Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-04-27
0STHEOPATHY.- ASTHMA.

DIR. Wheeler Talks OF the Cause---Ver-
zebra Partially DisIOeated---HOw the
Wheeling Is stOpPed---That Oppressed
sensatIOn In the Chest Relieved by Re-
taxing the Contracted Muscles.
Osteopaths have been laughed at and
ridiculed for making the statement that a
slipped or twisted rib or partially dislo-
Gated vertebra had anything to do with
causing disease.
Did you ever see an asthmatic trying to
breathe, with his back and shoulders all
bumped up? Did you ever stop to think
how the muscles must be contracted, that
he is compelled to sit in this position?
Did you ever stop TO think how the ribs
in front must be drawn together, irritating
the intercostal nerves?
Do you wonder a person in this condi-
ton wheezes and gasps, not knowing
whether he is going to get the next breath
or not?
Do you wonder where there is such a
contraction of the chest sooner or later
the heart is liable TO be affected?
Osteopathy has proven that a partially
dislocated vertebra mot bad enough so you
can see 1t across the street, but a partial
dislocation that requires trained hands to
locate as well as scientific manipulation to
relieve), may cause disease
Some one says you cannot have a par
tial dlslocation; the bone must be in its
socket or out of it.
Did you know that cold settling in the
muscles on one side of the spine, or a slip
on an icy sidewalk, might so wrench or
strain as to place the muscles on such an
undue tension as to cause an irritation to
the spinal nerves as they leave the spinal
canal and pass through the vertebal for
amina?
This injury may be so slight as to pass
unnoticed, but sooner or later the constant
irritation to these nerves will cause trouble.
1t is by careful attention to the little
things, things which have been considered
too Insignificant to notice by many practi-
tioners-just such conditions as this, in
which the injury was so slight that it was
passed unnoticed-that has been proven by
Osteopathy to be the hidden cause of so
many puzzling cases, and explains the re-
markable results of Osteopathic methods.
If the injury is in such a region as to
catch and irritate the nerves supplying
che bronchial tubes, the delicate and sensi-
tive lining membrane of the bronchial
tubes are so irritated that q catarrhal in
tiammation of these membranes may fol-
low. Now, there is such an existing con-
dition. A frosty morning, a sudden
change in the temperature or some irritat-
ing dust starts the person to wheeling.
There is nothing so bad fol an asthmatic
as wheeling, and nothing so good for the
wheeling as Osteopathy, the scientific
manipulation to adjust the partially dislo-
Gated vertebra or rib that is creating the
trouble. But, someone says, an Osteo-
path cannot move a bone in the spine.
That is what you think. Perhaps he
does not want to. In some cases the YER
zebra will work into position itself after
having the undue tension, the unnatural
pulling relieved by relaxing the contracted
muscles so that the muscles on both sides
of the spine act alike. 1t is by these sim
pie methods, by directing our treatment to
the cause, soothing and relieving the irri-
tated nerves, freeing up the circulation to
nourish those inhamed tissues and remov-
ing the distractions which hinder the nor
NAL actions of the body itself so that the
bronchial tubes may act normally, that
we get our results. Common sense, isn't
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