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BUT DAMN IT,
HE CURES THEM
An Interesting Story Written By Dr. Wm. Smith, a Seven-year
Graduate of Edinburg, Scotland.
"But damn It lie cures them!"
These were the words that first Interested me In osteopathy, that led me to
meet Dr. Still, and that laid the foundation for ten years of hard work In the
Interests of the. science.
I was In Klrksville, Mo., In the month of June, 1892. In an office on tn
south side of the square I met Dr. McCarthy, who was bitterly expressing
his feelings at the decline of medical practice In the town, stating that "an
old ouack had killed business." 1 remarked that nothing wouiu piease nm
mnr were I In practice, than the presence of a quack; he would make bual
ness. To that McCarthy replied in the words with which I begin this article.
I told him that. In that case, if he cured the people, he was. In my opinion
mo ouack. but slmuly a man of greater experience. I backed up my opinion
hv siiinir over to see the so-called quack.
I found an office in an old log cottage, which was simply filled with
persons reciting to one another wonders which they had either experienced
themselves or seen others experience. 1 remainea, maae an appointment n
half an hour of the doctor's tlme.that evening at the Pool hotel, and waited
rnm that moment Imoatientlv lor the evening to come. At that office I hart
heard enouch to Interest me.
At ih. nnotnted hour the Old Doctor entered my room. Our eonver
j.tl.in lasted not half an hour, but four hours. I sat entranced; the theo
ne he- introduced were so novel, so contrary to nil I had ever read or heard
that I failed to follow his reasoning. Arguments as to their impossibility
were simnlv met with the one statement: "Hut It is so; there are no us
in,i' hnnt it- I do what I tell vou. and the people get well." At length
I asked for proof and until two o'clock the next morning 1 was going fron
hnardlne-house to boardtne-house seeing patients and getting coniirinaiion
I sMtisfl,d that cures were made of that there could be no doubt. But
lot mo interrunt mvself. Refore ever I saw Dr. Still I knew that McCarthy's
statement that he did cure was true, for McCarthy told me at that time that
rr still had cured him eiirht months before of asthma of long standing,
To make a long story short, we sat and talked on the stoop of Dr. Stlll'
house "till four o'clock, and when 1 went back to the hotel it was witn tn
understanding that in July I would come to Klrksville to teach Anatomy to
a small class and myself to learn osteopathy. What an example we have
here! As Dr. Heiny Marks said to me at the City hospital In the October
of that year: "Still is a philanthropist, but a tool; he couia Keep mi
tnniririiri to himself and his family make himself and them all rich; but he
rives it to the world. We need more men like that."
Our little class opened in September. I can shut my eyes now and see
that Catherine in a small back room at the tumble-down cottage. Eighteen
students were there (the class had subsequently twenty-three members), and
each tnd every one there was there not for the money there was in it. but
had either been a sufferer and was cured by osteopathy or a close friend had
been. Mamie Harter. Hatten. Ward (who afterwards claimed that he had been
the true discoverer) and others had been cured; Mrs. Gentry and Mrs. Peteri
had seen children raised from crippledom to health: Bird and Hill naa seen
parents' lives saved, and so with all. The class was conducted In a very
primitive manner. No bodies could Ije procured, so the skeletons and man
nikin only were used. Enthusiasm reigned; harmony was perfect.
In the Globe-Democrat one Sunday in October appeared the first news
paper notice of osteopathy A page article headed "A Missouri Mecca" gave
a fair statement of the condition of matters at Klrksville. The reporter who
came was a sensible and thinking man; he saw there only a beginning, but
he was sharp enough to see that much. He could have gone away and made
a funny story out of it, for there was much which would tickle the risible
faculties of the unthinking. But he saw below the surface; he saw men and
women In earnest. He conversed with those who had been benefitted. "I
look upon that pioneer article as one of the greatest tributes ever paid to
a great truth.
In March, 1893. I left Kirksville and shortly afterwards went to Kansa
City. The school did not meet regularly for some time, and when it did was
conducted on lines somewhat similar, but slightly in advance of the elementary
form which existed in the first class. In 1896 I returned to Klrksville at the
request of Dr. Still and then began the true work by all of ibulldlng up
truly scientific institution, which should be able to withstand all criticism.
Bodies were, with great difficulty, procured for dissection, and the teaching
of anatomy, to my delight, became earnest tnd thorough. With all branches
the same thoroughness was carried out. All was not done in a day, but as
rach new branch was added to the curriculm it was taught properly from th
beginning. It is a curious fact that, with the single exception of chemistry,
I taught every subject in the school. I only held the subject long enough to
get It In capable hands, then turned it over. This paper may seem as though
It were all "I," but the truth is that I am proud of my work for osteopathy
and the American School.
Then there were forty-six students, all eager for further information than
on the subjects of anatomy and osteopathy. In 1898 there were over 700;
instead of two teachers, the faculty had a membership of eighteen; every
subject taught In a medical school, save Materia Medica. was taught. Surely
a marvelous record. B"t it was no marvel. In 1892 I had foreseen that as
soon as the growth which would come should begin it would be rapid. At the
first lecture which I delivered (the first lecture ever delivered In an osteopathic
school). I had prophesied that ten years would see that frame cottage replaced
by a handsome britk building; that the class of eighteen would swell to a
fhool a tmilance of ovfr five hundred and that there would be five hundred
prnctioners in the field. All laughed. That prophecy was fulfilled in less
than five tears. What has made the success of osteopathy? Honesty and
loval work, self-sacrifice and devotion to a great principle; loyalty to the
truth, to man and to woman. And. let me, add. that the essential source of
the success of Dr. Still and osteopathy comes from the very truth of that
remark of Dr. McCarthy: 'Damn it. Me cures them!"
I cannot go further back than 1S92 of my own knowledge back to tne
days In 1865. when Dr. Still and Mn-J. Abbott, hiding from the bushwhackers
out In a corn field in Kansas, meditated and thought on these lines: to the
day In 1874 when Dr. Still stumbled on his first truth; to the time in 189".
when Ward was carried to him on a stretcher at Eldorado Springs, to find
out if he could be cured of h's asthma. These were before my time; but my
experience in osteopathy, my knowledge of it, leads me to look for a great
future for it. The seed has been sown; the soil has been tended and tilled;
the growth, so far, has ber-n vigorous. The future lies In the hands of the
men and women who are now practicing It. If they are faithful to their
trust all will be well, and it is my confidence in their faith, their loyalty and
their devotion, which leads me to augur a great future for the science to
which the best years of my life have been devoted. W llliam bmun,
O.. Kirksville, Mo ,
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