New-York tribune., 1906-02-26
OsTEOPATHY DEFENDED.
What 1t Is and What 1t Is Doing in Reliev.
ing Patients from Pain.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: May be allowed the courtesy OF your cot.
umns for few words In response to the letter
published in yesterdays issue OF your paper by Dr.
St. John Roosa? Undoubtedly he thinks he 10
perfectly right in all that he says and does IN his
efforts to prevent the passage OF the bill at Al
bany. but, like the majority OF allopaths. he does
quite know that osteopathic treatment Is doing
more and more for those whom aopaths have
failed to relieve. AS OF the foundation stones
Of osteopathy is TO use no medicine whatever they
surely cannot be trying to make "a short cut to
the practice Of medicine" From Dr. Roosa's letter
one would conclude that almost any man or woman
could. with slight preparation begin the practice
of osteopathy. Several years ago my aushter was
severely injured by fall the fee My family
physician. after examination. told her that there
was nothing 10 be done. save by operation which
might be fatal; that she would gradually used
TO the condition OF things. she recovered from the
nervous shock This opinion confirmed by two
other allopaths whom I consulted IN the mean
time my daughter became much worse that. In
despair. I consulted an osteopath. and she began
treatment. He discovered seven bones disiocatsd.
with congestion OF the spine and threatening hsp-
lessness. After sixteen months OF painful treat
ment (for she had lost whole year,. she Is now
well that for nearly two years she has been work
ing each day and doing exacting brain work at
that. The osteopath who saved her life and reason
was a graduate of a Western college OF medicine.
with post graduate course at ST. James Hospital.
London. After resuming his practice ct the West
he became dissatisfied with some OF the methods
OF surgery in certain cases, and went 20 Kirks-
Vile hoping for fresh light. AS result, ne
became convinced that through Osteopathy and the
disuse OF medicine far better results could be OBJ
tanned
1t seems TO me that allopaths in their persecution
of osteopaths. must really be more moved by
alarm about their practice than by tndi1na-
ton against what they call the practice of 'ig-
Not long ago allopathc physician told me that
osteopathy simply scientific massagel On IN
luiring found that he had never taken or seen
taken, osteopath treatment. so he had no right
TO make such en- ignorant statement ! suppose
any physician. matter what his special school
may be, has for the motif OF his life the relieving
OF pain If an OsteOpath can relieve pain without
drugs, and simply through his knowledge OF anat-
omy and circulation OF blood, why is hs not a.
much entitled practise man who depends on
drugs or the knife? 1t is the result that counts,
not the method, and who Is broad minded
should be larger than his medical ethics. have
been an allopath for many years, knowing many
earnest. conscientious physicians, whose help has
been sacredly remembered have not always
found intelligent men OF conscientious mon In the
old school. however I am an osteopath now, De-
cause have personally known OF so many Who
have been raised from despair TO hope and health,
not by drugs knife, but by the fingers OF osteo-
paths who giving themselves. their strength
their brains and their lives to the relieving OF
suffering r = A.
RroOklyn Feb. 20, 1905.