Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-04-03

OsSeopaUDN anu DoctOf Siiil
are household words in Kirksville.
"Osteopathy" is the name of a
newly discovered system of treat
ing all diseases without medicine.
The science was founded and
brought to public notice by DR..
Andrew T. Still, and as Kirksville
has been his home for twenty
years or more, it also enjoys the
honor of being the fountain head
of this new school of healing that
is just now engaging public atten-
ton.
Among their magnificent inSti
tutions there is none to which the
people of Kirksville point with
more pride than the American
School of Osteopathy. The sue
cessful establishment of this new
healing science and its remarka-
BILE success in treating disease has
no doubt contributed largely to
Kirksville's present prosperity.
Even the casual visitor does not
need to be told this: he can see ii
on every hand, whether he re-
mains day or months. The
business of the Osteopathic In
Urinary and the number of patients
residing temporarily in the city
for treatment have steadily in
creased for several years. The
number of patients here each
month this ytar were just about
double the number for the cor
responding month last year, and
the ratio of increase continues to
be the same. The number here is
now little more than double the
number for the same month last |
year. On this basis, the Infirm
ary people say, the busiest mouths,
which are in the late spring and |
early summer, will find fully one
thousand patients on the rolls for
treatment.
In the western part of the city |
is a handsome $50, 000 Infirmary
bailding that would be credit to
any city, and property values ia
that vicinity have increased from
fifty to one hundred per cent il,
the last year and half, but the
kirksville man, will pass lightly
over these points to tell the visitor
nf the many wonderful cures effect
ed by the new method. And really.
TO talk with not only citizens of
Kirksville, but with the patients
themselves, it seems tn re is 10
end to indisputable proof of the
good works of Osteopathy.
The writer had the good for
tune to meet great many of the
patients; and found them all chock
full of good words for the new
science. Two instances of cures
that were especially impressive
will serve to illustrate the charac-
ter of the work.
In the ladies waiting room at
the Infirmary Wednesday morn
ing the writer was introduced to
Mrs. j. w. Hoover, of Louisville.
KY. Mrs. Hoover came here last $
Thursday with her daughter, Car. ,
rie, a bright little girl of eleven i
years. The little girl was injured {
Dy fall last summer, and de-
7eloped a case of what the local I
loctor called chip disease The {
,irl grew unable to walk, and suf- Il
cred severely. Three prominent p
physicians were sum b
loned, and pronounced it a bad C
ase of "synovitis. > They said il
reatment must be commenced at 4
nee, and proposed to put the girl V
! bed and hang heavy weight to d
er limb. 1t would take six e,
onths in bed with a weight to I'll
,r leg, they said, and at the end 10
that time, they could put her ay
p in a plaster cast. The cast 81
)uld have to remain about nine ha
onths. Thus fifteen months tn
rture was prescribed for the wi
tie girl by the learned Louisville tin
ctors. The mother did not see bv
hat way. She had heard of cas-
cas-
Il was only waiting for them to Gus
chip disease" said Mrs. ,uo
over,' and then l Intended to his.
ng her right here. We arrived the
Thursday. | carried her in at .