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f OsteopathyDEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT of THE SCIENCE of OSTEOPATHY;

VOL. III.

KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI, DECEMBER, 1896 .

NO. 6.

THE NEW BUILDING .

° )HE accompanying engraving is a south andeast view 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 fe et .

The building is four stories high, with a com-modious attic which mightbe called a fifth story.The long verandas

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

contains 68rooms, makingaltogether 30,-000 square feetof floor space.Itssize can be appreciatedby im-

agining 300rooms each Iofeet square .Thecompleted

structure as itnow stands costin round numbers eighty thousand dollars, andwasbuilt by Dr. A. T. Still without a dollar ofdonation or outside help whatever .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 100 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 0n 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 are

for the junior students have a seating capacityof 600 There are 16 rooms on this floor.

SECOND POOR.

The second floor, which is on alevel with thestreet at the south entrance contains 36 rooms.The main hall runs north and south, is 150 feetlong, 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,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 andwai ting room .

THIRD FLOOR .On the third floor are twolarge assembly halls,

one 36x60 andthe other 42x62. They maybethrown together by raising the rolling doorswhich separate them .

Both halls are superblyfinished, one in white enamel and bronze, theother in natural hard wood .

Whenthrown intoone large hall they would seat comfortably onethousand people.

One side of thenew hall 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 adissecting room 20x40,

anamphitheatre which almost fills a room 38x40, and is capable of seating over 200. There isalso a room for anatomical and surgical specimens, reading, etc.

The amphitheatre is for

lectures and demonstrations on the cadaver, etc.There are three large attic rooms, which

might 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.Thesecond floor is used exclusively for treat-

ing purposes and the general business of the In-firmary. Everything above the second floorwith half of the first floor is wholly occupied bythe school .

From a window in the attic of the front part, isquitea novel "promenade" 0r walk, extendingalong the comb 0f the roof of the building t0

the roof 0f thenorth wing,where it leads tothe observatory.From this ele-vated walk, aswell as` from theobservatory, vis-itors can get anexcellent viewof the surround-country.The entire

building was de-signed by Dr .A.T. Still, and con-structed underhis personal di-rection, for thepurpose of teach-ing and prac-ticing Osteop-athy .N0 detail has

been overlooked.The structure iscomplete . It was

designed and constructed for Osteopathy, by thefirst Osteopath, and paid for by money earned inthe practice andteaching 0f Osteopathy .

A Southern MINISTER INVESTIGATES .

Rev. Edward James Young Visits Kirksville and GivesHis Opinion of Osteopathy .

The following article recently appeared in theMagnolia, (Miss.) Gazette. The writer, Rev.Edward James Young, is a minister well knownthroughout the South. After a thorough in-vestigation, he wrote to his home paper as fol-lows :

This attractive little town of 5,000 inhabi-tants, situated 205 miles north of St . Louis,is a delightful place in which to spend the sum-mer, and offers a field for scientific investiga-tion such as is not found in any other part ofthe world. Here is located the A. T. Still In-firmary, where the principles of the new meth-od of healing, known as Osteopathy, are succes-fully practiced in the treatment of thousands ofpatients yearly .

Nearly every state in the Un-ion, with several foreign countries is repre-sented at this institution where there are from

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five to six hundred patients all the year around .As this system of healing is but slightly knownin the South, I wish to give your readers someaccount of it, gathered from close observationduring the past three months .

The Infirmary, with its hundreds of patients,and "The American School of Osteopathy,"where the theory and practice of the new sci-ence are taught to a large body of students, arethe outgrowth of years of patient study and ex-periment on the part of the founder, Andrew T.Still, M. D., a Virginian by birth, formerly asurgeon in the Federal army, and for manyyears a practicing physician of the allopathicschool of medicine, Dr . Still long ago realizedthe insufficiency of the standard remedies forthe cure of disease.

As he expressed it in aninterview,

"In all fevers of all seasons of theyear-typhus, typhoid, billions, congestive, flux,pneumonia, dysentery, mumps, measles, diph-theria, whooping cough-through the whole ofdiseases hitherto treated by drugs, successfullyor unsuccessfully for twenty-five years, with orwithout counsel, I found nothing that I couldsay was a cure for any case or cases had I beensworn. My family, friends and patients diedjust as quick, if not quicker, with all the skilland all that friendship and money could rally .They died andwe couldn't help it, which provedto my mind then that medicine was not a sci-ence."

The loss of four children in successionfrom spinal meningitis, after representatives ofall schools of medicine had labored in vain tosave them, further disgusted Dr . Still with thedrug theory in the treatment of disease. Hethereupon resolved to search nature anew forthe secret of health, casting aside all precon-ceived theories advanced by the recognizedschools.

Starting out with the idea that thehuman body is a machine, constructed by a Di-vine Builder, with the necessary force to run itscourse to old age, he began investigating andexperimenting along that line .

Living at thattime in Kansas and near an Indian agency, herobbed Indian graves for subjects and beganagain the study of anatomy. "A man," hesays, "is a machine with over two hundredbones. You may call them braces, supports, orwhat you please .

Muscles, nerves, blood ves-sels and tendons are distributed all over andthrough this frame work .

There is an engine,and pipes run from that engine to all parts ofthe body, and from all parts blood is carriedback to the place it started from by the veins orblood tubes. * Health is that conditionwe are in when all the wheels of life are in theircentre and move without any obstruction, greator small.

Disease is the creaking of the eccen-tricities of any or all parts of the machinery ."The chief cause of disease, lie holds, is due tosome mechanical obstruction to natural func-tions.There is some displacement, enlargement,

obstruction or abnormity, of a bone, muscleor ligament, or some unnatural pressureupon a nerve or blood vessel . For ex-ample, a dislocation at the shoulder maycause rheumatism in the hand or wrist, a dislo-cated rib may produce heart disease, an ob-structed vein may cause cancer, a diseased nervein the stomach may effect the eyesight, and soon .By experimenting with living and dead sub-

jects he found that this wonderful machine, thehuman body, could be manipulated at will by a

skillful operator who has a perfect knowledgeof anatomy, and that the organs could all beregulated much better by manipulation than bydrugs. For instance, where a physician isneeded, instead of administering a purgative,the Osteopath simply opens the gall bladder bymanipulation with much more satisfactory re-sults. Dr . Still says, "The results that I haveobtained over disease I have secured when Ihave handled the engine of life as an engineerhandles his engine . So long as I conform tothe laws governing an engine, the human locomotive obeys, just as well as any locomotive willobey its engineer when he treats it as !he ma-chinist has indicted by the form of any and allparts of the engine .

If some substance shouldget into the wheels of a watch or the cogsshould become locked or bent, would a work-man pour arsenic, nuxvomica or some chemicalcalculated to destroy the works into it? No .First, he would ascertain where the obstructionwas, would remove it, straighten the bentwheels, and set it going."

This is done by theOsteopath by scientific manipulation alone,without the use of drugs, the knife, or surgicalappliances of any kind .

The Osteopath, as I have said, must have aperfect knowledge of anatomy. This branch,with physiology, is the foundation of all Osteo-pathic treatment. The successful operatormust know every bone, muscle, nerve, vein andartery in the body, with its uses and relation toevery other part, and the results that will followfrom any abnormity of any one of them .

Thediagnosis is largely tbrough the sense of touchwhich is developed to its highest perfection . Asthe fingers of the blind are trained to read theletters of the alphabet through several thick-nesses of cloth, so the fingers of the Osteopathpassed over the surface of the body can detectthe slightest displacement of any muscle, tend-on, bone, artery or vein.

He knows not onlyhow the body looks when the anatomy is nor-mal, but also how it feels.

The feature of di-agnosis was exemplified in treating a memberof our party.

The location and nature of thetrouble having been ascertained, the next thingis to know how to remove it, and this requiresskill of another kind . "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 thorough knowledge of the laws of me-chanics, but a knowledge of the mechanical re-lation of every part of the body to every otherpart . This knowledge is not found in anyprinted work on earth, nor can it be written ina manner to be understood .

In fact, Osteop-athy as a whole involves a practical applicationof principles that cannot be imparted by books.An explanation that would explain cannot bewritten . "-Jonrnal of Osteopathy, June, 1896 .

Osteopathy is neither "faith cure," "Christ-ian science," hypnotism, animal magnetism,nor massage, although it has been classed withthese things by those who have heard of it butnever investigated . As it consists of manipula-tion it is frequently confounded with massage,

but there is nothing in common except that thehands are used in both systems.

Beyond thisfact they are totally different.

Tn massage theoperator rubs and pats the body at random,without any knowledge of anatomy, and ex-pects results simply because such vigorous sti r-ring up of the surface of the body has provenbeneficial in some other case .

The Osteopath,however, can give a reason for every move hemakes because his manipulation is directedwith regard to the requirements of that particu-lar case and from a thorough knowledge of theanatomy and physiology of the human ma-chinery with which he is dealing.

He knowsexactly what particular nerve, vein or artery heis endeavoring to reach, or what bone, muscleor ligament he desires to readjust .

Again, itis ignorantly supposed by some that this systemof healing deals only with bone dislocations,because of the name "Osteopathy." Thisname, however, is not sufficiently comprehen-sive

It was coined by Dr . Still as the best thatcould be devised because the bones of the skel-eton form the framework upon which the or-gans of the body are constructed.

The humanskeleton being that part of the animal systemupon which order most depends, it serves asthe basis of Osteopathic practice .

As a matterof fact the diseases successfully treated by Oste-opathy include nearly all that come within therange of the medical profession-both acuteand chronic-and especially those which havebeen pronounced incurable, or have been im-perfectly handled by all other schools. Asthma,consumption, bronchitis, cancer, female dis-eases, goitre, hip and spinal disease, nervoustroubles, paralysis, diseases of the eyes, epilepsy, heart disease and the like are successfullytreated at the Infirmary. Dr . Still declaresthat this system of treatment will certainlycure spinal meningitis, measles, flux, diphtheriaand all fevers, if the patient can be reached in areasonable time . During an epidemic of diph-theria in Minnesota in 1893, Dr . Charles Still,eldest son of the founder now in charge of theInfirmary, treated many cases in St . Paul andRed Wing, losing but one patient. Hissuccess was so remarkable that the governor ofthe state made apersonal investigation, and asa result gave his unqualified endorsement of thedoctor and his methods.While quick results are not the rule, yet

many cures are effected with a few treatments,or even a single one. Goitre has been removedin a few hours; diphtheria, croup and acute ton-silitis in a few treatments, and to my personalknowledge diarrhoea and constipation at a singletreatment.

Some of the cures seem almost mir-aculous and would not be believed if they werenot vouched for by unimpeachable testimony.I could give many such cases, but will mentiononly one, as related to me by an eye-witness.My informant is Mr. Charles W. Little, of DesMoines, Ia ., formerly editor of the LakeCharles' La., American, and now a student atthe School of Osteopathy in this town. Agentleman living in Iowa had been under thebest medical treatment of Chicago and Bostonfor nearly a year, having a knee trouble andbeing obliged to use crutches .

Instead of im-proving, his case was rapidly growing worse,and in Boston he was told that it wasan aggra-vated form of synovitis, and that the leg mustbe amputated above the knee .

He was advisedto return home, settle up his business, submitto the operation and then await results.

Whenhe returned home and announced the doctor's

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decision to his wife she was naturally dis-tressed . She had heard of Osteopathy andbegged her husband to try it as a last resort,but he was skeptical of receiving any relief inthe little town of Kirksville, after the failure ofthe Chicago and Boston physicians . She con-tinued to plead with him and finally prevailed .He came to please her, utterly incredulous regarding the treatment .

He was taken to theoperating room and placed on the table, and Dr .Still himself examined the case .

In his bluntway the Doctor said :

"There's nothing at allthe matter with your knee except those scarswhere it has been blistered .

The whole troubleis in the hip."

The patient was nettled at thisdiagnosis, and answered :

"If you say there isnothing the matter with my knee after I've suf-fered agonies with it for over a year, I might aswell get up and go home."

'`Well, get up andgo home," the Doctor retorted .

"I didn't tellyou to come here, but if you'll be reasonablewe can help you."

The patient subsided, andthe doctor proceeded with his manipulation .In less than five minutes he said to the patient :"Now stand upon the floor and walk."

Thepatient protested that he had not walked formonths. The Doctor insisted, and the manplaced his feet on the floor and found to hisgreat surprise that he could bear his wholeweight on the injured limb, and was still moreastonished when he walked across the floorwithout his crutches .

In about twenty minutesthe treatment was completed when the patientwalked to his hotel, entirely discarding hiscrutches .

The trouble was relieved at this firsttreatment, but subsequent ones were necessaryin order to strengthen the muscles that theymight be able to retain the dislocated hip in itsplace .

The patients at the Infirmary represent allclasses in society and all conditions of diseaseand disability . Among the persons of notewho have been recent patientshere are the sis-ter of the late Senator Plumb, of Kansas, andchild of ex-Governor Foraker, of Ohio, whowas accompanied by his mother . Among theMississippians here are Mrs. Taylor of Colum-bus, Mrs. Stanton and Miss Belle Morrison ofOcean Springs .

In conclusion I would express my profoundconviction that Osteopathy is one of the mostremarkable and far reaching discoveries of theage, and destined to play an important part inrelieving the ills . of afflicted humanity . It isnow only in its infancy, as its founder readilyadmits .

New discoveries and new applicationsin connection with the science are constantlyoccurring, so that a text book of the systemwritten this year would be out of date nextyear .

Osteopathy is no longer an experimentbut a well defined science and can challenge theworld by its results .

It is worthy of investiga-tion by scientists, and to the afflicted I can com-mend it from a gratifying personal experience .

EDWARD James YOUNG.

It is said of me, "Dr . Still is the biggest hearted manon earth."

Now let me tell you something, I am asselfish as a wolf .

I work and study hard from morningtill night, year in and out, not for your happiness butA'. T. Still's,

I am human and dislike a drone of twolegs .

Iwork for bread and meat for myself and thosedependent upon me .

I love and hate, bitterly andsweetly .

I love an honest toiler of body or mind--Ihate a liar, a thief, a hypocrite or a lazy person, all arealike to me.

A lazy man has to live and will if he hasto lie and steal .

I will help those who have an honest

claim on my sympathy, and in a loving manner, as aman should do to his fellow man. I hate a man who isall gab and gets sick when his lame and worn out wife,once a rose, asks him to briny in some wood and waterto cook his dinner with .

I love the works of nature ; tome it is life and joy ; it makes a man glad he is a man .I am sorry we know so little of ourselves .

Let us putin the twelve months of ninety-seven in study, studyfor knowledge that will do us good.

Never work forthe love and admiration of the dear people, which is toooften like a soap bubble and bursts to curse you for whatyou have done .

Remember they too have some wolf ordog in their chamber that should be filled withgratitude .I hope and only ask that I may be wisely just to all .

Dr . Hildreth's TalkThe following address was delivered by Dr . Arthur

Hildreth, on the occasion of the surprise party given inhis honor Nov . loth . A report of the affair was printedin the November JOURNAL, but the manuscript of theaddress had been misplaced and could not be found intime for that issue .

It is printed at the request of alarge number of students and other friends of the pop-ular doctor .

The address was wholly impromptu, asthe affair was a complete surprise to Dr . Hildreth . Hesaid :Mr. Chairman, brother and sister students :-I have

not the language nor ability to express to you my feel-ings . Were I possessed of all the eloquence of the greatorators, I could not do just ice to this occasion, or ex-press my appreciation and gratitude for this token ofyour esteem, and your commendation of myfeeble efforts to do my duty while associated with youin this great work . To Dr . Hulett, Dr . Smith and myunknown friend who has spoken so fluently by the aidofthe phonograph, I must say that, while your wordsindicate great rejoicing at my departure, and while yououtnumber me, there is plenty of room for rejoicingfrom my standpoint, for while you yet rid of onenuisance I yet rid of many .To Dr. Patterson and Dr. Summerfield Still I wish to

express my gratitude for the tribute they have paid metonight . I have known Dr. Patterson many years-yes, fully as long as he has known me, I guess-andhave had many business transactions with him .

Ihave been intimately associated with him in the studyand practice of Osteopathy, and I must say the closermy relations become the greater is my confidence in hisability and judgment .

And right here let me say thatmy associations with each member of our faculty andwith the ladies and gentlemen who have from year toyear been added to our able corps of operators, havebeen most pleasant.

There was never a word to disturbthe harmony of our relations .

When I step out of thisinstitution, I will carry with me memories of the mostpleasant associations of my life .

Now I would not haveyou imagine these good-byes are final.

Dr. Pattersonhas said he did not feel they were losing me and if thegood of the school and science required, he felt I wouldyield to its demands.

When I took up this professionas my life work, I did not do it blindly, nor merely be-cause I had faith in it, but because I Knew of the re-sults of Dr . Still's work, and believed I could see, notonly prosperity, but achance to do a world of good forsuffering humanity .

I had not a friend on earth whowould encourage me to take the step, but I took it, andtonight, after over four years of toil and study and prac-tical experience in Osteopathy, I wish to say that I amin this great work, life, heart, body and soul .

The al-mighty dollar, individual success and all outside influ-ences pale to insignificance before the upbuilding andmaintaining of our beloved science and school .

Itssuccess is my success, is your success .

I am with youstill, and whenever my mite is needed and will and tothe strength ofthe school, you may be assured I will bewith you.To my brother and sister students, into whosebright,

intelligent faces I have the pleasure of now gazing, Iwish to say : Your words of commendation and en-couragement tonight shall ever be preserved, not aloneon the paper which you gave me, but in my heart, thereto remain while I live.

I am aware that a great major-ity of you, too, have entered this school in direct oppo-sition to the advice of your friends, and while you maysometimes have these little discouragements to contendwith, remember your battle cannot be one tenth as hardas that of the

first class.

I tell you it looked

bluethen .

But at the opening of the second class, whenthe list was completed and I saw enrolled the names ofsome of the brightest and best young men and womenof this city, I said . "Thank God ; we are now startingonward and upward-we are bound to win." and nowwhen our classes number so many of the brightest andbest, not only of our own city, but so many from afar,I do indeed feel we are proving onward and upward .Do not think that I imagine our battles all fought andwon .

We are only beginning.

We are still pioneers,yet unlike the pilgrim fathers who landed on that bleakNew England coast with only a continent to explore,toconquer and civilize, we have the whole world beforeus.

Dr. Still has uncovered a great truth, which willsoon be known to the uttermost ends of civilization .Dr . Still has given us his life's work, yet all he hasdone and the rapid strides we have all made in thiswork have merely laid the foundation-its great super-structure depends upon you and me and those who shallfollow us.

And, oh, my fellow students, I beseech youto be earnest, be zealous, be thorough and above all, bepatient.

Youmay think at times Osteopathy is comingtoo slow, but if you will only bear with us we will give

you all we have and help you to yet more of the greattruth .

We are just as anxious that you be thorough asyou can be .

We realize that should you yo forth fromthis institution failures, you are not the only ones whowould suffer .

We have much to do to perfect it .

Weare brothers and sisters in a common cause .

Standfirmly together and this great temple which we arebuilding todav in memory of one who has given his lifeto humanity shall stand while time lasts .Dr. Still, when you bade me this evening "yo forth

with God speed and do battle with the world," you pre-sented me with a sword and bade ine be ever ready todraw it in defense of myself, my country and humanity .I accept your gift ; I bold it here in my hands . Itsbright blade glistens with ten thousand truths-nay, itis Truth itself.

I yo forth to do battle, not in mortalcombat with the world, but with disease .

You havetaught me how to wield this shining weapon, and whileI live I shall seek the thickest of the fight until our be-loved banner is planted firmly where neither time noreternity can tear it down .And in conclusion what can I say to Dr . Still?

MayGod ever bless him and teach you and I to so care forhis wants, to so shield hire from life's petty cares andafflictions that he may be spared to us many years andthat his great mind may yet unfold to the world moreof the grand truths of our beloved science .

May he en-joy for many, many years the fruits of his labor .

Al-low me to thank you for this reception .

CLASS MEETINGS .

I was raised a Methodist .

I found the idea

of class meetings was a very good thing .

The

class leader would ask us how we had prepared

and what arrangements we had made to die,

and so on all along the road to heaven ; if we

had read the bible, been to Sunday School, vis-

ited the sick, fed the hungry, clothed the naked,

paid our quarterage, and fed the Lord's horse

which the preacher had ridden, and so on, and

all was pronounced good and marked "0. K. "

I was drilled so long, much and often in class

that I got so well posted that I could examine

myself quite well, and when the time came that

the people wanted and urged me to establish a

school, and teach the science of Osteopathy, I

opened a class meeting to examine myself as to

my qualifications for the great task of conduct-

ing a college of such dimensions as would be re-

quired for the purpose desired . I had seen

enough of life to know that no man could be a

success in any enterprise, and be ignorant of

anything pertaining to the duties from start to

completion of all that would be required in a

first class college of learning . First a good and

practical knowledge of the principles to be

taught, then a knowledge of building-must be

0f mach experience to plan and construct a

building to suit the work.

That would require

much thought and originality to harmonize the

needs of such a house .

There was no book or

plans that could instruct the builder . Inventive

genius must be the guiding star from base to

dome .

Then the most important question 0f all

came :

"Have I the $75,000 cash to pay for all

of a four story house, 60xl76 feet long, with 68

rooms, steam heating, water and electric lights,

all with a finish to date?"

Answer must be,

` `Yes ."Then came other questions equally as great,

which pertain to conducting the business of a

great institution of learning . Many important

positions will have to be filled by persons who

must have the necessary attainments to do the

duty devolving upon that office .

Then all must

be combined and have one head that is mentallyqualified with long experience t0 select compe-tent persons to fill all places of trust and honorin the whole institution, with the nerve andjudgment to execute .

To TRADE.-320 acres of clean land in Nebraskasuitable for cattle or sheep ranch, or Colorado businessproperty in mining town Loo miles from Denver, totrade for home or business property in Kirksville, Mo .Will give good trade, as party wishes to go to Infirm-ary .

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THis issue of the JOURNAL is the work of Dr .A. T. Still . It was written by the old doctor atthe request of many friends, who wanted to preserve such an issue as a souvenir .

Those whoenjoy a personal acquaintance with the doctorwill no doubt find these pages a rare treat, forthey will be able to read not only what he haswritten, but volumes "between the lines."

Dr.Still was ably assisted in the preparation of hiscopy by Mrs. Sol Morris, of Millard, Mo.

Mrs.Morris is an old friend of the doctor and was oneof the first to recognize the truth of Osteopathy .-[Editor .

The year 1896 is about to come to a close for-ever and with it many usages we have had toget along with for the want of room will all belaid aside, everyone of them . We will open thenew year with a system of rules well digestedand suited to the business of the college of Os-teopathy, in teaching all of the branches whichare thought to be necessary for a complete andthorough education to arm and equip men andwomen for the duties of life and their profession .

My object in building a house with 68rooms has not been for the purpose of making ashow whereby I could deceive the people withno object but to wrong and defraud and obtainmoney through their ignorance.

Since I gavemy consent to teach Osteopathy I have tried toinstruct and make men and women masters of aknowledge of this science which means all thatis meant by the word remedies, come from whatsource soever it may. After long years ofstudy and experimenting with the nerves . veins,muscles, bones and arteries found in that greatengine, man, I have found in endeavoring toimpart a knowledge of handling this engine toward off disease and retain its individuality inhealth, that it was a vain effort to expect to im-part the necessary knowledge without first beingarmed and equipped with rooms large enoughand plenty of them, skilled professors, dissect-ing materials, drill masters, and system, there-fore I have completed the preparation desiredand required for the full execution of any andall parts of a finished education in the science .

It has been my design and desire to qualifythe doctors of Osteopathy to a skilled use of the

surgeon's knife, built upon a thorough knowl-edge of human anatomy in the field of battle orat home in this or any other government, or onthe high sea. I am now prepared toteach anatomy, physiology, surgery, theoryand practice, also midwifery, in that form thathas proven itself to be an honor to the profes-sion to date .

Osteopathy has been upon the seas of battlenow for a quarter of a century. The sun dur-ing this time has never set on twenty-four hourswithout being able to report the boomiugs ofthe canons of success from the boat of Osteop-athy, having had many combats with all kinds

of diseases belonging to the climates of NorthAmerica . Though the vessel is small at thislate, no captain has ever reported a single defeat in any engagement .

Fevers of all kindshave appeared in open combat with this mightychampion of health, Nature, only to have theirtorches put out immediately. Flux, pneumonia,scarlit fever, mumps. whooping cough, diph-theria, the terrors of all mothers, have fallenbefore the keen edge of the sword of a well in-formed Osteopath.

Osteopathy in its purity atthe end of two well spent years in this school isa blessing to the people, and less time thantwo years is but a shade above a curse.

Afterlong experience and careful observation ofnearly if not more than one hundred thousandpersons afflicted with all the deformities knownto the surgeon, all the diseases of the climate,I feel to be able to speak truthfully that at leasttwo years must be spent in the branches taughtin this institution before a diploma should begranted.

Remember it requires six months ofthe hardest study to master enough book anat-omy to understand the work in the dissectingclass, and six months in dissection and physiol-ogy before a man or woman can obtain a suffi-cient knowledge to be anything like a philoso-pher .

He is, without this qualification, a super-ficial brag,

able only by imitation to re-lieve some diseases, and my advice to all per-sons is thoroughness or not at all.

I would ad-vise persons who wish to buy a three dollarbook and a diploma which is issued in the firstplace for twenty-five dollars with no intentionof imparting a knowledge of this science, to getone, lay down your dentistry, insurance agency,and go out into the world and get all the moneyyou can and do it quick, for the day is close athand when people will employ the intelligentand well qualified only .The literary world has now begun to criticise

those incompetent scoundrels that are now outlying and fleecing the people. Osteopathy hasa character built upon merit, all over the civi-lized world, and these counterfeiters are nowliving on the credit of awell established truthof which they know nothing.

They are throw-ing themselves on the credulity of the peoplewith the statement that they are graduates inOsteopathy .

They are not Osteopaths in anysense whatever .

This article is for people whoare ignorant of the science of Osteopathy, andwho are likely to fall victims of these travelingpretenders . Read it, digest it, or throw itaway, just as youplease .

The advocate of Osteopathy has the highestrespect for the science of surgery which hasbeen recognized as a science in all ages . Asdefined by Dungleson, "Surgery is that part ofthe healing art which relates to external dis-eases, their treatment, and especially to themanual operations adapted for their cure."

Alittle more definite is the wording in Chambers'encyclopedia : "Surgery signifies the manualinterference by means of instruments or other-wise, in cases of bodily injury as distinguishedfrom the practice of medicines which denotesthe treatment of internal diseases by means ofdrugs."

As has been before stated, the objectof Osteopathy is to improve upon the presentsystem of surgery, midwifery and treatment ofgeneral diseases .

In other words it is a systemOf healing which reaches both internal and ex-ternal diseases by manual operations and with-out the use of drugs or instruments.

In thecommon acceptation of the word as popularly

understood,surgery means cutting and any

reference to thesurgeon's workcalls upa mentalpicture of such instruments as theknife, scalpelor lance, and their use upon the human body.We accept that part of surgery as of great useand benefit to mankind. An Osteopath will uset knife to remove any useless part as quickly asa carpenter would use a saw to remove a uselesspiece of timber .

We recognize a necessity forbandages lints, splints, stays and anaesthetics,because they have proven their beneficial uses,put when should the knife be used?

Never un-:il all the nerves, veins and arteries have failed.o restore a healthy condition of the body in allis parts and functions.

The great failing ofmany who enter surgical work is their too fre-luent use of the knife and anaesthetics . Wherechloroform is used a hundred times ninety-ninetimes it could have been avoided with beneficialresults to the patients .

Many are the suffererswho go through life disfigured, maimed or de-prived of some essential organ whoshould havehad their body restored to a perfect conditionwithout being so mutilated.

The oftener theknife is used upon the limbs, body or head, forany purpose, the more positively is shown aninexcusable ignorance of the natural law whichwe recognize as a law able to restore anyand allparts where death of the tissues has not oc-curred .

No age hasbeen equal to the nineteenth cen-tury. The last one third has been equal toeight centuries of previous date . The dreadedocean is now the joy of the world, the "angrywaves" are the harps of joy to the traveler . Invention has tamed the sea.

It is a "paradise ofgreatest joy."

The tongue of man reaches toall nations with the speed of light, giving andbringing joy and tidings of all works, griefsand loves of all who can hate or admire .

Themother can caress the son of her bosom andmake him know the last pulse of a mother'sheart is the milk of eternity, held in store for-ever by a mother for her son, the memory ofwhich sweetens by days and years of separa-tion and is sealed for the feasts of eternity, thehope and joy of all who can love and reason.This age has placed its hand upon the hithertountamed lightning and made it our Sampson ofstrength, and our Bill Nye of fun and mirth.Edison is the ringmaster of our great circus ;and the soul of Greeley holds ever before oureyes the words, "This is the beginning of theirresistible couflct between those who canand do think and those who cannot and objectto all whodare to reason and act."

No time tolose in this period of the work to be done.

Medical men administer old bourbon inno-cently for the sake of stimulating the stomachand as a result in the course of time many amanfinds himself a drunkard in the ditch.

It is thesystem which is wrong.

As a child follows theadvice of its mother, so the medical student fol-lows the instruction of his alma mater.

Fromher walls he goes out instructed to give so manydrops of a certain liquid to excite the nerves andso many drops of another liquid to quiet them,and so all the way through his path is laid out.If after diagnosing, prognosing, andprescribing,the patient goes down, then wine and whiskeyare administered to aid in rallying the weakenedlife forces .

If a council of the same school iscalled his course is commended.

In just thismanner the love of strong drink is instilled inmany men, and I tell you that if our national

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curse of drunkenness continues for a period offive hundred years, God will have to send peo-ple in a baloon to repopulate the earth whichwill have degenerated under the influence ofwhiskey from a world of beauty to a bald knob.My father wasa progressive farmer and was

always ready to lay aside an old plow if hecould replace it with one better to do hiswork .All through life I have ever been ready to buya better cow, so when I found a way out of thebig drunk of ignorance and superstition intowhich we were born, the belief that God was apoor mechanic and needed the help of medicine,then I was ready to walk in the more enlight-ened path . I fully realized how tough the oldway was when I remembered how they used tohold my nose and spank me to get to administera dose of caster oil .

Then they asked God tobless the means used for my recovery, and Isuppose this petition included both dose andblister.

Osteopathy doesn't look upon man as a crim-inal before God, to be puked, purged and madesick and crazy. It is a science that analyzesman and finds that he partakes of divine intelligence.

It acquaints itself with all his attributes,and if the student of it does his work well andgoes out with his brain full of its teaching in-stead of his pocket full of cardamon seed, hewill find by results that its principle is unerring .God manifests himself in matter, motion andmind,

Study well his manifestations.

WHO CAN PASS THE FIRST MILE POSTS OF LIFE,

KNOWLEDGE AND FAME?

Many thousands live to a great age and atdeath their mental bodies are found on the firstmile of mind's action . No motion, or at most,very little sign of thought, is left on anythingseen or said .His mind had been a blank for eighty years,

but a good and just man asked for his way inlife, and was told that this man was a cinnamontrader .

Did he ever talk?

Oh, yes, he talked' `cinnamon bark" all the time .

He could doanything with his cinnamon bark .

He said hehad learned that the goat skins he carried hisbark in would get as soft as cotton and stay soif the bark ever got wet in the skin .

He be-lieved cinnamon bark had a charm in it for goathides.

He was pitied for his ignorance and use-less life, and was called a blank. A coolheaded thinker reasoned thus : "Might notthis man's speech on cinnamon, water, soft andhard skins, been the beginning of all our greatsystem of tanning all over the world?"

He lefthis mark. Though he could not pass anothermile post in all his life, he had unearthed oneof the greatest truths belonging to man's needs,that of tanning hides. But he had not the facili-ties to help him pass the first mile post beyondwhich is a greater ability to unfold truths thatroll across our paths, and by their beauties, askour attention.

All we know is what we learnbetween the mile posts we pass on our life'sjourney.

Much that we know is of no use toanyone.

Weseldom go to the rich pastures ofreason until driven there by the pangs of want .What is the champion of success, and fame,Reason, is not a fully grown gift, but a gift ofculture.

It takes days and years to make itsbody and a lifetime to build its head. Then allwe can do is to lay down our bundles, the laborof all our days, stick a peg in the ground tomark the place we fought the last battle andget on the ambulance and go with the other

wounded to the hospital of eternity, to have ourwounds dressed and be placed on the pensionrolls of that government which never fails todo justice to all claims of merit. My life hasbeen freely spent in the pursuit of knowledge.I have been pleased to take all truth one ormany from the rich or poor, learned or ignorant,old or young, dead or alive, from the elementsabove me or the ground beneath me.

I readas a rule of life all I see written by the hand ofGod or man in all the leaves of His book,whose lessons no mortal can number .

I loveNature and all the laws of life as written thereand stamped in the face and body of allworlds, beings and atoms, by the hand of theInfinite . Who could wish to be in a higherschool than each day of life is able to teach, ifwe only learn to read the lessons as they come?As the sun rises, the engines of

Nature blowthe whistles to tell the laborers of earth thatthe hour for work has come, and each foremanobeys the order, and lines his men for the day'slabor.

Millions enter each corn or wheat field,forest or garden and go to work making grain,vegetables, flowers, trees and produce, all thatthe appetite of the eye, body or mind couldwish for, from the material world.

The bluesky gives birth to the clouds laden with thedews of heaven to water the thirsty millions oflaborers whomake all from the beauties found inthe flowers to the man who is king of the fowlsand the beasts.

Our forefathers have read thisbook of nature during all ages, and it is betternow than ever before .

Read all you can fromthis book, for each day lost is your fault if youdo not improve it .

A PLEA FOR TEMPERANCE .

Was God ever drunk?

Was nature ever intoxicated?

If so do you believe that God wasintoxicated when he wasformulating the divineimage of Man?

If not intoxicated and he wasduly sober during this important period whenhe was formulating the superstructure of Man,which is material, mental and motor in its one-ness?

If it was really necessary that this grandmind of the universe should be duly sober and'in full exercise of all that pertains to mind orthought, is it not just as necessary to keep thisgrand superstructure not only sober, but undersober influences that it may be able to operateall the parts, principles and qualities of the di-vine laws pertaining to thehuman life? If I mustcarry you further then allow me to say thathe is fully devoid of reason who would throwthe human machine from a normal to an ab-normal condition and expect normal results inits execution of the laws of harmony and life .Then whyshould a normal brain, normal nerves,normal blood vessels in locality, form and cali-bre, be made abnormal by the powerful narcot-ics, stimulants, astringents, or alcholoids, andexpect in the results a display of the beautiesof life in action, comfort and duration?

Havesuch minds any claim to recognition as philoso-phers?

Nay, verily, not even to be called re-spectable fools.

We often think if we had our lives to live overwe would do wonders. We can say manythings and find much fault with the way wehave spent our lives. Did you ever think thatif you had to live your life over, you would bea baby when you started to live from birth,sixty or eighty years, and the chances mightbe much worse, and that no child ever wasborn who had any experience when it arrived?

We have much to be proud of as to how wellwe have done under the circumstances.

Wemight have done much worse.

We mighthavebeen fool enough to run for president and getscooped, or been an ass on the money question,got drunk and bet on the election and lost allthat daddy gave us, bought bicycles, gone somepup's security, paid it and been a fool generally.We mighthave been vain and idiotic enough towant to display a gold headed cane and plughat to make people think, "big injun, me."

Ihave given some of the reasons why it might bebest to live out the remnants of this life as weare.

I am willing to go on and do business asgrandfather Sampson, whowith a jaw bone un-jointed three thousand necks and left all his pa-tients dead .

I think that by handling morebones than he did, I can make my patients well.I am willing to let well enough alone .

"HOPELESSLY INSANE ."

Insanity so called is a very serious question .It is old as time, and with the advent of thephilosophy held out by Osteopathy ages havepassed and no changes have been made in themethods of trying to restore reason to the af-flicted . All hope has had to be set aside andbe content to listen to and live under the decis-ion of the board of doctors who pronounced thesentence "hopelessly insane."

He or she maytalk for hours just as wisely as any man orwoman and in less than one minute be as violentand dangerous as a person who is crazy fromalcohol in its worst form .

A question:

Is heor she drunk like a man crazy from whiskey?When each rage is over, prostration followswith sleep .

Did we ever think or say, he orshe is drunk only?

Have we not the powers ofmind to reason and find what nerve is at fault toallow this intoxication to come and go with itsdangerous effects? Let us reason outthe cause of these extremes of mentalaction . Let us begin with the nerves,charge them at solar plexus, note if ornot the solar quiets as soon as the alcoholreaches the brain by the carotids . Say yougive a man four to six ounces of whiskey, notea smile and an outburst of joy.

This conditionof mind lasts for a few moments if not renewedby other and larger drinks which brings outthe brute in man with all the animal .

He willkill a friend, a wife, child or parent, fall asleep,awaken andbe surprised to know he is in prisonto be tried for murder of his best friends, ofwhich deed he has no memory at all.

Read themedical works of all ages on insanity ; follow theirefforts to show cause.

You are left at sea with-out a compass if you follow their prescriptions .At the end of all efforts you are lowered to thecommon stool of disappointment to while awayanother age in ignorance of the cause and cureof insanity .

My ship is now launched on theopen sea as an explorer for cause and cure ofinsanity .

So far I am well pleased with what Ihave found, I believe much of the cause of in-sanity is now visible to my telescope.

Morefor future numbers of the JOURNAL.

There is a talk of extending the time required tograduate from medical colleges in this state.

This is agood idea .

If menwill persist in the foolish and dang-erous practice

of administering poisonous drugs thelaws regulating such practice cannot

be made toostringent.

The doctor who is going to deal out deadlypoisons should understand his business and be able todestroy health and life as slowly and painlessly as hissystem anda high

onception of professional etiquettewill permit.

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Definition of Love .DR . A . T. Still

Love is the true odor of life,When moved by contact of eye,Oceans of inexpressible acts of strife,Come from friend, man or wife .It has not yet been described by man,It binds man to man, how? unknown,It comes never to leave again,It fills our minds to feast when alone.It comes and stays,A loving flame of soul,And asks no change of ways,But to find a friend and unfold .It is the odor for smell, taste and sight,Comes with self as part of laws,Comes gentle, and never with might;Without a word of self or cause.To embrace, to fondle and draw toItself to feed the being unseen,That law of life only can make or do,Willing to allow nothing to stay between.Love begins in self and ends in you,And asks to roam no farther during life,Is content whenfound in friend, child or wife ;And no other ending can even partly do .

HOW TO LIVE LONG AND LOUD .The time is now at hand for Christmas, New

Years, and great big dinners. Big turkeys, bigpies, mince, apple, goose and chicken pies, withoysters as big as Cleveland in the stuffing, andcheese with celery, sausage with sage, garlic

and onions to kill, nut cakes and soup, icecream and frozen vinegar, slaw with jerseycream, andwalnut cakes with it, and fillibustersand codfish and taters, sweet and irish, andgrannie's kind of pies, flavored with pure goodold whiskey or brandy, all served in an air tightroom, heated to kill by a furnace to 120 f. andnot a single vent of pure air.Now to eat, is the command.

Eat means tosit still for two hours andcram your bodies withthree to twelve changes or courses of dishes .Then I thought of the fighting preacher whoalways prayed before he went into a battleamong shot and shell.

He said : "Oh, Lord, Iask thee to save my body if possible from thosevultures of lead and iron ; if not able to save mybody, oh, please save my soul."

Now the bat-tle is open.

I see the gunners and aids all inline .

The rockets are high in the air, whichsay the first course is so close you can see theireyes, and the command from the general is tocharge along the whole line and show noquarters .

Eat up the enemy if you can.

Thefirst line is a regiment of bread black andwhite,ham, butter, celery, cheese, turkey, coffee, tea,slaw and cream, lots more .

We downed thefirst line .

I felt good and brave to know I hadhelped to down the first great line of the enemy.I wanted to go home and tell our wonderful vic-tory, and asked the commanding general for afurlough . He said no, and handed me hisfield glass and said "look at the second regi-ment ; you may fall

at the feet of that regi-ment and be tramped and left there for thebeasts of the field, or sent to Dr . Smith's roomfor an autopsy."

I took in the sight, saw thearms of the second great and extended division,that we must charge and slay at once, or beforever branded cowards by drum head courtmartial.

Oh, my! can I stand another such en-gagement as the last? I dread their arms .They are the essence of danger .

Sausage bythe yard at the enemy's side .I fell and was trampled to unconsciousness,

as our general said I might be . All was deadwithin me but my dreaming powers, and they

kept up a perpetual panorama of the lives andcustoms of the fouls and beasts ; how they ateand how they lived ; the lion, panther, eagle,vulture, elephant, and many other long livedanimals. All the animals from the ape to theeagle, told me big dinners composed of ahundred kinds of eat and drink would ruin thestomach of all but the buzzard, that never wasknown to be foundered .

All long lived birds and animals that live onbut few kinds of food should be a lesson forman, not to eat and drink 'till the body is sofull that no blood vessel can pass in any part ofthe chest or abdomen. Our great dinners areonly slaughter pens of show and stupidity.Some would say, "it is such a nice place to talkand visit.

Does an owl hoot and eat at thesame time?

Let me eat quick and trot and Iwill have health and strength.

PhilosophyY.

How to Learn to be a Great Thinker.Now I will make a philosopher of you, if you

will obey and follow the rules I will give you,if you have the germs of reason with averageculture.

Rule first-Is the machinery of the object,then the duty each part is to perform. Now Iwill take as an example to explore or knowwhat this machine is designed for, a hog for oursubject of exploration.

For conclusion as tothe design nature had in its construction .

Nowthe first order I give, you must obey or fail :Look at the hog's snout.

I mean snout andnothing else.

Now let the tail alone.

I saidsnout ; not foot, but snout.

Youhave nothingto do with the hog's foot ; I told you to

look atthe snout.

What do you see about the snout?Look and get its form, and let its uses alone.

Iwant you to know a snout first ; its form is all Iwant you to look for.

Now you see the snoutdo you? You must not think of anything aboutwhich end of the hog the snout is on or its use orattachments.

Youcannot succeed as an invest-igator if you leave that snout before you get theform in your mind .

Now you are master ofthe form of the snout, you can look how it isattached to the end of something by this time .You see a plow to turn over the ground, nowgo from your discovered plow to attachment tohead which is fast to neck, neck to the body 'tilhog is complete .

Moral:

When you wish to learn anything,take some part to study andstick to it until youmaster a part at a time, 'til you know all parts.Then put them together in their places an dyour work is done.

Nature does the rest as isindicated by all forms of animal life .

Learnthe parts and places and they will show theiruses, if not, you have failed to use your reasonand are lost, time spent and you none thewiser. Study the snout or you will foreverfail .

SURPRISE FOR '97.Dr. Still is out, andwe go to press.

His lastmove is a chair just visable to his oldest operators .

It wasunder lock and key until the mailstarted with papers for the patent office .

By itan expert can do more and better work than sixof his best and most experienced workmen whohave ever been in the school or treating rooms.All work is done by the hand of the operator andnot the chair in the least.

The work is whattells.

More of it in February .

DR. STILL'S LectureThefollowing lecture was delivered by Dr . A.

T. Still in Memorial hall on the evening of Dec.2 ist. Thehall was filled with students, patientsand visitors . Thedoctor said :,

Ladies and gentlemen, patients, students,Americans and foreigners:-I am glad to seeyou here to-night . You have come to hearsomething of the science of Osteopathy. Theword "Osteopathy" is not expressive enough .A person who examines a lexicon to find themeaning of it is not satisfied. Os signifiesbone-pathology is the science of disease.

Sowe concluded here in the back-woods that wewould just name the baby "Osteopathy," bonepathology.

The reason we used the word boneis because it is like the handle of a hoe, it is theprinciple by which the motion is given to theinstrument .

We find all the fibers attached tobones, except the nerves . The nerves aresomewhat independent of the bones, still, theypenetrate all of them, surround them, it is notknown to what extent the nerves do penetratethe bones. The bone is supplied with blood,which would indicate that there are nerves ofaction there and nerves of nutrition ; when youcut into a bone you find nerves of sensation.

Nearly a quarter of a century ago a questioncame into my mind as to why it was God, notaccident, had placed man on the face of theearth and that it sickness he should be in sucha crippled, helpless condition. We called forhelp.

We resorted to remedies .

The patientdied and another patient got well .

We didn'tknow whether we had cured one or whether hehad killed the medicine and then the diseaseand got well anyhow.

These are facts.

I be-gan to think "What is man?"

I might havestarted with the question "Who made man?"but I concluded I would let that job alone."What is man?"

I find one lying on the roadstretched out full length, another one doubledup, another one erect, one in motion, one still,inactive .

I began to look at this machine, notas an engineer, because as an engineer I wasjust as ignorant of the human body as the muleI rode .

I called her Bets, and that is all sheknew about it . The engineer of the humansystem ought to be as able to control the engineof life as the common locomotive engineer is tocontrol the locomotive-run her fast, we expectthat-run her slow, we expect that-stop, weexpect that . There are the three principlesthat that man has to work on.

Then, his ma-chinery may not work at all. What do you expect of that man?

Do youexpect him to give alecture on the financial issue?

Do you expecthim to stand on his head?

There is your trainstopped and your journey only half done, andthe children crying at home one of them had abroken arm when you left . What do you expectof that engineer when the machine stops?

Youexpect in the first place, that he will use asmuch good, practical sense then as he ever didin his life .

If he has good sense what do yousee?

You see him jump off the cab.

He goesalong the side of the train to see what is thematter . You see him stoop down. "Whathave you found?" "O, I have found thatwheel locked here, got hot, and it is locked.""Can you get it out of that condition?"

"Yes,I cool it off and put a little oil on it and it willgo along."

You come to another place.

Hesays "Whoa," when he gets to the depot, andthe engine goes right by .

What do you expectof that engineer when his machine will not stopat your station and he cannot make it stop bythe ordinary methods?

You expect thatengineerthen torunalongby the enginewhileit is

in motion, let the air out of the brakes, and youexpect that engine will obey the word "stop"and it does stop .

If there are no air brakes heapplies the chain and that clamps the engineand every wheel of the whole outfit, and shestops.

In every pursuit of life, it matters not whatit is, you expect the leader to show and exercisereason, just as you did with that engineer . Heexamines the boiler, the drive wheels, the long

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and the short shafts and the brakes . If hedon't do that he is a failure.

How can he dothis?

In the first place, before he can be an en-gineer of something, he must know what thatsomething is, and must know where the poweris generated .

He must know how to apply it .He must know how to move it .

If it is an elec-tric engine he will examine the connections andsee that they are all right .

If it is a steam en-gine, he will see that the steam valves, the steamchest, the steam pipes, and the supply pipesthat keep the water coming into the boiler, areall right.

If the engine threshes along, steamup, all the valves open, you will expect that manto give a reason why.

You know he will do itif he is an engineer, and no hesitation about it,He will examine the mud valve ; possibly thewater is all out and he is running her on anempty boiler,

Another time it stops, and whatis the matter?

You look at the water guageand it is clear to the top, the whole boiler is fullof water.

Do you expect that engine in thatcongested condition to run?

The most limitedknowledge of an engine would suggest, let outa part of that water, so you can generate somesteam and fill the steam chests and meet theheads.

Suppose then, after all these conditionsare met, that the train will not start.

What ishis conclusion?

Here we stand.

Wehave anengineer that does not know much about it ; hedoes not know enough to see that the steamheads are on a center and it wont turn .

If hedon't know enough to start that with a crowbar you will all stay there till youfreeze .

Youhave to change it from its center .

He mustknow that or he is a failure .

If he should re-port to the chief mechanic that he could not gethis engine off of the center, they would undoubt-edly take him off the engine into the machineshop and would teach him a few lessons as towhat is meant by stopping on the center .

I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen thatevery well conducted business has a head . Ithas its branches, its executioners-from thecourts of the United States down to the countycourt, each has its head . He works all thebranches connected with it .

If he does not hegets nothing done . Your government has ahead, it has a president ; and his word is theelectric battery for the whole nation .

Each of-ficer who is under the government must obeyat the word "go."

If not there is stagnationin the government . When you go into themilitary department, what do you expect there?System .

You expect to find a head, or generalof the army .

It has branches and subordinatesdown to the private. Without that there isfailure .

You claim to be in a Christian land ;not where they rob and kill as they do downthere in Cuba, or some other places . You claimto be here in a good land, where people aregood.

Good people ought to think pretty well,they ought to think kindly of the Mechanic whomade all the mechanics and everything con-nected with them m,

I want to make this asser-tion :

That for the last twenty-five years myobject has been to find one single defeat in allnature, to find one single mistake of God.

ButI have made a total failure in this respect.When I reason I must have something to

reason from and something to reason with .

Imake to myself, and I have as much privilege todo that as the savage has to make him awoodenGod, I make to myself a God of Intelligence .And then and there I begin to ask questions,and as most of our made gods are dummys, Iask the question and I answer it .

By reason Ipropound a question and wait, and by reason Iam led to a conclusion .One of my breasts is sore, a lump in it, and I

don't know what is putting it there, and thedoctor don't know either .

He says he will cutit out.

Will that stop it?

I don't know andthe doctor don't know and you don't knoweither .

You bleed and you groan, and maybeanother oneappears somewhere else, or you maydie.

The engineer, or the man who reasons asan engineer, would go over your breast and seeif one of the shafts, that we call a rib, wasn'tthrown across another shaft or running up a lit-tle too close. The blood must get through

some place to make my breast and to makeyours.

When it has done its work it must bavthe privilege to take the remainder off.

Whenwe commence to reason and look around whatdo we find?

We find a body with over twhundred pieces of timber in it .

We call themribs and shanks and femurs and spines, and allthose things .

Here is a brace, here is a joist,miter, etc . We need in this frame of mancrooked shafts and rafters-we find almost noneat all straight .

The fact is, not a straight bonecan be found in the body.

We begin to look atthe machine, and if a man will use his reasonhe will find that there is a constructed houseand inside of that house is a principle that wecommonly call life, and in that life a principlecalled mind or reason .

We find motion thatrequires power ; we find that the temperature isnot very high, therefore it is not steam power.We find it not above a hundred .

Steam mustbe higher than that .

What have we? It mustbe electricity, as that needs only common temp-erature.

Where is this electricity generated?Go on with your investigation, saddle up yourhorse and take a ride, your mental horse, andtake a ride up between your eyes ; you will findyourself passing between two hills and goingover a little bridge ; on the right is a heap ofbrain and on the left is another, and in the center is what we call a septum .

We find a greatbig lump of ' matter that we call the big brain ;we run over that hill and we find a little hill,the small brain or cerebellum .

Below that wehave what looks like a dutchman's maul withthe spinal cord for a handle .

We go down thespinal cord till we come to the cauda equina orhorse's tail, with thousands of electric wiresbranching off.

If you clip one of these every-thing below it is inactive, just as that lightwould be if we clipped the wire .

Osteopathy isbased upon the wisdom of God, andwhen a manhas passed a grade of from go to loo in anat-omy under our rigid examinations he will knowwhere to find the right electric button .

I wishI knew what button to turn when a man isdrunk on whiskey.

Tell me the difference be-tween what you pronounce insanity and adrunken man and I will get you ayellow coat-and then you will be a gold bug.

What makesone crazy when he drinks whiskey?

It strikesthe terminations of the solar plexus, the greatnerve that spreads around the stomach, and af-fects the heart causing it to pump the bloodfaster through the arteries, paralyzing the brain,and the blood does not return ; therefore youare drunk.

The question that Osteopathy hasbefore it now is to know why alcoholic stimu-lants makes a man drunk, and why you calla man or woman crazy who is perfectly sane allday and suddenly goes into a spell of insanity,as you term it, and remains so until he becomesexhausted, and when this exhaustion is gonethey are just as rational as the man who gotdrunk last night .

That is a proposition that istaking my time day and night .

I want to takeyour husband out of that asylum and sit him atyour side .

For hundreds of years the world hastrifled with the thought of insanity .

It gener-ally results in housing the insane up, hamper-ing them, chaining them, and forcing doses ofcaster oil and jalap down their throats .

I havenever yet pictured out a good old Methodist hellto be half as bad as an asylum.

I would rathersee my daughter shot and buried than taken toone.

Osteopathy is a science ; not what we know ofit, but tie subject we are studying, is as deepas eternity . We know but little of it . I haveworked and worried here in Kirksville fortwenty-two long years, and I intend to studyfor twenty-three thousand years yet.There is anther subject I am going to tell

you about.

The fat man gets fat because hecannot help it .

We have some very scrawnyones that wont do to fry at all .

My investiga-tion so far is a great step toward solving theproblem why one woman is fat and her sister isnot.

I believe that before twelve months passesaround I can jerk the fat off of you.

Why so?So far in the last two months that I have beeninvestigating thus, I find that lean women, or agreat many of them, have had abscesses in the

side of the neck near the glands in and aboute the jaw, near the 5th pair of nerves . I believen we are on the verge of finding how to get rid of

that annoyance, too much fat.

Nature's Godo intended every particle of that fat to be utilized

in support of muscles and other tissues.

Youwill find that the arms of those persons are ashard as bologna sausage.

That shows that theoverplus has been thrown overboard. I amafter that fat, I am after the insane person, whois to be pitied as the inebriate is to be pitied,and it is the duty and determination of thisSchool of Osteopathy to solve just such ques-tions.

I could almost put my finger on a per-son who was decided insane and sent to the asylum, but who only had asthma .

I could placemy hands almost on another onewhowas placedthere because he had the headache .

He hadhis neck set here and was alright until he wasinjured again, when his head commencedaching .

And rather than

let him come tothese contemptible Osteopaths a committee ofdoctors decided that he was insane andtherewasgreat danger that he would kill his family .They took him to the asylum, and in order toget himself out he told them he wasbetter whendisease was preying on him almost to the verycenter .We expect to come back about the ath of Jan-

uary and begin another year's work, andwe ex-pect to keep at it until we can walk by the sideof sane men and women. who have once been inthe asylum . I am invited by a United StatesSenator to visit the insane asylums of the greatstate of Ohio .

I am not sure but what I willgo, but I don't know enough yet to take hold ofit .

Some men that know more than I do tellme what effect a drink of whiskey has on theblood.

I will go to the head and take out theinsanity .

Avery dangerous man came here awhile ago.

His father and brother stayed withhim all the time .

He is now enjoying soundness of mind and good health .

Hetold me thathe knew there was something wrong but hecouldn't tell what it was.

He wanted to hitsomething, to destroy something, and it wouldbe a pleasure if he could do some heinous crime.I have no doubt but that it is a delight to aninsane man to shoot the brains out of his wife ;he anticipates it with as much pleasure as youdo what you will get in you, stocking tommor-row night.

I have talked with them andaskedthem about this, and they say that at the timethey knew everything, but the idea of destruc-tion of life or doing some great crime was pleas-ing to them .I want to make you all welcome here tonight.

We have not had an opportunity for four monthsto talk to anyone while the building was beingerected. I am going to shave and get somesand-paper and sand-paper my neck and then Iwill talk to you. If I undertake to do any-thing you need not ask me any questions, I willexecute it regardless of consequences.

Had Inot done that in regard to Osteopathy, just as Ihave done with this house, youwould never havehad any trouble with it . Osteopathy was asingle fight.

Itwas a fight for truth.

Itneverstruck a wave that made it tremble.

When peo-ple would call me a crank I didn't get mad atthat, I didn't get cross at all.

Says I,

if youhad as much sense on this subject as the sheep Iwould feel hard towards you, but you are per-fectly excusable.

I would ask the very fellowswho

laughed

at , me how many bones theyhad in their foot, and 75 per cent of them couldnot tell .

Each of those bones in the foot has aplace to supply, muscles are attached to them,arteries and nerves pass around and betweenthem .Here in the throat you have a button that has a good

many colors in it, that button has the color of diph-theria, croup, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough,tonsilitis, sore breast for the mother, and spots on yourface

You better get acquainted with that button andquit putting powder on your face .

Now, when you gohome don't think you will find buttons sticking out allover your skinwhat is the coldest part of your body, men, women

or children? And how do you prove it? When youopen your dry eye there isn't a bit of water on it, andbefore even the lachrymal glands can act . as soon asthe air strikes it it converts the moisture in the air in-to water, the oxygen and hydrogen unite, the eye beingcolder than the atmosphere .

It is the mystery of God

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himself how that water is spilled in the eye, when therewas no water on it .

It is a mystery that we ought tothink of .

You get acquainted with the machinery ofman, and if you will do nothing else but master that,you will find something always new .

One says ; if Ilust knew how to make a few moves I could stop fluxetc.

Then he would go and tell the people, why I justcame from Kirksville, I understand all about it .

Thisfool with a little $3 book says he is an Osteopath .

Ifhe understands Osteopathy, I do not, and I am the dis-coverer of the science .

The greatest wonder is thatafter Osteopathy ha sproduced its cures it can make.more pretenders and counterfeiters in a town of 1000inhabitants than any thing I ever knew of .

You takeone of them, and they cannot describe a single muscle,cannot give the origin and insertiou of any three mus-cles in the body, and let them choose the muscles.

Doyou want such a man as that for a doctor?

If you do,1t is all right .

There are plenty to waiton you .

Theywill treat you for so much . They know just as much asthe old doctor because they hitched up his team threetimes .

I want you all to come out here some time in Janu-ary . I want you to feel at home If I were to talk toeach of you m detail it would talk my head off in lessthan a week.

A patient that has been to all of thephysicians in Europe and America, can ask a string ofquestions that would almost go around Cleveland, andthey are just as hard as the glittering diamonds ofAfrica .

I want to tell you that this science will handle allfevers-typhus, malaria, typhoid, scarlet fever, croup,pneumonia, and right along down the list. It willhandle any fever that it reaches in time without ipecac,quinine, digitalis, belladonna or aconite . It will do itjust as surely as when you turn one of these electricbuttons the light goes out .

I have proven that na-ture has provided the body with all that is necessaryfor our comfort and health .

Take the lungs they aremade so they will act as well in New Orleans as in Alaska .

Why is it?

When you go down south they widenout ; it takes a little more roomwhen you get there . Thesame lungs will do you on any part of the earth .

Youdo not need to wait for a shoemaker to make you a newset of lungs to go north or south with .

The lungs willsuit themselves to the change.

And when you beginto take calomel, quinine, nix vomica, belladonna, usethe hypodermic syringe, etc . you are proving that Goddoes not know his own business .

The very instantthat you take any drug that is not a nourishment to thebody you have proven God to be a failure in just thatmuch .

I work by the intelligence of God and live byit.

Good Night .

Dr. Harry Still of Chicago, spent several days inKirksville this month .Senator and Mrs . Foraker departed for Cincinnatti

on the 16th .

Dr. Herman Still accompanied them.Drs. Harry Still and Arthur Hildreth whohave formed

a partnership as Still & Hildreth, will hereafter be foundin rooms 905 and 9o6, Masonic Temple, Chicago, andat Dr. Still's old office in Evanston at 1405 Benson avenue .

Their card appears elsewhere in this issue,Mrs . J . G . Hammer, of Butte, Mont., is the mother of

a bouncing boy who will no doubt grow up to be a greatOsteopath. The little fellow arrived December 29th,

under the Osteopathic auspices of Dr. Alice Pattersonand Dr. Thomas Still. Mrs . Hammer, who is a patientat the Infirmary, is getting'along nicely, and the "fu-ture Osteopath" is as bright as a new dollar .One of the memorable holiday pleasantries' inOsteopathiccircles was asurprise partygiven by theOctober

'95 and'January '96 classes, at the home of Prof . WmSmith, demonstrator of anatomy, on the evening ening of De-cember 17th . The principle feature was the presenta-tion of an elegant cut glass"water set and silver tray,from the two classes to Prof . Smith . Mr. D . B. McCauleyCauley made the'presentation speech . The`evening

was spent very delightfully in games and other amuse-ments, with refreshments

Another year now stands in the year rank of time .It has recorded all our acts of mind and body, silly orscientific . Some of us know more and'are more useful,To those ninety-six was profitable, and they are readyto enter ninety-seven for another haul of the seine oftime .

This sea ebbs and tides with books of know-ledge .

They come under the. franking privilege of thegovernment of Nature .

Take one and read it or youyou will be guilty of the sin of omission which is wbad as commission .

H, M. STILL .

A. G. Hildreth

(Still and HildrethCHICAGO AND EVANSTON, ILL .

Chicago office,

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Evanston Office,Masonic Temple

14o5 Benson Avenue.-

room 905-9o6

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

Kirksville, Mo .

Office upstairs, south side over Kirksville MillineryStore.

ROSTER OF STUDENTS-IN-The American ZOOM of Osteopathy

OCTOBER (1895) CLASS.Ash, Mary E

Oneida, IllBaldwin, Mollie

Plevna, MoDarling, Agnes

Evanston, IllDarling, Charles G

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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

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Mayes, Mr M T

Dalton City, IllMayes, Mrs Florence

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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) CLASS.

Bailey, M W

Brashear, MissouriBernard, H H

Chicago, IllinoisBernard, Roy

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Buckmaster, Robert M

Kirksville, MissouriEmeny, Harry William

St Paul . MinnesotaFurrow, Nettle

Kirksville, MoGravett, H H

Grayville, Ill,Hazzard, Charles

Peoria, IllHobson, Mary

Chicago, IllHulett, Mac F

Lawrence, KansasHulett, Mrs . Adelaide S .

"McGavock, R H

Columbia, MoOwen, J E

Kirksville, MoOwen, Mrs J E

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"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 R

Browning,MoWilliams, Mrs D S

Council Bluffs, IowaMAY (1896) CLASS.

FIRST DIVISION .Bolles, Newton A

Denver, ColBurke, Mrs . Anna M

Kirksville, MoCampbell, Mary NettleCampbell, Arthur DCluett, Frank G

St. Louis, MoEly, William E

Kirksville, MoEly, Mrs Anna L

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Fletcher, William A

"Gentry, Benton F

"Green, Ginevra I

"Greene, W H

"Hart, Lawrence M

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"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, laMiller, Frank C

Kirksville, MoMiller, Mrs Sadie Hart

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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 H

Kirksville, MoBrown, Leander S.,

Fort Collins, ColoCole, M D

Kirksville, MoConner, D L

Kirksville, Mo.Densmore, O

Mason 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

Mason, MoIlgenfritz, Harry F

Kirksville, MoKellogg, Howard G

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Landes, Agnes V

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Macauley, Daniel B

Chicago, IllMathews, S C

Pattonsburg, MoMcCoy, Chas . K

Kirksville, MoMcLain, Harry C

Wellsville, KasPrickett, Orson B

Kirksville, MoSmiley, William M

"Smith, Le Roy

"Spangler, Harvey L

"Underwood, Evelyn

Kansas City, MoWilliams, Roger K

Council Bluffs, Iowa .

OCTOBER (1896) CLASS..

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, laLaughlin, 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, Miss 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 JW

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

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"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, Goo 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, Neb.Ray, T S

Kirksville, MoRhynsburger, Will J

Des Moines, laRozelle, Mrs Lida K

Tarkio, Mo .Severson, Miss K M

Cohoes, 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, T N

Laplata, Mo.Wycoff, Louis E

Fairview Ill .

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