Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1893-02-03

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ces those symptoms in the healthy
individual, which his sIck patient
has, will relieve them therefore
lie administers remedy which IN
tho healthy would produce all the
symptoms of u congestion. Again
the wise Board of Health address
es the canidate for recognition
aid says, We'll done, good and
althiul servant, thou, also, shalt
have license to practice"
Here we have two treatments
both correct" yet each giving
drugs; TIE ole he direct opposite
az the othor, differing only in the
size Of the dose; which is right:
Tnls question il put to member
of the third recognized School,
gets the frank answer, i don't
know, ] will act ON the assump
ton that both are partly right and
experiment. If l find Hom@o
pathic remedy acts well, | will use
it, and il find it no good, why, l
will use the opposite in larger
dose" Listen once more, Well
done good and faithful servant,
thou shalt have a license to prac-
tice." Now we haye here three
Schools of Medicine, all differing,
two of them being directly oppos-
ed to one another, still, quite cor
rect and "Recoenized.'
Ifthree schools ali different can
be right, why cannot four? Let
US see. Enter an Osteopath,, Il
wish to register Diploma from
the School OF Osteopathy" eve
do not recognize your school, you
use no Medicines. La them alone
is hope, depart ye into the back
woods" Oh, wise and learned
State Board Of Health, if three
Schools so different are correct
who is to be the judge as to wha'
is to constitute correct system
of trestmen If Homeopathy is
right, Allopethy is false; if Allo.
paihy is right. try every Homo
opath on the capital charge fol
any patient who dies while taking
his medicine In the pame oI
common sense, let the law once
and for eyer, decide what system
of treatment is to be the only one
allowed, or else allow all to treat
as they choose. "And Low abidetl
these three" and no more are tc
come in. Seriously l respect the
State Board of Health for its
moderation, it has had to bow tc
the force of numbers and confes:
that the same thing is blue, greer
and pink. Now that the Osteo
paths want to say that it Is yellow
the thing is absurd; we have te
give in that it Is three colors, WE
will not say that it is four. VIZ
might as well say that tits foul
hundred No, we cannot recog.
niza you" All that the Osteo.
paths want Is, to be let alone; We
use no drugs, or at least very rare
ly.
Since I came to Klrksville il
July Of last year, medicine hs.
been given in four cases. two O
those being by myself. How the1
can we be said to practice MEpI
ONE? But we manipulate,
and that is, as the Secretary o
the Board expresses it, "wherl
they have got us" The act exist
for the protection of the public
so they say; but how }oes the Law
stand.
Unless a man holds the degree
Of N. D. and is registered by tht
Board Of Health, he capnot prac
tics any system OF treating diaeaa'
iuntess, { here is the protection b,
pays o license fee of $4,000 pc
month. There we have it all
Protection for the PUBLIC? Pro
lection for tho humbug "Pa,
your license fee, and then 20,
mey swindla and rob the publ,
rs much as you please. we asl
this lee go that the opposition Il
us may be limited" OsteopatbJ
is either the truth or it is lie. l
it is lie, let it die its own death
it surely will die. US all lies do. i
it is the truth, let it live, do no
crush it. We are too strong to b,
crushed, and those who are re
sponsible for tie inconvenienc'
caused us, will surely suffer il
pocket. That Is where the NJ
DIS. conscience is located, for ou
woFt is nov clear before ps. w
naye never asked hs precious de
gree OF NJ. d. Ii it were Offered
me | wonld not rsa it have seel
men, holding That degree, in TIL
back rooa OF drug storea, in thei
shirt sle, yes, doing bar kee per,
york for $50 per month, with
daxterity that bespoke long piac
tlce; that is fthe lawful practice o
Medicine We do not desire to b,
called doctors, we are Osteopaths
There is not one thing in com
mon between US and the Medica