The daily sentinel., 1908-01-09

bedside of three OF his children.
their lives slipping away in the IA
tai grip OF the dread disease of spin
al meningitis. He, physician, one
of large family OF physicians. yet
realizing that he was absolutely pow
erless to do anything to help them.
watched them die. one by one. with
his profession had one panacea to Of
fer in those times.
Many times before this he had
been forced to acknowledge to him
self the inefficiency of drugs; but
having nothing better to offer. he con-
tinued to follow the old line of prac-
tice. The thought of these three chill
dren, dying, as it seemed to him, be-
cause of his own ignorance. aroused
his giant mind. He believed there was
a way to cure disease without the
use of drugs; in fact, he knew there
must be, and he would fnd 1t out.
He must study anatomy more care
fully-more minutely than ever be-
npre. This was in the early days of
kansas, and he borrowed" Indians
from the new-made graves scattered
over the plains, that he might study
the human machine from nature it.
self
His lucrative practice began to
fade Immediately. The wise ones
called him crazy; the children
pointed him out and gave him the
road. while the superstitious ones de-
nounced him as one possessed with
the evil spirit. He cared Lot, for
all this time the new science was
growing in the mind of its discover
er. Nights and days were one and
the same to this practical dreamer.
They were used continuously for a
long, long time In the development
of this lew school of treatment. Sue
cess was the elimination point of
all his labor. study and research.
In 1874 osteopathy. the drugless
system of healing. was given to the
world. Ut was the contribution to
science that will revolutionize medi-
cal practice and give to its creator
the honor that always goes with any
noble work in the cause of humani-
ty. Fifteen years ago there were
four osteopaths-Dr. A. T. Still and
= his three sons. Today there are near
ly 5000 practitioners, scattered all
over North America, Hawaii, Japan.
Germany, England, Ireland and Scot
land. and the number is increasing
yearly and doctors of osteopathy will
Eventually cover all corners Of the
known world. There are eight finely
equipped colleges in the United
States that have a student body of
over one thousand. The parent
school at Kirksville. Mo-, now en-
ploys seventeen professors who de-
vote their entire time to school work.
The constructive foundation of
this drugless system of treatment is
disclosed in the autobiography of the
noted founder, where he states that
"a disturbed artery marked the be-
ginning to the hour and minute when
disease began to SOW its seed of de-
struction in the human body.
The rule of the artery must be abso-
lutte. universal and unobstructed, or
disease will be the result AS to
his plan of therapeutics, he says.
''All the remedies necessary to health
exist in the human body. :. They
can be administered by adjusting the
body in such condition that the rem
edies may naturally associate them
selves together. As to the etiol-
ogy, diseases are effects. The cause
can be found and does exist in the
limited and excited action of the
nerves cnly, which controls the fluids
of parts or the whole of the body. /.
All diseases are mere effects, the
cause being a partial or complete
failure of the nerves to properly con-
duct the fluids of life." These were
the fundamental principles taught by
DR.. Still. He named the system Os-
teopathy, because the relations of all
known world. There are eight fully
by the skeletal framework and this
is the key to the processes Of adjust
ment.
The science of osteopathy is based
upon a knowledge of anatomy, ply
siology and mechanics. That this
modern school of healing is worthy
of consideration is attested in the ac-
tions of the many thousands of young