La Grande evening observer., October 26, 1906, Image 3

OST EOPATHY
AS TOLD IN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS DAIlY HEARD
IN Tlit BUSY OSTEOPATH'S OFFICE
lew 1 cl tlie points cn wUicU new i&vestigators of osteopa
patby are always anxious lor information
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THE RU3B1N3 FALLACY
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Question I have heard of a number of
people cured by Osteopaths, doctor, and
I have bean thinking of taking the treat
ment; but first I would like to know
how mere rubbing can be expected to
benefit my case? .
Answer Rubbing could do nothing at
all for yjur case, sir. But Osteopathic
treatmentdoes not consist of rubbing --in
fact does none of jt. That idea is a mis
representation by a few medical doctors
,s art warring against the system. The
'T)staopath understands the value of mas
" sage in some cases for stimulating the
surface circulation; and he does not
seek to be-little its value any more than
he seeks to derde any other procedure
which has merit. But he himself is dis
tinctly not a masseur, and places his reli
ance for the cure of his patients upon
something entirely different upon a sys
tem more definite and specific in its ap
plication to the treatment of disease than
any other. The Osteopath spends three
years of nine months each in college
mnrn ruHv by evral month thin it
W4jkes for a man in New York state to
Vricome an M. D. Is it reasonable to
suppose that he spends that length of
time studying massage? ' I think that you
will agree with me that it is not.
Question But does he not make the
patient strip and then work upon the
body with his hands?
TREATMENT NOT EMBARRASSING
Answer It is sometimes necessary to
examine the body physicians of every
school frequently have to do this. The
doctor who never makes such an exam
ination, who simply listens to his patient's
tale of symptdms and then makes a guess
as to the nature of the malady, may be
set down as a poor physician, from what
wer school he comes and wherever he
fdy be found. Bnt the real fact of the
matter, as to Osteopathic treatment is
that most examinations can be as well
made thru a garment; and that treat
ment afterwards is almost always ad
ministered thru a garment.
Question Then the treatment is not as
I have heard, embarrassing to women
patients?
Answer Far from it. The Osteopath
is able to do so much by his corrective
work on the spine, done thru a garment,
that local treatment is not necessary
t'y as often as under other systems;
a$
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arcane necessity tor an operauun is in
duced to a minimum.
Question What dss the Osteopath
usually find when he makes this examin
ation of the patieit thrj a garment?
What is he look'-g for when he does it?
WHATTH! OSTEOPATri FINDS
AnswerH is looking for ihat which
is abnormal. He is so thoroughly famil
ar with the hu nan anatomy, as it should
be, that his trained fingers speedily de
tect any varia'.ons which may exist.
His system "esches him l he plain and
simple doctrre that tne human body was
made right fnj that, unless some of its
parts have become disordered in their
relations to scc'.l other it will remain right
ordinary usage.
jestbi -Am I to uids'sUnd you
then, that he is looking to find something
the miUor with bones?
Answer Not so much to find something
the matter with the bones themselves as
to find fomething wrong in their position.
One or more ribs may have become slight
ly displaced, causing a crowding of the
softer structures; some of the parts of
the spine, called vertebrae, may have
become twisted; there may be contracted
soft tissues which require relaxing in order
to the blood vessels and nerves pass
ing Kru them a chance to carry 0,1 their
work normally. Any of these conditions
and many others which I can scarcely
begin to describe at length, are real
causes of disease indeed the chief causes.
Question Do other systems recognize
them as such?
Answer No. The discovery that the
bodily health depends almost entirely on
the correct adjustment of the body struct
ures is the one greatest truth unearthened
by Dr. Still in his many years of study,
the one great principle of Osteopath, and
on itff science of Osteopath is based.
The xfa. was generally scouted until near
ly every disease in the calendar, except
ing a few that are acknowledged incur
able, had been successfully treated and
cured simply by the correction of the
bodily misadjustment found by Dr. Still
and his first followers.
Question Has Osteooathy received any
recognit on since these things were demonstrated?
Answ r The bast recognition that it
has received is that the parent school
which Dr. Still founded now has 800
students, that a half dozen other schools
have large student bodies as well, and
that four thousand darnest men and
worren are already practising the science
I Miinic it may be conservatively stated,
too, that a vast majority of those who,
followed the study or who are doing so
have taken it up because they themselves
or friends near and dear to them, have
been cured of disease thru its agency. .
RECOGN1ZATION OF pSTEOPATHY
Question- Has the question of its le
gality as a healing system ever been de
eiJed? Answer The question of its recognition
as a complete and independent system
of healing has already been before the
legislatures of every state in the Union;
and it has up-to-date received full recog
nition from two-thirds of these. In some,
Osteopathy has a seperate board of sep
erate examiners in others It is repres
ented by one of its own practitioners asa
member of the state board of medical
tAu.T.iuoj b. it. taiMj Iiak received favor
able court decisions in several of the other
states.
Question Well, doctor, to come back
to what you were saying about these mis
adjustments of the bodily parts causing
disease. How do they do it?
Answer Simply by their effect on the
circulation. of blood and nerve force.
There is a place for everything and to
have proper order everything must be in
its place. If a vertebra is ever so slightly
out of its right position the little blood
vessels at that part of the spine are crow
ded bto smaller space than properly be
longs to tnem, proper nourishment is
witheld from the spinal cord and nerves
Nerves even frequently suffer from strong
direct pressure.
TROUBLE AT NERVE ENDS
Question But all of these things should
make trouble at the spine, should they
not?
Answer Sometimes they do. But the
first results Which are felt from pressure
on a nerve are almost always in the parts
to which the terminal branches of the
nerve go. For instance, if there is
misadjustment at the spine which causes
pressure upon one of the strands forming
the great sciatic nerve, you are likely to
know about it by a pain in your leg or
foot. You will understand this when you
think of what happens when you have
been seated too long in one position -your
foot goes to sleep, while the press
ure is usually at the hip or above tne
knee.
Uuestion- out suppose tne pressure is
on bbod vessels, as you have stated that
it sometimes is?
Answer.--Nerves which get their nour
ishment from those blood vessels may
suffer in consequence and the trouble
seem to be cs used directly by nerves.
But you must understand too. that
every organ of the bidy gets its nourish
ment chiefiy from blood vessels and that
is drained by other blood vessels. Does
not that make it clear how interference
with blood vessels will make organs be
come weakened and suceptible to dis
ease.
CORRECTION OF MISADJUSTMENT
Question - How does the Usteopath go
about curing the disease after he has dis
covered the physical defe;t which he hold
to be responsible?
Answer He has been splendidly trained
in a svstem of manipulations which is
adequate for every emergency. These
maniDulations consist chiefly of a force
to the Dart that is adjusted with a view
to restoring it to its correct place.
Question It is rather a rough treat
ment then, is it not? A delicate woman
or a child would not be strong enough to
stand it?
Answer. On the contrary. When I say
force I do not necessarily mean brute
strength, applied without judgement or
knowledge. Beginning with child-birth.
and from that time on, through all the
possible vicisajtudes of life, there is no
physical trouble in which the Osteopath
is not qualified to do work that will do
and benefit the patient more often, we
are certain, than any other treatmen
The treatment can be as gentle as re
quired or as strong as the need may de
mand.
Question What are the limitations of
DsteoDathv. for of course you do not
claim to cure always?
I IMITATIONS OF THE TREATMENT
Answer I am glad that you asked th
cuestion. The limitations of Osteopathy
are idor.t:cal with the limitations of the
tient's vitality. In fact the Osteopath
cum to cure anything, any more
han d0M intelligent phy.ic.an of any
other school. It ;. n
4y tht cure in .very case depends
upon vitality. If the patient ha. not th.
v,thty necessary to over com. th.
disease he connot liv..
Question Why not giv. th. patient a
good dos. of medicin. when hi. vitality
happen, to b. at 10 low an ebb?
Answer-There speaks the voic. of
tradition, the voic. of generations of your
ancestors whohave been accustomed to
"take something" for .very ill. As a
matter of fact, practicaily acknowledged
by the best minds of every school of
healing today; drugs never do increase
the vitality of the patient but lowers it
m.su. 1 nar, is just one of tin. great
ooints which Osteopathy registers its
superiorty.
Question What does Osteopathy do
then, when the vitality of the patient is
very low?
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DIRECTING THE VITALITY
Answer -It does the only rational
thing. Seeks to build up the vitality thru
proper nourishment. There is no other j
way possible, for food and water and
air are th. elements, and the only ele
ments, that the body needs from which 1
to make itself strong. But is the vast
majority ot cases the vitality of the pat-
tient 1. ample. ALL THAT IS NECES
SARY IS A NORMAL AND INTELLI
GENT DIRECTION OF THAT VITALITY.-
'
. Question And can the Ostepath direct
the vitality in such a way as to over
come disease?
. Answer- He can, simply by restoring
adjustments, so that Naturei which has
become, impeded in her work,, may take
up the task and accomplish it as it was
intended that she should.
Question But suppose the misadjust
ment found ! sn nM -.uh-i.j ;
that correction will take some time what
can the Osteopath do then for the relief
of his patient?
Answer He is fully equipped, for
emorgencies of this character also for
hi; knowledge of the centers of bodily
control enables him, thru his system of
manipulations to increase or decrease
activity at critical points. He can relieve
the patient in this way almost unfailingly
yet without grave danger which always
accompanies the use of strong drugs up
on weakened bodies.
HOW TO DEAL WITH MICROBES
Question. What about the modern and
scientific theory that nearly all dieases
are caused by microbes? Your doctrine
would seem to deny all that scientists
nave proven in tnat direction, would it
not?
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are practically identical with those of
other schools, with the exception that we
place our emphasis upon a point which is
almost wholly neglected by ethers al
though fully acknowledged by them.
Question. And what is that point?
Answer.-rThat point is that dangerous
microbes cannot live and thrive in a heal
thy tissue. They enter the system and
pass from it again without doing any harm
unless they chance to find a suitable area
of weakened tissue in which to nest and
multip'y. When there is evidence of the
presence of microbes in greatnumbers, as
there is in so many diseases, it simply in
dicates to us that the point upon which
they have made their attack had been in
a previous condition of low vitality, through
some interruption in its supply of blocd
nourishment or nerve force. We hunt for
the obstruction, remove it by mechanical
correction, and the body forces are thus
given their chance to fight the foe thai
sail 'they ask. Soon the wnite blood
cells, the defenders of the body, are founc
with numerous microbes inclosed, which
they have seized and killed. The restor
ation of the natural blood flow places the
army of defense at its best, and the soon
er enables it to overcome the microbe in
vasion. Question. And do you cure what are
known as germ diseases without adminis
tering anything to end the lives of the
germs?
Answer. We most assuredly do. The
body is fully equipped with means for
ousting evil germs and microbes of every
kind. All that is required 's that the vital
forces be properly directed to the seat of
the trouble. The process of elimination
then begins at once and the patient's
chances of recovery are naturally more
favorable than if, besides microbes, his
body forces had the effects of deleterious
drugs to contend with.
Question. But may not the recovery
be expedited by the giving of some drug
to aid the blood ells in disposing of the
germs?
Answer. Your question should proper
ly be answered by a medical doctor. But
1 jv ill answer, no. The ieternal use of
medicine for such purpose is not claimed
by intelligent medical doctors, although
such claims are sometimes made by med
ical doctors, who are ignoront or are de
ceiving their patients. Any drug capable
of destroying the germs will destroy the
cells ot the body with which it cones in
contact, to say nothing of the changes
undergone when it is absorbed into the
blood.
Question. How about furgery?
Answer. Surgery is indorsed by Os
teopathy, but is advised only as a last re
course. Osteopathic corrective work
avoids the necessity of many operations. "
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