Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-03
A WORD ABOUT 0STE0PATHY.

1t Is very gratifying to observe the
progress made in all lines of learning,
as well as IN technical ways Dis
coyeries Of the utmost Importance are
made from year to year, and what
seemed impossible to accomplish yes
terday becomes possible today.
For centuries, learned doctors have
studied the human body 90 find the
cause and the cure OF every III flesh Is
heir to. System after system has -four
ished for time, then passed away
The rational way OF uping drugs, ac-
cording TO positive Indications has
engaged the attention OF many high
minds, from faithful proynRs or eX-
lamentations made by himself and
his friends, Hahucmann evolved the
system of homeopathy which has gain
ed many adLercnts in this and other
countries The cheapness Of homea-
pathic remedies, the minuteness Of
doses and their easy administration
have won many warm friends.
Yet there are those Who want no
drugs at all. 1t Is claimed by some
that with hygienic living and proper
exercise nearly all diseases can be over
come. This statement is too sweeping,
however A broken leg is cured by
nature, no doubt, but It takes a student
Of anatomy 20 properly place the brolI-
en- fragments Of the bone together SO
that no deformity shall ensue. But
broken bones are not the ouly injuries
which incapaCitate one from work
bones may be out Of Joint, and until
they are replaced In their natural posi-
ton, there is trouble with that Joint.
Some years ago, Missouri ply
stefan Or Still, after much study ana
practise found out that many diseases
originate from dislOcations of the bones
OF the spinal column whereby the
nerves originating from the spinal
column or the blood vessels themselves
there or elsewhere are subject to UNI
due pressure, and thus prevented from
transmitting the fun amount OF nerv-
Gus energy on Of blood supply to the
different organs they are distributed
to. BY careful study OF the antony Of
the two systems OF nerves il Is found
that the stimulation OF certain spinal
nerves exorts an influence upon the or
gans they are distributed TO- by means
OF the sympathetic nerves of organic
l.Ce, This may not be- very clear to the
average reader but II is full Of mean
! ing to the physician Thus every organ
of the body can he stimulated or in
hibted according TO the degree of pres
sure brought 20 bear upon the spinal
nerves at their points of exit from the
| spinal column Paralysis as well as
| commissions, dysontcry as well az con-
| stipatlou may be cured I'm "a short time
| 10y the physician acquainted with the
| Keyboard Of the human system--the
] complex anatomy OF the back
Or. SIN called his new system osteo-
| pathy Osteopaths then, being essen
| TALLY anatomists locate a lesion caused
by bone or lgament, or contracted
| muscle COMPRISING "A nerve, blood
| vessel cr some organ, ana cure the
| trouble by removing the lesion.
Why there should be amy opposition
TO the free prdctlse Of osteopathy is not
clear except for the fact that some
| people are always busy trying to stop
| the progress Of the world Harvey the
! discoverer OF the circulation OF the
| blood, suffered ignominy and contempt
at the hands OF his medical brethren
! and his practise dWindled to very small
| proportions, Calico was put in prison
| for saying that the earth moves around
| the sun. But those who trust them