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American School of OsteopathyKIRKSVILLE . MISSOURI .

The course of study in The American School of Osteopathy is a carefully graded one,and is divided into four terms, of five months each .

The terms begin in September andFebruary of each year .

The course thus requires two years for completion .THE STUDIES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

FIRST TERM.General Descriptive Anatomy, including Osteology, Syndesmology, Myology, Angi-

ology and Neurology ; Histology, including the description and recognition of the normaltissues of the body ; the Principles of Chemistry and Physiological Physics.

SECOND TERM.General Descriptive Anatomy of the Viscera and organs of special sense ; Practical

Anatomy, with demonstrations on the cadaver ; Analytical and Physiological Chemistry ;Physiology ; Symptomatology and Physical diagnosis ; Hygieneand Dietetics ; Principlesof Osteopathy .

THIRD TERM .Practical and Regional Anatomy, with demonstrations on the cadaver ; Physiology ;

Pathology and Pathological Anatomy ; Urinalysis and Toxicology; Clinical demonstrationsin Osteopathy .

FOURTH TERM,Topographical Anatomy; Minor Surgery; Gyncecology and Obstetrics ; Medical

Jurisprudence ; Clinical Practice in Osteopathy .

The school is open to students of both sexes without distinction, and all have equalopportunities and privileges, and are held to the same requirements .

The methods of instruction are such as obtain in the best academic and collegiateinstitutions, and include recitations from standard text books, lectures, quizzes, practicallaboratory work, and practical clinic work .

The equipment of the school is complete in every respect.

The recitation and lecturerooms are amply provided with all necessary means of illustration, such as specimens freshand preserved, skeletons, models, charts, manikins, and diagrams .

The respective laboratories are fitted up with all the necessary apparatus for practicalwork in the Anatomical, Histological, Microscopical, Chemical, and Physiological depart-ments.

The clinical facilities and opportunities enjoyed by students in this school are excep-tional . An abundance of material is always available for clinic demonstrations, which arecontinued daily through two terms. with practical work in the clinic operating rooms byeach student, under the direction of the regular operators, daily during the whole of thelast term .

In addition to the regular clinical de " tnieut, the A. T. Still Infirmary' has constantlyunder treatment, from three hundred tofive hundred patients, and although the studentsdo not see these patients, the many cases' of diseases of all kinds under the care of theregular operators m the Infirmary, gives them (',M antly fresh and varied illustrations foruse in their lectures .

Sometimes, too, patients whose cases may be of special interest offerthe use of their cases for the purpose of demonstration before the students .

Opportunities are thus furnished to students for such practice and drill in the actualwork of treating diseases as we believe is not equaled by any similar institution anywhere .The course of study is progressively graded with a view to giving students a thorough andcomprehensive knowledge of the fact;and principles upon

h their future work is to bebased.

These clinic exercises in connection and immediatelyfollowing give them facilityand readiness in the art of applying the facts and principles which they have acquired inrecognizing and treating diseased conditions.

Catalogue mailed upon application .

For information as to terms, etc., apply toC. M . T. HULETT;

DEFINITION .

Os-te-op-a-thy, s.[Gr. (osteon) -a bone, and (pathos) -suffering.]Legal :

"A system, method, or science of healing,"

(See statutes of the State o-"Missouri .)

Historical :

Osteopathy was discovered by Dr. A. T. Still, of Baldwin, Kan., 1874,Dr. Still reasoned that "a natural flow of blood is health ; and disease is the effect oflocal or general disturbance of blood-that to excite the nerves causes muscles tocontract and compress venous flow of blood to the heart; and the bones could be usedas levers to relieve pressure oil nerves, veins and arteries ."

(A. 71 Still )Technical: Osteopathy is that science which consists of such exact, exhaustive,and verifiable knowledge of the structure and functions of the human mechanism,anatomical, physiological and psychological, including the chemistry and physics ofits known elements, as has made discoverable certain organic laws and remedialresources, within the body itself, by which nature under the scientific treatment peculiarto osteopathic practice, apart from all ordinary methods of extraneous, artificial, ormedicinal stimulation, and in harmonious accord with its own mechanical principles,molecular activities, and metabolic processes, may recover from displacements, disorganizations derangements,andconsequent disease,andregainitsnormal equilibrium

of form and function in health and strength .

Os-te-o-path s.The same as Osteopathist (q. v.),

Os-te-o-path-ic a. Of or belonging to osteopathy; as, osteopathic treatment.

Os-te-o-path-ic-al-ly adv.

In an osteopathic manner ; according to the rules and princi-ples of osteopathy .

Os-te-op-a-thist s.One who believes or practices in osteopatlly; all osteopath.

Dip-lo-mate in Osteopathy.The technical and official designation of a graduate andpractitioner in osteopathy, the formal title of such graduate or practitioner beingD, ().--Diplomate or Doctor in Osteopathy .

Directory of Kirksville Boarding Houses,

Where Patients and Students Can SecureFirst-Class AccommodationsatReasonable Rates .

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MRS. N. COONS,Corner F, . Washington and Davis.

Board by Day or Week .

$3 to $5 per week .Good Rooms and 'fable,

Special Rates to Students .

MRS . H. A. ALLISON,

No . 201, One-half Block Fast of Infirmary.

Extra Accommodations .Bath Rooms and Boardfrom $q to fry per week .

RS . T, . E . FURROW,

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No. 615 and 6, 611

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Corner Jefferson and Fifth Streets.

Board, $4 per week and Upwards.

RS . D. A. COLE-IAN,No . 710, four Blocks South of Infirmary,

on Sixth Street .

MBoard, $2.50 per week .

RS . J . T. -MORRIS,No. 719, Sixth St reet,

Four Blocks South of Infirmary.

Board. $3.50 to $; per week .

J . 1' . Stewarts,7121, Corner Dotson and Sixth Streets,

Four Blocks South of Infirmary.Board, Ss to :4 per wee=:.

MRS. Abram EARHART,No . 615 sixth Street,

'three Blocks South of Infirmary.$3 to 53.50 per week.

MRS. E. R. TALBOTT,No. 74� West Pierce Street,

One Block south of Infirmary.$3.50 to $5.00 per week.

MRS. E. J. LONG,No . 402 Jefferson Street,

One Block Fast of Infirmary.Board, front g3 to $4 per week .

MRS. M. F. MILLER,No . 414, Sixth Street,

One Block South of Infirmary.$4 per week.

Journal OF OS OsteopathyTARS . THFO . MoyerY 1

No. 615, corner sixth and Dotson streets,.Four Blocks South of Infirmary. .

loard, from $2.50 to $3.00 per week .

1A RS . C. Z. EITEL.Mrs. No . 916, Fifth Street,

Five Blocks South of Infirmary. .$3.00 to $3.50 per week .

MRS. HUGHES,

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No. 715 . Opposite the Infirmary.

?oard by day or week .

Reasonable Rates. .

Mrs. J . T. Powell

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\o . 601, Three Blocks Southeast of InfirmaryBoard, $3.50 to 34 . or per week .

RS JOSIE BURTON,No . 801 Corner Sixth and Fillmore Sts.,

Two Blocks South of Infirmary.Board, 33.00 to $3.50 per week .

MRS. -I . C. RhinehartNo . s16, Fourth and West Pierce Streets,

Two Blocks Southeast of Infirmary.Board, <5 to S7 per week .

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MRS. -I . L. BeemanNo. 216, Corner Main and Jefferson Sts.,

Three Blocks ]Past of lufirmary. .

MRS. J. S. EnyardNo . 214, Corner Main and Jefferson Sts.,

Three and out-half Blocks$3.50 to $4.00 per week .

Vast of Infirmary.

MRS. E . J . HoyeNo . 505 high street,

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Two Blocks North of Normal:; per weekFifteen Roomed House.

RS . E. J . ALLEN,No . 516, Corner High and Fillmore Sts.,

y to $4 per meek .

One Block North of Normal .Furnished Rooms with or without board

RS . B . F, ELSEA,Mrs. °-07, corner Marion and Fillmore Sts

OneBlock North of _Normal. $;, to $3.50 per week .

Furnished rooms with or t\ without board.

MRS . 9 . TownsendSixth Street, Two and one-half Block

South of infirmary.$; to $3;5o per week .

RS . DEA. GRIFFIN,n

No . 316, Three Blocks south of Square .

Board at Reasonable Rates.

MRS. AA'. B. HARLAN,No . 201, Corner Main and McPherson Sts.,

Two Blocks Southwest of Square .$3.50 to $4.00 per week .

Special Rates to Students .

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MRS. KATE JACKSON,Mrs. RS . Joseph KennedyFourth Flat on Center Street,

Nicely Furnished Roolns,One Block West of Square .

Sixth Street, Two Blocks South of Infirmary .$4 to $5 her week .

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MRS. ALLEN MUNN,MRS. L . A . MONTIR,

Board from $3 to $3.50 per week .,sixth Flat Center Street,

Four Blocks South of Infirmary .One Block West of Square .

$3.50to$4.00perweek.MRS.T.J.FREDRICK,Furnished Rooms,

No . 407 Scott Street $1.50

per week .MRS. McNeil

No . 616, Four Blocks South of Infirmary, Corner,

Four Blocks Southeast of Infirmary -

Fifth and Dotsou Streets .

$' per week._

MRS. S . E . LovellFin Furnished Rooms andMMRS. ( . W. MINEAR,Dressmaking work Guaranteed.

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No. 715 Franklin St ., Seven Blocks South of

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No. 315 Corner Elson and Jefferson Streets .Square Ten Blocks southeast of Infirmary.-.

$3 to 53 .50 per week .

Special to students .

MRS' J . T . H Hannah I,Rooms $2.50 per week .

MRS. N. 1' . KilgoreTwo Blocks S South of Square Six Blocks Fastof

No

CmInfirmary uv Cornet of Marion and Jefferson Sts.

01,High and McPherson streets,Two blocks east of square .

Furnished rooms with

MRS, I, . A . Clarkor without hoard .

With board, $4 to $6 per week .

-Furnished Rooms $2.50 per week,

Three Blocks South and one Block East of Square,MRS . M. F . EVANS,

N0 . 404, Corm t Pierce and-Marion Streets .No . 112, second house east of northeast corner

of square, on ilarrison street .

A. BOWMAN,

MBoard, $,, .S0 to $5 per week .

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Furnished or Unfurnished Rooms, $1.50 to $'2

428 Dotson Street six Block, S . E. of Infirmary .RS . (* . W . Turner

NO. 416, four blocks .southeast of Infirmary .

MRS. R. A . HARRIS,Board $3 per week

Fxce7lcnt Furnished Rooms, Northwest Cor-ner of plain and Harrison Streets.

Private or HotelDirectory ofKirksville homesBoard nearby OneBlock WestofSquare

MRS. E . S. Hickman

Where Patients and Students will be Accommodated Furnished Rooms to Rent, S 1.50 to $2 per week.

dated with Board in Private Families .

NO . 41T Scott street,Foul Blocks southeast of Infirmary .

MRS. R. D . HAMILTON,

MRS. G. R . HOI,DERBY,Two Nicely Furnished Rooms.

Furnished Roolns for Light housekeeping $5Reasonable Rates.

per month .

No. 419 Dotson Street, Six and one-halfBlocks Southeast of Infirmary .

Sot Osteopathv Av., Two Blocks South of Infirmary .M Mrs. J . I3 . WYATT,

MRS. DELLA NotestineFurnished Rooms for Light Housekeeping.Reasonable Rates .

40S S. Wash St .

Two Blocks Fast of Square.

410 Osteopathy St ., Two Blocks South of InfirmaryWM, HIBBITS,

Two Nicely Furnished Roolns for Light House-keepingMRS . George MEEKS,

keeping . Rates, $12 per month . Wood and Oil

Furnished Rooms from $2 .50 to $3 per week FurnishedN . F', . Cor . Illinois Sts .

414 Osteopathy Avenue .

MRS. L . 1'' . Hubbard

MRS.RS . M . E . DAMERON,

Furnished Rooms at Reasonable Rates .l W

Furnished Rooms from $2 to 3 per week .

No. 515 Fifth St ., Three Blocks South of Infirmary .

416 Fifth St., Two Blocks South of Infirmary .MRS. O . A . MACE,

MRS. MARY E . HARWOOD,I

Board $4 to $5 per week .

Board and Room from $3 .00 to $3.50.

Osteopathy Av ., One Block Southwest of Infirmary .

416 S . Elson St., near South Ward Public School .

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J. S. GAYLORD, D. O.+ Peoria Institute ofOsteopathy +

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1Franklin Building, WednesdayPEORIA, ILL,Rooms 3q and 40 .

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JACKSONVILLE, ILL .,Tuesday. .I- - Thursday322 W . College Avenue (Saturday

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Second Moor AV Woolner Building .GRAND RAPIDS,

OfficeMichigan

147 Monroe St .

WESTERN INSTITUTE

M. Machin M . D ., D . O.

PresidentI Keokuk College ofi

Osteopathy ( . 1- OsteopathyOffice, 129 N . Ninth street.

'Phone 239 .Keokuk IOWA.

IIRS . Nettie H. BOLLES, President,

CHARLES E. CORBIN, D . O .,83' Colfax Avenue, Fast,

OsteopathDenverColo

OFFICE Hoursq a . m. to 12 111 .

.1 1> . In . to 4 p . In .

23 East STATE ST.,Thursday and.J. JONES, D. O.,

Sunday excepted .

MONTPELIER, VT .

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA .

Office 61-6,2,

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office,New fork Office,Bloomfield Office,

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121 Thomas St .

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CLEVELAND, OHIO .

OFFICE HOURS :

8:31 to 11 :30 a . m . ; I to 4 p . m .

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ERNEST P . SMITH,

DR. W. CHESNUT COCKRILL,

OSTEOPATH .

1310 Francis Street,10q West McCarty Street,

Graduate American

Graduate of the

ST. JOSEPH, MO .School of Osteopathy, JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. American

1Kirksville, m0 .

of Osteopathy.

E.B. MORRIS, D . O .

DR. COCKRILL has been in St . Joe two years, and

Office, Corner Eighth Streetcan furnish best of references and has had excel-

and First Avenue South, lent results in his praciice .

FARGO, N. D . Examination FREE .

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Carpets,

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Drg Goods and ClothingFine Shoes . West Side Square.

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STAFF PROS .,\l . I, . Maxwell Proprietor,

ShipperTailorsipper and Dealer iii

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ALL WORK GUARANTEED .

Upstairs over Corner Restaurant West side square .

Dr. W . J, . Stephenson,WILLARD HO TEL. ro FirsFt

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Props.fine PharmaceuticalsFine Perfumeries and NoveltiesLowensteinn & Marks,

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(In Spencer Block.)STORM Osteopathic Operating Tables

Attorney at Law.Made and Upholstered to Order Notary Public to Office.-

Office, First Internationalal Bank BuildingKirksville 17 .

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Office Hours .v to 12 cud 1to

W. E. Carter D . D .S.Officeover Kirksville Millinery Store,

South Side Square

1 reserve lour Teeth by Filling and Crowningas long aspossible

Pool's HOTEL Pflueger's Luminous BaitsPOOLt

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Send So cents postage for sample .

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What of all things is nearest tour heart,and therefore your true self ?

FAME, IS IT?

The trumpet through which it shall reverberateis already cracked

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lint others are welcome toa copy. Please address,

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HIS Institution represents the best Denver peo-ple, and possesses the best facilities in the West

ofKirksvillefor Osteopathic Operative Procedure.

NO PAINS OR MONEYStraight Goods,have been spared to make this Institution a success..

Fair Prices and

Being Centrally I,ocated,

-I I is within easy react of all car lines of the city .Honest Dealings .

L-__Rooms 1, a, 3, 4 and 5, Fourth Floor, KettredgeNORTH SIDE SQUARE_

Block, Corner 16 and Glenarm Streets . Take Ele--

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Grocer.

Robert Clark & Company,Only "Corner Grocery" on the Square . -

HARDWARE,WestSide

Helme Bros . & Co .

Plumbing : and : Plumbers'Supplies .hardware Dealers

General HardwareNorth Side SquareAND

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Manufacturers\N1,,C,,1,R.School NewsWagons o s Buggies and Carriages_

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" Ill Kinds of Vehicles built to Order

W. /'-. Sholly , Ed. and Pro]).Have a throroughly Equipped Carriage Factory_

tore.Employ only First-class WorkmenB E Ben F H E Henry RY,

and use nothing but the best material,

Druggist Hand-made Work, Guaranteedin Every Respect,

. . : Headquarters for Wall Paper,

. . . A SPECIALTYSouth Side . Near Infirmary.

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ELIABLE SHOE CO.patients of the A . 'I'. Still Infirmary.

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ELIABLE FOOTWEARget off the train .

J. M. Kennedy &R ELIABLE PRICES

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MOBERLY STEAM LAUNDRY .

Peerless Laundry WILL CALL FOR YOUR

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First Door South Central Hotel .

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All work called for and delivered .

Office with Adapts Express Co ., opposite Post Office

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POST OFFICE US STAND .Medical BOOKS,

Stationary Perfumery Headquarters for-AND DRUGGISTS' Sundries

'West side square NewspapersPeriodicalsBEEHIVE RESTAURANT, Heinzman & GROSS,

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Fine Cigars, Confectionery, The Model Bakery.-��,ice Cream Soda .Fletcher & Ely Props.Bread, Cakes, Confectioner},Cigars and Tobacco .

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JOURNAL OVA OSTEOPATHY.

VOL. IV.

KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI, AUGUST, 1897 NO . ¢ .

THE GREAT MEDICAL TRUST.

BY A. I,. CONGER .

'HERE occurred in the United States Senate on the 28th day of June last,Thereone Of the most remarkable debates that has taken place in that body formany years .

The question under discussion at that time was one which is fore-most in the mind of the American people to-day, that of the trusts .

SenatorsHoar, Vest, Allen, Caffery and Lindsay took part in the debate .

The sugartrust was in evidence .

Much reliable and valuable information was placed be-fore the people .

To add to the interest of the debate, the New York World,in its issue of the same date, gave a carefully prepared interview by the vener-able and distinguished Secretary of State, John Sherman, on the same subject .The information conveyed in this interview and debate comes from thehighest law making powers in the nation, and when such men as John Shermanand Senator Hoar and the other Senators whose names are mentioned, speakout upon any question, their words mean something to the law making powersof this land, and to the judiciary which interprets these laws .

Senator Sher-man said :

"The present National trust law (The Sherman law) is not strong enough .

I framed itmyself and the senate committee on judiciary made chances in it which materially weakenedits effect .

I favor making unlawful in the most direct manner, all combinations in restraintof trade . They put all industries in the control of a few men .

THE PEOPLE HAVE THEIRRIGHT TO OPEN COMPETITION IN ALL INDUSTRIES AND TRADE.

Restraint of trusts can bemade effectual when we get the proper kind of laws .

The Supreme Court has upheld thepresent law, but less pointed out its defects.

I think these defects can and will be reme-died .

In the course of the debate Senator Hoar said in speaking of the trusts andtheir effects upon the business of the country :

"I should be glad to find a constitutional method to uproot THESE GREAT Evils Ithink they are a menace to the republic itself ."

Again Senator Hoar, answering the question as to what was the technicaldefinition of a monopoly, said :

"A monopoly, strictly, in the English law, is a grant by the government of exclusivepowers . "

In speaking of the trouble and embarrassments surrounding the passage ofthe law by congress, to get rid of or regulate the trusts, the Senator continued :

"If the Senator front Nebraska . Mr . Allen, will help us out by finding a mode whichwill accomplish this end, and which will stand the test of scrutiny of any judicial tribunal,-and which will stand his own scrutiny-if, instead of being a Senator he was a judge Ishould be glad to go with hint to accomplish these results ."

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If Senator Hoar meant anything by this language, he meant that thepresent judiciary was clothed with sufficient power to go for and crush thetrusts of the country, and that if Senator Allen, of Nebraska, was a judge instead of a Senator, he might be appealed to with better and more satisfactoryresults .

Senator Hoar further said :"The evil of monopoly is an evil created by the SOVEREIGN POWER OF THE STATE

ITSELF."

Senator Caffery, of Louisiana, said :"I quite agree with Senator Hoar that the question of monopoly is one for state juris-

diction, and I hardly think an attack on monopoly can come through the instrumentalityof the federal statute . I quite concur with Senator Allen from Nebraska, that thepresent law is perfectly adapted to reach unlawful combinations or conspiracies in restraintof trade."

In speaking of the special privileges granted to monopolies in severalstates and by the government, he said :

"It seems to conttmnplate protection as a reward for great benefaction to the humanrace . Whenever congress imposes a duty they can take it off, and they ought to do sowhenever that duty upholds trusts, local or otherwise."

The above extracts are taken from the Congressional Record of June 28thlast, giving an account of this remarkable debate . In this article, the JOUR\Al,has to deal with the great medical trust of this country, formed by legislationand given absolute protection, and a complete monopoly in the art of healing inthe several states of the union . If the medical instead of the sugar trust hadbeen on trial in the United States Senate on that day the information given outand the language of our Senators could hardly have been better framed to morefittingly express the danger to the people from the operation of medical laws.

It should be borne in mind by the public that the facts and informationabove given, come from the ablest senators and lawyers of the United States,who stand next to the Supreme Court itself, hence what is said by them is entitled to great weight by the judiciary of our land .

It is the purpose of thisarticle to show that the laws passed in the several states, which taken as a wholeform the medical trust, are monopolistic in character, are against publicpolicy and a restraint of trade .

The constitution of the United States saysthat no such laws shall be passed, therefore these laws are unconstitutional, andupon examination of the facts, the journal believes the judiciary of the landwill so hold .

Ever since our government was organized, and for more than a centurypast, the Allopathic doctors of this country, under the plea of alleviating hu-man suffering and regulating their own quacks, have dominated all of the stateand national legislatures and monopolized the passage of laws touching thescience of medicine . During all this time they have bitterly fought the enact-meut of any law that would interfere with the monopoly of the Allopathicschool .

Growing bolder with each victory, privilege after privilege has beenwrung from the people, until the whole has at last culminated in the formationof the greatest trust that now exists in the cation-the medical trust .

So

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stealthily have the coils of this drug monopoly been wound about our institu-tions that the people of this country scarcely realize the import of the greatpower which they have unwittingly delegated to the combine, or what a gigan-tic fraud has been perpetrated upon them in the name of science and humanity .When at last the voters of this country realize the true inwardness of this out-rage, there will be such a rattling of the dry bones of "medical modesty" and"professional etiquette" as will relegate pill-peddling to its proper level andforce the whole practice to stand upon its merits .

The American Medical Association, or Trust, is the name of the nationalorganization . It has sub-organizations in every state . They meet precisely asany other business organization would meet, and devise ways and means ofsecuring themselves against honest competition .

Under the plea that they arethe only genuine alleviators of human suffering, they have secured the passageof laws in each state giving to themselves a monopoly in the art of healing, andwhen this is effectually accomplished they fix the prices that the public mustpay.

In many States they have been so bold as to have the prices which thepeople shall pay fixed by law, as, for instance, in North Dakota, a physician isallowed one dollar per mile for every mile traveled ; and the law allows abso-lutely no exemption when it comes to the collection of these exhorbitant fees .The doctor has the power to take the bed from under the invalid .

Then tomake this protection doubly sure, the trust has secured the passage of lawsby which any citizen who fails or refuses to employ a physician in case of sick-ness may be criminally prosecuted if death occurs in the family .

The employ-ment of an "irregular" physician will not extenuate the supposed offense ;unless a member of the trust be employed at his own exhorbitallt price, a crimehas been committed against the state !

And yet all these privileges have beengranted for the alleged protection of humanity!

The farmer, the business man,the laborer, and the lawyer are all compelled to meet the competition of theworld, but the so-called regular physicians are not only given the exclusive rightto practice healing, but in many states citizens are compelled to patronize themor suffer severe penalties, and the bills of the drug doctors are practicallyguaranteed by statutory enactment .

And all this in free America !

Forthere is no other country on the face of the earth where similar laws exist .

InEngland, the practice of the healing art is regulated as it should be, upon abroad and liberal basis .

There is a "Register," whose duty it is to record allphysicians who hold diplomas from reputable colleges .

This record is publishedfor the information of the public .

All the legal standing conferred by registra-tion is a right to sue for fees .

AS between the physician and the public, thismatter of registration is merely to let the people know the standing of physi-cians, in order that they may judge for themselves whom to employ ; but thereis no law prohibiting anyone from practicing the healing arts .

The Englishlaw creates no monopoly in medical practice .

This is largely true of othercivilized countries excepting the United States ; yet, if there is a country upon

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the face of the earth the fundamental principles of whose government is decid-

edly opposed to all such tyrannical privileges it is our own .Aside from the fact that this monopoly stands squarely in front of and

blocks the way to real scientific progress, and apart from the fact that it ismorallyunjustandlegallywrong,thefinancialinjusticetotheAmericanpeopleis

sufficient cause for its removal .

By these special privileges this trust annually

extorts from the people enormous ruins of money for which no adequate return

is made .A careful statistician, one with much and wide experience in such matters,

from estimates carefully made up, says this medical trust, by reason of the nion-

opoly and protection given to it by law in the several states, extracts from theAmerican people in illegal and exhorbitant charges, over twenty millions ofpeopledollars per annum.

The question naturally arises in the mind of the public, "How could thisenormous evil find existence and live among our people ?"

This question is

easily answered when the methods of the trust are understood.

Its principalweapon has always been its numerical strength rather than its scientific achieve-ments, and it has always used its numbers, in a manner well known to thepolitician, to browbeat and intimidate the lawmakers of the land, to overawethe public press, and to gain its ends in every way except by proof of merit .

A recent incident of this fact is furnished by the attack of the Missouri and

Illinois Medical Association upon Governor Stephens, of Missouri, for signing

the bill legalizing the practice of Osteopathy in this state .

At their meeting in

St . Louis, the president, Dr . Duncan, said :"Recent insults offered to the people and the medical association by the chief executive

of Missouri should prompt the doctors of the state to exert their influence to elect a manwho would lie broad enough to listen to his fellow citizens. The act of Governor Stephens(referring to the Osteopathy bill) was the greatest insult ever received by 6,000 professional

men.

It was unwarranted, inexplainable, and showed his inability to fill the position towhich we have helped elect himIt gives me pleasure to speak of his predecessor in thisconnection, who listened to the people in this matter ."

This is a sample of the methods of the trust .

They attack everything that

does not bow to their will .In this same address, Dr . Duncan took occasion to say that those present

were from the membership of two of the forty-five states composing the trust .

Its whole membership throughout the forty-five states mentioned by Dr . Dun

can is variously estimated at from two hundred to two hundred and fifty

thousand . Its membership in the different states is estimated as follows : Mis-

souri, 6,000 Illinois, 7,000 ; Indiana, 6,000; Ohio, 7,000 ; Pennsylvania, io,ooo ;

New York, 12,000; etc .

Thus it will be seen that it permeates every school

district in the land .

It is constantly flaunting its strength and power before

the people and darting its fiery tongue in the face of legislators and public press.

It seeks to get both under subjection, as extracts from its official records will

show .

It is seldom that you see anything in the public press about this enor-

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twenty millions per annum.

The people of Missouri, having had this case twicesubmitted to them, have voted to throw off the yoke of the trust, and theirlegislature passed laws giving the newly discovered science of Osteopathy theright to practice in the state .

This law was approved by Governor Stephens .Its veto would have cost the people of Missouri three quarters of a million ofdollars per annuin, and the signing of this bill saved them that much money,which would otherwise have gone to the medical trust .

That was the cause ofDr . Duncan's attack upon Governor Stephens and the Missouri legislature .

In the last issue of the Medical Fortnightly, published at St . Louis, thisattack upon Governor Stephens is continued . Comparing him with GovernorTanner, of Illinois, the editor of the Fortnightly says :

" *** 'rake the governor of Illinois, who lately has shown the medical professionwhat a blessing it is to have an executive WHO IS Intelligent AND Broad-minded.Contrast Tanner, of Illinois, with Stephens, of Missouri, and you see at a glance, as we sayin medicine, `the differential signs of progress and poverty.'

Tanner, alive to the needsandgood of his state, Stephens, a selfish . unstable, ambitious, inane man alive to what may ac-crue to Stephens, but caring little for the state he represents .

In the train of such a man'sacts comes poverty to the state."

The Fortnightly commends Governor Tanner as an "intelligent, broad-minded man," and this is right . At the time Governor Tanner vetoedthe Osteopathy bill he said in an interview in the Chicago Tribune : "I am notunfriendly to this science of Osteopathy ; on the contrary, I see much merit init, but I object to the form of the bill ."

These are Governor Tanner's own words and clearly prove that Illinois'able executive is a much broader man than the Fortnightly realized at the timeits editorial was written .

Governor Tanner made careful investigation of Osteopathy and virtually came to the same conclusion regarding its merits asreached by Governor Stephens, of Missouri .

But, technically, the situation inIllinois was different from that in Missouri .

While in Missouri the new measureleaves Osteopaths subject to all laws upon the statute books regulating thepractice of healing, excepting the law requiring registration with the statemedical board, matters would have been different had the bill become a law inIllinois .

Governor Tanner's investigation of the legal points in the case re-vealed, as much to the surprise of the friends of Osteopathy as to the Governorhimself, that if the bill became a law, it would leave the State of Illinois with-out any power to regulate this new practice, or to subject Osteopaths to thevarious quarantine regulations, disinfecting laws, etc .

This imperfection waspurely an oversight on the part of the framers of the bill, and left the responsi-bility for the veto upon the authors and not upon Governor Tanner .Throughout the entire fight the "intelligent and broad-minded" Governor ofIllinois showed himself to be the friend of the new practice .

When these factsare understood, the deep seated bigotry and prejudice of the Fortnightly is veryplain .

Had the editor of the Fortnightly known the facts, he would doubtlesshave referred to Governor Tanner in a less complimentary way.

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Osteopaths to practice in that state .

This action on the part of the legislativebody, coming direct from the people, would have broken the trust laws in thatstate and resulted in a saving to its people of one and a half million dollars perannum .

As soon as the Osteopathic bill had passed one branch of the Illinoislegislature, and it was felt that the people intended the bill should become alaw, a Dr . Petit, of that state, without knowing whether or not this bill didinjustice to the medical profession, sent out a circular letter to all members ofthe trust in that state, requesting them to bring their trust gun to bear uponthe governor at once and demand a veto of the measure, though then unpassed .Of course these letters came pouring in to the governor by the bushel, and thepleadings of seven thousand trust doctors were powerful, but even this greatpressure did not prevent Governor Tanner from declaring that he saw muchmerit in Osteopathy, and that, were the bill in proper form, he would sign it .

It has been said, and upon good authority, that the doctors of Illinoisraised a fund with which to defeat the Osteopathic bill, by assessing the practi-tioners and even the medical students of that state .

It may be difficult for theordinary citizen to understand just why men who pretend to be interested inthe advancement of science could take this method of squelching a new idea ofwhich they knew nothing, but this is only one of the many mysteries of medicalmethods, which "laymen" are not supposed to comprehend . But with all thiseffort and underhanded work, the Osteopathic bill passed both house and senateoverwhelmingly, and had it been in proper form, would have become a law.This certainly argues that the sentiment of the people of Illinois is not with thetrust, and while the combine will continue to extract from them its million anda half dollars per year, it is not their fault nor the fault of Governor Tanner,whom the Medical Fortnightly justly compliments .

Governor Tanner accorded to the friends of Osteopathv a hearing after hehad already made up his mind to veto this bill . Although he had receivedbushels of letters from the medical profession in Illinois asking for the veto ofthe bill, he listened to Dr . A . G . Hildreth, who explained to him and somemembers of his board of health who were present, the science of Osteopathyand the grand results it had produced in the art of healing .

After Dr. Hildreth's remarks, Governor Tanner called upon a member ofhis state board to speak on the subject, and the greatest "give-away" of thiscentury, so far as drugs are concerned, came with his first remark .

Rising tohis feet, he said :

"If you wish to legislate medicine out of existence, sign thisbill admitting Osteopathy into this state ."

This member of the Illinois state board made this remark as the prelude tohis speech, (the writer took notes at the time, so he cannot be mistaken . ) Theremark was made in the presence of the Osteopathic delegation, and a greatertruth he never uttered .

But, alas! poor medicine! you have been in existencesix thousand years and trillions of mankind have gone under the sod throughyour experiments and in your name, and all without advancement in your science,yet you cannot stand up for one moment and compete with the newly discovered

JOURNAL OF OS Osteopathy 175ered science of Osteopathy, in the great state of Illinois, without the protectionof law .

These facts certainly have an important bearing upon the question atissue:-

Sherman says :"The people have their right to open competition in all industries and trade."Hoar says of trusts :"I should be glad to find a constitutional method to uproot these great evils .

I thinkthey are a menace to the republic itself."

Hoar says :"A Monopoly, in the English law, is a grant by the government of exclusive powers .*

*

The evil of monopoly is an evil created by the sovereign power of the stateitself."

Senator Caffery :Agrees with Senator Hoar that the question of monopoly is one for state jurisdiction and

not federal ; and special privileges granted to monopolies of the several states seem to con-template a reward for great benefaction to the human race, allowing these monopolies tocharge from four to six times more than the people ought to pay .

Congress regulates thisby putting on a duty, and the taking off of that duty wherever the protection sustains orcreates a trust or monopoly .

The Medical Trust is the most powerful trust in America .

It seeks tothrottle the public press and would not allow it to speak freely when not inaccord with medical interests .

It intimidates members of state legislatures,congressmen, and threatens United States Senators .

It is the most iniquitoustrust in the world, the least deserving of favor from the public .

It is not sufficient answer to this article to say no law can be found com-pelling one to employ- the Allopathic doctors, for the merest child understandsthat to exclude all except those from certain schools, compels the sufferer toengage those not excluded .

If, as may be the case in some states, no school is mentioned and the rightto heal is committed to the discretion of a board of health created and organizedin the interest of a particular class or classes, it is only an attempt to do indirectlythatwhichtheyfoundtheycouldnotdodirectly;fortheseboardsof

health are generally-, if not universally, composed of one or more of the old schoolphysicians . and made up as a rule of what are commonly- termed "peanut poli-ticians," to whom a power has been delegated greater than that of court orlegislator, who arbitrarily- say to the world, "there maybe organized newschools of philosophy, new religions may be tolerated, but we deny the right ofexistence to any- new school of medicine, and claim a monopoly of the divineart of healing."

The friends and graduates of Osteopathy should resist this audaciousclaim .

Strive to obey the law of the land, and of every state, apply for registration and for the right to heal the sufferer .

If denied and excluded by theseself-sufficient gentlemen, appeal to the courts when arrested, and show by yourworks you are worthy, and that the law is either unconstitutional as creating ahuge trust, or void by reason of attempting to delegate a power to an irrespon-

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sible set of men greater than is compatible with the interests and rights of afree people.

We do not believe, in such cases as this, the power to regulate gives thepower to arbitrarily forbid and stamp out .

Trusts and monopolies may cruelly and selfishly increase the price of nec-essaries to the consumer, but not all their greed and power can prevent naturefrom producing new cereals or products with which to bless mankind .

Thestatutes may foster the present medical combine, but no despotism can deny thesufferer the right to choose his own road to health, and no trust or monopolycan successfully crush a new science whose healing power the afflicted desiretotest, for such power is better tested by the sick, than measured by the law .

The Medical Trust is the great American devil-fish .

Its trunk is lodgedwith the army and navy, where it has been granted a national monopoly andits poisonous heads are in the various state institutions .

The science of Oste-opathy, with Truth and justice as its standard must and will be the greatscience in the art of healing which will lead the people on to victory, and willgrapple with this great hydra-headed monster of a trust, and one by one, cutoff its poisonous heads and hurl back its lifeless trunk into the arms of themedical profession of America, the marsh of superstition . monopoly and ignor-ance whence it grew .

The people of Missouri, Michigan, North Dakota andVermont have already commenced the good work through their legislatures .Let the reform so successfully inaugurated, go on, and not stopuntil the doorsin every state in the Union are legally open to the newly discovered science ofOsteopathy.

The JOURNAL does not wish to be understood as classing all physicians withthose political doctors referred to in this article, for many medical men are-making arrangements to learn the new science, while yet others are sendingpatients to Osteopathy as a last resort .

The other exceptions are well il-lustrated by the Dubuque (Ia . j Herald in a recent editorial upon the samesubject, which we have quoted in a former issue, but which is so applicable tothis case that we reproduce it here .

The Herald editor said :"It is gratifying to know that while the cry for this restrictive legislation is alone de-

manded by physicians yet it is only by a portion of them, and not the best portion either.

As a rule the loudest calls for shutting out the irregulars come from that portion of the profession that has not been apple to work up much practice for themselves, and so seek to call into their assistance the aid of the legislature be shutting out a portion of their competitors.Physicians, like all other classes, insist in the end depend upon their merits, and here it is

bring

what they wishthat hard work . study, diligence and manner, will brih t

, and not the''c laws arenactments of any legislative body .

While it is true that these rigid e asked for b yythe medical bodies and a certain class of physicians, yet it is gratifying to know that a largeclass of the best physicians refuse to have anything to do with urging this petty warfare, andprefer to depend upon their own exertions."

The JOURNAL'S criticism of the higher class of physicians is that they lend'their influence to this restriction, and often unwittingly put themselves underthe leadership of such men as Dr . Crummer, of Omaha, thus placing themselvesin the position of endorsing the sentiments of men who favor "stoning all op-

position to death ."

Instead of investigating discoveries to see if they havemerit, as an able physician should do, Dr . Crummier and his coterie speak ofthem as "vile" competitors that should be stoned to death .

The following from the Journal of the American Medical Associationspeaks for itself and gives a most excellent idea of the kind of scientific pro-gress favored by the doctors who run these associations .

The letter is from awell known Omaha physician who tenders his advice to his brothers of the drugtrust in Illinois .

Here it is :thevileOSTEOPATHYB77,7,.

TO the editor I am glad to see you Publish the names of the Senators who supported the vileosteopathy hill in your Legislature . Nom, if every doctor iii Illinois ( my native State ) will cut the listout and Paste it in his hat and then fin his Political Pocket full of stones for the benefit of these creatureswhen they raise their heads above the grass, something Practical will he accomplished This form of

"argument" is the only one that really reaches the vitals of the average Politician .

In the NebraskaLegislature last winter our bill for an examining hoard was defeated, largely owing to the opposition of an

Omaha Senator who was immediately after the nominee of his party for Mayor of this city.At least fiftyPhysicians at once organized in opposition to the gentleman and in a close election we had the satisfaction

of seeing him defeated by two hundred votes .

We actually found that doctors have a lgood many friendswho are willing to furor them if they will simply get out and ask for what they want just as other fellows

do .

The trout trouble in the Past has been too much modesty and too little uniformity of action,our fightfor an improvement in our medical law is all that kept Osteopathy in the background in Nebraska. A Trillwas prepared and ready to introduce, hat there were too many doctors on cluck all winter to allow anycrooked work . All Honor to your Governor and to those of South Dakota and Colorado for their sensiblestand on this vicious bill .

1t seems to me that the doctors in those States should remember them mostkindly for all time to come .

Respectfully yours, B. G . Crummer J1 . U .OMAHA, NEB ., June 25 1897

"Our fight for improvement in the medical law is all that kept Osteopathyin the background in Nebraska . "

Such words as these, coming with the endorsement of the American Med-ical Association, a trust to which a monopoly has been granted in the "interestof scientific advancement," ought to open the eyes of the people .

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THOMAS F. C Carroll

Thomas F . CARROLL,. the popular postmasterof Grand Rapids, Michigan, isa distinguished friend ofOsteopathyand hasrenderedin-

valuable service to the causein his state . To him morethan any other one man Os-teopaths are indebted for thepassage of the Osteopathybill in Michigan, as the ac-count of that fight, elsewherein this issue, will show.Thomas F. Carroll was

horn in Monroe County, N.V., November 24th, 184 .He became a citizen of

Grand Rapids, Michigan, in1877, was admitted to the barin 1879 and is now one of theablest lawyers in the State .

In 188o he entered into a law partnership with Hon . I . M . Turner, and thefirm of Turner & Carroll, which has existed without change, is today one of thestrongest in Michigan .

Mr . Carroll enjoys a large and lucrative practice and is an extensive realestate owner . His domestic life is especially happy, his wife being the only

daughter of the late Major A . B . Watson, who was a brave officer in the war ofthe rebellion and one of the most distinguished citizens of Grand Rapids .

Mr. Carroll is a self-made man and a typical American in the full sense

of the term .Seldom, if ever, has a more thoroughly popular appointment been made

for an important office in the state than that of Thomas F. Carroll for post-master of Grand Rapids .

Although Mr . Carroll has been an efficient workerfor the principles of his party to which his long and valued services on the

City, County, Congressional and State committees will amply testify, he has

never sought an office although frequently mentioned and urged to accept the

nominations for Mayor and also for Congress .

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OSTEOPATHY IN Michigan

N THE assembling of the Legislature, January 6th, 1897, PostmasterThomas F. Carroll, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, one of the leading

lawyers of the state, prepared the Osteopathy bill, which is now a law in thatstate, and had the same introduced in both House and Senate .

So little wasknown of the science that when the bill was introduced in the Senate by Sena-tor Barnum, and he was asked to explain the measure, he was unable to do so,and it was laid on the table .

In the House, the bill was introduced by Representative McGill and re-ferred to the Committee oft Health . The chairman of this committee was adoctor, and none of the members save Mr . McGill who had been previouslyposted on the subject by Mr. Carroll, was able to give the House any- lightupon the subject .

Previous to this time there had been pending before the Senate and Housea bill regulating the practice of medicine and surgery in the state . This billhad it become a law, would have prevented the practice of Osteopathy in theState of Michigan.

On the 16th day of March the medical bill was taken tipin the Senate and passed, and from there sent to the House .

There was moreor less opposition in the Senate, but sufficient votes were received to pass themeasure .

On the following day- Mr. Carroll appeared at Lansing accompanied by Dr .A. G . Hildreth, then of Chicago . These gentlemen succeeded in having ashort hearing before a meeting of the joint Health Committees

of the Houseand Senate on that day, but only a portion of the members of the Committeeswere present, and while most of the members of the House Committee werefavorably impressed with the arguments made by Mr. Carroll and Dr. Hildreth,the Senate Committee was practically- against the measure, and it was seen thatthey took very little stock in the theory of the Osteopathy advocates . Itwas not until the evening of the same day, when these gentlemen succeeded inhaving a special hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, that theywere able to convince the entire committee that their bill was meritorious, andwas entitled to be reported out favorably .

This the committee agreed to doand (lid the following day .

It was now thought there would be very little difficulty in regard to themeasure, and that the same would go through, but it was soon discovered thatwhat had already been done was merely a skirmish, and that the measure couldonly pass by the most careful attention and the strongest kind of presentationof the subject matter to both Senate and House . Mr. Carroll, who had firstbecome interested in the matter on behalf of friends and residents of the statewho had received treatment at Kirksville, now found it necessary to give a

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considerable portion of his valuable time from his personal and official business,-and insisted that Michigan should recognize Osteopathy by law . He gavefreely of his time to that end, obtaining strong letters on the subject from distinguished citizensthroughoutthenationforuse beforetheLegis-

lature ; among whom were such men as Senator Foraker, of Ohio, Judge`Gage and Frank Hagerman, leading attorneys, of Kansas City, Mrs . Helen de

Lendrecie of Fargo, North Dakota, Mr. H. M. Porter, of Denver, Colorado,President Beardshear, of Iowa State College, Dr . E . H . Pratt and ex-Governor

Altgeld, of Illinois, and many others ; and visiting Lansing on various occa-sions, presented the matter before the Committee and members of the Senateand House.

The Senate Committee reported out the bill favorably and Mr. Corroll andDr . Hildreth made strong arguments before the body and members individually,with the result that the bill passed the senate 24 to 1, and the one man voting

against the measure was so ashamed of his act that he had to explain on thefloor of the Senate, that he did so at the request of an Iowa Doctor, whom hehad consulted by letter on the subject, and who was a friend of his .

Thedoctor admitted that he knew nothing of Osteopathy but advised his friend tovote against it on general principles .

He was freely forgiven by both Mr.Carroll and Dr . Hildreth and was made to feel that his act in 11o way preju-diced them against him.

The measure then went to the House and was referred to the Committee o11

Health, before whom was now pending the bill regulating the practice ofmedicine and surgery .

Dr. Edgar, the chairman of this committee, was atfirst loath to allow the Osteopathy bill to be reported out, but the other members oftheCommittee,all ofwhomwere nowconvinced thatthe Osteopathic

measure should become a law, insisted vigorously and with so much force thatthe Osteopathy bill should be reported out to the House for action, that Dr .Edgar very graciously gave way and allowed the bill to be reported out withthe recommendation that it pass .

This report was made while the medical billwas still . pending before the House Committee .

Soon after this a final hearingwas had before the House Committee and all of the members of the House uponthe medical bill, and a few misguided doctors in the state took occasion tocriticise the Osteopathic measure, but it had very little, if any, effect, as thefinal result of the bill shows .

Many of the leading doctors of the state, amongwhole are Dr . Long and Dr . Bell, openly stated that they thought the

Osteopathybillmeritorious and that itshould pass, thusshowing the liberality andbroad- mindedness of many of the eminent physicians of the state .

Themedical bill was killed in the House .

After many sessions had by Mr. Carroll with the Representatives, andlong and strong arguments made by him, it was finally deemed safe to put themeasure to a final test vote in the house .

However, before this was done, itwas thought advisable to again have Dr . Hildreth on the ground with Mr. Car-roll .

These two gentlemen made a final effort in the House and brought

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the measure to an issue, with the result that the bill passed the House unani-mously (there being 70 votes for it and none against it) and was givenimmediate effect . As some minor amendments were made, the bill had togo back to the Senate, and as it was deemed advisable to fight the battle boldly:and push it all along the line to an immediate termination . At the request ofMr. Carroll, the bill was immediately sent to the Senate, and after some preliminary sparring, was concurred in and given immediate effect .

Then at therequest of Mr. Carroll, the bill was presented to Governor Pingree, who hadhad the matter previously explained to him at length and upon the request ofSenators Barnum and Moore, who had been strong advocates of the measure,Governor Pingree signed the bill and it became a law in Michigan on that day,April 19th, 1897 .

The pen that the Governor used on this memorable occa-sion was, at the request of -Mr . Carroll, presented to Dr . A . T . Still throughthe courtesy of Major Bush, Governor Pingree's private secretary .

During the last stages of the proceedings, Mr. Carroll was ably assisted byDr . Samuel R . Landes, one of the most distinguished Osteopaths in the country,and for a number of years on the personal staff of Dr . A . T . Still .

Dr.Landes is now pleasantly located in the Kendall Block at 147 MonroeStreet, one of the large office buildings of the city . He counts among his

patients the very- foremost people of Grand Rapids, as well as representativecitizens from nearly every city in the state, and has already performed manycures, which to the uninitiated seem marvelous . Among his patients areJudges, Lawyers, Bankers and manufacturers, all of whom come to Dr. Landesas a last resort, and in nearly every instance have these patients received sub-stantial and lasting benefit .

He has now under treatment patients for nearlyevery known disease, who have been given up by other doctors, and by theresults obtained he has placed Osteopathy on a high plane in Michiganand forced its recognition as one of the great sciences of this age .

In none of the states where the Osteopathy bill was passed

was it givenimmediate effect as in Michigan .

In none of the states was so little known ofthe science as in Michigan when the bill was first introduced .

In none of thestates was more astuteness, boldness and firmness needed to pass the bill, andtoo much praise and commendation cannot be given to Postmaster Carroll forthe able, strong and thorough manner in which he handled this measure ; norto Dr . Hildreth and Dr. Landes for the convincing and learned way in whichthey presented the technical side to the Legislature and to the Governor ; norto such strong friends of the measure who championed it at all times and underall circumstances, as the entire Grand Rapids delegation, who stood as a manby Mr. Carroll and loyally supported the bill ; nor to all the members of theHouse and Senate, who after a full and fair hearing, by their voice and voteaided in legalizing Osteopathy in Michigan ; nor to the Governor, who unlikegovernors of some of his sister states, had the courage and conviction to sign

this bill and give it immediate effect regardless of the influence of the trust.

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Immediately upon the signing of the bill by Governor Pingree, PostmasterCarroll sent the following characteristic dispatch :

Lansing, Michigan, April 19th,1897"To Dr . H. M. Still, logo Benson Ave., Evanston . 111 .

Please convey to your distinguished father the compliments of the people of the Stateof Michigan . They have recognized Osteopathy by law.Thomas I" . Carroll

Representative McGill, who had charge of the measure in the House, and .Senator Barnum, who had charge of it in the Senate, did their work nobly and.well, and never once faltered, after they had been convinced that Osteopathywas entitled to legal recognition .

PREPARATORY STUDIES ESSENTIAL .

By A. 'r . STILL.

. WhatHAT books and studies are necessary to a complete education in thescience of Osteopathy ? is a question to which I have given much._ .

thought, and after a quarter of a century- in this work I have reached theconclusion that every successful operator should fully understand Anatomy,Physiology and Chemistry .

Your knowledge of these three books and theprinciples which they teach must be thorough .

When I say Anatomy, Phys-iology and Chemistry, I mean if you fully understand these branches you area star of the greatest magnitude .

I want to ask you if you have ever taken the time since you entered theclasses to think of the length, breadth and depth of the meaning of thesewords?

Do they not imply a perfect house, builded by a competent builder-a Being who knew what was needed to make a house fully equipped with themachinery for all demands of the spirit that was to dwell therein?

What would you say of a brag architect, who had the name of being awise and faultless builder, who would say, "Your house is completed," andhand over the keys ; but when you tried to fire up the furnace you should findhe had left it without a smoke-stack ?Would you think he knew anything aboutexcretions?

You would not, or you are ignorant of that part of Anatomy that.treats of renovations .

Did he put in a water-closet, with tubes running to itfrom all parts of the house ?

If you do not know, look at your Anatomy ;start at the bladder, and follow all openings that run to it, from the brain tothe soles of the feet, by that renal law of drainage which you find in theporous system of man and beast .

Before you receive a house you should go into all the rooms, try the doors,windows, closets, lights and ventilations, from foundation to roof . That isyour duty before you receive the building .

You must be well versed in Anatomy, or you cannot judge the plumbing .You must understand it, or you cannot truthfully say that the house is well

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braced .

Without it you cannot tell what foundation the house of life isbuilded on .

You must know the shape, place and use of every - piece thatbelongs to the whole superstructure .

By the bones you learn the frame-work .

By the ligaments you find howcarefully- and exact the bones are fastened, each to all others .

By the studyof the blood vessels you learn the channels of supply and renovation .

By aknowledge of the origin and insertion of muscles and tendons you understandtheir uses in manipulations as a machine of motor and locomotive power .By study of the fascia and synovial membranes you see why one muscle canglide over, under or around others and not irritate the harmony by- friction .You get to the skin, which is the roof and weather-boarding of the wholehouse, with millions of pores to ventilate and purify by excreting impurities .Open your book and behold the brain, which runs all the machineryof force,to carry- on all the duties required to snake and keep the man normal in allparts and principles .

The brain is his power of wisdom and strength, whichruns analytical chemistry, preparing and blending all kinds of matter to beapplied in the building, with the wisdom found in the Biology of the associ-ation of the living with the dead matter, which takes on itself life for hoursand days, as wisdom commands .

You see, if you can see at all, that life comes to a man as a skilledchemist fully endowed with force to do, and wisdom to select and shape,

atoms suited to construct nerve and blood channels to supply strength andmaterial to build man or beast-wisdom which is present and in working orderat all times in all beings .

It plans and forms each part to suit all other partsof the being it constructs .

It tales the material of crude nature in its arms,and that is all we know of it until we see bone and muscle, clothed with lifeand form to suit the place for `which it is intended.

This is the chemistry of man, made for him ; and all other systems ofchemistry- have but little claim on him as a market for their products . TheOsteopath who goes into the world with the idea of Chemistry- attached to him asuseful to Help the Divine chemist that is in your brain, blood and battery o£life, is only a boy- who ties rags to rags to make his whip long and does notknow it will wind around his little head when he wants to " pop." He needsthe rasp of intelligence to rub his scaly eyes until he sees in man a

fullyequippedbeingfrom themindofGod,supplied withchemical, biologicalandall other machinery that man or beast needs, or all he could ask for if he, hadthe mind and skill of God himself .

Does God know how to make and equip mail?

If he does, all you arerequired to know is how to keep the engine lined, fired and oiled ; it will runits miles without any of your dopes or suggestions .

Study the normal, andkeep man in that chair, and you have run the length of your mental rope .

In all time past man has felt and acted as though the Creator had pro-vided all things for him that be could ask or desire but one, and that was whatto do or take when sick .

Wehave lived under the tradition that man is made

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sick as a punishment for a few apples that Grandma Eve took, and has neverbeen well since . I wish she had let them alone, if that was all she knew aboutthe chemical and biological effect of stealing apples .

One says : " Do you object to the study of elementary chemistry?"Notat all, if you have not studied it previous to entering our school .

I think itwill help you very much to begin to think of the wonderful chemical labor-atory that is eternally- at work in man . This chemistry is less understoodthan any" branch of Nature, and its workings for life and health are more to beadmired than all other blessings bequeathed to man.

An atom cannot have awelcome place in man if it has not had its fitness and purity passed upon atthe school of life and truth, of which God is chief chemist .

Chemistry is a branch of our scientific literature that is unlimited in itsvariety and benefits to man. It begins and shows us the affinities and antag-onisms of all known elements.

It is a guide to all our fine arts .Beginning with earth, through all its :products, man is the crowning work of the skill and wisdom of all Nature,and halts to see the beautiful workings of that unequaled laboratory- of life, asit operates in him .

No equal stands on record to date .

He is not only refinedto the least atom of his form, but his atoms of body- are more refined and betteradjusted to a higher plan and plane than all other forms of animal life .

It had .to be made and kept so, as the duties he had to perform were to control theworld and all its elements by reason .

Therefore all the machinery must . behigher in form and quality to suit the coming demands .

Thus we arewarranted to reason thatthe departmentof chemistry in man is greater andmore

effective ; that from crude material to the throne of reason, with power toselect and purify previous to construction, by all rules of reason, 11e must be of.a higher order of matter, skill and knowledge .

You should study and acquaint yourself with chemistry, as you arenowpreparing togo intotheworldasadjusters ofthe machinery ofthe

chemical and physiological laboratories of life as a profession .

You shouldunderstand the chemistry of the fine arts, that you maybe more able to knowby comparison the uses and what to expect in the economy- of man and beast .

All nature lives by chemical action, and you should arm yourself with auseful knowledge of all that pertains to man by analysis, comparison or otherwise

How often do injurious results fail to follow drug medication ?

Apatientis suffering from cough ; an expectorant is given, the cough is somewhat relieved, but the expectorant has produced nausea, and the appetite is gone .

Torestore the appetite and improve the tone of the stomach, mineral acids areprescribed, the appetite gets somewhat better ; but the acids have irritated themucous membrane of the bowels and have produced other trouble, to checkwhich astringents are given . These in turn produce an aggravation of thecough, and so the rounds have to be commenced over again.--The OsteopathLos Angeles .


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WHAT CAN OSTEOPATHY GIVE?

BY A. T. STILL.

HAT can Osteopathy give us in place of drugs,? is a great question whichthe doctor of medicine asks in thunder tones .

Tell him to be seatedand listen to a few truths and questions .

"What can yon give us in place ofdrugs?"

We have nothing to give in place of Calomel, because Osteopathy does notruin the teeth nor destroy the stomach, liver, or any organ or substance in thesystem . We cannot give you anything in place of the deadly- Night-shade,whose poison reaches and ruins the eyes, both in sight and shape, and makestumors great and small .

We have nothing to give in place of Aloes, whichpurges a few times and leaves you with unbearable piles for life . We havenothing to give in place of Morphine Chloral, Digitalis, Varatrum, Pulsatilla,and all the deadly sedatives of medical schools .

We know they will kill, andthat is all we know about them.

We do not know that they ever cured asingle case of sickness, but we do believe they have slain thousands .

We can-not give anything that will take their places .

Their place is to ruin for life ;and Osteopathy considers life too precious to place its chances in jeopardy byany means or methods .

In answer to the inquiry, "What can you give us in place of drugs?"

Iwill say, we cannot add or give anything from the material world that wouldbe beneficial to the workings of a perfect machine-a machine that was madeand put in running order according to God's judgment-perfect in the construc-tion of all its parts, designed to add to its own form and power day by clay,and to carry out all exhausted substances that have been made so by wear andmotion .

If this machine is self-propelling, self-sustaining, having all the machineryof strength, all the thrones of reason established, and working to perfection,is it not reasonable to suppose from the amount of wisdom thus far shown inthe complete forms and workings of its chemical department, its motor depart-ment, the nutritive, the sensory, and the compounding of elements, that theDuster Mechanic has provided the avenues and power to deliver these com-pounds to any part of the body, and to make by the newly compounded fluidsany change in the chemical quality that is necessary for renovation and restor-ation to health?

When we see the readiness of the brain to supply sensation and motion,and are notified of an unnecessary accumulation at any point of the body by,sensation or misery, we want removed that over-accumulation which is makingin-roads on life through the sensory ganglia, to all its centers . We know when

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fully possessed by diseased fluids the fort of life must yield to the mandates ofdeath from climatic or diseases of the seasons as they come and go .

If life yields to the poisonous fluids that are generated during detentionand chemical changes, why not conclude at once that the motor power is insuf-ficient to keep in action the machinery of renovation through the excretorysystem?

Reason proceeds at once to reach the oppressed points .

Throughthe vasomotor being irritated the venus circulation becomes so feeble as to al-low diseased fluids to accumulate, locally- or generally, through the system tosuch a length of time that they become deadly in their nature

from thepower of separation being overcome and lost .

Osteopathy reasons that the special or general power of all nerves must befree to travel through all parts of the body without any obstruction which maybe caused by a dislocated bone, a contracted, shrunken or enlarged muscle,nerve, vein or artery . When enlarged or diminished they are abnormal inform and action .

If you have a thorough and practical acquaintance through Anatomy andPhysiology, with the forms and workings of the machinery of life and health,and treat it as a skilled physiological engineer, then you are prepared to say tothe doctors of medicine, "We have found no place in the whole human bodywhere you can substitute anything but death in place of life."

Remove all ob-structions .

All means ALL, intelligently done to completion, and nature willkindly do the rest .

Let me in conclusion ask the drug doctor if he has been able at any timeto compound substances that can be introduced into a vein that leads to theheart, and not produce death?

Do you not throw all substances into the stomach with the expectation that the divine chemical laboratory will throw outthat which is incompatible to life ? Are not all your hopes placed upon thisone foundation, that we make the horse of life trot slower for fever, and walkfaster in the cold stage ?

In short,

Doctor, is not your whole theory

basedupon guess-work ?

Nature's God has been thoughtful enough to place in man all the elementsand principles that the word ''Remedy" means .

ARABIAN PROVERB .

` ` He that knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool .

Shunhim.

' ` He that knows not, and knows that he knows not, is simple .

Teachhim .

' ` He that knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep .

Wake him." He that knows, and knows that he knows, is wise .

Follow him."

which he pretends to treat .

Cases of mistaken diagnosis by drug doctors areby, no means unusual, for they come to Kirksville every- day- in the week, fifty-two weeksinthe year,but the case ofMr.BenWhitewas considered especially

valuable as it was so plain that the ordinary reader, with no technicalknowledge couldappreciateit.Sincethepublication ofDr. Smith's article letters

have been received from eminent and distinguished physicians in Ohio, Michigan and Connecticut, questioning the truth of the statements .

In view of theattention this case has attracted over the country, the JOURNAL addressed aletter to Mr . White, asking him to recite the facts in the case over his signa-ture .

Mr. White is an old traveling man, well known in commercial circles allover Missouri and Iowa.

The following letter received from him, with the ap-pended statement from his estimable wife, will explain the matter, and theJOURNAL, hopes, remove all doubt as to the truthfulness of the report madeby Dr . Smith .

Mr. White says :" I am in receipt of your communication, in which you state that Prof . Smith's state-

ment about my case has been called in question by different parties throughout the country.It affords me pleasure to confirm Dr . Smith's statement in every particular, and he couldhave added more and still told the truth . I owe my life to Dr. Still and his able assistantsand I would be an ingrate indeed if I were not willing to show my appreciation of whatthey have done for me .

" I will state mv case briefly, leaving out all medical technicalities, which I do notunderstand .

" Last November I returned home from a trip at three o'clock A . M . suffering intenselywith constipation and pain in my liver and kidneys.

My wife and son insisted on calling aphysician, to which I objected .

I told them I did not want a doctor .

However, they calledhim in-one of the best in our town .

Then began a course of medicine-from eight to tendoses a day for three mouths .

I followed all directions explicitly, being determined to domy part .

At the end of three months my physician told me he would prefer to call in an-other physician ; that he did not consider my case serious, but it would perhaps be more


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The CASE; OF BEN WHITE.

'1 \ the June number of the JOURNAL men-tion was made of the case of Mr. Ben

White of Macon, Mo ., who had been givenup by his home physicians to die with "can-cer of the stomach."

On being broughtto Kirksville Mr. White's supposed cancerwas found to be only a distended bladder,which was relieved by a catheter . Thiscase was used in an article by Dr . Smith asillustrative of the importance to the studentof a thorough knowledge of the humanbody before attempting to treat disease, andas showing how little the average ''regular"physician really knows about the machine

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satisfactory to him and myself if he consulted with some other doctor .

We agreed andcalled in another, who stands as high for ability and honor as any physician I know .

Theycame together for nearly a month and gave me encouragement that I was getting along allright.

On their last call they went out of my room and after consulting returned to mybedside and said to me : `Mr. White, we have consulted about your case . We agreeexactly and feel it our duty to inform you, however unpleasant it may be, that we have doneall it is possible to do for you.

Your time is near at hand ; a few days more and you mustgo .'

"No man who has never been so near the brink, upon receiving such a warning fromthose in whom he has confidence, can realize my feelings .

The sun shone so brightly ; theair was so pure ; my home, my wife, my boys-all came vividly before my mind .

Was itpossible that I had to leave my little boy?

His mother had gone before, and now must hisfather go, too, and leave him to the charity of the world?

Such thoughts forced themselvesto my mind with all intensity indescribable .

"After my physicians left and I began to realize my condition I called to lily wife andtold her I wanted to be taken to Dr . Still, to which she readily agreed . We packed up and,much against the advice of friends and neighbors, who thought it cruel, made the trip toKirksville successfully .

" I soon got all interview with the 'Old Doctor .'

How I watched his face for some signof encouragement, but could detect nothing to give me any hope .

In a few moments hecalled his son Charlie.

Then he called Dr . William Smith, who needs no ' X-rays' to tellwhat is inside his patient.

They knew exactly what the matter was ; there was no experimenting or guess-work .

Their intuition is as true as the needle to the pole-all facts andscience, as the patient of ordinary intelligence soon realizes .

"Within ten or fifteen minutes after our first interview Dr. Smith had inserted hiscatheter so gently and quickly that I hardly realized what he was doing. In a short timehe

haddrawn from me a large quantity of putrid urine so foul that I do not know how I

lived with it in me .

He held it up and said, 'Here is your cancer .' I asked what liemeant.

'Why,' lie said, 'your doctors have been treating you for cancer of the stomach.'My wife, being present, confirmed the statement.

This was the first intimation I had of thecancer,Within twenty-four hours Dr . Smith drew at least two gallons more of that putridurine from me, and it took about four weeks to draw it all .

It seems incredible that a manshould live in that condition, but I am still alive, thanks to Dr . Still and his able associates."

"MACON, MO.

Mrs . White sent to this office the following statement with request that itbe published

"I am the wife of Mr. Benjamin White, of Macon, Mo .

I was with him during thewhole of his illness in that town .

He was attended by Dr . W. E. Web, with Dr . A. B.Miller as consulting physician.

Both are resident physicians of Macon, Mo .

Both agreedthat my husband was suffering from cancer of the stomach and so informed me . Bothstated that he had only a few days in which to live,

No mention was made by there at anytime of an enlargement of the prostate gland and the retention of urine as a result .

" The statements as published in the JOURNAL OF OSTEOPATHY concerning Mr . White'scase are true in every particular .

"MRS. Benjamin WHITE."

Dr . William Smith, author of the article in question, makes the followingstatement regarding the case of Mr. White

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189EDITORJournal:--Havingreceived several letters of inquiry relative to an article

written by me and recently published i I the JOURNAL OF OSTEOPATHY, I deem it well to saythrough the same medium a few words relative to a case referred to in the article in ques-tion,

"The Three EssentialsI was requested to examine Mr, Ben White by his wife, who informed tile that Drs.

Webb andA. B. Miller, both of Mason, Mo., had stated that he was suffering from cancer ofthe stomach and that lie had only a few days to live .

I examined him and found that histumor was, as previously stated, nothing more nor less than an enormously distended blad-der. Airs . White told me that this had been taken for his stomach by tile two doctors. Mrs.

White also informed me that during the previous three months Mr. White lead passed nourine ; about a tablespoonful would dribble away in the course of twenty-four hours but thatwas all . The urine was intensely foetid, so much so that when I withdrew it the odor filled thehouse and caused loud complaints from tile other boarders .

The entire mucous lining of thebladder sloughed as a result of the tremendous pressure exerted upon it for so long and Mr.

White had to pass through a siege of suppurative cystitis in consequence.The question hasbeen repeatedly asked me in the letters which have reached me . Do you know that a mancannot live for overten days without p passing urine?" To that I can only reply that I know thatsuch is stated and that I have seen more than one case of uraemia fatal in less than a week .Whv White did not (lie I cannot tell, but knowing him, his wife and son as well as I do Isee no reason to doubt their word .

The scanty dribble of urine may have been the reasonfor his escape .

Dr. Webb has, so I am informed, denied my statement that he informedMrs. White that her husband had cancer of the stomach. The best answer to that is to putMrs. White and her son, both of whoin claim to have been so told by the person in question,upon oath and let them say what lie did say.

Dr. Miller on the return home of the patienthad tile manhood to confess that lie had made a gross error and to express his thankfulnessthat it lead not caused death.

In view of that acknowledgment of a terrible mistake it seemsstrange that Dr . Miller should have fathered a resolution at the annual meeting of the StateMedical Association censuring('Gov. Stephens for admitting Homeopaths to the control ofthe Insane Asylums of the state on the ground of the errors of Homeopathy and the generalignorance of Homeopaths .

The error was made, the patient DID suffer just as I stated ; therewas no error in my report of the case, but the names of the attending physicians would nothave been made so generally public as they are now had they acted with common decency.Mr . White has lead a very close call ; his health is permanently affected and his bladder to-tally paralyzed as the result of the signal and complete incapacity of his attending physi-cians. He has tile very best grounds for a suit of malpractice against them, but men who makesuch mistakes are not usually so foolish as to have property (assessable) in their own names,hence Mr . White is ruined for life and the offenders go Scot-free .

Justice!WilliamSMITH,M.D,

Mr. White was a visitor at the Journal office one clay this month and inconversation with the editor related the following account of his first experience with Dr.Still andOsteopathy

About twelve years ago 1 got a fall in climbing a fence, which dislocatedmy, hip and laid me up so that I could Hot walls .

In about a month withcrutches I got up town and consulted several physicians about my case .

Theytold tile they could do me no good and that I would probably be a cripple allmy life .

I hobbled around for six months on crutches ." While stopping one dot- at the Pool Hotel in Kirksville, Mo., somefriends persuaded tile to send for Dr . Still .

He came, examined me and soonshowed me that lily hip was out of place .

He set me in a chair against thewall and began manipulating my leg .

The first thing I knew ' pop !' wentsomething like a pistol-shot .

My thigh was re-set .In a week or ten days Ithrew away lily crutches and have never used them since."

The Journal of OsteopathyKirksville MISSOURI .

PUBLISHED MONTHLY UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE

AMERICAN SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHY .

Entered at the Post Office at Kirksville, Mo .,as second class matter.

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D. O.Editors and ManagersMASON w, Pressley B. A. . Ph. D..Associate Editor

Every issue of THE JOURNAL OF OSTEOPATHY,with all its contents, is fully protected by copyright .

THE friends of Osteopathy in Iowa shouldnot forget that the election of members totheir Legislature will take place this fall .

THE Burlington Hawk-eye, the DubuqueHerald and several other papers in Iowa arenot afraid to speak out against the methodsof the drug trust . The press of Nebraskashould join these able papers in denouncingthe methods of this monopoly, and tilefriends of Osteopathy in Iowa and Nebraskashould stand by tile papers that fight thebattles of the people .

LAST winter the drug trust succeeded in"railroading" their bill through Iowa givingto themselves the usual Monopoly, Thatlaw takes from tile pockets of tile people ofIowa one million dollars per annuin andgives it to the trust doctors, who are organ-ized and will fight to retain their "snap ."The friends of Osteopathy should be oil tilealert and see that no candidate for the legis-lature is owned by tile trust .

ELSEWHERE ill this issue tile JOURNALcalls the attention of its readers to the nieth-ods of the medical trust and especially to anarticle front the pen of Dr . B . G . Crummerof Omaha Neb., who advises the doctors ofIllinois and Nebraska to " fill their politicalpockets with stories for the benefit of thesecreatures" (the people) and "when theyraise their heads above the grass somethingpractical will be accomplished."

opposition to the medical trust . Why dothe people of Nebraska want such a lawupon their statute-books? It retards pro-gress in the science of healing, protects onlythe drugopaths, is wholly unjust and ought tobe wiped out of existence .

By such a stat-ute the people have legislated away theirright to competition in the healing art andare paying nearly a million dollars a year tomaintain five thousand drug doctors, manyof whom have Hot the ability to make anhonest living if this protection were re-moved .

DR . Adeline BELL, who has been prac-ticing Osteopathy in Shelbyville, Ky., for ayear and a half, wires this office that themedical board has commenced proceedingsagainst her. Dr . Bell is a bright lady and anable Osteopath . She spent fully twentymonths in tile American School of Osteo-pathy and was for a long time one o£ theregular operators in the A . T . Still Infirni-ary . Her work has enlisted tile friendshipof tile best people in tile vicinity of Slielby-ville and they will no doubt stand by heragainst this jealous persecution of the medical trust .

The case of Dr . Bell furnishes asplendid illustration of the fact that all legiti-mate Osteopaths should immediately beginthe work of exposing the frauds who are pretendingtopractice thisscience.Several

genuine Osteopaths were practicing in Ken-tucky, doing much good, unmolested, untila fake graduate of the Kansas City diplomamill went down there and began to work tilepeople . The following press dispatch ap-peared iii the daily papers of the 7th inst..:

AN Osteopath FINED.LOUISVILLE� Ky. Aug. 5 .-Judge Thompson, i ll

tile City Court today, decided against that branch ofmedicine known as Osteopathy. Dr . Byron Axtell,an O.Aeopath, was fined $50 by Judge Thompson forpracticing

medicinewithout a license . The

defendantsaid thathe gavenoprescriptions andadministerednodrugs, and thatheperiormed nosurgicaloperations, but simply manipulated the limbs andmuscles with the hands Judge Thompson held,

however, that Dr . Axtell practiced medicine withinthe Leaning of the statutes, and therefore lie foundhim guilty.The alleged "osteopath " above referred to

is from the Kansas City mill that turns outgraduates in front two }tours to three monthsaccording to tile size of the "student's" pile ."Dr." Axtell practiced dentistry in Kirks-ville up to about a year ago . He left tilecity last fall and within a very few days after

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THE people of Iowa and Nebraska shouldall become politicians when dealing with tilemedical trust . As the inatter stands to-daythe people of Iowa are paying to this mono-poly more than one million dollars perannumwhilethepeople ofNebraska arepay-

ing it three quarters of a million ; yet if thepeople rise to protect their rights the officialorgan of the trust recommends that they be"stoned to death."

HoN . EDWARD OVIATT, Esq., of Akron,Ohio, senior member of the firm of Oviatt,Allen &, Cobbs, was given a banquet on theevening of Jul}- 1st by the Akron Bar Asso-ciation, the event being in consequence ofhis retirement from the active practice oflaw .

Mr. Oviatt has been practicing law inAkron for over fifty yearsOf his associateswho commenced to practice with him in 1846none are now living .

Ile is 75 years of ageand has had a long, honorable career .The firin of Oviatt, Allen & Cobbs was

one of the strongest law firms in tile Stateof Ohio . They had charge of the case ofDr . E . H . Eastman, in which judge Kohlermade his celebrated decision . Messrs .Cobbs and Allen, who will constitute thenew firm, will have charge of the Osteo-pathic case when it goes before the SupremeCourt of the State. The friends of Osteo-pathy throughout the country wish Mr .Oviatt a happy old age and good health onhis retirement from active work .

THE Omaha Mercury, a bright and ably -edited weekly, reproduces from tile JOURNALOF OSTEOPATHY Judge Kohler's decision onthe practice of Osteopathy in Ohio,

Commenting "oil this decision theeditor oftheMercury says"The Ohio court seems to have arrived at the cor-

rect solution of the question . Our law applicableto such questions reads : 'Any person shall be re-garded as practicing medicine within the ineaningof this act who shall operate on, profess to heal,prescribe for or otherwise treat any physical ormental ailment of another.' "This language of the Nebraska statute is .

strong and clearly unconstitutional, but outin '-Nebraska the doctors use strong language .Omaha is tile home of the famous Dr .Crunimer, who would "stone to death" all


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his departure turned up as a full-fledged Os-teopath in Kentucky . in his decision thecourt declares the evidence showed " Dr,Axtell" to be totally ignorant of anatomyand physiology-the branches upon whichOsteopathy is founded . It is certainly amatter of great concern to Osteopaths thatfrauds, who pretend to practice this sciencewithout even a knowledge of its primarybranches, be vigorously prosecuted, and theJOURNAL proposes to show them up when-ever heard from .

A DIPLOMA MILL IN TROUBLE.

There has been a suspicion growing in theminds of Osteopaths for some time that theso-called National School of Osteopathy atKansas City was turning out graduates whohad never studied the science and issuing itsdiploma to all applicants who would pay theprice, regardless of , qualifications or timespent in tile study .

There is no means ofestimating just how many of these machine-made pretenders have been turned out bythis institution, but letters are received atthis office nearly every day inquiring abouta Dr . So-and-So who advertises himself tobe an Osteopath .

Investigation reveals thefact that he is not a graduate from a regularschool . Such frauds are not only fleecingthe people and obtaining money under falsepretenses by engaging to practice a scienceof which they know nothing, but they areworking incalculable harin to the new systemof practice which is otherwise meeting withsuch universal favor among tile people .The American Association for the Ad-

vancement of Osteopathy is all organizationof legitimate Osteopaths and osteopathicstudents . The officers of this associationdetermined to go to the bottom of thisdiploma-mill enterprise .Actingforthis asso-

ciation Dr . Wm. Smith went through thediploma mill one day this month and is Howin . possession of evidence that clearly provestile source of inany of the spurious Osteo-patlis now out . Dr . Smith had never inetDr . Barber, the president, nor had lie everbefore entered the walls of the so-called" National School of Osteopatliv," but theselittle trifles in no way prejudiced his stand-ing before the faculty of this enterprising

educational institution . Boarding the 12 :30(midnight) train at Kirksville Wednesdaymorning, August 11th, Dr. Smith went t0Kansas City and returned Thursday morning,August 12th, at 3:30 o'clock, enrolled as agraduate 0f the " National School of Osteo-pathy," in possession of a "regular"

diploma signed andsealedbythefaculty (onlyone 0f whom lie had ever seen) and

accompanied byacertificate that the bearer hadstudied Osteopathy three years, and a receiptfor $150 as payment in full of tuition . Theentire transaction between Dr . Smith andthe " National School of Osteopathy" occupied less than two hours.

The American Association, which is com-posed 0f over 300 wide-awake, determinedmen and women who have taken up thisscience as a life-work, propose to g0 t0 thebottom 0f this whole fake business vigor-ously and to leave n0 stone unturned t0 pro-tect the good name of Osteopathy . Theofficers in charge of this work will at onceinstitute legal proceedings to close up this" mill " and will continue the good workuntil the making of short-time graduates inOsteopathy will become both unpleasant andunprofitable .News 0f this affair reaches the Journal

just as the last form is going to press .

Pullparticulars -sill be given later .

CELEBRATION OF THE SIXTY-NINTHANNIVERSARY OF DR . A. T. STILL.

On Friday, August 6th, the citizens ofKirksville and the officers and students ofthe American School of Osteopathy- met inMemorial Hall to celebrate the 69th anniver-sary 0f the birthday 0f Dr . Still .The lull was filled t0 overflowing . The

program opened with the singing 0f " Anier-ica " and the waving 0f flags.

Dr. Still wasseated upon the rostrum .

Then came a pro-cession of pretty, little girls in white, carryingarmfuls 0f flowers and led byMrs. For-

aker and Mrs, Hildreth . Helen Frey, 0fSpringfield, O., attended by Master ArthurForaker, mounted the platform and recited a

poem 0n "Tire Bones."Miss Frey's recita-tion delighted the entire audience .

All thelittle girls then proceeded t0 cover Dr . Stillwith wreaths, showering upon him lapfuls 0f

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bouquets .

At the close of this Dr . Stillmade an able and logical speech of an hourand a quarter duration .

Atthe close 0f thespeech a procession 0f young ladies bearingwhite flowers and flags entered the hall, fol-lowed by two young men bearing a hugebirthday cake, surmounted by a pretty, whiteflag, the gift of Mrs. Conger .

In its centerwas emblazoned the word "Osteopathy" andsurrounding it were 69 small flags .

Thena birthday song composed by Mrs. S. 1) .Williams and dedicated t0 Dr . Still was sungby a bevy of young ladies .

After the sing-ing Col . A . L. Conger took the platform andin a brief speech presented the cake t0 Dr .Still on behalf of the friends of osteopathyand the students of the school .

At the closeof the exercises the cake was cut and distrib-uted among those present . After a goodsocial time the audience came forward andextended its greetings to the " Old Doctor ."All pronounced it a very enjoyable time .

IMPORTANT TO GRADUATES.

All graduates 0f the American School 0fOsteopathy should send at once to the Secre-tary of this school their latest address andnotify- him promptly as removals are made .Letters are received almost daily from partieswho desire to go t0 the Osteopath nearesttheir home and in order to intelligently an-swer these inquiries it is necessary that theSecretary be correctly informed regardingaddresses 0f all graduates.The best way possible t0 keep both this

school and the friends 0f Osteopathy- ever---where informed 0f vour correct address is t0insert a professional card in the JOURNAL.

Tim Septemberjournal,

will be anumberwhicheveryfriend of Osteopathy should

preserve . Among the special features willbe a quartet 0f sketches and half-tone por-traits 0f the four Governors who have signedOsteopathic laws in their respective Statesthis year . The sketch 0f that greatcommoner Gov.HazenS. Pingree, which was

to have appeared in this number, is reservedto appear in the " Osteopathic Quartet 0fHonor " next month .

Osteopathic ThoughtletsHUMAN physiology is the science 0f the

functions of the physical organism . Asstudied at present it implies acquaintancewith the fields 0f gross and special micro-scopic anatomy, histology, 0f embryologyand the general doctrine 0f development ;0f biology, 0f molecular physics and cheiii-istry as related t0 the structure and action 0fthe body tissues, and of other forms 0f kin-dred studies .

Tim minute structure of the nervous ine-clianisni invites tire -student of chemistry,molecular physics and histology t0 investi-gations 0f the greatest interest and yet 0fextreme difficulty ; while the functions 0fthis mechanism are s0 curiously and inti-inately connected with the facts, not merely0f all higher animal life, but also of humanconsciousness, that inquiry into them is,among all physical inquiries, the one 0f un-paralleled interest and importance .

Tile. modern science 0f man shows himt0 be at the head of a series 0f physical andpsychical existences ; lie cannot be under-stood as lie is, in his whole nature and in hisplace within nature at large, without takingboth sides 0f his living unity into account.For man is known to himself as body andmind, and not as a bodiless spirit 0r a mind-less congeries 0f moving molecules. Thatthe structure and functions 0f the body, es-pecially of the nervous mechanism and theactivities 0f the mind, are extensively andintimately correlated is a fact beyond alldoubt.

Tim one great function of the nervoussystem is t0 concatenate 0r link together intoa whole the many elements, both physicaland psycho-physical, which enter into thematerial and mental life of man. Differentand distant parts of the body, whether theybelong to the same 0r t0 different systems(as, for example, the circulatory, the secret-ory, the digestive, the muscular), are boundtogether and made t0 exercise their functionsin reciprocal dependence and for commonends by the nervous system . The wholebody is also linked t0 the external world

JOURNAL OF Osteopathy 193,

and kept in either conscious or unconsciousadjustment t0 the changeful play 0f itsforces by the same mechanism. And fur-ther, the development 0f the mental life, atleast in all its more primitive factors, ismediated by the nervous mechanism .

An effect produced in one part of the bodymay be quickly spread to other distant partsby- means of the nerves . The circulation ofthe blood is made to affect and be affectedby the state of the skin and inuseles, thestate of the respiratory organs 0r the state0f the mind's feeling as determined by theideas before the mind .

Adraft 0f cold air,for example, strikes some peripheral portion0f the body ; the heart and lungs modifytheir activities, the muscles contract and ashudder runs through the physical frame-work ; the secretions are disturbed and themind is, perhaps, seized with a vague feeling0f fear .

Such a complex effect 0f thestimulus0fcold on some regionoftheskinhas-

been brought about by the action of thenervous system, with its peripheral end-organs, conducting nerve-fibers and nervouscenters .

Or, again, the seeing of some sight0r the hearing of some sound is followed byideas and emotions, 0f shame, or of fear, or-of joy. A complex co-ordination 0f themuscles then takes place, so as t0 move thelimbs in running, t0 give or ward off a blow,t0 extend the hand in greeting, t0 lift up 0rbow- down the head .

In this case, also, theaction of the heart and lungs and secretoryorgans is greatly modified , the capillary cir-culation is altered and the cheeks areblanched 0r reddened ; the pupils and lacry-iiial ducts 0f the eyes are inoved-the veryhair 0f the head seems to sympathize withthe state 0f the mind .

Thus, changes whichinvolve the functions of almost all the tis-sues and organs 0f the body- are accom-plished by the mediation 0f the nervousmechanism .

Such considerations emphasizethe relations between the body and mindand make it imperative that modern thera-peutics shall study Physiological Psychol-ogy, the physiology and pathology 0f

themind .Osteopathy emphasizes these ideas.in its science and practice .

194Journal OF Osteopathy

c. w. Hartupee D . o . W. N . Hartupee n . o .

DRS . Hartupee of Des Moines

By an error the nalne of Dr. C . W . Hart-upee was omitted front the list of graduatesin the catalogue of the American School ofOsteopathy, recently published . Dr . I Hartupee isone ofthemostable andsuccessful

practitioners of Osteopaths, and the omis-sion of his u, name was purely an oversight .-A partnership was recently formed be-

tween Dr, C . W . Hartupee and his brother,Dr . W . N . Hartupee . Both doctors are grad-uates of this school . 'fuel' have offices inthe Observatory building and at Hyde ParkSanitarium, Des Moines, Ia ., where they areenjoying a splendid practice .The charge was recently made by the

jealous proprietors of a rival school that Dr .C . W . Hartupee and several other graduatesof the American School of Osteopathy hallbeen wronged by their Alma Mater, Thefollowing letter front Dr . Hartupee explainsitselfHyde PARK SANITARIUM,Des Moines Iowa July 3o,Journal of Osteopathy, Kirksville, 61o . :

As one of the graduates of the American Schoolof Osteopathy I can say that their treatment of lirehas always been fair, just and equitable, and I haveso complaint to make . I regard thetwenty months'requirement of the law referred to as for the bestinterests of our science, and I do not believe thereis any truth in the statement [that] the Americanschool of Osteopath. sought to strut out its formergraduates from the right to practice . This is myopinion after a careful investigation of the facts andcircumstances surrounding the passage of the sev-eral osteopathic laws . 1 should not have loanedmy diploma to The Northern Osteopath had Iknown that they intended to use the same in au unjust attack upon our alum Mater I shall always befound standing try the American School of OsteopathyaslongasIbelieve themto be rightand fair

in their treatment of their graduates .C . w. HARTuPEE, D . 0 .

COPT' OF The Missouri LAW.

RE IT ENACTED BY THE. GENERAL. Assembly ofTHE, STATE. OF MISSOURI :SECTION I. The system, method or science of

treating diseases of the human body, commonlyknown as Osteopathy, and as taught and practiced

by the American School of Osteopathy of Kirksville :Missouri, is hereby declared not to be thepractice of medicine and surgery within the meaningof Article I.Chapter110 oftheRevisedStatutesof the State of Missouri, of 1899, and not subject tothe provisions of this Article.

Section 2.

Any person having a diploma regu-larly issued by the American School of osteopathy,of Kirksville, Missouri or any other legally char-tered and regularly conducted School of Osteopathywho shall have been ill personal attendance as astudent iii such school for at least four terms of notless than five months each before graduation . shallhe authorized to treat diseases of the human hodvaccording to such svstem, after having filed suchdiploma for record - with the Clerk of the CountyCourt of the counts in which such person proposesto practice : and having filed with such Clerk anaffidavit that the diploma is genuine and that Ile orshe is the person to whom the .same was issued, andthat all the provisions of this act were fully com-plied with before the issuing of such a diploma

whereupon the Clerk shall record such diploma in abook to he provided by him for that purpose, andshall endorse upon such diploma the date of filingand recording same, for which lie sliall receive frontsuch person a fee of one dollar.

Section 3. Any person who shall practice, orpretend, or attempt to practice or use the svstem,method or science of Osteopathy in treating diseasesof the human bode without having complied withthe provisions of this Act, shall he deemed guilty ofa misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, hefined in a sum of not less than fifty nor more thanone hundred dollars for each offense . Provided,that nothing in this act shall he construed as prohibitinganylegallyauthorizedpractitionerofmed-icine or surgery iii this State from disease,with or without drugs, or by any manipulation bywhich any disease may be cured or alleviated .

A GOOD CASE .L. B . Smith, one of the brightest among

the graduates of '97, is located at Erie Ill .,after a short stay in Centerville, Iowa . "L .B." is a little modest and has written no let-ter for publication, but a private letter to aKirksville friend details an interesting casetreated by Dr . Smith in Centerville which istoo good to miss . The letter says :

"I recently had a case of Spinal Menin-gitis The patient, a bright little girl of sixsears, took sick to the morning . I was calledin the evening and found her suffering intenselywithviolentheadache,nauseaand

vomiting . No medicine of any kind hadbeen given, as the parents and grand parentsbad becolne thorough converts to

Osteopathy besides, thev halllostthreelittle oneswith this wine disease .

In one hour fromthe first treatment the child was begging forsomething to eat .

The next day she was upand about the house, and on Tuesday she resumedherdailyplay,aswellasever.

L, B . 8111TH,

LETTERS FROM GRADUATES.

A Case of Flux .ED, Journal:-- our invitation to contri-

bute to the Graduates' Department is athand . I congratulate the management uponthe production, in such an attractive form]of such a readable and interesting magazineto represent the grand science.

May it livelong and prosper .At present only one case in my practice

that would be of interest, occurs to ale. Mr .E . P . was being treated by a local physicianthrough a course of low fever when a watery

diarrhea set in, which rapidly progressed tobloody flux .

Of six passages in eight ]toursthe last three were progressively bloody,when one thorough osteopathic treatment asper indications completely checked the un-natural discharge, and the next movement,some hours later, was normal .

Wishing you abundant success and manyyears of usefulness to good old Doctor Still,I beg to remain,

Sincerely yours,ARTHUR A . BIRD, D . 0 .

RICH HILL, Mo., Aug. 3 .

Inflammatory Rheumatism Cured,The Journals arrived to-day .

I stn wellpleased with its new form .

I have been lo-cated in Monmouth since the first of Januaryand have hall a very good practice, niv pa-tients being among the best people of theplace . I have had some remarkable cases,which have yielded to osteopathic treatment .Among them was a case of a lady who lastNovember had an attack of la grippe, fol-lowed by nervous prostration, which left hera physical wreck .

After one month's treat-ment site was able to come to the office, andafter taking three months' treatment wasdischarged as cured .

She savs she believesthat Osteopathy saved her life .Another case I was called to see was that

of a lady afflicted with inflammatory rheu-matism . She had been treated for sometime by the regular doctors, but got no bet-

ter . After one month of osteopathic treat-ment site is cured,

I could tell of many cases that have beensuccessfully treated by Osteopathy here inMonmouth, all of whom are great friends ofour science .

EDGAR Bigsby D . 0 .122 South First-st ., Monmouth Ill,

A Case of Neuralgia .I have decided to stay here in Washburn

Ill ., nn' old home, for several months atleast .

I and al work, and doing very well .I have a nice list of patients .

One gentle-man, who took his last treatment thismorning, had " neuralgia of the left shoulder," as the M . D.'s called it .

He hall triedeverything, for three months, but grewworse, instead of better. He came to mefor treatment on June 29th, and to-clay isentirely well . My other patients are im-proving nicely . I have a case of asthma,one of hip joint disease, with several casesof female trouble, and rheumatism Thereis great interest here in Osteopathy .

Bertha M. WEST, D . 0 .Washburn ILL ., Aug . 2 .

Osteopathy vs . "Lumbago."Since writing my last letter to the

Journal Ihavelocated inIndianapolis, dud.,where I now enjoy a good practice .A case of mine which may be of interest

to the readers of the Journal is that of ayoung plan who came to me complaining ofa lame back .

His physicians hall diagnosedthe ailment as " lumbago."

Uponexamination I found adisplacement inthelumbar

region, which I replaced before he left theoperating table . His "lumbago"

immediately disappeared.Afterassuring himselfthat the pain hall left hint, and that lie wasa well nian, it was worth something to hear

him "roast" the M . D.'s who had beentreating him so long for " lumbago."

I trust none of the readers of the JOURNALwill consider this letter written for my own

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glorification, for such is not the case .

I

which I will gladly give, knowing that allwrite solely in the interest of Osteopathy .

worthy Osteopaths realize the importance ofAny graduate of the American School of

that field, and will back me with their sym-Osteopathy should be able to get similar re-

pathy and good wishes .sults under similar circumstances.

GEo. J. Helmer D. O.H. R. JONES, D. O.Chelsea VT., Aug. 4

INDIANAPOLIS, IND ., Aug. 3.

-

Miss Martin in North Carolina .Heart Trouble Cured in Two Weeks.

I am glad, indeed, to add my little mite to,We are now reaping the " prospects " of

this department, but as I am just gettingwhich I wrote you some time ago .

In spite

started here, I have nothing of great inter-of the warm weather up here, we are having

est to report .

I have several patients nowall we can do, and better still, are having

enrolled, and all seem pleased with thenewsplendid results with all our patients .

One

idea, although very little is known of Osteo-interesting case was that of a young lady

path}- in these parts.

1 like the people here ;who was given up to die with heart trouble.

they are sociable, kind and intelligent, andWe have now treated her two weeks, and

I feel that I will succeed among them .

Ishe is entirely cured, the last trace of the

am boarding at the home of Mr . and Mrs..trouble having disappeared.

Her improve-

Hackney, who are well known at Kirksville .improvement was remarkably noticeable from theThey are loyal frienes to Osteopathy.Dur-

first treatment.

Regards to all.Durham is loo miles from the sea and zoo miles.S . R. LANDES, D. O.

from Washington, D. C.

Success to all OsteopathsGRAND RAPIDS, MICH ., July 30.Osteopaths Fraternally,

-Clara MARTIN, I), O.In the Green Mountains.Durham N. C., Aug. j.

Precious stones are made more beautiful

-by beautiful settings .

Natural scenery is

Four Good Cases.beautiful only where the objects are artistically ED . JOURNAL: Let me first congratulate(ally arranged and colors blend.

Both please

you on the new dress and form of the JOUR--the eye and gladden the heart without ourJournal hoping for a continuation of success.imaginary- powers being called out.

So with

for the JOURNAL� and also the Infirmary andOsteopathy in the Green Mountains.

Last

School .year I spent the summer months in the

I have been here about five months and'mountains of Vermont ; and this year I ar-

have met with decided success.

Not long,rived in Chelsea July1st The circum-

since, a lady came to my office and askedstances surrounding my stay" here this year

me if I would call and tell Mrs. C. what herare quite different from last year.

trouble was.

She hall had two M. D.'s inLast year's experience was marked by a

attendance the night before, who could not" Not to bring peace, but a sword," feeling.

agree as to the trouble.

I called and foundIt

was a summer of warfare, but

not

Mrs. C. very ill and suffering with a severewithout success.

The strength gained in

pain in the right side of the abdomen. Ithat, our first victory, is part of the strength

told her the cause of her suffering, and thatused in the greater victories in North Da-

I could relieve her, but if she wanted me,kota, Missouri, and Michigan .

This year is

she must first dismiss the M D.'s .

She re-marked by the peace that follows the sword

plied : "The 31 . D.'s have done me no good ;of truth .

I sincerely wish that many of my v

I will now try the Bone Doctor."

I relievedfellow-workers could be here with me to

her of all pain, and in a week she was ableenjoy- what they helped me gain,

to be up, and has been steadily improvingMany patients come to me from the great

ever since.city of New York, where I will return in Another case was that of a little (leaf boySeptember.

Osteopathy has made its pres-

who, when he came to me, could only hearence felt there.

The results already accom-

a watch tick, in one ear, and then only whenaccomplished inspire me to even harder work,the watch was held very tightly to the ear,


197After one month of Osteopathic treatment

said was "dysentary."

The regular familyhe could hear any conversation spoken in an

physician, who is the best M. D. here, wasordinary tone .

The trouble was in the atlas.

called at once, but his first medicine did notA man who had been suffering with sour

work,and soon a change was ordered.

Then,stomach for years, and compelled to use

as the little fellow grew steadily worse,soda after each meal, was cured in four treat-

change number three was prescribed, equallymerits .

without benefit. Yesterday morning theOne evening I was called out to see a little

child was so

near Death's door that thechild.

On examination I found the child

parents .gave up all hope of benefit fromsuffering with very sore throat, wheezing drugs, and sent for me as a last resort . Iand a very high fever, with a bad headache.

found the boy in a very critical condition .I gave him a treatment, and the next morn-

He was passing blood and mucus abouting he was up .

I saw the mother the day-

every ten minutes, and was so weak he couldafter, and she said to me : "You have done

not raise his head from the pillow .

I ap-more for my child than the M. D.'s of Chi-

plied Osteopathic treatment, and I wish yon(ago have done, for they could never get

could have seen how quickly results came,him up in a week or more, and you did it in

I had not been in the house ten minutes be-one treatment."

fore there was a change .

In two hours theJ. H. OSBORN, D. O.

movements of his bowels were one hour1310 Francis st ., St. Joseph, Mo,

apart instead of ten minutes, and the ter-rible straining spasms were reduced to very

A Grateful Student.

mild efforts .

At this writing the little fellow .EDITOR JOURNAL :-I am now located in

is out of danger and on a rapid road to re-Cameron, where I came directly after grad-

covery .

The parents feel that Osteopathyuating last June, and am succeeding splen-

saved the child's life .splendidlyOf course, like all other OsteopathsI want to tell you, none of us begin to

before me, I had to fight my wayto the front

realize the greatness of Osteopathy, nor theby getting results right under the noses of

good we can do .humanity ; nor can anyonethe M. D.'s, but this has been comparatively

realize fhow much

the

world needs thiseasy, and I think the people of Cameron

science, until he gets out and meets the ad-feel very good toward Osteopathy.

As to

vocates of other systems upon the field ofniv cases, I will give you two. disease and suffering.

Long live the AmericanOn June 28, shortly after my arrival here,

ican School of Osteopathy, which, by itsand before I had settled,

occurred a most " avarice " (?) and "greed " (?) has so wellviolent thunderstorm, during the course of

prepared us for such a work in the world!which Mr . See, one of Cameron's substantialA. M. KING, D. O.citizens, was struck by lightning, which re-

CAMERON, MO., July 30.sulted in partial paralysis of the right side

_and arm.

TwoM. D.'s were at once calledin-skillful physicians both, as physicians

A Remarkable Case .

go-and remained in attendance until the

ED . Journal :-- have a remarkable case,following Monday, Mr . See each day grow-

the history of which may be a little tedious,ing worse, until finally, in a thoroughly

but I believe it is worth the attention offrightened state, he came to me . A brief

your readers, as showing what Osteopathyexamination showed beyond peradventure a

can do when everything else absolutely fails :dislocation of the atlas.

In less than ten

Mrs. J. R' . S.-At the age of seven had aminutes from the time lie saw me I had the

severe fall, which doctors afterward admittedatlas in place, and he left the office, absolutelymight be the cause of trouble.

Menstruatedat fourteen, from which time legs began pain-.

lutely cured .

ing, and swelled, with varicose veins, whichI

have another successful case,

which

bursted in about a year .

Was always moremay interest you.

Last Monday a little

severe at menstrual periods.

At the age offifteen, examination revealed a bad displace-three-year-old child of a prominent citizen

ment of the uterus .

Patient began wastingwas taken violently ill with what the M. D.'s

away rapidly, and at the age of nineteen was

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placed under the care of a celebrated Cin-

AnM. D.'s Opinion of Osteopathy .Cincinnati physician.'Mechanical supportersI began reading medicine with my father

were applied to hold the uterus in place, and

andoldest brother, Edward, ill 1848, but didthe swollen limbs Here bandaged ; but whenthe supports and bandages were removed,

little real work until 1854, when I removed,patient suffered more intensely than ever,

to Kansas and began practice among theand was unable to raise her legs front the

early settlers, and also among the Indians.floor. The physician advised marriage . After

(both Shawnee and Delaware .)

As the dis-several years patient married, but with noeffect.

She continued to suffer, and electri

eases were mostly malarial, I used few remedieselectrical treatment was tried a long time withoutedies, and as doctors were scarce, my practice

benefit .

Sixteen months after her marriage

grew rapidly

and lily experience becameshe aborted.

The attending physician said

quite extended,it was caused by a fibroid tumor between theuterus and rectum .

The tulnor was then the

In the spring of 1862, I was graduated fromsize of a cocoanut .

She continued to gain

the Rush Medical College, when I beganflesh rapidly, until she weighed 167 pounds,

work in earnest, with

almost unboundedthen went to New York to consult a special-

faith in the efficiency of medicine and theist .

At this time she could not walk with-out help, and was taken to a hospital, ,%here

wisdom of its exponents.

In

a practice ofshe was placed in charge of a celebrated pliv-

nearly forty years, however, that faith hassician just from Europe .

Here electric treat-

litany times

been

sorely tried

and someinent was tried, but only served to increase

times almost lost,the violent uterine hemorrhagePatient leftthe hospital unable to get out of bed.

Ec

When called in consultation with the best-Eczema then broke out on the face and limbs.and most enlightened of the fraternity, to

A celebrated skin specialist was tried, with-

the bedside of the sick and dying of the familyout result .

Distressing heart complications

ily of my brother Andrew, and when in thenext appeared, the sufferer grew much worse,and the doctors gave her up .

But death did

Presence of that dread disease, Cerebro Spinalnot come to her relief, and in this horrible

Meningitis, we all stood helpless and sawcondition-with eczema, tumors and heart

death claim them one by one and every remedytrouble-she existed for sixyears. Therewere nineteen little known to the profession prove powerless;tumors, two of whichwere removed by operation . and when in other cases of a similar characteroperation.The above is the history of this case under

ter our utmost efforts proved futile, I havemedical treatment .

As for her treatment by

longed for some escape, some method thatOsteopathy, her own words will express that might aid me in my battle, both with sick-best .

In a letter from her, over her own signaturetress and with death.

1 have never been anature, after reciting her life-long suffering,

faddist ; yet when

all the older remediesshe says failed, sometimes I have turned in desperation

to some new, highly recommended and so-after havinghaving had fourteen

ante todoctors-without

e

called infallible remedy, only too often tocounting three -olio merely looked me over .

meet with the same results .Thirty years now since I was taken sick .

Again I have seen patients suffering withDr . Steele has relieved me so much that

disease-the same symptoms in every respect ;words cannot express how differently I feel .

the same temperature tongue,

etc.-andIt seems strange to go to a doctor capable ofrelieving one at once, without the use of

upon using, the same remedies, witH the samemedicine .

After four months' treatment I

effect for a time, suddenly one would changewas able to walk two miles.

Can anyonefor the worst, present alarming symptoms,Iohofeel

h?

Ithink

asthink not not.been

"well imagine how goodwhich would soon end in death, while the

The lady lives in Niagara Palls, N. Y,

Her

other would snake a correspondingly rapidrecovery .

name is Mrs. J. W. Swans, 1941 Whitney

I remember also, having at one time, aavenue, and she requests me to say she will

siege of malarial fever when all my patientscheerfully reply to any inquiries.

made good recoveries .Regards to all .

''ours,

I stopped one day on lily rounds at thebut of a Delaware Indian .

He was sitting onW. \F. Steele D. 0.his little porch burning up with fever.By

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.

his side was a bucket of water and a dipper

JOURNAL OF Osteopathy 199

from which he drank greedily all he wanted,

near the coast . Cominghere as entire strang-He vomited

freely.

Upon calling

again,

ers, practicing an hitherto unadvertised sci-when my patients were

ready to be dis-

ence of healing, we had many difficulties to.charged, I found him with tongue clear,

overcome, but we have surmounted them andpulse good and temperature normal .

In a

are securely started on the road to success.word, well without a dose of medicine, and

Cure of disease without any sort of medica-consequently no bad after effects, as was too

tion was against all preconceived ideas, butoften the case .

Then, as

in

many other

we have succeeded, even in so short a time,cases, I was tempted to ask myself, are the

and established an infirmary and school thatsick made well by the medicine or in spite

are meriting the recognition and patronageof the medicine?

of the most intelligent classes .

Our patientsIn 1893, when on my way to the Chicago

are easily convinced of the practicability ofExposition, I was induced by my brother,

this science that assists nature to regain per-Dr, A. T. Still, to stop at Kirksville and in-

feet harmony and many evince such enthusiasminvestigate for myself his new science, Osteop-

iasm we are made to feel daily that it is aathy .

I did so, and was so pleased with the

great privilege to carry on the good work .principles upon which the science is based,

Having found a change from Anaheimwith the science itself, and with the results

necessary to accommodate our rapidly in-obtained,

that

I returned

to

Kirksville,

creasing number of patients and students, wemastered and have ever since practised Os-

removed to Los Angeles.

Our new quartersteopathy .

in the Phillips block are centrally located,I have seen it tested in both chronic and

commodious, bright and airy.acute diseases .

I have seen it master thor-

Climatic conditions here render residenceoughly cases of most severe pain o£ Rheumaticwithin au infirmary unnecessary .

Invalidsstatic and neuralgic type, reduce tempera-

find betterment from daily outings, out ofture, breathing end pulse in a very short

door life being always possible and a constanttime .

I have seen a variety of tumors re-

source of joy.

Southern California is themoved, (cancers, so diagnosed)

and have

play ground for our continent.seen consumption in its earlier stages cured,

Our school grows.

We have large classeswithout medicine of any kind .

I have seen

of students who absorb enthusiasm for theirhopeless invalids, life-long cripples, incurable

work and residence, and, we feel, will carrypatients, come to Osteopathy with the very

away as kindly a remembrance of theirbest results .

I am more than satisfied, and

Alnia Mater as we do of ours .

We arebelieve the possibilities of Osteopathy are

justified in the pride we feel in our corps ofwonderful.

When it shall have the first

instructors .

They are men of brains, educationchance at a patient, instead of the last look

tion and progression, with untiring interestat the cadaver, then the death rate will ex-

in teaching and demonstrating.

The Osteo-perience a startling diminution, and the list

path we will let speak for itself .

We thinkof cures will be lengthened to most wonder-

it creditable to a much older institution . Ourwonderful proportions.endeavor is, and has been since its incipiency,

J. M. STILL, M. D., D. 0.

to give subscribers many times their money'sTRENTON, Mo., Aug. 2d.worth in reliable scientific and literary ar-

ticles . Our rapid growth has necessitatedOn The Pacific Coast.

adding to our editorial force, and we trustEDITOR JOURNAL:-It gives us pleasure to

each

successive

publication

will

excelacceed to the request from our Alma Mater

the last, as we aini to reach the highest planefor a letter telling of our progress in found-

possible, and will not rest satisfied withouting ail Osteopathic Institute in the far west .

our

infirmary,

school and

journal beingIt is summer here but the Pacific wafts cool

worthy children of Osteopathy .refreshing breezes, thus tempering King

''ours cordially,Sol's semi-tropic heat, and making a de-

A. C. MOORE, D. 0.lightful climate of Southern California on or

LosANGELES, CAL., July 3rd .

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JOURNAL OFOsteopathy

A Glance BEHIND THE SCENES.

By C . C . Teall

InA Recent Number of the Medical Brief, Dr. Cram takes the professionvery seriously to task for their failure to procure results .

He dividesthe science into Medical, Surgical, and Obstetrical, and finds that the deathrate in the former far exceeds that in the two latter-in fact more than twentyto one .

He even calls the results destructive,which is mildly put .

Hisdeduction from this startling state of affairs is, that surgery and obstetrics areexact sciences, and there is no confusion of schools or methods, while in thedepartment of medicine the essentials of medical diseases are not understood bytheprofession,hencethe"destruction."Admittingthatsuchisthecase,itis

the old trouble-the unreliability of drugs, more than improper diagnosis-that is responsible for this startling death rate .

The variety of drugs used by the average general practitioner is not large,thus each drug is required to cope with many diseases, and Dame Nature iscalled upon to handle it in such a way as to bring lasting renown to the writerof the prescription .

Lately there have come to the M. D.'s aid numerous specifics and com-pounds which reduce his work to that of a simple diagnostician, the numerouspharmaceutical concerns furnishing the prescriptions ready compounded forthe unfortunate patient .

Every known formula is now made up ; and theefforts put forth by its compounders to induce the medical men to "indicate"

their prescriptions are tremendous .The favorite method is by the "medical missionary," a young man with a

glib tongue, some samples and attractive literature, who goes among the M.D .s, and by persuasive ways and large promises, convinces them that the preparation suggeste(! is the "only genuine."

For example, one concern has mencarry a small oil stove and necessary apparatus to demonstrate the effects onstarch of diastase in their extract of malt ; while another equally enterprisingcorporation has demonstrations made at some drug store, to which the

accomodating M.D.isinvited, toshowtheeffect oftheirdrydiastaseonstarch ina

C . C . TEALL, writer of the above article, was for four vears a traveling sales .man for the various proprietary- medicines, with headquarters in New York city .He was known among the profession as a "medical missionary." A glance at the

advertising pages of the medical journals and of modern periodical literaturesuffices to show how zealous medicine manufactories are in getting their special-ties upon the market ; and the story of how easily- the apothecaries and medicalpractitioners lend themselves to the use of such valueless materials is of generalinterest .

Air . Teall has interviewed over 4,000 physicians in the leading cities oftheUnited States and has visited abroad in the interest of the drug business . The

facts given in this article are suggestive of the untold tricks of the trade and ofthe sharp practical medicine."

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test tubeIn both cases it is a remarkable test, one grain converting many timesits bulk of starch into sugar .

The M. D . is delighted with this aid to diges-tion, and immediately begins to prescribe, forgetting that a test tube is not ahuman stomach, that the conditions are in no way similar, and that the chem-ical changes incident to digestion are such as to neutralize its action .

At the meeting of the State Medical Societies, room is always set aside forthe display of drugs, surgical instruments, etc ., while at the great meetings ofthe American Medical Association the manufacturers spare no expense toslake a showing .

At the last meeting in Philadelphia a huge building wasgiven up to this display .

At such times the enterprising manufacturer hassome surprise to spring, an antitoxine, patent food or narcotic, to draw theattention of the profession and boom his many other preparations .

This wouldall be very creditable, both to the manufacturer and to the M. D., but for thefact that most of this effort is to sell, not cure .

The former is not makingmedicine for his health, nor is the M . D . giving it for his, and surely the poorpatient is not taking it for that purpose-at least viewed from an OsteopathicstandpointIt is true, but rather a melancholy fact, that the average M . D . is.a gullible individual, and falls easy prey to the wiles of the plutocratic manu-facturer .

He is, by the sophistries of the "missionary" and the glitter of theexhibitions, made to pull massy a hot chestnut from the fire into the pocket ofsome other man .

One of the many conspicuous examples of what can be donein that line is that of three bright young men who formed a company, andcompounding bi-carbonate of soda with a certain alkaloid which can be boughtin any drug store at retail for fifteen cents per ounce, pressed it into tablets,attached a long and fetching name, and by the aid of these accommodating M .D.'s, are selling enormous quantities at one dollar per ounce wholesale .

Sixyears ago one of them worked on a small salary .

He is now a millionaire .There are, of course, many conservative men who do not, but there are

many who will prescribe anything=even secret formulas-on the mere "say so"of the glib "missionary."

The chemists of the great packing houses are work- .ing in the laboratories to find or invent some use for the otherwise valuelessrefuse of the slaughter-house . Pepsin, pancreatine, red bone marrow, dessi-cated glands, etc ., are the result, thus working over and over the old explodedtheory, "apart strengthening apart."

One pharmaceutical establishment has twenty-three hundred differentpreparations, ranging from the filth of animal life to the most virulent poison .Who sells all this for them?

The M. D., for in no case are they put upon themarket, except in a strictly ''ethical" way ; which means that the poor suffererwho foots the bills is not even allowed to know the name of the latest

experimentThe samewild craving for the miraculous, whichsells millionsof dollarsworth of nostrums to a poor, deluded, diseased public, seems to be implantedin the brain of the M . D., for he rises as readily to an attractive bait as doesthe advertisement reading laymen .

And be it said to their credit, many ofthem (recognizing the charge of Dr . Crawl-the destruction in medical cases)

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are reaching after, trying and accepting anything that promises aid in theirsore distress .

And what part does the apothecary play in this tragedy ? He is the middleman between the maker and giver of drugs . There is a never ending feudbetween the maker and giver of drugs, notwithstanding the fact that they areboth on the same unstable platform, and must stand or fall together .

A hard working "missionary" will call upon from eight to tell AL D.'s . perday and after a week's work in a city, prescriptions begin to come in to theapothecary for the new preparation .

He does not have it in stock and thememory of many previous experiments in stocking with new goods which stilllinger on his shelves, causes him to mentally anathematize the M. D . who hashad the temerity to "indicate" a new preparation .

If it cannot be had of hisjobber lie substitutes and says nothing .

If the deceit is not discovered, andthe patient lives, all is well ; but look out for trouble if such is not the case .

Another grievance of the M. D. is, that many drugs are not fresh whendispensed, and are as salt which has lost its savor-not a bad condition if theyare absolutely inocuous .Many a doctor's uneasy conscience has been quietedby the thought that his prescription was not filled with fresh and potent drugs-an easy shifting of responsibility- .

On the other hand the apothecary fightsthe new preparations which constantly enlarge his stock, and add to histroubles .

Considerable pressure must be brought to bear on him to induce apurchase .

The statement that Drs . Smith, Jones and Brown stand ready toprescribe it, brings forth the remark that the 11I . D's, will prescribe anythingput before them, and that his shelves are now crowded with preparations whichhe has been induced to buy at their recommendation, and which they lead pre-scribed for a few times, only to forget them for something newer, leaving himwith an unsalable stock .

Again, ask the apothecary what M. D, call be relied upon to help the saleof a preparation . "Oh, see White, Black and Green ; they always write everynew thing, provided you sample them heavily enough," will be the reply-andso it goes .

Barrels and barrels of ordinary beer are sold by the M. D's . influ-ence as "malt extract," and sold too, at several times the cost of the samething under a different name.

Barrels and barrels of cheap wine or spirits,with a mild suffusion of cocoa or kola have been sold at a large price and heavyprofits .

Tons and tons of cod livers are refined and the oil sold at fancy prices,whereas the same money- invested in A i creamery butter would be infinitelymore clean and wholesome, and a better tissue builder .

Whole rivers of waterbottled and sold as possessing wonderful curative powers-water which hasabsolutely no other recommendation than its advertisement, and made to bringa fancy price .

The apothecary makes a living selling soda-water and fancygoods .

The patient pays the bills .

And the manufacturer?

Oli, he went tothe Queen's Jubilee is his own yacht .


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OSTEOPATHIC OBSTETRICS .By FLLA M . STILL .

J°T HAS always been thought necessary for women to stiffer, some of themeven onto death, that homes might be made happy by the presence of

children .

And this idea has lieconie so prevalent that some, rather than facethe terrible ordeal, have even taken their own lives .

When we stop to consider the ideal home, which cannot be complete unlessblessed by the presence of children, we are ready to wonder if the all-wise

Creator really intended that the mothers of this country should almost "passthrough the valley of the shadow of death" that such work might be accomplished

Mothers should be the happiest creatures on earth, and able tolcok upon motherhood as a blessing rather than a curse, realizing that "thehand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world ."

But we lookaround and see so many mothers mere physical wrecks, and we wonder why itshould be so . Studying the question from an Osteopathic standpoint, werealize that it should not be .

It has been left to one

living ill this century to discover that childbirthcan be made easy and painless .

If Dr . A . T . Still had never discovered any-thing else than the way of bringing comfort to mothers by alleviating theirSufferings at such times, lie should be, of all men, the most honored .

Neveruntil Dr. Still put his great brain to work to study out a plan of assistingnature along this line, did anyone realize that there was any better way than toeither allow days of suffering, the use of anesthetics, or resort to what wasstill worse, the dreaded forceps .

We contend that the Creator has so constructed the human body, that un-less by some means deformed, there is no need for these things . If there isone field of work in which the Osteopath excels it is in obstetrics.He does not perform miracles, but only aids nature in the work tobe accomplished .

A true Osteopath goes at his work sensibly and systematic-ally, knowing just what to do, and lioiv to do it .

There is no guess work inthe case .

People are amazed when we report cases which lasted only twenty orthirty minutes, and well they may be, because it is so out of the ordinary line .

We do not speak of these cases to especially advertise them, as they might haveMrs. Ella Still D. 0. . is the wife of Prof . S . S . Still, who holds the chair

of Descriptive Anatomy in the American School of Osteopathy Mrs . Still wasgraduated from the Kansas State University, at Lawrence, and is also a Chautanquaqua graduate of 1890 She was a member of the graduating class of 'y; ill the

:l American School of Osteopathy and is now one of the regular operators in theA . 'r . Still Infirmary at KirksvilleShe comes from a noted family, being a thirdcousin of the poet Longfellow

v

As a diplomate of Osteopathy Mrs . Still is very popular .

she has had specialtraining and much valuable experience ill the department of this science towhich her .u article is devoted .

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the effect of discouraging others where the time was a little longer ; but froman hour and a half to two hours is the usual time . Mothers who have for-merly suffered from one to two, or even three days, hail with gladness a changeso great . Many cases might be cited, but a few which have recently comeunder , my personal observation, will suffice : ' -

Mrs . -, who on a previous occasion lead suffered about thirty-six hours sointensely as to produce convulsions, and ]lad finally to be deiivered withforceps, sent for an Osteopath at her second confinement . In just one hourand a quarter a fine, healthy child was born .

Mrs . S.-aged about thirty-seven, had four children previous to last con-finement, and had suffered intensely, labor always lasting many hours . Thelast child came under the auspices of an Osteopath, and in less than fifteenminutes after the arrival of the "D . O ." all was over, without accident to thechild, and almost without pain to the mother .

Mrs . Me . E.-aged nineteen ; first child ; labor lasted one hour.

Familyso pleased that the husband will study Osteopathy .

Mrs . G .-aged twenty-seven ; two children .

First labor under old regime,lasted three days, after which instruments were resorted to .

Last child bornOsteopathically and labor lasted one hour .Mrs . McL.-first child born under medical supervision ; labor lasted forty-

eight hours ; delivery made with instruments . Second child born inforty-five minutes with Osteopaths in attendance .

And not only is the time lessened, but Dr . Chas . Still, who has had moreexperience than any other Osteopath in this line of work, estimates that by ourtreatment, the suffering is reduced at least four-fifths .

It is indeed a wonderful science that can produce such results, and yetwhen all is said, the fact remains that it is done only by a true knowledge ofthe anatomy of the human body.

Bones, muscles, blood and nerves, are allimportant to the Osteopath, but especially must he unlerstand the great nerv-ous system, for in such knowledge lies his strength . We know there arecertain nerve centres which control certain parts, and to so act upon thosecentres that they may do the work required, is the province of the Osteopath .

There are still other advantages to be derived from this method of treat-ment . Such a thing as a laceration has, so far, been unknown to the professionof Osteopathy, and we have been taught by the great founder of this science,that if we do our work intelligently, such a tiling need never occur .

Then too, there are no bad effects following-no gathered breasts, for oneonly has to have a good knowledge of the construction of the mammary glands,the nerves and blood supplying them, to be master of the situation .

UnderOsteopathy the dreaded phlegmasia dolens becomes a will o' the wisp andpuerperal fever forgets to develop .

There is no part of our work which should so appeal to the women of theclasses in Osteopathy, as that of obstetrics . There is no higher calling thanto be able to go to those of your own sex, knowing you are qualified to takecharge of their cases, and insure them immunity from the troubles which,under the old regime, were so common to womankind .


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A GRATEFUL IOWA PATIENT.CARL I, . NFLSON .

The THIRD generation of Stills is treating me now-all honorable gentlemenTheremarked a bright old lady patient to me.

"The father of Dr .Andrew T. Still was our family physician in Virginia and gave me medicinewhen I was a girl .

Afterwards Andrew was my doctor, and now his son, Dr.Charley, isgiving me Osteopathic treatment."

The old lady thought the lastwas the best treatment on account of what Andrew had learned and taught tohis son, and one would readily surmise from her appearance that the fourthgeneration of her favorite family of physicians will have an opportunity to helpsteady her failing footsteps down the hill of time .

It was on the train coming home from Kirksville that I met the old lady .I have forgotten her name, but have not forgotten with what earnestness andenjoyment she sketched the wonderful career of the founder of Osteopathy .

The story of the life of Andrew T. Still, the founder of Osteopathy, isfamiliar to the readers of the JOURNAL . I had read it and heard many inci-dents of it repeated by citizens of Kirksville ; but a new interest was awakend bythe enthusiasmofone whohad knownhim all his life,and knewhim

only to praise him for his hard, honest work and wonderful success in findinga way to battle with the ills which flesh is heir to, without the use of drugs .She told how he was raised a doctor, studied medicine, took the degree of M.D ., had a good practice, became surgeon of a Kansas regiment during the war,in which capacity he gained much valuable experience as a surgeon ; how heafterwards became a useful member of the Kansas legislature ; how he wasthrown into the depths of sorrow by the death of four of his children fromcerebro-spinal meningitis, when he and half a dozen other doctors were striving-earnestly to stay the hand of the destroyer by" all the means then known to theprofession ; how he worked to find out some better way to battle with disease ;how he gradually developed Osteopathy, and then how he strove to introducehis beneficent science, struggling both against the antagonism of the medicinemen and the prejudices of the people . And how grand and growing a victoryat last he has won!

I could listen with extreme pleasure, for I was then coming home happy,

CARL I,. Nelson is a native of Ohio .

When the war broke out

lie was a stu-dent at Miami University but laid clown his hooks and went to the front with the

81st Ohio.As a soldier he won honorable mention by the officers of his regimentfor bravery on the field of hattle at Shiloh .

He is now a resident of Albia, Iowa, .where he has made his home for thirty- years He was admitted to the bar and practiced

law many years but is now engaged in editorial work.Mr. Nelson is an enthusiastic

worker for Osteopathy in Iowa .

He became interested in the new science

through his own experience with its merits, having suffered many years withsciatic rheumatism which Osteopathy alone proved able to relieve .

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after a few Osteopathic treatments had done more to relieve me of the excruci-ating pains of sciatica than all the prescribed drugs I could consume in a yearhad done . I had made up my mind that the way in which I could do the mostfor my friends and suffering humanity in general was to assist in making known-the existence of Comrade Andrew T. Still and his new science of Osteopathy.That was a year ago and I have not changed my mind .

For months I fought the battles of Osteopathy alone in our town, contend-ing against the sneers of my good friends, the medicine men, who said I hadbeen hypnotized by the Osteopaths, and the prejudices of the people generallywho would contend that the Kirksville treatment was a "faith cure ."

Presently I was reinforced by another citizen who had been to the A. T .Still Infirmary and received wonderful benefit, Then I had my Osteopathicstrength renewed by finding one of Dr . Still's former patients, eight miles outin the country, who had been transformed from a cripple to an active womanby his skill .

After a while I persuaded an infirm old friend to go and try Osteopathictreatment and he came home with his youth renewed like the eagle's . Later Irejoice in the belief that I have been instrumental in saving the life of a youngfriend afflicted with hemorrhage of the lungs, by prevailing upon her motherto take her to try Osteopathy . This week another lady, afflicted for fifteenyears, who first heard of the new science of healing through a copy of theJOURNAL which I sent to another, is going to the A. T . Still Infirmary where Ifeel confident she will be cured .

Many others are "inquirers" and will get the gospel of Osteopathy .

Sothe good work goes on, and if every Iowa patient who has received benefit atKirksville is doing what he or she can to spread the good news, the Infirmarywill soon need room for all the graduating class to go to work treating patientsfrom the Hawkeye state . A Hawkeye is noted for seeing a good thing and isnot slow in appreciating it, even if it is brought to view by a brevet Jayhawker .I find this especially true of the comrades of the G . A. R ., a large army ofwhom will join me in shouting Hurrah for Comrade A. T . Still! and may thecampaign he and his assistants are making against aches and pains be ever glo-riously successful .

TOXICOSIS .

MASON W .Pressly

Intoxication and auto-intoxication are two tremendous facts before thescientific world to-day, and these conditions present two of the deadliest

foes to the life and liberty of the human family, and are both alike inveteratebarriers to health and happiness.

What is commonly called "intoxication," needs no explanation. Suffice it

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to say, Osteopathy is not merely opposed to all practice, medical, illegal or im-moral, that is in any way connected with the use of any drug, dose or drink,that may lead to intoxication in any degree, from the mildest stimulation to themost overpowering unconsciousness [except in very rare and exceptional casesthat may not occur once in a thousand times,] but it claims to be in possessionof scientific knowledge by which the common plague of intoxication, fromwhatever cause induced and to whatever degree developed, may be alleviated,arrested and, possibly, cured .

But, further, in addressing itself to the consideration and cure of what isknown among the select circle of scientific specialists as "auto intoxication,"Osteopathy believes itself to be in command of resources that will give it eminent success in attacking the ravages presented by such conditions .

"Auto-intoxication" is the condition of toxicohemia, or poisoned condition of the bloodinduced by the poisons that are secretly made within the body through certainfunctional disorders, or incompleteness of the metabolic processes, or failure inthe eliminating process of katabolism .

Recent scholarly- and original investigation has pointed out that somatic in-sanity is very largely caused by auto-intoxication, or the deposition, throughcirculation, of the toxic elements of defective metabolism within the brain-cellsand their consequent degeneration, and what is now called psychic insanity maybe caused in a similar way.

Osteopathy has had much experience with insanity, that terrible anddreaded disease which casts a pall of gloom over so many otherwise happyhearts and homes ; and in this respect alone, not to speak of hundreds of otherblighting maladies, it has developed principles and a practice, that from a scien-tific view-point, promises great things in the especial field of insanity . There isvery strong presumption in favor of the proposition that Osteopathy will soonbe able to deliver very many of the unfortunate inmates of the insane asylumsof our country into the condition of sanity and liberty .

And this is only oneform of toxicosis upon which Osteopathy is operating .

Thousands of people,who may not have become the victims of intoxication, either from drinks ordrugs, may be the helpless subjects of auto-intoxication .

The blood is the life-current .

As Dr. Still has proclaimed, "the rule of the artery is absolute anduniversal ."

The nerves themselves depend upon the arterial supply for theirnutriment and tonicity, and the arterial current carries the toxic elements to allparts of the body, whether these toxic elements are introduced from withoutor induced from within ; and it is only through the arteries that the waste pro-ducts of metabalism may be eliminated from the system ; and the arteries inturn are controlled by the nerves, so the remedial results are reached ultimate-ly through the nervous mechanism, of which Osteopathy has made a specialty .The position maintained by Osteopathy as to the cause and cure of disease givesit preeminence in relation both to the intoxication of drunkenness and the auto-intoxication of insanity.

Press Comment

That the public and the press all over the country are talking about Osteopathy is evi-denced by the following reviews of the JOURNAL of Osteopathy for June . Therehave been notices and favorable press comments upon the new magazine from everystate in the union.

Marked copies of papers and magazines containing reviews of the publicationare still coming in up to the time of

going

to press with the August number .Many of these are too long to reproduce here, but the following short notices aregiven to show what outsiders think of the Journal an(I the new science it represents :

Indiana,

Washington, D. C.The Journal of Osteopathy is a periodical

Our readers who desire to keep posted oneininating from Kirksville, Mo., and advo-

all the progressive phases of medical prac-cating the science of treating the physical

tice should send for the June number of theills of humanity without drugs.

One writer

journal of Osteopathy .

Osteopathy as asays :

"Osteopathy places the laboratory of

science is claimed to have been discoveredlife where it belongs-in the bodv itself, not

by Dr. .-1 . 'f . Still in 1874 and now there is aill the shop of a manufacturing chemist. Dr .

well recognized school of this

treatment.Still has proclaimed to the whole world that

No medicine is used but the

practitioner relies'the brain is God's drugstore,' and that here

lies on remedial resources within the bodyand here alone, is superintended the pro-

itself .

An important judicial decision hascesses and the products, in the exact dual-

recently been made in Ohio giving the Os-ity and quantity which the body needs, by

teopatlis the right to practice in Ohio .

Itwhich

the vital functions of digestion, ab-

hasalso been legalized in several other statessorption, assimilation,

growth and health

and in North Dakota a law- permitting it wasare maintained . The introduction of for-

secured by Mrs. Helen de Lendrecie, ofeign, unorganized and unnaturally affiliated

Fargo, whose cure under this system is re-compounds into the system is disorder, de-

cited

in

the

Junemagazine.--Women'srangenient and destruction." This is Tribune.impressive to the casual reader but notilluminativeItisclearthatosteopathistsdonotuse medicines in the ordinary sense of the

Texas.word, but what they do instead by way. of

In the Journal of Osteopathy for Junehealing the sick is not disclosed in this issue

there is much which will be of interest toof the magazine .

If this were explained it

students and those interested in Osteopa-would probably be made clear, also, why thethy.--[Galveston Daily News .new science is called what it is .-[Indian-

apolis journal.

Maine.The June number of the journal of Oste-The Journal of Osteopathy is a new magazine

Osteopathy contains many articles devoted tozinc devoted to a new school of healing andinstruction in the fast-spreading science . published at Kirksville Mo . It containsLeading writers, among there John R. Mu-

many articles on the science of healing assick, A. L. Conger and A . H . Sippy, DI . D.,

applied

to

various

diseases .-[Portland1'h . G., have contributed to this number.-

Globe.[Indianapolis Sentinel .

-Iowa.

Tennessee.

The American School of Osteopathy atWe are in receipt of a new magazine, the

Kirksville, Missouri, is publishing a monthlyjournal of Osteopathy, published monthly

magazine devoted to the advancement of this-bv the American School of Osteopathy at

science .

This new school of healing is recognizedKirksville Mo.It is devoted to a new and

ognized by law in four states .

This scienceinteresting school of healing, discovered by

was discovered by Dr . A. T . Still, of Bald-A . T. Still, of Baldwin, Kans ., in 1874, and

win, Kan., in 1874 .

Dr. Still reasons thatnow recognized

by

law

in four states.-

"a natural flow of blood is health and disease[Paris Post-Intelligencer .

is the effect of local or general disturb

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alice of blood.

This

number

contains

on what was then the Shawnee Reservationan article by John R. Musick upon the

as a missionary to that advanced nation of"Trials of Pioneer Discoverers;" in which

Indians.

In that capacity he became alike ahe claims that while few great men live to

philanthropist, a divine and a patriot .

He:see the fruition of their hopes, Dr . Still has

was also a physician, as all his family be-lived to see the theory for which he battled

came afterwards, and in that capacity the-that of healing without drugs--firmly es-

elder Still became a ministering angel to thetablished .

Dr . Still claims that the "brain

Shawnee Indians.

On the first settlement ofis God's drug store" and that the laboratory

Kansas, the head of the family became alsoof life is in the body, not in the shop of the

the head of advanced civilization in his partchemist and he considers healing without

of Kansas in the war against slavery ; whiledrugs the reasonable and scientific result of

the youthful portion of his family followedOsteopathy, which one writer declares to be

in his footsteps, if the ardent young blood of"the opportunity of an epoch, "-[hurling-

the Stills did not outstrip the senior memberton Hawkeye.

In a family who were so universally patrioticA cop}- of the journal of Osteopathy, the

and so generally useful, it is hard to makenew science for the healing of diseases, has

distinctions .

One of the young ladies, webeen received at this office,

From the point

think now Mrs. Marv Still Adams, of Losof view occupied by the magazine the new

Angeles, California, distinguished herself asway is the only way to treat the ailments ofan Anti-slavery writer for the Kansas TribunehumankindWe know of one

Harrison

at Lawrence, as well as for souse paperscounty citizen who was benefited ; by the

in Missouri, where that "little leaven hastreatment.--[Logan Observer.

since leavened the whole lump." Dr . An-drew T . Still,

the ]read of the AmericanMany people are becoming interested in

School of Osteopathy, was a leading roanthe new science of healing, Osteopathy, and

among the pioneers Loth in the civil andwill no doubt be glad to know they can now

military .

He was a member of the first freeprocure a neat monthly magazine treating on

state legislature and was a surgeon in theevery phase of that subject.

The Journal ofarmy--a compeer of John Brown and JimOsteopathy has just been started at Kirks-

Lane, and is an honorary member of theville, Mo.-[Farmers Tribune,

of

Des

Kansas State Historical Society, inakin

val-Moines .

gliable contributions to its work .

This greatThe Journal of Osteopathy comes to our

institution at Kirksville has pushed its waydesk in entirely new style, face, form and

into favor until it has been recognized byfeatures all new.

Theeditorial management

legislation in several of the states, and isstates that from now on the journal will be

patronized by the most intelligent people indevoted to the history, science and defense

the country.--[Wichita Timesof Osteopathy .

The form is now that of ahandsome magazine of seventy-five pages.

We have received the June number of theIt is published at Kirksville, Mo.-[Fort

Journal of Osteopathy, published at Kirks-Dodge Chronicle.Kirksville Mo., where a School of Osteopathy

has been established under the managementKansas .

of Dr. A. T. Still, author of the new discov-The

journal

of Osteopathy comes to us

cry, the art of healing on natural principlesthis month clothed in a new dress.

We not

without the aid

of

drugs

or

stimulants .only congratulate the journal on its fine appearanceTour states have passed laws recognizing thepearance, but also the good poople of Kirks-

science

of

Osteopathy .

Osteopathy

isville for their efforts, which has resulted in

claimed "to be a complete science withinstate recognition, which is what it well de-

itself, and is susceptible, if taken in time, ofserves .

May

prosperity and success ever

curing all diseases which have been generallyattend the one great effort of this institution,

ally recognized as curable, and of greatlythe lifting up and bettering the condition of

reducing the

minimum

of

incurablediseases."humauity.--[OrphansFriend,

of Leaven-

eases."

There is also an infirmary at Kirksvilleworth ville, where patients are treated for almost

every known disease .

The whole practiceOne of the most interesting magazines in

of Osteopathy- is "founded upon a mostthis country comes to us from Kirksville,

thorough knowledge of all the parts andMo .

It is the journal of Osteopathy, repre-

processes of the human body in health andseating the American School of Osteopathy

disease, and there is not a single osteopathicestablished in that city, by one of the most

operation, treatment or manipulation thatremarkable men Kansas has produced, Dr .

does not require the most exact anatomical,Andrew T. Still . The history of Dr. Still

physiological and pathological knowledgewould read like a romance.

He was a native

to perform. "

Dr. Still has been at work onof Missouri ; but immigrated with his father,

this science for 20 years, and has publiclywhen a boy, to Kansas, before the passage of

practiced it for 10 years past.--The Globe-the Territorial Organic Act, the latter settling

Republican, Dodge City .

210

JOURNAL OF OSTEOPA THY.Michigan .

This Osteopathy- is still pushing itself toThe Journal of Osteopathy for June has

the front, notwithstanding Gov. Lee vetoedmuch of interest for the "people " as well as

the bill which sought to give it standing inforstudents of medical science.

The cover is

this state.

There is now issued from the In-especially designed in symbolical figuresand

firmary at Kirksville, Mo., the journal ofshows a portrait of Dr . Still, the "founder of

Osteopathy, which aims to set before theOsteopathy."

The frontispiece is also a poi-

public the teachings of

the

Osteopathictrait of Dr. Still.

"Trials of Pioneer Dis-

method of treating physical diseases, and wecoverers,"

"The Growth of osteopath)-,"

may expect the friends of this school of sci-"The Healing

Potencies of

Osteopathy-,"

ence to renew- their efforts to give it standing"The Three Essentials," and "Women in

in South Dakota.-[Public Opinion, Water-Osteopathy" are among the other interesting

town.papers .

There are several illustrations andportraits.-[Grand Rapids Sunday Herald .

We have received Vol. ¢ No . 2 of theJournal of Osteopathy, published at Kirks-This is a new magazine, devoted to the ad-Kirksville Mo.It is a neat a > appearing journal,vocacy of Osteopathy, a new school of healing

1 pdevoted to the science of Osteopathy .

Thising diseases, which has been recognized by

is a new science in, or rather, out of medicinethe laws of four states, including Michigan,medicineFor it claims to heal without the useit is published by the American School of

of drugs.

It has been recognized in severalOsteopathy, at Kirksville, Mo .

The maga-

states, and the legislature of South Dakotatine is ably edited, nicely printed and finely

passed an act allowing it to practice here,illustrated, and advocates a system of healing

but it was vetoed by the governor .

Thisthat is well worthy of careful investigation

new"path" has to run the gauntlet, of theby- the thoughtful student.

Dr. A. '1' . Still is

oldschoo ls' as has every new "pathy."

Asthe founder of the science of Osteopathy .

-each new school has had to fight hostileThe subscription price of the magazine is $1. legislation, so will this one.

If it can carrya year.-[Travels Bay Eagle.

out one-half its claims, it will soon be one ofThe Journal of Osteopathy for July coning

the recognized pathies in all the states de-tains an article on the "Trials of Pioneer

spite all opposition .

The journal is interestingDiscoverers," by John R. Musick ; "The

ing reading even to one not versed in theGrowth of Osteopathy" is by A. L. Conger ;

science of medicine.-Clark County Repub-"The Three Essentials" by William Smith,

lie, Clark.M. D., D. O., and "Women in Osteopathy-"

We receivedyesterday

a

-by Mrs. H. E. Patterson D. O.

Among other

_

copy of a newcontributions are : Hon. S. M . Pickler,

I) . B.

Imagazine called "U Osteopathy ' which isMacauley and Chas E. Still D. O.-[Detroit

published at Kirksvile, Mo. The nuurlrerTribune.

treats principally- on the school of Osteopa-thy- where it is published, and among the

The June number of the journal of Oste-

list of graduates we notice the names of Mrs.opathy is upon our table. Osteopathy- is a

D. S. Williams, formerly of this city, andnew school of healing that commanded con-

her son, Koger K. -[Pierre Capital.siderable attention during the past three orfour years and has already been recognized

Maryland .by law in four states.-[Kalamazoo Ga-ette.

The June number of the Journal of Osteopathy is at hand.Osteopathy- isanew

school of healing that is already recognizedSouth Dakota .

by law in four states .

The number containsThe News acknowledges with thanks the

"Trials of Pioneer Discoverers," by John R.receipt of a sample copy of the new maga-Musick; "The Growth of Osteopathy," by A.-nine, journal of Osteopathy, devoted to the

L. Conger ; "The Healing Potencies of Oste-dissemination of information about the new Osteopathy,"byMasonW.Pressley;"Womenintheory and practice of the healing art or sci-

Osteopathy.," by- Mrs. H. E. Patterson, D.ence, called "Osteopathy" which has already-

0.

and many other contributions

frombeen recognized by law in four states, but clever people . [Baltimore Telegram .the bill legalizing it in this state, althoughapproved by the legislature, was vetoed by

our business governor.

But Osteopathy does

Missouri .not depend for its success on such puny of-

The double issue of May and June of theficials as Gov. Lee, and if he lives a few years

journal of Osteopathy, published at Kirks-longer he will see howsmall he waswhen he

ville, Missouri, has come to us in its newvetoed that bill .

The journal is a fine maga-

dress whose cover page speaks volumes.

Wezine and will proclaim from the hilltops the

have given its pages a careful perusal withwonderful advance in the science of healing

much pleasure .

Osteopathy in its fullestwhich has been developed by thenew school

sense is hard to fathom .

When Foraker, ofof Osteopathy.--[Sioux Valley News, Canton .

Ohio ; Pratt, of Illinois ; Smith, of Scotland ;


211

Stephens, of Missouri, and many men of such

Mo., and is devoted to the advancement ofcalibre sound its praises to the public, we

the science of Osteopathy, which is a discov-cannot doubt its virtue as a scientific methoddiscovery by" Dr . Still. The mostnotablepaper is byof healing.

Osteopathy is being rapidly ac-

Col. A.L. Conger, of Ohio, whogives a historycepted by the scientific world as a potent

of Osteopathy and of the recognition it hasdrugless healer.-[Live

Stock

Indicator,

secured from the law in several states, MissouriKansas City.souri, North Dakota, Michigan, Vermont.

The Journal of Osteopathy came to our

If one-half of what is asserted in the ]land-table this week .

}It is brim frill of interest-

someence mankind should hail with delight.-ing reading, embellished with some very

Record Union, Sacramento .fine half-tone illustrations, in fact the getupis of a high grade

all

around.-[Queen

-City- Transcript .

Massachusetts.The Journal of Osteopathy is an interest-

Louisiana

ing publication sent out from Kirksville,Mo.

TheJournalofOsteopathyforJuneex-OsteopathyisanewschoolofhealingthatplainsthatOsteopathyconsistsinthereliefisalreadyrecognizedbylawinfourstates.[Pall City Herald .of disease by promoting a flow of healthy

-

-blood, and of the bores as levers to relieve

The Journal of Osteopathy is a new maga-pressure on nerves and blood vessels.

The

zine published in

Kirksville,

Mo.,

andprincipal articles are :

"Trials of Pioneer

designed to promote the science of Osteopa-Discoverers," by

John

R.

Musick ;

"Thethy, which is advertised as a new method ofGrowth of Osteopathy," by A. L. Conger ;

healing.

The science was discovered in 1874"The Three Essentials," by Dr . Wm . Smith,

by Dr. A. T. Still, of Baldwin, Kan ., andetc.-[The Daily Picayune,

New

Orleans.

thus far he has succeeded in having it legal--

ized in four of the states .

According toPennsylvania .

Dr. Still's reasoning, a natural flow of bloodThe Journal of Osteopathy, a journal of

is health .

The technical definition is as fol-science circulated largely through the west

lows :

"Osteopathy is that science whichis upon our table.

Its contents are interesting

consists of such exact, exhaustive and verifi-ing in the extreme and will no doubt do

able knowledge of the structure and functionsnnrch to extend the usefulness and interests

of the humanmechanism, anatomical, physiologicalof the new school of healing.

Osteopathy is

ological and psychological,

including

thethe science of healing without medicines

chemistry- and physics of its known elementsand is recognized and its practice allowed in

as has made discoverable certain organicfour states in the west .

Like other new dis-

laws and remedial resources, within the bodycoveries, it has its enemies who oppose it

itself, by which nature, under the scientificjust as has been the case for centuries.

An

treatment peculiar to Osteopathic practice,examination of the columns of this new

apart from all ordinary methods of extraneousjournal should

be made.-[Mahanay- City

oils, artificial or medicinal still] stimulation, and inTribune.

harmonious accord with its own mechanicalprinciples, molecular activities and metabo-Osteopathy is a new school of healing

lic processes, may recover from displace-that is already recognized by law in four

ments, disorganizations, derangements andstates . - There is healing by drugs, healingconsequent disease,

and regain its normalby laying on of hands, but this new mode

equilibrium of form and function in healthseems to be a healing by- common sense and

acrd strength .--[The Springfield Union.good judgment, with a perfect knowledge ofthe anatomy of the human body .

We ac-

The Journal of Osteopathy is a new maga-knowledge receipt of a copy of the magazine

zine published in Kirksville,

Mo., in theentitled journal of Osteopathy.-[Hunting-

interest of the "science" whose name itton journal,

bears .

For the benefit of those not initiatedThe Journal of Osteopathy, a new maga-

into the mystery, it is said that Osteopathytine treating of a new school of healing,

a new school of healing recognized bywhich

g

inlaw in four states," and this definition is, it is claimed is recognized by law tofour states

given: "Osteopathy is that science which.

The magazine sells for ten

consists of such exact, exhaustive, and veri-cents, and is to be found at the news stands .

fiable knowledge of the structure andfunctionsIt iswell illustrated .-[The PhiladelphiaItemfunctions of the human mechanism, anatomical,.

physiological and psychological, includingthe chemistry and physics of its known ele-

California .elements as has made discoverable certainWe have the June number of the journal

organic laws and remedial resources, withinof Osteopathy, with a portrait of Dr . Andrew

the body itself, bywhich nature under theTaylor Still.

It is published at Kirksville,

scientific treatment peculiar to Osteopathic

212

JOURNAL OF OSTEOPATHY.practice, apart from all ordinary methods of

ers.

In short, it seems to warrant its claimsextraneous, artificial, or medical stimulation

to be a real, substantial, physical science,and in harmonious accord with its own mechanicalproceeding upon a fresh conception of the

principles, molecular activities, and

needs and resources of the bodily organism ;metabolic processes, may recover from dis-

and its professors are not quacks or faithplacements, disorganizations, derangements,

doctor's, but are quite able to hold their ownand

consequent disease,

and

regain

its

with the best equipped of "the Profession ."normal equilibrium of form and function in

-* There is something flattering

tohealth and strength .---Morning Mercury, one's human vanity in the assuranceNew Bedford, Mass .

that

one

holds

within

one's

self

all-

the means required to restore andNew York .

maintain

health . It

also appeals toHow many people have heard of Osteopathy

one's reason, and does not oppose hypothesesthy?From the name one would imagine it

of a just philosophy .* *

Meanwhile letto' be something connected with bone-dis-

its by all means investigate Osteopathy andeases.

It is in fact a name coined to describe

give it a

chance.--Collier's

Weekly,

Newa new science.The human bony frameworkYork.

is in a sense the basis of the science, as it is

The Journal of Osteopathy presents a pic-of the bony ; but Osteopathy is more than

tore of Dr . Andrew T. Still as a frontispiecestudy of bones.

Osteopathy amts to correct

and opens with a description of "The 'trialsirregularities of the physical system by callers

of Pioneer Discoverers," by John R. Musick .calling out powers naturally inherent therein.The sixty pages of this periodical show that

Mechanical order is regarded by Osteopaths

it is up to date in the particulars of givingas the first law of health, and they hold that

condensed and attractive reading matter, andit depends upon the bony framework.

Their

one finds in it the news of the latest ad-studies involve a profound scientific acquain-advancement of those who have made Osteo -tance with human anatomy, with special athy, the science of healing, a particularapplications to the great nerve centers-the

g'

lcerebro-spinalg

study.-[Times-Union, Albany .cerebro-spinal and svmpathetic-in their ca-rious relations.

They cultivate an exquisite

We are in receipt of a new magazine en-sense of touch in the finger-tips ; for the

titled "Journal of Osteopathy."

Just whattreatment, so far as it maybe objectively de-

Osteopathy is we yet do not know_ morescribed, consists in a sort of scientific massagethan that it is a school or theory of diseaseage and kneading of the patient's body with

curing without the use of drugs.

It is nicelythe hands. Osteopaths entirely dispense

printed published at Kirksville, Mo . Onwith drugs of all kinds ; drugs are inorganic,

general principles, we

commend

it .

Anyand the body is intended to assimilate only

method which dispenseswith drugs deservesorganized substances .

The theory is that in

careful investigation .

Weshall look into itthe chemical constitution of the tissues is

more in detail at a later date.-[New Yorkstored nervous energy, which is capable of

Farmer .being set free for curative purposes.Nature's"Despite its technical nature, the journalture's effort is toward equilibrium ; Osteopathyof Osteopathy is of interest to the generalscientifically restores deranged equilib-

reader, and the current monthly issue wellequilibrium and in so doing the potential energyrepays perusal.It is splendidly illustratedinherent in nerve substance is transformed

and contains much information about theinto kinetic energy This outline of the sub-

personality and work of Osteopaths, the p peoplesubject is enough to justify the claim of Osteopathypie who believe little in medicine and much inOsteopathsthattheirscienceisnolightlytheir own peculiar science of healingacquired andshallow facility, but is the seri-

* * * The reports of school work, leg-ous study of a lifetime ; that every new case

islative action in several states, numerousdemands modified treatment, and that every

cures through Osteopathy and other kindredoperator will have his own way of attacking

matters cannot fail to excite surprise in thedisease.

Osteopathy has its ` - secret," not to1

mind of any uninformed reader and the con-be revealed to outsiders ; but the reason of

elusion is forced that the Osteopaths are atthe concealment is that, like the secret of

least entitled to respectful attention,-SyracuseMasonry, or any other true secret, it cannot

acuse Herald .be explained except to those who alreadyknow- it ; it keeps itself. It gradually reveals

itself to the student in measure as his know]-

Pennsylvania .edge expands.

We must take ac-

The American School of Osteopathy hascount of the fact that in twenty-five years

begun the publication of "The Journal ofOsteopathy has effected a foot-hold in many

Osteopathy."

It is

tastefully

gotten

up,states of the Union, has established vigorous

being well printed and copiously illustrated,and growing schools, and has accomplished

and the articles which are devoted to thenumerous cures, man- of them cases which

new method of healing are the works ofhad been given up by the regular practitionersspecialists.---Philadelphia Inquirer .

JOURNAL OF OSTEOPA THY.

213

Publishers NOTES.road and engineering circles, not alone in-

this country, but abroad .

Mrs. Dudley is aEVERY mother in the land should be a

woman of rare literary attainments. Insubscriber to the JOURNAL of OSTEOPATHY .

sending her subscription she says :

"TheA knowledge of what this science can do

July number of the Journal of Osteopathymay save her child a life of suffering .

ATHY

has

just been received .

I enclose±+

one dollar for one year's subscription, to beIF every friend of Osteopathy who has

sent to No . So, Pine street, New York .

Thebeen rescued from a life of disease and suffer-

time has passed when one can scoff at anying by this new practice when all else had

form or view of physical or mental treat-failed would send in one dollar for a copy of

ment of disease, and every encouragementthe JOURNAL, and help the good cause to that

should be given to all scientific advance-extent, the circulation of this magazine

went.

This decade should be as ambitiouswould at once be increased many fold .

Just

as the time of Bacon, when he wrote his unparalleleda little hell) from each one would be appre-

paralleled essay on the `Advancement ofciated by the publishers . Those who have

Learning .' There is room for all kinds ofhad personal experience with Osteopathy

treatment during this short state of exist-well know there is no other way by whichexistence and encouragement should be given tomore can be done for humanity with a dollar .

those who alleviate suffering, "

Whenever the professional card of an THE contents of the Journal are copy-Osteopathappears in the advertising columns righted for the protection of Osteopathy andof the Journal the public will know he is a

Osteopaths only, and the publishers wish itgenuine practitioner of the science, that his

understood that any legitimate Osteopath, ordiploma was regularly obtained and that he

the public press, is at liberty to use any coat-is not engaged in the fake business .

This

ter from these columns at any time, providedmagazine has no space for frauds .

it is used for the good of the science.

TheJOURNAI,was forced to copyright its contents

The best way to build up the science ofin order toprevent the use of OsteopathicPosteopath) - and establish its truths in the

literature by a lot of unprincipled fakirs .hearts of the people is to increase the circa-

"There are a number of " fakeopaths " of variouscirculation of the JOURNAL. Some article will

rious denominations who have gotten intobe found in every issue of this magazine

the habit of stealing Osteopathic thunderthat is well worth the price of a year's sub-

"

1and palming it off upon the public as applyingsubsciption

Every diplomate of Osteopathy

ing to their various forms of treatment.and everv friend of the science should help

'there is one fake Magnetic healer in Iowathe good work along by not only becomingwho issues a paper devoted to his allegedsubscribers themselves but by making an

new system and until recently male up hiseffort to induce their acquaintances to sub-

entire publication from the contents of thescribe .

Get up a small club ; it will not re-

JOURNAL, of Osteopathy changing onlyquire much work .

Send in six names with

the name "Osteopathy " where it occurredfive dollars in cash .

At any rate do not fail

and substituting the name of his own prac-to turn to advertising-page 16, cut out the

tice .

Of course he

awe no credit .

It ig

s tocoupon, enclose it with one dollar and mail

shat off such frauds from the use of Osteo-to this office .

pathic literature that the JOURNAL is copy-. .AMONG; the many s;.ubscriptions received

righted.

by the Journal during the past few days

we are glad to note that of Mrs. Lacy B.

"JUST what Osteopathy is we do notDudley, wife of the distinguished and eminentknow.

.

.

,

On general principles wenent civil engineer, P. H. Dudley, of New

commend it .

Any method which dispensesYork City, Dr. Dudley is the inventor of

with drugs deserves careful investigation."the " Dynograph," and stands high in rail-

-New York Farmer .

214


school NOTES,little "cheaper."Go to headquarters, and practice-Dr . Hildreth and family are enjoying au outing

your economy on some other item .

The best is thecheapest.on the Chariton hills,

-Hi general orders No . q from the national head--Prof . S . S . Still is putting in his vacation practis-quarters of the Women's Relief Corps, Indianapo-ins in Beresford, S. D .

lis, Ind ., Mrs . Julia 1; . Dockers, of Kirksville, Mo.,-Dr . C . I' . McConnell has returned from his vacation.a prominent member of the Relief Corps in thistion .

He visited in Evanston and Chicago.

State and widely" known in Grand Army circles,-Dr . and Mrs . Patterson are spending their vaca-

was inade one of the conductors of the fifteenth na-tion at the Mackinac Islands . They will returnnational convention of the Women's Relief Corps, toabout the 25th be held in Buffalo, N, V ., August 26th inst.Mrs .--Prof. Proctor is taking a suininer course of spe-Dockerv is a lady of rare executive abilitv and willcial work in physiological cltetnistry at Ann Arbor

-

-ably discharge any duties assigned her .

Site is an(Mich.) University entlntsiastic friend of osteopathy and is a patient at-Prof . Will. Smith and family spent several weeks

the Infirmary .

The JOURNAL j nienibers of theat Canip Jennings, on the Chariton River .

The Doc-

Relief Corp ., and comrades of the Grand Army offor also visited Kansas City Corporal Dix post, Kirksville, 11o., in extending its-Dr. Harry Still spent a very pleasant vacation

congratulations upon the distinguished honor con-week at the Muncie Island Sanitarium . Brooklyn,

(erred .N . Y .

He was the guest of Dr. E . H . Pratt, of Chi- -Extensive preparations have been made duringcago .

the summer towards enlarging and enriching the--Twenty months' close application and hard

chemical and histological laboratories. Completestudy are required to complete the course in the

equipment with all modern appliances have beenAmerican School of osteopathy at Kirksville ; but

added for the accommodation of forty-five studentsexperience has proven that there is no easy road to

in chemistry working at one time

and thirty-fiveknowledge in arty department of life .

And aftercompound microscopes, with roost for a dozen snore,all two years is not a long time to spend in prepar-

have been added to the department of histology.ation for a life-work .

Between $3,000 and $4,000 has been thus expended.-Mr . Henry haws, auditor-g eneral of the Republic It is easy to be seen from these items alone that thislie of Hawaii, formerly of Cincinnati, 0 ., arrived in

school is abreast of the very best scientific schoolsinKirksville last week and registered as a patient at

the country in its equipment for the study of chemistrythe Osteopathic Infirmary, Mr. Laws is a typical

istrv and microscopic anatomy in relation to thenian of affairs, of liberal culture and traveled ex-body.He is much interested in Osteopathy and human

. Three new professors professors of universitytraining and scientific culture have been added to

salts'

isappreciates its scientific bearings and remedial re-

now prepared to do some. lie teaching staff, and it is believed that Osteopathy

original constructive-Hon . J, B . Foraker l- . S . Senator front Ohio, isspending part of his vacation with his family at his,

work toward the further development of its scien-residence in Kirksville . The Senator has won goldenscientific foundationsopinions throughout the country by his brilliant

--,' Monsarett, Esq ., one of the prominent rail-w-av officials of the country, receiver and vice-presi-speeches at Washington, in which lie gave conspicuousdent of the Columbus, Flocking valley & Toledoevidence of a masterful grasp of constitutional Railway, arrived at Kirksville in his private car onquestions, a comprehensive view of national politicsthe 13th inst . Mr. Monsarett visited the infirmary,ties, of analytic insight and constructive ability as n was examined by Dr. Harry Still and received adebater and orator .

To his rest lie adds the recuper-

treatment .

When his business engagements willrecuperation of au occasional treatment at the Infirmary'permit, later in the season, lie will return and spend-During the past two years niany thousands of

scare time ill Kirksville to receive treatment .

Thedollars and much hard work ]lave been expended to

secretary and treasurer of

Mr. Monsarett's roadmake the equipment and methods of the American11r. w' . 5. Cott, spent a month in Kirksville lastSchool of Osteopathy all they should be .

To i impart partJuly and was cured of a complication of ailmentsto the student all that is known of the human bodyin health and disease and to give hint the mostwhich had baffled the skill of physicians

thorough knowledge of osteopathic principles andpractice, at whatever cost, is the motto of the parentDisease comes in by hundred weight andinstitution . A diploma front such a school must goes out by ounces.entitle its holder to the respect of any community - ,-Don't be a quack .

A quack in any trade or pro-

A VULGAR, perverted taste is not to befession is bad, but the Luau who will knowingly

disguised by the glitter of gold and dia-make a quack doctor out of himself and willinglytake the health and life of his fellow-creatures intodiamondshis hands when lie knows he is incompetent is thelowest kind of a criminal,

Young man if you snake

ALWAYS laugh when you call : it is cheaperup your mind to practice the healing art, no matter

than medicine .

Cheerfulness is aphilosophyofwhatschool,attendthe bestcollegeinthe coun-try .

Don't be satisfied with a superficial knowledge

ply not well advertised .

It is the sunnyof your profession because it inay be obtained a

side of existence .

ROSTER OF STUDENTSAmerican School of Osteopathy

May 1896 Class Shaw, Dudley H . . . . . . . . . . . . Maroa IllinoisBailey, H. E. . . . . . . . . . . . Brashear, Missouri

Smiley, William M Kirksville, MissouriBanning, John W. . . . . . . . La Plato, Missouri

Sinith, Le Roy . . . . . . . ., Kirksville, lissouriBeeman, F, . E . . . , . . . . .Kirksville, Missouri

Spangler, Harvey L. . . . Kirksville, MissouriBolles, Newton A . . . . . . . . Denver, Colorado

Underwood, Evelyn . . .Kansas City, MissouriBrown, Leander S . . .Fort Collins Colorado

Willard, Mrs . Alice N . . .Kirksville, MissouriBurke, -Mrs . Anna 'I . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Williams, Roger K. . . . . Council Bluffs, IowaCampbell, Mary Nettie, Kirksville, Missouri October 1896 ClassCampbell, Arthur D . . . . Kirksville, Missouri Albright,Mrs.Grace..QueenCity,MissouriCole, 11 I . D . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, JlissouriBanning Mrs J W. . . . . . . .La Plata MissouriCourser, D . L . . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, MissouriBeal, Miss Tacie . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clarinda, IotaCluett, Frank G . . . . . . . . . St . Louis, Missouri

Beaven, F . H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fulton MissouriDensmore, 0 . . . . . . . . . . ., Mason City, Iowa

Bowden, RW. . . . . . . West Salem, WisconsinEly, William E . . . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Brock, NV . W . . . . . . . . . . Montpelier, VermontEly, Mrs Anna L .Kirksville, Missouri

Burton, J . C. . . . .

. ., ., . . ., .Paris

MissouriFletcher, William A . . . . Kirksville, 'Missouri

Burton, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paris, MMissouriGentry, Benton F . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Chambers, Miss Etta . . . .Kirksville, MissouriGreen, Ginevra I . . . . . . . Kirksviile, MissouriClierrier A B . . . . . . . . Kansas City, MissouriGreene, W. E . . . . . . . . .

Kirksville, Missouri

Clayton, G. F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Utica, IllinoisHart, Lawrence M . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri Conner Miss Mary . . . . . . . . Paradise, OregonHartford, Isaac J . . . . . . Queen Citv, Missouri

C" Corbin WS. . . . . . . . . . . Brashear, MissouriHarlan, Mrs. F . J . . . . . . Webb City, Missouri

Craven, Miss J. W. . . . . . . Evanston, IllinoisHibbets, Ulysses M . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Deeming, C. 0 . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, 'MissouriHolme, T. L . . . . . . . . . . . .Bolckow,

Missouri

Dodson, C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, MissouriKook, Otis . . .

. . . . . . . . . Kirksville

Missouri Dodson, J, W. . . . . � . . . Kirksville, MissouriHook, Virgil A . . . . . Pond Creek, Oklahoma

Donohue, M. F . . . . . , . Beresford, S. DakotaHudleson, Mark E . . . . . . . . . Bevier, Missouri Duffield, Miss Bessie, . .Kirksville, MissouriHulett, Marcia lone . . . . . Edgerton . Kansas

Eneboe, Miss Lena . . . . . . Canton, S. DakotaIlgenfritz, Harry F . . . . .Kirksville, Missouri

Elliott,W. S . . . . . . . . . . .

La Plata, MissouriJohnson, Gid E . . . . . . . . Kirksville Missouri

Fisher, Albert, Sr . . . . . . . . . Chicago, IllinoisJohnson, Mrs Alice . . . . . . . . Fairfield, Illinois

Foster, Mrs . Fannie . . .Carrollton, MissouriJohnson, Norman S . . . . . . . . Horton, Kansas

Fout, Geo E............ Kirksville, MissouriJohnston Willie H . . . . . . . . . . Canton, Illinois

Gage, F. S . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baird,TexasJones, Hiram R. . . . . . . . . . . . Estill, Missouri

Gervais, W. A. . . . . . . Crookston, MinnesotaKellogg, Howard G . . . . .Kirksville Missouri

Green,Mrs . L . E . . . . Hat Springs, S. DakotaLandes, Agnes V . . . . . .Kirksville, Missouri

Harris, M . B . . . ., . . . . .Columbia, MissouriLittle, Chas . W. . . . . . . . . . Des Moines, Iowa

Harwood, Miss Irene....Maysville, MissouriMacauley,

Daniel B . . . . . . . Chicago, Illinois

Hofsess, J, W . . . . . . . . . Benton City, MissouriMathews, S. C . . . . . . . Pattonsburg, Missouri

Huston, Miss Grace . . . . . . . . Circleville, OhioMcCoy, Chas . K .

. .-, .Kirksville, Missouri

Jefferson, J . H . . . . . . . . . . . . Des Moines, IowaMcLain, Harry C . . . . . . . . . Wellsville, Kansas

Kelley, Mary F,, ., . .....Sioux City, IowaMiller, Frank C . . . . . , .Kirksville, Missouri

Kennedy, Sylvester A . Rochester, 'MinnesotaMiller, Mrs . Sadie Hart, Kirksville, Missouri

Kluinpli, C. C. Jr . . . . . . . . . . Chicago, IllinoisPeterson, Charles A . . . . . Chesterton, Indiana

Kyle, C . T . . . . . . . . . . Downsville, WisconsinPrickett, Orson B . . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Laughlin, W. R . . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

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Lewis, J . L . . . . . . . . . . .

Kirksville, Jlissouri

Mansfield, T. B . . . . .

. . Kirksville, MissouriLong, J . Weller. . . . . . . . Kirksville MissouriMcKeehan \\'. A . . . . . . . . Ft . Madison, Iowa .McCartney L. H. . . . . . . . . .

Hoxie, KansasNienstedt G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clarinda, IowaMcNicoll, Miss P. E . . .Darlington, IndianaPressly 'Mason \C . . . . . . . . ,Hamilton, OhioMiller, Mrs . Ella Ray...Salmon City, Idaho

Reynolds, J. F . . . . . . . .Kirksville, MissouriMingus, C . A . . . . . . . . . . . La Plats, Missouri

Sommer . Charles, . . . . .

. .

Sedalia, MissouriMorris, J. T . . .

. . . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Sinith, W. J . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, MissouriNeely, Miss Marie F . . . . Franklin, Kentucky

Smith, Caryll T Kirksville MissouriNelson, Miss Camille...Kirksville, Missouri

Willcox, S.

\l. . . . . . . . . Yankton, So . DakotaNorthrop, W. N. . . . . .Louisville, Kentucky

Willcox, Mrs. S. W. . . . .Yankton,S . DakotaNovinger, \V . J . . . .

. . .Novinger, MissouriOwen,E . M . . . . . . Omaha Nebraska

APRIL 1897 ClassPotter, Miss Minnie . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Anderson, J . E . . . . . . . . Macomb, MississippiPellet . H. L . . . . . . . . . Prairie Center, Kansas

T, L . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, MissouriAshlock, B.Thomasas . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Ray,

Agee, P. 111 . . . . . . . . .

Kirksville, MissouriRhynsburger Will . J . . . . Des Moines Iowa

BoyesE.H,........AuxVasse,Missouri.Rozelle, Mrs. Lida K . . . .

Tarkio, MissouriBu Burris l .

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. . . . . . . . . .

Kirksville,MissouriSeverson, -Miss K. M... Cohoes, New York Beets, \\'. E . . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, 'MissouriSherburne, F. \V . . . . . . . . . . . Barre, VermontSisson

Beckham, J . J . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mystic, Iowa, Miss 1 . E . . .

. . . . . . .

Genoa, Illinois Bodwell I) . M . . . . . . . College Sprigs, IowaSwan, W. E . . . . . . . . . . . Franklin, KentuckyThompson

J . A . . . . . . . .Kirksville, MissouriBodwell, K .

C . . . . .

. . College Springs, Iowa

Trenholin, A . M.....TrenholmvilleQuebec

Chapman, Frank . . . . . . . . . . Gerlaw, IllinoisChapmau, Mr. . . . . . � . . . . . .Gerlaw, Illinois

'Turner, Thomas E . . . . Kirksville, MissouriE, .B ., Lake Como, Pennsylvania

Coons, \C . \

. . . . . . . . . .

. . .,Estill, MissouriUnderwood, Creswell, Lena . . . . Villisca, IowaU Underwood, H.R ., Lake Como, PennsylvaniaChappell O. G . . . . . . . . . Kirksvlle, -Missouri

Vance, G . T . . . . . . . . . . . . Pomona California

1 IClnappell,E.C.........Kirksville,Missouri

Walker, Mrs. Cornelia . . .Cameron, MissouriWestfall, E . E....... .Gravville, Illinois

Corbin, Mattie. . . . . . . . . .Kirksville, MissouriMissouri

Wilson, T. N

. . . . . . . . . . .La Plata, Missouri

Clark, M.

I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . Petersburg, Illinois

Wirt, J . D. . . . . . . . . . . .Kirksville. Missouri Carter, Mrs. Georgia . ...KirksvilIe, Missouri

Wvckoff, Louis E . . . . . .

. Fairview, Illinois

Conner, H. I, . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, MissouriCupp, H. C . . . . . . . . . New London, Missouri

JANUARY 1897 Class Carstarplien, E . T . . .New London, Missouri

Browder, J . H Greensburg, Indiana

Chase, 1, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Farmer City, Illinois

Brundage, C . L . . . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri Corbin, F, . L . . . .

. . . . . .Kirksville, Missouri

Buckinaster, Pearl . . . . . . Kirksville Missouri

Dufur, J

I . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Brush, I) . R. . . . . . . . . Centerville, S. Dakota

Dufur, Mrs. Nannie . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Currey, Miss Algah . . . . .Kirksville, MissouriDoneghy, A. I, . . . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Clark, D. L . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . .Harvard, Iowa

Delahan, William . . . . . . . . . Helena, Montana

Chapmau, Miss Nora, Platteville. Wisconsin

Dow, Miss J . E . . . . . . . Spokane, Washington

Dodson, A. '\' . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville . Missouri

Dufur, Newton -. . . . . . Queen City, Missouri

Dillon, H . G. . . . . . . . .

. . . . .Ludlow, Illinois

Eckert, E

C. . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, MissouriErnst, J . Y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yorktown,

Iowa

Eckert, G. J . . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville Missouri

Gilmour, G . H . . . . . . . .

.Kirksville. Missouri

Erford, Ids - . . . . . . . . Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Goetz. E. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . Cincinnati, Ohio

Edwards, Alice . . . . . . .King City, Missouri

Goetz, H. F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quincy, Illinois

Evans,

A. I,

. . . . . . . . . .Kirksville, Missouri

Glierke, Carl . . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Finch, F. D . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Harris, Harry . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

French, E, B. . . . . .

. . . . . Greentop, Missouri

Hardy, J. H . . . . . . . . . . .Greensburg, MissouriGiddings Nell....... Hamilton, Ohio

Johnson, J. K . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Garrett, 3I . E . . . . . . . . College Springs, Iowa

Mullins, J. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . Omaha Missouri

Gildersleeve, Jessie . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

McLelland, Chas A. . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Gebhart, 0. C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ray, Missouri

May, B. E . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Hardin, Melville C..... Kirksville, Missouri

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Henninger, Grace . . . .

. . . . . Hamilton, Ohio

Notestine, Flora . . . . . . . . Kirksville, MissouriHunt, Allah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gallatin, Missouri

Owens, Mrs. Charles . . .Monmouth, IllinoisHunt, Albert T., . . .

. . Unionville . Missouri

Owens, Charles. . . . . . . . . .. Monmouth, IllinoisHelm, \V . W...... Laclede, MissouriOsenbaugh, Mrs. A. D. . .Kirksville,'MissouriHelmer, J. N . . . . . . . . . . Morrisburg, Canada

Pelage, J. F

. . . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville MissouriHardy, Mary . . . . . . . . . Greensburg, Missouri

Quintal, J . A . . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, MissouriKerr, C. V. . . . . . . . ., . . Kirksville, Missouri

Runvon, S. II . . . . . . . . . . ., . .Joshua, TexasKing, T. M, . . .

. . �

College Springs, Iowa

Ray,- C. D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . St . Louis, MissouriKincaid, D . H Milan, Missouri

Riggs, \V. L. . . . . . . . . . . Unionville, MissouriLovell, S . E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Milan,

Missouri

Seibert, 0. C . . . . . . . . . . . . .La Plata,'MissouriLink, \V . F . . . . . . . . . . . .


Swett, 11 . A . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, MissouriLyda, J. I, . . . . . . . . . .

. . . La Plata, Missouri

Smith, AIlie 1I . . . . . . . ., . . . Plevna, MissouriLorenz, C. E . . . . . . . . .

.Kirksville, Missouri

Shollev, W. M. . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, MissouriMinear, N 0. . . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Stephens, M. L. . . . . . . . . . Kirksville, MissouriMcBurney, Mrs. T. M. . .Kirksville, Missouri

Teall, C. C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. New York CityMcKenzie, A. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . Macon Missouri

Wheeler, G . A . . . . . . . . . Randolph, VermontMartin, L. D . . . . . .Williamstown, Vermont

\\'heeler, C. G . . . . ...Montpelier, VermontMilliken, F. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nind, Missouri

Waters, A. R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clarinda, IowaMinear, J. F . . . . . . . . . .


Wood, E. P . . . . .

. . . .

. . La Plata, 'MissouriMcConnell, W. A . . . . Washington, Vermont

Wells, C. E . . . . . .

. . ., . Waterbury, VermontMcCulley, Maggie . . . . . . . . .

Bailey, Missouri

Whittaker, Esther . . . . . . . . . . . . Perry, IllinoisMcKeehan, Ethel...... Kirksville, MissouriWenzer, H.U............ La Plata, Missouri

Milford, E. S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Villisca Iowa

Yowell, Elizabeth . . . . . . Kirksville, MissouriMeeks, William . . . . . . . . Kirksville, Missouri

Yowell, 0. \' . . . . . . .

. ., Kirksville, 'MissouriYakey, W. G.... .Trenton, Missouri

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JOURNAL of OsteopathyXIII

The Largest and Bestequipped Institution ofitsKind inthe

_World

The A. T. 5till Irk Infirmary .�.AT KIRKSVILLE, MO.

Cures BY THE--

Science o of OsteopathyALL DISEASES WHICH AREKNOWN AS CURABLE, . .

DR . A. T . Sril,L, founder of the Science of Osteopathy, has associated withhint, in his infirmary organization, the oldest and most successful practitionersand exponents of the science, selected with special reference to their fitness forthe work of practically demonstrating the principles of Osteopathy and occu-pying positions as teachers and lecturers in the American School of Osteopathy .All are regular graduates of this school .

The students in the school are not permitted to even assist in treating theInfirmary patients .

All the work is clone by regular operators .The examining and operating staff includes Dr . Still's two oldest sons,

Charles E., and Harry 11 . Still, and A . G . Hildretli, Mrs. Alice 1I. Patterson, H.E. Patterson, C. P. 'McConnell, J. H. Henderson, AV . J. Conner and Mrs . S. S.Still .

As yet no hospital or sanitarium has been provided in connection with theInfirmaryPatients are dared for in hotels, boarding houses and private resi

dences within easy reach .

Charges for board and room are from $3.50 to $10per week .

The fees for treatment at the Infirmary are $25 per month .

Where pa-tients are unable to come to the Infirmary for treatment, an extra charge of $1to $2 per visit is added

A representative of the Infirmary meets all trains, day and night, to helpall patients who may need assistance and see that they are properly cared for .

Address all letters of inquiry to

A. T. STILL INFIRMARY,Kirksville, Mo . .

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Still Hotel C .A. Robinson Co.,WEST SIDE SQUARE .

FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY RespectUp Lights..Merchants

Hot and Cold Water.Special attention given to guests .

Three Blocks from Infirmary,.Strictly ONE PRICERates from d ; to $9 per week .

, . . .CASH

HOUSE. . . .-0

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YOUR

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Prom noxious and poisonous Coal !)ms, Sewer,Ammoniaeandothergasesintheair,injurious'

L .Baldwin to Health and Life try the use of the

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Doorsp ( Halle, President Thomas Cusack, Vice.President ; 8 . A. S f Graham, Secretary .

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