Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1900-03-25
0STE0PATlIY.
What Some People Enormously
Think Ii TO be, Contrast
ed with what IL
Really is.

briefly what OsleOpathy -. IL /
would seem that this statement
should render it Unnecessary 10 /.
tell what Osteopathy is not,' but
such necessity, nevertheless, seems
to have arisen.
In sections where Osteopathy
has heretofore been introduced, It .
has been found that many people .
persist a long while in the suppo.
sition that the Osteopath and the
magnetic healer have something
in common. The Osteopath II
sometimes incorrectly called "the
rubbing doctor and as that name
is given also TO various "iaith
cure practitioners, etc, some con-
fusion thereby arises. There il
nothing supernatural about este.
opatby; it is an exact science,
based on anatomy and a thorough
knowledge Of the human system In
health and disease. II takes years
Of hard study in well equipped
institute, with full corps Of pro.
tessors, to fit a person for the prac-
tice Of healing the sick and aiIlict-
ed through the science Of Osteopa.
thy. II is very far indeed from
so.called magnetic healing
Another common error is to con-
found Osteopathy with massage.
There is a great mistake made here
also. Massage is based on sound
principles, and in some cases may
DO good, but massage is an ex.
TT, mely limited and narrow branch
Of therapeutics a. compared with
IOsteopathy, which embraces the
entire field. Any ailment, the most
complicated, any disease, the most
desp-seated, If durable at all, is
durable by OAeopathy. Many con.
sidered incurable by any other sys-
tenn, are durable by Osteopathy.
Any fracture of the bones; any
dis!ocation; any crippled condi-
Z ton stiff joints; paralytic aiIec.
. tions-any Of these. II muscles.
and tendons and nerves have not
been destroyed by the knife or
other adequate cause, are treated
, successfully by Osteopathy. Pep
e. pie who had been on crutches i0r
twenty years, and who had long
lost hope or thought Of recovery
have by Osteopathy been made u
o walk and leap aud run. This O.
: 20 common in portions Of thi'
! country where Osteopathy has had
q It's most complete development
that in those sections it has be
come commonplace, and no longei
: excite- wonder Is there anythln.
!, in massage that compares will
this?
Some cases come to US after hav
!. ing lost all reactiye power Sucl
.e cases we cannot benefit, and vi
e frankly tell them so.
have never related, except cas-
!, ually to a friend, many of the won
,e ieriul cures | have known. TIL
y most unblushing frauds, quack
J and fakes build up their neiariou
I, practice by pointing to testimonial
/, Of the most wonderful cures.
could publish many remarkabl
Al testimonials, well authenticate
to but / prefer to let results in m
, own practice, right before the eve
4. of this people, do that work 70
ig me- Osteopathy is doing som
'e good work in Bryan, which ! ma
~ be able to refer to later on. | al
4. permitted now, by some of my pa
Il tients, TO refer inquirers TO them.
ut Osteopathy is not mesmerism;
y, Is not massage; it is not any litiI
n side issue Of any other system.
At is not mushroom growth a min,
Is days wonder. IL isa science an
Y. on art Of healing without drugs ,
et the knife. II is as broad in lis al
r plication as the range of huma
be indrmity, At is taught in a gre,
', institute at Kirksville, Mo-, and
II. one each at Boston aud Minneap,
lie lis. Hundreds Of graduates al
'F turned out every year.