The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-12-13

acute diseases, after they have beer
given up to die by the medical doctors
1t is in chronic diseases, however, where
Osteopathy has won it's greatest fame
Nearly all cases which have gone to tile
Osteopath are those that have been
abandoned as hopeless by other doctors.
The per cent is such chronic cases as
asthma, rheumatism, consumption can
Ger, dislocations, goitre, all classes of
nervous diseases, is larger but the
science is too young to make an exact
estimate. In insanity, Osteopathy has
had wonderful success with the limited
number of patients. In fact, it may be
said to bealmost phenomenal, and there
are bright hopes for the unfortunates
when the newly discovered science gets
prepared to treat and care for them
properly.
A man is machine with over 200
bones You may call them braces,
supports, OF what you please. Muscles,
nerves blood vessels and tendons are
distributed all over and through this
framework. There is an engine, and
pipes run from that engine to all parts
OF the body, and from all parts blood is
carried back to the place 1T started
from by the veins or blood tubes.
Health is that condition when all the
wheels of life are in their center and
move without any obstruction, great or
small. Disease is the creaking of the
eccentrics of any or all parts of the
machinery. The chief cause of disease
is due to some mechanical obstruction
to natural functions.
Disease Removed by Manipulation.
Osteopathy reasons that disease re-
suits from some displacement, enlarge
ment, obstruction or abnormity of a
bone, muscle O, ligament, or some I'M
natural pressu > upon nerve or blood
vessel For eSt;nple, a dislocation at
the shoulder may cause rheumatism in
the hand or w ~, dislocated rib may
produce heart disease, diseased nerve
in the stomach may affect the eyesight
and so on The osteopath removes the
obstruction by manipulation. The re-
suits that / have obtained over disease
l have secured when have handled the
engine of life as an engineer handles his
engine. So long as conform to the
laws governing an engine, the human
locomotive obeys, just as well as any
locomotive will obey it's engineer when
he treats it as the machinist has indi-
Gated by the form of any or all parts Of
the engine If some substance should
get into the wheels of a watch or the
cogs should become locked OF bent,
would a workman pour arsenic, nux-
vomica or some chemical calculated to
destroy the works into it? No. First
he would ascertain where the obstruc-
ton was, would remove it, straighten
the bent wheels and set it going. This
is done by the osteopath by scientific
manipulation alone, without the use of
drugs, the knife or surgical appliances
of any kind.
The successful osteopath approaches
his patient with confidence, as surgeon
his. There is no guesswork about his
work-no gambling that possibly one
drug may do something in one way and
another do something in another /
know when turn off the current of
that electric light in my room that the
light will cease to shine. The osteopath
knows that when certain nerve OF
muscle is shut off from it's source OF
supply Of power the parts to which ii
leads must logically become diseased.
We know that the current of life is all
right if all the connections are tight, as
the light comes into the globe when the
knob is turned. We turn the knot
which may be turned shut and light ap
pears at once. say we do this, ani
the records of our cases will show tha
we do it,
Knowledge Of Anatomy.
The osteopath must have a perfec
knowledge of anatomy. This branch
with physiology, is the foundation o
all osteopathic treatment The success
full operator must know every bone
muscle, nerve, vein and artery in tn
body, with it's uses and relations t
every other part, and the results tina
will follow from any abnormity of an
lone of them. The diagnosis is largel