Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-10
published by Request.)
The New Science Of DrugIess Healing.
History.


A period of eight short years EN-.
braces practically all of the history of
osteopathy, for while DR.. A. T. Still
had ben working out its principles for
many years previous, it was only in
1894 that he considered it sufficiently
developed to open a school for its pro-
pagation. So rapidly has it developed
since that time that operators are now
practicing in nearly every state and
territory in the MO and some dozen
schools and colleges have bene found
ed for teaching its principles. 1t has
been endorsed and adopted as a
method of treatment by many of the
most prominent people of the country
and is now recognized legally in seven
teen states. What a marvellous record
in so short a time! Does is not be-
speak a fair investigation by thinking
people? The first and only permanent
office for the practice of ~osteopathy in
New Mexico was established in Albu-
quer1ue by DR.. C. H. Conner on the
18th day of last February after de-
feating the medical board in its at
tempt to hamper progress and keep
down their competitors.
Definition.
O~steopathy is the science of treat
ing manually all diseases b the adjust
ment of all parts and organs to their
natural relation with each other, thus
removing the ir~ritations resulting from
their abnoraml relations and removing
Instructions to the vital forces and
fluids of the body and by stimulating
mechanically all organs to their proper
function or inhibiting abnormally ac-
tive processes or movements of por-
tions of the bodily organism. 1t, there
fore, must have for it's foundation a
thorough and comprehensive knowl-
edge Of anatomy and physiology and
the normal and abnormal action of the
various organs of the body.
Spinal Origin of Disease.
Emanating from each side of the
spine are the spinal nerves with their
sympathetic connections which control
every organ of the body both as to it's
function and it's healthy development.
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the nerve control of all parts of the
body is disseminated. The nerves pass
out from the spinal ord between
bones, ligaments and muscles with
only a limited amount of space, and
the infringement upon this space by
contraction of muscles or by impunge-
ment of bone may cause a disturbance
of the organs of the body. Upon these
nerves the o~steopathy must play as
upon the keyboard of a piano, remov
ing any pressure or obstruction which
would cause discord in these nerves or
in the functions of the organs which
they supply. 1t is upon the spine, for
this reason, that the %osteopath does
the major part of his work.
Illustration.
Osteopathists recognize in man a
most perfect and intricate and to a GER
tain extent, self-recuperative machine,
which with every part n organ in
it's proper position and relation to
every other part will run smoothly and
perfectly and that after replacement
of parts displaced by accident or any
of the various forces incident to their
surroundings and movements, a restor-
alton of function and health will SUI
pervene. As we recognize these con
ditions in the infinitely less complex
~timepiece. driven by a spring of hu-
man make, why do we not see them
also in the mechanical body, different
only in that it is driven by the God
given spring, or force, called life?