The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-07-09
THE SUCCESS
OF 0STEOPATHY

Doctor Still is now in his eighty.
fourth year. He has been a practis.
ing country physician since his TWEEN.
tieth year.
There is no college degree equal to
the all.around experience CT country
doctor, provided he keeps his eyes
wide open and does not fall into
rut-which the average man certain.
ly does.
II anybody is a genius it is the man
who is filled with an eternal discon.
tent and an undying hope.
Doctor Still was the original lii
citizen Of Missouri. He is the man
who first demanded visual demonstra
ton. He Is the man who said SHOW
mel" Also, he is the man who went
ahead and showed the world a goo0
many things it never knew before.
We work from the complex to the
simple; and the obvious is the last
thing We learn. When Doctor Still
was fifty years of age he came to the
conclusion that the science Of medi-
cine was science Of guesswork.
Setting up explosions in the internal
anatomy of a man in order to cure
him Of a disease seemed to him a
very foolish proposition.
In studying up the question he
found that one of the very early
forms of treating the sick was by
incantations. The sick man was
supposed to be possessed of a devil,
and the doctor made it just as dis
agreeable for Mr.. Devil as he pos
sibly could. Noise, smell, beatings,
and poisons were resorted to. The
giving of toxins for the relief of dis
! ease, no doubt had its rise in the
same impulse that suggested the in.
carnations. Doctor. Still also discov.
cred that enc of the very early forms
of treating disease was by means Of
hands, which first meant the manipu.
lation of the afflicted part.
This is the most natural thing in
the world to do You will Always no.
tice that ii ball-player gets hit, as
ne walks to first base, he works the
afflicted part, and usually there are
three or four helpers who volunteer
to help him do the same. When the
baby falls down and gets bumped, the
fond mother picks it up and manipu-
lates the bump. This method Of treat.
ment is the natural thing. Also. IL
has its base in commonsense, as all
natural things do. The hurt comes
through an interference with the cir.
! culation and undue pressure on nerve
tendon, artery or muscle. To bring
about an equalization of circ LlatiOn
osteopathy is not a matter of mas
sage or rubbing. II is something far
more. Doctor Still began to diagnose
every case that came to him, with the
idea of finding out where the machin
cry was wrong. To his surprise he
was -ble TO locate, in a great many
instances, the afflicted part. Their
the thing was to manipulate the bones
In such a way that an equalization o.
circulation would follow. Instead o
prescribing a poison for a patient
something to be taken out of bot
tie with a spoon, or writing a pre-
scription in Latin to be filled at the
nearest drug store, Doctor Still begai
TO pin his faith on right adjustment
And in order better to succeed, h'
took the patience into his confidence
studied the cause, saw where the in
dividual lapsed in his living and think
ing and acting, and endeavored no
only to put his anatomy in a RICH
relationship, one part TO the Other
but endeayored to place the man Il
right relationship to the world, Il
a mental and spiritual way. Soon pa
tents who had been given up by tn
regular physicians were coming t
Doctor Still. Doctor Still was ''old,
even in middle age. This expressio
is complimentary rather than othel
! wise. 1t suggests wisdom and tn
ripened reason that goes with lon
I experience. 1t suggests that the ma
4 is not hot after success, as the ave
age youth is, but that he is sedat
and seasoned. And so the sick cam
X in wagons, OK carts, hayracks. The
\ were carried on stretchers or limpe
K on crutches, for the idea had gor
4 abroad that Dictor Still possessed tf
Healing Touch. Just what the Hea
ing Touch is do not know; neith'
does Doctor Still. But I am incline
n 10 think IL is something like this II