River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-08-21

PATHIC ASSOCIATION MEETING,
WHICH CONVENED IN KIRKSvI
Mo-, DURING THE WEEK OF AUG.
FOURTH TO NINTH.
Over two thousand delegates were
present from all over the country,
Including several of the foreign
countries. The most important
! feature of the opening day program
was the announcement by DR.. w. B..
Meacham, the tuberculosis special
list of Ashville, N. c., of a new cure
for pulmonary tuberculosis. For
more than twelve years DR.. Meach-
am has been applying himself to re-
search in the field of this dreadful
malady and has progressed upon
lines which are in direct an
tithesis to the methods of the re-
Gently accepted and more recently
rejected German specialist, DR..
Friedman. DR.. Meachams theory
is mechanical as against bacterial.
By examining an unlimited num-
Der of cases he has proven that
there is invariably Slight back
ward displacement of certain verte-
bra in the upper part of the back
and that replacement of these bones
resulted in a cure.
DIR. DEASoN MAKES SOME VERY
STRONG CLAIMS
At the A. O. A. convention yester-
day the association raised $4,000 as
gift to DIR. A. T. Still. This will
be turned over for research work to
the A. T. Still Research Institute.
In a report made before the meet
ing of the Osteopathic physicians in
the convention here, DR.. ] j. DeaSOn,
director of the A. T. Still Research
Institute, which, to the osteopathic
profession is what the Rockefeller
institute is 10 the medical, announc-
ed an osteopathlc substitute for the
serums and vaccines which are at
present attracting world wide atten-
ton in the fight against germ dis
ease.
DR.. Deason said that by exhaust
i've research and subsequent exper-
iments he had determined that the
organs of the body under osteopath-
ic treatment could be made to man
ufacture their own fluids for the
fighting of germs. The same rule
applies to coal-tar products.
"Coal-tar product" DR.. Deason
said, "are manufactured in Ger
many but you will find that they are
never used over there. The phys
icians of that country know to much
about them. But they are shipped
plenrifully to America"
He has stated positively that ost-
eopaths can increase the elimination
of germ poisons from the kidneys
and liver, from IL percent TO 100
percent in from fifteen minutes to
a half an hour. They have improv-
ed this in a series of experiments
without the slightest injuries to the
individuals.
DR.. Deason said that osteopathy
as a practice does not go on record
officially as opposed to the anti-tox-
in or serum theory but as an indi-
vidual he has proved these things
in actual experiments against their
administration, as have others of the
school who have learned as he has
by practical clinical work.
DR.. Deason promised that before
long he would announce method
by which osteopathy can stimulate
to great activity the glands of in
ternal secretion, about which much
has recently been published in SCI
entifc circles. He insists there is
no other scientific way to combat
disease.
AS an argument against the SER
ums DR.. Deason introduced the
point that in administering these
anti-toxins it was impossible to kill
the offending germs without also
destroying the tissues of the body
which necessarily must have been
of less force than the germ bodies
to have allowed their thriving in the
affected portions.
GALL STONES.
DR.. ]. H. Bowles of Denver, Col,
announced an assured cure of gall
stones, having never seen a case
which would not succumb to the
osteopathic treatment, except those
few requiring immediate surgical
interference.
AUGUST SIXTH
Kirksyille gave mammoth party
to day in honor of the eighty-hfth
birthday anniversary of the DR.. An
drew Taylor Still, its most famous
citizen and the founder of the SCI