The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1902-09-02
BY A LAY BROTHER.


Every man and woman owes
the duty TO himself or herself 10
learn what Osteopathy Is, and
what IL will do TO cure disease
and to prevent it.
Every parent owes the duty 10
his or her children to know how
tOsteopathy will cure childhood
diseases and prevent graver ones
later in life.
You may be well to-day. You
do not know what may happen
n-morrow. While you are we'll,
investigate Osteopathy To see
what it is doing, can DO, and will
be likely to do for you when you
are in need.
You may meet with an acci-
| dent; you may get a severe cold.
the one may be the beginning Of
years of pain, inconvenience, and
feebleness, resulting in total dis
ability. The second may develop
Into a severe acute attack, or
into some chronic disease that
brings years of decline and des-
pair.
Your child when born into the
world had no worse encumbrance F
than an inherited predispOsition /
to some form of disease. IL its
little body were kept healthful, :
nature would overcome that ten .
dency so that it would never de- T
velop. The child would on pro Z
per food grow in strength and /
vigor of both mind and body. I
How many parents think they
would give in abundance of their !.
means if they knew just what to
do for their children TO keep them !
in healthl
Here it lies, within reach of
many, but IS refused because of
an old prejudice that in medicine
is the only cure for disease. You
wait for disease, have it named,
and then give medicine TO cure
it. Why not take ordinary pre-
caution to prevent its develop /
ment?
The simplest principle in Oste-
opaChy is that disease has al
ways a cause, Some interfer-
ence with the normal state of the
body causes an acute attack of
some kind; the greater the dis
turbance, the more severe or I
more lasting the disease. Every /
disturbance means an impair
ment of nerve force or of nerve I
action. The sooner this disturb
ance is corrected and the normal
nerve force restored, the quicker
nature can restore the impaired
organs.
The Osteopath can and does
correct such disturbance.
A slight attack of acute dis
ease, a fall, bruise, strain, twist,
or sudden jar often makes a dis
turbance in the body of a child
that he appears to recover from
quickly, but from which as a
matter of fact, he only partly re-
covers. The nerves interfered I
with by the injury are not fully
restored; from that time forward
they are unable to give their full
force to the organ which il Is !
their function to supply; and in
time there is set up a chronic .
disease (of slow growlh, TO be
sure, but certain just the same). /
which may annoy him the re-
of his life.
You who have children IN your
care, you who love 10 see your
children in health and love to see
them grow in grace and favor ,
with God and man, please take
time to inform yourself of Oste- :
0phathy for the children's sake.
An occasional osteopathic eX-
animation of a child, the correc-
lion of any slight or serious dis /,
5urbance there may be found, )
will preserve the normal physical s
and will promote ,
stage of health that ouly needs b
% be properly fed 10 develop men >
and women of vigorous mind and I.
body, and a stage of longevity :
heretofore impossible.
What Is possible for the chill
lren is true for grown people. ]
The adult frame and impaired
organs are not so easily or so
quickly repaired as the child
0ut the principle is the same. =
Drs. Hiley's office is st j. =. :
residence. Exami- :
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