The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1908-01-02
OSTEOPAThY.
Chapter from Autobiography Of Dr.. A. T..
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Concluded from last week)
I was born to know something of
drugs. I knew they tasted nasty; I
knew they made me sick, and very sick;
l knew didn't like them. I grew up
with the question, as soon as I was old
enough to reason at all, whether or not
God justified by any means whatever
the idea that a man should be released
from one poison by the use Of another.
That if the season should be cold, hot,
wet or dry, and you should become sick,
which makes poisons in the blood, stag ,,
nation, making new matter in it,
which strikes the vital forces, and
there causes a contention. Vitality is
all the while trying to check and throw
off all impurities, and keeps the body in
q continual fight. Fight for what?
To maintain its ground as a healthy
body. I commenced the hunt when
but child, and kept it up until I was
forty years old. could see the action
of electricity; l could see it give out
lights in the heavens when there was
no blacksmith up there to hammer out
the sparks. could see the stars flying
across the heavens in 18A-firecrackers
in heaven. How is that frecracker
work done? Is there any firecracker
work going on in the human blood?
Where is your battery? What is the
matter with your battery when you
have a fever? What is fever? Oh,
the eminent authors say it is peculiar
increase of temperature, causes un-
known. AS we don't know them, we
will give them name so we will know
what to call them. We will name them
typhus, typhoid, malarlal, etc., accord
ing to the seasons of the year. We
name them according to something.
They have a system Of naming them;
we call it symptomatology. It is q
species Of anatomy when you study it.
You put the parts all together, and
you have made something, and that
is Group. You put in some variations,
and it is called fever. Subtract little
and add little, and you have flux.
Subtract four and add two, and you
have fits. The doctor has treated the
effect and not the cause; therefore it
has been necessary to make laws in
their favor.
1t has been necessary during the last
twenty years to fortify against in
dividual attacks on the system, because
the people are like that little girl. They
know how many bones they have in
their wrist. Forty years ago it was
supposed that woman knew whether
she had one bone above the elbow or
one hundred, and great many could
not tell. She could not train her child
differently, because anatomy to her
was blank.
During the last twenty years there
has been discussion as to whether we
will be benefited by taking any grade of
drugs, or if it would not be better to
take some kind of diet. We have diet
shops in America and in Europe: we
buy and eat from both, and grunt just
as loud as if we had never heard of
either.
Now let US see what condition man is
in. He occupies all the zones on the
globe except a few off north, and we
are going to have them occupied by a
balloon next week.
How did discover Osteopathy? Who
was with me when I discovered it?
Who assisted me in discovering it?
will give one hundred dollars for the
mans photograph who has added one
single thought to it.
took the position in 1874 that the
living blood swarmed with health cor
puscles to all parts of the body. Inter-
fere with that current of blood, and
you steam down the river of life and
land in the ocean Of death. That is
the discovery. The arteries bring the
blood and wash it with the spirit of
life. The living arteries from this
world. It fills all space and forms th.,
clouds if God is competent and knows
His business. He has certainly made a
good job. With that conclusion shall
sustain His wisdom, and try to work
the machine as He has formulated it,
or shall l cast my lot with the dark
shades Of ignorance and superstition?
When raised that little flag (Oste-
opathy} it was not very large one,
but I said would swear by the eternal
God and His works all my life. If
there had been bomshell thrown
among you tonight, it would create no
greater CONSERVATION than did when
I declared that God was no drug doctor.
They wanted me to repent before it
was everlastingly too late, and thought
that possibly for the sake Of my father
might be saved. My own brothers
were Of the opinion that was going to
the d-l as fast as the wheels Of time