New Ulm review., 1922-07-12
HOME HEALTH CLUB.
By DR.. David H. Reeder.

By DR.. David H. Reeder.
It is said that a woman's easiest
road to mans heart is through his
stomach. Now that may be true in a
great many cases but if was woman
l think would hesitate along time be-
fore marrying man who merely want
ed a cook. Clothes and board are not
sufficient pay, especially when one
realizes that it's a life job and that
there may be many other things to be
done besides the cooking.
Yes, there are men who can, be
reached through their stomachs and a
vast number who will sit up and take
notice when it is a question Of their
pocketbooks. For years the average
physician has treated the drugless
physicians with contempt. His first
attitude was ridicule, this was followed
by abuse and after that legal prosecu-
tion or persecution. Because salts
factory results to the chronic patient
were secured, the drugless physician
continued to prosper however, and now
the medical profession is generally be-
ginning to see where a big mistake was
made.
In order to avoid the embarrassing
acknowledgment of error, the attempt
has been made to meet Christian
Science and all other kinds of sugges-
tive therapeutic, such as New Thought,
Divine Science, Mental Science, Unity,
etc. by putting into the hands of the
profession and also the laity, various
books on psychology and psychanoly-
sis. ~ >&. .t@
They have attempted to meet the
success of osteopathy and chiropractic
by spondylotherapy and osteology.
1t doesn't seem to work however, and
the medical doctors and surgeons admit
through their Journals and at their
conventions that within the last fifteen
or twenty years, fully one-third of the
sick people have deserted and gone
over to the drugless practitioners.
This hits the pocketbook and
through it the doctors dinner pail. He
is now waking up to the fact that he
has not been doing all that he could
have done for his patients and it will
not be long before you will see won
derful change of front in the medical
profession as whole. ~
The best plan, according to my
opinion would be frank acknowledge
ment of the skill displayed by any
system or physician that will give the
sick person relief or cure. No matter
whether the practitioner calls himself
an osteopath, chiropractor, scientist,
or plain drugless physician Give him
due credit, find out what he can do
that the rest of US cannot do and then
learn how. ~,
The work of DR.. Geo. Starr White
and DR.. Albert Abrams has done more
for the profession of the healing art
than had previously been done in half
a century. The art Of diagnosing a
disease, so that there is no longer any
guesswork about it; has reached a
point, through the original investiga-
tions of these two men, which gives
confidence to both the doctor and his
patient for the simple reason that the
evidence is easily shown and the patient
knows that the doctor knows what ails
him.
A correct diagnosis makes the sue
cessful treatment" of any case much
more certain. Guess work will be
largely thrown into the discard along
with poisons, opiates and whiskey in
the treatment of sick people. .
1t is true that the timely and careful
use of these drugs have saved many
lives and much suffering but prompt
manipulation of the body machine bya
,>eally skillful osteopath will nearly
a,wSys prevent the necessity for their
use.
To nv. .aind therefore, the logical
thing to do is to learn how to mani
pulate and learn it from the successful
osteopaths.
Club Notes.
Mrs. S. M. of Indiana writes Of a
sore inside: ,... . E.
Dear DR.. Reeder: You may recall
the fact that I was patient of yours
about rs years ago. I was told that I
had cancer of the stomach. l was
also told to go at once to the hospital
for an operation. I wanted to know
why operate and what chance had to
live through it. I was told that no
other method of treatment was known
to cure cancer of the stomach and that
after operations, patients seldom lived
more than year or two but did not