The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-28
SCRANTON TRIBUNE-sATURDAY SEPTEMBER 2s 1901

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would have no more headache and
would have good circulation gener-
ally, for that displacement is the
main cause of his trouble. II will he
out of place again slightly when he
comes next time. We gain gradually
| in those conditions till finally VIC get
the adjustment perfect so as to re-
main permanently in normal position,
and then the cure Is complete"
The young man got up looking none
| the worse for wear. His treatment
| took in all about fifteen or twenty min
utes. ] asked him how he felt now
| and he answered, Fine" II always
feel better after each treatment Doc
| tor never hurts me a bit"
| After the young man had gone the
| doctor said: THAT was very gem
eral treatment you saw. | wish you
might see the next treatment, for it
| is entirely local or specfiC--to correct
one single lesion, and illustrates most
beautifully the osteopathic philosophy.
| Being a lady patient of course | can't
ask you to see the treatment, but |
can explain in few words what it is.
| The condition is that of muscular
atrophy and partial paralysis of the
| left arm The cause Is a marked mus
| GUAR Contracture Of one particular
| muscle in the side of the neck-namely
| the sCalenus antcus This muscle at
| tachcs at one end to the transverse
processes of the third fourth. fifth and
| sixth of the Cervical vertebra and at
| the CtEer to the first rib. Now the
| nerve force to the arm comes from
the brachial plexus-a union of the
| four lower CerviCal and first dorsal
| nerves. And the principal blood sup
| ply to the arm Is from the sub-clavian
artery and vein. Now this contracture
of the sCalcnus anticus muscle draws
| together the first rib and clavicle or
] collar bone, and thus intcrferes with
| tile blood flow through the sub b-clavian
| art'ry and vein and prevents the arm
| getting its proper blood supply This
same contracted muscle also intcrferes
with all the nerves that make up the
| brachial pleXus by tensing the tissues
| around the nerves at their exit from
the interverterbral foramna. so that
the muscles of the arm supplied hy
| these nerves do not receive the nee
ossary nerve impulses. In this case We
simply work to relax and free this one
musclo-and nature will do the rest
isn't that simple and loElcal?"
Here the next patient was announced,
but the doctor said If / had any further
| questions to ask he would gladly give
me few minutes longer. | asked him
If any harmful results ever came from
| osteOpathic treatment Not If pron-
crlN given by one thoroughly trained
and competent, hut | would not like to
answer for an amateur on some cases"
| DO you use any drugs"
| NO"
| How often do you treat"
| AS often as the case requires some
| times daily, sometimes but once a
| week"
| How expensive is your treatment ."
| AS cheap or cheaper than medicinal
| treatment. when YOU consider that we
both prescribe and furnish the rem
| edy."
DO you treat acute cases"
| I'VE are eminently successful in
| many iorms of acute disease, but gem
| orally speaking we do not treat them.
| because of the necessity of frequent
treatment and we cannot do them ius-
tice at the residence when we have a
busy office practice, too. Ours is es-
sentially an office practice"
| DO YOU treat for everything?"
| Most emphatically no. No one sys-
TEN of therapeutics is complete in it,
self Some diseases are essentially
surgical, some purely medical, others
| wholly mcntal--but many chronic and
| obscure cases are logically Ostcopa-
thic and only Ostcopathic No strictly
| honest and conscientious physician of
any one school of practice can take
| every case that presents itself to him
/ hn
method, who will take any ana every
case, is either a fool or "A rascal"
| How about the germ theory and
heredity?"
| I'VE make a study of both bactcri-
ology and heredity, and recognize both
as potent factor in disease. But, in
any physical ailment there is Il pre-
disposing condition i'm the way of n
| physical lesion-a mechanical cause
| We try To locate and remove it. and
| Nature does the rest"
| Are your treatments ever painful
| do they make one sore"
| some treatments necessarily hurt
the first few times, others not at all +"
| How do you treat lady patients?"
| "ln the case of spinal treatment
or one more or less general, we have
our women patients wear loose gown
so they may remove corsets and tight
bands. We never treat next to the
flesh and there is no exposure"
| How long does the average case re-
| quirc treatment"
| "That depends entirely upon the ra-
turc Of the LESSONS and the rccuper-
| ative power of Nature i'm the particu-
lar individual our cures are not of
| the miraculous, instantaneous faith
| cure order, though many are cured
| uhat Is, the cause is removed in a
single treatment or two, but they
usually require course of regular,
faithful treatment"
| How do the medical men regard
your school and it's methods"
| THAT all depends on the medical
man. Some send us patients, others
| are non-committal but many, i'm fact
| most of them, ridiCule and are yio-
| lcntly opposed to us. One of our city's
| most eminent of medical men, how
| ever, said recently in the columns OF
your own paper, words to this effect.
| Not a single scientific law from that
| of GravitatiOn to that of the cirCu-
| latlOn of the blood, when 1t was first
! proclaimed, has failed to receive the
| jeers and taunts of those who prided
themselves that they possessed the
whole truth, and yet took no pains to
learn the process of reasoning by
which the new truth was established. >
primarily medical practitioners ridicule
our ideas OF displacement, and deny
our ability to stimulate and inhibit
nerve centres, but we can show results
by the cardiograph, an instrument for
measuring and recording the strength