Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1900-03-16
OSTEOPATHY
I'm the Home--A Word TO
Mothers.
ny DIR. C. L. ooBrx, D. o

by DIR. {. l.. COHEN, d. o.
Since the larger number of the
homes IN any community are
homes where children are the cen.
ter OF attraction aud the center of
thought for the parents, an article
dealing with homes must of neces.
sity have much TO say of the little
ones, so this question of Osteopa.
thy in the home naturally shapes
itself into the subject of Osteopa.
thy for children.
We all desire for our children
the highest intellectual attachments
Of which they are capable and
they are capable of infinitely more
when their minds are kept sound
by being housed in sound bodies
The physical culture now taught
universally in schools, is of great
help IN keeping the body in good
form, but II the mother at home
understands something of anat
omy and physiology, the sound
bodies Of the babies are much
more likely to remain sound when
the little ones have gone to school
boy and girl size.
Ii Is an excellent plan also for
mothers to carefully examine the
bodies of their children frequently
TO see that they are growing
straight and developing symmet
really.
One mother made a practice Of
always visiting the rooms of her
growing children the last thing at
night before she retired, and after
they were asleep, of placing them
perfectly straight in their little
beds. Her sons, when grown.
were as straight as Indians, and
their soldierly bearing was the
subject of remark. Whether tie
mothers early care was the cause
oil not, it was without doubt good
practice.
How many serious deformities
have begun in childhood, caused
by an awkward twist, or by jump.
ing, thus slipping the vertebrn or
other bone, 1t might be ever so
slightly, but which when neglected
would cause serious trouble later
on. A mother may notice that a
child has one shoulder blade
little lower than the other and
think nothing OF it. A spinal cur.
vature may be an easy thing 10
correct when it begins, but per.
+ haps Impossible when il il case
Of long standing.
DR.. J. Martin Littlejohn Ga mem.
, Der Of the faculty of the American
School Of Osteopathy at Kirksville,
Mo- in a paper on Osteopathy,
read before the Royal Society, in
1, London, says:
Almost instinctively people in
every land seem to be turning in
the same direction, toward sys.
tenn in which the main principle is
the adjustment of the human
mechanism to itself, and the har-
monizing Of its organic functions. "
The Osteopath claims that the
human body contains within Itself
every force necessary to maintain
1t in health, provided these forces
have free play TO do the work
, which nature intends them TO do.
Osteopathy also places nature
r abo\ all drugs and claims for her,
! that when uuobstruCted she will
utilize the material given her in
10 preserving proper harmony and
b. equilibrium in her machine-the
/, human body. OF these health.
/. preserving elements the blood is
chief The blood is the life. DR..
Still, the founder OF the science of
I. 0steopathy, says, "A natural flow
! Of blood is health, disease is the
! effect of local or general disturb.
o ance of the blood" When a child
! has Group or dipIheria, there is a
/. contracted, congested state of the
T, throat. Contraction of muscles OF
/, course restricts blood vessels, thus
impeding fee flow of blood, and
disease is the result. The same is
= true of other parts Of the body,
{ whenever, from any cause, the free
flow of blood is shut OIL from any
part, disease will set up.
/, SO much il being said about mi.
p Globes of late years, that timid PEG.
pie are almost afraid to eat or
sleep, or breathe, for fear of being
7 deyoured by the terrible microbe.
They do not reflect that the