as polished as art can make it. painting the skin surrounding the affected spinal process number, for at the insistence of a score of our In the judgment of the editor this brochure. once a day with tincture of iodine, and internally potas­ "Most Diseases Are of Spinal Origin," is the sium iodide." customers, after two years of absence, we have reissued that osteopathic classic, "Most Dis­ best piece of educational literature that he has eases Are of Spinal Origin," In the judgment produced for the profession. It has the ad­ Xeep Vs Posted. of the editor no better piece of campaign litera­ vantage of reviewing the whole theory of Be sure and write whenever you' change your location ture was ever turned out- by himself than this osteopathy in a simple, yet comprehensive way, either into new offices or new field. Tell us the pros­ so that any person hearing of osteopathy for pects and conditions. Our "personal" column is an in­ number and every doctor who is helping on the teresting feature of the paper. Let your friends know work of educating the world to accept and un­ the first time who reads this little article how the world moves with you.-Editor The Ostopathic derstand osteopathy will do well to use this through cannot fail to grasp the essentials of Physician. )lUmber extensively in his field. osteopathic theory and practice. This January edition will appear in a brand Chicago Osteopathic Association Banquet. new cover designed for this particular issue­ The Chicago Osteopathic Association enjoyed some good a simple design, formal to a fault, entirely de­ things to eat and a flow of wit and humor on the evening An Influx of New Patients into Oste- void of ornament, dignified and proper. It was of December 4th at rooms of the Press Club of Chicago. design'ed in deference to the suggestions of a A very neat menu card was produced for the occasion. opathic Offices A portrait of the Hold doctor" was shown on the first ,number of our patrons and we believe it will inside page. On the cover, which was tastily lettered, T is undeniably true in promotion work, just prove 'popular. If it does we will use it appeared the quotation "In the bri~ht lexicon of Osteop­ as it is in therapeutics, that regularity of throughout 1910. If it should not prove so athy there is no such word· as RUB.' I effort-systematic work is what brings the popular we will not retain it permanently. We best results_ Patience and thoroughness win. would like to have your opinion. New Osteopathic Hospital in Philadelphia. Occasional treatments are not the test of All lines of business expect the best year of The new hospital of the Philadelphia College of Osteop­ whether osteopathy will cure, Neither is spas­ prosperity in 1910 that has blessed the country athy, at 1617 Fairmount- avenne, was opened November modic effort any criterion of what an educa­ in a long time. Osteopathy should participate 16th. The new institution is in a three-story building. tional campaign promptly planned, systematically in this prosperity. You individually should It contains, besides, the office and reception room, twenty rooms where treatment will be given. Each of these is carried out, will accomplish-accomplish for have your share of it. The best way to insure i ust large enough to contain the table on which the osteopathy, for the osteopath and for the peo­ ,this coming true for your own part is to do patient lies and the treating physician. ple who need to be acquainted with the nature YOlir full share in this campaign to educate the There is a general ward with three beds, a maternity ward and a surgical ward. On the' first floor are the and merit {)f this new system of therapeutics. people regarding osteopathy. kitchen and dining-room for the patients and sitting-rooms We recommend every loyal practitioner to use The best way to do this is to begin your for convalescents. Under the direction of the Philadelphia a regular quantity of high-grade field maga­ 1910 campaign by using a goodly supply of the College for Osteopathy, the number of persons who have been treated daily at the dispensary has averaged 150. zines twelve months a year. If you don't like January issue of Osteopathic Health contai1ll,l , Dr. J. Ivan Dufur is chief physician, and the attending Osteopathic Health-or can't afford it-use "Most Diseases Are of Spinal Origin." doctors inclu:de Drs. Charles J. Muttart, D. S. B. Pen­ . somebody's else field paper. There are several You would better begin the new year right nock, E. M. Blake, J. Walter Jones, Charles T. Bryan, W. F. Hawes, Thomas W. Ellis, Thomas E. Wildsmith, , in the field-use one of them and do your cam­ by forwarding your twelve-month contract for Herbert V. Durkee and George T. Hayman. paigning twelve months a year. one hundred copies. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO

THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 15 February will produce another novelty in this series and March still another. Every number is new and full of interest in the case of Osteopathic Health and the only departure from this rule is when we reissue periodically our celebrated and now classic copyrighted campaigners, the "Osteopathic Catechism" and "Most Diseases Are of Spinal Origin." BOVININE Osteopathic Health will delight and instruct your patients and former patients and bind them much closer in sympathy and interest to you. Then why not use it throughout 1910? RECONSTRUCTIVE FOOD I'm sure I don't know any argument against it-do you? AND TONIC .. BOVININE represents the most valuable combination of Osteopathic Health Christmas Edi­ Food and Tonic elements known to the medical' pro­ tion an Immense Success fession. BOVININE has proven clinically to be most valuable The December Osteopathic Health is excellent. lbe article on colds gives the real cause, I think. It is the in all forms of Tuberculosis. first time that I ever saw an article of the kind.-Dr. W. H. Hickman, Perry Mo. BOVININE enables the nerve cell to assimilate its specific elements, which it fully supplies. The December Christmas Osteopathic Health is cer­ BOVININE promotes the metabolism of fat and albumin tainly fine. Send us an extra hundred copies.-Drs. Loper & Loeffler, Kansas City, Mo. in muscle and b160d, thereby restoring the bodily · . . health, strength and normal powers of resistance. The Holiday Number of Osteopathic Health is very BOVININE supplies full and complete nutrition through satisfactory. Kindly send me 200 copies additional.­ Dr. James C. Snyder, Philadelphia, Pa. its Food and Tonic properties. SEND FOR · .. SAMPLE The Christmas Osteopathic H ealtk is fine-the best I have seen yc:ty I am sure my patients will enjoy it very much.-Dr. M. Elizabeth Shupert. Rockford, Ill. THE BOVININE COMPANY ·. . 75 West BOllston St.. NeW' York. City The December Christmas number is a dandy. We are glad to use it to remind our friends and old patients that we appreciate what they have done for us. We consider this one of the best things you have ever done.­ Drs. Gamble & Gamble, ·Missouri. . Valley, Iowa. SAVE YOUR BACKS, D. O.'S Your December Christmas issue of Osteopathic Health is without question an edition de luxe. It entitled you while "breaking up" the lumbar spine. You need not lift the legs of that 200-pound patient to great credit.-Dr. H. A. Rehfeld, Fairmont, Minn. off the end of the table and ~wing his feet in mid-air at the cost 'of your own strength. The Common Sense Treating Table and Adjustable Swing is stilI better than ordinary · .. tables for many reasons. It saves you much needed strength-is light, strong, durable, The December Christmas number of Osteopathic Health is irresistible as a Holiday Greeting.-Dr. J. D. Cunning­ portable, movable, comfortable, beautiful, and not an expensive table. ham, Bloomington, Ill. .... We also have a fine line · .. • of wooden tables in mission We desire to congratulate you on the Holiday Number of Osteopathic Health. lbe cover design is artistic, the --Rotary and fancy styles Christmas Greeting refreshing and the other contents all ijjiiilJ=-e with or without that could be desired. Congratulations, however, are not --Adjustable the adjustab I e enough. We want 200 of the Holiday number and 100 a month for a year.-Drs. J. A. and A. L. Williamson, ------Rotary swing. Parsons, Kans. Everything in BOOKS, SKELETONS, SURG­ ICAL INSTRUMENTS, BAGS and CHARTS always carried in stock for quick shipment. Who's Afraid of I'ants. Books delivered to destination. Write for clr· Little Robert and Jim, the grocer's delivery man, culars and prices. were great friends; and on the momentous day of H. T. ROOT Robert's promotion from dresses to knickerbockers he Patented April 2, 1907. waited eagerly in front of the house for Jim's co~ing. 608 JeffersoD St. KIRKSVILLE. MO. But the dehvery man, when he came, busied himself about his wagon, without seeming to see anything un­ usual in his small chum's appearance. Robert stood around hopefully, in various conscious positions, until he could stand it no longer. "Jim," he burst out at last, :lis your horses '{raid of pants ?"-Everybody's MagaZine. R. OVERALL'S Book on The Non-Operative Perha.psl D Treatment of prostate, sexual neuroses, im­ Johnnie-Grandpa, will you make a noise like a frog? potency, gleet, etc., is intimately related to Osteo­ Grandpa-What for, my boy? pathic treatment of the spine and reflex irritation Johnnie-Why, pa says we'll get ten thousand when you croak.-Inland Printer. arising therefrom. The few Osteopaths whom the Author has met are especialy interested in PERSONAL. this book. An interesting brochure on this· subject Dr. A. L. Bondy, of Denver, Colo., is at Kansas City, will be mailed for 6c in stamps, to pay for mailing. Mo., completing a medical course. He expects to be Dr. Sour ofVirg:lnia, Minn., says: "Dr. Overall's book should be read there until May. by every up-to-date practitioner, for he will have conditions of the ~l1aintained prostate that can only be treated in a sensible way by having a thor­ Dr. Addison O'Neill, who has offices at ough knowled&e of this book. Dr. Overall has worked out a system Ridgewood, N. J., and Daytona,. Fla., has closed the that is original, plain, practical and gives results Ihat no other treat­ Daytona office and estabUshed an office at Paterson, N. J., ment or method can. He has drawn Ihe curtain aside and there is no where he will practice Wednesdays and Saturdays. excuse for us not now curing these cases or knowing where to send them Dr. William E. Saltzman, of Benton Harbor, Mich., to be cured." was in Chicago recently and called at the office of THE PRICE $2.00. I1lltstrated' circular sent upon request. OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Drs. Walter J. and Roberta Wimer Ford, of Seattle, FOR SALE 72 E. Madison Street Wash., have enlarged their quaters in the Alaska build­ BY THE RO W E P U BLISHING C 0 ., Ohicago, Illinois ing. They now have four private offices and two recep­ tion rOoms. Dr. Mabel Akin, of Portland, Ore., was visiting in Chicago the latter part of Noyember. She was a pleasant ing ground at Grand Rapids, Wis., and will resu'me Dr. L. H. Most, A. S. O. '09 graduate, has purchased caller at the .office of THE OSTEoPATHrc PHYSICIAN. practice there. the practice of Dr. S. A. Bartlett at Couer d'Alene, Dr. Della K. Stevens, of Baton Rouge, La., is taking a Dr. S. A. Bartlett, formerly of Couer d'Alene, Idaho, Idaho. P. G. course at Kirksville. is taking a trip through California and Oregon with a Dr. O. E. MacFadon, of Columbus, Ohio, was in Chi· Dr. Paul B. Wallace, who has been in Canon City, view to selecting a location where climatic conditions will cago the first of the montb and was a caller at the office 'Colo., for about two years, has returned to his old camp· agree more favorably with his health. of THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, MO 16 THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN

Dr. W. V. Goodfellow, of Los Angeles, Cal.. has pur­ Dr. Myrtle P. Morrison. from 17 West Sixth street to chased a "bungalow." He says that after a year's experi­ 525 Commercial street, Emporia, Kans. ence he likes it so well on the coast that he wants to be -THE- Dr. Charlotte Sawyer. from Cleveland. Ohio. to Augusta one of the permanent residents. Trust building. Augusta, Maine. Dr. T. J. Watson. of New York City. has purchased a Dr. Frances H. Thoms, from 123 Alaska building to farm in Maryland and expects to enjoy his summers 1511 E. Mercer street. Seattle. Wash. 4Ifarming." Edinburgh University Dr. John M. Treble. from 771 El1icott square to 254 Dr. Ralph Kendrick Smith. of the Massachusetts Col­ Hoyt street. Buffalo. N. Y. lege of Osteopathy. made an address before the Interna­ tional Maternal Association in Boston November 4th. He Stereoscopic Anatomy gave a stirring talk and advocated that married women Cunningham and Waterston PABTNEBSHIP POBMED. participate more freely in outdoor sports and such recreation as music and dancing. Drs. G. F. Schmelzel & Hubert F. Leonard. at '19-20 Dr. O. L. Butcher. of Atlantic City and Philadelphia. Mohawk Bldg., Portland. Ore. was visiting in Chicago the latter part of last month Contains 250 Dissections and made a pleasant visit at the office of THE OSTEOP­ Reproduced from the Cadaver ATHIC PHYSICIAN. BOBN. Dr. Adam Baker. formerly of Dubu'que. Iowa. is now associated with Dr. J. B. Bemis. of St. Paul. Minn. To Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Campbell. of Philadelphia Pa., Dr. A. Stil1 Craig. now with the Bernarr MacFadden November 25th. a son. ' Sanitarium in Chicago. was a cal1er at the office of THE To Dr. and Mrs. Ward C. Bryant. of Greenfield. Mass., OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN recently. November 10th. a son. Dr. Echel S. Pearson. of Chicago. has purchased the To Dr. and Mrs. George T. Cook, of Buffalo. N. Y .• Earlville. Ill.. practice of Dr. W. F. Murray. who wil1 November 27th, a son. devote himself to his Sandwich office. To Dr. and Mrs. Charles D. Bal1, of Shawnee. Okla.• Dr. G. M. McIntyre, formerly of Grand Rapids. Wis., November 28th. a son. has given up his practice there. He will probably locate in Chlcago. Dr. H. A. Rehfeld. of Fairmont. Minn.• expects to he DIED. away from his office soon for a three months' P. G. course. Mr. J. M. Haswel1, father of Dr. Geo. A. Haswell of The name of the building in which Dr. W. S. Mills, of Westfield. Mass., Nmlember 15th, at Hoosich, N. Y.• Ann Arbor, Mich.• has his offices has been changed from Dr. John W. Slade, of Guthrie. Okla.• November 26th Goodspeed huilding to First National Bank building. the of gene.ral debility; he was 83 years of age. ' office numbers being 614-617. The mfant son of Drs. Bert and Katherine R. Byers, Dr. E. C. Link. formerly of the A. S. O. faculty at at, ~del! Iowa, November 19th, from pernicious anaemia Kirksville, Mo.• is now at Elizabeth. N. J. . ongInating from an unknown in!ection; aged 2 years Dr. Bert H. Byers. formerly of Manchester. Iowa••s and 9 months; he was an only chlld. temporarily out of practice taking an M. D. course. He Dr. Ida McMurray Hoefner, wife of Dr. J. Henry eXllects to complete his studies in June. 1911. Hoef,:,er, of Franklin, Pa., November 20th, at the Franklin Owing to the increase in practice at Hinsdale. Dr. HospItal, following operation for mastoiditis. Kathryn Van Velzer has been compelled to give up her Mrs. Katherine Moriarty. mother of Dr. J. J. Moriarty, city office in the Trude building. Chicago. Hereafter she Are you up on your anatomy? O! Ottawa. 111., November 8th. at her home in Dan­ will devote all her time to her Hinsdale patients. Can you instantly demonstrate it to v.l1e. Ill.. aged 85 years. She was the grandmother of Dr. Elizabeth Willcox of Oakland. Cal.. spent several Dr. E. C. Murphy, of Eau Claire, Wis. days in Chicago this month. Dr. Willcox came East to , your patients? attend the convention at Minneapolis. afterwards going on to Detroit. Mich.• to visit her sister Mrs. T. K. Tyson. This new method is a good one, very helpful to Before returning to Oakland she wih visit relatives in students and practitionersin their anatomical studies. WANT ADS. Kansas City and Los Angeles. . . I cordially recommend it to the osteooathic profes- sion. ANDREW TAYLOR STILL, M. D. Dr. A. S. Loving. formerly of Jacksonv!Jle•.m.. .5 WANTED-Position as assistant by late assistant in now located at Denver. Colo.. in partnersh.p w.th Dr. osteopathic ,:ollege. Holder of Iowa certificate. Ref. William P. Snare. The firm name is Drs. Loving & $endfor descriptive printed ",alter and mention this journal erences furmshed. Address 150. care of "The O. P .... :Snare. and the address 508 Temple Court Building.. 191 Market sheet. Chicago. # 'Dr. J. B. Schrock. formerly of Bedford. Ind.! '5 ~t the Lincoln Medical Col1ege. Lincoln. Neb.• taking h.s ImDerial PubliShiUg Go,) 27 E. 22d St., New York fourth year medical work. CHICAGO OSTEOPATH leaving the city will turn over practice to good osteopath, who will assume lease; rent very reasonable; best location; will sell furniture if If you have no present arrangement for field literature wanted. ~ddress 151. care of "The O. P .... 191 Market we would like to supply you with ours. If you don't street, Ch.cago. know the best plan to fol1ow in circulating it write us AComplete Course in and we will advise you. The O. P. Co.• 171 Wash· WANTED-To buy a practice. Must be able to stand ington street. Chicago. strictest investigation. Address 152. care of "The O. P .•" 191 Market street. Chicago.

BEMOVALS. FOR SALE-Fine practice in town of 3,500; northern Dr. J. B. Schrock. from Bedford, Ind.• to Lincoln. Neh." Iowa; strvngly Irish; a Catholic can do well' want to care Lincoln Medical College. dispose of fixtures cheap. Address 155, care' of "The O. P.," 191 Market street. Chicago. Dr. A. S. Loving, from Jacksonville, Ill.. to 508 Tem­ ple Court building. Denver, Colo. . WANTED-Assistant osteopath. Give credentials, age, Dr. Eugene Tiberghien, from Marysville, Kan., to REFRRCTION SIze, reference. Good money for hustling man of ability. Julesberg, Colo. Address c

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