The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-05-24
HOW 1T is DONE.

To the average person, accustomed 4
TO the drug. method, aud unac.
quainted with the finished mech |
anism OF the body, 1t seems incred-
IDLE that a scientific and successful |
treatment of disease can be given /
without medicine. In the first place, I
they do hot see how we get inside |
the body and affect a deep organ,
from the outside. Well, when one /
stands at the front door and pushes |
a button, how does he get action and |
response from within the house
how can he communicate with the
kitchen? Oh, yes put that is plain
enough! But 1t would not be plain
! If you did not know that there was
wire from the push button to "a bell,
and that the adjustment between
these two terminal points, and all
along the line, was fine and exact.
| Suppose you twist the hammer of
the bell little, and a buzz will re
suit rather than ring. Suppose you
cut the wire, or let the battery run
dry, or let the induction coil get dis
arranged, or the insulation wear off
the wire, or the rust gather on the
contact pins in the Differentiated,
a dozen things may occur that
would make the dooroell of no use.
1t Is very simple when all is right,
but let something get out of fix
and many very smart people would
not know what to do. Now, a
skilled osteopath can reach any
organ or function of the body as
easily and effectively from its cor.
responding nerve-center or BUTTON
as one can reach the kitchen bell
from the front door.
Every organ and every function
has its specific center. These CEN
tiers are stored with tremendous
power from central dynamo, from
which double line of nerves run to
all parts of the body, making a cir
cult. This power explodes when the
proper stimulus is applied. The
circuit may be closed or opened.
The application of stimuli in osteOp-
athy is always without medicine
3 and any of the customary drug APP
plications; and, yet, it is no more
, peculiar than the method of an op-
. orator when be sends telegram He
! does not rub" his Instrument
neither does an Osteopath rub IA
patient. The telegrapher may ma
nipulat9" his instrument, but it de-
ponds on the battery, and Is accord
; ing to an established technique. So,
: an Osteopath may manipulate a
patient; but an ordinary rubber"
in a bath house can do that. An
) plished masseur does that
Even 80 an accomplished pianist
may manipulate the key of tele
: graph instrument, and may make a
: noise, butt would not be Ineligible.
I Thus, it may be seen that Osteo
pathic manipulation is according to
an established technique, and is
;. specific and definite. 1t is directed
, to calculable results, AMI is intel.
ligible. The work of the o Iteopath
is like the use Of the telephone sys.
tenn to every individual subscriber
through a central office. 1t would
O be absurd to try to talk unless the
q line was opened via the central uffi C {
e to the terminal to which one wished
n to talk.
II SO it is useless to manipulate the
Z body unless it is to accomplish 6
= definite, known result; ard it woulC
s even then be useless to seek sucl
results unless the nerve tracks anC
blood lines to the objective poin
were open. If these are closed
disease follows. The OSteopatt
5 opens them. He establishes norma
y blood flow and nerve action Thi,
is bis mechanics. He then secures
It action over the opened or recon
structed lines by scientific, technical
l. INELIGIBLE manipulation Thi,
manipulation may be done in some
:; cases with scarcely any perceptiblt
u movement of the part affected or o
the band operating the center Il
) other cases, it may be as peculiar
and strange" and "mysteriOus" a,
a restoring tensionto a clock sprin!
by turning the key round and round
s This is about as hard to unders5ant
Is as an Osteopathic treatment.
would certainly do no good to pou
oil in the keyhole, or to rub the fac
or the back of the clock if the sprin
were slipped off the pivot. Even tn