Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1909-04-01


The logged faith which the medical profess
sion has in way another established in
the "bottle" is responsible for more wrecks
than have been the products of all the maladies
for which the "bOttlc" was filled to relieve.
1t is indeed pathetic to note the dope fends
scattered over this world who can trace the
initiative dose to the medical doctor. These
however, a part and small part of the
vast hords who have been victimized in one
way or another by the indiscriminate of
medicine. This is indeed too pathetic" to
persue any farther.
Medico says: 'The practice of medicine in
cludeS every thing from prayer to cold water.
Obviously then the medical doctor must adj
nit that he has no monopoly of the art of
healing. He does, But he is pretty apt to
be found fighting and fighting hard against any
and all new corners in the field whether they
be homeopaths, eclectics, Christian Scientists,
Emmanntiles Mechanic, Theropists or Osteo
paths"
This is frank admission. but very poor
justification. If. the allopathc fraternity has
not monopoly of remedies if other systems
have relieved and cured thousands of cases
where aopathy had failed, aohy insist upon &
monopoly? Why fight? This reminds me very
forcibly of the fable of the dog in the manger:
because he could not eat the hay himself he
would not let the OK have it. 1t goes further:
1t shows greater regard for professional pride
than concern for the relief of humanity.
Alexander NJ. Ross, MD. F.RL.S., of Eng
land, expressed it most truly when he said:
81 charge that they Nhe leaders of the pro
fession) have bitterly opposed every real and
scientific reform in the healing art. They have
filled the world with incurable invads and
given responsibility to quackery by the out
rageous quackery of the profession itself.
charge, further, that they have under the
treacherous guise of protecting the people from
quackery secured the most unjust monopolistic
laws, which deprive the people of one of their
dearest rights, the right in the hour of sickness
and in the presence of death to choose their
own medicines"
Harvey was ostracized and denounced for
discovering the circulation of the blood; Jenner
was denounced for discovering vaccine mat
ter. now dotted upon by allopathy:. The Homeo-
path was fought until the people came to his
rescue; and the fight is waging against
osteopathy. Why? Because it took hold of
the wrecks and failures of allopathic medicine
and cured them, and proposes to continue the
good work
Osteopathy does not claim to be panacea
for every i'll. What it does claim is that it
can cure every durable disease, either acute or
chronic, that does not require the knife Doc
tor Still (the founder of osteopathy) spoke truly
and advisedy when he said, The therapeutics
of osteopathy are independent and original, and
extensive the entire medical and surgical
fields" He did not say nor did he mean that
osteopathy dispensed with the knife The idea
he intended to convey was that the field covered
by osteopatlly is las extensive the entire
medical and surgical fields; in that it cures
where medicine fails, and supplants surgery to
the extent of relieving thousands of conditions
that the mpotency of medicine forces upon the
knife to say nothing of the adverse effects of
medicine in actually creating surgical cases.
Medico says: The doctors (of medicine(
feel that it is criminal to allow any set of
therapists to practice the art of healing, which
therapists repudiate science, and explain scarlet
fever dphtheria cerebro-spinal meningitis
pneumonia small pox, etc, due either to
the maiadjustment of tissues error
None other than Doctor Andrew Still, the
fountain head of osteopathy, denied the exist
ence of such diseases no longer than January
1908
"Medico' did not quote what DIR. Still said
What he did say is this:
Il do not believe, and l say this after forty
years of close observation and experiments,
that there are no such diseases as fever
typhoid, typhus lung-rheumatism, sciatica,
govt collie, liver disease, Group or any of the
present so-called diseases. They do not exist
as diseases. l hold that separate or combined
they are only effects of cause, and that in
each case the cause can be found and docs
exist in the limited excited action of nerves
which control the fluids of a part Of or of the
entire body"
Now it is as evident it can be that DIR.
Still did not deny the existence of such NAL
aides as scarlet fever, typhoid fever, rheuma-
tism gout etc, for he said that "thcy' (the
maadies mentioned of course) ARE only the
effects of cause. and that in each case the cdnSc
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