Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-08-24
SOLDIERS NEED
OsTEOPATHY.
Modern War Conditions Demand Re-
pair and Adjustment as Never Be-
fOre-National Ostopathic COnven-
ton Offers Service for the Front
Cure For Worst Form of Deafness
Discovered.

Profiting by the experience of the
allied armies in Europe American
troops are not going to suffer from the
lack of specialists in mechanical adj
justment to repair the cripples and
nervous wrecks produced by the thou
sands in this modern war; The Ameri-
can Osteopathic at its annual conven-
ton, which is in session here all this
week, perfected arrangements for an
adequate supply of osteopathic physi-
clans and surgeons for the United
States army and navy and offered
them to the Government A bill has
been introduced in Congress providing
for this service, and osteopathic pa
tients all over the country are writing
the war department insisting that
their sons in the service be attended
by practitioners of the school of prac-
tice to which they are accustomed. In
Europe the old school physicians ad-
nit that they cannot handle the enor-
nous amount of mechanical treatment
necessary and the British parliment
has been interpolated to know why
osteopaths were not employed in the
service.
for the so-called "incurable" form of
deafness, nerve deafness, was the most
important event of the convention.
aside from the war preparations. DR..
John Deason of Chicago who for years
was the director of the Osteopathic
Research Institute, is the discoverer.
He reported on 500 cases which had
been absolutely differentiated from
the durable forms of deafness. He
claims that he gets results in 80 per
cent. of these cases, which all authori-
ties assert are absolutely incurable.
The method includes osteopathic ad-
justment irrigation Of the nose with
four gallons of warm antiseptic solu-
ton and the removal of all adhesions
from the throat by osteopathic
finger" surgery.
Fifty per cent Of the tonsils "slaugh-
tered" by the surgery of the old school
specialists could be preserved to nor
NAL function by osteopathic treat
ment, according to DIR. c. A. Dodson
of. Little Rock, Arkinsas, who read a
paper in the ear, nose and throat sec
ton.
Blame for the shocking unfitness for
military service of such an amazing
percentage of American men was laid
at the door of the public school sys-
tenn by DR.. J. A Ryel of Hasbrouck
Heights, N. ].
The universal belief that most dis
ease is caused by bad teeth and ton
sils and that it is cured exclusively by
their removal, was upset by DR.. Geo.
J. Conley a general surgeon of Kan
sas City, who insisted that these things
did not cause disease until some To-
tcality was sufficiently lowered in re-
lsistance so that it could IiFt defend II It
self. The principal thing which lowers
this resistance is some sort of displace-
ment or pressure interference which
may be dicovered by the osteopath and
removed by osteopathic adjustment
Less than II per cent. of the school
children in America have normal Wis
| ion, according to DR.. c. E. Abegglen
occulist, of Colfax, Washington, who
said that boards of education commit
moral and social crime when they
fail to have ADEQUATE annual examin-
alton of school children by competent
specialists.
Exercise is the best preventative
and the best spinal cure assert
ed DR.. Andrew A. Gour, the Chicago
specialist on physical culture. NJ
treatment is adequate without it, HI
said
Mental detectives are increasing a
an alarming rate, reported DR.. Ira W
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