The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-08-23
OSTEOPATHY.
DR.. BrOwder Talks EntertainingIy Of
the New Science.
The Tennessee School of osteopathy
Will Be Great Factor in the
Upbuilding of Columbia.

The audience that listened to the lee
ture last Thursday night in thu Bethel
House pariors by DR.. u. M. Browder,
was comparatively small, but there was
not one who went that wished he had
stayed at home. DR.. Browder is a
talented, broad minded gentleman, a
scholar of the first class, man of I'M
usual ability, it must be conceded a
lecturer Of power and force His lee
ture was entertaining and instruc-
tive from beginning TO end.
Upon being introduced, he started
off by saying that the size of his audi
ence reminded him of the report of an
old Baptist preacher in Virginia years
ago to Baptist Association. AT the
Association the preachers were all Civ
ing in their reports of members re-
ceived, moneys collected, etc, when
one old brother got up and said.
Brethren, | have 100 members, and
they all attend but 3d. " Put, " said
DIR. Browder - would have You know
that appreciate this audience more
for its quality than for its quantity.
He said he had been well pleased ever
since he reached this beautiful city.
He was aware of the fact that when
something new springs up there is "A
great deal Of curiosity to know what il
is. Osteopathy had forged It's way to
the front through the most desperate
resistance. 1t had been the case every
where it was introduced, and he ex-
pected it to be the case in Columbia
All new sciences and discoveries of
history have come up through the
fiercest opposition. Time was when
the man that said the blood circulated
through the body was regarded as a
crank and denounced as dangerous to
society.
Fifteen years ago in the little town
of Kirksville, Mo-, Osteopathy was
brought before the world by its found
er, DR.. George Still. 1t had stood the test.
1t had cured where all other treatments
failed 1t had been tested by effecting
cures on persons long since turned out
by the medical Profession to die as in
curables To-day there were members
of the United States Congress and Judg
es on the Supreme Bench who had been
relieved after all else had failed, and
were living evidence of the power and
efficacy of the science.
There never had been a science that
had come to the front so quickly in the
face of such opposition On account of
the enmity of the medical fraternity
the new science could get no patients,
except those who had been turned away
as incurables by the physicians, and
who only tried the new science out of
desperation, and with but small ray
of hope.
And yet, the speaker said, people
would be surprised to learn that the
osteopath and the physician studied
the same books, studied the structure of
the human body from the same authors.
The basic principles of osteopathy were
as simple as the b c's of the English
Language. They were based on the
anatomy of the body, the physiology OF
the body, the chemistry of the body.
Nineteen twentlerhs of all diseases
this country are due to disturbances
of the nerve trunks or structures, or
distractions in nerve centers. The
skilled osteopath could control these,
and nothing was more logical than that
OsteOpathy was a science. DIR. Browdel
said that large per cent of the most
learned men in the world were as
doubtful of the curative effects of the
rapeutic medica as himself. He assert
ed that there was no such thing as 8
curative drug Some of the wisest mer
in the medical profession only claimed
that drugs assisted nature to do hel
work.
He referred to the establishment OF
the American School of Osteopathy al
Kirksville, Mo-, which was the be
ginning of the new science and the
parent school of all Osteopathic schools.
When it was started, Kirksville was &
little old town of 3, SOC jseople. The
school was static in !, little frame
building in the edge of t1e town
Everybody laughed at it, jeered it ant
sneered at it, and not until people who
had been using crutches for years cam,
on the streets without them did they
believe. But the College began tt
grow. and the town began to grow an(
to-day there were 952 student in the
school and the towns population ha(
grown from B, 500 to over 10, 900.
If the people of Columbia would give
the proper encouragement this cit!
would obtain the same results from tn,
Tennessee College Of Osteopathy. Os
teopathy, he said, would prosper.
Every man needs it. every family
needs it, and wherever established it i
there to remain. There was no goot
reason why this school should not grow
as fast and to the same proportions al
the school at Kirksville.
DIR. Browder told the story of tn
Chinaman' remark at his first sigh
of an electric street car, and said
Osteopathy, will receive no pushe
from the medical men, no pullee from
prescription counters, but it s going t
run all the same.