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- Journal r. Osteopathy I

The Object and Aim of Osteopathy Is to Jmprove and Advance Our Present Systems of Surgery, Obstetrics and Treatment ofGeneral Diseases to a More Satisfactory Position than They Now Hold .

VOL. II

KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI, SEPTEMBER, 1895 .

NO. 6.

A. T . Still, Discoverer .

Dr. ANDREW T. STILL, Dis-coverer of the Science ofOsteopathy, is a West

Virginian by birth and a gentlementleman of very peculiar per-sonality .

He is now sixty-seven'years of age, and was a practic-ing physician and surgeon of the"regular" school until he laidaside the old remedies for those!of Osteopathv,

He served assurgeon in a Kansas regimentduring the war, and participat-ed in the pro-slavery and bor-der ruffian troubles in Kansasduring its early days .

1)r . Still's researches out ofwhich grew Osteopathy beganwhile he was practicing in thelittle town of Palmyra (nowBaldwin), Kansas in the year1855 . His first thoughts of theinefficacy of remedies and thenecessity for a more scientificmethod of treating: human dis-orders occurred to him during aconversation between himself anda friend by the name of Abbott,during the pro-slavery troubles,while the two were hiding in athicket near the present site ofBaldwin . In this conversationto which he traces the inceptionof his new philosophy, Dr . Stillexpressed a belief that MAN ISA MACHINE containing withinhimself all the elements andforces essential to the mainten-ance of perfect health from thecradle to a ripe old age .The first operation by Osteo-

pathic methods was performedupon a Mexican whose neck hadbeen dislocated by a truckingpony, on the Kansas prairies in1855. Dr. Still happened to be rid-ing that way and discovered theunfortunate greaser soon af-ter theaccident . They were milesfrom the nearest house, and helpwas out of the question . Thedoctor dismounted, and with theaid of two picket pins, a larietand the greaser's long hair, theneck was set, and the Mexicansoon able to express his thanksand ride away. Dr. Still was de-lighted at the success of this op-eration and began at once tostudy anew the mechanical cou-structiou of man by digging upIndian skeletons and carefullynoting the lessons thus learned .In practice, for several years, heconfined his experiments to thetreatment of dislocations and

fractures, and his remarkble suc-I success in this line, soon gained forhim a widespread reputationthroughout the frontier settle-ments .In 1863, while yet living

inBaldwin, Kas., four of his children ild-ren died almost simultaneously ofspinal meningitis, after doctorsof every school had been called in,and all the known methods oftreatment had failed . This greatsorrow fell heavily upon him,and he was disgusted with

the so-called science of medicate. Fromthat hour he determined to castaside all preconceived theories

i and search Nature for the truephilosophy of human remedies .Hesoon began to apply thelittlelight he had, and one by one toreason out and perfect the remedies of Osteopathy .

As he laidaside, one at a time, the oldremedies of Allopathy and triedthose of his new found science,he was greatly surprised at hisown success . Diseases Which hehad been taught to believe in-curable, yielded readily to hisnew method . As fast as helearned to apply Osteopathy toa certain class of ailments, hewould discard just that much ofthe old system .

Thus, little bylittle, the light of his reason be-

gar slowly to penetrate the

gloom in which medicine had(graveled so helplessly for two'(thousand years . He knew that Ithe great fundamental truths ofa new healing science were knocking

at the door of his under-standing, begging . for an oppor-tunity to relieve mankind, yetfor many years he continued to!labor in the dark, totally unableto comprehend the governingprinciples by which be obtainedhis wonderful results . It wasnot until the 22nd day of June,1874 after nineteen years offaithful study and experiment-ing, that the full, bright light ofhis new philosophy seemed tofall-suddenly upon him, and hesaw and understood for the first'time the great law of Nature'sremedies .

The beautiful systemof Osteopathy seemed

perfectly clear to him, and he thenlearned

the reason of his past jsuccesses .

But, he did not stop Iat theory . His work was notdone.

The new science roust betried in the crucible of practical',results : and he immediately setabout arranging and applyinghis new methods .In 18'75 he removed with his

family to Kirksville, Where hecontinued to practice and exper-iment . In the treatment of

disease he was verysuccessful, and

might have builded up for him-self a lucrative practice . but theaccumulation of wealth was theleast of his ambitions . He haddiscovered the basic principlesof a great science, and faith inthe ultimate triumph of his newidea gave him courage

to

con-tinue his researches surroundedby all manner of difficulties . Thederision of skeptical acquain-tances, the slanders ofprofession-al enemies,

and the

inconven-iences of poverty did not tempthim to swerve from his convic-tions .

Friends and fortune de-serted him, and he and his fami-ly were reduced to penury, buthe struggled on until the dreamof his life became a demonstrablephilosophy which he could be-queath to afflicted humanity .In his practice he treated

pooras well as rich, and it matterednot to him whether he was paidfor his services in the gold of thewealthy or the pauper's tears ofgratitude.

The fire of philan-thropy burned brightly in hisbig heart, and to relieve humansuffering seemed to bring itsown reward .

Yet his generositywas not of the ostentatious kind,and as m any of his

earlierpatients werethose whose poverty

had caused the other doctors toturn them away, the world willnever know the extent of humanmisery gratuitously relieved bythe good old doctor before he be-came great .During the first ten or twelve

years of his life in Kirksville, thepeople of that city Would haveperhaps selected Dr . Still as thelast one of their number to whomthe future would briny fame andfortune . I-l s practice was un-eventful until about the year1887 . when hen rumors Of certain remarkablecures began to reach

the ears of tits neighbors Atfirst these reports were explainedaway by the usual quota of thevillage wiseacre"', who aro

alwaysnew, but thenumber of seemingmiracles rapidly increased, as didalso his practice .

In 1885having usedhis last AllopathicremedyDr.Stillbadefarewell tothe

entire medical profession, and in1889 he announced that he hadat last perfected his new remedialphilosophy, which he had

christened "Osteopathy," and that acollege would be established toteach the new science .Thus

for

forty

years

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Still labored without ceasing toperfect the science ofOsteopathy,picking it out little bylittle untillie had unfolded a system thatbids fair to revolutionize thetreatment of disease all over theworld .

flow well the good doc-tor studied and experimented,let the thousands whom Oste-opathy has restored to healthand happiness answer .

REMARKABLE CURES .

Osteopathy is Successful in the Treatment ofAcute Diseases.

From the Kirksville (Mot) Graphic .

The spectacle of chronic inva-lids and cripples leaving theircrutches and invalid chairs andgoing home sound and well aftera: few weeks' or months'

treat-ment at the Osteopathic Infirm--try in this city, is one veryfamiliar to the Kirksville people,yet this new science is accom-plishing many more wonderfulcures that are not generallynoticed as the

patients are sel-dom seen on the streets oraboutthe infirmary .

The cures towhich we refer are effected in thetreatment of acute diseases.

Inthis line, as well as thetreatmentof chronic ailments, Osteopathyhas proven. itself to be thorough-ly master of the situation .In the treatment of all kindsof

Fever, Flux, Measels, Mumps,Dyphtheria, Whooping Cough,etc., this new

remedial science obtains results absolutely unequaled by any other system.

Out of many hundreds of casesofFEVER TREATED itY 11R. STILL.and his assistants during thepast ten years,not asingledeathhas occurred! The new methodof controlling fevers without theuse of medicine is quick andnever fails .In the treatment of Diphtheria

the results have been equally asunerring and rapid . One in-stance will perhaps suffice to'illustrate the superiority of thenew over the old systems. Inthe fall of 18;11

Diphtheria wasepidemic in Red Wing Minn.The dread disease was presentin its most malignant form, andthe local doctors of other schoolswere al! equally helpless in combatting it. During the preva-

lence of the epidemic Dr. CharlesStill went to Red Wing and hlmgout his "Osteopathy" shingle.The rapidity with %%Rich the newdoctor disposed of

DIPHTHERIA CASESwas soon heralded about thecity, and tie was; overrun Withwork . Ill the family of (diariesMoline five were all down withthe disease.

Dr. Still was givenshame Of fc>u" of them while anM. D. wall called for the f=ifth .The four treated by 1)r. Still re-covered quickly and are alive to-,

day. The one treated by theold school doctor grew rapidlyworse and died . Comment isnot necessary. In a few weeksafter the Osteopathic banner hadbeen swung to the breezes, Diph-theria had departed from RedWing . Dr. Still had treated a,large number of cases, and outof all of which he had full charge,there wasjust one death.Last October the Measles at-

tacked Kirksville . Over . fortycases were teated by operators

!, of the Osteopathic

Infirmary.and every one recovered, Theusual fever that accompanies thedisease was controlled from thestart, and the patients recoveredso rapidly as to hardly realizethey had been sick . Not adrop of medicine was used in anyease .

Instances of this kind could be,given withoutnumber, and manycolumns filled with accounts ofthe remarkable success of Oste-pathy, but these two are merelygiven to call the attention of ourreaders to the fact that Kirks-ville's new healing science doesnot confine its operationsto anyone class of disease.

EXPERIENCES ALONG THE ROAD,

In his labors which resulted in thefounding at Kirksville of The AmericanSchool of Osteopathy, Dr . Still's life wasone continuous struggle with all mannerof difficulties, and had he net been en-dowed with indomitable courage andiron will, the new science would have"died it bornin',"Outside of poverty, the greatestdifficulty with whichhehadtocontend was

the deep-seated ignorance and prejudiceof the people which never fails to plantitself square in front of every scheme forthe advancement of the human race .

j From the, first, Osteopathy was met byI the merciless ridicule and vile slandersof tan ignorant people, whose prejudicewas caused by the long use of older andlegally established systems built uponthe vain hope that cures might resultfront the eternal "cut and try" methodof drugs.True to the experience of nearly tall re-

formers, the journey was a hard and un-pleasant one, and it was difficult for himto :lain an audience with any but thelower order of intellect. "I could onlyreach those who fished for their stomach'ssake," says Dr . Still .

`and I soon foundmost of them to be untrustworthy blar-neys, their heads powerless to reason,and their hearts devoid of justice .

Theirgreatest desire was to steal the science Ihad labored years to perfect .

Bt

onetime I made a great mistake by settingaside the warning of Masi .nic friends and

I allowing two men to accotepany rue andtake instructions in Osteopathy .

At theexpiration of one or two years they bothwent bade to the use of drugs. One wasa salve pile doctor when he carne to me,and the last I heard of hitu he was at-tending a medical school .

I suppose heis marching with the salve brigade atpresent.

The other wao a lightning-rodpeddler, and soon made me determinenever to feed trust nor shelter under hiswing, of love anyone of whom my neigh.bore told me to

beware .Their contactwia' Osteopathy .was Hire the contact (fpigs with diamonds--they failed to see itsbrilliance

Later en tine intellectual masses began

to say, "Dr. Still, you are the discov-erer of the greatest truth of all ages!You have found that the Deity when heI made man failed not to provide the

humanmachine with allthatwasnecessaryto run it from the cradle to the grave,'and further insisted that he should teachit for the good of future generations"This thought," says Dr . Still, °' 'Os-

teopathy for future generations,' hauntedmy mind for months and in 18931 openeda school for making Osteopathic doctors,with Win . Smith, M. D., just from sevenyears' drill in Edinburg, Scotland, its instructor inAnatomy.Ilecame fromSt.

Louis to laugh at me and carry back tohis medical friends the report of his fullwith the only thoroughbred ass on earth.But after talking Osteopathy with me awhile, he changed his mind and said,'Dr. Still, yon may laugh-I will pray .Allow me to congratulate you on havingdiscovered the greatest science on earth.For two thousand years the medical pro-fession have sought in vain for some-thing better than they had, but alwaysreturned to their unreliable system ofwhiskey and drugs.' I found Dr . Smitha master of Anatomy, a gentleman and aIscholar.

"Osteopathy, is all in Anatomy and itsgoverning laws . AT eight o'clock a . m .Anatomy was taught, and at nine o'clockthe students were admitted into the' oper-ating rooms. This method was contin-ued for four months. and at the close ofthe school I found that I had nothingleft but sixteen bunglers .

No Anatomy--no Osteopathy-a year lost and noth-ing produced but imitators.

There wasnot a single man

or woman

who couldrender service as an operator,

I tried allthe following summer to get them to rea-soil, but could not because of their lack

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of knowledge of Anatomy.

Two termswere a full course, and when term numbertwo opened in the fall, the brainy

membersbe-_s ofthe old class were onhandtocomplete their knowledge of Anatomyand to become masters of t ilt(, philosophywhich cannot be given to tiny

save athorough Anatomist.

"In 1894 I reached the conclusion thatit was best to close the doors of the oper-ating rooms to all students until they hadmade a grade of 90 en a seale of 100 isthe whole of Anatomy Those of thefirst class who have their grade of 90 orinure on their

diplomas

can

reason if -1they have their native ability.

I can putchalk in a boy's hand, and he will makea marls just as bil as God

has made ]itshead .

See what he does with the chalk,notwhat he says. Look in the pocketsof an Osteopath and see if you find

i drugs or notice if lie runs with an M. D.If he does either his faith in Osteopathyis very weak and his head is soft beyondredemption .

A fully equipped Osteo-path has no place for drugs.

"illy third effort at teaching was inoresuccessful . In the fall of 1894 my schoolopened with about thirty students . Their

li heads are generally well balanced, nonehave used intoxicants, and their word

havekept, inviolate. When I

began the class I gavenotice thattheymast reach a grade of 90 on a scale of100 in Anatomy before being allowed toenter the treating rooms.

It required'five months to complete the course inAnatomy. Most of theta passed 98-some of them 100.Since the membersof that class- have entered the clinics Ifind there is no trouble is philosophizingwith them .They are at all times andunder all circumstances ready to actquickly.

Their future will he a brilliantone if they use industry.

,.An occasional social

drunk will

andshould kill any roan, and I hope that anyOsteopathwho is

f foolenough

to getdrunk may be shunned by all intelligentpeopleWe Watt no drunks. :: buzzard'smoney in our school ."

A Grateful Patient .[The following letter tells its own

story . and is a fair sample of the almostnumberless expressions of gratitude re-ceived daily at the Infirmary at Kirksville

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RED WING, Minn.July 20th ; 1895 . j

DR . A. T. STILL, ' KIRKSVILLE, MO.,DE DEAR SiR:-As I have great cause to begrateful to the new school of Osteopathyfor its management and apparently per-manent cure of a serious heart troubleof which I was the victim for more thanthree years, I desire, through your homepaper, to cordially endorse its method oftreatment, not only in my own case, butof many others of which I have personalknowledge.For three years I was afflicted with oc-

casional attacks of most intense pain, oe-curing sometimes once a week, some-times not oftener than once in a month,and lasting from half hour to two orthree: the pain so intense and uninermit-tent that I would often faint a number of

1 times from its severity .

-Usually it

leftme as suddenly as it came, and almostalways in a heavy sleep of ex haustion ;and a number of times, when an attackhad passed, those who were with mewould think me dead .

I employed phy-sicians of yarious schools; they all

diag-nosed the case alike ; an inclination of thevalves of the heart to close, and a pared

; tial paralysis of the diaphragm producedI by mental application while in a state ofnervous prostration . None, however,were successful in locating the cause ofthe trouble, and therefore effected nocure . A course of electric treatmenttoned up the system somewhat, but neith-er did it reach the cause.

In the autumn and winter of '93 the at-tacks became more frequent and my con-dition more discouraging, as the reserveforce of vitality was becoming rapidlyexhausted; and from the beginning Inever had an attack that the possibilitieswere not paramount that I would notlive through it .

Dr. C. E. Still had recentlyopenedOsteopathic treating rooms

!in Red Wing, Minn.

The school wasnew, and quite unknown in

the

North,and naturally was somewhat questioningly

received .

As a drowning man willgrasp at a straw, I called upon Dr . Stilland arranged for a course of treatment,the stating fairly that he was by no meanssure of effecting a cure, as it was of suchlong standing and complicated nature.Before the first week of his treatment

I had one of my usual severe attacks.The Doctor was called immediately . Hefound me in a condition that frightenedhint,

If my life was to be saved he real-ized that instant action oil his part wouldbe imperative, and also that a possiblewrong touch might result in instant death .He was at the time contending with muchopposition to the Osteopathic practicehere, and by the leading class, failuresand blunders were eagerly looked for.He realized as possitively then as later,

when the necessity for instant action waspassed, that, should I die under his treat-

; meat, ire would surely receive the mostsevere punishment for mill-practice thatan indignant family and community couldindict . But a human life hung in the balance! and, without hesitating amomenthe throw all the force of his concentratedjudgmentand skill in favor of the sufferer, and relief soon after followed .

Thatcourage, which is due entirely to theman and not the school, saved my

life ;for. during that treatment he discoveredthe cause of the imperfect action of theheart, a partial dislocation

of the

verte-bra.

The vertebra

was placed in itsproper position, after which, a few weekstreatment to strengthen the muscles andgive tone and action to the muscles andgive tone to the general system was Dec.

necessary to make rue able to say I was anentirely well woman.

It is now about ayear and eight months since the attack ofwhich I have written, and I have neversince then had the slightest indication ofa reoccurrence .

-Very sincerely yours,

MRS. HELEN H. HOWARD .918AV . Fourth St .

FOR THE KANSAS CITY FAIR ANDPRIESTS OF PALLAS, SEPT .

30 to OCT. G.We will sell to Kansas City and returnat

r IC- 4.50 fur round trip.good returning until Oct. 7.Two trainsdaily . Through cars via "The GreatWabash Route ."

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WOMEN IN OS Osteopathy

A New Field That is Peculiarly Adopted to Her

Intuition,

1 would like to

say a few wordsin regard to women who have beenstudents in my school .

I have

hadexperience with them since '98, andfind that they learn anatomy easily,retain it well, and soon learn to apply theirknowledgeinthe roomsof

our clinics, the only place where aknowledge of the science of Osteop-athy can be obtained .

They haveshown their ability to easily deteetthe abnormal at any and all parts ofthe body, in nerves, veins, arteries,muscles, ligaments, or bones.

Theyare a success, and I drink Do womanis now qualified to marry- while inignorance of the laws God has madeher subject to . Ignorant womenare slaughtered by the knife of fools .No Osteopathic woman will allowknifing in

her flesh .

The

time

iscoming, and close at hand . whenmothers will have, in the birth oftheir children, at least a reasonablyeasy time, and will no longer dreadit as worse

than death.

The horri-ble agony endured at such times hascaused many a

woman to risk herlife in the hands of a brute

skilledin abortion rather than endure itagain.

So far Osteopathy- has madeall mothers happy and all birthseasy .

I drink the results in easesof midwifery treated by diplomatesof Osteopathy warrant me in sayingto the champions of obstetrics,

'lineyourselves for battle, for Osteopa-thy has a Gatling gun loaded for thefight and trained on your mustyforts ."

The first shot will be firedagainst the use of

forceps in

casesof

confinement.

Ifyou

could seethe pitiable looking children who arebrought to my

office entirely help-less, with heads and necks pulledapart by some

ignorant doctor, youwould say,

"Away with forceps . . .Ninety-nine tunes out of one hun-dred they are used unnecessarily .In normal cases the muscles of na-ture will do the work,

and in aboutninety-five per cent . of the caseswithout the aid of instruments .

Dr.Wm. Smith, of Edinburg, Scotland,affirms that three times in four, inScotland, the forceps are used, andthat, as a consequence, laceration isvery common.

This calls

for theneedle is a part of the

closing Tor-ture .An Osteopath, who is master of

the science, has no such results. Ihave lady graduates in my room whohave handled such cases and haveproven the efficacy of Osteopathy .They have fitted themselves so thor-oughly that they are ready- to

handle all diseasesin a philosophicaland scientific manner,

They nowrealize that medicine and midwiferyare very uncertain in their results .

In closing allow me to say that Ibelieve if I had five hundred brainylady diplomates, all would get workand be enabled to make a comforta-ble living .My school opens Oeto-

her 1, 18 .)3 .

For information in re-gird to it, address H. E. PattersonSecretary. Kirksville, Mo.

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The following excellent articleby Mrs. Alice M. Patterson D. 0 .,of Kirksville, appeared in thewoman's edition of the TrentonTribune:The freeing of women has been'

a slow process attended by warfare as fierceas thatwaged prior

to the emancipation of the negroslaves . In one instance thestruggle was accompanied by allthe pomp and pageantry of war ;the weapons were glistening steel,of bayonet, and shot and shellbelched forth from throat of gunand roaring cannon .

In the other, the battering ramof reason was placed before the

I almost impregnable fortress ofprejudice-a fortress erected byignorance and tyranny-theweapons used being ideas burn-ing with indestructible life, leapinging fresh

and

bright

from

aworld's awakened intellect .The victory gained has been a

signal one, but dare we yet as-serf that woman, standing asshe does under the brilliant raysfrom the sun of intelligence,which illumines the sky of

thenineteenth century, is entirelybare of the fetters forged for herin the barbarous night of time')

f this much it least we,

e areOsure, that where, as in the pastshewas barred from all lucrativeavocations, and Only grudging-ly allowed to teach at an infer-

; for salary or sew at starvationprices . To-day, art, literatureand science open their doors toher and wherever man is foundshe meets him on his owngroandand proves herself his equal .

Of late a new

field

has beenopened up, which is peculiarlyadapted to woman with her in-tuition, her tenderness and hersympathy . Into this field of

j Osteopathyshe

has

beencordially

welcomed,

not asa

mere on-looker, but as a co-worker, and one might almostsay that here she "has tickledthe earth with a hoe and

hasseen it laugh forth its harvest,"Allopathy, homeopath homeopathy and hydropathyf are household words

and their methods are wellk known to the average reader .The word Osteopathy has an un-

familiar sound and to many is'suggestive of the vague, themythical, the miraculous, henceit might be well to say a fewwords in regard to its real na-ture before speaking specially ofwomen in connection with it .This drugless science, discover-

ed in 1874 by Dr . A . T. Still, isfounded on the laws of natureandbids fair to revolutionize theold methods of healing diseases ."An Osteopath regards man as

a living engine and adjusts everypart of hi :, organism, nerves,muscles, bones, ligaments, arter-ies, etc., with the same care thatis bestowed by a locomotive en-gineer on his engine before tak-ing at out on a. long trip,"

All obstructions are removedfrom this human machine andall its organs made to workwithout friction, by certain pro- !,cesses of manipulation, the ex-act point causing discord beingeasily located by the Osteopathwith her thorough knowledge of

anatomy_ From this it is easily'seen that since woman is man'sequal in intellect and his super-ior in force of sympathy and del-icate touch, she is well fitted bynature for this work, and exper-ience has proven that she does itan a masterly manner.The American School of Oste-

opathy at Kirksville, Mo. , ofwhich Dr. A . T . Still is president,has graduated a number of wo-men who are at present doinghonor in their alma mater. Theyare required to make a grade ofc)0 on a scale

of 100 oil thewhole anatomy, before enteringupon practical work in Osteop-athy . To-day hundreds of voicesare lifted in their praise and inpraise of the discoverer of thisscience. In this work womanhas an equal chance with rnan,and when she sets a dislocatedhip, cools a fever, cures

indigestion flog or catarrh, she receives thesame recompense for it that aman would . And this is as itshould be .What a travesty onjustice that for so long a timethe mere accident of sex has de-barred woman from receiving a

i full return for

her labor.

Thevastness of this new field; themagnitude of the harvest ofcures that may be reaped there-in ; the noble object of relievinghuman suffering, are all incen-tives which appeal to woman'sdeeper nature and stimulate hermentally in her efforts.The knowledge necessary to

success she can acquire as re.adireadily and as thoroughly as a man,'and the gentle firmness of whichher hand is capable, stands herin good stead . She has only todo her work carefully, conscien-tiously, thoroughly, and she willknow naught of failure, for shewill be

master

of a science asperfect in its workings as are allthe laws of Deity.And what nobler mission could

be her's than this of malting theworld happier by the banishingof pain :' Oh, woman, crowninghandiwork of 6 God in Osteopathyyou find free scope for all yourhighest, noblest powers .

Osteopathy treats all kinds offever, measles, whooping cough,etc., and where taken in time hasnever failed,

WHAT A STUDENT MUST BE .

An operator, in order to be a suc-cess, must know the full meaning of

the phrase==blood and nerve supply .Ile must know the exact location ofeach nerve vein and artery in everypart of all the limbs,

the head, neck .chest, abdomen and each

organ andgland of the whole body .A student gets word anatomy- in

the class-room and learns practicalanatomy in the clinics of Osteopathy .A full knowledge of the form and

action of all muscles and ligamentsmust precede the entry into thisroom for the purpose of receiving in-struction in clinics ; because here itis the philosopher must dwell if goodis to come.

Either an

Osteopath isa philosopher or he is merely an imitator and cannotprogress beyond

simple imitation .Ile who would enter this school of

science must not do so with the ex-pectation of becoming fully qualifiedto cope with all forms of diseaseshort of eighteen months or twoyears.

Fully this much time is re-quired for becoming an expert oper-ator .

Osteopathy is doubtless the great-est science now

before the

people,and is being recognized

as such

f byall those who are competent to forma judgment on the subject.Should any one drink of becoming

a practitionee of this science simplybecause he has failed to make a liv-ing in other ways, would betterconclude to change his intentions .We want Osteopathy to be proven asuccess to all the world

and such aman is not capable of making suchproof.

Young Osteopaths are, as ageneral thing, crazy to get out intothe world long before they are readyto be turned loose .

Experience in the past twelvemonths has taught me that many de-sire to enter this school for the merepurpose of saying they have beenstudents of the American School ofOsteopathy, and if they could getsome slips of paper to show they hadbeen students of my school, theywould travel from place to place,and under cover of Osteopathy,would deceive people and obtainmoney by false pretenses .We now endorse no one as being

fully qualified to do the science jus-tice except such as can show

diplomasstating that a grade of90percent . on a scale of 100 in anatomyhas been obtained .By way of caution I would

say,never hesitate to ask an Osteopathto show his diploma, and in case heis what he represents himself to be,he will gladly show his

credentials.Then you will see that by order ofthe trustees named in the chartergranted October .'-10, 1895 he has beenadjudged qualified to practice .

Thescale of 90 or more

on his diplomahas been

won by hard

study

ofwhich he may justly be proud.

Thisdiploma shows he has a thoroughknowledge of the theory of Osteopa-thy; as to his practice it must he

judged by" its fruits .A. '1 ' . STILL.

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Our fripture Lesson for September.

"Know cc not that ye are the templeof God?

If any man defile the temple ofGod him shall God destroy: for the tem-

ple of Cod is holy, which temp](, yo arc."-1 Cor., iii . 10-17.

The above lesson is for theprayerful consideration of ourbenighted bret hren who have solong sought to purify their soulsin bodies reeking with the corruption and tilth of calomels,bromide . whisky opium andcountless other poisons whichthe hand of ignorance is everready to pour down the throatof credulity . 13e clean, brethren ;shut oil' the dirty drugs, haveyour machinery adjusted andgive Nature a cluince to scrubout .The Journal Would Ire glad to

receive communications frompatients and all friends of Osteopathy everywhere.

"It' all drugs were cast into the'sea it would be so much the betterter for man and so much theworse for the fishes."-OliverWendell Holmes."

Osteopathy claims no mysti-cism . requires no faith to effecta

cure Armed with all exactknowledge of the mechanism ofthe human frame, it touches thebutton, nature does the rest.

I'll Philanthropists who wish tocompile information regardingthe effect of drug's upon the hu-man family should come to

Kirksville and spend a few weeksamong the patients at the Oste-opathic Infirmary here . per-haps better than any otherplace, can be seen the handiworkof medicine, with its colossal ig-norance and its public license topoison and maim and dwarf itsconfiding victims . There arehundreds of them here now -in-

invalids who have swallowed for-tunes in health-destroying drugsnntil at last, with lives full ofmisery- and

hides full of poison,they lia ve come to our Infirmaryfor treatment . To look intotheir careworn faces is to readthe story of the failure of medicineDev oteesof the old systems

have sought to make it appealthat because of its name, Osteopathyopathy is applicable only tcthe treatment of cripples, de

forinities and chronic disordersarising from dislocations orfractures of the bones, but noth-ing is more foreign to the truth .'The term "Osteopathy," as usedby Dr . Still, means "the truescience of remedies," and its principlesciples are applied with equal sue-cess to all the ills of

mankind .To give a list of the

ailmentswhich have been and can be suc-cessfully treated by OsteopathyWould be like giving a list of theills with which the perfectlyhealthy marl does not suffer .when the human machine is re-stored to perfect order,

no dis-ease, eitherchronic or acute, canexist, and perfect Order is themedicine of Osteopathy .

OSTEOPATHY AND MEDICINE CONTRASTED .

The so-called science of medicineis founded upon the belief that forevery ill of the flesh there

was se-creted somewhere outside of man in jnature an antidote or cure . Forthousands of years, the medical professionhasbeensearching every

nook and corner of the globe

until .as has been truthfully said, 'they,have invoked the aid of every plantthat grows upon the earth, of everymineral and metal within its bowelsor upon its surface :

have

tried thewaters of every spring that flows andbored clown for others that were hid- :den below ; have laid their hand ill)-on old ocean and have caused her togive up her creatures, living and(lead . her minerals and her saltshave called for the spirits of thebriny deep : in short . have invokedthe aid of all that is in heaven above, l,the earth or hell below. embracingthe material, ethereal, electrical .spiritual and demoniacal-all to theend that human frailties might bestrengthened

and life prolonged."Yet after two thousand years of ex-perimentingperimenting there is more humansuffering in the world to-clay thanever : and thes e misguided devoteesof an old whim, must

stand help- Ilessly by while children,

youth andmiddle-aged are ruthlessly consignedto premature graves and the onlynatural dissolution, "old age," oc-curs much less frequently than inolden times .

The failure of medi-cine to reach its goal is easily ac-counted for .

It started out to gofrom "St . Louis to Chicago by wayof the Moon,"with no chance ofreaching either place . Osteopathyhas brought to light the fact that theremedies for which the world hassearched so long in vain are not con-tained in all Nature outside of manhimself'.

The Great Creator equip-ped man with native forces sufficientto run the machinery of human lifesafely and smoothly- to a ripe oldage . and wisely- placed the meansof applying and controlling themwithin easy reach . These forces,with their means of control and applicationconstituteNature'sown

and only remedies for disease and

,,,an be found nowhere in all creationexcept within the human body.This . then . i s the real difference

between the Medicinal and Osteo-pathic theory of remedies: Medi-cine has searched all the world outside of man-Osteopathy hassearched

ed man himself for the remedialagents essential

to

perfect

healthand long life .

With this new andinfinitely more rational principle,Dr . Still, single-handed and alone,brought to light more truth and real-ly made greater achievements

toward the alleviation of human suffer-ing in twenty-one years

than

wasaccomplished by medicine in twentycenturies .

To support the correct-ness of this position,

Osteopathybrings the evidence of results which'it challenges the medical world torefute or duplicate .

OSTEOPATHY AND THE PRESS,

Osteopathy needs no

newspa-per advertising at present as faras securing business is concerned,for the Infirmary is crowded toits utmost with patients inducedto come here by their friends whopreceeded them and tested thenew bealing science .Every com-petent operator graduated fromthe American School of Osteop-athy now has more work thanought to be handled

by

two.All of this is the result of goodwords spoken and cures ex-hibited by grateful patients, yetDr. Still and 'his associates donot want to be misunderstoodas being opposed to an honorable use of the public

prints . They believe Osteopathy,as well as every other scientifictruth designed for the bettermentof man, should extend the handof fellowship to that greatest ofcivilizers, the press ; and whilescorning the brazen

bluster ofthe patent medicine fakir, theyhave as great contempt for thepharisaical modesty of the protectedtested pill-bugger . The methods of the quack who publisbesemass of slush by which the interligent public can readily bran(him, are after all no

more dis

honorable than that hypocriticaldignity with which the medicalprofession denounces advertisingwhile its members never lose anopportunity to slip intothebackdoor of the printing office andask the half paid editor to publishgratuitously sundry little newsitems, such as "Jack Gullible'ssore toe is improving

rapidly under the skillful medical attentionof Doctor Bleedem Stumpwater,M . 11 ," ere ., etc .

The real difference betweenOsteopathy and the Medical pro-fession to this particular, is thatOsteopathy does not consider itunprofessional to pay for its ad-vertising . If an Osteopath de-sires to patronize his co laborerin the field of brains, the editor,there is nothing in our

code ofprofessional ethics to forbid himthat privilege .

'THE OSTEOPATHIC FAD ."

It is a source of

considerable sat-isfaction to the friends of Osteopa-thy to know that the new science isalready creating some consternationamong the medical men .

An ad-dress recently delivered before theState Medical Association at Hanni-bal, by Dr . A.

J . Steele, upon the"Osteopathic Fad" has been printedand widely circulated by the Asso-ciation .

At the Infirmary it is re-girded as a most excellent adver-tisement for Osteopathy, especiallyas attention is called to several re-inarkable cares obtained by the newtreatment .

In the discussion of theaddress, Dr . Ludwig Bremer, of St.Louis, was candied enough to admitthat the medical profession waslargely to blame for the

success ofwhat he terms "this new fad."

Hesaid that frequently

diagnosis is in-correctly made 1> .y medical doctors,and certain cases -drugged almostto death."

He cited the case of alady- who had been experimentingwith all treatments and spent a greatdeal of money expecting to be cared ."She finally landed in Kirksville,"says the learned doctor, "and by acourse of physical examination andmanipulation, a dislocation of the

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knee was discovered, relieved,

andthe lady got well." -He had

seenthis case and cited others .

Duringthe discussion, Dr. A . II .

Cordier,of Kansas City, took occasion to re-mark that Osteopathy was a subjectthe medical profession should

notdiscuss, for fear the Man at Kirks-ville would have to build an additionto his boarding house .

In closing,Dr . Steele said, "Many people cometo the doctors and ask how it is thatthese cures are effected and liethought the profession

should beable to tell them .

yet the believedthe more said about Osteopathy theworse it would be .

lie suggestedthat the medical profession recognizethese cases benefittedby the newscience and treat them properly .

Osteopathy is not a newtruth, but the unfolding of

human reason to thecomprehension ofa truthasoldasevery

other truth

THAT there is

nothing in

thewhole pharmacopaeia of medicinethat has any business inside ahuman being is a fact which Dr.Still and his new philosophy aredemonstrating to a certainty .

Unlike many of the so-called� new schools," Osteopathy isnot "`made up of the best oldtheories," but totally discardsthem all acrd adopts Nature asits only t ext book .

The doctorstell you that nine-ty per cent . of acute diseases getwell without any kind of treat-ment . They might go on andtell you that the remaining tenper

cent. either die or becomechronic invalids from the effectsof poisonous drug .--_: .

How manychronic cases did you ever knowmedicine to cure?

THERE is nothing supernaturalabout Osteopathy . Its appar-ently marvelous cures are

effected through purelyscientificmethods and an advanced un-derstanding of the laws of human life .

It looks upon man asa creature whose normal condi-tion is perfect he health and whosephysical dissolution should onlysucceed a ripe old age .

The Osteopath views the hu-man form as a perfect creation-not to be stupefied and stuntedby poisonous drugs and

mercilessly butchered by the knife ofignorance, but as a machine,faultlessly constructed and de-,signed by the great Afaster Mechanic toserve the humansoul

throughout a long and usefulexistence upon earth . To meetthese requirements. this intricatemachine needs only to be kept inrunning order, with its parts allnicely adjusted and every func-tion in mechanical harmony Withthe whole .

All disease is tracea-ble to some mechanical discordin the machinery of the human

body. To attack the apparentchemical disorders with medicineis to treat merely an effect andfill the system with useless andoften very dangerous poisons .With a perfect knowledge of themechanism of the body, the Os-teopath skillfully readjusts thedisarranged partsof the inachin-ery and thus enables nature torestore perfect health withoutthe use of drugs

BEWARE OF IMITATORS.

Thereis only one School of Oste-opathy in the world and that one islocated at Kirksville .

Dr.

AndrewT. Still, who has been a citizen ofKirksville for more than twentyyears . has devoted a life-time to

I studying out and arranging the newsystem of treatment from which

system of treatment from which results so many wonderful cures. His salts so man.)- wonderful cures. Hisresearches . out of which grew Oste-opathy, began in 1855 and the factof his discovery

can be

traced bydefinite dates through a period ofmore than forty years, during whichtime lie labored unceasingly to per-fect the new philosophy .

Yet Oste-opathy, like every other good thing,has its

counterfeiters and imitators .They have sprung up in severalstates already . and especially inMissouri .

Some of them have ac-quired a superficial knowledge ofanatomy and are attempting to palmthemselves off as Osteopaths, whenthey have not the

faintest concep-tion of the

new science .

Anyonewho pretends to practice Osteopathy

1 without a diploma from the

Ameri-can School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, is a fraud

and

should he sotreated by the public .

'

Tai: number of patients treat-ed by Osteopathic operatorssince the discovery of the sciencewas made public is now abovethe ten thousand marl:, yet nota single death has resulted fromthe remedies used, nor the slight-est injury been done to any pa-tient . This, too, where a bigmajority of the cases have beendismissed entirely cured, andwhere a large number of the pa-patients were those whom the practitioners of other schools

hadpronounced incurable . Has manever conceived another

systemOf healing thatcan point to suchresults''

Osteopathy has its system Ofsurgery and' midwifery, and itsoperators treat all diseases ofthis climate, whether chronic oracute .

Osteopathy has

proven itselfmaster of the situation in everycase of measles of Which

it

wasgiven full charge .

If your childhas been dosed and doped Withpoisons until its eyes are set, wecan do no more than go andwatch the baby die, and pity the)ignorance of parents .

t SCkill)S of the NEW Philosophye

BY n . T . STILL .

Since I began to study man as anengine-and especially during th

' twenty-one years devoted entirelyto Osteopathy-my experiences un-der the tutorship of Nature havebeen much more satisfying and com-plete than were the limited schools

I in which I had formerly been a student .

I found that God had madebut one law for life

and health, anthat all law governing man andbeast was the everlasting, un-changeable edict of in uncompromising mind .

This immutable lawof health requires all animals to fol-low and obey the

demands of hun-ger, thirst, rest, sleep, motion andknowledge, and to keep and main-tain the

machinery of life as

pre-pared by Nature for life's journey inperfect order and adjustment .

Godknew full well how to build all partsof the superstructure

designed bhimself for the tenant soul,

and heprovided native forces that, unim-peded. will keep man or beast readyfor duty during the entire time forwhich the machine was constructed .

A man has good or bad luck-justas he makes it . He is the arbit-or of all that comes or goes his way.An imitator is a failure at all times .To succeed as an imitator your workmust be the same as that

of the or-iginal . Therefore you must useyour own way even though youadopt the same profession of he who

j is successful . Borrow no man'sbrains-they will wither away inyour keeping, and you will lose theuse of your own natural powers .

Ifoften done,

you will

neither

havecourage nor manly judgment.

Bekind to your own gifts .

God sizedyou up ; cultivate your talents or youfail .

In Kansas daring the hot summerof `74,

when I

began to show mydislike for drugs I gave as

my rea-son for doubting the efficacy of med-icine as a

science,

that too

manydeaths occurred under its

administration .

Infants, youths and mid-dle-aged of both sexes were sweptaway ruthlessly when medicine haddone its best to succor .

I believedGod made its for a purpose, andwanted us to live to an old age, andso I sought higher for instructions .I did not believe our young andloved ones were

horn to enrich theearth with their youth and beauty .At one time sickness struck myhousehold a fearful blow, and inspite of the generalship

of the bestphysicians, it laid low the forms offour of my loved ones .

Then came, the preachers to tell me that this wasbrought about by the mysteriousprovidence of God .

I had then, asI have now,

a kindly feeling forpreachers, but I did not believe Godwanted the preaching of funerals tobe necessary until the machinery of

life was well nigh worn out .

I feltthen, as now, that God made allthings for good and long use beforestoring them in the barns as super-annuated machinery .

e

Nor do I think I am the only- only one who so believes . Askany of the ministers who havestood over the pale, lifeless formsof the dead trying to speak wordsof comfort to the living if ques-tions and doubts ever entered theirminds . At such times, friends,

d have your thoughts not been likethis ; "Have these lifeless bodieslived out their time or does Godmake a human being and endowhim with hope, beauty and all thatis lovely just to feed the groundwith tender flesh?" No, no, de-struction is not the wish of God .Such results arise from the factthat mankind has not a trueknowledge of the channels

of theriver of life, and by passing itsruffles wrecks occur .

y

ABOUT OSTEOPATHY,

The Theory, the Practice and the Results ofthe New science

From the Kirksville Journal

"What is Osteopathy :, " is a ques-tion in which the outside world .including a very large number ofthe medical profession, is now

deeplyinterested. Among the readersof the Journal who are not so for-tunate as to reside in Kirksville,there are no doubt many who havepropounded this same query, andfor their benefit this article

is pre-pared .Osteopathy is a remedial sci-

ence which within recent yearshas been evolved and given to theworld by Dr . Andrew T. Still, arather eccentric old doctor whocame here from Kansas and hasbeen a respected citizen of Kirks-ville for twenty years . The newphilosophy teaches a system of human mechanics,bywhich most of

physical ailments of humanity canbe cured or greatly relieved withoutthe use of drugs .

It is based uponthe most perfect attainable

knowl-edge of the mechanical constructionof man, and demonstrates, both byits theories and its practical results,that when the human body is mechanically in good order,

there

arenative forces which will readily- cor-rect all chemical and other

disorders and soon restore the man tohisnormal condition of perfect health .

There is no

mysticism or

guesswork about the new science .

Itsstudents are required to have a per-fect knowledge of anatomy,

physiology and human diseases before be-ginning the study of Osteopathyproper .

There is no medical schoolin the land where a more completecourse or rigid examination is givenin these branches .

Afterthoroughly preparing themselves in these

studies, the students of

Osteopath y-are taken into the operating roomsand instructed in its principle; andpractice, which, it is said,

must be

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learned as a machinist would learnhis trade, by actual contact with the"machine" itself . The manner ofclassifying diseases and the methodof diagnosis are entirely differentfrom all former systems .

ONLY ONE. IN THE World

The term, "Osteopathy," wascoined by Dr . Still himself andadopted as the name by which hisnew healing art should be known .The school recently founded in thiscity is the only

one of its kind inthe world.It occupies a$20,000

building which was designed toserve the double purpose of collegeand infirmary . The building is a

very handsome Structure . and is oneof the institutions of which Kirks-ville people are very proud .

In theinfirmary department a corps of tenoperators are kept busy attendingto patients .

From three to six hun-dred invalids are constantly-inthecitv . while from one hundred to onehundred

and lifty

treatments

aregiven every day .

That Osteopathy is not a fad, buta science . come to stay . and designedto work a revolution in the treat-nnent of human disorders ;

is firmlybelieved by all who have

witnessedits operations and are familiar withits marvelous results .

It would bedifficult indeed to predict the futureof this science . which, in its infancy,i ., curing from fifty to seventy-fiveper cent of the diseases

that medi-eine, with its centuries of experi-ence, has pronounced incurable .These facts can be easily verified byinvestigation .

A large majority oftile Pat;-its who come to Kirksvillefor treatment are invalids whose ail-ments the Science of medicine de-elares beyond hope .

Yet heedlessof tile advice of medical friends,chose people come, investigate Os, _Ieolla -1,hy, go home cured, or greatlybenefitted, never injured. Thesepatients are not ' ~ a few simple mind-ed people, whose imaginary ills arecured by a dose of inagination,"but hundreds-thousands . and nowthe number has reached

TENS t0F THOUSANDS

Who have come during the last fouror five years ; people from all Statesand stations-the learned, the, richand the poor . They come with lit-tle faith and go away sounding thepraises of Osteopathy . A few hours'investigation or a chat with the patients who can be found

any claywaiting their turns for treatment,will convince the most skeptical thatthese things are

not only true, butthat the 'half has never been told."

THE NEAP rElILOJOPHY

Teaches among other thingsThat better results can be obtained

in combatting disease without drugsthan with them .That many of the troubles

anddiseases of the human family aredirectly traceable to the use ofdrugs.

That the use of the knife can beavoided in seventy-five per cent . of

the cases where

it is now thoughtnecessary .

That many of the diseases hereto-fore pronounced incurable can be'Isuccessfully handled .Dr. Still and his associates have

the results, secured in the years oftheir practice on tens of thousandsof patients, to substantiate the cor-rectness of his theories .

A SPECIMEN CASE, .

Several weeks ago the writer, whohappened to be in the neighborhoodof the Infirmary, met a young ladyfriend wheeling an invalid chair inwhich reclined the form of

a littleboy perhaps ten years of

age.

Thechild was frightfully emaciated ; thepallor of death had settled on his

~~face, and he

looked at the reporterwith a. vacant stare in which

thereseemed not tile faintest ray of intel-ligence .

His mouth ]rung open, histongue protruded and he was con-stantly slobbering . A stout leatherstrap held him in the chair . The votinglady attendant explained

that

theboy was a very bad patient who hadjust been received at the Infirmary .His parents are wealthy and hadtaken him to the most famous medi-cal schools and specialists in theworld without his receiving eitherbenefit or encouragement .

It wassome spinal disease that affected theboy and he had had thirty-seven fitsthe night before the reporter saw

j him.

Ile had

been kept

alive

onbromide and other poisons for solong that when deprived of his cus-tomary doses it threatened to killhim .

Two weeks later the writerhappened to pass

the house

wherethe young lady lived, and seeing herin the yard inquired

about her

pa-l tient.

"Did he

clie %

Why

blessyou, no! '

she replied to the report-er's question, and turning to a groupof happy children -%yho were playing

j, in the yard, she

called

to

one

ofthem- who laid

aside his

toys andcame running up to the sidewalk ."This is the little fellow you saw mewheeling," she said ; "he's all right

s now.""Here," she said to the boy,

"show the gentleman your

moneyyou've saved to bet

on the races."The reporter was dumbfounded .

Here was a bright-eyed, intelligentlooking little fellow in whom therewas noticeable only the slightest re-semblance to the pitiable

specimenof humanity of the invalid chair .

IfOsteopathy could do this, where thebest medical science in the world hadfailed, thought the scribe, what

I could it do if applied

in season andbefore the human system had beenfilled with poisonous drugs .

Deep-ly impressed with this case he men-tioced it to the secretary of the In-firmary who did not think it worthspecial in 0 ntion .

Such cures-manmore wonderful-are every-day oc-currences .

To give anything likean accurate history of the

accom-plishments of this institution, wouldrequire the space of

a good-sizeddaily newspaper .

ANOTHER CASE .

A little boy was brought heresome time ago from St . Louis . Hisfather wished to visit an old friendin Kirksville and brought

the boyalong thinking perhaps the tripwould benefit the little sufferer, who-had not walked without crutchesfor years .

The

boy had

no use ofhis legs, and had been treated invain by the best medical talent inSt . Louis and other cities . TheKirksville friends persuaded thefather to try Osteopathy, and aftera visit to the Infirmary they decidedto take the boy down.

He wasplaced on the

operating table andtreated

by one of

Dr . Still's

ladyassistants .

In a very few momentsthe doctor informed the father thathis son could no-,y be taken homewithout crutches ; but

upon

beingassisted from the table the boy couldnot even try to

walk.

He had

solong depended upon crutches thathe had no confidence in his legs andfeared to make the attempt .

Hewas taken back to the house of theKirksville friend . When supper wasready that evening the little

fellowwas at last persuaded to

lay asidehis crutches and make the attempt,and to his great surprise could walkas well as anybody. He walkedabout the room and was so

deeplyoverjoyed at being -once more likeother boys," that it was with ditfl-Iculty he was persuaded to stopwalking and eat . his supper .

Theold crutches were thrown away andthe little fellow returned to St . Louis

i without them .

Osteopathy did thiswith one treatment .

!

The printed testimonial and otherquack methods of advertising

willI not be countenanced

by

Dr. Still ;pet anyone who cares to investigateand desires the names of these par-ties who have been remarkably benefitted by the new

treatment,

canj obtain all such

information

at theInfirmary .These instances are not given be-

ll cause they are any more

wonderfulI than thousands

of

others,

but forthe simple reason that they happened to come under

the

personalobservation of the writer .

ITS BUSINESS INCREASING,

Over Fifteen Thousand Treatments Givensince January First .

From the Kirksville Advocate .

When the handsome new buildingwas dedicated to Osteopathy lastJanuary, it was thought to be largerthan would be needed for severalyears, but the demand for moreroom is already felt, and

an Advo-cate reporter was informed that a40x,50 foot addition would Ibe erect-ed in the near future, the

founda-tion having been already laid .

The success of the new school andthe Osteopathic Infirmary has ex-ceeded the fondest expectations ofits ft rends . During the past yearthe business of the institution hasmore than doubled, while over fif-

teen thousand treatments have beengiven since .January first . At pres-ent there are between five and sixhundred patients in the city .

Theyarc from every corner of the UnitedStates, and the ailments for whichthey are treating comprise nearlythe whole category of human ills .Every train brings in a new detach-ment of patients and takes

awaythose whom Osteopathy has curedor greatly benefitted .The results

obtained by Osteo-pathic methods are most

extraordi-nary .

A very large majority of thepatients who J come

here for

treat-ment are those who have exhaustedthe resources of Materia Medica andSurgery in vain, and who have de-tided to try Osteopathy as a last resort ; yet the r ecords

show

that ofall the eases treated ninety-five percent . are relieved, seventy-five percent . are cured outright and noneare injured .

These results are ob-i twined without the

use of eitherI drugs or knife and are unparalleledin tile history- of mail's endeavor tocombat disease .

IAN A:~ A MACHINE .i

The Osteopath likens the humanform to a locomotive engine, and itwould be difficult to find a better il-lustration of the theory of Osteopa-thy than by this unique comparison .Every one has admired the giganticiron horse that fills its office withmore grace and has more the ap-pearance of intelligent life than anyother machine ever fashioned by thehand of man .

When it comes outof the shops bright and

new. everypart of its intricate machinery finelyadjusted and in perfect harmonywith every other part, it seems thevery acme of strength and endurance .

Yet it can hardly make a sin-gle journey over its

polished

steeltrack without jarring some

part outof adjustment .

After a few

tripsthis great machine, as perfect and asstrong as human

skill can make, isI ready for

the repair

shop.

In thel shop the monster is

taken in chargeby a skilled mechanic who is familiarwith every part

and its

relation toevery other part, and in a short timeit is able to go on its way, very littlethe worse for wear and tear. But if thehand of a skilled mechanic were notoften applied to keep the locomotivein repair, a few years would find itfit for nothing but the scrap pile .Think of the jars and twists and

blows the human machine constantlyencounters from the moment it learnsto toddle until the shadow of thegrave is reached'. What wonder isit if its delicate parts become disar-ranged, and the little disorders, atfirst trivial, being allowed to remain,soon unfit the great engine of humanlife for its every-clay duties ?

It hasno smooth steel track over which tomake its journey and its path

is ex-tremely rough .

Is it not reasonablethat this delicate machine should beoccasionally run into the repairshop ?

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A MODERN Wonder

The School of Osteopathy Outgrowing Its NewBuilding .

From the Kirksville, (Mo,) Graphic.

A Graphic reporter called atthe School of Osteopathy Ion-day, and found the halls and re-ception rooms thronged withpatients "waiting their turns"'for treatment. The greatestrush occurs in the forenoon, andthe scene about the Infirmaryfrom early morning until croonbeggars description . From overthe hills, in ever direction, pa-tients can be seen wending their'way, some in carriages, others ininvalid chairs wheeled by attend-ants, while many are painfully'hobbling along On crutches .There are invalids from almostevery

corner

of

the

UnitedStates, and of every degree ofinfirmity, from the pallid andemaciated individual at whosethroat Death's fingers seem al-ready clasped, and who has tobe carried bodily from the car- ,ridge to the operating table, tothe ruddy complexioned, portlyinvalid whom nobody wouldever suspect of having suffered asingle pain.

All day long there!is a constantly moving streamof humanity going to abd fromthe building, while every trainbrings in a new detachment ofpatients .

wORK Systematized

Inside the Infirmary,everything is managed as smoothly

as clod, work.Patients are not ;allowed to loaf in halls, but mustwait in the reception roomswhich are alwavs well filled, Thealmost constant ringing of elec-tric, bells announcing that "roomso-and-so is ready for anotherpatient, the quiet discipline withwhich patients take their posi-tions near the doors of the oper-ating rooms when their turn, is`next," the incessant click of thetype writer as it wades throughthe immense correspondence, thefrequent "helloing" at the tele-phone, and the general countingroom appearance of the businessoffice, impress the visitor that,besides an understanding of thehuman mechanism and laws ofhealth, a thoroughly organizedbusiness system is required to dothe great amount of work ac-complished daily by this won-derful institution .'rhere are now over five hund-

red patients, and when it is re-membered that treatment is

given eachpatient fromone tothreetimes a Week, it, is not difficultto understand that the ten oper-ators are kept moving prettylively . One hundred and fortypatients were treated Monday,au average of fourteen patientsfor each operator .

MORE ROOM \' NeededTho business of the Infirmary

has more than doubled duringthe year and is increasing every'day . When the capacious new'building was dedicated, less thaneight months ago, it wasthought to be larger than wouldbe needed for several years, but,it has already become necessaryto have more room,and the con-'tract for a forty foot additionhas been let. The addition willbe upon the north end and will ,make the building 130 feet long,with about thirty operatingrooms.The remarkable growth of Os-

teopathy is also evidenced bythe constantly increasing de.mand for boarding accommoda-tions in that part of the city ly-ing near the Infirmary . Newresidences have been erectedupon nearly all available lots inthat end of the city, and the mu-sic of the saw and hammer isheard from morning 'till night,yet the demand for houses inthat neighborhood exceeds the Isupply .The

fame

of Osteopathy

isbuilt upon the solid rock of re-sults . News of its remarkablecures-for years common tabletalk in Kirksville-has just be-gun to reach the outside world,and the popularity of this newschool is only dawning. ThatOsteopathy is the true science oflife and health is a fact that is be .

daily demonstrated in thiscity . The institution is not aquackery in any sense. Dr . A.T. Still, its founder, has longsince proven himself worthy andable to sit with the advancedthinkers of the age, while hissons and the other gentlemen'connected with the Infirmary areheld in the highest esteem by'the Kirksville people .

The Journal desires to thusresister its vote in favor of lights !in Kirksville . (rood are lightsare almost indispensible to a'city of Kirksville's importance,and especially in that part of thecity occupied by the Infirmarypatients, many of whom are'badly crippled, and find it extremelydifficult tomaketheir

way to the

city, to

church, orto the Infirmary after night.When a prosperous city of near-ly five thousand people cannotafford street lights even upon itsprincipal thoroughfares, thememust be something wrong withthe business management of itsaffairs. The wires are alreadyup and lights would not involveany great expense.Let us havethem.

ST . Louis FAIR, OCT. 7 to , 2.We will sell tickets Oct. E to 12, fromKirksville to St . Louis and retuin al, onefare for the round trip, good until Oct.14, returning . Free chair car dailyKirksville to St . Louis via "The GreatWabash Route."

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Instruments Free ;

Frauds and Pretenders .

At an early day I expect to visit the

capitol, principal cities and many lesser

towns of the State, for the purpose of j

giving the people reliable information on

the new science .

We are aware that

scoundrels and imitators are in the field,

and the next issue o f theJournal will

contain a list of those who are graduates

and competent Osteopaths .

If in doubt

regarding the genuineness of any one

who pretends to practice Osteopathy,

address the Secretary at Kirksville,

who

will give you any desired information .A. T. STILL.

TELLS OF A WONDERFUL CURE,-

S. P. MacConnell Healed by Dr . Still, Founderof Osteopathy.

S. P. MacConnell was injuredin getting off a motor car aboutten months age. Since that timehe has been a, cripple, it beingthought that his knee waspermanently injured.Hetreat-

ed here at Council Bluffs andspent two months in one of theleading Chicago hospitals, butfailed to get any relief . Twoweeks ago fie went to Kirksville,Mo., to undergo treatment atthe institution Of Dr . Still.

Sun-day he returned home almostcured, being able to walk

withoutoutcrutches, whichhe had beenusing almost continuously forten months .Mr . MacConnell's recovery is

1 almost miraculous, and the sat-isfaction he feels over his cure isonly second to the gratitude he

has toward Dr. Still.

In speak-ing of his case, Mr. MacConnellsaid :

"My cure is only one ofhundreds that Dr . Still is mak-ing.

He is an old gentleman 65years old, and the founder of anew school of the healing

art,known as `Osteopathy .' Thedoctor has made a special studyof the human body

and isperhaps thegreatest anatomist in

the United States,

He uses nodrugs but cures by manipulation .No sooner did he see my injurythan he pronounced it a partialdislocation of the hip. He atonce set the limb and

in a dayor two my crutches Were useless .The score of doctors I consultedprevious to this diagnosed myinjury as of the knee, and youcan judge my surprise when lfound my hip was injured in-stead.

Dr . Still has a large in-stitutiou with 300 patient atpresent .

He also has a collegewith 100 students where hisadvanced anatomical theories are

taught."Mr. MacConnell left yesterday

for Kirksville again to take afurther course of manipulationto restore the muscles of his limbwhich Were badly wasted froththe disease of the member.

Kirksville is located on theWabash Railroad, 205 milesfroth St . Louis, 186 miles fromKansas City, and 155 miles from

'', Des Moines.-Council Bluffs Non-pariel .

T The regular fall

term

of ourIS , School will begin Oct. 2t: . 1895Write to the Secretary for rotor.mation regarding it .

C Still National Osteopathic Museum, Kirksville, MO

OSTEOPATHY AT EVANSTON .

Chicago's fashionable Suburb Has a BranchInfirmary.

Dr . Harry Still, son of Dr . An-drew T. Still, is now in charge ofa branch Osteopathic lntirmaryat Evanston, a fashionable su-burb of Chicago and is meetingwith the same remarkable suc-cess which has attended theprac-tice of the new science at otherplaces .The Evanston Daily INDEX, in

writing of the institution in a re-cent issue, said :"On the day this week that the

offica of Dr. Still was visited sixtypatients had been treated . Morewere coming and going all thetime, and all were of the wealthy

aand intelligent class, of Evanstonianswho had turned in de-

spair from the "regular" physicians and professed to be findingrelief under the ministrations ofDr . Still and his assistants .Were they relieved? They saidso, and not one of thein butcould recite cases where wonder-ful cures hall been performed,and the names of the patientswere those of some of the bestknown in Evanston . Many ofthese were very sensitive aboutthe use of their natnes, but thereare some that have been so gen-eraly talked about that there isno harm in further mention .Of these is the case of little

Ituth Catlin . She was afflictedWith a trouble that bent onelimb almost in a bow and it hadto be carried in a cast constant-ly, for even the jar of a personwalking across the room causedher excruciating Main . The sugeonsgeons at the Presbyterian hos-pital could do nothing for herand said that. nothing could be(bile. An operation might beperformed but they gave no

hope of a successful result fromthat . 'Under Dr . Still's treatment she can bend the limb,has

little pant and is able to supportthe weight of her body upon it .Miss Fsher of Milwaukee was

said to have been absolutelycured .

Mr. N, G. Iglehart is beingt treatedthere for a swollen

gland and says he is being benefittedThe still of Managing editor

for Van Benthuysen of the Tribunehas been cured of a, hit) trouble

tile . A styli of 1Y . 1 ; . Stockton,who had lust, all vitality in onearm is having the circulationrapidly restored . Dorr Kimball'slittle girl w who was supposed to behelplessly crippled now dopes Dot

have to weara brace as the

result ofDe.Still's treatment,Mrs, Jenney mother of GeorgeJenney city purchasing; agent

of Chicago thin injured in a cableaccident mid lay !fir thirty-oneweeks a helpless cripple ti with athirty pound Height on her leg,

and the doctors could donothing for her. Dr.F till found that

the hip was dislocated, manipulatedlated her awhile and she got tit)and walked into another room .Dean Wallace. who was takenfrom home on a stretcher twomonths ago, unable to movehead, hand or foot and nearly ldead, has recovered at the Stillsanitarium at Kirksville,so that he can move his (nibs,The doctors said he had Char-cot's disease and could not livetwo weeks when he left Evans-ton .

Willice Worthy, son of thelate John Worthy, hashad hard- I

any use of his lower limbsfrom birth, but he walks aroundnow without the braces which hehad worn for years, and is so fin-proved that old friends earl hardlyly recognize him.These are some of the c:iscs

that the patients of Dr . Still andtheir friends are talking about.They seem to have an abidingfaith in the efficacy of his treat-ment. They or members of theirfamilies have obtained reliefwhere no relief could apparentlybe obtained from other sources.In the majority of cases sufficienttime has not elapsed to make theproof of cure positive or to com-plete the cure itself, but so manyof the patients seem to have ex-perienced some relief from rack-ing pain that their evidence atleast may be taken for what it isworth . THE Index has no axeto grind and no interest in Dr .Still, except as it may be demonstrated that he can do what he

claims to do, and thus rendersubstantial aid to suffering hu-manity,

The question is oftened askedwhat diseases does Osteopathytreat successfully . The answeris-All diseases of all climatesand all seasons, of all ages andsexes

Venereal diseases excepted.

Every grade or form of dis-location .

Osteopathy knows nocompromise with drugs in the

treatment of disease, because itdepends and works upon the lawsof nature.

"The first requirement for anI accurate diagnosis is to learn torecognize morbid signs. hiltthe art of observation this impliesis noteasyand cannot be

thoroughly accquired except bypractice . No one aspiring to be .come a skillful observer can trust!exclusively to the light reflectedfrom the writings of otheers;he must carry the

torch

in

hisown hands . lint] himself look intoe% Pry recess."-J. It. DaCosta,

1I . D .,

LL D.

Our shares are reasonable.The price will depend upon the

I nature and character of the dis. . " ; .e Ftir all information desired address, 11. E. Patterson .

secretary ry .

THE

American School of Osteopathy .

DR . A . T . STILL, . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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. . . ..President,H . E. PATTERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Secretary .

REGULAR FALL TERM

Will Begin Oct. 2d, :

185)5.

The object of the American School,of Osteopathy is to improve the pres-cut systems of Surgery, Obstetricsand treatment of General Diseases .

Prospectus OF A. S, 0. FOR 1894 BEGIN- IKING OCT-- 2, 1895,

Q; QualificationsREQUIRED

OFStudents ON Entry TO

THE CLASS .Age-No student will be ad-!

1 admitteddunderlSoroverer4 r. J yearsof age unless by special order ofthe Trustees . We are not seek-ing non-age or dotage but goodsound material for making cred-itable Osteopaths . Experience,has taught us that after the ageof 45 has been reached there islittle chance of making a goodreasoner in this science,Education-A

good

English ieducation or at least athoroughknowledge of business branches ;

I will be required .Character-All applicants for

admission must give satisfactoryproof to the board that they areof good moral character and to-tat abstainers from drugs orliquors of an intoxicating na-ture . We will be very exactingon this point as we want no ma-'terial to be worked up into sots . I

A . T . STILL.

The diseases treated successful-ly by Osteopathy are those re-sulting from an abnormal condi-tion of the nerves, blood vessels,or other fluids of the body caus-ed byy partial or complete dit -'sto

Idislocation tion of the bones,muscles ortissues . The following list ofdiseases, with many others, havesuccumbed to Osteopathic

treatment often when all elsebasfailed :

Brain Fever,Cerebro Spinal Meningitis Headache, Granulat-

ed Eyelids, Dripping Eyes Pterygium Dizziness, Polypus of Nose

Catarrh, Enlarged Tonsils,Diphtheria, Croup, WhoopingCough, Asthma, Pneumonia,Hay Fever, (loiter, Indigestion,

i Lack Of Assimilation,

TorpidLiver, Gall Stones, Neuralgia ofStomach and Bowels, Constipa-tion, Dysentery, Flux, Piles, Fis-tula;, Irregularities of the Heart,Kidney Diseases, Female Dis-I

Rheumatism and Neuralof ail parts,

Atrophy ofLimbs,

Paralysis,

Varicose iVeins, Milk-leg Measles, Mumps, j

I Chicken-pox Eczema, Fever or` ;tiff [less of any part of the

Sys- ISystem and Nervous Prostration,

o

.

steopathy knows no compro-mise with disease, because it de-pends and works upon the lawsof nature.

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