The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1900-01-31
THROW PHYSIG
TO THE DOGS.
BY Hon. |. H. Good
night, Of Franklin,
Kentucky.
The Shakespeare in
junction Literally
PractiCed.

During the fall Of 1895, Hon. l. H.
Goodnight commenced Osteopathlc
treatment as a last resort After two
months treatment he returned home a
well man, though he was in critical
condition when he went to the lnfirma-
nv. The story of his cure has been re-
garded as almost miraculous, though
the medical fraternity have seemed at
times to think hard of him for not dying
under their treatment rather than al
low himself to be cured by an 'irreg-
ular.
To a representative Of the Franklin
paper he said Just after his return: Il
think much of OsteOpathy every way.
1t claims to be purely scientific 1t uses
no medicine but requires no faith. II
is based upon a perfect knowledge Of
anatomy and physiology. 1t considers
disease as the result of disarranged. or
disorganized parts, and rearranges or
organizes them, thus removing both
cause and disease.
1t is not true with all, but many of
our regular doctors esteem disease rs an
entity. IA thing within itself, and seek to
remove, or drive it out with medicine,
and as often i'll olden times when one
devil is driven out, the house is thereby
swept and garnished for seven others.
Now do not understand that | be
rate physic, or physicians. They are
my friends, and have served me too
long and two well for me either to up
braid medicine or those who administer
it. But all conservative doctors say
that, where one can get on as well
without medicine, it is better to leave
! it alone. This is the theory of Oste-
opathy However, it pushes this doc
trine further than ever before, and
claims that most ailments are durable
| without medicine.
Osteopathy views man as an ami
mated machine. and claims that all that
is necessary to its perfect work is for a
master mechanic to keep the machine
properly adjusted. Hence the entire
| treatment is mechanical Osteopathy is
an effort to understand perfectly our en-
| tire organism, so that when disease Is
manifest or injuries occur, it is known
at once just what parts are implicated
| in the trouble Thus understanding
| the science of the human body, and the
functions Of its parts, the treatment
simply by manipulation of bones, mus
Giles, blood vessels, etc, replaces them in
their natural and healthy condition,
thereby restoring proper action and
vitality, and effecting cure without
knife or drug.
| "Dislocation of bones. partial or com
plete, INSTRUCTED muscles, tendOns or
blood vessels sciatica, neuralgia, ca
tarrh, epilepsy, goiter, blindness, diseases
of the stomach, liver and kidneys, seem
to yield readily to this treatment in IA
large per cent. of the cases, and they
are nearly all cases that have been
despaired of as hopeless, and have gone
as n last resort.
You ask whether l have seen any
cures in such casesy | answer many,
ranging all the way from blindness one
case resulting from blow in the temple,
the other from meningitis have seen
many cured Of Indigestion, Others of
| gall-stones. Their success with diseases
of the stomach, liver and bowels seems
phenomenal.
Il have seen persons cured of vertigo,
and epilepsy, Of catarrh, asthma. neu-
ralgia and Of paralysis, which was SO
pronounced as TO affect, not only the
| limbs but the brain. The cures of dis
locations coming under my notice have
been legion. Occasionally the cures are
speedy, requiring only IA single treat
ment; but this is only in cases Of dislO-
cation and troubles incident thereto.
In most cases days and weeks are re-
quired and often months. There is not
so much secrecy about it as with the
schools Of medicine since these base
their treatment upon knowledge of
drugs and the human machine, while
Osteopathy rests upon the knowledge of
the machine and how to work it,
For further information and catalogue
and journal, address
THE SOUTHERN SCHOOL
! OF OSTEOPATHY,
! Incorporated Franklin, Ky.