Phoenix weekly herald., 1898-01-06
ABOUT osTEoPATHY.

l The new system of medicine which 1 has been termed "Osteopathy, man l ipulatiye surgery etc, and which Is not a system of medicine at all as pOpularly understood, but is rather a remedial process, without the use of medicines" so called. is beginning tU attract much attention among thinking men. The system of 0steOpathy, as it now appears, seems to have been the result of the joint experiences and dis coveries of two men, John Atkinson in England, and Dr. 4. T. Still of Kirksville, Mo, who gave the new idea the name of "Osteopathy" as far back as 1874. The term literally
 means "bone suuering." The theory
 is that disease is the result of dis
 placement in the human organism.
 The great underlying principle is that
 when the body is in perfect mechani- cal order when every tissue is enabled
 to do it's work without mechanical in
 reference health will result This curative system is practically drugless; cures are effected pTicipally by man ipulation and there are thousands of cases now in evidence of it's efficiency: numbers of these cases are among the most prominent people of the several states and it might be proper here to say that this remedial or curative
 
 Michigan. Vermont, Missouri. North Dakota and South Dakota. An Oste- opathic college known as the Ameri- can School of OSteOpathy has been es- tablished at Kirksville, Mo, and grad uated it's first class in June 1897, con sisting of forty-seven members.
 From an able and exhaustive article written by Col. X. T. COngerOf Akron, Ohio. who is now in this city, on the of OsteOpathy, we make the following excerpts:
 As a therapeutic agen- cy. OsteOpathy is working revolutions in the art of healing. In the work it has performed at the still infirmary at Kirksyille CIO) in the earliest stag es of it's introduction to the world. it 1 has made for itself a record of results | along the whole category of diseases l which certainly challenges the respect l and admiration of all other depart mentS of medical science. The build | ing now occupied by the A. T. Still In firmary was opened for patients in January 1895. Since that time two new wings have been added, increasing it's capacity three-fold and about Sev | an thousand patients have been treat ed. The great mass of these patients nave been pronounced incurable by many of the arts of healing and yet nore than fifty per cent of such cases have geen absolutely cured, while q of the remainder were great y benefited and a case is seldom found ! Il which no benefit is received. All his has been accomplished without | 
 Col. Conger who is known all over his country as one of the most prom nent citizens of Ohio, and Who was he pioneer in the introduction of the of tin plate in the United States and has been and is now con- lected with numerous large manufac- uring interests in this country in sev- .ral of which he is president or direc- or and who is therefore a business nan of wide experience, writes of Os- eOpathY from his personal experience with it he having been almost hope essly stricken with paralysis carly in S9- but who -has been so restored by his curative system -777--ll- l-S is now hle to be about his business -auJI is oustantly improving. So lnUcis. has he ; 'een impress, a -l' this system that a now proposes to aid this young sci nee from his abundant means and he l here for the purpose of earning of the advantages our city |. ffers in climate and otherwise for the /, establishment of an OSteOpathic san -arium. With him is Dr. W T. Con- , or. an experienced operatorin in the sci nee of OsteOpathy who has for some . ears been an operating surgeon in the ! till Infrmary at Kirksville d A science that attracts such men as Ol. COnger and many other names Of | lual standing that we might mention q i'd time and our limited space per- . it, has something in it more than the rdinary. The fact is. and the now , dom Inc. -ience of Osteopathy is a mighty ad- T ance in the art of healing and is talk lg it's place among the great discov- .ioS of the age in theraneuticS