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QST EOPATHY . ' AS TOLD (N QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS DAILY, HEARD IN THE BUSY OSTEOPATH'S OffKE A few of t&c points on vAKIi new investigators of csteo- pstby arc always anxious tor information THE RUBBING FALLACY EXPLODED Question I have heard of a number of people cured by Osteopaths, doctor, and 1 have been thinking of taking the treat ment; but first 1 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 tvitment does not consist of rubbing in tfjl does none of it. That idea is a mis rtiresentation by a few medical doctors as are warring against the system. The Osteopath 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 deride 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 oi disease uiau any other, The Osteopath spends three jfVs of nine months each in college -iMa study by several months than it takes for a man in' New York state to become an M. D. Is it reasonable to suppose that he spends that length of time studying massage? 1 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 symptoms and then makes a guess lo the nature of the malady, may be t down as a poor physician, from what ever school he comes and wherever he may 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 4i on the spine, done thru a garment. 1 I . , ... . . Answ r The best recognition that it has received is that the parent school which Dr. Still founded now has 800 students, tnat a half dozen other schools have large student bodies as well, and that four thousand earnest men and women are already practising the science I th:r.k it iTuy be conservatively stated, too. tnat a vast majority of those who. followed the study or who are doing so1 have taken it up because they themselves or friends near and dear to them, have been cured of disease thru its agency. RECOGN1ZATION OF OSTEOPATHY Question Has the question of its le gality as a healing system ever been de eded? 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 state examiners m omers a is repiek ented by one of its own practitioners asa member of the state board of medical examiners. It also has received favor able court decisions in several of the (jther states. Question Well, doctor, to come rack 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 i.Uo smaller space than properly be longs to them, proper nourishment is witheld from the spinal cord and nerves. Nerves even frequently suffer from strong direct pressure. TROUBLE AT NERV E EN DS thvt local treatment is not necessary nearly as often as under other systems; and the necessity for an operation is re duced to a minimum. Question What d-es the Osterpath usually find when he makes this examin ation of the patient thru a garment? What is he look.rg for when he dies it? WHAT THE OSTEOPATH FINES Answer Hi is looking for that which is abnormal. He is so thoroughly famil ar with the human anatomy, as it should be, that his trained fingers speedily de tect any variai.ons which may ex:st. His system teaches him the plain and simple doctrine that the hurran body was jade right anj that, unless some of its irts have become disordered in their relations to ecl' other it will remain right under ordinary usage. Question Am I to understand you then, that he is looking to find scrrething the matter with bones? Answer Not so much to find something the matter with the bones themselves as to find something 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 Qiome twisted; theremay be contracted soft tissues which require relaxing in order to give the blood vesselsand nerves pass ing thru them a chance to carry on their work normally. Any of these conditions and many other which 1 can scarceiy begin to describe at length, are real causes of disease indeed the chief cau ses. 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 the one greatest truth untarthentd TjDr. Still in his many years of study, the one great principle of Osteopathy. and on it the science of Osteopathy is based. The idea was generally scouted until near ly every disease in trie calendar, execpt ing a few that are acknowledged incur able, had been successfully treated ar.d cured simDlv bv the correction cf t.h.e bodily misadjustment fcur.d ty Cr. and his first followers. 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 a misadjustment at the spine which causes pressure upon one of the strands fornrfing the great sciatic nerve, you are likely to knew 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. ' Question But suppose the 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 Cc used directly by nerves. B-it vou must understard tao. that every organ of the body gets its nourish ment chief'y from blood vessels and that is drained bv 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 Guestion How does the Osteopath go about curing the. disease after he has dis covered the physical defect which he holds to be responsible? Answer He has been splendidly trained in a svstem of manipjlations which is adequate for every emergency.These ma nipulations consist chiefly of application of force to the part that is misadjusted 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 vicissitudes of life, there is no physical trouble in which the Osteopath is not qualified to do work that will do good and benefit the patient more often we are certain, than any other treatment The treatment can be as gentle as re quired or as strong as the need may de mand. Qjest cn -What are the limitations of Osteopathy, for of course you do not c airn to cure always? S: 11 1 LIMITATIONS OF THE TREATMENT Answer- I am glad that you asked the Question Has Osteopathy received any itccgnititn sirce thtst triris te demonstrated? quest.n. The limitations of Osteopathy are :-er t ea' with the limitations of the patient's -.itaiity. In fact the Osteopath daes not claim to cure anything, any more .( me indigent physician of any other school. It is generally admitted today that cure in every case depends upon vitality. If the patient has not the the vitality necessary to over come the disease he connot live. Question-Why not give the patient a good dose of medicine when his vitality happens to be at so low an ebb? Answer There speaks the voice of tradition, the voice of generations of your ancestors who have been accustomed to "take something" for every 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 instead. That is just one of the great points on which Osteopathy registers its superiorty. Question What does Osteopathy do then, when the vitality of the patient is very low? , DIRECTING THE VITALITY Answer It does the only rational thing. Seeks to build up the vitality thru proper nourishment, proper habits, proper sanitation. There is no other way possible, for food and water and air are the elements, and the only ele ments, that the body needs fr;m which to make itself strong. But is the vast majority of cases the vitality of the pat tient is ample. ALL THAT IS NECES SARY IS A NORMAL AND INTELLI GENT DIRECTION OF THAT VITAL ITY. Question And can theOstepath direct the vitality in such a way as to over come disease? Answer He can, simply by restoring adjustments, so that Nature, 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 misadiust- ment found is an old established nne and that correction will take some time what can the Osteopath do then for the relief of his patient? . Answer He is fully equipped for emergencies of this character also for his knowledge of the , centers of bodily control enables him, thru his svstem of manipulations to increase or decrease activity at critical points. He can relieve the patient in this way almost unfailinelv 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 have proven in that direction, would it not? Answer Our beliefs about microbes 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. That 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 multiply. When there is evidence of the presence of microbes in great numbers, as there is in so many diseases, it simply in dicates to us that the point upon which iney nave maae tneir attack had been in a previous condition of low vitality, through some interruption in its supply of blood nourishment or nerve force. We hunt for the obstruction, remove it oy mechanical correction, and the body forces are thus given their cnance to fight the foe--that is all they ask. Soon the wnite blood cells, the defenders ot the bedy, are founc with numerous microbes inclosed, which they have seized and kilied. Tne 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 reiqj.red s that the vital forces be properly directed to the seat of the trouble. The process of elimination then begins al 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 drue to aid the blood cells in disposing of the germs? Answer. Your question should proper ly be answered by a medical doctor. But 1 will snswer, no. Tne internal use of medicine for such purpose is not claimed by intelligent medial Doctors, although such claims are sometimes made by med ical doctors, who are ignoront or are de ceiving their patents. Any drug capable of destroying the germs will destroy the cells ot the body with wrvch it cone in contact, to say nothing of tne changes undergone when it is absorbed into the blood. Question. How abo'ut furgery? Answer.- Sjirerv is indorsed by Os teopathy, but 's aov sed cniy as a last re course. Ostecpatn.c corrective work aveds the r.e;e?s ty cf ir jny operat or.s." Trie Rgnc Way. NOTE For ir.-rrr.at :n on particular d;seases 11 on or wrte ycur luca. Osteo paths. Sec Dr. Mjies card in this paptr. J UTAH RAILROAD (Scrtppi New Association) Salt Uke Oct. 27-W. H. Braneroft Vice-President of the Oregon Short Line and Salt Lake route and a personal rep resentative of E. H. Harriman announces that Harriman has purchased more than three fifths of the stock of the Utah and Railway Companies holdines. which m- braces the street car systems of Salt Lake and the It, ht and nower rjlants of Salt Lake and Og'den. WOMAN the CAUSE (Scrlppg News Association) Goshen, Ind.. 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