The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-08-25
OSTEOPATHSM MEET
JAMESTOWN Fair


ID PEtdblfdi 81 tp14SG s1es ~ AessA
rom p,itin Bay. Ohio where ne att
tended me meeting az ttle Alpeftcan
osteopatfte Assoclation and seeuTed
Tor the James town Tor mat
body,s ecngention TOR 1sof pr WIZ
lard suites that mpFe han llolif
sand delsgates may be ezpee "
attend the ennsentipn nsie Tor the
first tishs 81 me coast 5,I
Tiis grsat sstheIitn e sxponents
81 this new schopl 81 ealing is beand
1o.attra VIDE attention eopatlly
which no longer an experiment, but
VEN bounded institution The MS.
Tory d me science Of oste pathy sls
highly lnteFesting. While the oseeo-
pathie method OF curing diseases has
BEEN practieed for thirty years by
rs founder. ii Is only ten years since
Inc aTst Regal recognition OF esteo-
maths secured That Raa In VET VET
more tlap e thogsaaInd miles III
east OF the spot whore Dr.. Andrew
Tayior still first succeeded IN estab-
Ilshing himself as a practitioner ae:
cording 70 his new methods. e.
Dr. sim is the founder OF osteo-
and tdnately he has lived
81 sea iiis IsthpoT Of practice grow. into
general favor. sDr. Still was skilled
surgeon and physician at the OUT
braal 81 the civil war, through wh1teh
conflfct he served asa jstHse9n pm the
medical STAN. Always an tnyestfga-
tof; he became dissatisfied with the
old me ttiods of healing Or curing and
struck boldly out along newlLnes. in
1874 fhes writes, ri tprocla imed that q
disturbed artery marked the begin
ming to ahith9dr ana a minute where
began TO SOW it's seeds OF de-
strneti cn b the human body. That
was tatem& It simple enough In its
Language buBe startling IN Its meant
ing old school lphystc iahsi poohpo oh-
ed Tie idea a6d the layman was not
to he convinced. When DR. Still set
aside scalpe1 and his medicine case.
people called him crazy. Even the
preacher opnosed him. some of them
holding that he was possessed OF IA
deyfl. The. idea of accounting for
ssased by a disturbed artery was
too much of an Innovation tolbe con-
sidefed3 seriously. DR.. :sf:'f9 friends
ana his own brother turned against
him.
pfoneer, e@h6 wars tN"n l'vtng in
Baldwin, kan, changed his residence
10 SIaconl Mo- For Ia year he attempt
ei to practice, at Macon, tbut foun'i
stifng 8 eyentmoTe unPldasantthan hal
i3eeH sfhg case at Baldwin Then he
went a few miles north and located at
KirksydlIe, Mo-, the little city which
became ana has remained the capital
81 osteopathy. a fe& sttiinktng peo-
ne in Rirksyille believed IN Stills
theories. which he soon put into prac'
dee by actually; and absolutely curing
chronic cases given up as hoPeetess by
other phys clans. Patients soon pc
coming from far and near, and
o4. still lisa more than he could do
one osteopath could not treat all the
cases; 50 the founder OF the science
astahlished a school for the making "
osteopathic doctors. Now the Amer.
can school Of Osteppatpy "a, KtT Il g
vile: Isl know Ii throughout abe W orld'
Tlie fundamental hypothesis OF osr
teopathy Is that. abnormal conditions
sase mainly the result of obstruction
io the blood h4t4 nefEs}t simply and 4 e
s4bat such OBJ fnction : may be lover.
come j6y ttiantpp1ation.t teopafthFy
may be defined as the science OF drug.
fess healing, based upon the pFinti-
PIE that the body has. been endowed
4 ~ nature with all the fluids and forces
necessary for the preservation OF
f1salth and recovery from disease, pro
died that the mechanism which pro.
ID aces and distributes these fluids nd 2
it,fees is in perfect fmhc hahicl adjust
raent. III Fl w q u 49, Z
No drugs are used by the pracll'
tfonefs Of this art. They simply ma
Il nip1late the bones and muscles, the
les and nerves.. t1D sucha waytas
is cure the cause IF the discs me me
iirst part of the name being derived
ifro1n q Greek word meaning bone, Dr.
sian and yhis disciples wefel hlppantly
caiied Fbbre doctPrs.f ForI pa1yi
sedrs (he 4 6ssts bpathh WE'RE fought
tooth and toenatl,' by the allopaths
ana the e6patls.I lAll other schools
medicine opposed the neTo school
many towns and cities wher@ grad;
ates3 Or thel American School of 0ss7
sopathy attempted to locate for prac'
the opposition was SO strong that
lie iti6ps yedhEi 9stebpath wasf
forced Ito leave town. Now and then
was rppf9nt bodily. For years the the
4 en- itloners fought for the legal
Iieht toF practice their professloAni, but,
stat ed twas not until 1896 that one
AZ !. tStntnr Uarmnnt. navad the