The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-08-24
OSTEOpATHIC DEPARTMENT.
Brown GOODWIN, Editor.
osteopathy Does Not Cure All.


Osteopathy does not claim to cure all
nor every diseased condition to which
the human race is heir. While it hi, 8
built its noblest fame on the wreck q
malpractice--the incurabes of other
schools-still those treated by c..
teopaths die. There are, however, fewer
deaths among our patients than there
are in any other school of practice. At
least seventy-five per cent of our
patients, till very few years ago, mere
those who had tried almost all other
methods of healing before coming to us.
No wonder the world looked on in amaze
ment and delight when we cured
seventy-tive per cent of those and bene-
fitted all and harmed none. The Os-
teopath gets hold of patient now and
then who gets but little benefit from the
treatment; however, such cases are rare.
Most Osteopaths treat only chronic
cases, a large per cent of whom have
come to him with one foot in the grave.
Or course our results are necessarily
slow and not so great as they are in the
early stages of these same troubles.
While our treatment greatly lengthens
life, everybody must die. sit is ap-
pointed unto men once to de-" again,
"As in Adam all die, ETC." God has SO
appointed it, and it must be. Men are
of the earth, and like the earth, and all
things of an earthly nature are trancient
and must change; will pass away, and
hence none should be so unreasonable
as to expect any healing art to make man
live always. There are some diseases
the Osteopath feels sure he cannot cure,
and there are people suffering with dis.
eases the Osteopath has had great sue
cess with; but these have developed to
the stage where they can be cured by no
one. In such cases the Osteopath, if he
is what he ought to be, frankly acknowl-
edges his inability to cure such.
Surgery.
That surgery has legitimate field all
will cheerfully admit, and but few, if
any, will deny that it is abused. Many
times the knife has been used when it
was not necessary, and sometimes neg
lected when its use would have saved
life. Some of the greatest victories of
Osteopathy have been achieved in re- |
moving the seeming necessity for sur
gical operations. Some physicians seem
TO have mania for using the knife. Be
sure you have exhausted all possible |
means of relief, not excepting Os
5eopathy, before you submit to a sur
gical operation. There is always more
Or less danger attending such operations,
while large per cent of them land the
patient in his grave.
Acute Practice
1t is in this field the Osteopath fills
he world with amazement and admira-
ion. 1t is here he gets such speedy re-
ults, and one of the beauties of this
treatment is it never makes the patient
ECKER than be was when the physician
ound him, as is so often the case in the
'ractice of medicine. This Osteopath's
bility to increase or diminish the
carts action, cool fever, stop vomiting,
bort chill, stop fux, arouse the
yer, unlock bowels, etc, aids him
4 getting into and holding the conf
ence Of the thinking people of the
md. On account of there being so few
and there being such
urge number of chronic patients, the
'steopath has ad to give his time to
hronlc practice almost exclusively. :
Where Osteopathy has demonstrated its {
lperior ability in giving relief, the Os.
eopath has been forced into this fertile ,,
n results) field, and when Osteopath ,
become more numerous they I
i'll give more of their time to acute 8
ractice, and then we will grow more
Gpidly in favor with the people.
While we do not solicit this kind of /
ractice, we do some of it when we can a
Are osteopathic Cures Permanently" {
There is probably no question more +
propounded to the Osteopath ,
ian the above. One man, who came [
IT examination, expressed willingness {
} take the treatment if we could cure
i'm so he would never be sick again. / :
I'D him l was not in the immortalizing I
nsiness, and therefore could not ac- O
'pt the case. When the cause of q
ven disease is removed, the effect, the =
sease, disappears, and until similar I
Iuse or some other produces disease, b
ealth reigns. OF course we cannot c
axe man better than God made him, /,
I'd as he is subject to disease after He c
rs created him, so will he be after he t
treated by an Osteopath. To illus
ate, a man has a dislocated hip, which y
IS physician sets; he is then relieved, O
1T that hip, just like the other hip, can {
, thrown out of place again. 7