Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-02-22
SOME EMINENT OPINIONS.
L. II. Goodnight, Former U. S. cOugress
man, Now Judge Of theclrcult Court
Of Kentucky.

trary, We have been pouring physi
Unto our stomachs to cure the pail
in our toes. Thus accustomed, it 1
hard to appreciate that Q science o
healing can exist except by drul
medicine. Illusionep thus, l suffer
ed long before consent:ng to try Os
teopathy. To me. its simplicity
make 1t adpear absurd. That gal
stones, asthma, rheumatism and ner
vous prostration could be cured will
out knife or drug. was to me unbe-
lievable, and l suffered on from al
these ills. The most skillful physi
clans failed me. Fighting for life,
tried Osteopathy az q last resort.
The first treatment strengthened the
old prejudice. / was sure no good
could result. But afterwards slept
slept like a child. II was sweeter
than from narcotics. Then I thought
possibly there was something in it.
After a few treatments, ate with
imputiny anything desired. Then
began to hope. Directly strength
returned, pain abated, organs be-
came normal in their functions
Tnen l believed. Continuing to I'm
prove until grew robust, my belief
strengthened. Many: others came
under my notice. saw cures
chronic and acute-that appeared
marvellous; cures which. If perform.
ed by the orthodox methods of med
icine, the journals would abound in
applause. 1 have seen cripples, par
alytics, dyspeptics. estimates and
rheumatics take up their beds and
walk. These observations, added to
my own experience have graduated
into beliefs, into knowledge, If know
ledge can obtain as to human events.
That Osteopsthy is still in its infan
cy, we cheerfully admit, and hence
can subscribe to the sentiment ex-
pressed by DIR. Oliver Wendell Hol-
mes, that IL all the drugs we're cast
into the sea 1t would belmach better
for the men, and 30 much worse for
the fishes. There are now so many
cases that Osteopathy refuses to I'm
dertake. But when the science 10
it 10 my be lief that il viii
be Potent in all diseases. Certainly
Osteopathy Is q science of high at.
tainment and utility. No one capa-
BILE of thinking fairly can withhold
applause for system that is daily
curing the most stubborn and serious
affections without knife or drug. 1t
Is probable that within few years,
that orthodox profession will accept
the utility of Osteopathy as cordially
rs IL now accepts the propriety Of
Vaccinatson, though physicians once
resisted the latter as bitterly. as they
now oppose Os:eopathy.
MRS JOSEPH B. FORAKER, WIFI; OF
=. SENATOR FROM OHIO.
If Mr.. T. A. Still discovered moth.
ng new in m dical science but what
he has done for women, his name
would 70 do IN the ages as the great.
ct physician of any age, and one Of
ristor cal beaefactors Of the race.
His system has made it possible for |
women to escape most Of the Ills
vbich they have been supposed ira
l,tionally TO be condemned to suffer.
lie has made 1t possible for the wo-
nan to approach maternity in calm
tranquility. having assurance that
Ia pains will be almost entirely over
cine and he has demonstrated that
'omen need not spend their lives
nrsing functional arrangements with
ut finding sucoor. Who before has
one 90 much in msdicine1
ORMER GOVERNOR ROBERT L TAYLOR
OF TENNESSEE.
Wnen a century later. historians
re sitting the events Of this time \
'r the epoch making discoveries Of '
'ence and civilization, there will be n
w chapters more important. I think,
Ian that devoted to the reformation Q
medicine which will have come 2