Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-31
EUROPEAN WAR
LAID TO TWISTED
BACK OF KAISER
Declaration Made at Convention
of Osteopaths in Session
Here.

| A declaration that the present Eu-
ropean war might be traced to physi-
| cal defor1nities with which Kaiser
| Wilhelm was born was made in an
| address at today's session of the
/ annual convention of the New Jersey
| Osteopathic Society by DR.. Ira w
| Drew professor of children's diseases
| at the Philadelphia College of Osteo-
| pathy. The convention is being held
In the Y. w. C. A. building in Wash
| ington street.
IF Kaiser Wilhelm had not been
| born with twisted back, who kno VS.
| If we would have had the present big
| European war;" said DIR. Drew.
Everywhere we hear of osteopathic
LESSONS or spinal twists which cause
| disease. / am firmly convinced that
| there are LESSONS of another sort
which produce abnormal stimulation
OF certain centres and faculties of the
| brain, and are in large measure
| responsible for many of the cases
of abnormal and terrific brain activ
| ity which history has recorded as
| men of genius.
sit Is everywhere known, for in
| stance. that Kaiser Wilhelm since
his birth has been afflicted with
withered arm and neck twisted just
where a lesion would most effect the
thyroid and its related structures
Napoleon was almost a hunchbaek
HIS great adversary, Wellington, al
ways stood with one shoulder higher
than the other. The Greeks said
that Alexander was lop-sided, Peri
cles had a peculiarly SHAPED head and
neck and Archimedes walked with
terrible stoop.
Modern dances were assailed as pro-
ductive of disease by DR.. Louise
Burns, of Chicago. a member of the
staff of the E. T. Still Research 1nsti-
tute. in an address at convention
last night.
DR.. Burns criticised the tango, the
fox-trot, the so-cal'ed "debutante
SLOUGH" and other forms OF the dance
"craze" Cases of hip Joint diseases
have doubled In nupn~er since the
tango appeared, she declared. Neu-
ritis. NEURALGIA and partial paralysis
are frequent consequences of too
much indulgence in the late dances
according to DR. Brrns. and many
cases OF tango sciatica and tango
rheumatism have come to the atten-
ton OF physicians and chiropodists.
The "debutante SLOUGH" entails a
deadly and unhygienc position, she
said DR.. Burns stated that there Is
a large and important nerve in rela-
| lively unprotected position In the
/ throat and upper body. paralelln9 the
spinal column, called the pneumo-
gastric nerve. the function of which
| is to regulate the digestion and other
functions This nerve is strained and
| weakened by the contortions of the
| dance, she declared.
| Other speakers dt last nights ses-
sion of the convention were Or. A P.
Firth. OF this city. and DR. GUY Wen
dell Burns of New Yort, Both spoke
on General Clinical Diseases
| The "stNr-livelv" ini'nctien OF
street car conductors and starters was
| declared responsible for nn"ch Of the
increase in cases of sciatica by DR..
| Firth "Strainino to climb high sters
even slowly" said Or Firth as cry
bad FOR persons inclined TO be feeble
or stiff jninted. and when the ndded
stimulus to haste on a curt orde~ to
move quickly Is added the exercise
| "a even more banefrl."
| The election OF officers took place
at the session Yesterday The rev
officers are President DR. F M"rell
DR. r. NJ Colhorn OF this c'tv sec
rotary. DR. John Clawsen Burnett Of
this city, and Treasurer DR. Albert j.
Mo'vneuv, of JERSEY City.
The convention will close with a
banquet at the Aberdeen in Washing
ton street tonight Howard Mac
Sherry of the law denartment of the
Pubic Service CORPORATION. viii snealS
on "Medical Law and A'eva ,der
Plack will make an address on Pub
lefty"
About four hundred delegates e-om
all parts Of the state ara attending
the convention Under the direction
Of the women's arviliarv ~ tNe a~so-
ciation the women held . sightseeing
tour of the city Yesterday