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DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF OSTEOPATHY,

VOL. III.

KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI, FEBRUARY, 1897 .

NO. 7.

NORTH DAKOTA GRIT.ONE DETERMINED WOMAN WITH "ALMIGHTY TRUTH" ON

HER SIDE WINS LEGAL RECOGNITION FOROsteopathy

On the 16th inst . the legislature of North Dakota passed a billlegalizing the practice of Osteopathy . The bill was signed by thegovernor the same day.

The entire credit for this work belongs to one woman, Mrs. O . J.de Lendrecie, of Fargo.

Mrs. de Lendrecie was in Kirksville fortreatment last fall and was cured .

She promised that North Dakotawould recognize Osteopathy this winter and immediately upon herreturn home began the work .

Acertified copy of the new law receivedby Dr . Still on the 21st tells how well she kept her promise.

Osteopathy was almost unheard of in North Dakota .

It requireda campaign of education among the senators and representatives, butMrs. de Lendrecie was equal to the task .

Delegations of doctors from the larger towns in North Dakotawere there to fight the admission of the new science, but, as she ex-presses it, "one woman and mighty Truth" won the day.

The bill, which is almost an exact copy of the bill now pending inthe Missouri legislature, requires twenty months personal attendanceas student in a regularly chartered school, registration with the countyclerk, and an affidavit from the Osteopath declaring that all the require-ments of the act have been complied with in obtaining the diploma.

Mrs. de Lendrecie's fight for this bill scores one of the most signalvictories ever won by a woman before a legislative body .

She foughtfor the measure upon the floor of both house and senat and addressedeach assembly with telling effect .

When she addressed the house justbefore the final passage cf the bill, the senate adjourned and came intothe house to hear her.

The galleries were crowded, and it is said bythe Dakota dailies to have been "the most persuasive and effectiveaddress ever heard in the state."

Here is an extract from her address upon the introduction of thebill in the senate .

She said :Gentlemen :

I should be insensible tokindness did I notappreciate the extremecourtesy that permits me to explain theobject of my bill, in this senate chamber.At the commencement I desire to stateemphatically that I make no fight againstthe great science of medicine .

I knowthere are noble men among physicianswhose greatest aim is to relieve sufferinghumanity .

I number among my dearest,closest friends, physicians of this class .I make no fight against surgery.

TheOsteopoth fully recognizes the

incalculable benefit that surgery has beenandmust be to the world but there are caseswhich medicine will not reach, caseswhich surgery will not reach, and of suchcases Osteopathy has cured many .

It isnot a faith cure-it is not magnetism-itis not christian science-it makes no fightagainst either, but differs from them all,as night differs from day.

It is a purelymechanical science, whose theory is thatthe human body is an intricate, but per-fect machine, and that when all parts areproperly adjusted it will absolutelydo its work until the whole runs downwith old age.

Osteopathy in its treatment of diseasehas cleverly demonstrated that its theoryis correct . The Osteopath is the machin-ist who carefully adjusts any misplacedpart .

It is hard to explain to the uniniti-ated the method of treatment. Whendislocation is the cause of disease thebones are carefully restored to place.When, as is often the cas°_ muscles havebeen contracted by colds, thus causingpressure on nerves or arteries, impairingrespiration and circulation, the arms andlimbs are used as levers, so to speak, toopen up circulation .

It seems that whenperfect circulation is established the dis-ease is dead .

In glancing over the first literaturethat fell into myhands concerning Oste-

opathy I read, "an obstructed blood vesselwill often cause cancer ." Only a fewweeks previous to that time I had under-gone a serious operation, because symp-toms of that dread disease cancer had ap-peared on one side of my body .

I atonce procured all the literature I couldobtain upon Osteopathic treatment andbecame so impressed with the reasonable-ness of that theory and the mode of treat-ment, that when a few months later thesame dread symptoms that had led to asurgical operation appeared on the otherside of my body, I at once determined totreat Osteopathically .

On Nov. 2, past,I was examined at the Infirmary at Kirks-ville and on Dec. 12, I left for home abso-lutely restored to perfect health .While in Kirksville I saw and knew of

my own knowledge, cases of asthma,heart disease, quick consumption, hipdisease, spinal curvature, rheumatism,kidney and liver troubles, withered limbsparalysis, insanity and blindness, all suc-cessfully treated . Gentlemen I am notthe paid agent of Osteopathy, nor couldmoney hire me to lobby a bill .

But I stand before you to earnestlyplead the cause of Osteopathy, out of in-tense gratitude for what it has done forme, and because I am sure it is an activeagent in the relief of the many ills thatafflict suffering humanity..The reason for the advisability of the

speedy passage of this bill is this, whileOsteopathy has been practiced by thefounder, A. T. Still of Kirksville, Mo.,for many years the School of Osteopathyat that place has only been in operationabout four years . Its outgrowths, theschool at Minneapolis and the PacificSanitarium at Anaheim, Cal., less thantwo years.

Now the combined output ofgraduates from these schools this spring,will not exceed fifty and if 1,000 were

ready they could place them right in thevicinity of the schools.

Those states which can furnish protec-tion for the Osteopaths will be the first tosecure them . I do not mean protectioninthe monopoly of the healing business,but protection against persecution. Innearly all cases where the Osteopath hassought to establish himself he has had toimmediately fight the persecutions ofsome of the doctors of the old school ofmedicine-not the broadminded physici-ans who earnestly desire the good of hu-manity, but some of the conservative classwho cannot believe there is any good innew methods.About one year ago Dr . Helmer, a

graduate of the Kirksville school, estab-lished himself in his old home in Ver-mont . His cure of chronic cases beingpronounced incurable, brought the usualpersecution upon him and in Decemberlast a bill was introduced to try and drivehim out of the state.

He was compara-tively helpless, but a small army of hisgrateful patients Zoo strong said :

"Wewill not allow it ."

They gathered at thecapitol and made such a showing to thelegislature then in session, that insteadof passing a bill prohibiting Osteopathy,they immediately passed one legalizing it .The family of Governor, now United

States Senator-Elect Foraker of Ohio,have been in Kirksville under treatmentfor several months . The son of Govern-or Foraker was afflicted with what emi-nent scientific menpronounced an incur-able malady, but under Osteopathic treatmenthe israpidly recovering .I amreli-

ably informed that through the influenceof Governor Foraker the state medicalboard of Ohio has declared that they willno` prosecute nor countenance the prose-cution of any regularly graduated diplo-mat of Osteopathy. This practicallygives protection to the Osteopath in Ohio.The same is true in Illinois, where the

conversion of the eminent Dr. Pratt ofChicago has given Osteopathy prestige inthat state.Now the graduates of the school will

naturally select a location which affordssecurity in the practice of Osteopathy.The passage of this bill will give such se-curity in North Dakota. At the presenttime there are no less than seventeen peo-ple from Fargo treating in Kirksville andMinneapolis .The petition I brought with me asking

for this measure contains the names offorty-three representative business menof North Dakota. Amongthem are somewhose families have been treated by thismethod, others who desire the same treatment andareonly waiting the fateof

this bill to ascertain if Osteopathy willcome to them, or if they must go to Os-teopathy .She knocks at the door- will you allow

her to enter? I thank you, gentlemen,for your patience and kindness.The bill, which hadbeen reported

unfavorably by the committee ofdoctors, was passed by an almostunanimous vote at the close of Mrs.de Lendrecie's address.

BEFORE THE HOUSE .

The real fight was before thehouse committee. Here, as in thesenate, Mrs . de Lendreciewas com-pelled to make her fight upon thefloor, but results show that she wasequal to the task .

The state boardof health and delegations of doctorsfrom all over the state were arrayedagainst the bill .Here are some of the salient parts of

Mrs. deLendrecie's address before thehouse of representatives :When a body of physicians before a

legislative committee will assert that"every means of healing, whether bydrugs, hypnotism, faith cure or mechani-cal appliance by massage or Osteopathy,conies under the great head of science of

medicine, and therefore under the con-trol of the state medical board," is it nottime that thoughtful people call a haltand study the ground upon which westand? Dr . Wheeler made this statementbefore the committee of this house lastMonday night.

And then he said, "Ifthis is such a great science, (referring toOsteopathy) why have we never heard ofit?

And then he goes tearing the reputa-tion of Dr . Pickler of Minneapolis topieces, saying Dr . Pickler could not makea living in the medical profession, so hewent and studied Osteopathy, and if hehad never heard of Osteopathy, how didhe know that Dr. Pickler left the medicalprofession to study Osteopathy? Nowgentlemen, this same Dr . Wheeler is thephysician who five times arrested an oldsquaw for curing people up in Nechewhere the 11I . D's could not-he prose-cuted her and said she could not practicemedicine in the state without passing anexamination by the medical board.

Butthe jury said .

"Yes, she can cure thesick, and she don't have to be examinedeither."

I had referred to Dr . Pratt. aneminent surgeon of Chicago, as havingbeen so benefitted by Osteopathic treat-ment as to become a sincere champion ofOsteopathy . Dr. Wheeler ground Dr .Pratt into mince meat ; said he was a fad-dist who laid claim to what did not be-long to him, and described a mechanicalappliance which Dr . Pratt uses (andwhich homeopathic physicians of asgoodstanding and reputation as Dr- Wheeler,pronounce scientific in the extreme), andsaid it was the most ridiculous thing aphysician ever advocated. You seegentlemen, Dr. Wheeler is an alopathand Dr . Pratt a homeopath, and thehomeopath says the alopath is a greatfraud, and the alopath says the homeopathis a great fool, and if I had only thoughtto send for a physician of the homeopath-ic school to have appeared before thatcommittee also, we should have had sucha monkey and parrot time they wouldhave forgotten all about Osteopathy,Then Dr . Wheeler told us about what

medicine had done and he never said aword about what it has not done for 2,000years, but I suppose he knew that weknew much better what it had not done,than what it had done, and he never men-tioned sickness at all, or any cures it hadmade, but told all about the colleges thathad been built, and the magnificent pro-tection that had grown upthrough it, andI say yes, I did not question the protec-tion in the least-I thought myself it wasthe best protected institution on earth.Now I did not come here to Bismarck

to fight-but to plead for recognition forOsteopathy, but these medical gentlemenhave thrown down the gauntlet-I pickit up-and in the name of Eternal Truth,I will fight to the bitter end. This mon-opoly of the medical profession is themost gigantic combine of this or anyother age.

It is more autocratic than theczar of Russia, and just as despoticItsramifications extend into every villageand cross road in the state, and the Stand-ard Oil trust sinks into insignificancewhen compared to this monstrous evilwhich defiantly lifts its head and says :"I am dictator of North Dakota," and ifyou rebel it puts on a patronizing air andtells you the combine is in the interest ofthe public .Against every other bill you owe you

can claim exemption, but against thephysician's bill you have none . One dol-lar a mile, and power to take from youthe bed on which you lay. Now, do youimagine these laws were enacted in theinterest of the public?

Dr. Wheeler saysthey are, and when he hadfully explainedall about the colleges and the protection,Dr . Montgomery gets up and he tells thecommittee all about the colleges and theprotection . And I say, gentlemen,"what is all this talk about?

I never de-nied your colleges and your Protection . Ihave not said a word about medicine .

Iam talking about Osteopathy ." ThenDr. Wear got up and talked about thecolleges that had been built, and the pro-tection that had been ten years in form-

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ing, and then he said :

"But I have been very muchimpressed with what Mrs. de Lendrecie has said, andI believe we ought to have Osteopathy in NorthDakota." Mark those words well, "I believe weought to have Osteopathy in North Dakota," andthen he explains that it can enter North Dakota byamending the bill so as to place Osteopathy under thecontrol of the medical board-but I said . "No, killthe bill now if you can, but it lives or dies on itsmerits ." Then Dr . Smythe gets up and he tells thecommittee all about the colleges and the protection,but thinks it

would be dangerous to admit Osteop-athy and he asks with much feeling, "If we shouldlet them in, and a man came at night from the coun-try for a physician and he should make a mistake andget an Osteopath and take him out to his sick wife orchild and the Osteopath should kill them, whatwould you do with him?" I say, "why, hang himof course, and that is exactly what should be donewith M . D's when they kill their patients ."Then I tell them this matter of mine is between

Osteopathy and the people of North Dakota, and noconcern of theirs . It is absolutely none of theirbusiness and in this belief I turn to you.

OsteopathyBy a technical definition of the word

Osteopathy a greatmany peopleareledto believe thenew science one which treats only bone diseasesor dislocations . The term "Osteopathy," liketerms that are often applied as names, is nottrulv indicative of the character of the newmethod of treatment.

In fact it is impossibleto frame a word that will give a correct idea ofthe new system . Realizing this, Dr . Stillcoined the word Osteopathy and applied it tohis science As A NAME.

While the most com-mon translation is misleading, the word "Oste-opathy" is, after all, a very appropriate namefor the science.

The great fundamental princi-ples of the new philosophy are :

1st--That health is natural ; di=ease anddeath, between the time of birth and old age,unnatural.2nd-That all bodily disorders are the result

of mechanical obstruction to the free circulationof vital fluids and forces.Under this law, when the animal organism is

"in line," as the machinist would express it,health will follow .

The body is regarded as amachine .

Alignment of any structure must be-gin from the framework.

The framework ofthe animal machine is the bones.

Upon thisframework the Master Machinist built thestructure of animal life .

Order is the greatlaw of life .

Disorder is disease and death.

Inthe maintenance or the physical order necessaryto the normal working of the animal machinerythe bones are of paramount importance .

Asthesurveyor looks for his stakes, so an Osteo-path must go to the bones for his fixed pointsbefore ''running a line" or exploring the hu-man body in search of abnormal conditions .

Thus the human skeleton, being the part ofthe animal organism upon which order most de-pends, is made the foundation of Osteopathicpractice ; hence the name Osteopathy." Theword should be defined, not as ''bone-healing,""bone doctor," or any of the constructionswhich the enemies of Osteopatdy delight to giveit, but as ''a method of treating diseases,founded by Dr . Still."

When considered inthis light, the word is very appropriate.

Thesystem consists of skillfully tracing out and readjusting mechanical disorders which interferewith natural functions, thus enabling nature tomaintain her equilibrium, which is health .

The Osteopathic "shop," where is clone thework of overhauling and lining up broken downand badly used "human machines," is not astar chamber filled with mysterious parapher-nalia.

It is a neat little work room .

The only

apparatus, except ordinary articles of furniture,is a plain operating table, about six feet long,upholstered in leather. This serves as thework bench .The curious visitor may step inside this room

and witness an operation. The patient is placedon the table, and the operator goes to work.The curious visitor now thinks he is going tolearn the secret of Osteopathy, and he wondersthat the Osteopaths were such fools as to allowhim to seethe operation. The whole proceed-ure looks simple, and it actually seems to theonlooker that he could take hold and do thesame thing.

But the fresh country boy who,after watching a skilled telegraph operatorworking the simple little key, thinks he "cando that just as well," is no more sadly fooledthan the man who thinks he can learn Osteop-athy by mere imitation . The country boymight work the telegraph key even harder andmore rapidly than the operator had worked it,but the messages he desired to communicatewould not be recognized by any receiving oper-ator, and there would be no response .

It isprecisely the same with the Osteopathic imitat-or .

He can place his patient. on the table anddo just as he thinks the Osteopath did.

Buthe may push and pull and haul around until hehas nearly dismembered his patient and therewill be no beneficial result .

Like the boy atthe telegraph table, there is no intelligence be-hind his work, and nature makes no response tounintelligible messages.

The apparently sim-ple twist of the Osteopath involves the veryhighest degree of intelligence and skill .

Brawnis no part of the art.

Frequently the opera-tion which secures the most wonderful results,would appear to be a `'mere touch" to the unex-perienced onlooker .

The successful Osteopathic operation must bedirected by a mind thoroughly acquainted withevery part and process of the animal economy.In addition to this knowledge, the Osteopathicfingers must be trained to instantly detect theslightest abnormality.

The sense of touch mustbe developed to its highest perfection .

As thedeft fingers of the blind pupil are trained toreadily distinguish the different letters of thealphabet through many thicknesses of heavycloth, so the Osteopath, by running his skillfulfingers over the surface of the body, discoversthe slightest misplacement of any muscle, tend-on, bone, artery or vein.

An absolute,unerring knowledge of normal anatomy, not merely

the name of each part and how it looks, but HOWIT FEELS as well-this high development of thesense of touch-is the great foundation of Oste-opathic diagnosis.

And it is rare, indeed, thatany morbid condition of the body escapes theOsteopathic fingers.

But the end is not yet.

All this knowledgeof anatomy and physiology, with the almostmarvelous development of the sense of touchby which the diagnosis has been made and thecause of the trouble located, would amount tovery little if the defect could not be corrected.The obstruction to the natural processes of thebody must be relieved.

Andhere the Osteopathmust possess skill of another variety.

Afterreasoning out just what ought to be done, hemust KNow How to do it .

Perhaps the wholetrouble is caused by the malposition of somesmall ligament an inch or more from the sur-face, where it is impossible to get the fingers di-

rectly upon it .

Then the operator must be ac-quainted with all the principles of mechanics asapplied to the machinery of the human body.He must understand how to use the variousbones, muscles and ligaments as levers, pulleys,etc., and be able to calculate to a mathematicalcertainty just what movement is required andwhat the result will be .

This involves not on-ly a thorongh knowledge of the laws of mechan-ics, but a knowledge of the MECHANICAL RELATION ofevery partofthebodyto every other

part . This knowledge is not found in anyprinted work on earth, nor can it be written ina manner to be understood .

Tn fact Osteop-athy as a whole involves a practical applicationof principles that cannot be imparted by books.An explanation that would explain cannot bewritten.

The student must be directed in a mannersimilar to that employed by a machinist or car-penter to teach an apprentice the trade. A manmight read a thousand volumes on "how to be-come a carpenter," or "how to become a ma-chinist," and then not be able to build a houseor repair a locomotive . Osteopathy is a systemof anatomical engineering which must belearned precisely as the machinist would learnhis trade-by serving an actual apprenticeshipunder those who are masters of the system .

Itis impossible to get an intelligent idea of thescience in any other way.

Osteopathy is not Massage. The rubbing andpatting of the massuer have no place in Osteo-pathic practice-in fact many of the principalrules of massage are positivelv prohibited in theOsteopathic operating room . Osteopathy doesnot embrace massage, and massuers do not em-ploy the principles of Osteopathy . Osteo-paths and massuers both use the hands, but out-side of this fact there is not the slightest similarity.

The rubbing and patting of the massuerare applied to all cases alike, without anyknowl-edge of the human machinery, and with no hopeof benefit save that the same process seemed tohave benefitted a similar case .

Every move-ment made by the Osteopath is directed by hisknowledge of anatomy and physiology .

Whenhe places his trained fingers upon the body it isto correct directly or assist nature in correctingsome mechanical disorder that is hindering thenatural processes of the animal mechanism. Hecan tell you just what he hopes to accomplishby every move ; the particular artery, nerve orvein he is endeavoring to free, or the bone, mus-cle or ligament he would restore to its normalposition .

There is none of this in massage; themassuer hopes to benefit by vigorously rubbingand stirring up the surface of the body .

TheOsteopath uses his hands for a vastly differentpurpose.

As a skilled machinist would go towork restoring harmony to a disordered engine,so the Osteopathic fingers are taught to line upthehuman mechanism.

It is amistake to classOsteopathy with massage.

The principles of the science can be compre-hended onlv by those who are thoroughly fa-miliar with anatomy and physiology ; and evento those competent to grasp its principles, Os-teopathic practice cannot be explained in printor by word of mouth. A clear, practical knowl-edge of the system can only be gained whileworking on the animal machinery under the di-rection of a competent operator,

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A FEW CASES.Kirksville Graphic, Feb. 5th.Thenewyear's work at the Osteopathic In-

firmary is now well under headway, and prom-ises great success for '97. Patients are comingin from far and neat- , and every day finds thelobbies and operating rooms crowded with inva-lids of every description .The Graphic reporter talked to a few patients

his week, and found many voluntary expres-sions of praise for Osteopathy .

,Among those whoare about ready to go home

cured, the reporter found several very interest-ing cases, which are here given for the benefitof our readers who do not find time to visit theInfirmary and keep posted on the character ofwork be accomplished .

Mrs, J . B. Johnston, of Helena Mont., ac-companied by her sister Miss M.C . Wilson, is atMrs. Furrow's . Mrs. Johnston came here fourmonths ago . She had a severe case of bronchialtrouble and was given up as hopeless by all thebest physicians in Montana. They said shemight possibly live three months, butno longer.She had complete loss of voice, and could notwhisper loud enough to be heard across anordinary dining table.When she came here she was too weak to

walk across the room . When they left Montana,she never expected to see home again. But Os-teopathy was her last hope and she determinedto come .Mrs. Johnston's voice has now returned un-

der Osteopathic treatment, her "bronchialtrouble" is a thing of the past, and she hasgained over ten pounds . She walks anywhere,looks hale and hearty and is altogether veryhappy.

Her sister, Miss Wilson, had "hearttrouble." Here it was found to be a ribslightly out of position .

That was corrected,and now there is no heart trouble.Mrs. Johnston's husband and father are en-

gaged in the mining business in Helena ."We want to take an Osteopath home with

us," said Mrs. Johnston to the reporter . "Andhe wouldn't need any other :advertisement than

my case.""WATER ON THE JOINT."

Mr. C. W. McClain, cashier of the HuronState Bank, of Huron, Kansas, came in oncrutches last week .

Henow walks everywherewithout his crutches.

This is the result of Os-teopathic treatment. About a year ago Mr.McClain was thrown from a horse.

Soon afterthe accident he began to suffer severely with apain in his foot .

Big medicine doctors gavehim various linaments for rheumatism, and sur-geons proposed plaster casts.

At the MissouriPacific hospital they said he had "water on theknee joint."

Thetreatment there did him nogood .

Here the trouble was at once located inthe hip, corrected, and now Mr. McClain is onthe rapid road to recovery, having discarded hiscrutches.

WAS BLIND, NOW SEES .Mr . E. G. Bullard, of Bailey, I. T., who came

here two weeks ago nearly blind, can now seeas well as anybody. Mr . Bullard had eyetrouble for seventeen years. The M. D's firstsaid his eyelids had grown together and pro-ceeded to cut them apart with no beneficial result .

Then the sufferer went from one oculistto another.

Some said it was near sightedness,others said it was far sightedness.

Some saidone thing and some said another, until finallyDr. Frye, of Kansas City, after a careful exam-

ination, gave the opinion that Mr. Bullard wouldsoon be totally blind. While shipping cattle toKansas City, Mr. Bullard heard of Osteopathy,and came over to investigate .

TheOsteopathicoperators at once located the trouble in theneck, corrected it, and now, after a little overtwo weeks, Mr. Bullard can read for hourswithout the slightest inconvenience. Beforetaking Usteopathic treatment, he had not beenable to read longer than a very few minutes ata time for many years.

Mr. Bullard is greatlysurprised at the result .

WASHELPLESS TEN YEARS.The case of Mrs. F. M. Watts, of Bethany

Mo., is of more than ordinary interest, and il-lustrates the character of cures upon which Os-teopathy is built. Mrs. Wattswas a great suf-ferer for over twenty-five years, the result of adoctor's ignorance when her first child wasborn . She was practically helpless for tenyears.

Their home was formerly at Osceola,Iowa .

Physicians from every available pointwere called in consultation with the home doc-tors, and she submitted to almost every form oftreatment known. Eminent surgeons of St.Joe and other places were called, and Mrs. Wattsremained some time in a St. Joseph hospital .

Several surgical operations were performed,but no good resulted from any of the treatments .At last the physicians gave her up. Perhapsthe best evidence that they considered her casehopeless, is the fact that when Mrs. Watts in-formed them she was coming to Kirksville totry Osteopathy, they raised no objections, butadvised her to come, as that was her last resort .When she arrived in Kirksville about a yearago, she had to be carried from the cab.

Shewas then perfectly helpless and had to lie in bedall the time.

Now she walks ten blocks to theInfirmary on her treatment days, and is doingher own house work .

Since she came to Kirks-ville she has gained over twenty pounds, and,she says, is really getting uncomfortably fat.Nearly all traces of her trouble have disap-peared .

Her husband, F. M. Watts, who is anexpert optician, has located in Kirksville in or-der that his wife may be near the Infirmary,and the family are now living in the John Tins-man property near the Cumberland church .

HEART TROUBLE CURED .

Lewis Keyte, of Elmer, Macon county, Mo.,went home last week after remaining six weeksat the Infirmary for treatment. A reporter methimat the institution the day of his departure."Yes, sir," he said . "I am going home a wellman, and I want to say to youthat I feel prettygood."What was your trouble, Mr. Keyte? asked

the reporter :"Everything, pretty near," answered Mr.

Keyte. "When I came to Kirksville, I was inbad shape. I had heart trouble and gen-eral ability-I believe that is what the homedoctors called it .

I wasn't able to do any workand hadn't been any account for years.

I nowfeel like I couldn't wait to get home, I am soanxious to pitch right in and go to work .When I arrived in Kirksville, I couldn't liedown in bed at all .

They had to prop me up inbed with pillows every night, and that is thewayI slept for ten years.

Now I can lay downand sleep as well as I ever did in my life .

Myheart trouble is entirely cured.""What do you think of Osteopathy?""Think of it?" why, I think it is all right in

every way, and I am going home to tell every-

body I can find .

I wish every man or womanwho is afflicted could be made to understand justwhat is being done here .

I want to take somepapers home with me, but of course it is hard toexplain it to people who never saw it .

Youcan't say too much for me in favor of this wholeinstitution . "

THREE KINDS OF AnatomyThere is no school of medicine or surgery in

the United States where the student is requiredto possess a more thorough practical knowledgeof anatomy, physiology, and all that pertainsto the human body in sickness and in health,than the American School of Osteopathy atKirksville, Mo. The science of Osteopathictreatment being founded solely upon the natur-al laws operating through and governing theanatomy and physiology of man, no superficialknowledge of these subjects will suffice. Thestudent's acquaintance with anatomy and phys-iology must be thorough and from three standpoints .

One entire term of six months is spentin "book anatomy," by which the pupil gainsas complete a knowledge as can be gotten frombooks, charts, drawings, etc. ., becoming prettyfamiliar with all the anatomical terms, and the-oretic anatomy.

Dissecting is then taken upfor twelve months, during which time the stu-dent goes over the whole subject again under acompetent demonstrator, upon the cadaver. Atthe end of twelve months he enters the clinicsand begins to learn Osteopathy . Here he learnsanatomy from another standpoint-upon theliving body, and this last method of acquiringanatomical knowledge is by no means the leastdifficult.

The student's experience in going from theanatomy of the dissecting room to the clinicalanatomy of the living subject is similar to hisexperience ill going from book anatomy to thedissecting room . Although he may be thor-oughly conversant with every detail of anatomyas illustrated and explained by the standardauthorities, and practically have the text-bookby heart, the pupil finds himself "an unmannedbark upon an unknown sea" when he entersthe dissecting room . Just as reciting bookanatomy and locating the parts upon the cada-ver are different, so a knowledge of anatomyfrom both cadaver and books also differs from aknowledge of the Osteopathic anatomy of theliving body .

In the operating rooms it is im-practicable to use the saw andknife in locatingthe different structures, and the student mustbe guided altogether by his sense of touch andhis mechanical eye.

He must know how thenormal body ought to feel beneath his touchand how it ought to appear, else he will be to-tally unable to detect the abnormal .

If hereis an obstructed vein or artery, or if the nervesupply to a part is shat off, the fingers must betrained to locate the trouble, although it maybe covered by many other structures, which can-not be removed for convenience, as in the dis-secting room .

The development of au accuratemechanical eye, a delicate sense of touch, and aperfect knowledge of what is normal and whatis abnormal, is a knowledge of anatomy peculiarto Osteopathy and is taught in no other school .It cannot be written and can only be explainedby a competent operator while working uponthe human engine in the rooms of the clinics.No man or woman can become an Osteopathuntil these degrees of anatomy have been thor-oughly mastered .

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Legislative

The bill legalizing the practiceof Osteopathy in Missouri was pass-ed by the House February 25 by avote of 101 to 16 .

March 3 the billpassed the Senate by a vote of 26 to3.

On March 4 Governor Stephenssigned the bill, and it is now a law.

The law requires a personal at-tendance Of four full terms of fivemonths each in a regularly char-tered school of Osteopathy, and pro-vides penalties for its violation .

Ratification at the infirmarySaturday, March 6 at 2 p . In . Allare invited .

The practice of Osteopathy is now legalizedby special act of legislature in Missouri, Ver-mont and North Dakota .

In North Carolina the bill has passed thesenate, and has pretty good prospects of be-coming a law .

In Colorado a bill is now before the senate .The senate committee to whom it was referredgave the friends of Osteopathy a public hearing,and, as the Denver papers say, were very favor-ably impressed by the showing made.

In South Dakota a bill has been introducedand friends are doing all in their power to se-cure its passage .

In Michigan it has been recently decided thatOsteopaths can register under the present

law,but an effort is being

made

to

secure

thepassage of a special act .

THE NEW JoshuaSince October, 1874, my pen has been silent

as to reports of how the child, Osteopathy,

hasbeen treated .

When I opened the cage inwhich I kept the boy that I believed,

in

time,would be the greatest fighter that ever appearedon the world's stage of reason,

many stayedlong enough to see that the child was a boy,red headed, had a Roman nose, a good sizedneck, an eagle's eye, talons and wings of

greatlength, which they said meant to fly very

highif necessary, and the eye meant

to

select thechoicest gems at will, and the claws said in thebest of language that to penetrate deeply is therule of reason

and

wholly indispensible,

andafter a careful investigation said, that child hasthe build of a gritty and sensible fighter . Otherssaid, what do you want to fight for in time

ofpeace?

I told the multitude

that in

days

ofpeace was the time to prepare for war .

I

be-

gan to train my boy for the Olympic games

ofall future days .

For years I kept him in

closetraining to be a skilled fencer for I knew muchhard fighting would have to be done as soon asthe boy kicked old theories that had no merit butage and tradition to boast of, and I knew myJoshua would soon command such suns andmoons to stand and make them obey to theletter.

Some would say, but in a low whisperthat young one was an illegitimate

child,

itsfather could not be found and it would at alltimes be known as a bastard ; farther than that,no illegitimate could be allowed to run at largein Missouri . But it soon grew to manhood andsued its accusers for slander, and the suit

wasput off from term

to

term for over twentyyears .

Agreat and good man by the name ofLon V . Stephens arose in the *highest court

ofMissouri and said, "I am its

father and

willgive it Missouri for its inheritance;" and he exe-cuted his will and put the

great

seal

of

theState of Missouri with his signature of author-ity, on March 4th ; 1897, and named the boy"Joshua."

A. T. s .

OUR SCHOOh NOT A Diploma Mill

It will cost you five hundred dollars to be anOsteopath and not a cent less . We have nowbeen in the teaching business five years andmade some cheap Osteopaths .

Made some insix months, some in seven, some in eight andnine .

They get wise and want to start

Oste-opathic schools

and write books .

We havemade some in two, three and

four years ; noneof the latter have become teachers, presidentsof Colleges of Osteopathy nor written

books,and promised to make men and women of greatknowledge in six weeks or six months for $25Or $250 and say anything that is untrue to getyour money .

I have tested all lengths of

timeto know just glow long it takes to be qualified togo out into the world as a good and safe person,one that I can recommend, to

take

charge

ofyour lives and ready to meet all kinds of disease .If my word, with six years trying to impart agood knowledge of this science, is worth any-thing to you, I will say,

less than two fullyears of ten months each, cannot make and

en-dowany manor woman with any more knowl-edge than hit and miss, and I cannot truthfullytell you differently after my long experience

inteaching .

Anyperson who tells you different,knows but little of Osteopathy; its second year'steaching' is the soul of the science .

Fortunatelybut few if any are out for cheap schools,short time and shoddy methods of teaching .

Iwill keep my school up to the highest standardor not teach at all .

I cannot afford

to

deceiveyou for your money's sake, and will not .

Myschool has a good character at home and abroadand has legal honors bestowed upon it in

anumber of states .

I am hereto keep and maintain a school that all Americans will

be

proudto speak of when in any part of the world, andits diplomos never taken at a discount

for

anycause by the most learned of all nations .

Nextyear we hope to be able to go deeper in

themysteries and beauties of the laws of life asfound in the books of the Infinite .

A. T. s.

NATURE THE BEST PHYSICIAN .

The dissatisfaction with the indiscriminate useof poisons in combatting disease is becomingmore apparent every day. Thinking men andleading physicians are seeking other methodsand abandoning the well beaten path that hasbeen blindly followed for years.

They are be-

ginning to look toward the light and study man.Among noted scientists who have advocated rad-ical changes, Dr . Schweninger appears promi-nent. Dr. Schweninger is a German doctor ofBerlin, and has for many years been Prince Bismark's physician .

His lectures on medical re-form have lately occasioned considerable stir inmedical circles .

In regard to medicine the Doctor is decidedlyskeptical . "Know thyself" is his advice, andif one takes proper care of himself he thinksthere is no need for medicine .

In case of an at-tack of disease he advises the patient to let it runits course, claiming that drugs are of little, ifany, use .

He believes with Hippocrates, in thehealing power of nature,Dr. Schweninger's reputation is such thathis words ought to bear weight .

It is not asudden turn for popularity's sake, for the doctoris an old man and his reputation as a competentmedical advisor was made years ago .Dr . Schweninger's views are good but he

does not go far enough. Hygenic treatment isexcellent ; nature's power in taking care of thehuman system in health is great ; but when thesystem is deranged so that the functions of thebody are interferred Nvith some force, must bebrought to bear to overcome that derangement .In this Osteopathy has solved the problem .

Byso adjusting the system that all functions actnormally nature can carry out her curative pro-cess .

Republished by request.

Osteopathy .T0 the founder 0f this great science these lines are

dedicated with the love and respect 0f the writer :

The builder of the universeGave life as blessing, not as curse,And man, His effort, last, supreme,Contains within His spirit's gleam,His vital energy and forceT0 speed life's engine o'er life's course.Within the body, safe and sure,Forever lies the body's cure .S0 said the man 0f iron willAnd steadfast faith, brave A . T . Still .All honor t0 the earnest heart,That all alone through bitter smartOf scornful lip, and cruel sneerAnd poverty most dark arid drear,Held firmly t0 the purpose grandHe felt was given t0 his hand :The purpose t0 unfold the plan,How "In His image made He man ;"How creature 0f creation's loveCould his own confines rise above .It was a daring creed t0 flingInto Conservative's old ring,But the deep eyes 0f the strong manRead Nature's book the weak ne'er scan,And loyal friends in her great heartFound he, to strengthen his own part ;For comrades real are not the onesWho look with eyes and speak with tonguesOf flesh and blood, but that still throngWhich dwells the soul's deep haunts among,And they t0 him that truth revealed :The body's cure is in it sealed .Now he who dared this truth proclaim,At risk 0f home and friends and name,Stands crowned today 0n honor's throne,Her fairest laurels all his own .In modest thankfulness he standsWhile lame and blind from many landsAround his footsteps daily lurkAnd all attest his wondrous work.May heaven's light o'er his true headFor many years its blessing shed,And while he lives, let none withholdThe royal gift 0f purest gold,The fairest gift t0 a true mindThe rev'rent honor 0f his kind .

HELEN DE LendrecieFargo, N . D.

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The Journal of Osteopathy

THE NEW BUILDING.

The HE accompanying engraving is asouth andeastview of the new home of Osteopathy

at Kirksville, Mo.

The building is now com-pleted and occupied wholly by the AmericanSchool of Osteopathy and A. T. Still Infirmary.As it now stands it is one of the largest and

most complete school buildings in the state.Erected and fitted throughout for the especialneeds of Osteopathic work it is the only build-ing of its kind in the world.The outside dimensions are 64 by 176 feet .

The building is four stories high, with a com-modious'attic which might be called a fifth story.

two offices, a private consultation room, threetoilet rooms, two bath rooms, a linen room andseventeen operating rooms, a clinic room, withother closets and hallways .

The ladies' waiting rooms and offices are car-peted throughout with brussels, and seated witheasy arm chairs .

In the hallway is a fifty room enunciatorwhich communicates with electric call bells inevery operating, class andwaiting room .

TH I RD FLOOR.

On the third floor are two large assembly halls,one 36x60 andthe other 42x62 . They may bethrown together by raising the rolling doorswhich separate them .

Both halls are superbly

As "Home Folks" See It .Kirksville Journal, Jan. 21st .Now that the new building of the American

School of Osteopathy is completed, it is a goodtime for Kirksville people to congratulate bothDr. Still and themselves upon the gigantic pro-portions to which this institution has grown.Dr . Still is no doubt, proud of this magnificentstructure and the wonderful success that has al-ready crowned his life work as the pioneer of anew thought, but he cannot feel a deeper inter-est in the triumph of Osteopathy than is felt bythe people of this city . They have watched thelittle bud of truth in its various processes of unfoldment .

They well remember the proverbial

The long ver-andas on thesides give thewhole structurea rather colonialappearance andthe outside effectis on the wholevery suggestiveof comfort andsubstantialn e s sas well as archi-tectural beauty .The building

contains 68rooms, makingaltogether 30-030,000 square feetof floor space.Its size can beappreciated byimagining 3 0 0rooms each 10feet square .Thecompleted

structure as itnow stands cost

ignominy whichat first surround-ed the "manwith anew idea .'Dr. Still's manyyears of unswerv-ing, almost dog-ged fight topreserve anddemonstrate thetruth of his newsystem, with thevarious stages ofdoubt, investiga-tion, final convic-tion and

enthusiasm which hisefforts broughtforth, are famil-iar to every in-habitant . Theyh a v e

watchedth e little

schoowith its halldozen studentstaught in alittle three room

in round numbers eighty thousand dollars.Thewalls are of pressed brick, with mansard

roofs of slate and iron . The highest point ofthe building is the top of the observatory on thenorth wing, which rises 10o feet above theground .The woodwork inside is of oak, cypress and

yellow pine, all beautifully finished in the nat-ural wood. From basement to dome there is acomplete system of sanitary plumbing, with hotand cold water and steam heat in every room .The plumbing and hardware furnishings costnearly $15,000.Electric lights are everywherefrom the top of the flag pole on the observatoryto the boiler room in the basement, over 600 in-candescent lamps being used .

FIRST FLOOR.The first floor contains a mailing room for

the JOURNAL `printing office, three operatingrooms, toilet room, bath room, boiler room, twostorage rooms, and in the north wing two classrooms, each 31x40, with two toilet rooms andtwo cloak rooms. These class rooms which arefor the junior students have a seating capacityof 600. There are 16 roomson this floor.

SECOND FOOR.The second floor, which is on alevel with the

street at the south entrance contains 36 rooms.The main hall runs north and south, is 150 feelong, and connects with another hall 62 feetlong which runs east and west through thenorth wing . On this floor are four large wait-ing rooms, two for ladies and two for gentlemen

finished, one in white enamel and bronze, theother in natural hard wood . When thrown intoone large hall they would seat comfortably onethousand people .

One side of thenew ball isoccupied by a mammoth glass case containingmany rare natural history specimens.

Besides these halls there are on this floor fourlarge class rooms, Dr . A. T. Still's private officeand library, with toilet rooms, hallways, etc.

FOURTH FLOOR.The fourth floor has a dissecting room 20x40,

an amphitheatre which almost fills a room 38x40, and is capable of seating over Z00. There isalso a room for anatomical and surgical specimens, reading, etc.

The amphitheatre is forlectures and demonstrations on the cadaver, etc.

There are three large attic rooms, whichmight be called a fifth story.

There is alsoa large attic room on the fourth floor.

All theserooms will be utilized for dissecting andother class purposes as the demands of the schoolrequire.The second floor is used exclusively for treat-

ing purposes andthe general business of the InInfirmary Everything above the second floowith half of the first floor is wholly occupied bthe school .

t

No detail has been overlooked . The structureis complete . It was designed and constructed foOsteopathy, by the first Osteopath, and paid foby money earned in the practice and teaching oOsteopathy .

wooden building, grow from a very insig-nificant local affair to a mammoth college, occu-pying an eighty thousand dollar five story struc-ture, with students from twenty different states .

While the institution has entirely outgrown

11 its local stages and has assumed national, eveninternational proportions, Kirksville people will

always feel a personal interest in Osteopathy'striumphs, wherever attained . Nor is the inter-est based alone upon financial advantages secured to the town by the institution .

Theworkdone, the cures performed andsuffering relievedby the new method of treatment, to whichKirksville people have been the eye witnesses,is the real cause of their great friendship for Os-teopathy . They have met and talked withmany thousands-people from every part of theUnion and from foreign countries-who came toKirksville after having been pronounced help-less invalids by all other schools, andwent homecured by Osteopathic treatment. Our peoplecan look at this magnificent new building andfully realize that every brick, every piece oftimber and, in fact, every part entering into its

- structure, represents some sufferer restored tor health, some dread disease banished, somebodyY made happy.

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property in mining town loo miles from Denver, tor trade for home or business property in

Kirksville, Mo .f Will give good trade, as party wishes to go to Infirm-

ary.

Address

J. T. BASS,114S. Fremont St., Denver, Colo .

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The Journal of Osteopathy

An Acrostic .

O, science fair, we bow to thee-Surrender fully to thy charm;Throw every fetter off that weErst-while have worn-much to ourharm .On ev'ry nerve thy tingling spellPuts stamp of cure each sluggish veinAnd tiny feeder says "'tis well."The thrilling truth surcease from painHas come to bless all, in thy name-Years hence we'll love thee just the same .

MARIAM Berch

"DIVORCED."BY DR . A. T STILL.

Revolution after revolution have originatedin America-political, religious and scientific .Governments have changed with the velocity ofdemand . These revolutions run from the con-gregated assemblies of ourlawmakers, military,religious and scientific professions, and the nav-igation of the seas down to each individual whyhas granted to him the right to secede or differfrom any of the above named systems.

He orshe has the right to ask. and obtain a divorcefrom husband or wife when proof in sufficientquantity is produced; and letters to that effectare granted by our highest courts by commonconsent of the people .

AS I was wedded to Al-opathy early in my life, I lived with it, put upwith it, suffered under it, until it made my lifemiserable by continuing the association, and Iasked a divorce.

I asked, and put in my peti-tion on June 22, 1874, for a divorce.

I basedmy charges upon the foundation of murder ig-norance, bigotry and intolerance .

The fight inthe court through which I had applied for a di-vorce was very hot and determined .

A decis-ion was refused from 1874 until October 30

1894, previous to which time the judge of thecircuit court carefully examined my claims andreferred my case to the secretary of state, who,after causing a careful examination, granted meletters patent from the state of Missouri, withher great seal, and said, "You are hereby setfree from further obligations to Mrs. Alo-pathy. "

"CASTING OUT DEVILS."

In bible times disease was looked upon as aspecial visitation of providence, or the forciblepossession of the body by agents of the devil .If of the latter classification, many were the in-genious methods employed to drive these devilsout of the unfortunate victim . An insane pa-tient, for instance, was thought to be possessedof a peculiar kind of devil that could by a cer-tain "hokus pokus" be driven from the victim'sbody and made to take up its abode in the lower animals.

There are no well authenticatedclinical observations recorded upon this subject,but there are several interesting cases told inboth sacred and profane history.

The pervading idea amongthese superstitiousancients was that disease was an entity to be at-tacked and driven out of the body . And, in-credible though it may seem, that idea has been

-the guiding star of all healing methods fromtime immemorial to the founding of Osteopathy .True, a few of the advanced thinkers of themedical profession have declared that disease isa condition, and schools have gone through theform of accepting theories of this character; butdespite their declarations they continue to treatdisease as entity. The great mass of the pro-fession have been totally unable to get out ofthe entity rut, and medicine with its boasted re-search of more than two thousand years, still

clings to the old superstition that disease is amysterious, tangible something, which gets in-side the human organism and must be beset byanother something which has a natural anti-pathy for the supposed cause of the disease, andwhich, when introduced into the body of thepatient, will search out and exterminate thetroublesome little enemy to health . Weddedto this superstition, our medical friends havesearched every nook and corner of the earth forspecifics that, liberated in the human body,would destroy the cause of certain diseases .

Nowhere

do we find this old superstitionmore thorougl thoroughly at the helm of medical researchthan in the present day germ theory of disease.The "devil" to be cast out is no longer a plaindevil, but a scientific "Microbe," which goesabout in search of fashionable victims, andwhich would probably scorn the idea of takingup its abode with a herd of swine.

Its nameand occupation are made known by the numberand shape of its horns.

These little devils dif-fer from the devils of the ancients only in size,and had the poor ancient had the advantage of amicroscope with which to tone down his imagi-nation the difference between old devils andthose of the microbe persuasion would probablybe but slight .

In their desperation to prove the supposedcorrectness of this old superstition, modern med-ical writers have piled up volumes on the chem-istry of disease and its specifics, and experiment-ers have analyzed almost every atom of theknown universe, and studied the minutia of theeffects of bodily disorder, to the total neglect ofthe broader and more important phenomena ofanimal life . In their long and fruitless searchof the outside world for specific poisons thatwould drive their "devils of disease" from thehuman body they have totally ignored thatgreat engine of life itself, and have failed torecognize the presence of native forces whichthe Creator placed within the mechanism for itsown government .Here is where Osteopathy took up the fight

and where it won its victory. The founder ofOsteopathy looked upon disease as an abnormalcondition, and reasoned that the means of re-storing the normal should be in the human en-gine itself-not in some remote corner of theuniverse or hidden miles under the sea.

Whilethe medical profession has searched all theworld outside of man, the founder of Osteop-athy searched man himself for the means ofcontrolling disease, and he has been rewardedfor his trouble by discovering that the greatMachinist placed within the human body every-thing necessary to run it smoothly withoutdrugs.

DR . STILL TO STUDENTS.

Some advise us to teach our classes in Osteop-athy as to gain the approval of the legislatures,and thereby gain recognition . I care nothingfor pleasing legislatures by taking to them largebundles of useless, blind rubbish.

I want thestudents and diplomates of Osteopathy to gofrom this school with a better knowledge ofanatomy, physiology, and the laws of natureand their ability to ward off disease than istaught by any other system of curing on earth.Let them do the work, meet sickness and cometo camp with live children and live adults, andnot with the wailing sounds of funerals.

Letthem do that, make qualified men and women,

learn them what man is and what disease is andhow to cure it, and you can no more keep themother away from an Osteopath than you cankeep the houseflies off a darkey's head . Cureher baby and she will do your legal fighting .Save her girl, and pap will

roll up his sleevesand help her.

So keep out as much trash aspossible .

We are safe if we do the work .

Youcan learn how if you attend to your business .Osteopathy is the very essence of symptomatol-ogy, diagnosis and cure . Learn it, be it, andyou will have filled the law.

This school is toteach you.

It will be the judge when you areready to go, and will send you as soon as pos-sible.

We want you in the field at work andwish you to pay strict attention.

We will getyou off as soon as you are ready to go .

Wewant you to know anatomy and physiology bybooks and dissection, and Osteopathy from therooms of the clinics and when you do you mustgo, for the world wants you and needs youbadly.

There is but one way for an Osteopathto show his competence, and that is by results.

QUICK RESULTS ARE NOT THE RULE .

The common error made by people who applyto an Osteopath for treatment is in believingquick results can be obtained in every case. Itis by no means uncommon for a sufferer whosephysical mechanism has been creaking andwheezing along badly out of line for a dozenyears or more, to come to an Osteopath expecting to be cured in a few treatments .

Perhapsa score of quack physicians have taken turns atfilling the poor fellow's system full of poisonswhich nature will require years to throw off.Yet the patient has heard of people who werecured by a single Osteopathic treatment, andexpects alike result in his own case .

Whilecases of many years standing have been cured ina single treatment, and others have been restoredto health in so short atime as to seem remark-able, a majority of cases require more time.Many of the most truly wonderful cures havebeen those in which results came only after along course of treatment.

In some cases theobstruction which is the cause of the trouble,can be removed directly by the Osteopathic op-eration.

In others, where the trouble is morecomplicated or deeply seated, the operator mustgive such assistance as will enable nature to re-move the obstruction herself, and nature, likethe mills of God, grinds slow but exceedinglywell .

The dislocations, contractions and con-tortions, rendered almost permanent by years ofneglect, and aggravated by improper treatment,cannot always be corrected quickly.

One casemay be cured at a single treatment, whileanother, the outward appearances of which arethe same, may require many weeks, perhapsmonths .

PATTERSON & MILLERHaveThe

THE BEST CAB AND TRANSFER LINEIn the city, and give special attention tothe accomodation of patients of the A. T.Still Infirmary. Ask for Patterson &Miller's cab when you get off the train.

J C STORM

A L VANS

STORM & EVANS,

ATTORNEYS AT LAW,KIRKSVILLE, MO.

Office upstairs opposite P O.

NOTARY PUBLIC IN OFFICE .

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KNEW DR. STILL YEARS AGO.

An Old Missouri Newspaper Man Talks About Dr . Stilland Some Early Cases .

Ivy B. Summers, editor of the Lagrange Her-ald-Democrat, recently visited Kirksville . In arecent issue of his paper editor Summers pub-lished quite an elaborate report of his visit .The following extracts regarding Dr . Still andOsteopathy will be especially interesting toJOURNAL readers. Speaking of Kirksville'sgreat school of healing, the editor says :

Its founder, Dr. Andrew T. Still, is to Kirks-ville what Leslie E . Keeley is to Dwight ; tosuffering humanity in general what the latter isto the sotted, shaking scion of inebriety. Thehistory of these two men's lives is strikinglysimilar, in as much as both were country prac-titioners before they heralded to the world 1 heirremarkable discoveries ; both endured the hard-ships and adversities incident to unremunerativepractice and suffered every conceivable form ofself-sacrifice in order to secure means withwhich to demonstrate the merits of their discoveries .

For a period of twenty years their livesran in similar channels, their conditions, char-acteristics and successes identical, and the event-ual outcome promises to be the same-that isuniversal recognition of the value of their treat-ment and international reverence of their mem-ory when they shall have been called to theeternal Alchemist .

The cures they have andshall effect before Destiny decrees dissolution oftheir mortal selves will stand as living monu-ments to their names; the thread will be takenup by others and carried through the ceaselessages yet unrevolved in the cycle of time andperpetuate their sciences which are yet in ad-vance of the period .

Aesculapius and Hippro-cates placed the place for pills and powders thatmodern disciples in countless array follow adlib itum .

Doses of dope and nauseating nos-trums are dumped into the human system with-out chart or guide to direct to the points of at-tack and who can vouchsafe their success?

Dr.Still, almost a quarter of a century ago, afterhaving beaten the well defined paths of the le-gitimate practitioner for years, renounced medi-cine as being a science in which there was some-thing that was seemingly deficient-a somethingthat might mean the loss of life at that criticalperiod when a physician knows not to what ex-treme he should go ; a deficiency that was mademanifest to him through a sad and painful ex-perience . Medicine it seemed, afforded noteven partial immunity from the ravages of dis-ease, and the light dawned upon his giant intel-lect that there must be something-some power-some influence to equip the savers of life inthe battle where the ills of the flesh were toooften victorious .

He threw off the fallacy thatwas substantially backed by a code of ethics ; re-nounced partisanship to a phase of practice, tohim so manifestly fallible and in a few yearspresented to the scientific world a system oftreatment destitute of drugs and deceptive de-coctions .

It went abroad with the speed of asparrow that Dr . Still was au empiricist-aquack who relied upon the mind of the patientto imagine a cure .

He was called a faith cur-ist, magnetic and massage mountebank andmedical vandal in general .

He was discussedat the tea table, on the street, in the railwaycoach, anywhere and everywhere, in termsdenuncitory. But he is a concientious man,and so sanguine was he in the belief that he had

discovered a treatment that would not only curebut prevent the various ills to which humanflesh is heir, that he plodded along in his char-acteristic simple yet energetic manner, totallyoblivious to the tirade of abuse that was dailyheaped upon him, and was ever hopeful that thenear future would disclose unanimous

endorsement of hissystem.Success came at last toreward him, andtoday-there is notaninstitution

in the land that enjoys greater distinction orpatronage.

Dr. Still is sixty-eight years of agebut erect, vigorous and active as a man of thir-ty . His face denotes force and strength ofcharacter, but portrays a soul of honor and aheart that ever throbs in philanthropy and feel-ing.

It would not necessitate a psychologist tolook into those expressive eyes and read hisnoble qualities ; his love for his fellow men ; hisdevotion to his profession ; his sincerity in thecause, and his never satiated desire for knowl-edge .

His is a countenance that disseminatessunshine, diffuses happiness and leaves confidencein the heart.

It is a picture of candor, frank-ness, honesty and love ; a face that makes peo-ple the better for having looked at it and onethat will live long in memory when the sub-stance shall have faded away.

By birth Dr .Still is a Virginian, and during the civil warserved his country as a surgeon in the Unionarmy, continuing his practice with varying de-grees of financial success for a long time afterpeace had supplanted strife .

His field of dutywas in Kansas and for a long period he was theonly physician between Lawrence and KansasCity .

A portion of his life was spent amongthe Shawnee Indians who regarded him as amedicine man of supernatural powers .

Duringthe cholera epidemic he achieved great distinc-tion by the successful manner in which hetreated cases of this dread contagion, and therewas never any occasion for his abandoning thepractice of medicine other than the cause citedin a preceeding paragraph which convinced himof its deficiencies .

His sincerity in all thingscompelled him to follow his convictions and Os-teopathy was the result .

Situated on the fron-tier, where bodies and skeletons were Ilentiful,he had ample opportunity for pursuing his stud-ies in anatomy.

To throw new light upon thescience yet unheralded to the world the Indianburying grounds were drawn upon heavily andthe mechanism of man studied thoroughly .

He removed to Kirksville in 1876 andintroduced his new science . People looked wiseand pronounced him anything from a voodoodown .

The denuncitory decree whichhadgoneforth from the regulars retarded his progress,and it was only among the poor and ignorantthat he found patients who were willing to sub-init themselves to his mode of treatment.

Fin-ally success after success came rapidly ; his rep-utation spread to adjoining towns and the af-flicted fron the upper tendom began to seekhim.

For years he administered the treatmentat his humble little home, but as time passedhis fame spread over the commonwealth and toneighboring states necessitating the transfer ofhis operating room to more commodious quar-ters .

As the years came and went his famegrew, and reached not alone every state in theUnion, but crossed ocean and sea, to India andthe nighted realms ; to darkest Russia, and ev-ery clime where ills hold dominance over man .His mine seemed t0 them the synonym of mag-ic touch and the afflicted came from the fourquarters of the Globe .

I knew Dr. Still years ago when I was cou-irected with the Hannibal press. He made oc-casional visits to that city in the interest of histreatment.

It was when Osteopathy was in itsinfancy, or to use the doctor's characteristic ex-pression, had its toes out. He graduallyworked himself into a creditable practice, andto my personal knowledge effected cures thatwere the comment of the town and called forththe laudation of the press.

One case in particu-lar I remember in the person of a beautiful fiveyear-old girl who, from infancy, had been sub-ject to spells of intense nervousness .

So greatwas her affliction that she would shriek at thetop of her voice and all efforts t0 quiet her wereunavailing until her excitement had subsidedof itself .

Dr Still was called, examined the pa-tient, located the cause removed it, and the girlis now a handsome, healthy young lady .

Shehas never experienced a recurrence of her oldmalady . I know a Hannibal business manwhose wealth runs up somewhere in the neigh-hood of $700,00o .

He fell and dislocated hispatella.

Thefamily physician put his limb inplaster cast and left orders for him to remain inbed .

He did so for weeks and instead of the in-jured member improving it continued to growworse.

Afriend told him to consult Still, andthe incredulous sufferer laughed at the idea, asthousands of others who are not conversantwith the treatment have done .

Finally, how-ever, he was persuaded to go to the institute,where he secured relief in one hour after his ar-rival . In a week he was cured and able towalk as well as he ever had without even a traceof- pain lingering in the leg .

I know of a prom-inent club man in Chicago whohad been a rheu-matic for years.

He was on the eve of goingto Carlsbad as the last effort to secure relief . Afriend told him that it was unnecessary-thathe could be cured in Kirksville .

With misgiv-ings as to the result he visited Dr. Still . Itwas all that he could do to move across the of-fice floor on crutches . The doctor examinedhis knee, pulled his leg physically, but not fi-nancially, gave it a twist and told him to stand."Hand me my crutches," said the patient."You do not need them," observed the Osteopath . "You need not take me for a jay, areuben, or a sucker," retorted the rheumatic,visibly irritated at what he considered a guyingupon the doctor's part .

At another commandto stand he did so, however unattended by hiscrutches, a feat that he had not accomplishedbefore for years.

He could scarcely believe hisown senses, and rushed madly to the depot, andsent a message to his wife, announcing his com-plete restoration to health .

That good woman,upon receipt of the telegram was alarmed. Shefeared that the intense pain he had endured haddriven him insane and she immediately tele-graphed the institute officials concerning him .A reply corroborated the first information andan early train brought the patient home .

x. m. Still A. G. HILDRETH

Still and HildrethCHICAGO AND EVANSTON, ILL .

Chicago office,

Evanston Office,Masonic Temple

14o5 Benson Avenue.room 905-906

W. C. CARTER, D. D. S.(SUCCESSOR TO DR . J . H . CARTER,)

Kirksville, Mo .Office upstairs, south side over Kirksville Millinery

store .

© Still National Osteopathic Museum, Kirksville, MO

The Journal of Osteopathy

ANNOUNCEMENT-OF-

The American School of OsteopathyKIRKSVILLE, MO,

The course of study in the AMERICANSCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHY is divided into fourterms of five months each . These terms be-gin in October and April of each year .Thestudies are as follows:

FIRST 5 MONTHS .Anatomy-in class only .

SECOND 5 MONTHS .Anatomy (demonstrations on the cadaver),

Physiology and Principles of Osteopathy .THIRD 5 MONTHS .

Anatomy (demonstrations on the cadaver),Physiology, Use of the Microscope (in recogniz-ing the tissues of the body, deposits in urine,etc.) Diagnosis and Symptomatology, Use ofthe Stethescope, Analysis of Urine, etc., Cliicalinstruction in Osteopathic Practice .

FOURTH 5 MONTHS .Anatomy and Physiology as in third term

(optional for those who have passed the firstexamination), Diagnosis, Symptomatology, Sur-gery (accidents and injuries : their diagnosisand treatment), Treatment of Poisoning byNoxious Drugs; Midwifery and Diseases ofWomen. During this term students will act asassistants to the operators in the treating roomsof the Infirmaryand thus acquire full knowledgeof Osteopathic work .

CLASS EXAMINATIONS

will be conducted every month on all subjectsin the curriculum . Their object is merely tolet the student himself see how he is progress-ing. Professional examinations will be heldtwice yearly, the first after the completion of15 months of study (Anatomy, Physiology,Microscopic Work and Urinary Analysis), theother at the close Of 20 months of regular at-tendance . The latter examination will coverall ground not included in the first examination.The "First" must be passed before appearing forthe "Final."

The AMERICAN SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHYis open to both sexes, with certain restrictionsas to character, habits, etc. The special qual-ifications, which will be rigidly insisted upon inevery student, are : Must be strictly temperate,moral character, good native ability, and atleast a good common school education.The tuition for the full course of two years is$500. No one will be received for less than

full course, and the full tuition in cash or itsequivalent must be arranged for in advance.The cost of living in Kirksville is about

the average in cities of 7,00o. Good board costsfrom $3 a week up .

A. T. STILL, Pres't .H. E. PATTERSON, Sec'yReduced Rates toPatients

The Wabash Railway Co . now has on sale anew "commutation" ticket for patients of theA. T. Still Infirmary at Kirksville . Thesetickets will be sold on the basis of one fare forthe round trip, from Moberly and Ottumwaand all intermediate point to Kirksville . Theyare in the form of 10 ride (5 round trip) tickets,limited to 3o days .These tickets will be a great accommodation

to patients on this line who prefer to live athome and come to Kirksville for treatment.

ROSTER OF STUDENTS-IN-

he American School of Osteopathy

OGTOBER (1895) GLASS .Ash, Mary E

Oneida, IllBaldwin, Mollie

Plevna, MODarling, Agnes

Evanston, IllDarling, Charles G

"Hartford, Win

Kirksville, MoHartupee, W N

West Liberty, IowaHulett, C M Turner,

Edgerton, KansasIllinski, Anielka

E St Louis, IllKing, A M

Hester, MoLandes, Mrs Mae

Kirksville, MoMartin, Clara

Purcell, KansasMcCaw, Cora

La Plata, MOMahaffy, C W

Brashear, MoMahaffy, A D

"

Mayes, Mr M T

Dalton City, IllMayes, Mrs Florence

"

Potter, Will A .

Kirksville, MoSmith, L . B.

"Smith, Wilbur L

"Smith, Ernest P

Englewood, MOShackelford, J R

Lewiston, MOStill, Thomas C

La Panza, Cal.Still, Mrs . Ella

Maryville, MoStrong, Mrs J W

Evanston, IllinoisTaylor, L H

Columbia, MOVallier, Robert

Leonard, MOWest, Bertha M

Washburn, IllJANUARY (1896) GLASS.

Bailey, M W

Brashear, MissouriBernard, H E

Chicago, IllinoisBernard, Roy

"

Buckmaster, Robert M

Kirksville, MissouriEmeny, Harry William

St Paul . MinnesotaFurrow, Nettie

Kirksville, MOGravett, H H

Grayville, 111,Hazzard, Charles

Peoria, IllHobson . Mary

Chicago, IllHulett, Mae F

Lawrence, KansasHulett, Mrs. Adelaide S.

"McGavock, R E

Columbia, MOOwen, J E

Kirksville, MoOwen, Mrs J E

' `Parker, John W

Winchester, IllPendleton, Gid H

Gallatin, MoProctor, Mrs Alice Heath Kirksville, MORankin, J T

Monmouth, MORider, Clarence L

Kirksville, MoShackelford, Ed H

Lewiston, MOSippy, A H

St Louis, MoWarner, John RBrowning, MoWilliams, Mrs D S

Council Bluffs, IowaMAY (1896) GLASS.

FIRST DIVISION .Bolles, Newton A

Denver, ColBurke, Mrs . Anna M

Kirksville, MOCampbell, Mary NettieCampbell, Arthur DCluett, Frank G

St. Louis, MoEly, William E

Kirksville, MoEly, Mrs Anna L

"Fletcher, William A

"Gentry, Benton F

"Green, Ginevra I

"

"Greene, W E

"Hart, Lawrence M

"Hartford, Isaac J

Queen City, MoHulett, Marcia Ione

Edgerton . KansasJohnson, Gid E

Kirksville, MoJohnson, Mrs Alice

Fairfield, IllJohnson, Norman S

Horton, KansasJohnston, Willie H

Canton, IllJones, Hiram R

Estill, MoLittle, Chas W

Des Moines, IaMiller, Frank C

Kirksville, MoMiller, Mrs Sadie Hart

"

Peterson, Charles A

Chesterton, IndShaw, Dudley H

Maroa, IllWillard, Mrs Alice N

Kirksville, MoSECOND DIVISION .

Bailey, H E

Brashear, MoBanning, John W

La Plata, MOBeeman, E E

Kirksville, MOBrown, Leander S .,

Fort Collins, ColoCole, M D

Kirksville, MoConner, D L

Kirksville, Mo .Densmore, O

Alsson City, IaHibbets, Ulysses M

Kirksville, MoHarlan, Mrs . F J

Webb City, MoHolme, T L

Bolckow, Mo .Hook, Otis

Kirksville MoHook, Virgil A

Pond Creek, OklahomaHudleson, Mark E

Bevier, MoIlgenfritz, Harry F

Kirksville, MoKellogg, Howard G

"Landes, Agnes V

"Macauley, Daniel BChicago, IllMathews, S C

Pattonsburg, MoMcCoy, Chas . K

Kirksville, MOMcLain, Harry C

Wellsville, KasPrickett, Orson B

Kirksville, MoSmiley, William MSmith, Le Roy

"Spangler, Harvey L

"Underwood, Evelyn

Kansas City, MoWilliams, Roger .K

Council Bluffs,Iowa .

OGTOBER (1896) GLASS.FIRST DIVISION .

Albright, Mrs. Grace

Queen City, MoBowden, R W

West Salem, WisBeaven, E H

Fulton MoChambers, Miss Etta

Kirksville, Mo,Craven, Miss J W

Evanston, Ill .Deeming, C O

Kirksville, MoElliott, W S

Laplata, MoGage, F S

Baird, TexasHarris, M B

Columbia, MoHarwood, Miss Irene .

Maysville, Mo.Huston, Miss Grace

Circleville, OhioGreen, Mrs . L E

Hot Springs, S DKyle, C T

Downsville, WisKelley, Mary E

Sioux City, IaLaughlin, W R

Kirksville, MoMcNicoll, Miss D E

Darlington, IndMiller, Mrs . Ella Ray

Salmon City, IdahoMorris, J T

Kirksville, Mo .Neely, Miss Marie F

Franklin, KyNelson, Miss Camille

Kirksville, Mo .Northrop, W N

Louisville, KyNovinger, W J

Novinger, MoPotter, Miss Minnie

Kirksville, MoPellett, H L

Prairie Center, KansSisson, Aliss F E

Genoa, Ill.Swan, W E

Franklin, KyUnderwood, E B

Lake Camo, PaUnderwood, H R

Lake Como, PaVance, G P

Pomona, CalWalker, Mrs. Cornelia

Cameron, Mo .Wirt, J D

Kirksville, MoSECOND DIVISION .

Banning, Mrs J W

Laplata, Mo .Brock, W W

Montpelier, VtBurton, J C

Paris, Mo.Burton, George

Paris, Mo .Cherrier, A B

Kansas City, MoClayton, G F

Utica, IllConnor, Miss Mary

Paradise, OreCorbin, W S

Brashear, Mo .Dodson, C

Kirksville, MoDodson, J W

' `

"Donohue, M E

Beresford . S DDuffield, Miss Bessie,

Kirksville, Mo .Eneboe, Miss Lena

Canton, S . D.Fisher, Albert, Sr

Chicago, IllFoster, Mrs Fannie

Carrollton, MoFout, Geo E

Kirksville, MoGervais W A

Crookston, MinnHofsess, J W

Benton City, MoJefferson, J H

Des Moines, IaKlump, C C Jr Chicago, IllKennedy, Sylvester A,

Rochester, MinnLewis, J L

Kirksville, MoLong, J Weller,

Kirksville, Mo.McCartney, L H

Hoxie, KasMingus, C A

Laplata, MoOwen, E M

Omaha, NebRay, T S

Kirksville, MoRhynsburger, Will J

Des Moines, IaRozelle, Mrs Lida K

Tarkio, Mo.Severson, Miss K M

Colloes, N YSherburne, F W

Barre, Vt .Thompson, J A

Kirksville, MoTrenholm, A, M .

Trenholmville, P, Q .Turner, Thomas E

Kirksville, MoWestfall E E

Grayville, IllWilson, TN

Laplata, Mo .Wycoff, Louis E

Fairview Ill .

JANUARY (1897) ClassBrowder, J H

Greensburg, Ind .Brundage, C L

Kirksville, Mo .Buckmaster, Perl

Kirksville, Mo .Brush, D R

Centerville, S D.Currey, Miss Algah

Kirksville, Mo .Clark, D L

Harvard, Ia.Chapman, Miss Nora

Platteville, Wis .Dodson, A T

Kirksville. MoDillon, H G

Ludlow, IllErnst, J Y

Yorktown, Ia .Gilmour, G H

Kirksville . Mo .Goetz . E W

Cincinnati, OhioGoetz, H F

Quincy, Ill .Gherke, Carl

Kirksville, Mo.Harris, Harry

Kirksville, Mo .Hardy, J H

Greensburg, Mo,Johnson, J . K

Kirksville, Mo .Mullins, J 11

Omaha,McLelland, Chas A

Kirksville, Mo.May, B E

Kirksville, Mo .Mansfield, T B

Kirksville, Mo.McKeehan, W A

Ft Madison, Ia .Nienstedt, G

Clarinda, Ia .Pressly, Mason W.

Hamilton, Ohio .Reynolds, J F

Kirksville, Mo .Sommer, Charles,

Sedalia, MoSmith, W J

Kirksville, Mo .Smith, Caryll, T

Kirksville, Mo .Willcox, S W

Yankton, So . Dak,Willcox, Mrs S W

Yankton, So . Dak.,

Herman T. Still, D. 0 .-NOW LOCATED AT-

Hamilton AND CINCINNATI, OHIO.

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