Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-08-10
INTERNATIONAL OSTEOPATHIC
CONVENTION.

nual convention of the American
OsteOpathic Association is in session
here during the entire week. 1t is
really an international instead of an
American congress, as it is the official
organization of all the practitioners of
this school in the world, the physi-
clans of Canada, particularly, being
members of it. About thousand
delegates are present from every state
in the country and few from Europe.
The doctors have utilized the whole
city, the exercises opening with
health sermons by OSteOpathS in the
pulpitS of the churches Sunday, fol-
lowed Monday by public lectures in
the Opera House and technical lee
lures, clinics and exhibits in Hotel
Multnomah all the week. There were
exhibited for the first time in public
moving pictures of Dr. Andrew L.
Still, the founder of OSteOpathy, show
ing him still active in his SSth year,
reviewing a procession of graduates
at the commencement exercises of the
college at Kirksville, Mo-, the birth
place of this school of practice. The
convention was thrown into scene
of widest enthusiasm when the NOV
ing likeness of the Father of OSteO-
pathy" appeared upon the screen, as
many of the delegates had never seen
him and, owing to his advanced years,
this may be their only opportunity
to see such vivid portrayal.
DIR. G. A. Upton of St. Paul, presi-
dent of the Association, presided at
the sessions. Among those who
preached health sermons in the
churches on Sunday, were DR.. Ira w.
Drew of Philadelphia, DIR. Clara E.
Sullivan of Wheeling W. Va, DR..
Mary Lyle-Sims of Columbia, S. c.,
DIR. T. j. Ruddy of Los Angeles, DR..
Asa Willard of MissOula, Mont, DR..
Chas. c.. Reid of Denver, Dr. G. J.
Snyder of Philadelphia, DR.. A. G.
Hildreth of Macon, Mo-, and DIR. G.
b. Atzen of Omaha. DR.. +. K. Moore
of Portland is chairman of the gener-
al arrangements committee.
Moving pictures of patients afflicted
with various nervous diseases, taken
for the purpose of demonstrating diff
ferential diagnosis, were Shown for
the first time in public in the Opera
House Monday evening. DR.. j. Ivan
Dufur, professor of nervous diseases
of the Philadelphia College of OSteO-
pathy, exhibited these pictures which,
it is claimed will revolutiOniZe the
teaching of diagnosis. DIR. II. j. Rud-
dy of Los Angeles, also gave an illus
trated lecture at the Opera House
and there was popular health talk
by DIR. r. Kendrick Smith of Boston.
The startling claim was made at this
meeting by DIR. Arthur G. Hildreth,
president Of the oSteOpathic hospital
at Macon, Mo-, that it has been dis
covered that oSteopathic treatment
will cure some classes of insanity.
Several hundred churches through
out the country have established free
oSteopathic clinics, according to the
report of DIR. Ira w. Drew of Phila-
delphia, chairman of the national
bureau of clinics.
Twilight Sleep can be produced
by oSteopathic pressure aneStheSia
without any of the dangers of the
much heralded drug methods, claims
DIR, NJ. K. Clark of Indianapolis, who
is one of the best known specialists
on obstetrics in the oSteopathic pro-
feSSiOn.
The women OSteOpathS have organ
lied all over the country for a Strenu-
Gus campaign for Better Babies"
They report that there are 500 pre-
ventable deaths every day among
babies in this country and they are
determined TO do their share in lessen
ing this. Dr. Josephine L. Pierce of
Lima, Ohio, is chairman of the ma
tiOnal bureau which also includes,
DR.. Ruth Deeter of Harrisburg, Pa,
secretary, DR.. Roberta Wimer-Ford |
of Seattle, DR.. Margaret II. Farnum
of San Francisco, DR.. Ethel Louise
Burner of Bloomington, H., DIR. Julia |
+. Foster of Butler, Pa. DR.. Ella p. |
Ligon of Mobile, Ala, DIR. Jenette
BOlleS of Denver, DR.. Janet NJ. Kerr |
Of Toronto, Ont, and DR.. Florence L. !
Gair of Brooklyn.
DR.. .. j. Snyder, president of the |
Pennsylvania board of osteopathic |
examiners, and also president of the |
American Academy of Osteopathic |
Clinical research, read a paper upon
the Perfection of Accurate Case Re-
cCrding." DR.. John DeaSon of Chi |
cago, director of the OSteopathic Re-
search institute, discussed the cause !
of displacement of vertebrate.
The Mayo of OSteOpathy." as he
is called, DR.. George Still, surgeon-in-
chief Of the oSteopathic hospital at
kirksvile, Mo-, was one of the stars
at the convention owing to his fame
as general surgeon. Another star
was DIR. George Laughlin of Kinks
vile, who has become known as the
American LOrenZ." DIR. Akin of
Portland, one of the most famous
orthopedic surgeons in the oSteopathic
profession, is chairman of the ortho-
pedic section which conducted several
clinics with operations by DR.. Harry
Forbes of Los Angeles, DR.. r. Ken
drick Smith of Boston and DR.. Harri-
son Maltby of Chicago.
DR.. .. j. Snyder, of Philadelphia,
has been elected president for the en-
suing year, and Kansas City selected
aS the naxt Dlara Of maefinO