The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-09-07
TERMS OF TREATMENT
Clipped from a Private Letter.

VI! GYMNASIUM VI W IlltT anu IleCtlNeT.D
Leon had about regained his usual
strength before leaving home. We all
feel very grateful to DIR. Watson, our
Osteopath, for the prolongation of Icons
life, as we feel sure he would have been
in his grave but for his treatment.
Icons cure has attracted the attention
OF many, and as result other patients
have been added to DIR. Watson's already
growing list and his circle of friends
greatly increased. He grows in favor
with the people every day. The other
physicians continue to fight him, but
his patients testify in his behalf. His
work here calls for his entire time,
hence he has ceased to visit the other
point.
81 am sure no system of medicine has
had the control of the bowels that
Osteopathy has. have known it tried
in so many ways since DR.. w. has been
in our town. Icons was case Of
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case of inflammation of the bowels which
was treated with equal success. We
had despaired of Icons life before
calling the Osteopath.
"One of my nephew's has since had a
very bad case of fux The Osteopath
had him out at work in three days,
while people, suffering from the same
trouble, treated by the old system, were
dying around us every day, or if they
got we'll, it was after weeks of illness.
"That the Osteopath has almost per-
feet control of the bowels has been
shown in numerous cases. Even though
| should use medicine in other troubles,
| would certainly use Osteo2athy in
bowel troubles. Osteopathy, however,
has shown it's ability to handle other
troubles equally as we'll. Were to try
to tell you all Osteopathy is doing, |
fear it would read like an advertise
ment on a patent medicine sheet
do believe Osteopathy is the "c0m-
ing SCIENCE" My husband is a
physician of the old school an
M. d. of the College of Physicians
and Surgeons. He says we're he a
younger man he would study Osteopathy.
He is almost as much of an enthusiast,
on the subject, as | am. When | first
heard your son was studying Osteop-
athy, | felt disappointed that one of
your boys should make such a mistake.
Now if one of my boys were going to be
a physician, he should study Osteop-
athy. The most wonderful thing, to
me, is that, by this new system of treat
ing, pain can be eased without narcotic
or opiate. To put one to sleep without
these medicines and to lower the tenn
perature from high degree of fever to
normal without the use of medicine (all
of which | have seen done repeatedly is
wonderful. Just think of how much
harm morphine and opium does! While
its benefcient effect in quoting pain,
and inducing sleep, is good, it is fol
lowed by such bad after effects. as to, in
many cases, completely wreck the whole
bodily system and the very life of the
person using it. 1t does seem to me thai
every M. ID. in the world would want tc
study Osteopathy, to learn to do without
these awful medicines, which have done
so much more, it seems to me, to curse
mankind than to bless them. Friends
tell me that Mrs. Talley, of Winchester
had been so terribly afflicted with rheu
matism that she had not gone to sleer
for two years without an opiate. The
Osteopath there, DIR. T. B. Larimore
put her to sleep the first night he treated
her, and that too without an opiate
She slept all night and has not taken ar
opiate since. beg your pardon My
friends all laugh at me, am so enthu
siastic on the subject that | fear | dc
bore them talking about Osteopathy
My only excuse, if need one, is that
/ earnestly believe 1t is q good thing
That the world is going to be better il
healCh and consequently better il
morals-they are more closely allieC
than many believe am sure, on &C
count of this wonderful new science
which is going to revolutionize thu
world in its system of treating disease
| that the drug treatment is doomed
Long ago DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes
truely said, "If all drugs were thrown
into the sea, it would be better for mel
but worse for the fishes" The dear OLE
DIR. was wiser than he even knew, &c.
Sincerely your friend,
"MRs. SILENA Nj. HOLMAN,
Fayetteville, Tenn,
"Pres. Tenn. Branch Of w. G. I. u
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