Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1913-06-10
Editor Says DR.. Albert Abrams Must
Be a rip Van Wrinkle.
A Faux Pas.

Why are all the doctors gloomy
and why do they seem distressed ?
What horrible occurrence has dis
turbed their peaceful rest9 They
are glooms of the first water and the
reason for their grief, is because APP
pendicitis no more needs the knife S
relief; it was one bright day for doe
tors when in sixteen, forty-two, Sar-
acenus did discover an appendix all
askew; for it soon became the fash
ion to have that thing taken out, and
unless you lost your vermiform you
were social lout; so the medics
carved and shipped along; the pro
ceeds were immense; those who still
had their appendix surely felt like
80 cents; now along comes Doctor
Abrams and he surely is a yegg for
he's trying to destroy the goose that
lays the golden egg; he proclaims
that all man must do to cure the
dread disease, is to single out a ver-
zebra and give it one good squeeze; /;
if this method of procedure proves
to be a real success, this Abrams
person sure will be an outcast-
that's my guess.-Missoula Mont. J
Missoulian, November 18th.
Stolen Thunder.
DR.. Asa Willard says our jingle
on appendicitis being cured through
adjusting a vertebrae is original
enough, but that DR.. Albert Abrams
himself, who heralds through the AS
sociated Press that he has discovered
such a way of cure, is about 80 years
late in his original discoveries.
The Doctor says: "There are
scores of people in and about Mis-
soula who have been cured of appen-
dicitis without an operation, during
the past Is years, and thousands of
them over the country, and the fun
damental part of the treatment they
received was adjustment of verte-
brae."
Over 80 years ago DR.. A. 7. Still,
the founder of osteopathy, discovered
that appendicitis as well as disease
of other organs of the body was Of
tentimes caused by slight displace-
ment of certain vertebrae or strains
of the back at various points, which
caused pressure to be brought upon
nerves emanating from the spine and
which supplied the organs. Adjust
ing these slight displacements and
strains allowed the organs to recOv-
er. He worked along that line of
thought for years and 20 years ago
school at Kirksville,
Mo-, which has taught his principles
since and there are now but three
medical schools in the United States
which have as many students and
the course of instruction equals that
in the best medical colleges. There
are now eight osteopathic schools
over the country, and the combined
of them considerably eX-
ceeds the combined attendance Of all
The homeopathic colleges in the coun-
try.
Over 5000 osteopaths are practic-
ing, some in every state in the Union,
and the central principle of their
therapy is that the adjustment of
vertebrae and control of nerve and
blood supply of the organs through |
applied spinal pressure will
allow the organs to become normal.
This all being true, one might be
pardoned for wondering where DIR.
Albert Abrams discovered (O his
marvellous discoveries, which he lists
under "Spondylotherapy" and is
all over the country and
giving with much eclat to medical
societies and Associated Press re-
Dorters. Spondylotherapy translated
to ordinary English simply means
vertebral treatment or spinal treat
nent. If DIR. Abrams really recently
discovered what he is giving out, he
must be the original Rip Van Win
xle.-Missoula (Mont.) Missoulian,
November 9TH.