The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-11-24
OSTEOPATHY ADJUSTS,
NATURE CURES


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each, arrangement for the produc-
ton and distribution Of such ele-
ments as will best keep it in
health.
Take a knife and cut a stalk OF
corn or sugar cane into; then bind
bandage firmly about the stalk SO
that the edges of the cut will stay
approximated in spite Of the sway
ing of the plant by the wind. Re-
turn in TWO or three days and you
will find the edges of the cut firm
: ly grown together, and ii a few
days more you can not even find a
scar. Take an AK and cut gashes
in the bark of a tree; return iu
few years and you will find them
almost obliterated by healthy bark
which has been thrown out from
the sides of the wounds.
Recently near western town a
hunter killed a deer. Along the
back and hip of one side were deep
burrows, and in one place il tne
muscle Of the hip there was 2 hole
from which large piece Of flesh
had beon torn. These tears had,
at some other season, been made
| By claws and teeth of some wild
animal from whose clutches the
deer had iu some way been rescued.
The lacerated flesh had healed and
only scars marked the place of the
wounds.
Nature in each instance has
caused healing to occur through
agencies provided within the struc-
ture itself.
Man is no exception TO such pro-
vision for the maintenance OF bis
health and his recovery from acci-
dents and disease; but in structure
and function he is more complicat-
ed than the plants or lower an
imals.
His structure represents, even IN
this day of marvellous and intricate
mechanical inventions, the most
elaborate, complex, and accurately
adjusted piece Of machinery in ex-
istence. A perfect, automatic, vital
machine, gifted with thought and
containing a wonderful chemical
laboratory.
The human machine given, sun
light, fresh air, exercise and COED
food. and kept in structural integ-
rity will run on In good order from
infancy to old age. Man will be
healthy. Let US see what will oc
cur II parts of the machine become
deranged, Suppose the leg is brok'
en-. Man cannot walk. What is
to be done! Put medicine into hi:
stomach that it may beabsorbed in
to his blood and carried all through
his body so that some infnitesimal
part of 1t. reaching the broken
limb will cure it3 Shall we apply
caustics or electricity to the limb thai
it may heal! No. We put both
ends of the broken bone togethel
apply bandage to hold them there,
just as we did with the cane stalk.
Then let US notice what happens
The same thing that did with the
cane stalk.
Materials and forces provided
within the body itself knit the
pieces Of bone together. 1t was
necessary to hold the pieces of bons
in position for time that Mature
could put the. necessary materials il
between the edges and unite them
We did not supply any material
we simply assisted Nature to u.s.
what she had.
\ Suppose the liver is out of orde
| or the kidneys do not act; suppos'
/ any of the organs Of the body ar
not functiouing properly. Man j
sick. SualI we pour strong. drug
into his stomach( (ipjuring that too
j in the hopes that after it is absorb
/ ed into the blood and carried to al
organs of the body, sick ank wei
/ alike, the mite which goes to tn
one diseased organ will effect
/ Icure. Each organ has been pro
| vided by Nature with a certain
nerve supply. Each under tn