Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-24
SOME MORE HOT SHOT
FROM AN OSTEOPATH

LOS ANGELES, July 23.-[Editor Her
adj: Graduated from two medical col
leges of the Vienna of America" and
personally taught osteopathy by "the
LittleJohrs," Glasgow university, men
who have studied in all the leading medi-
cal centers of the world, 1 vas greatly
entertained by opinions given in The Her
aid by an M, D. evidently much disturbed
by the existence OF the Los Angeles Col
lege of Osteopathy:
About eight years ago." says the doc
tor IAN unusually bright masseur, Lon
don gentleman and personal friend of
mine, entered college of osteopathy,
only to be told by an M. D.: 'Osteopathy
Is massage. The inference was plain as
to the idiocy of the man who would pay
good money, and put in valuable time, to
learn what had been the means of liveli-
hood for some years of himself and fam
lily. Thoroughly exasperated he told the
M. D. with true English emphasis:
Why didn't you come over to the
college and find out what osteopathy is?'
Granddaughter and niece of the
regular" profession, very glad of my D.
o. degree as well as my M. d. degree.
have no prejudice against any school of
medicine But when i'll l get the treat
ment that will put me most quickly on
my feet. The d. o. who spends his time
talking against the M. D. is a subject for
profound pity. 1 have great sympathy
for the splendid 'old school" practitioners
who, too busy curing cases by methods
they do not know, for sheer lack of time
gain no intelligent ideas whatever of how
osteopathy effects cures.
A Harvard graduate who had spent
many months in study in Europe was a
class in avance of myself in the Amer
lean College of Osteopathic Medicine and
Surgery" and a question asked of our
distinguished president by DR.. Gerdine
as to a system he had run across in Eu-
rope brought out a fact most NJ. DIS
never have heard Of The fast is this:
Osteopathy in all its essentia, principles,
was taught in France at least a quarter
century before Andrew Taylor Still NJ.
D., ever discovered America and Doctor
Still is now nearly eighty years of age.
That anybody, anywhere and at any
time has ever put in three half seconds
learning that ali diseases are due to a
dislocated vertebrae" Is great news to an
M. d. who has put in about six years of
solid labor as undergraduate and post
graduate worker in four different and
two very Indifferent colleges of medicine.
Taken down like a flash with periton-
tits. l dismissed one of the leading sur
geons of Chicago for a no less eminent
d. O. The result was that the osteopath
got me where, the next morning, l could
be gotten out of my clothes, worn from
Saturday until Wednesday while too sick
to turn to right or to left in the bed
where had to take nourishment through
a glass tube. Eight days subsequent 1
walked three blocks to a medica. col
leg. and introduced my mother to a
writer of medical books who was holding
a clinic This very able M. d. had yet to
learn that osteopathic medicine and sur
gerry comprise complete and distinct
system that muscles never should be
rubbed" that any d. o. worthy OF his
dinlona. representing twenty-seven
months of scientific study, prefers cases
of scarlet fever, diphtheria pneumonia
and typhoid to any sort of dislocated
bones. because he can get results so
much more quickly in acute cases than
in chronic cases.
d. FRANCES SMITH, D. o.