Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-02-22
Orders Of tha Qax.

Tile PRESIDENT: There has been
| assigned FOR today, and it is first in
| order Fill. An Act 70 regulate tn,
practice Of osteopathy. The .ouestio,
before tie Senat, Is On the substitu-
tion of the minority report cor tbs
| majority rcoeft
| Mr.. SH: NbLFR Of Washington;
| Mr.. President, AS understand i,
| there are u Osteopaths who asked
| for this board, DC ard t. be COMPOSED
OF SIN; in other words, onc-tbird ui
| their whole number. And that any
one tf the IS who is a graduate OF
| f,n Osteopath school. or who has prae-
| ticed Osteonathy for period g. three
months in the State of Elaine, with
| cut any examination whatever, is Oh
| titled t. practice medicine in the
| State of Maine.
ASH understand it, u man by tne
name of Still claimed that he Invented
this treatment, hut did not discover it,
| Their chief school is ut kirksviile.
Ind, and 1 will read you from the
report of the foundation school thai
Investigated these colleges throughout
| tht United States. They found there
the ar erican School of Osteopathy.
established i'll 1902. and owned by two
| individt"ls,
Attendance go rangirg tn ag,
from Is To q y-cars)
Teaching STAFF: -. with II stujcn.
assistants.
Resources ,vaila Die Tor maintenance
Fees, amounting to sS9,6o0. tEsti-
matcdo
laboratory facilities: These are alb
srrdiy Inadequate for the number %
students. as is likewise the teaching
| staff. y single room with :. CORES
| bonding preparation room, is used az
archaeological AMI physiologicaf'1a
oratory. 4 six Yeeks' course being
given by me teacher to successive
| sqrads of 81. In he same way scpa :
! rae additional laboratories are pro
| vided for chemistry. anatomy, nj
pathology. " tterial tor pathological
| demonstrntiur is bought: there is Il,
| museum. ard w. effort is made to save
| er ,ss material. Tho dissectins-ro"u
| is foul. The professors" in charg
| 81 histology. pathology. and bacteriol-
| ogy are scui"l STUDENTS.
Clinical facilities. y hospital of 81
: beds adjoins, but its work is pcacti-
cally all surgery; tn ward eases
are 'occa sionailv used for clinics. Stu
Gents witness opara tons Chesterfield
i work is. cor, paratireiv scan:y. There
IS no other hospital in the town
/ understand tii3t year .hey hal
one body FIR Jissecting purposes, and
we're in hopes OF having another. AS
I understand their treatment. they
claim that every disease is caused
| by the displacement of bone ard
5y relieving that displacement thcy
cure the disease. In other words.
tiphtlleiia ~ caused by the displace
mant OF Il bone i'll the neck. By re
, Iucine that displacement they cure
diphtMria. 1t Is well-known taet to-
/, Day in .he profession. with the use
| If arti-toxin, in the early stages OF
oiplltheria. the majority OF the eases
recover. Whereas before anti-toSir
was known diphthoria was one OF the
most dreaded disease the profession
| had to treat.
As 10 appendicitis. they claim 1t is
caused By displacement OF tn,
twelfth rib, and they are advised mol
| to treat it in tbs later stages. 1t is
u well-knovn fact today in the pro.
fession that is appendicitis is not
| treated in the early stages. death viii
+, probably result In many cases.
| Now. Mf. President, think it il
| hardly right that these Osteopaths
| who claim that every disease Is caus-
ed by The displacement Of 1t bone.
shoald ,iIave the rights to practice
medicine that the regular physician
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