Shortly after I was established in my new quarters a man came to me with his arm in a sling. He had fallen and dislocated his elbow, and four doctors had used four ounces of chloroform on him, but failed to reduce the bones. I set it in about ten minutes without chloroform, and no machinery save my hands. My method of treatment began to attract attention, and I was asked if I could cure asthma, and I began to treat for that disease. I have never failed on a case of asthma to date, and after eighteen years' practice can say that for asthma Osteopathy is king.
Amusement often accompanies annoyances.
An Irish lady came to me with great pain under her shoulder-blade, and asked me if I could make her shoulder easy. She had asthma in a bad form, though she had only come to be treated for the pain in her shoulder. I found she had a section of the upper vertebrae out of line, and stopping the pain I set the spine and a few ribs. In about a month she came back to see me without any pain or trace of asthma. This was my first case of asthma treated in the new way, and it started me into a new train of thought.