Arizona republican., 1913-06-13
|0STEOPATHy IS
 0N OPEN SECRET
Interesting Story of the Discovery Of
 New Science by pr. Still

It has been said that necessity is
 the mother of invention and this saying could be no more aptly illus pathy. Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, medical man who served as surgeon throughout the civil war. At the close of the war he located in Kirks vile, Mo, continuing the practice of medicine until 1874. Just prior to
 this date he lost three children by Q disease as deVasting today under drug treatment as it was then, cere bro-spinal meningitis The futility of treating symptoms, instead of re-
 medying causes had long been a matter of much thought with the Old Doctor, as pr. Still is called by everyone who knows him intimately and this together with the necessity of holding the balance of his family safe from the ravages of disease. brought out the science of osteo- pathy.
 It must not be supposed that os- teopathy sprang forth Uniformed in 9 single night, like Minerva from the brain of love. There is no os- teopath today who will tell you that osteopathy is a completed science and as for the real beginning of os- teopathy we must go back to the childhood days of Dr. Still when he found that by lying prone on the ground with the rope of a swing under the back of his neck he could cure his headaches So osteopathy has been with us for nearly ninety years.
 The Old Doctors practice in KirlIs- vile, grew until it became necessary for him to put out a sign reading "I will not treat patients Wednesday or Sunday afternoons. Those days rest" Cured patients begged him to teach the science to others so that when he died the world would still be able to secure the services of an osteOpath. The fear too, of the death of the science with the death of himself. was upon him. In 1892, Bill Smith. a graduate in me dicine of Edinburgh University, Fellow of the Royal College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons, and an ana tomist, happened into Kirksvflle. Bill met the old Doctor and that fall the American School of Osteopathy opened it's doors to IS students. This class nearly put the school house out of business, classes had to be held on the lawn. What in the world would IS osteOpaths do for work in this country? There couldn't be room for more than six" Since 1892 the school has been enlarged some twen- ty times and the institution has nov CT yet been large enough so that classes did not have to come in sec tions More than this, there are q dozen schools in the United States ard six thousand osteopathic physi- clans in the field.
 Not only has the science advanced in numbers. but it has also advanc- co in knowledge. In 1911 at the Chicago convention the osteopaths is sued challenge to the American Medical Association. offering to di- vide 500 cases of typhoid fever with the medicoes, all eases to be treated in Cook county hospital. the side with the fewest deaths to be declar
 ed the winner The challenge was not accepted. The old time osteo-
 path set bones. he handled cases of
 paralysis, stiff neck. IumbagO rheu
 raatism. and the like; modern os- teopathy is as broad in the cases it takes as is medicine, and infinitely more successful.
 Osteopathy is an open secret there is no mystery about it and r'e have some very interesting booklets descriptive of the methods of the osteopath. Call for one.
 pr. Warren H. Judd. osteopath. Suite POT National Bank Bldg, Phoenix-( -(Advertisement.
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