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

| passing the Maine Beard OF Itegis"
triton is entitled to hang ont his
| sE:nsle ai.G allowed to practice med
| icine. | think thov. are small in mum"
hers ana that IL would be better for
I them to wait and let us see what pro-
sress they make. If they do progress.
| il will b" but 4 short time before
| the Legislature will give them a Board
of Examination. AT the present time
! I sec ~ more rensort for their ask
ing for a Board of Examination than
for Christian Science, or any other
branch of that nature to ask for one.
| 7 will say that there is hardly Il
gentleman in the Senate Chatnbor %ho
hes not received from FIVE 20 tUentT
lie; ters. practically the same. and
from thU same source, advising hiu
to vote for this noard OF Osteopathy.
I viii second tha motion Of Senator
Moul:on that TIE minority report hc
substituted for the majority report
Mr. EDWARDS of Androscoggin:
M President; am in favor of the
minority report because I believe this
bin is an injustice to the people of the
Estate. rs we'll as to the educated ply
Isicians throughout the State. l want
llO EcdN W NoN' WIN Jul
La definition as given of the word
I"Ostcopathy'' in 1903 in the Interna-
|tional Encyclopaedia: ~ method Of
Treating diseases, by manipulation for
(which its adhcrents claim n universal
lucrative power It was invented by
fAndrew r. Still of Kirksville. Mo-. in
l1S9S. The underlying principles OF
tOsteopathy are briefly as follows: The
fluids Of the human body contain
tgreater or less amounts of chemical
Substances. inorganic and organic, that
lare at all capable of existence and
thence carry u store of all drugs that
lmay be required for checking and de
lStroying any Imaginable disease
diseas" itself is nothing but an abb
normal effect OF the powers of life and
presumably arises along with the nor
Imal cffect-motion. continually, only
under the influence of the drugs in the
tbodE. tho activity of those powers is
Immediately redirertcd along normal
Ichann"ls. and SO disease no sooner
lat'iscs than ii is counteracted and de-
lstroycd. The rr-cStablishmcnt of
lhealth can be prevented only by one
Icausc. viz: thu slight displacement of
ISone bono which would materially
form an obstruction to the flow OF the
ldrug carrying 1luid. Therefore to ct-
feet a cure Of any disease whatever.
IAN we have to do is to localiZe the
lcausative displacement of the bone or
bones and remove it by appropriate
lmauipulations'
Now. MIR. President, they claim, as
the senator before me has just said.
in all diseases they use more or less
imanipulation: in diphthcria. by rub
bing the neck, which would be. in ms.
toDinIon. a very disastrous thing. In
appendicitis there should not be any
}manipulation whatever. The quicter
1.-THE person can be kept. and in its
Yearly stages operated upon-whch
they do not believe in--the better.
THINK thy are in primitive stage.
land at least We should allow them u
llittle longer time before we give them
ItMS board ] understand there has
been bill introduced By the judiciary.
with the medical bill, that they shall
have the right to use DR." so-and- so
Osteopath, and | thinks that is more
than they should have without some
preliminary education, but the judi
cary gives them that, and the right
OF a member on the Board OF RegiStra :
ton. Fhat. ii certainly seems to me.
Is sufficient at this time. If they
progress. as they say they will, ii is
then time for them to have more at
Our hands.
] ain opposed to the bin, because it
tdocs not use the public fairly. It
would not make any difference to me
pr one was next door. If ! wanted q
physician. might get one Of them as
iquickly as a Homeopath OF a regular
do not object to their practicing as
tthey do now. l have opposite me in
my town man who does Il great deal
lof massage. and ] have employed him
to the amount of $500 or $500 this year.
lie does good work without this law:
he calls himself Magnetic Healer
] am opposed to this law because |
believe it is almost a vicious law at
this time.
Mr. STAPLES OF knox: MIR. Presi-
ldont: I am not an Allopath. u Homco-
tpath or an Osteopath, but purely an
American citizen. have inIbibed
some of that feeling of righteousness
Tin the Declaration of INDEPENDENCE. |
congratulate myself that | believe to-
(day as l always have in the equal
1
Now ] know but very little about
IN" mode Of practice OF Osteopaths
do know that a great many People
in this country believe in it. | be-
'ieve they should be encouraged in tn,
IeXaultcd way in which they are pro-
crossing.
/ ] reeollect only Il few years ago
lWhen our Allopath brethren made the
same tight against the Homeopaths
Ithat they arc now making against the
IOsteopaths. Today the Homeopathic
treatment in the State Of Maine and
in the whole country stands, as far as
1t is considered scientific, equal with
the Allopa tbs. and as many people
perhaps. employ Horeopaths today as
they do Allopaths. / have great re-
lgards for the Allopaths and the
Homeopaths. ! have information from
patients who have taken treatment b,
the Osteopaths and they declare thai
they have done them good; they pre-
ferrcd them to Allopaths or Homeo.
paths. II We're to employ an Ostco
path, | have, under the Constitution
OF This .-r Nv %