El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-28
Used Osteopathy.
(From Des MOines, Iowa, Register and
Leader.)

Leader.)
Wightman, Ia-To the Editor: In
The Register and Leader of Jan. 9, there
was an article about my son, Stephen.
Gaffney, who has infantile paralysis.
Since then 1 have been swamped with
letters from people asking what had been
done for him that he has made such a
splendid recovery SO far.
Since this one article appeared about
him, I am asking the privilege of using
the columns of The Register and Leader
to let those who may be interested know
what was done. The boy was sick ten
days before paralysis set in. On Oct.
Is, 1910, the paralysis was complete in
both legs. He got so much worse after
the paralysis set in that we called an
o5teopath on Oct. 10. He was quite low
at this time and little hopes were held
out for his recovery, and on the night
Of Oct. 20 came near dying, but began
rallying on, the 21st, and in a few days
he began moving his legs, though for a
few weeks it was feared the muscles on
the front of the left thigh would be per
manently Paralyzed. He began using
these in November, and is now. able to
get up from his chair and goes about on
clutches, and can walk little without
the aid of them. He is still taking
osteopathic treatments, as our medical
doctor said he could do nothing, and the
September bulletin of the state board of
health said the same thing, though it
did advise strict isolation of the patient,
but this isolation doesn't help the pa
tient. l don't know why the state board
bulletin does not advise the use of este
opathy in these cases, as I've heard OF
many favorable results from its use aft
er other doctors had failed. Thanking
you for the space, l am, J. J. Gaffney.
The DR.. A. T. Still Osteopathic In
Urinary staff has been rushed lately.
handling so many cases of Pneumonia.
One fine old gentleman whose sister had
just died with it, was stricken with it
and said when he began to recover that
all the dope in the-weFldleould net have
pulled him through, for he was worse
than has sister, and he recovered nicely,
while she had-so much poisonous medi-
cine to throw off in addition to the
stagnant blood in her lungs that the
poor, weak nerves couldn't accomplish
it, and she died, while we freed the
nerves to the liver and kidneys and
they relieved the overtaxed lungs of
their burden, and he was we'll again. In
fact some of these pneumonia cases that
were taken so badly were restored so
quickly that they hardly realized they
had it. We have been so fortunate in
being called at first in many of these
cases and therefore haven't lost a case
yet.
Among the cases last winter, we were
called to Rev. Roberts when he was
given UP with pneumonia, but we put
him on his feet again in spite of his
age and bad condition until ne wouldn't
take any dope or have it given in his
family any more than he would 90 to
a sewer to drink
In acute cases UsUeopathy works like
lightning. Last week a child came from
New Mexico suffering intensely with
acute appendicitis. We relieved it in
few moments and the next morning it
was playing around. 1t has gone home
well.
Another case of little child with
appendicitis from Arizona came night
before last. The doctors pronounced
the case hopeless and said it couldn't
live II hours without an operation. In
Y hours it was restored to normal tenn
perature 1t will need to be treated
while to keep it from having a return
of its troubles, as the spine was con-
gested SO it had become chronic.
In the case of the manager of the
Overland Magazine, who was stricken
at Mexico City and had been pronounced
hopeless unless an operation was had
at once, he lived to get here to Ell Paso
and in a week you would never have
known he had it.
In all these cases they were lied to in
order to brighten a few hundred out of
them for operations. Hundreds of wo-
men have come to us scared to death
over the cancers and everything else
that they have told them thew had and
unless operations were performed at
once death would result They are all
alive and we'll now. Don't paw any at
tention to their lies for a few hundred
out of you. Either they lied to all these
about their awful condition or else we
are the most successful doctors that
ever lived on earth. You can take it
either way, for they get well under
Osteopathy, and that is what you are
after
When we cured that bad case of acute
spinal meningitis in a few minutes. this
is what the father said about it to the
newspapers.
''It was the most. convincing evidence
of the efficacy of Osteopathy for
quick relief in curing spinal meningitis
and acute diseases / ever saw, and
would convince any unprecedented wit