The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-11-09
j The Success Of Osteopathy

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Naturally, Osteopaths lose caste will
the regular practitioners.
Every good thing in the world has tc
fight for its life. Every innovation Ii
opposed. The average man knows
only the things that he has memorized
Initiative. originality and progress are
painful propositions.
But inasmuch as the founder of Os
eopathy was graduate of a regular
school of medicine, 1t was not possible
for the Jealous ones to deprive him OF
the privilege of practisig in his own
way.
But when some of his young men,
who were not graduates of regular
colleges, sought to treat disease by
manipulations, bringing about a right
adjustment of the tissues SO as to let
Nature play through the patient, they
found themselves law-breakers In the
eyes of the State.
That Is to say, they were practising
medicine without license.
1t was in vain that they pleaded
that they were endeavoring merely to
bring about a right relationship be-
tween the man and his environments,
Their argument was scoffed-they
W. IN ha ct b,A
tact that their patients got well was
construed as proof of guilt. In certain
cases prosecution and persecution fol-
lowed. A few were Imprisoned. Some
were fined.
But no good thing can be stamped
out of existence unless you turn to and
kill everybody who is unfolding it.
Osteopathy increased in popularity,
for the simple reason that it gave peo-
pie relief without risk-also, without
undue expense. Those who were sick
usually got well, and if any of their
friends suffered, they, too, were in
clined to take up Osteopathy.
Colleges Of osteopathy.
And so today there are eight colleges
in America teaching Osteopathy.
There are about six thousand osteo.
pathic practitioners located all over
The United States, besides a good many
who are scattered all over the civilized
world.
The Osteopath is simply good
mechanic. He regards the human
body as a machine. His business is
10 know the workings of this machine
n every part.
The good Osteopath is a physician.
md he Is also teacher. He takes
he patient into his confidence, and his
business is to show the patient how
o get along without him. Every good
)steopath utilizes every sensible
means for the relief and cure of dis |
Ease, The appeal to the mind is not
its very great advantage and
,enefit.
And many a man needs a mental |
massage and a good currycombing OF
lis gray cortex.
The Osteopath will tel you of the /
necessity of keeping active and being !
iseful, of keeping out the crouch and .
he growl and the grab. Fear, doubt |
md hate react on the circulation. /
Neurology plays big part in all dis
'ase, and every Osteopath knows 1t
ull well.
The Osteopath neither robs nor
'oisons. He does not keep his patient
n doubt. He does not give HIN a
that he can not read or
understand. He is friend of the
trtcken man. His business is to view
he case from every possible stand
'oint, and to arouse animation, give
Encouragement, inspire hope, and fire
With worthy zeal. He vitalizes the
ormant energies and makes the faint
cart strong. He puts the patient In
ghting mood and In degree makes him
ght his own battle. The Osteopath
will tel the average sick man to eat
ess and breathe more; hate less and
ove more; loaf less and work more
OF course, his first business is to
nd the INTERCHANGEABLE original
ause of the trouble-then fix it.
In his work he does not destroy or
ndanger. 1t is all in the line of ere.
tion and building up.
Legal Status of osteopathy.
The osteopathy now has become re-.
pectable. He has legal standing in
II states in the Union. And the drug
abit is falling into disgrace with all
nd every school of medicine. The