The San Francisco call., 1898-10-12

What. A new ''pathy"? True, but while the fear is but natural that new accessions may finally lead to a confu sion of "pathies' as disastrous to the building of the Temple of Health as was the confusion of tongues to the building of the tower of Babel, this new 'pathy" will have precisely the op posite effect, for, like Aarons rod 1t will swallow up all the other 'pathies" and cause the serpent in the emblem atic attribute of Esculapius, the god of medicine, to look hereafter like a boa constructor after a full meal. The two best relished dishes of this varied and extensive bill of fare will be homeopa- thy. with her adopted child. allo- pathy, swallowed, like Jonah, without shrift or continent. The indigestibil- ity of a bony dish like osteopathy, or a cold side relish like Christian science which, by the way, should be called is certainly no 'pathy' which denies the existence of disease-will be tenn pered by something hot, like electro pathy, which brings on the one hand financial death in the shape of electric belts and things. and on the other rouses to life the dead, as Lazarus, by sticking electric needles into their hearts, while the whole menu washed down by Father Kneippathy, the newest brand of hydropathy, will constitute meal that would make even a boa con- strictor feel tired
 This much by way of introduction to kinetOpathy, and now to the cultivation of an acquaintance with it, which is quite another story and one that is naturally preceded by the query. What is it?
 The foundation of kinetopathy is laid upon the cauSative principle underly- ing therapeutic or curative action. In are-every one of them-fOunded upon the method of that action. The causa- tive principle of curative action is po- tential energy aroused to specific kinetic activity. and the practice of kinetopathy consists in the employ ment of any and every agency compe- tent to arouse, control and direct that activity to the accomplishment of a cure of disease. This gives kinetopathy so much resemblance to regular medi- cine that it might be mistaken for it were it not for it's great rotundity so necessary to the cOntainer of every "pathy." Big pills, little pills, assorted (eclectic) pills, dashes and floods of Wetness. currents of electricity, rest for jaw, stomach, brain and limb laying on of handS-Often more like the laying on of an elephants foot-spasms of Idllu cLIQ SpuIlS O1 eAeIClSe, all these are more or less seductive sirens seek ing to lure on curative action, while kinetopathy represents the action itself.
 A few illustrations of what kinetic energy may do when misdirected will show only too plainly the necessity of thorough education and training to the kinetopathist before he shall attempt to enter into the practice of his prOfes- sion. The deadly effect of concentrated prussic acid, which, when placed upon the tongue, kills before it can be swal- lowed: the curare tipped arrow, which carries almost instant death into the veins through the merest scratch; the lightning flash and the electrocutioner' s shock, which kill when they touch; mental emotion that may come like an avalanche to crush the heart walls to- gether, never to expand again-all these are danger signals and effects that cannot be explained except upon the hypothesis of kinetie activity, while at the same time they show the unlim- ited scope and power of that activity which may some day be fully utilized in the cure of disease.
 Let it be added, in conclusion that when the first kinetopathic college of medicine shall be established the writer lessor of kineotopathy and the office of dean of the faculty. and his first duty shall be to provide a suitable reward of merit to him who shall first discover Homeopathic agents that shall equal In promptness and efficiency the kineto- lethal already known-that is to say, agents that shall cure as quickly and completely as we'll known agents kill.
 o. o. BURGESS MD