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DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF OSTEOPATHY,

VOL. III.Kirksville MISSOURI, NOVEMBER, 1896 .

NO. 5.

Osteopathy.To the founder of this great science these lines are

dedicated with the love and respect of the writer :

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

HELEN Du Lendrecie

AN EMINENT DIVINE'S OPINION.

Rev. Mason W. Pressly Says Osteopathy Sounds theDeath Knell of Medicine

The Chicago Times-Herald of the 29th con-'

tained the following interview with Rev.Mason W. Pressly, of Hamilton, Ohio. Dr.Herman Still is located in Hamilton, and Rev.Pressly became interested in the results of workdone there. The Reverend gentleman's wife,given up as hopeless by other schools, was sogreatly benefitted that he determined to givethe science a thorough investigation .

For thatpurpose he visited Kirksville early this month .The result of his investigation is best told bythe Times-Herald interview, which is as fol-lows :

It is asserted that the sick can now be curedwithout the aid of medicine or surgery. Nolonger will suffering humanity be compelled toquaff noxious draughts in efforts to seek relieffrom disease.These are claims of the new healing science

called Osteopathy, which may revolutionize themedical world . It is little known as yet, but itnumbers among its followers people prominentin the social and business world.

These peoplehave witnessed some of the marvelous curesbrought about by Osteopathy, and althoughskeptical at first, as all invalids are when a newcure-all is recommended, are now numberedamong its staunchest supporters.

If, as it hasbeen stated, the age of miracles in religion ispast, it is equally certain that the age of mar-vels in the evolution of science is just beginning.

This new curative agency is a drugless one,and claims .o do all that medicine can, and more .It even invades the realms of surgery and ob-steterics, and proposes to attain with the fing-ers results that have heretofore been consideredimpossible save by the use of the knife.The Osteopath, as an exponent of this sci-

ence is called, claims that the greater numberof human diseases are occasioned by the dis-placement of some muscle or bone or otherstructure, or some unnatural pressure upon anerve or blood vessel . He further claims thatby a perfect knowledge of anatomy, he can lo-cate the exact point of displacement or pressurecausing disease, and this cause he removes bycertain processes of manipulation . He looksupon man as a living engine, and adjusts everypart of his mechanism, nerves, muscles, bones,ligaments, arteries, etc., with the same carethat is bestowed by an engineer upon his enginebefore taking it out on a long run.

When allobstructions are removed and all the organs ofthis human machine are made to work withoutfriction nature is ready to step in and bringhealth and strength . As a violinist knows whatnotes to touch in order to produce harmony, soan Osteopath understands what part of the hu-man frame to play upon to produce health .Rev. Mason W. Pressly, a brilliant young

clergyman of Hamilton, Ohio, and pastor of theUnited Presbyterian Church of that city, claimsgreat things for the new healing science. Infact, he is so impressed with its beneficial qual-ities, not only from a medical but from a relig-ious standpoint as well, that he has made avowto renounce his pastorate and take up the sci-ence of Osteopathy as his religion in this lifeand his hope of an eternal hereafter.There is a great deal of the remarkable in

this resolve coming from such a man as Rev.Mr. Pressly.

He is not a wild-eyed reformeror frantic in any sense of the word .

He is oneof the most noted divines of the latter day, andhas held pastorates in New York City, Phila-delphia and other leading cities . It wouldseem,therefore, that he is not taking up the pursuitof this new healing science to further his owninterests, but for the welfare of humanity . Andthe manner in which this resolve was broughtabout is as romatic as it is startling.Rev. Mr. Pressly's wife had for years suf-

fered untold agony from numberless ills to whichflesh is heir, and all the knowledge of the medi-cal world had been exhausted in search of re-lief .

Osteopathy was at last resorted to as the

final hope before death.

And their joy can beimagined when in a few short months this mar-velous healer brought her to life andhealth andeffectually banished dread disease.The noted divine tells the Times-Herald of

the vow he made and the changes this newhealing science will bring about. He says :"Of course, my interest was enlisted from thefirst improvement, and I said : `If Osteopathycures my wife I shall study and practice it inconnection with my gospel ministry.' Nowthat she is restored I have decided to keep thevow I registered when almost overwhelmed withanxiety and despondency. And in prosecutionof my intent I visited last week the original In-firmary at Kirksville, Mo., and investigated thenew healing science.

Mrs. Foraker, wife of theOhio senator, was the first person I talked to,and she soon imparted something of her splen-did enthusiasm to me.

She told me of her ex-perience in Osteopathy, and she has had unusu-al opportunity for testing it in the case of herlittle boy, who is fast recovering, though an em-inent specialist had said he would live only tohis seventh year .

"I believe Osteopathy to be thoroughly sci-entific, rational and natural. It is backed by aphilosophy, a logic, and a constructive basisthat challenges investigation . It has alreadyscored a record of triumphs so signal over thewhole category of diseases that it must commandthe thought of the progressive mind of themedical world.

As a therapeutic agency I believeit is destined to work a revolution .

It is one ofthe phenomena of the times."The originator of the science is Dr . A. T.

Still .

I consider him one of the greatest menin the age.

He is a powerful thinker, originalin his methods and independent of the conven-tionalities of professionalism .

He is more likeChrist than any man I ever met.

Mrs. Foraker said to me:

`He is the purest and mostspiritual man I ever saw. His whole soul, mindand body seem consecrated to the relief of suf-fering humanity .'

He has gathered about himseveral trusted men who are his disciples in Os-teopathy . I consider Dr. Still the greatestanatomist in the world. And I am perfectlywilling that any of my statements may be tested .Osteopathy challenges the most critical and sci-entific review .

The Still family, in which Os-teopathy originated, was a family of clergyman.And if this new science is true to the spirit andlife and longing of its great founder, it will beone of the greatest agencies in the world for re-alizing the mission and commision of christian-ity.

"I have always wished to be able to get intocloser touch with suffering mankind. The min-istry of Jesus was largely to the body . I believethe body to be the shrine of the spirit . Thetherapeutics of Christ is something we haveneglected.

The church is shorn of much of herpristine glory and success because she has neg-lected the bodies of mankind.

And the sighs,sickness, suffering and sinning of this world willnever be assuaged until Christ's ministry is re-stored .

"I think that Osteopathy is the nearest ap-proach to the fulfillment of the human side ofChrist .

We are weary of the monoply of medicine and the domination of drugs.

Medicine atbest is largely speculation, and Osteop-athy is the tremendous protest of scienceand nature against it . The dissection of acadaver is legitimate, but the surgical dissec-tion of a living body is often cruel and death-dealing.

Medicine is not a final science.

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day of its doom may be distant, but it willcome . The goddess of Hygenia has broughtforth a progeny in Osteopathy that is destinedto win. Osteopathy is Christlike ."The credentials of Christ's ministry, as ex-

pressed by himself, were: 'The sick are healed,the blind see, the lame walk, the dumb speak,and the poor have the gospel preached to them.'And the new healing science of Osteopathymakes all this possible . "

A FEW WORDS FROM DR. STILL.

Life's Story.Listen to a life story told in five minutes or

more . I was born on this globe sixty-eightyears ago.

I had the luck, good or bad, to beborn in a house of drugs.

Father was an M.D ., also a D. D .

And at the end of thirty-fiveyears I began to reason how a doctor of divinitycould blend with the foolish teaching of niedi-cine .

Questions arose with me, how can manharmonize the idea that all God's work is per-fect, and never in running order?His finest machine, man, never inrunning condition. Has the God ofall wisdom failed in this one super-structure, man, andwhy did lie sayit was good if he knew it would notwork as he thought it would whenhe made it, and why should aD. D.who with uplifted hands say, "hisworks prove his perfection," andtake a dose of quinine and whiskeyto assist nature's machine to runthe race and do the duties of life?If so, where is the proof of his faithin God's perfection, and why shouldhe eat and drink of all that is deadlyin effect? I did not wish to thinkor speak irreverently of our divinesnor our M D.'s, who follow justbehind God to fix his machines forthe harvest of life .

But why fol-low his work, if good and wiselymade, by the hand and mind of allintelligence? I began to reasonabout on this line : Would God getoffended at man, if he would say tohint, you have failed in enoughplaces to admit of a few sug-gestions?

When man in his wis-dom or lack of wisdom, would sayby word or deed, "Thou hast failed to makethis and that part or principle to adjust itself tosuit the seasons, and climates of the globe onwhich it was placed, and your machine musthave additions and be oiled by drugs and drinksor it will be forever a failure on the field of bat-tle between life and death now raging all overthe world." Such questions arose and stood be-fore me for years. I found to my mind thatthere was a great mistake in God's work orman's conclusions if drugs were not in absolutedemand when man is sick . Now I was in a closeplace, and saw at once that if I voted to usedrugs I would by that vote set aside the abilityof God to provide for his man under all con-ditions, and he had not the mind and intelli-gence claimed for him, and if I voted for God,I would soon find 75 per cent of the human racein line to oppose that conclusion .

To defendand maintain that the works of nature had beenable to prove perfection at every point of obser-vation or under our most crucial test of philoso-phy .

I soon found to be popular I would haveto enter a life Gf deception, and at that time Idetermined to run up the white emblem of truth

with the red sword of eternal war for that flag,and by it I would stand until I was dead ; dead,and folded in it to begin the common rest of allhuman forms which is as natural to the body ofman as the love of a mother is to her babe .

Gems .

IF God knew a man would not use his mind,why did lie not put horns on him and call himamutton-head?WHAT is the value of a mind when placed on

the back of a coward?

If mind is a gift of Godto man for his use why not let him use it?

Amind is not in use when doing no good .

Joy is the reward which all beings strive toobtain .

Joy is that feeling that comes to a contented mind .

Its effect is rest to soul and body .When a person is in possession of that preciousgem, all is peace and love to man and beast,friend and foe. Toy comes often in a small

way; it lasts but a short time, then gives wayto cares.

PROPHECY is what can be seen by a cloudlessmind, either the past or future . The events ofthe past and coming days must all be in sight ofthe eye of the mind .

To prophesy well, youmust see through the two veils, one of the pastand one of the future .

If an event is to arisetomorrow, where is it now?

Memory calls upthe past ; reason sees the future .

OSTEOPATHY in meaning is equal to a wellknown mechanical science called plumbing . Theplumber adjusts his pipes so all parts of thehouse are supplied with just enough pure waterfor all demands for health and cleanliness . AnOsteopath goes farther and adjusts the batteryand all nerves thereunto belonging.

An Osteo-path is aplumber and an electrician combined .

WE all have visions occasionally, even thoughit should take a yellow jacket's nest to bringthem out of the brain . The more stupid seldomget to the altitude of joy found in visions. Nowlet me give you a few of the apple pies of thenight.

My cat dreams, my dog dreams ; so can

you, if the brain has not been soaked too longin the morning hours of "sit on the sweet roostpole of human stupidity." No dream, no gooddog, no good sense. -

"I Want to See the Old Doctor,"Is a common expression and has been for fourmonths, while I was building . I am now pre-pared to meet you, and make your acquaintance .I will now give you the reason why I have beenas you have thought, hard to find .

In May Isaw at a glance that I had no house to suit thebusiness that was demanding attention. Myhouse was not one third large enough for thework .

I closed my eyes and ears to all businessbut to build and that in the shortest time pos-sible.

I stepped out of all office business andleft it in the hands of the vice president andsecretary to manage the sick .

I knew theycould and would and they have done the workto perfection, and can do it at all times, whether

I am there or not.

I will be in thebuilding much and often.

I willtalk to you, have you taken to allparts of the house, in school anddissection rooms, and try and giveyou a chance to know that thoroughqualification is in all our branchesfrom furnace to flag .

Don't stopme in the halls or upon the streetsto tell a long tale of woe.

I willlisten to you after you have been tothe Secretary, who is a thoroughdiploniate in the science. Go tohim first and do as he directs.

Hewill come to me with your case ifthere is anything uncommon in itwhether you ask him or not.

Question?"Would you advise me to study

Osteopathy?"

is a question askedalmost daily.

The mail is loadedwith such questions as follows :"Do you think I ought to study

Osteopathy, send my son, daughter,or advise some well informed lady

- or gentleman to study the new sci-ence?"To all these questions I will

say : yes, if they want to .

I do notwant a student to come and tell me he or shewas persuaded to come by some one. If theycooly decide to make it a profession for life, Iwould say, send them by all means.

We willsend them back prepared to do honor and goodand make you proud that you had advised themto go and learn the machinery of man and thelaws of life .

Staking Out My Calves .I will not stake out any this year.

I willhave some nice yearlings for market next year .Some nice Herefords, Durhams, Jerseys, Mu-leys, and some nice black Polled Angus. Ihave sent out one pedigreed two-year old toVermont.

He has torn up jack with the medi-cal law.

I have a Polled Angus and Durham inChicago.

I tell you they roar loud .

I havethree jerseys in Kentucky . They paw andscrape and look well on dress parade .

I sentthree to Denver .

They are sixteen to one inany market .

I have a Texas ranger in Ohioand a few others out, all pedigreed.

Dr.Harry M.Still, D. 0.,CHICAGO AND EVANSTON, ILL .

Chicago office,

Evanston Office,7o Dearborn Street . 1405 Benson Avenue .

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DR . PRATT, OF Chicago

The Great Surgeon Visits Kirksville and Expresses HisOpinion of Osteopathy.

From the Kirksville Journal, Nov. 5th.

The American School of Osteopathy has en-tertained many distinguished visitors during thepast year-scholars and scientists from homeandabroad-but since the founding of this schoolthere has been no event of greater import to thefollowers of Dr . Still than the visit last Fridayof Dr . E. H. Pratt, M. D., L L. D., of Chicago.Dr. Pratt is recognized as one of the world'sgreatest surgeons . He holds the chair of Ori-ficial Surgery in the Chicago Homeopathic Med-ical College, with which institution he has beenprominently connected for years.

Dr. Pratt isthe founder of Orificial Surgery and the origi-nator of the famous "American operation." Heis also consulting surgeon of the Cook CountyHospital and one of the authors of the Homeo-pathic text books of surgery.Dr. Pratt has a withered leg which has been

practically useless for many years. His ownskill and the medical and surgical learning ofthe world failed to benefit him.

In Septemberhe placed himself under treatment of Dr . HarryStill, who practices Osteopathy in Evanston, asuburb of Chicago.

The benefit was so greatand seemed so remarkable to Dr. Pratt that heat once became interested in Osteopathy .

Dr.Harry Still invited him to Kirksville to investi-gate the fountain head of the new science.Dr . Pratt arrived here last Thursday in com-

pany with Dr. Harry Still . He made a shorttalk Thursday afternoon to the senior class, andFriday afternoon delivered an address to theentire school .

His lecture was largely techni-cal-upon the sympathetic nervous system-andwould be as Greek to the general public .

Theparts of his talk in which he referred to Osteop-athy in a general way, are here given.

Friday afternoon Memorial hall was filledwith students, teachers, and operators. Dr .Smith, Professor of Anatomy, introduced Dr.Pratt, who said :"There is only one safe ground for anyone to

occupy, and it is the only true ground-thatman never originates truth ; truth is God's andnot man's. And only in so far as we get ourindividuality and our personality out of the wayand become receptacles of truth, get in line withit-God's own truth-do we advance. Thereason that Dr. Still is the man he is is becausehe has not been conceited, is because he has notbeen selfish, he has not been hunting aftermoney ; that man has not sought reputation asan object of life ; he has simply had his eyesfixed upon the star of truth, and he has pursueda uniform course in that direction .

So his face,being toward the light, has always shone, notby his own light, but by the reflection of thelight he was looking at-God's light. Youcould not make Dr. Still conceited.

You mightbow down to him and tell him he was a God,but he would say, 'You are mistaken .' He willnot take it to himself, he will take it back tothe God who gave it to him. He will say, "Youcan see the same God; don't look at me; look atthe truth.'

And I take exactly the same atti-tude . And when he says I am an originalthinker, I have only got myself out of the wayso that I could see the same truth; and everyman can do the same thing.

All you have todo is to lay down your life to find it-the sim-ple, common Bible axiom.

That is one of thelaws of spiritual physiology .

I feel that I am

in a congenial atmosphere, because I am in anatmosphere of truth-seekers. I am simply afellow-student with you. I am not here to givea popular address, but you want me here forbusiness ; you want me here to tell you something g of anatomy."

Here followed the technical portion of thelecture, which was agreat treat for the studentsof anatomy. In closing his address,' Dr . Prattcontinued:"And whenever we get mankind relieved

from the use of the knife, I shall be glad, for Iam wedded to nothing except the health andhappiness of mankind . I would save themfrom every ache and pain. I have no love forscalped, no love for pain, and I will only be tooglad to lay down my scalpel at every instancewhere I can learn lessons from that man.

Butneither of us are very far along, we are only onthe body side .

There is another and higherwork for both to do .

The body of any man isjust this crystalized life . When the body is madit is mad clear through, and when it is glad it isglad all over ; when the eyes cry so does the ut-erus, liver, stomach, heart.

And when it is fullof fear the whole body is scared. When youwant to cure humanity youhave got to go awayback andteach the people to seek good in every-thing; in night as well as day, in storm as wellas sunshine ; to hope, to trust, to seek what theywant instead of keeping on their minds per-petually what they do not want .

I am so de-lighted to think that that great philosopher, Dr .Still, is equally with myself following up fartheryet after that great realm of force.

We haveno sympathy, I think, either of us, with thatclass of people who deny the existence of mat-ter.

They say there is no such thing as sin orsickness or death.

I do not believe that, and soI have no sympathy with those who ignore thosethings.

"The teaching in this work, Iam glad to say, is largely clinical, and in thatyou are getting your education.

You have toexercise your sense of touchand judgment . Youhave to bear very hard on some people, on othersthe slightest touch is enough . I can see atonce, as little as I know of it, the extreme artthat is required, and I will tell you that if Iwere loose and could sit under the inspiration ofthe originating brain of this thought, I wouldcatch the drippings from those eaves just as longas I could stand it possibly."

A NOBLE LIFE-WORK .

The Editor of a hadies' Magazine Says Osteopathy isWoman's Opportunity .

The Editor of "Club Life," a Woman's Mag-azine published at Quincy, Ill., visited theSchool of Osteopathy this month. As a resultof her investigation November Club Life con-tained the following editorial opinion of the newscience:

We spent a very pleasant hour with Mr. Pat-terson, of the A . T . Still Infirmary, at Kirks-ville, a few days ago. Like others we hadheard much of this institution, but confess muchsurprise at the magnitude of the enterprise .Workmen were busy with brick and mortar,hammer and nails, adding to the already collos-sal building . Indeed it would seem that Kirks-ville itself is one vast Infirmary-everywhereon the streets are met cripples and invalidswhom, it would seem, were doomed without apossibility of hope for relief, yet we were as-

sured by persons themselves that they were be-ing benefitted and had gone at the instance ofpersonal friends far more afflicted, who had beencured sound and well.

On the train leaving Kirksville was amother,returning to her home in Chicago, who had lefther twelve-year old daughter with every confi-dence in Dr . Still's care . This child has beena cripple for five years, the result of a fall atschool . During all that time she has never beenable to sit down, being compelled to stand orlie ; the mother has every hope in her ultimaterecovery under Dr . Still .

Like all new discov-eries, Osteopathy is received with suspicion bythose who have not come in contact with itswonderful work; a few years ago, the new inven-tions and discoveries we enjoy today, were con-sidered impossible, yet now they awaken no sur-prise and the developments resulting fromfurther investigations are hailed as perfectlynatural sequences.

So with this new science-each day new possibilities are developed, showing thatthe field is yet almost untried-as new

workers take the science up, bringing theirthoughts and ideas into practice, new discover-ies and possibilities of the powers of the sciencewill be unfolded .

The unknown is usually in-comprehensive and this is especially true of thecomparatively new system of healing the sick,called Osteopathy ; in reality it is very simpleand rational as explained by Dr. Patterson.Dr . Patterson is a conscientious, courteous and

withal highly cultured man ; he thoroughly un-derstands this marvelous process of healing andis capable of making his reasoning and explana-tions comprehensible to his listeners. He doesnot disqualify the use of germicides, anticeptics,anaesthetics, etc., yet, like the careful house-keeper, believes that everything should be keptin its place.The science appeals particularly to women

who desire a noble, uplifting life-work . Awoman whose natural inclination is toward thebenefit and assistance of less fortunate of humankind and who desires to ally herself with somework that, while acting constantly as a moraluplift, will yet in an agreeable and rapid wayplace her pecuniarily above all concern for herfuture, has the basis furnished her in Osteop-athy . The cost of learning, counted in dollarsand cents, is not cheap, yet a woman, intelli-gent and ambitious, with a heart of sympatheticlove for her fellow-beings, can, by investing afew hundred dollars andspending a certain timeat the Infirmary, lay the foundation for a gen-erous and constantly increasing income and feelthat every dollar added to her bank account isdeposited a blessing from some grateful soul .There is no avocation in life which places

within the reach of the industrious young wom-en of today as great opportunities as are offeredin the science of Osteopathy . Other trades andprofessions are full to overflowing ; many are sobadly overdone as to be unremunerative to eventheir most experienced and competent followers.Osteopathy is new. Its absolute success in deal-ing with disease is a guarantee to young menand women who equip themselves with a knowl-edge of this new philosophy will reap a rich re-ward in worldly goods, and, what is greaterstill, will "live to bless mankind ."Young women whoare about to choose a life

work should investigate Osteopathy by allmeans before casting their lot. There is noprofession in which youth and brains will find amore pleasant or profitable employment .

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TRUTH.Nature ever yields reward

T0 him who seeks and loves herbest."-CORNWELL.

He who studies nature's lawsFrom certain truth his maxims draws.

-GAY .

THERE are 170 students now enrolled in theschool .

One year ago there were 5I .

"Medicine is a collection of uncertain pre-scriptions, the results of which, taken collec-tively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."-Napoleon.

"THERE is no greater foe to progress thanthe supposed consistency which keeps some menfrom accepting the truth because they are onrecord against it . "

WHILE medicine continues to point with prideto the ingenuity and bewildering complexity ofits theories, Osteopathy asks the public tolook at RESULTS.

"Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis likea star newborn, that drops into its place, andwhich, once circling in its placid round, not allthe tumult of the earth can shake."

"It is better to have recourse to a quack if hecan cure our disorder, although he cannot explain it,thantoa physician, if he canexplain

our disease, but cannot cure it -Colton.

IF it were possible to compile truthful statis-tics of human mortality for the past thousandyears, which would be found responsible for thegreatest number of premature deaths, medicineor disease?

THE JOURNAL is a week late this month ow-ing to the fact that it was held for engravingsof the new building . Unexpected delay in put-ting the finishing touches on thenew structuremakes it impossible to get the engraving for thisissue, hence a description of Osteopathy's homewill be reserved for a later issue .

"THE public mind is educated quickly byevents-slowly by argument." The truth ofthis axiom has been proven in the rapidadvance of Osteopathy .

One important inci-dent occurred during the month, in the state ofVermont.

When the bill that was to give thenew healing art legal recognition in that state,came up for hearing before the legislature, itwas referred to the committee on public health .This committee wisely refused to be bored bylong winded elucidations of theory, but calledfor evidence of results.

Many witnesses weresummoned, and when the chairman asked allthose who had been cured

or benefitted byOsteopathy to rise, over two hundred peoplestood up .

Many of them were examined, andthe result of this investigation proved so over-whelmingly convincing that the bill was atonce reported favorably and passed both houseswithout a struggle .

"Many a physician can only pour drugs ofwhich he knows little into bodies of which heknows less."-Voltaire.

"THE world is a solemn fact ; we are in it,passing through it . Let us try to understandits mysteries; let us think much of its responsi-bilities ; let us ponder the thoughts of the in-quiring minds of all ages ; let us prize all thelight we have from man, from God, so that wemay be guided aright amid itsperils and chang-ing experiences. "-Alexander Reed.

THE move instituted by the several classesin the American School of Osteopathy towardperfecting class organizations and becomingbetter acquainted, is a good one. It is said thetouch of a comrade's elbow adds new courage toa man in the field of battle .

Would it not bewell to see to it that these associations becomemore than a pleasant pastime and

that out ofthem may grow a practical and protectivealumni that will add to our strength and cour-age after we have passed from this preparatoryschool into the higher branches and broaderfields of practical experience?

EVERY school of healing should stand uponits own merits. Osteopathy does not ask forlaws compelling people to employ only Os

.Osteopaths butitdoes askforlaws that will protect

the people in their right to employ whomsoeverthey please, and laws that will protect againstquackery in high as well as low places . Aquack may hold a dozen diplomas and be aquack for all that . The quack of many diplomasis even more dangerous than the less pretentious quack.

Any system of healing that °e-quires for its perpetuity laws which compel theafflicted to patronize its followers would soon fallif left to stand upon its own merits .

If medi-cine represented the truly scientific principle oftreating disease, it would not require laws for-bidding other schools the right to practice .

Ifit is not the true principle of healing, officialprotection is wrong and stands as a stumblingblock to needed progress .

If the ordinary citizen thinks our modernmedial laws are really for the "protection ofthe public" let him attempt to recover damagesfor mal practice from a "regular" physician.Everyone w'ho has attended court when such asuit was pending knows that no matter whatthe extent of damages suffered by the citizen orhis family at the hands of a regular physician,it is next to impossible to make a case againstthe doctor . In the first place, the laws are soframed that mal-practice can only be proven by"expert testimony," and this means that physi-cians must testify against their brother practitioner .

And while physicians may fight oneanother in the line of general practice, when anoutraged citizen, whose loved ones have beenmaimed or poisoned by an ignorant or carelessdoctor, seeks legal redress, brother physiciansare readily found who will swear the case clearout of court.

This lesson is one which has beenreiterated times without number in the courts .Yet people permit the medical monopoly to pre-pare and lobby through the various medical lawsby which the entire healing practice of the statemust abide.

By the operation of these laws thecitizen and his family are practically debarredfrom receiving the slightest protection againstthe mal-practice of so-called regulars, whilethoroughly qualified and skillful practitioners ofnewer and more progressive schools are promptly

porsecuted for curing people.

Thus accordingto our present laws it is perfectly legal forgraduates of certain schools to kill and crippletheir patients at will, while it is unlawful andcriminal for the graduates of other schools tosave lives or relieve the suffering.

"A GREAT deal depends upon a man's cour-age when he is slandered and traduced . Weakmen are crushed by detraction, but the bravehold on and succeed."

This

is certainly illustrated in the life of

Dr. Still and

his heroicdevotion to principle.

Had the light of Oste-opathy fallen upon an ordinary man, its com-ing to bless mankind might have been delayedmany centuries.

Men possessing even Dr .Still's rare power of perception,

his honestyand devotion to truth, but

without

that ironwill that furnished the motive power of hisgenius, would have faltered long before thegoal was reached. The hardships and dis-couragements that lined the pathway of thisgreat pioneer would have caused weaker mento seek an early compromise with popular andmore profitable custom .

From the moment thephilosopher's lamp with its tiny flame was de-livered into his keeping until by

its rays hehad prepared a system by which Osteopathycould be demonstrated, Dr.

Still's journey ofnearly half a century might be described as along, rugged path on the brink of a great chasm.The waters

of superstition lashed

the rocksbeneath him while

above himtowered the

unsurmountable cliffs ofignoranceand bigotry,from whose crannies and caverns the mouldywinds of error howled their mournful chant.One faltering step and the little flame that wasto bring the light of life and joy to many heartsin gloom and illumine the nineteenth centurywith a clearer, broader view of human life,might have been lost to the present generation.History's homage to this valient bearer of na-ture's light will be of the kind

that is paid tobut few men in a century ; and the story of hisgallant struggle to bring to the door of human-ity a great truth will live while gratitude movesthe hearts of men.

NATURE THE BEST PHYSICIAN.

The dissatisfaction with the indiscriminateuse of poisons in combatting disease is becom-ing more apparent every day. Thinking menand leading physicians are seeking othermethods and abandoning thewell beaten path that

has been blindly followed for years.

They arebeginning to look toward the light and studyman.

Among noted scientists who have ad-vocated radical changes, Dr . Schweninger ap-pears prominent.

Dr. Schweninger is a Ger-man doctor of Berlin, and has for years beenPrince Bismark's physician.

His lectures onmedical reform .have lately occasioned consider-able stir in medical circles.

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

In

case of anattack of disease he advises the patient to let itrun its course, claiming that drugs are of little,if any, use.

He believes with Hippocrates, inthe healing power of nature .Dr. Schweninger's reputation is such that his

words ought to bear weight . It is not a sud-den turn for popularity's sake, for the doctor isan old man and his reputation as a competentmedical advisor was made years ago.Dr. Schweninger's views are good but he dose

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not go far enough.

Hygienic treatment is ex-cellent; nature's power in taking care of thehuman system in health is great; but when thesystem is deranged so that the functions of thebody are interferred with °some force, must bebrought to bear to overcome that derangement .In this Osteopathy has solved the problem .By so adjusting the system that all functionsact normally nature can carry out her curativeprocess.

OSTEOPATHY, SURGERY AND DRUGS.Outside of surgery Osteopathy is the only sys-

tem of treatment ever devised that is foundedupon a practical application of the laws of hu-man anatomy and physiology to the cure ofdisease.

Since the time of Hippocrates count-less methods of dealing with man's infirmitieshave arisen only to live a short time, and beabandoned as useless.

These systems have hadfor their foundation everything under the sunexcept a practical knowledge of the animal ma-chinery. They have used as basic principlesthe signs of the zodiac, the charms of mythol-ogy, waters, light, necromancy, animal magnet-ism, prayer, hypnotism, poisonous drugs, min-erals, vegetables, electricity, and in fact every-thing but an understanding of the machinerywhich they sought to control.

Is it any wonderthat failure has marked the pathway of all thesesystems?

The Osteopathic school has no fight to makeupon surgery, and let it be here understood thatwhen the term "medicine" is used in these col-umns, surgery is not included . Surgery is ascience ; Osteopathy recognizes this fact, butdoes not believe that medicine

that is, drugmedication as a method of treating .diseases-has earned a right to be classified with surgery.Surgery has advanced with the onward marchof civilization while medicine, but for the fewinstances in which it has reduced the amount ofits deadly doses, has made no progress in manycenturies.

Had medicine come anywhere nearkeeping pace with surgery, the longevity of thehuman race would have been greatly enhanced .But while medicine has managed to hang ontothe tail of surgery's kite, it is only by surgery'sreflected light that the drug theory has beenable to maintain any degree of respectability . Ifyou ask a physician to name instances of the"advancement" of medicine, about which heloves to prate, he will invariably point to somerecent achievement in surgical science-neverto drugs.

If you don't believe this ask yourfamily pill peddler for his proofs of medicalprogress .

And why has medicine not kept abreast ofsurgery? Simply because surgeons have stud-ied the mechanical construction of man, whilemedical physicians have studied everything elsebut man.

Surgery has advanced in proportionto the thoroughness with which its thinkers andexperimenters have become acquainted with thestructure of the animal mechanism and madepractical, common sense application of theirknowledge. Physicians, on the other hand,have failed to profit by this experience .

Theyhave taken the wrong road .

In their untiringsearch for "scientific poisons" they have whollyignored the practical truths which the Infinitehas plainly written in every part of his handi-work, the human body. Medical researcheshave resulted in avast scrap pile of "knowl-edge," which is about as useful as would be a

library of statistics regarding the number, shapeand peculiarities of the shingles on the roofs ofNew York City . As pertinently admitted byan eminent doctor in the New York MedicalRecord, "physicians know everything that canbe known except how to cure disease."

Surgeons utilize their knowledge of the hu-man machine that they may know where to cut,but their work comes after the efforts of thephysicians have failed .Thefrequent failures of physicians to handle

cases that ought not to be surgical, force manyunfortunates to resort to surgical relief, andthus surgery is compelled to invade the field ofphysicians, through no fault of the surgeon,but because of the failure of drugs.While of course every physician goes through

the form of studying anatomy and physiologyat medical college, unless he practices surgery,he is taught no practical application of his ana-tomical knowledge.

He has no use for it in thedrug practice .

In Osteopathy everything de-pends upon a knowledge of the machinerythrough which human life manifests itself .

In the treatment of non-surgical diseases, Os-teopathy is the first system which has taken forits foundation a simple, accurate, common-senseknowledge of human anatomy and physiology .Tts seemingly wonderful successes have beenachieved, exactly as have those of surgery, inproportion to the degree in which its operatorshave mastered an understanding of the animalstructure. The Osteopath takes the disorderedmachine and by properly readjusting its mech-anism, makes it run as nature intended it shouldrun, instead of clogging its wheels with myster-ious mixtures, and turning it over to the sur-geon when no surgical work ought to be done .

OSTEOPATHY AND hEGAh RECOGNITION.Is it to the credit of Missouri intelligence that

Osteopathy had to go to the wise men of theeast for its first legal recognition? The AmericanSchool of Osteopathy during the last threeyears has attracted the attention of the think-ing people of every state in the union and haswon the careful investigation and praise ofmany thinkers across the water. As an

institution of learning and a new departure intheadvancement of the healing art it has during thelast few years attracted to Missouri more peoplethan any other one institution in the state.From England, Germany, Canada, Hawaii, aswell as from every part of the United States,scientific men have come to Kirksville to inves-tigate the principles and results of the newschool ; and every investigatlon thus made hasresulted in a favorable and highly compliment-ary report made by the distinguishad visitors inOsteopathy's behalf .

Wide awake to justiceand progress, the last legislature of Missouri al-most unanimously passed a bill recognizing theOsteopathic school, but at the last moment,when too late to secure a passage over an executive veto, Governor Stone returned the bill withhis official disapproval .

This action on the partof the governor, the JOURNAL is happy to say,did not represent the feeling of the state as shownby the overwhelming approval voted by the rep-resentatives and senators.While it is rather humiliating to the home

friends of Osteopathy that Missouri wasnot firstto officially recognize this school, the legal ap-proval of the great state of Vermont, represent-

ing as it does the best intelligence of the nation,is a compliment for which Osteopathy's friendsfeel very grateful .

"Well," said Guss, "I've taken a powder formy headache, a pellet for my liver, and a cap-sule for my gouty foot . Now, what puzzlesmeis how do the things know the right place to goafter they get inside?"-Tit-Bits.

When this issue of the JOURNAL went to pressthere were 165 students enrolled in the school .When the edition of 16,00o copies was halfprinted the press was stopped to insert thenames of five arrivals, making the list nowstand at 1 70, with several others who have notquite completed their arrangements, and whosenames do not yet appear .

THE passing of a law placing Osteopathy onan equal footing with other methods of treatingdisease in Vermont was the result of peculiarcircumstances. The popularity of this newlydiscovered science was brought to the notice ofthe medical profession in such a forcible mannerthat they determined to prevent its operation inthat state.

With that idea in view they frameda bill to exclude the practice of Osteopathy andpresented it to the senate .

As a "counter irri-tant" the friends of Osteopathy drew up a bill,concise and to the point, with the result as in-timated above. Every effort of the op-position proves a boomerang, and gives toOsteopathy an impetus to move on in the fight-not against any class of individuals, butagainst disease. Osteopathy has not time toturn aside from its truth seeking at the bark ofevery opponent, consequently pays little atten-tion to the jealous ravings of a few doctors ofthe old school who are opposed to any advancein the medical science unless it be brought aboutthrough the channels of their particular school;and it knows that the people at large will fightits battles, while the Osteopath devotes his bestenergies to the advancement of the science ofOsteopathy .

As a rule this paper has no space to devote tonoticing the abuse heaped upon Osteopathy bydrug doctors. In fact these unjust criticismsfrom jealous doctors have proven an excellentadvertising medium .

Many people have beendirected to investigate the science by readingsome vehement attack upon the new school .Another interesting fact is that the "big medi-cine men" who have written and talked mostagainst Osteopathy have, by their own botchwork in treating disease, sent the Osteopathicinfirmary as many patients as they have sent bytheir published criticisms . This is particularlytrue of Dr . Steele, the St . Louis doctor whodelivered the "Osteopathic Fad" address atHannibal in April, '95.Dr . Steele is a "special-ist" on hip joint diseases .

He had one case atthat time which he was treating, and which,according to his best diagnostic skill, was atypical case of hip joint disease.

The boy'sname is Louis Gardner, of New London, Mo.Dr . Steele hadbraced and plastered and torturedthe boy after the approved medical style.

Hegrew no better, but the doctor said a year ormore might be required to effect a cure.

Asthe case was a bad one, Dr. Steele told Mr.Gardner he would esteem it a great favor if theboy could be taken to Hannibal and used to il-lustrate a clinical lecture before the medicalassociation .

The father consented and took theboy from New London to Hannibal in a buggy.There Dr . Steele used the boy as a clinic, and

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for the slight treatment given in demonstratinghis talk before the physicians, the doctor charg-ed $25 . While in Hannibal on that trip Mr .Gardner read Dr . Steel's lecture, "The Osteo-pathic Fad," in the Hannibal papers and tookhis son to Kirksville at once .

One Osteopathictreatment and the boy threw away his crutchesand in a few weeks was cured .

The boy hadnever had hip joint disease, yet Dr . Steele haddiagnosed it a typical case and the MississippiValley Medical Association confirmed the great"expert's" opinion .

The same medical ;associ-ation decided that people ought to be protectedagainst Osteopathy ; so they resolved to publishDr . Steele's lecture broadcast . Since the lec-ture was published, quite a number of Dr .Steele's "bad cases" have been treated at theOsteopathic Infirmary . Some were cured inone treatment, others required a week or two .One lady he had treated eighteen months andpronounced hopeless, laid aside her crutchesand after a few weeks went home sound andwell .

In every case his diagnosis was whollywrong, and if Dr. Steele's methods of treatmentemployed in several of these cases had been em-ployed upon dumb brutes, the perpetrator of theoutrage would have been prosecuted for crueltyto animals.

This is a sample of the bigotryOsteopathy has to fight .

A TERRIBLE EXPERIENGE.

A Sane ]Ulan Imprisoned in an Asylum to Keep HimAway from Osteopathy .

From the Kirksville Advocate .

TO confine a crazy man in an insane asylumis bad enough, but for a perfectly sane man to beincarcerated in one of these hells of modern stu-pidity is a crime for which some body ought to

suffer Yct people with sound minds are almostdaily made the victims of this form of medicalignorance and official bigotry . In fact a favoritepastime of country doctors is to "judge" some-body inane and hustle their victim away fromfamily and friends to one of these worse thanprisons, there to suffer, die, or perhaps actuallybecome insane .There is a case of this kind now at the A. T .

Still Infirmary for treatment .This is the case of Mr . D. L . Clark, of Prom-

ise City, Iowa . Mr . Clark is a young man, ofgood physique, apparently healthy in every way.In May, 1894, he fell z5 feet from a tree, striking the ground with his shoulder .

In about ayear after the accident his health began to fail .General debility came on rapidly .

He could dono work .

Hisfamily and friends were alarmed.The leading physicians of Wayne county, Iowa,examined him and said he had enlargement ofthe heart . After a consultation they advisedhim to fix up his business affairs and arrange totake things easy as his days were numbered .No medicine could benefit him, they all agreed .Acting upon their advice, Mr . Clark sold off partof his property and made preparation to die .

"I suffered terribly," said Mr. Clark to thewriter who talked with him at the Infirmary theother day.

"The pains in my head and stomach were awful .

My heart's action was alarm-ingly weakened, and I guess I would not havelasted long sure enough if a neighbor hadn'tpersuaded me to come here and try Osteopathy.I came to Kirksville last fall-that was a yearago.

I only weighed 142 lbs ., and hadn't eat-en a square meal for over two months.

Afterthe first treatment here I had a good appetite,ate heartily from that time on, and in the three

weeks I was here I gained 17 lbs .

Ii, the nexttwo weeks after I went home I gained eight lbs .more, making 25 lbs . i n five weeks.

I contin-ued to improve ; went right to work and shuckedout a big crop of corn .

I worked right alongand had no return of the trouble .

"In February of this year I got hurt again .This time it affected my head, and I suffered aconstant pain that was almost unbearable . Thetrouble seemed to be at the base of the brain ."Mr. Clark then began making preparations to

come to Kirksville, and here is where the localM. D .'s-those self-constituted guardians of thepublic health-displayed the true animus oftheir pretended philanthropy . Fire of them tooka hand in the game . When Mr. Clark had hisfirst trouble, they had pronounced his case hopeless, and advised him to die .

But he disobeyedtheir injunction, came to Osteopathy and wascured .

For this offense the rebellious patientmust be taught a lesson .

So these five repre-sentatives of this noble profession put theirheads together and determined to try a littlegame of strategy .

They first considered hiscase and concluded there was only one chancein a hundred for his recovery, under medicaltreatment .

But the sufferer should not be al-lowed to again fall into the hands of those aw-fully "irregular" Osteopaths at Kirksville, whowere so unprofessional as to cure a man when aconsultation of regular M . D.'s had said he mustdie .

Such a procedure was a breech of pro-fessional etiquette against which the public mustbe "protected" at all hazards .

There was onlyone way by which Mr. Clark could be keptaway from Kirksville and that was to deprivehim of the right to act for himself-to pronouncehim insane!

The M. D.'s called upon thesufferer'srelativ esandtriedtheirpersuasivepowers But therelatives, remembering Mr.

Clark's recent rescue from death by Osteopathy,refused to consent to his incarceration in anasylum . Then the doctors played their lastgreat card .

Persuasion wouldn't work, so theythreatened . Wrapped in an extra halo ofprofessional dignity, they called again . Mr .Clark, they declared, lead "symptoms" of

insanity and was liableto goviolently insane atanymoment . If the relatives did not consent tohaving him sent to the asylum, they would filea complaint, prove him insane by their own ''ex-pert testimony," and have him forcibly putthere .

Thus the relatives, and even Mr. Clarkhimself, were "persuaded" to consent, and theunfortunate man was sent to the State Asylumat Clarinda, where he was imprisoned fivemonths without the slightest benefit .The story of his treatment there with the ac-

companying tortures would raise the hair onthe head of Dante's ghost .One little incident will serve to illustrate the

"cut and try" guesswork system of experiment-ing that goes on behind the bars in these greatinstitutions .After Mr. Clark had taken from eight to

fifteen doses of medicine every day for fourmonths, he requested the doctors in charge tolet him write his folks to come and see him, andif they thought best, to take him to Kirksville .This aroused the professional indignation of thekeepers, and they refused . The medicine hadno beneficial effect and the sufferer was nearlywild with pain . Then the doctors informedhim they would give him an Osteopathic treatment.

They asked him how he was treated atKirksville and he told them as near as he couldremember the methods .

The asylum doctors placed the patient in achair . One big two hundred pound man satdown on him, another held his back while thehead doctor got hold of his head and twisted .

"Is that anything like they treat at Kirks-ville!" asked the big doctor, after they hadpulled the poor fellow all over the room forabout ten minutes . The patient declared it wasnot, and received another jerking that almostfinished him .

"After that treatment," said Mr. Clark, tothe reporter, ' `I was three days in bed . Myneck was so stiff and swollen I could not turnmy head .

There were weeks that I did notsleep a wink unless filled with opiates .

WhileI was in bed and growing worse every day, theywrote to my folks that I was sleeping and eat-ing and getting along all O . K."The poor fellow, guarded day and night, at

last made up his mind that he would have toto get out dead or alive .

The suffering was intolerable .

He determined to try a little strategy of his own.

So he stifled back his pain andpretended to be cured .

Although undergoingindiscribable tortures every moment, he nervedhimself to the great effort and concealed hiscondition for four weeks, at the end of whichtime they let him out .

He had not slept fornearly a week . A relative met him with abuggy, and they went direct to Dr . Landes, anOsteopath who was then at Corydon .

Dr. Lan-des relieved him at once and the patient sleptsoundly in the buggy all the way home.

Aftertaking a few treatments from Dr . Landes, Mr.Clark was able to come to Kirksville, and is nowall right .

His trouble

was not insanity at all,but an abnormal condition in the neck whichresulted from the injuries received last Febru-ary .

This is a pretty good illustration of the stupidbigotry of the average M . D. They wouldrather a patient would die than be cured out-side the narrow confines of "regularism."

Osteopathy .Hattie HOPE.

This little barque of poesyI launch with timid hand,

Lest by more stately ship it beWrecked ere it reach the strand-

Its destined strand .Like bubble 'tis upon the deep,One only thought it baers,

A kindly thought for those who weepO'er burdened with life's cares-

Life's carping cares .For years the chastening rod has lain

Full heavy on thy- heartYears of such torture and such pain,As leaves a lasting sinart-

A blighting smart .At last with eyes so weary grown

With weeping in the dark,I lifted them, when lo, there shoneOne little ray-a spark-

Of hope, a spark.A light seemed dawning from afar ;The star of Osteopathy,

A beautiful life giving star,Was bringing life and health to me-

New life to me .Oh then the sombre veil was torn,That had enshrouded me

I felt thyself uplifted, borneAbove my ill set free

From ills set free,This is the thought that freights my barque,"Look upward weary one"

This kindly star illumes the darkAnd ushers in the sun-

The gracious sun.

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

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

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Osteopatbic Bill passed .A bill giving Osteopaths the right t0

practice in Vermont passed both housesof that State's legislature and became alaw this month . The bill was introducedin opposition to a medical bill intendedt0 prevent Osteopaths from practicing .The medical bill was killed and the Oste-opathic bill passed by a large majority .The entire credit forthis good work is dueDr . Geo . J . Helmer, who is practicing Os-teopathy in Montpelier. Dr . Helmer is agraduate of this school and the fact thathis work influenced the Vermont peopleto legally recognize the science, is cer-tainly a great compliment t0 the Doctor'sability as an Osteopath.

School and Infirmary Notes .

Dr . Alice Patterson spent Thanksgivingin Bloomington, Ill .Miss Ida West, of Canton, M0., is the

guest 0f Dr . Taylor .Editor Ham, 0f the Dubuque, Ia.,

Herald, is a patient at the Infirmary .Laws should be made t0 protect the

people, not a particular class 0r school.That institution is a meritless one

which requires legislation t0 bolster it up.He who has most a t stake should be

the judge as t0 the methods used in re-storing health .Dr. E. H . Eastman has recently lo-

cated at Akron, O., having removed fromJerseyville, 111 .Mrs . M . Clark, 0f Centropolis, Kan.,

sister 0f Dr . A, T . Still, visited a fewweeks in Kirksville during November .Mrs . Mary Still Craig, 0f Maryville,

Mo., spent several days this mouth withher brother Dr . S . S . Still and uncle Dr .A . T. Still .

J, M . Chesbrough, general manager ofthe B. & O . S . W . Ry ., of Cincinnati,accompanied by his wife, was at the In-firmary this month.The Senior class in the American

School 0f Osteopathy is now taking upthe work in urinary analysis under thedirection 0f Dr . Sippy.Dr. Henderson has recently returned

front a month's vacation with his folksin Canada . He has resumed his workas one of the regular operators in the A.T. Still Infirmary .The students . of the American

School 0f Osteopathy have petitionedByron Robinson, 0f Chicago, t0 put inbook form his lectures 0n the Sympa-thetic Nervous System." The lecturesrecently appeared in the "Medical Brief."Miss Florence For Foraker retnrned t0 her

home in Cincinnati on the 18th, afterhaving taken a course 0f treatment at theInfirmary . She was accompanied by herbrother, Benson who went to Washing-toll, D . C ., where he will act as privateSecretary for his father, Senator Foraker.

Dr . and Mrs . S . S . Still entertained themembers 0f the May division of the anat-omy class at their home 0n the evening 0fNov . 27th . During the evening the doc-tor was given a little surprise in the form0f a handsome combination secretary andbook-ease as a token 0f the esteem inwhich he is held by the class .

The two divisions 0f the May classwere highly pleased Wednesday

morning by an interesting talk from Rev.Pressley, 0f Hamilton, Ohio, on the Etymology(anatomy) 0fwords.Rev. Press-

ly is an excellent linguist, speaking sixdifferent languages fluently, and will re-turn t0 Kirksville t0 enter the Octoberclass.-Saturday Mail Nov . 21 .

The various classes in the AmericanSchool 0f Osteopathy have organized

themselves into societies, the object ofwhich is t0 better faciliate their work andt0 advance social relations. The May di-vision bears the significant name "TheAnatomical Society 0f the AmericanSchool 0f Osteopathy ."

It is officered asfollows : President, H . L . Spangler ;Vice-presidents, Miss Evelyn Underwood

and J . W . Banning ; Secretary, Mrs . F . J .Harlan ; Treasurer, F . G. Cluett . Theclass admitted last month has the follow-ingcorps 0f officers : President, AlbertFisher, Sr . ; Vice-president, Miss Mary F.Kelley ;

Secretary, Miss Marie H. Nee-ley ; Treasurer, T . S . Ray .The Seniorclass organization, is known

as "The class 0f '97 "-1897, being theyear in which the members will graduate .The officers 0f the "Class 0f '97" are C .M . T . Hulett, President ; Chas . Hazzard,Vice-president ; Mrs. S . S . Still, Secretaryand Treasurer .In the grades this month, 0f the stu-

dents 0f Osteopathy, under Dr . S. S . Stillan average 0f 97 was attained Dr . Stillis one 0f the best teachers 0f Anatomyin the west, and is much pleased withthe work accomplished by his 165 students .

He insists that students

musttake every examination, as it comes, andbe in prompt attendance, - SaturdayMail, Kirksville .

Among the distinguished visitors atthe Infirmary this month was ArthurRoberts, M . D ., D. P . H., Al . F . C . S .,Eng . L . S . A . L ., of Kingswood House .Visiting in this country, he heard 0f thewonders 0f Osteopathy, and decided t0come to Kirksville and investigate forhimself . After looking over the institu-tion he expressed himself as highlypleased with his visit and acknowledgedhe had gained many new ideas .

He ad-mitted that the results obtained werewonderful, and that Osteopathy wasbound t0 become a leading science .

Dr.Roberts is very prominent in his owncountry, and is the author of several medical works.

Dr. Hildreth's Departure .Dr . Arthur Hildreth, who has been

prominently connected with the School0f Osteopathy several years, as operatorand teacher, has joined Dr . Harry Stillin Chicago and Evanston . A surpriseparty gotten up by the students and fac-ulty as a means 0f expressing their re-grets at Dr . Hildreth's departure, wasgiven in Memorial hall on the evening ofthe loth inst . About 150 students,

members0f the faculty and other friends werepresent . -There was a short program of rare in-

terest, in which Miss Stafford, Prof . Wm.Smith, Dr . Patterson, S . S . Still, MissHelen May and Mrs. de Lendrecie, 0fFargo, N . D ., took prominent parts . Atthe conclusion of the regular exercisesDr . Still delivered a short lecture .

Thiswas followed by the reading 0f the fol-lowing resolutions adopted by the stu-dents .WHEREAS, The departure 0f our es-

teenied teacher and fellow-student, Dr .Arthur Hildreth, has caused profound re-gret throughout the school, andWHEREAS, We consider Dr . Hildreth

one of the most talented operators evergraduated from this institution, a coil_scientious,untiring student 0fOsteopathy,an earnest seeker 0f the truth, able, bighearted and courageous-a man well

worthythe love andconfidence reposed inhim by faculty, patients and students,Therefore BE IT RESOLVED by the

members 0f the several classes now inthe American School 0f Osteopathy1st-- That his investigating mind, his

heart-felt interest in our common cause,and his long and close association withthe honored and revered discoverer ofOsteopathy, have made Dr. Hildreth afactor which we feel the school can illafford t0 lose ; that because 0f his high

attainments and clear conception 0fwhat Osteopathy is, with his naturalability in applying and demonstratingthe application 0f its principles, and hiscare and willingness at all times to pres-ent his ideas, we believe the classes nowin the school and those who are to comeafter them,have lost a man whose place itwill be hard to fill .2nd-That in our estimation the high

standard 0f attainment in all that willlead to proficiency in his profession whichhe has always held up before the stu-dents, his clear and comprehensive grasp0f the possibilities 0f Osteopathy for thefuture, and his unswerving devotion t0the principles bespeak for him placeamong the foremost of those who, inyears t0 come,will be honored for theirpioneer efforts in this great work.3rd-That it is the sentiment 0f all the

students, that while our loss may begreat it will mean t0 others a great gain,and that, therefore, Dr. Hildreth goes t0what may be a larger field with the re-spect and good will 0f all here, and theirbest wishes that God may speed himand direct his energies to the great goodof which they are capable .4th-That a copy of these resolutions

be engrossed and presented to Dr . Hil-dreth, and that they be printed in thejournal of Osteopathy .

Dr . Hildreth was then called, and madea short talk in which he feelingly ex-pressed his appreciation 0f the demon-stration . He said he did not want it un-derstood he had completely severed hisconnection with the school, and that atpresent while duty called him t0 thefront, at any time when he could d0 morefor the advancement 0f the science 0f Os-teopathy here than elsewhere he wouldgladly return.

At the close of Dr . Hildreth's talk aninformal reception was held .

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From the Pacific .The San Luis Obispo Tribune of

Nov. 2o, made the following edi-torial mention of Osteopathy :Some time ago- a year or two-

we learned that there was a newschool of medical practice in existenceIt wasnew to usatleast.

It had been born in Missouri andthat fact name and the ridiculeand itscute which it appeared to excitefrom the adherents of other schools,rather suggested the idea of aquestionable good thing from apossible Nazareth . It was calledOsteopathy, which rather called tomind the exploits of the magical"bonesetter" who it used to be

said could coax a dislocated boneinto place with the painless touchof gentle fingers.

The fundamen-tal ideas of the new science appear-ed to be rather mystical, undefinedand indefinable .

But as far as wewere concerned, we were disposedto respectful consideration of thenew idea since, as it appeared, theapostle of the new creed was thebrother of Dr . Still, of LaPanza,an old resident and a very estima-ble citizen, and a most enthusiasticbeliever in the new doctrine .

All

this is brought again to mind by thereceipt of the "Journal of Osteopa-thy," a periodical published atKirksville, Missouri, where is lo-cated the building of the ''Ameri-can School of Osteopathy" andthe "A. T. Still Infirmary." Thisstructure has been erected andadded to as necessity compelled,and the necessity is evidenced bythefact that there are at present165 students, taking the two years'term of the school and that thereare 600 patients in the Infirmary .During the past eighteen monthsmore than 50,000 treatments havebeen given to regular patients .

It is hardly to be expected thatideas so subversive of generally re-ceived beliefs should be favored bythe medical profession . If it is nolonger the proper caper to "takesomething for it" whenever thehuman machine complains, what isto become of the doctors?

And ofthe druggists? Andthe greatmanufacturers whoare everyyearturn-

ing out train-loads of mysteriousmixtures whose efficacy is so abun-dantly guaranteed? Well, theprobabilities are that all the these wor-thy members of society will givethemselves not the slightest un-easiness or have any occasion to doso .

When a man is sick he wantsa dose, preferably heroic in sizeand nauseous to the taste, and thedoctor, wise

is hisgeneration, ac-commodates him and always will .We fear that Osteopathy will neverbe popular.

Fools will have noneof it and Carlyle says the humanrace are mostly fools and the wise,following Osteopathic rules need nophysician.

Herman T. Still D. o.,HAMILTON, OHIO .

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The Journal of Osteopathy

PROSPECTUS

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The American School of Osteopathy

KIRKSVILLE, MO,

The course of study in the AMERICAN

SCHOOL, OF OSTEOPATHY is divided into four

terms of six months each . These terms be-

gin in October and April of each year . [As

applications are coming in from many who did

not get ready for the

October class, arrangements will be made to accommodate all who

wish to enter in January.]

The studies are as follows:

FIRST SIX MONTHS .Anatomy-in class only .

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

Physiology and Principles of Osteopathy .

THIRD SIX MONTHS .Anatomy (demonstrations on the cadaver),

Physiology, Use of the Microscope (in recogniz-

ing the tissues of the body, deposits in urine,

etc.) Diagnosis and Symptomatology, Use of

the Stethoscope, Analysis of Urine, etc., Clinical

instruction in Osteopathic Practice.FOURTH SIX MONTHS.

Anatomy and Physiology as in third term

(optional for those who have passed the firstexamination), Diagnosis, Symptomatology, Stir-

gery (accidents and injuries : their diagnosis

and treatment), Treatment of Poisoning by

Noxious Drugs, Midwifery and Diseases of

Women. During this term students will act as

assistants to the operators in the treating rooms

of the Infirmaryandthus acquire full knowledge

of Osteopathic work .

CLASS EXAMINATIONSwill be conducted every month on all subjects

in the curriculum . Their object is merely tolet the student himself see how, he is progressing.

Professional examinations will be heldtwice yearly, the first after the completion of18 months of study (Anatomy, Physiology,Microscopic Work and Urinary Analysis), theother at the close of 24 months of regular at-tendance . The latter examination will coverall ground not included in the first examination.The"First" must be passed before appearing forthe "Final."

The AMERICAN SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHYis open to both sexes, with certain restrictionsas to character, habits, etc. The special qual-ifications, which will be rigidly insisted upon inevery student, are : Must be strictly temperate,moral character, good native ability, and atleast agood common school education.

The tuition for the full course of two years is$500. No one will be received for less than

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

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

A. T. STILL, Pres't .H.E.PATTERSON,Sec'y

ROSTER OF STUDENTS-IN-

The American School of Osteopathy

OGTOBER (1895) GLASS.Ash, Mary E Oneida, IllBaldwin, Mollie

Plevna, MoDarling, Agnes

Evanston, IllDarling, Charles G

"

Hartford, Wm Kirksville , MoHartupee, WN

West Liberty, IowaHulett, C M Turner,

Edgerton, KansasIllinski, Anielka

ESt Louis, IllKing, A M

Hester, MoLandes, Mrs Mae

Kirksville, MoMartin, Clara

Purcell, KansasMcCaw, Cora

La Plata, MoMahaffy, C W

Brashear, MoMahaffy, A D

"

Mayes, Mr M T

Dalton City, IllMayes, Mrs Florence

`Potter, Will A.

Kirksville, MOSmith, L. B.

"Smith, Wilbur L

"Smith, Ernest P

Englewood, MoShackelford, J R

Lewiston, MoStill, Thomas C

La Panza Cal.Still, Mrs. Ella

Maryville, MOStrong, Mrs J W

Evanston, IllinoisTaylor, L H

Columbia, MoVallier, Robert

Leonard, MoWest, Bertha M

Washburn, IllJANUARY (1896) GLASS.

Bailey, MW

Brashear, MissouriBernard, H E

Chicago, IllinoisBernard, Roy

"Buckmaster, Robert M

Kirksville, MissouriEmeny, Harry William

St Paul . MinnesotaFurrow, Nettie

Kirksville, MoGravett, H H

Grayville, Ill,Hazzard, Charles

Peoria, IllHobson, Mary

Chicago, IllHulett, Mac F

Lawrence, KansasHulett, Mrs. Adelaide S.

"

McGavock, R E

Columbia, MoOwen, J E

Kirksville, MoOwen, Mrs J E

"

Parker, John W

Winchester, IllPendleton, Gid H

Gallatin, MOProctor, Mrs Alice Heath Kirksville, MoRankin, J T

Monmouth, MoRider, Clarence L

Kirksville, MOShackelford, Ed H

Lewiston, MoSippy, A H

St Louis, MoWarner, John R

Browning,MoWilliams, Mrs D S

Council Bluffs, IowaMAY (1896) GLASS.

FIRST DIVISION .Bolles, Newton A

Denver, ColBurke, Mrs. Anna M

Kirksville, MoCampbell, Mary Nettie

"Campbell, Arthur D

"Cluett, Frank G

St. Louis, MoEly, William E

Kirksville, MoEly, Mrs Anna L

"Fletcher, William A

"Gentry, Benton F

"Green, Ginevra I

"Greene, WE

"Hart, Lawrence M

"Hartford, Isaac J

Queen City, MOHulett, Marcia Ione

Edgerton . KansasJohnson, Gid E

Kirksville, MOJohnson, Mrs Alice

Fairfield, IllJohnson, Norman S

Horton, KansasJohnston, Willie H

Canton, IllJones, Hiram R

Estill, MoLittle, Chas W

Des Moines, IaMiller, Frank C

Kirksville, MOMiller, Mrs Sadie Hart

"

Peterson, Charles A

Chesterton, IndShaw, Dudley H

Maroa, IllWillard, Mrs Alice N

Kirksville, MOSECOND DIVISION .

Bailey, H E

Brashear, MoBanning, John W

La Plata, MoBeeman, E E

Kirksville, MoBrown, Leander S.,

Fort Collins, ColoCole, M D

Kirksville, MoConner, D L

Kirksville, Mo .Densmore, O

Mason City, IaHibbets, Ulysses M

Kirksville, MoHarlan, Mrs. FJ

Webb City, MoHolme, T L

Bolckow, Mo .Hook, Otis

Kirksville Mo. Hook, Virgil A

Pond Creek, OklahomaHudleson, Mark E

Mason, MoIlgenfritz, Harry F

Kirksville, MoKellogg, Howard G

"Landes, Agnes V

"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

"Under-wood, Evelyn

Kansas City, MoWilliams, Roger K

Council Bluffs, Iowa .

OGTOBER (1896) GLASS,FIRST DIVISION.

Albright, Mrs. Grace

Queen City, MoBowden, R W

West Salem, WisBeaven, E H

Fulton MoChambers, Miss Etta

Kirksville, Mo .Craven, Miss J W

Evanston, Ill .Deeming, C O

Kirksville, MoElliott, W S

Laplata, MoGage, FS

Baird, TexasHarris, M B

Columbia, MoHarwood, Miss Irene.Maysville, Mo.Huston, Miss Grace

Circleville, OhioGreen, Mrs. L E

Hot Springs, S DKyle, C T

Downsville, WisKelley, Mary E

Sioux City, IaLaughlin, W R

Kirksville, MoMcNicoll, Miss D E

Darlington, IndMiller, Mrs. Ella Ray

Salmon City, IdahoMorris, J T

Kirksville, Mo .Neely, Miss Marie F

Franklin, KyNelson, Miss Camille

Kirksville, Mo .Northrop, W N

Louisville, KyNovinger, W J

Novinger, MoPotter, Miss Minnie

Kirksville, MoPellett, H L

Prairie Center, KansSisson, Miss F E

Genoa, Ill .Swan, WE

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, WW

Montpelier, VtBurton, J C

Paris, Mo.Burton, George

Paris, Mo .Cherrier, A B

Kansas City, MoClayton, G F

Utica, IllConnor, Miss Mary

Paradise, OreCorbin, W S

Brashear, Mo .Dodson, C

Kirksville, MoDodson, J W

Donohue, M E

Beresford, SDDuffield, Miss Bessie,

Kirksville, Mo .Eneboe, Miss Lena

Canton, S. D.Fisher, Albert, Sr

Chicago, IllFoster, Mrs Fannie

Carrollton, MoFout, GeoE

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.Macauley, Mrs D B

Chicago, IllMcCartney, L H

Hoxie, KasMingus, C A

Laplata, MoOwen, E M

Omaha, NebRay, T S

Kirksville, MoRhynsburger, Will J

Des Moines, IaRozelle, Mrs Lida K

Tarkio, Mo.Severson, Miss K M

Cohoes, N YSherburne, F W

Barre, Vt.Thompson, J A

Kirksville, MoTrenholm, A, M.

Trenholmville, P. Q.Turner, Thomas E

Kirksville, MoWestfall E E

Gravville, IllWilson, TN

Laplata, Mo .Wycoff, Louis E

Fairview Ill .

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