Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-08-28
OSTEOPATHY'S WORK.
A Graphic Reporter Meets Sew
eral Interesting Cases.

A Graphic Reporter Meets Sew
eral Interesting Cases.
Mr.. II. Philbrick, who lives
near Rich Hill, Mo-, returned
home this week. A reporter
talked with him few minutes at
the Infirmary Wednesday morn
ing. 81 am very much pleased
with the treatment l have received
here" he said. 81 have Just COM
pleted course of five weeks treat
ment under DR.. Hildreth. When |
came here was troubled with dis
tressing cough which would come
on every morning and last for
about half an hour. The throat
and bronchial tubes were badly
affected and had been getting
worse for three years. That dry
hacking cough would come upon
me as regularly as | arose in the
morning, and | wonld frequently
keep it up until l was exhausted
During the past three years | new
er missed having a coughing spell
every day until | came here. Un-
der the treatment here they began
to grow less severe, then disap-
peared altogether, and | have not
had a single one for over two
weeks now / have every reason
to believe | am entirely cured.
Then my general health has alsc
improved. | am better in every
way. | was directed to come here
by Mr. Fred Darn, IN old friend
from Putnam county, who used to
know DR.. Still when the doctor
was riding over the country and l
tell you l am mighty glad l came. "
A case of unusual interest-es-
pecially to the Infirmary people,
is that of Miss Abby Watson, OF
1929 Delmar Av., st. Louis. Miss
Watson arrived in Kirk sville two
weeks ago. scarcely able to walk
at all, even with her two crutches.
In less than an hour after her ar
rival, she had laid aside hel
crutches and WAS walking al
around the Still Hotel parlor with.
out them.
/ Hundreds of similar cases have
been successfully treated here. II
fact her trouble was one which
Osteopaths find no difficulty il
handling, but the unusually inter.
esting part of it all is that she haG
been four months under the care
of the great surgeon, DR.. Steele o
st. Louis-the same DR.. Steel,
who last year read a paper befort
the State Medical Association al
Hannibal, entitled "The Osteo.
pathic Fad" The paper was
; terwards published in pamphlet
form and circulated by the associ.
alton in the hope of bringing Os
teopathy into disrepute.
About year and a half age
Miss Watson sustained an injury
viii h rendered her almost help,
less. She was compelled to use
crutches, and could only get around
on them with great difficulty. Five
of the best surgeons in st. Louis
were consulted and four of them
took turns at torturing the young
lady with plaster casts, leather
bra ceS, etc. Under their fostering
care the trouble grew worse from
day to day.
The tortures at which modern
surgical quacks are so adept and
before which the cruel ingenuity
of ancient barbarism pales into
child's play, became unbearab!e.
The young lady's general health
was underm ined. In desperation
the father at last determined to
come to Osteopathy. The surgi-
cal solons of st. Louis laboIed
long and earnestly to save Mr..
Watson and his daughter from
ialllng into the Tolls OF THAT ola
quack at Kirksville.n The daugh-
ter's case was beyond all human
aid, they said, and it would be
useless to entail further expense.
Their advice was unhe eded. Miss
Watson arrived here, and regis :
tered st the Still hotel on the even :
ng mentioned 1t was after office
hours at the Inirmary. Mrs.
Foraker, who is also guest at
the Still hotel, went after DR.. Still
The old doctor came over at once.
Miss Watson was lying on a couch
IN the hotel parlor, thoroughly