Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-07
OSTEOPATHY
IS DESCRIBED
Argument Advanced by Those
Favoring the Practice.

With the fight in the legislature
over osteopathy, public interest has
been aroused in this new kind OF
treatment. The following article on
osteopathy has been sent out by those
backing that method of treating dis
ease and it is presented to the read
ers of the EVENING NEWS purely
as an argument advanced by the
osteopaths. 1t follows:
Osteopathy.
To the average man or woman a
period of fifteen years, in retrospect,
seems but a day. Events which hap
pened that long ago, stand forth as
clearly as on the day on which they
occurred. And yet, in fifteen years
there has been brought forth a sci
ence, which, starting in a small Mis-
souri, town, has spread from Maine to
California and from Minnesota to the
southern coast of Florida, a science
still young in years, but already
shaking the foundations of the old
and established schools of medicine.
Osteopathy, the New Science.
Young as is this science, and radi-
cal as are it's departures from the old
theories and laws of medicine, 1t de-
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methods, no sensational or freakish
theories, but is based on common
sense and the very laws of nature.
Young as 1t Is, it's principles are as
old as the world itself, although in
common with every other great dis
GOV it remained for one earnest mind
to first discover it's virtues, n whose
courage lever failed, to brave the
| SCOTS and GERS of the ignorant and
p~repiduced, to convince the world of
its inestimable value.
The history of osteopathy is the
history of one man, patient through
trials, unmoved through rdicule, but
confident of the correctness of his
idea, moving onward and upward to
the goal Of his ambitions-the bet
terment of the human race.
DR.. Andrew Taylor Still, the found
erer, was Of a family of physicians,
and himself a doctor of the old
school. For years he toiled along the
old lines as surgeon in the army,
serving in that capacity through the
civil war. But his mind was lever
ready to accept as facts, those theo-
ries set forth by others, and never
satisfied with the degree of success
attained by himself, was continually
casting about for some new method
whereby disease could be more effect
ually fought than by the old and &C
cepted way of drugs.
1t was while, he was studying along
these lines that he discovered that
the human body was more ahan a
mere tumble of bone and flesh, but
was a mechanism, which In construc-
ton was far superior to any bull
by man and that the ailments of one
part speedily made themselves mani
fest at points not only from removed
but also ordinarily considered as in
dependent of the afflicted points
This discovery, simple and logica
as 1t appears now, was derided By
the medical world, and DR.. Still was
classed with the visionary dreamers
by all who knew him and with tn,
fakirs and charIatans by those whc
were o acquainted with the char
acter Of the man. But nothing cou1t
alter his high purpose. Scoffed a
by all and deserted by his friend
and relatives he was reduced to pow
erty, most abject and miserable
But through it all he chung to hi
idea, adapting 1t to one disease afte
another, until he finally settled II