The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-11-22
THE new SCIENCE
Favorable Comment On 0steopathy
Made By Leading New York
Evening Newspaper.

PohbJs 40 NahOn AAOm thC GtOW 1OEh
Press:
New York is nearly always behind
times in public utilities and science.
While the practice of Osteopathy is
legalized fully iu over score of States,
our smart Legislature is doing its best
to kill the bill to regulate and recog-
nize it in the Empire State. The real
cbarlatans and quacks are in the halls
of the Capitol. After careful investi-
cation and intimate experience with
Osteopathy. the following Governors
advocated and signed enabling acts
Grout of Vermont, Stevens OF Missouri,
Briggs of North Dakota, Pingree Of
Michigan, Shaw of Iowa, Lee of South
Dakota, Altgeld of Illinois. Mcmillan
of Tennessee. Tanner of Illinois. Beck
ham of Kentucky. Smith and Dilling-
ham of Vermont. in their respective
administrations, approved Osteopathy.
The Surgeons Way
Here is boy, we say. with curva-
ture of the spine-a sad case. A great
surgeon, whose name is household
word, put him in plaster jacket for
6ve yeaIs. changing the jackets twice
annually. Being in wise, the child
could not grow. He could never be
bathed. He could not stoop down, but
bad to squat. He became pale almost
to emaciation, had violent head
aches. retchings, and pains in his hip
joints. One day an old man under
Osteopathic treatment for curvature
of the spine begged that the boy be
examined by lis doctor. After much
deliberation the father consented.
Off With The BURDEN
Wild with delight. the boy, now ten
years old. FASTENED home. borrowed
pair of timers shears and worked all
day, while his father was at business.
trying to cut off his jacket. which was
as hard as iron. The father finished
the joE when he got home. and what
do you suppose he found? The protu-
berance of the spine had rubbed so
long against the unyielding plaster that
an escrescence as big as the thumb
nail had grown therel And the spinal
column had become so ossified that it
was positively rigidl There was bad
bruises on the hip joints, from friction
against the plaster. And, worse than
all, the little fellows ribs were Tapped
over-literally grown on top of one an
other in hopeless effort to expand
The first thing the victim did was to
plunge into tub of water and swim
there for three hours-his first real
bath in five years He then slept for
fifteen hours.
With The Osteopath
The Osteopath had consented to treat
the boy only after rigid examination
of his constitutional condition. A form
er surgeon, head of one of our great
hospitals, had declared his ebony
structure broken down." A physician
said he would die of consumption in
three years. Statement made when
the child was just past two years.
For several weeks after the removal OF
the plaster jacket the boy was too weak
in the back to sit up and would fall
around the house like rag. After
the third treatment he was out digging
sand. No medicines, mind you! just
the firmest. yet the tenderest manipu
lation. The vertibrae, the gristle
hardened Ey disuse, had to be broker
apart gradually, but the boy suffered
little or no pain. His head ached nc
more. He soon began to grow fast
His chest filled out. the riEs getting il
place.
After One Year
The treatment was begun in May
1904. The child started to school il
the fall and has been going regularl.
ever since He travels alone ever.
Sunday a distance of twenty miles t.
visit his doctor, young woman o
some 23 years, and returns late in tn
afternoon for romp till bedtime. H
turns somersaults, stands on his head
runs like scared deer, eats everything
in sight, plays tag. and is general,
full of all sorts of devilment. He ha
grown in height nearly three inche
sinue the jacket was cut off. Th
sharp protub berance of his spine ha
assumed a gentle curvature, whic
cannot be noticed when he stand
erect. If the improvement continues
he will be as straight as an arrow i
twelve months more.
The Skeptics
When Dr.--heard that this DO
was going to take the Osteopathi
treatment, he threw up his hands
holy horror. "My God Don't, don
subject him to that awful ordeal
is worse than deathl' When he sa'
the boy month ago be could scarcel
believe his eyes. But the eviden6
had to be accepted, and when an 81
animation had been made. he agai
threw up bis hands, saying: 1T
like miracle. I take back ever.
thing said against it. Other skel
tics were convinced.
What The Jacket Does
Surgeons are not in business for the
health alone; nor for the health of thei
patients. They need little mon'
for automobiles, fast horses, etc.
fail to see where we are under SO gre
obligations to them that we shoul
make them public pets. Lord know
we pay enough for their services.
seams to me that the only object
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