Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-08
The Virtue of Tolerance.
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Editors Kennebec Journal:
The recent defeat OF the Ma;ne
Osteopaths to establish a State hoard
Of examination and registration ev-
empliiles the ignorance and intoler.
ance OF the masses to willingly accept
4 new system of healing
Out of the many hundred Maine
Allopathic and Homeopathic nrocti-
TONERS, not one seems willing that the
Osteopath become regular physician,
with the title of doctor, unless he be a
graduate from an institution which
teaches 4 system Of treating diseases
diametriCally opposite to the princi-
ples of Osteopathy.
The regular practitioner is protected
by State requirements and restric-
ton. but the present laws of Maine
provides no such safeguard for the pub
lie against unqualified and incompe-
tent persons claiming to be Osteopaths.
More than half the states have al
ready accepted this new method of
healing. granting the degree of doctor.
The Massachusetts Board of Legisla-
ture in Medicine has officially recog-
biZed Osteopathy as a distinct school
of practice.
All states have the right to say that
any person who claims to be a physi-
clan must possess certain qualifications
before he may legally persue his call
ing. The Osteopath is willing and
ready to comply with these require
ments, all he asks is recognition and
protection by the State.
In all the Osteopathic legislature. in
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position from the public. The only
resistance which has been encOun-
tered has come from the regular or old
school Of medicine.
For two thousand years new systems
of healing have been organized. Many
have grown to be large and prosper
Gus. and as advocates increased, they
followed the tendency to ignore all who
We're unwilling to accept their ideas or
methods of healing. Even to the
present day this spirit Of Intolerance
still exists.
We ROW have the Allopathic and
HorleopaIh THO as well as the Electric
ard Physic-medical systems of heal
ing. There is also the Faith Cure,
Water Cure, Mental and Christian
Science Cure and many others all con-
tr;buting their mite towards the COM
mon good of humanity.
While rlany errors have been taught
in the past, We must all admit that
mach good has resulted from each
method Of healing, and we feel they
have at least paved the way to better
things and demonstrated many truths.
which we should not have known, but
for their existence.
Now comes the Osteopathic. cure,
utilizing a complete system of anatOmi-
cal diagnosis of strictly mechanical
causes Of disease. and Il mechanical
reimbursement for the removal of these
causes. thus permitting the human ma
chine to resume its normal function,
which is health.
True to the old traditions it has been
met with opposition by the older
schools of healing, who are still found
intolerant of the thoughts which 9TH
ors present.
In spite of all resistance, We feel that
Osteopathy has come to stay. It's
marvellous growth and increasing
strength has already attracted the at
tention Of the entire world.
Let us then accept this new science
with cheerfulness; not as a uSurper,
but as another step towards that COM
nor goal which suffering humanity is
seeking. that of a healthy body and a
well poised mind with which to meet
the daily requirements of life.
AN OBSERVER.