Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-03-14
0steopathy.
From Our Special Correspondent.
FRANKLIN, KY, !
March 18th 1901.

weats have brought n number OF
Inquiries which indicate interest
on the part of your readers in Os-
teoYatby as a method::of relieving
suffering and curing disease. We
have received requests to send lit
erxture to friends and relatives, in
some instances receiving quite a
Iiatpf afflicted people. We wish
to thank those who have already
SOM or may send us the names of
people who might be interested in
our work. Much interest has been
manifested in the cases that are
bsing cured, and we give a few
exssnples of the results that are
bang obtained
DIR. A. Gilmore, of Paris, Tenn.
brought his daughter Ruth to the
frhrmary suffering with spinal
c1fyature. OF her case ne says:
Before taking cry daughter to
your infirmary she was examined
b some of the best physicians in
Tennessee, who pronounced her
disease Spinal Curvature, and all
they could do was TO use a plaster
of Paris jacket, or surgical chair
and were moi very hopeful of a
cpre then. When / took her to
-FOUR Infrmary in June. 1898, she
was unable to stand erect. The
muscles in her lower limbs we're
shrunken and she was too weak to
walk more than one block. She is
now sound and we'll"
Mr.. w. A, Thompson, of Hise-
vile, Kentucky, received injuries
from fall and says regarding his
case; II came to this city on crut-
chss with stiff leg, from the eff
fects of being thrown from horse
seseral months before. My atten-
ding physician told me that the
chances were that / would be a
cripple for life. | was told the
same byyother prominent physi-
clans. When | was examined by
the osteopathic physicians they
said they could restore me. They
went to work and found my hip
| dislocated, and also my knee cap.
In less than one week they had me
walking without my crutches and
after two weeks treatment / was
perfectly restored. My cure GER
tainly was miricle."
Mr.. j. 7. Lowell, a well known
hardware man of Franklin, Ken
lucky, says; For eighteen years
was greatly traubled with Asthma,
breathed with difficulty, coughed
at night so that | could sleep but
little. | tried the treatment of va
rious physicians without finding
relief, After sixty days treat
ment at the Osteopathic Infrmary
| feel entirely we'll and have not
suffered from the disease since the
first three weeks treatment" 1T
has now been five years since Mr..
Lowell received this relief and he
l,as not been troubled since.
Mrs. Teresa Perkins of Frank
lin, Tennessee, says of her trou-
BILE: "As a duty to the afflicted,
and in gratitude for my own great
improvement, it affords me much
pleasure to give this unsolicited
testimonial in behalf of Osteopa-
thy. / had suffered for three
years with what the medical doc
tors called Enteritis. | had fire.
quent and weakening hemorrages
from the bowels, and was confin-
ed to my bed for year and after
wards to an invalid chair. l was
under the continuous treatment of
faithful, kind and competent med
ical doctors without perceptible or
permanent improvement. After
some months treatment at the
Southern Infrmary at Franklin,
Kentucky, the hemorrhages have
ceased, walk6without pain about
the house, and feel in fair way
to complete restoration to health. |
l believed Osteopathy the greatest
boon science has given to the af-
fiicted"
These cases are all those treated
some time ago and have continued
we'll after stopping the treatment.
We solicit an opportunity to give
your readers further information
.and to give them literature regar-
ding the science. Patients are
'ooming and,will be in increased
until summer. If you
ARE afflicted investigate the work
of the Infirmary Department of
The Southern School of Osteopa.