The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-07-20
osteopathy Not Magnetic Healing.


osteopathy Not Magnetic Healing
The magnetic healer becomes PROBES
sor after three weeks course of study.
He is then prepared for his practice,
while it requires a twenty months course
of hard study in an Osteopathic schoo!
for the Osteopath to be prepared to
practice Osteopathy.
Magnetic healers give what they call
'"absent treatment" The Osteopath
cannot give absent treatments from the
simple fact he removes the cause of
disease. If one has only imaginary
troubles, suggestive therapeutic treat
ment is the very best and in fact the
only curative treatment, but it would be
worthless in correcting abnormalities.
Osteopathy is as superior to Magnetic
healing as the light of the Sun is to that
of the lightning bug. The magnetic
healer does not have to know anatomy
and physiology, while the knowledge of
both is indispensable to the practice of
Osteopathy. What have said of the
two practices has been said in self
defence l have nothing unkind to say
of the magnetic healer. | rejoice at all
the good he may do.
"osteopathy OF Too Recent Origin"
This is one of the accusations made
against Osteopathy. cheerfully
acknowledge that Osteopathy is of re-
cent discovery; but do not admit that
it should be rejected for this reason.
Very recently this country has dis
covered rich phosphate mines. Would
it be correct to even depreciate the
value of our phosphate because of its
recent discovery? Your only answer is,
NO." then why reject Osteopathy on
this ground. "Why was the world so
long in discovering this science?" you
ask. | do not know. Neither can /
understand why the world did without
railroads, telephones, biography, and a
thousand and one other things so long
as it did, but it did it. Look again., the
law of gravitation is of recent discovery,
comparatively speaking, and yet it had
always existed. But you say "Great,
wise and learned men have spent their
lives in search of truth in this very field,
and it does seem that they would have
discovered it if it is of such great value"
1t does look like they should; but they
did not.
1t has been but few years since the
scientific world discovered that at every
heartbeat the blood is propelled to every
part of the body. Of course we are
amazed at such stupidity, but such was
their ignorance. The scientific world is
constantly making new discoveries and
it will continue to make them, while the
world stands. Fifty years from now
men will be astoniShed at our ignorance
We should strive to keep abreast of the
! times; aid in rolling, and not be crushed
by, the wheels of progress Remember,
we cannot make improvement where we
have the Divine standard, but in the
scientific world we have no Divine
standard.
Judge of the merits of thing accord
ing to what it does and not according tc
its age, should be our rule.
"osteopathy Will Soon Die"
This is a prophecy that has beer
made six or eight years. Osteopathit
practitioners are increasing more rapidly
now than at any time during its briei
history; never before in its history wa:
there such a rapid increase in lis de
voices. 1t is constantly making inroad'
on and lessening the list of incurablt
diseases. The first charter for al
Osteopathic school was issued less thar
eight years ago Its present enroll
ment is nearly 800. Seven other col
leges are now teaching the science anC
are in a flourishmg condition too. 1t
merits have been brought before thu
public gaze in many ways. The LegIs
latures of eight States of this Uniol
have investigated its claims to publ
recognition, and have passed bills 10 it
favor. Eight Governors have scrutini
zed these measures and signed thes
Osteopathic bills. Many have been it
triumphal victories in surgery's field
1t has built its noblest fame upon h
wrecks of malpractice of others. 1t
Natures truth and cannot be crushed
As soon as people learn that it lays tn
warm hand of certain healing on the pulls
of pain, its flag will float from all stat
capitals. 1t has come to stay. Re
Gently an NJ. d. said to a friend {
Osteopathy, sit is fad, 1t will 500
blow over" The answer is as true as
was appropriate, which was: "Pshaw,
has just begun to thunder" Tn
prejudice of the bigot and the falls
statements of the INSCRIPTIONS mu
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