VOL. III.

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE

FOUNDING of OSTEOPATHY .

[Address of Andrew T. Still, deliveredin Memorial Hall of the American Schoolof Osteopathy Monday evening, June 22,1896, at the celebration of the 22d anni-versary of the founding of Osteopathy .

Ladies and Gentlemen:-Twenty-two years ago today about noon Iwas shot ; not in the heart, butin the dome of reason . Thatdome wasin a very poor conditionto be penetrated by an arrowcharged with the principles of phil-osophy . Since that eventful day Ihave sacredly remembered andkept it .

Not all the time be-fore as intelligent, nor as greatan audience as this, but a partof the time withdrawing from thepresence of man to meditate uponthat event, upon that day whereinI saw by the force of reasonthat the word "God" signifiedperfection in all things and in

allplaces . I began at that dayto carefully investigate with themicroscope of mind to prove anassertion that is often made in yourpresence, that the perfection ofDeity can be proven by his works.When I resolved that I would takeup the subject, and find outby investigation whether thatwork would stand the test, whetherit could be proved that, as stated bythe gray headed sages of the pulpitthat the works of God would provehis perfection .

Not all the roadsthat men travel are smooth .

Wenever have a positive but what weare met with the negative .

I amconvinced that as far as I compre-hend, and I cannot assert beyondthat, that the works ^f Goddo proveHis perfection in all places, at alltimes, and under all circumstances.I drew aline of debtor and creditor .On the one side I placed the worksof God and the acts of man,who is claimed to be the handiworkof God. The intelligence of anassociation of mind, matter andspirit, the

child of God who is theauthor and constructor of all worldsand all things therein. All patternsfor the mechanic to imitate in all hisinventions are found in man.

Youremember that all patterns are bor-rowed from this one place, be itGod, be it the devil or be it man,who is the originator of all things .All patterns for all things areimitations of what is found in thatconstructed being, man. We seein man, as we comprehend it, theattributes of Deity.

We see mindand the action of mind ; therefore,

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there is a representation of the mindof all minds. We find in the uni-verse the solar system ; we find theremotion, without which no universecan exist. The very thought ofmind itself presupposes action . Themotions of all the planets of theuniverse indicate and prove actionand force,

On time those planetspass and re-pass, to the hour andthe minute they run, and pass be-fore you and other globes, indicat-ing to aman of reason the ability ofthat mind to mathematically calcu-late the length of every piece usedin the whole universe and to arm

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and equip it with avelocity that isexactly true, and that will run tothe thousandth part of a second .Should one quarter of a second'stime be lost in the velocity of Jupi-iter, what might be the result?In-Increase theelectric forceofthewhole

system and fever will be the re-sult in the whole planetary and so-lar systems. If Jupiter in hisrounds should lose one quarter of asecond's time on his circuit, whateffect would that have on the wholeplanetary system?

You would seesuch planets as Mercury,

Venusandthe earth dancing a jig.

Then,if we had a medical doctor turnedlose there, he wouldgive it an in-jection of a whooping big dose ofmorphia .

Just on that ground ex-actly is wherehe is incompetent to

comprehend the revolutions and thetime exacted by the Divine moon-maker. We find the same thingexactly in the solar system of man .Suppose the heart fails to make itstime . A confusion is started by aretention of the blood at the base ofthe brain ; perhaps the base of theheart, or the base of the bowels, orthe base of the foot, or the side ortop of any division of the body, andyoumay expect until Jupiter takeshis regular time, gets in line withthat star, you will want to go to theHot Springs to get warmed up .A great many of you have come

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here to-night, and what have youcome for? Avery few have comehere to see what nonsense is goingon .

Between your eyes there aretoomany miles of reason to call anymathematical fact a humbug . Someheads have less than .a quarter of aninch between the bases of reason, ortheir eyes .

You must not be toohard upon those whose eyes take inso little of a mile; you mustnot be to hard on them, butallow them the great privilege ofcalling you a philosopher or a fool,because one is just as well under-stood by them as the other .My grand-mother was a Dutch

woman. She told me she believeda great deal in signs, and all that,-when you set hens, kill chickens,and butcher hogs, and so on .

NO. 2 .

When you see one of those littleheads that knows it all, with a littlebook under his arm, an almanac orsomething of that sort, claim ina week or ten days to be agreat Os-teopath, you remember what I tellyou.

That child was weaned whenthe sign was in the feet .

The nextplace the sign wasin the abdomen,and he is ready to go into the worldand make his boasts that he is anOsteopath, that he comprehends it .He is ready to go before the world,and with false statements lie

justenough to get more money than hecan get by straight-forward, honestdealing before his fellow men.

Wehave such births here ; havingworked at dentistry, selling drugs,etc., and developed in a fewdays ready to go out into theworld and raise his flag of ''Osteop-athy . "

Twenty-two years ago today Itook up the matter solemnly andseriously. Since that time I havenot lost a single hour without mymind being upon the work and con-struction of man, to see if I coulddetect one single flaw or defect init ; either under the microscope orwith the anatomists knife or therules of philosophy, either my ownor the mind of others . I havenever yet been able to detect theleast shadow of confusion. . TheJupiter of life is absolutely andmathematically correct. My in-vestigation has been for the honestpurpose of finding out whether ornot when the great God of the uni-verse constructed man there wasone single defect in the work thathas been detected by all the com-bined intelligence of the sons anddaughters of man from the birth ofluau up to the present time .

Ihadtogive thewholesale credit mark

andmake the vote unanimous forGod .

And if you cannot make itunanimous, do as they did inSt . Louis, a few of you go out.

Ifyou can't swallow it, go out andstay .Why did I become interested in

this great question of the intelligenceof God? His ability to give us theseasons, cold and hot, wet and dry,the different kinds of fowls and an-animals and fish of the seas and run-ning waters? The reason why Iinvestigated this was:

I believedthat man was woefully and wonder-wonderfully benighted, from the fact thatwhen 11e was sick 11e guessed whatwas the matter, and guessed he,would go for a doctor.

And theft

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the guessing commenced in earnest .The doctor guessed what was thematter ; he guessed what he wouldgive him, and he guessed when toreturn, guessed he would get wellor when he would d ie . He enteredthe grand chamber of guessing thenand there, and when the last breathwas drawn tile guess work was notthrough with until the preacherguessed where he would go. I saidto myself that God knew more thanI (lid, and more than Mr . Michael,or Dick Roberts, or all the men Icould think of ; more than GeneralJackson, or Jeff Davis, Abe Lin-coln, or even Horace Greely . Iconcluded that if lie did know allthings He has certainly placed thatmachinery on the track of life armedand equipped, with boilers full,plenty of oil, and all the bearingsof tile running gear of the wholeengine in good condition .

I beganto look at man.

What

(lid I

find?I found myself in the presence of anengine, the greatest engine thatmind could conceive of . Havingspent seven or eight years with astationary engine acquainting my-self with all its parts, from boiler tosaw, I began to investigate man asan engine .

In running my saw Ifound that if I squeezed it the bladewould wobble .

I soon found thattile hum was gone, having passedto a warbling sound. It washardly a warble, because when asaw gets hot and begins to wobbletile pressure is very light, and itwobbles j ust before it

warbles .

Isoon found that the harmonioussound of the saw was producedwhen it was running exactly as itshould,

keeping

the

line, andall that pertained to the lumbercutting .

I

found that wobblingin there, and that was whatdrew my attention, and I

inquiredas to what was the matter withthe saw of life, found it was out ofline� and tile friction against thetimber produced the heat and whatthey call buckling . It wobbled to oneside like a blubber under a pan cake .That wobble will spoil your saw andstop its work .

How many blub-bers (lid I find in the human engine?I found tile blubber of erysipelas, offlux, of diphtheria . It is thebursting of the bubble of the wob-bling saw ; one of tile saws of lifejust off the track a little . Idefy the oldest sages of philosophyto show me the difference betweenflux and no flux ; to show me thetime when flux was not there .

Heinsist take the number of hours inwhich this milk soured and be-gan to curdle .

It first commencedby being in a stationary positionand under a curdling temperature ;then the milk sours, in acommon pan, and it would sourjust the same in the pans of thebowels or the mesentary arteries,veins or muscles . Therefore, you

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have simply an effect,

and you callthat effect a disease, a particulardiseases.Just the same as you call

your brother Jim

and your

sisterSarah Ann.

They are effects only .And ninety-nice times out of everyhundred that same machine has awobbling saw ; it has left tile line ;it is not tracking on the course oflife by nature given, thus things arenot harmonious .Why should I prosecute this for

years? Because I could count asmuch as an old mathematiciancould, in small addition anyhow . Icould make a mark for Tom smith,died, under the doctor's treatment ;and Jim smith also is 11-ad, andjoint Henry Sinith likewise is dead .However, I ommited to say that thefather and mother were both (leadwith flux .

I began to see duringthe civil war in that part of tilestates of missouri and Kansas wherethe doctors were shut out thechildren did not die.

I began toreason as to why it was .

Our min-isters say the birds are provided for,and I just thought if God took careof them he took care of' those

childrentchildren too.Thereis the same abilitythere to sustain them through thesummer and winter .

Nature hasprovided for a great manyemergencyemergencies When a mule has worked

hard all day and his intiltifidusspinae is palled out like a shoestring, what does he do?

He findsa good place to roll, kicks up hisheels, kicks another mule or two,and he has gone through his Osteo-pathic manipulation .

He shows alittle sense .

An old hen when shegets a little of what you call

mi-crobescrobes in herfeathers, does what?she gets out her microscope andlooks through it and concludesthey are microbes, and she huntsup a dust heap, and leaves themthere .

Watch the hog .

He knowsmore than his master ; when he getsthe fever he goes into tile mud andstays there until the fever leaves .some years ago a man had a timewith the cholera and his friendsconcluded they would help the oldfellow cover himself up in tile sandand let him die .

Theywent off upthe river and left hill,., and the nextmorning he was up there ready forhis breakfast .

Thev left him downthere to die, but he got well .

I have a very kindly feeling forthis day . On the 22nd day of June,1874, at ten o'clock, was the firsttime I ever saw the gravy of liberty,and I have been sopping my breadin it eversince, and, like

eatingolives, it was a little difficult at tilestart, but now they all want olives .The whole of North America is be-ginning to say,

"I will take someolives, if you please."

The Irish-man took some, but said "Begobs,who spoiled the plums." Ourstudents who have gone out fromhere, our early diplomats, havewithstood the howlitzers in everyengagement and have come out vic-torious .

That poor littleammerman who is about as big as a little

piece of chewing gum after the Sun-day services are 'over, went clowninto Kentucky, and swung a littleOsteopathic flag to the breeze there .

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They brought tile laws of the greatstate of Kentucky to bear uponthat poor little banty, poor littleOsteopath, of little experience, lessthan a year, on his back . Hisworks followed him into the courtand the grand jury of the greatstate of Kentucky says, ''Notguilty . "One of my poor, feeble minded

sons, who has been a follower ofmine, went up to Minnesota .

Hewas arrested .

For what?

For notseeing diphtheria where there wasnone .

There is a law there thatquarantines against diphtheria,measles, scarlet fever, etc . Well,my boy is just like his father, heknows so little that he is notafraid of it . He has more gritthan brains, Isuppose .

Hewalkedinto those houses, as I am told bySenator Nelson of that State .

Ilevent into twenty-eight houses litone single day, and tile next daytook down all of those card boards .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . .KEEP OUT!

BY ORDER OK THE STATEBOARD or, HEALTH.

CONTAGIOUS! DIPHTHERIA! ,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

It looked like there weredress-inakers in every houseuntil you looked a little closer .They were put up there to keep thepeople from spreading diphtheria .There were hundreds of them intile little town of Red Wing. Sen-ator Nelson said lie went into thosehouses with my son Charles .

Thechildren's tongues were sticking outof their mouths their throats werered ; but he said Charles never lost.a case .

He also told tile that pre-vious to that time 11 4 children diedwith diphtheria in one day, but thatOsteopathy did not lose a singlecase .

And for saving tile lives ofthose children he was -arrested andbrought before the court . Andwhat was the result?

The fathersand mothers came out by the hun-dreds . and the prosecuting doctorsand attorneys concluded to "get . "Those swedes and Norwegians saidthat if still was found guilty theywould hang tile doctors .

The peo-ple declared that from tile center tothe circumference of Minnesota Os-teopathy should live . They alsocame over from Wisconsin en massewith their revolvers to set at libertythat boy the very instant he wasput in jail for violating the laws bysaving the children .

They declaredthat tile people were the law, andthe statute the tool .

The statuteis a money making provision, andwhen the people arise they are tilelaw of the country .

In Louisville,Kentucky,

the people are tile law ;in the state of Missouri the peopleare the law; also in Kansas ; and al-so in any part of the United states .Americans will not have their libertyabridged .

Neither are they goingto take the doctor

of their choicethrough the kitchen any more .Twenty-two years ago I had tocrawl in through the kitchen to seea child that had tile croup .

Thechild's uncle, John Tibbs, of MaconCity, sent me a telegram to comeand see Jim Tibbs' child who wasdying with croup .

They had had aconsultation of five or six doctors,who said the child couldn't live .One of them was a good old Eng-lish doctor who would get drunkoccasionally, and he said the child

would soon be in tile "harms of theGreat Hi Ham." The child'suncle and Mr. McCaw met me atthe depot, took me to the house aitdsucceeded in taking me through thekitchen ; wouldn't let me go in thefront way for fear we would meetsome of the doctors coming out .In five minutes time the child beganto breathe, and the next moruingwas playing around the house.since that time there has been anOsteopathic home at that place .since that time Osteopathy has be-come known throughout the wholestate, and the intelligent man hasconfidence in it .

The philosopheralso has confidence in its ability tocure .

The fathers and mothers callin the Osteopaths and pay for theirservices now .One objection to Osteopathy is

that it may make thieves and

scoundrels. menwill come

herefor a littlewhile and go away andsay" , "I have been to Kirksville ; Iam an Osteopath, " and so on . Theywill steal from the people whereverthey can until they are found out .They are drunken scoundrels, tilevery trash of your town .

so far itis dangerous .

The m. D.'s havesaid it is dangerous, because with afew little cures in a neighborhood,Osteopathy is liable to become thegrandest system of robbery in theworld . Men will stand up and cursethis science to tile very-

last,

andthen get on the train and go off 300or 40o miles and say they are fromtile city of J jerusalem,commonlycalled Kirksville ; that they areright

from the

rivers of life,

andthoroughly understand this science .They are men who have never (loneanything but curse it as the lowestconception of foolishness and igno-rance.

Another dangerous point Iwant to speak of is, that as soon asour students begin to know a littlesomething about it, some one willcome in and offer to pay their ex-penses to foreign parts if they Willonly go .

They say to one of mybaby students that they will payhim well if he will only go andpractice Osteopathy, when lie is nomore fit to go than a donkey is togo into a jewelry shop.

men comehere and ask tile what to do for sorethroat, and so on, and say they willpay so much for it .

They tell ourvoting students that they haveplenty of money and will pav theirexpenses and $200 a month if theywill go with them; and that is agreat temptation to a young manwholiad not has fifteen cents withwhich to buy his girl chewing gum .some of them know of this condi-tion, and they will stand aroundamong tile patients and strangersand tell them of this and that qual-ification, and say, "Don't you go totile old doctor, he is jealous of us,"and so on .

They keep this up un-til they get him to go off with them,and away they go, like any otherdeceiver or thief, to pick pock-ets .

I have followed this science fortwenty-two years, fully convincedthat tile God of nature has done hiswork conipletey . I am satisfied thata revolution stands before you to-day, a healing revolution, a revolu-tion in the human mind that willresult in tile study of anatomy inour district schools and in our col-leges . It is one of the most im-portant studies for all of the schools .When I commenced this studv I

took the human bones and handledthem week in and out, monthin and out, and never laidthem down while I was awake fortwelve months . There is a greatdanger t0 the student of Osteopathy,that he may conclude that he oughtto be out as quick as some hostler orsome fellow that has been aroundhere for a little while,

and

is

outstealing from the people today.You ask when you come here howlong it takes a man to become com-petent t0 go into a community andwithstand the howlitzers that willbe thrown against him. we tellyou, from long experience in thisscience, that it will require twicetwelve months .

I can take you upas a Herd of sheep,

comb you andgrease you, and send you out in themarket, and the best judge can'ttell whether you are good 0r badsheep, but I will not d0 it .

Youask me for truth,

I will give it t0you .

If

you send your son

0rdaughter here, you do not wantthem to go out incompetent . Thosewho have been with us a year,

anumber 0f them are out, and theydo some good . Previous to thetime we got our institution so wecould handle it, we did the best wecould. Just like the preacher'swife who borrowed cloth to patchher husband's shirt,

she (lid thebest she could; and she stayed homebecause she had no shoes, and thatwas the

best she

could

d0 .wehave got to the time now that wecan prepare better .Two years ago when I com-

menced this building, 50x90, hall,ten rooms, etc., the people said,"What is that old fool doing downthere putting tip a house of thatsize ; he is crazy."

Do you knowthe condition that fellow is in now?He finds that he needs anotherbuilding 40x60, ten more rooms, inorder to . accommodate the peoplewho are coming here .

Do you seehow the work workhas grown?

Oneperson speaks to another andanother, and reports what is beingdone .

That is all the advertisingthat has been done .

We print ourjournal to answer your questionsconcerning the science.For twenty-two years I have been

looking at the parts 0f the humanengine, and I find it the mostwonderfully constructed engine,with the intelligence of mind andthe spirit 0f God, from the crown 0fthe head t0 the sole 0f the foot . Ibelieve that it is God's own medicaldrug store .

Themedicine of Godis the mind of intelligence appliedto the place of need .

If I were to take up this subjectand discuss it as a philosophy, noone hot night would be sufficient foran introduction

to it .

I

d0 notthink I

could tell

it in six months0r six years.

It is as inexhaustibleas the works of the whole universe .

If I live twelve months longer Iexpect to reverently respect the22nd day of June, 1897 the anniversary of Osteopathy's discovery .When the audience had ceased applaud-

ing Dr . Still, the Chairman announcedthe presence of one of Ohio's prominentcitizens, Col. A. L. Conger, who cameforward and made a few appropriate re-marks.

The Colonel's talk was doublyinteresting from the fact that when heregistered as a patient, less than a monthbefore, he had no use of his vocal organs .His recovery was complete, all traces ofthe trouble having disappeared .

Col.Conger's remarks are in the next colunin.

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GOL. a, L . conger,

A Prominent Ohio manufacturer, Talks to

Kirksville People About Osteopathy .

Col. A. L. Conger, the well knownmanufacturer, of Akron, Ohio, was pres-ent at the anniversary celebration, and atthe conclusion of Dr . Still's address, wascalled to the rostrum. Col. Conger ispresident of the American ManufacturingAssociation, a large company which oper-ates various manufactories throughout theeast .

He was recently commissioned bythe United States government to make anextensive tour of the South Americanrepublics to negotiate closer commercialrelations between these countries and ourown . The Colonel is also well knownpolitically, having served for severalyears upon the executive committee ofthe republican national committee.

Col.Conger said :

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Mr. Chairman, Ladies andGentlemen :-I am here in responseto the call 0f the chairman of thismeeting, although when I came toKirksville several weeks since it wasbecause I was troubled with myspeech, and Dr . Still has admon-ished me that I must read and talkas little as possible . I suppose Ilook like a healthy invalid. But thefact that I am called upon herethis evening would indicate that Iam better, and I will therefore speakto you as a patient .

I am not au orator-only a plainbusiness man ; and as such willspeak to you for a few moments,giving my impressions of thiswonderful science of Osteopathy asdiscovered and taught by Dr . Still .A s I sat here this evening and

listened to the address of Dr . Stillmy mind went back with him inthis great work, for the past twenty-two years 0r more-the great ob-stacles he has had t0 surmount, theterrible struggles through which hehas passed, the splendid manner inwhich he has met and surpassedevery obstacle, and the wonderfulvictory he has achieved for all man-kind in establishing the success ofOsteopathy . No fair and unpreju-diced mind can mingle daily andweekly among the patients of thisInfirmary and its able operatorswithout being convinced of itswonderful cures and its great possibility for the future .

Many of thecases being treated here have beengiven up and abandoned by ablephysicians ; but I have failed to finda single person here who does notspeak well of this institution andthe benefits received at the hands 0fits operators .

Dr, Still has told howpeople havelooked on Osteopathy with suspic-ion, and I may as well plead guiltyhere and tell you that when I leftAkron, Ohio, I instructed mystenographer to advise inquiringfriends "that I had left for Chicago,and a few weeks' absence in thewest, for my health ."

But todaywe are writing all our friends tellingthem of this new discovery, and

that we are at the A. T. Still In-firmary, Kirksville, Missouri .

But the great contest for the ad-vancement and establishing of Oste-opathy is yet to come . The presentgeneration can well remember howhahnemann founded Homeopathy,how it met with great prejudice onthe part of the public, but how itsuccessfully merited and won itsway to the front .

But here comesthe new discovery of Osteopathy,which in the future is,

we believe,destined to command an advancedposition over all other methods ofhealing. But in bringing aboutthis result, you must rememberwhat a great responsibility restsupon this institution and those whog0 out from it t0 practice andpreach its doctrines to the world.we can readily understand howanxious Dr . Still is that none butworthy graduates shall leave thisinstitution .

No quacks, no impost-ors must be allowed t0 preach orpractice Osteopathy .

It must winits way t0 the front by actual merit,by able and honest graduates, thosewho can bring results and success-fully merit the confidence 0f thepeople . when that is done thepublic press 0f our country, whichis the great bulwark of safety thatsurrounds and protects Americanliberty, will see that Osteopathy isprotected and shall have the rightto be established in every state inthe union.

I am very proud to be here to-night on this 22nd anniversary. Iam proud of my country-proudthat this great discovery was madeby an American citizen .

It showsthat we are living in a more ad-vanced civilization .

we rememberwhat has been accomplished in thelast century-how Franklin dis-covered electricity, how Morseadapted it to the use of telegraphy,how Bell applied and utilized it inthe telephone, and Edison in theelectric light ; how Fulton utilizedsteam as propelling power for thesteam boat ; and what wonderfulprogress has been trade in this linesince Fulton's discovery, steam nowpushing our great steamers acrossthe Atlantic ocean in five or sixclays . And so we might go 0nenumerating these great discover-ies :

(The speaker, turning to Dr.Still.)

And you, Dr . Still, for yourdiscovery and the great good it willbring t0 all mankind in the future,your name will go down to historyalong with those of Franklin, Ful-ton, and other great men of thiscountry, as among the noblestRomans of them all, as one whohasbrought the greatest good in thesimplest form for the sick and un-fortunate of all mankind. Soule-times recognition is slow in coming,but the people never forget whathistory records of advancement.

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Only a few days since one of Chica-go's greatest editors, Hon. JosephMedill, placed in one of Chicago'sbeautiful parks a magnificent statue0f the great Franklin . Someone will always rise t0 do honor andto perpetuate the memory of ourgreat men.

But what can I say by way of en-couragement to the men and women-the class-who are now prepar-ing themselves to go forth into thecontest to carry the banner of Oste-opathy successfully forward in thefuture? A few years ago whilewaiting the departure 0f my trainat the railway station in Rome I re-marked to my guide, "what awonderful city Rome trust havebeen in its day." "Yes," he re-marked, "civilization commencedin Rome 3000 years ago. "

I askedwhat became 0f it .

The answercame, "It has gone to America."And so we realize it here tonight,the greatest advancement comesfrom the west .

The ancient histo-rian has written, in describing theroman warrier,

that in that elderday "to have been a Roman wasgreater than to have been a king."And when the modern historianshall write of THIS DAY and THIS

generation he may truthfullywrite this record

0f this class

andthose who go forth from this insti-tution, "To be a doctor and success-fill operator in Osteopathy is greaterthan to have been a roman or aking ." The roman achievedgreatness in his day and generationbecause 0f his strength and abilityt0 destroy human life, and t0 causesuffering and degradation. Butsuch proceedings were against thewill of God, and Rome ceased t0 ex-ist .

The doctor and operator inOsteopathy will achieve greatnessand merit recognition in history be-cause 0f his

or her ability

to savehuman life-to lessen suffering, andin advancing the cause of science.The roman brought tears of sorrowand suffering ; the Osteopath bringstears of joy and gladness .

And,like the Christian religion,

Osteop-athy is in keeping with the laws andworks of

God.

It is

open to

allmankind, and must live for alltime .

There will be no more charity enter-tainments until after the summer vaca-tion .

"Vacation or no vacation?" was decidedby the May class in favor of vacation .For the other classes the matter was de-cided by the trustees, but the May classwas allowed to decide the matter by vote .The result was a large majority in favorof a "hot weather rest ."

August 6th, the sixty-eighth birthdayof Dr . Andrew T. Still, founder of thescience of Osteopathy, will be celebratedby the school and infirmary people . Itis expected that the new addition to thebuilding will be completed by that time,or so nearly so that the whole buildingcan be thrown open for the occasion .

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"castingOUTdevils."In bible times disease was looked upon as a

special visitation of providence, or the forciblepossession of the body by agents of the devil .If of the latter classification, many were the in-genious methods employed to drive these devilsout of the unfortunate victim . An insane pa-tient, for instance, was thought to be possessedof a peculiar kind of devil that could by a cer-tain "hokus pokus" be driven front the victim'sbody and made to take up is abode in thelower animals .

There are no well authenticatedclinical observations recorded upon the subject.but there are several interesting cases told inboth sacred and profane history .The pervading idea among these superstitious

ancients was that disease was an entity to be at-tacked and driven out of the body . And, in-credible though it may seem, that idea has beenthe guiding star of all healing methods fromtime immemorial to the founding of Osteopathy .True, a few of the advanced thinkers of themedical profession have declared that diseaseis a coed ition,

and schools have gone throughthe form of accepting theories of this character ;but despite their declarations they continue totreat disease as an entity .

The great mass ofthe profession have been totally unable to getout

of the entity

rut,

and medicine, with itsboasted research of more than two thousandyears, still clings to the old superstition that dis-ease is a mysterious tangible something whichgets inside the human organism and must be be-set by another something which has a naturalantipathy for the supposed cause of the disease,and which, when introduced into the body ofthe patient, will search out and exterminate thetroublesome little enemy to health .

wedded tothis superstition, our medical friends havesearched every nook and corner of the earth forspecifics that, liberated in the human body,would destroy the cause of certain diseases.No where do we find this old superstition more

thoroughly at the helm of medical research thanin the present day germ theory of disease . The`devil" to be cast out is no longer a plain devil,but a scientific "Microbe," who goes about insearch of fashionable victims, and who wouldprobably scorn the idea of taking up his abodewith a herd of swine .

his name and occupa-tion are made known by the number and shapeof his horns.

These little devils differ from thedevils of the ancients only in size,

and had thepoor ancient had the advantage of a microscopewith which to tone down his imagination thedifference between old devils and those of themicrobe persuasion would probably be but slight .

In their desperation to prove the supposed cor-rectness of this old superstition, modern medi-cal writers have piled up volumes on the chem-istry of disease and its specifics, and experiment-ers have analyzed almost every atom of the knownuniverse, and studied the minutia of the effects

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of bodily

disorder, to

the total neglect of thebroader and more important phenomena of

ani-mal life.Intheirlong and fruitless searchofthe outside universe for specific poisons thatwould drive their "devils of disease" from thehuman body they have totally ignored that greatengine of life itself, and have failed to recognizethe presence of native forces which the Creatorplaced within the mechanism for its own gov-ernment .here is where Osteopathy took up the fight

and where it won its victory . The founder ofOsteopathy looked upon disease as an abnormalcondition, and reasoned that the means o£ restor-ing the normal should be in the human engineitself-not in some remote corner of the universeor hidden miles under the sea .

while the medi-cal profession has searched all the world outsideof man, the founder of Osteopathy searched manhimself for the means of controlling disease, andhe has been rewarded for his trouble by discover-ing that the great Machinist placed within thehuman body everything necessary to run itsmoothly without drugs .

infirmary and school NOTES.

From the (Kirksville) Saturday Mail, July 11th.Dr . adaline Bell has a new bicycle, which she is

learning rapidly t0 subdue .Mr . W. M. Catron, 0f Helena, Mont ., willgo home

Monday .

Mr . J. Westborg, 0f Beresford, S. D., went home lastweek completely cured. His trouble was paralysis 0fthe lower limbs.

Prof . Smith's class in anatomical demonstrations,which has been meeting from 8 tog o'clock in theevening, will hereafter convene at 1 .30 p. "I .

Mrs. A. F. Carlson, 0f Beresford, S. D, . has returned t0her home . She goes horne completely cured, anda fast friend 0f Osteopathy .Mrs. George Birch, 0f Thompson, North Dakota, who

has been here for treatment several weeks, returnedhome Thursday, her health greatly improved .

There are now 102 students in the American School0f Osteopathy. All have entered since last SeptemberThe October class, the oldest in the school, has 28, theJanuary class 23, and the May class 51.

During the hot weather all patients are being treatedin the forenoons. The operators begin work at 7 o'clocka. In ., instead of 9, as formerly . it makes prettylively forenoons, but they get through all right.Mr . M. C. Misch, who has been here several weeks

with his wife and sister, taking treatment, returned t0his home in Milford, Ill., Thursday, greatly improvedin health . Mrs. Misch and sister will remain to com-plete their course 0f treatment.

Two energetic Wisconsin boys gave practical evidence0f their interest in Osteopathy by riding from Madi-son, Wis., to Kirksville-a distance Of 480 miles-ontheir wheels, t0 investigate the science and learn some-thing 0f the school . These enterprising young wheel-men, James R. Patterson and Frank W. Nichols, arrived in the city last Saturday .

They were very muchinterested in the new healing art . Mr . Pattersonthinks 0f entering the fall class.

Thewalls 0f the new addition to the Infirmary areup to the third story, and will probably be completedthis week . When the addition, which is 40x60, threestories high, is finished, the building will be completein every particular .

It is the design 0f Dr. Still t0provide the structure with every possible conveniencefor both school and infirmary purposes . For manymonths it has been evident that the business of the in-stitution was fast outgrowingthe accommodations . Thenew structure will increase the capacity of the buildingto such am extent that fully five hundred students canbe accommodated, while it will also provide for onethousand patients .

Dr. Still hopes t0 have the newaddition finished by August 6th next, his 68th birthday,when a grand public celebration will be given.

Col. A. L. Conger and wife, 0f Akron, Ohio, whohave been here for treatment several weeks, returnedhome Friday morning,

Col. Conger is a well known

manufacturer 0f the east, being president 0f a largeimplement manufactory in Akron. He is also largelyinterested in the manufacture 0f plate glass and tinplate.

When he came t0 the Infirmary, the vocalnerves were so paralyzed that speech was almost im-possible.

T0 speak in even a distinct whisper requireda great effort .

He can now talk as well as anybody,and goes home completely cured.

Both he and Mrs.Conger are now remembered among the most enthusi-astic friends 0f Osteopathy .

While in the city theymade a host 0f warm friends; and 0n the morning 0ftheir departure many and earnest were the good-byessaid at the Still house.

Col. Conger and wife will soonsail for Europe .

From the Mail 0f July 18th .

Prof . Smith,

demonstrator 0f anatomy, was quitesick Monday andTuesday.

Dr .

A. T.

Still spent

Saturday in the country,

theguest 0f Mr . and Mrs. Morris, near Millard.

John McClung, father 0f Mrs. Dr . E. B. Morris, diedat his home in La Plata, Thursday afternoon.

Mr . S. McCullough, 0f Regar, went home Mondayvery much improved .

His trouble was indigestion.

Mrs. H.

S. Nelson, 0f Clarinda, Ia ., is here visitingher son, Dr.

Harry Nelson,

0f the infirmary

corps 0foperators.

Dr . Walt W. Steele, D, O., 0f Carmi, Ill., has gonet0 New York and Niagara t0 attend several 0f his pa-tients who reside in those cities .

Dr . Conner was called t0 Sublette one day this week,t0 see Mr . P.

R. Crow,

a prominent farmer 0f thatneighborhood .

Mr. Crow was suffering from sunstroke.

Mrs. Emma Burns, 0f Clarksville, M0., who has beenhere several weeks, will return home the first 0f nextweek, greatly improved and a firm convert t0

Osteop-athy.

Dr. Herman T. Still, 0f Crawfordsville, Ind., spentseveral clays visiting relatives and friends in Kirksvillethis week . Dr . Herman is enjoying a fine practice inCrawfordsville .

Mrs. T.

M.

Hoselton, 0f Winnegan,

M0., came t0Kirksville t0 try a month's treatment at the Infirmary,but after remaining three weeks, returned home entirelycured. -She left here Sunday morning.

Mr . George Walter Oakley, 0f Sioux City, Ia ., treas-urer of the Sioux City and Northern Railroad C0 ., vis-ited over Sunday with his wife and daughter, who areunder treatment at the Osteopathic infirmary.

Mr . A. kaehler, a patient from Genevia, Neb., wenthome Tuesday.

His trouble, indigestion, was greatlyrelieved by the treatment,

although mot completelycured.

He will return in about two weeks t0 completethe course 0f treatment.

Miss Nettie Green, 0f Fort Dodge, Iowa, returnedhome Thursday, after taking three months' treatment.Her trouble was a dislocated hip. When she camehere she walked with crutches and wore a big brace.She went home cured,

able t0 discard both crutchesand brace.

Dr . J. W. Henderson, one of the regular operators atthe Osteopathic infirmary, was called t0 unionville, M0.,Saturday t0 see judge Ben Thompson, a prominent cit-izen 0f that community. Judge Thompson was thrownfrom a horse about eight weeks ago, and a severe braintrouble resulted .

Little Mabel Moore, who was brought to the Still In-firmary from

Ruddells Mills,

Ky., for treatment inApril, is rapidly improving.

When she came here shecould not walk a step, but Wednesday morning wasable t0 walk around wherever she pleased.

She is inthe care 0f Mr . and Mrs. Miller, of Ruddells Mills. Mr .Miller said they had exhausted everything known t0medical science before coming here, and only concludedt0 try Osteopathy as a last resort .-Kirksville Graphic,June 26, 1896 .

Mr.Geo . S. Corbit, proprietor 0f the Clinton Inde-pendent, St. Johns, Mich ., writes entertainingly in theJuly 16th issue 0f his paper giving a fine impression 0fOsteopathy . Mr . Corbit's wife was under treatment atthe infirmary in June .

Mrs. Nettie 1-1 . Bolles, the Denver Osteopath, is heret0 visit her husband and the school, as well as t0 attendthe celebration 0f Dr . Still's anniversary and the dedi-cation 0f the mew addition t0 the building . Osteopathyis making excellent progress in the centennial state.

We are pleased t0 hear such a good report from Dr.Edgar Bigsby, one of the graduates of 1895, who is lo-

cated in Topeka, Kas .

He says he is getting good re-sults in his work .There will be a summer vacation in all classes, begin-

ning friday, August 7th, and continuing until Monday,September 7th .Mrs . T. W . Walton, of Edgerton, Kan., accompanied

by her (laughter, Miss Pay, is visiting her daughter,Mrs . Turner Hulett .An engraving and full description of the osteopathic

College and Infirmary building, as completed by thenew addition, will be given in next month's issue .Workmen are now busy upon the roof and with theplumbing and inside finishing .Miss ellen Plumb, sister of the late senator Preston

B . Plumb, of Kansas, was a patient at the Infirmarythis month . Her trouble was the result of a dislocatedankle, which the home doctors had failed to benefit .when she came to Kirksville about six weeks ago, shewalked with two crutches and could not bear even theweight of her limb upon the injured ankle .

After fourweeks' treatment she laid aside her crutches, and,on July loth, returned to her home in Emporia, Kansas,completely cured .

The fact of Miss Plumb's friendshipfor Osteopathy is evidenced by the large number of let-ters already received at the Infirmary from Emporiacitizens, inquiring about the new healing science .

Dr.Hildreth treated her .

" "divorced."BY DR A. T. STILL.

Revolution after revolution has originatedin America-political, religious and scientific .Governments have changed with the velocity ofdemand . These revolutions run from the congre-gated assemblies of our law makers, military,religious and scientific professions, and the nav-igation of the seas down to each individual whohas granted to him the right to secede or differfrom any of the above named systems .

he orshe has the right

to ask and obtain a divorcefrom husband or wife when proof in sufficientquantity is produced ; and letters to that effect aregranted by our highest courts by common con-sent of the people .

As I was wedded to Allo-pathy early in my life, I lived with it, put upwith it, suffered under it, until it made my lifemiserable by continuing the association, and Iasked a divorce .

I asked,

and put in my peti-tion on June 22,

IS 74, for a divorce .

I

basedmy charges upon the foundation of murder, ig-norance, bigotry and intolerance .

Thefight inthe court through which Iliad applied for a di-vorce was very hot and determined. A decisionwas refused froth 1874 until October 30, 1894,previous to which time the judge of the circuitcourt carefully examined my claims and referredmy case to the secretary of state, who, aftercausing a careful examination, granted me let-ters patent from the state of Missouri, with hergreat seal, and said, "You are hereby set freefrom further obligations to Mrs . Allopathy."

CAN YOU DO IT.The Saturday Mail, of Kirksville, in its issue

of July 11, contains the following :Some of our citizens are studying a book on

Osteopathy, and expect to get sufficient infor-mation from it to enable them to go out andpractice . Of course some people have peculiarideas on all subjects, and there are then whothink it useless to spend two or three years in asystematic education on anything . Certainlythe two ladies mentioned below, who are regu-lar graduates of the American School of Osteop-athy would not have thought it necessary to sendtheir husbands here, and pay $,500.00 tuition fee .if this was a science that could be picked up .

Mrs . N . h . Bolles, now located and practicingin Denver, Colo., and Mrs . F . Cluett, locatedand practicing in Springfield, Ill ., are so wellsatisfied that it requires a thorough, systematic,and practical schooling and course of study, thateach have insisted on sending her husband herefor a two years' course, and have put up the fullamount of the tuition fee .

As both of theseladies are qualified to teach,

'hey might, if ithad been practicable,

saved all this expense .Mr . Bolles and Mr. Cluett are very enthusiasticadmirers of Osteopathy and laugh at the idea ofany man writing a book to teach this science .

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DRUG habits

The first of a forthcoming Series of Papers on theabove Subject .

The human body is an intelligent machine,'governed and controlled by the most wonderfulpiece of mechanism of which the mind can con-ceive, the brain and nervous system . It isthrough the nervous system we breathe, think,see, smell and taste ; it is the nervous systemwhich runs our heart at an even speed for everysecond of our life, which regulates the digestionof our food, which keeps

us from

burning upwith fever or freezing to death, which controlsour every movement from the time we draw ourfirst weak, complaining breath upon this earthtill we pass into the dim world of shadows torender an account "of all things done in thebody."

One thing of which we will then haveto give an account is how we treated the ma-chine entrusted to our care .

we are all, in nat-ural condition, provided with au intelligentbrain ;

did we use our mental faculties aright ;did we reason for OURSELVES or did we acceptthe word of all and sundry

on any matter re-garding what was OUR duty, the care of ourbodies?

Did we aid or did we hinder Nature inher efforts for our aid? Did we supplant herwork with art?

Did we teach our body to relyupon artificial stimuli which we supplied to thatwonderful nervous system, when the Creator hadput in the machine all that was needed for itsmaintenance and successful working?The human body is an intelligent machine,

and the action of every part is controlled, di-rectly or indirectly, by the nervous system .The nerves convey impressions to or from thebrain or other nervous centers, but ARTIFICIALstimuli can also be conveyed in either direction .Almost all (if not all) drugs act directly or in-directly through the nervous system ; and theaction of a drug is nothing more nor less thanthe result of an artificial stimulation of somepart of the nervous system .

Some drugs

cancontrol only one portion, as aloes, which has itstrain action on nerves distributed to the lowestportion of the intestine ; gelseminum, which se-lects for its sphere of activity the nerves of thelower jaw; euonymin, which has an action on theliver ; or apomorphine, which directly affects thevomiting center . Other drugs can affect the en-tire nerve distribution of a system of the bodyaconite, which can control the circulation, chloralhydrate or bromide of potassium, which affectthe entire nervous system as pure hypnotics .Other drugs, again, as opium, Indian hemp oralcohol, profoundly affect the nervous centers,lower vitality after a preliminary excitement,and depress the entire action of the body .There is no habit so readily formed as the

habit of medicine-taking ; there is no habit soutterly disastrous ; there is no habit for which Ibelieve the intelligent part of t he mechanism willbe so strongly blamed in the hereafter . It is noth-ing more nor less than a tampering and tinkeringwith the haudiwork of an all-wise Goo. whenyour watch is running out of order do you takeit to a blacksmith, or do you take it to the manwho made it?

Your body is only a natural pro-duction, and is liable to accidents and injuries,but natural means can in each and every case ad-just the mechanism, stimulate the nerve-centerswhich control it and restore it to what we callhealth . I do not say that No medicines areever any good, nor do I say that no medicinehas EVER done any good, but I do say that ifALL the good done by ALL the drugs in ALL the

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pharmacopeiae of the world were put in the onescale of a balance, while in the other was placedthe harm achieved by the very same drugs, theformer scale pan would rise in the air just asrapidly as did the celebrated "Philosopher'sscales." Physicians are now realizing whatthey were loath to admit, that there is no cer-tainty in the practice of medicine, and that thereis a constant and ever-present danger of the rem-edy given producing a worse effect hereafter,while relieving the condition for which it

wasgiven .

(Opium will relieve colic, but produces asubsequent constipation and depression ; phos-phorous or strychnine will stimulate the spinalcord, but leave it worse than they found it aftertheir effect has worn off .)

Further, what is oneman's meat is another's poison .

Idiosyncrasy isconstantly present with us, andf or that reasonit may take a week to find out what drug willact best on a given patient (and outraged naturesometimes does not wait for the doctor to findout by experiment, but prefers that he shoulduse his eyes at the post mortem examination . )Man is, or ought to be, an intelligent being .

he should realize the fact that no drug in thisworld produces a constant effect ; that all thatcan be hoped for is a stimulus produced or aprevention of stimuli for the time, accordingto the nature of the drug employed . Tocontinue the action requires a continuance ofthe employment of the remedy .

It is thus that drug habits are formed .It is thus that the intestine is led to depend uponcathartics or enemata for its evacuation, thestomach upon soda to prevent acidity, the brainupon opium or morphine for sleep, the skin up-on depressants for sweating . Any part of thehuman body can be taught a habit, either bythe owner thereof or by some one paid by himto do it .

I have met,

I

suppose, at least ahundred victims of the morphine habit .

I havenever met one who had not been directly taughtthe habit by a doctor, and had paid for the tu-ition .

I have met over fifty chronic alcoholicswho acquired the liquor habit through recom-mendation of some learned man to "take a littlestimulant now and then, " and I never DID thinkvery much of Paul for telling Timothy to takean occasional drink .

The dyspeptic who takesbismuth and soda, hdrocyanic acid or charcoal,pepsin, and the good Lord knows what else, is,like the poor, always with us, dosing his poor,outraged stomach half the time, and grumblingabout his bad health the rest of it .

The vic-tim of a drug habit is the most to be pitied of allmankind, but I do not only include morphineusers and absinthe drinkers in that category . Aperson who depends all the time upon "Dr. So-and-So's Liver Regulators" is just as much amedicine habitue as the veriest morphine fiend ;the degree is only in the nature of the drugemployed . Thirty years ago Dr . George S .Keith, of Edinburgh, determined to abolish theuse of almost all medicines in his practice andto cease taking

them himself . he was then achronic invalid . All his medical confreres laughedat him, prophesied an early decease and askedpermission to be present at his autopsy .

Dr.Keith says, in a little book recently published byhim ("A plea for a simpler life''), that it is sadfor him at 78 years of age to look around andfind himself in sound, robust health, and note thatall of that party of 30 years ago are now restingfrom the labors of life .

Medicines are NOT nec-essary in the economy of the body, either inhealth or in sickness ; they have done and aredoing a vast amount of harm .

having studiedand practiced medicine for sixteen years, I havenow renounced the devil and all-well, some ofhis works, and am in the clearer light of Osteop-athic practice .

In subsequent papers I propose to deal withthe action of drugs on the various systems witha view of pointing out their weaknesses anddangers .Wm. SMITH, M. D ., D . O .[Professor of symptomatology and Physiology anddemonstrator rator of Anatomy in American school of Oste-

opathy.] '

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patients INTERVIEWED .

The Good Works of Osteopathy as Told by compe-tent Witnesses.

From the Kirksville (Mo.) saturday Mail .There is certainly one institution in Kirks-

ville where everything is on the move, andbusiness is good six days in the week, fifty-twoweeks in the year .

That institution is the A.T . Still Infirmary .

During office hours everyoperating room from basement to garret, is con-stantly occupied . the operators and assistantsare kept busy as bees, and waiting rooms, officeand halls greatly resemble the rush and buzzwhich must have characterized the hotel lobbiesduring the late Chicago convention . Thisfamous healing institution, where all diseasesare treated without medicine, has attracted theafflicted from everywhere . To publish a listand description of the hundreds of interestingcases would be an impossibility .

A reporter forthe Mail talked with several patients, selectedat random, one clay this week ; and the followingfrom the list of those he met, will give a fairidea of what is being accomplished in the wayof relieving suffering humanity .

The first pa-tient met by the reporter was

MISS SISSON .Miss F .

E. Sisson, of Genoa, Ill . , has causeto be a good friend of Osteopathy .

On the firstof September last, she fell from a bicycle, and asshe supposed injured her knee . The homephysicians treated her without success, andcalled several of the finest surgeons of Rock-ford in consultation .

Miss Sisson grew no bet-ter under their treatment, and finally went toChicago, where she placed her case in charge ofone of the finest surgeons in the city, Dr . Hyde,who lead charge of the Cook county hospital forthirteen years . The universal diagnosis ofphysicians and surgeons was that there wasfracture of the thigh bone at the knee joint . InChicago the injured limb was incased in a plastercast for four months, and was worse when thecast was taken off than before it was put on .Miss Sisson went home from Chicago thoroughlydiscouraged ."I arrived in Kirksville one Saturday

morn-ing," said MissSisson to a reporter Thursday."I could not walk without my crutches . I hadto wait a long time, but my turn finally cameand Dr . Chas . Still examined me.He said thetrouble was in my lisp, but that rather amusedme, for I had read of a number of such casescured here, and was certain that mine was notone of that class .

I told him he could go aheadand treat me, but that I knew my trouble wasat the knee .

"Well, he treated me, and the result was Iwalked all around the operating room and officethat morning without my crutches . After tendays I was able to lay aside my crutches forgood and have never used them since ."I am not feeling very well this morning,

though" continued Miss Sisson . "I am takingtreatment for my general health now, and havebeen getting along nicely until this week. Theyare so awful busy at the Infirmary this weekthat they couldn't pay especial attention to anycase, I suppose, and I don't feel so well .

I ex-pect to go house as soon as my month is up .

Ishould like very much to come back and studyOsteopathy this fall, but haven't fully decidedyet . "

Miss Sisson is telegraph operator at Genoa,her brother having charge of a railroad stationthere .

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CASE Or EPILEPSY.One of the most difficult ailments to handle,

the Osteopaths say, is epilepsy . Even Osteop-athy does not reach every case of this trouble-some disease, but many satisfactory results areobtained in this line, although the cases broughthere are invariably those whom other doctorshave failed to benefit .There is one particularly interesting caseh ere

which records a victory of which Osteopathymay well be proud .

This is the case of MissLaura L . Johns, of Newtown, Mo.

For nineyears site had suffered from epilepsy of the mostdistressing type .

During the whole of the nineyears the family had zealously tried every rem-edy of which they could hear, all to no avail . Asa last resort her mother, Mrs . Margaret Johns,brought the daughter to Kirksville and placedher in charge of the Osteopathic Infirmary .This case proved a very stubborn one, and forseveral months the young lady continued tohave her

three or four fits a day .

Six weeksago the young lady was attacked with a verysevere spell and was confined to her bed threeweeks .

During all the three weeks she wouldhave from forty to fifty fits a day and as manyeach night .

Osteopathic treatment was vigor-ously applied, and at theend of three weeks thefits stopped .

The sickness was evidently thebreaking up of the disease, for Miss joints hasnot had even a symptom of epilepsy since, andis to all appearances sound and well .

Her gen-eral health is improving wonderfully, and it isconfidently expected she will be ready soon togo home cured .

"I think Osteopathy is a grand thing," saidMrs . Johns to a reporter who called to see her ."why, Laura is like another girl . During allthe nine years she has never been free fromthese attacks for even a week .

She seems to bewell now,

but we are going to stay a littlelonger to be sure of it."Dr. Charlie Still and Dr. Corner treated the

case .A KENTUCKY FAMILY .

Win . Miller and wife, with their daughters,Miss Mattie Miller and Mrs . Moore, all ofbourbon county, Kentucky, are among the pa-tients at the Infirmary . They came here espec-ially to have Mrs . Moore's little three-year-olddaughter, Mabel, treated . The child had suf-fered terribly with one of those famous cases of"medical knee trouble," dozens of which Osteopathy has located in the hip and cured .

Thelittle sufferer lead been subjected to the regula-tion torture of braces, etc ., wearing one braceeight months without benefit . One home physi-cian wanted to cut into the knee, remove a partof the bone, and make a stiff joint out of it,

butthe child was brought to Osteopathy instead .The inflaination has entirely disappeared fromthe knee, and the case is on a sure road to com-plete recovery .

Miss Mattie Miller had a curvature of thespine, and what appeared to be a serious affec-tion of the lungs . "I acted so much like I hadconsumption," said Miss Miller, "that I believeI would have had it in a short time .

I also suf-fered greatly from severe smothering spells, butthey have been cured, as has also the `consumption .'

The spinal curvature is also beingslowly straightened.""we have seen nothing in Osteopathy to dis-

courage us," said Mr . Miller . "we think wellof it and all those connected with the insti-tution . ""Yes," said Mrs . Moore, "I have received [continued on page 8 .]

more from Osteopathy than at any other place .At home and every place I ever took Mabel shegot worse . here she is getting better everyday now."

GAINED THIRTY POUNDS .when Izen Funk was brought to Kirksville

from Hurdland a few weeks ago, he weighed 90pounds, was frightfully emaciated, and was soweak he could not dress himself . His speechwas affected, and he suffered severe pain in histhroat whenever he attempted to swallow solidfood.

but his worst trouble was constipation,and this was about as bad as could well be andthe patient live .

For four month he had nothad a natural movement of the bowels .

Medi-cine, of which a copious amount was used, hadnot the slightest effect .

The trouble first ap-peared last October, and in spite of everythinghis family could do, he was growing worse.

Inthe winter he had an attack of pneumonia, andcomplications from that made matters even morealarming.

he was brought to Kirksville in thiscondition, by his brother Frank, a few weeksago After the first Osteopathic treatmentthere was no more trouble from constipation,the bowels acting in a perfectly natural manner .Now the patient weighs 120 lbs ., and is gainingevery day .

The

trouble with his speech hasdisappeared and lie can swallow as well as any-body . "we feel that Osteopathy has donewhat nothing else could do," said the patient'sbrother Frank to a reporter one day this week ."It has certainly saved Izen's life, for lie couldnot have lived long in the condition in which hewas

inwhen we brought him here .

Dr.lan-des, the operator who treated him, saysthe

whole trouble was from a disordered conditionof the spine." The Funks are prosperousfarmers who live near Hurdland .

OSTEOPATHY VS "ARTHRITIS."The reporter wjp called upon Mr. and Mrs .

A . b . Allen, of Jackson, Minn., Thursday, foundtwo very enthusiastic friends of Osteopathy."No indeed," said Mr. Allen, "we have no

objection to having our experience published .but really I do not know how to tell you aboutmy wife's case . If you could only have seenher when she came here ; why, she looks likeanother woman now.

The terrible deathlypallor and emaciated look has entirely disap-peared from her face, and she doesn't even ap-pear like an invalid any more, does she?"The reporter was compelled to reply in the

negative, for indeed, Mrs . Allen, who was sit-ting by the table working at something, wouldnever have been taken for an invalid . Hercomplexion was healthy, and there was none ofthose expressions of suffering common to peoplewho are afflicted with rheumatism .

"Mrs. Al-len was in the hospital under

treatment of thehospital doctors at Portland, Oregon, for threemonths" continued Mr. Allen .

At the end ofthis time the hospital physicians told me, asmany other physicians had told me before, thecase was utterly hopeless .

They all said it wasa case of Arthritis, for which there was no help ."when we came here Mrs . Allen could barely

get about on two crutches.

It was

impossiblefor her to go up stairs, and she could not dressherself or comb her hair .

wehad to carry herup and down stairs .

Of course she is not wellyet, and we do not want you to put it that way;but she is so greatly improved that both Mrs .Dr. Patterson, her operator, and ourselves feelsure she will be cured.

She can now go about

SGIENGE of osteopathy.

The Theory, Diseases Treated, and Otherfacts Regarding the New Science.

Osteopathy is a new method oftreating human diseases, withoutthe use of drugs, knives, saws, orappliances whatever other than theskilled hands of an operator schooledin the practice

of the new healingart .

As a remedial science it is arational departure from all other sys-tems and theories of healing knownto the civilized world .The newphilosophy is based upon

the most perfect attainable knowl-edge of anatomy, with an advancedunderstanding of the relations ex-isting between the different parts ofthe human body, and the fact thatthe all wise Master Mechanic failednot to place within the machinery ofman every force essential to physicalhealth, save that which the naturalappetites and sensations will de-mand .Upon this line, with an accurate

knowledge of minute anatomy, Os-teopathy deals with the humanbody as an intricate though perfectlyconstructed machine, which, if keptin proper adjustment, nourishedandcared for, will run smoothly into aripe . and useful old age. Theplans of the Divine Architect areunerring ; his work most complete .As long as the humanmachine is

in order, like the locomotive or anyother mechanical contrivance, it willperform the functions for which itwas intended . when every part ofthe machine is adjusted and in har-mony, health will hold dominionover the human organism by lawsas natural and immutable as the lawof gravitation.Every living organism has within

it, as its special gift from God,the power to manufacture and pre-pare all the chemicals, materials andforces needed to build and rebuilditself ; together with all the ma-chinery and apparatus requiredto do this work in the most perfectmanner, producing the only sub-stances that can be utilized in theeconomy of that individual . Nomaterial, other than food and watertaken in satisfaction of the de-mands of appetite (not pervertedtaste) .

can be introduced from theoutside without detriment.

There is no chemist equal to na-ture. The combined wisdom of thescientific world could not makeblood out of a turnip, yet in the econ-omy of the human body are 'forcesthat accomplish this and even morewonderful things hourly .

Thus itis with the selection, assimilationand absorption of all the elementsnecessary to bodily welfare.

Thereis no laboratory where this work canbe done as well as inside the humanbody .

when the machine fails toproperly perform its work, the Oste-path seeks a remedy as would the

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engineer if his engine wasout of or-der. he must know the anatomyand the physiological use ofevery part just as the

engineer ormachinist understands an engine ;and he "treats" the diseased hu-

man body as the engineer treats hisengine when it fails to perform thefunctions for which it was con-structed .when each organand part of the

human system, is provided with anunobstructed nerve and blood-sup-ply, it will do its full

share

of thework, and

the normal condition ofhealth, toward which all

vitality isconstantly striving, will be restoredand maintained .

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h. E. Patterson, is secretary andbusiness manager. The work atthe Infirmary is under the personalsupervision of Dr. Chas. Still, eldestson of Dr . A. T. Still, who is assistedby a large corps of operators and as-sistants .

THE DISEASES TREATED .The diseases successfully treated

by Osteopathy include almost everyailment in the category of humanills-acute andchronic-but circum-stances have seemed to force its de-velopment with special reference toailments pronounced incurable orimperfectly handled by all otherforms of practice .

In fact a greatmajority are cases which stubbornly

(DEDICATED JAN . 10, 1895 .)-HOME OF-

THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF osteopathy -[Chartered under the laws of Missouri .]

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- :- THE A. T. STILL infirmary, -:-Kirksville, Missouri.

For any information regarding School or Infirmary, address,

LOCATED AT KIRKSVILLE, MO.TheA. T, Still Infirmary, where

the principles of Osteopathy are ap-plied for the alleviation and cure ofhuman ailments, is located atKirksville Mo. It a handsome$2o,ooo three story structureequipped througout with modernconveniences, including electriclights, steam heat and sanitaryplumbing . In the building areeighteen operating rooms, receptionrooms, and offices, besides studying,recitation and dissecting rooms forthe school .The Institution is regularly

chartered under the laws of Missouriand is controlled by a board oftrustees of which the founder, Dr .A. T. Still is president. The othermembers of the board of trustees areDr . Still's sons and daughter,Doctors Charles, Herman and HarryStill, and Miss blanche Still.

Dr.

H. E, patterson, Secy.

refused to yield to medicine andwhich had baffled the skill of thebest physicians of the "regularschools. "From four to five hundred patients

are receiving treatment all the time ;while the number of treatmentsgiven during 1895 reached thirtythousand . Of this vast army ofcripples, many of whom were so-called incurables, who tried Osteop-athy as a last resort, a carefullykept record shows that about 6o percent were cured outright, 95 percent were benefitted, while in onlyfive per cent there were no percept-ible results, and not a single onewas injured. These results wereobtained by thenew method with-out a drop of any kind of medicine,mechanical appliance or surgical in-struments.

FOUNDED BY DR . A . T . STILL .The science of Osteopathy was

founded by Dr . Andrew T. Still, aVirginian by birth. He was an al-opathic physician of the old schooland ser ved as surgeon in a Kansasregiment during the civil war.The history of Dr . Still's dis-

covery of Osteopathy, as he tells it,is full of interest . Like the founderof homoeopathy, he became dissat-isfied with the ordinary method ofhealing. Under the old establishedprinciples patients were dying mysteriously and unaccountably.

Thesame remedies in like cases had di-rectly opposite effects .

If he gavea certain drug,

recommended bythe best medical authority, it wouldsometimes have the desired effectand sometimes would not. his ownskill and the skill of his bestbrother-physicians were unable tosave his child from spinal menin-gitis, and when he saw her lyingdead before him, he declared medicine a fraud.

From that hour hebegan to study anew the mechanismof man and to search in earnest forthe true philosophy of nature'sremedies . Digging up Indianbodies and skeletons, he continuedhis researches, until he reached theconclusion that "man is a machine. "It was over twenty-one years agothat he reached this conclusion andestablished it as a basic principleupon which to build up a bettermethod of handling disease than anyin use.

He worked and experi-mented, though it cost him fortuneand friends, and gradually addedprinciple to principle, until he

de-veloped a science that stands a testof more scientific investigation thauthe medical profession is preparedto make .

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very well on one crutch, can get up and downstairs alone, and can dress herself very well .when she is sitting up she is free from pain, andshe goes to bedand sleeps soundly every night,something she has not done for a long time .before we came here she suffered so terribly atnight that neither she nor any one in hearingcould sleep. she just suffered everything . wehad to rub her in alcohol and work with her along time before she could sleep at all .

Exceptoccasionally when she lies down in certain posi-tions, she suffers no pain now, but the change isgreater still in her general health . ""And there are many little things which we

notice, and I feel myself," said Mrs. Allen,"which we cannot explain. I feel greatly en-couraged, but I would rather youwould not saytoo much about it just now, I would rather waitafew weeks, for I know I can give you a muchbetter one then . "Mr . Allen is editor and proprietor of one of the

leading newspapers of Jackson, Minn . ''This isa wonderful institution, and I am going to give itthe kind of a send off I think it deserves when Iget home,'' said he, as the reporter arose toleave.

THE BEST POSITIONS AWAIT THOSEBEST qualified.

kirksville

mercantile - COLLEGE

has placed hundreds of young men and women in pay-ing positions for the reason that the course 0f study ispractical and complete .Book-keeping, commercial Arithmetic . penmanship,

spelling, Letter-writing, grammar and business lawsuccessfully taught .

SHORT-HAND AND TYPE WRITING .we teach the best system 0f short-hand and employ

the best teachers, hence secure the best results .Pupils may enter at any time, as the school is open

the year around .For those who are unable t0 attend school direct we

give a special course 0f instruction by mail .send for catalogue and terms.

w. J. smith, Proprietor .

DR . Harry m. Still, D . 0.,

CHICAGO AND EVANSTON, ill.Chicago office,

Evanston office,70 Dearborn street.I405 Benson Avenue.

HERMAN T. still, D . 0 .,

CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND.

Office in Y m c A building

W. C. carter, b. D. S.

Kirksville Mo.

(SUCCESSOR TO DR. J . H . CARTER,)irksville, m0 .

Offie upstairs, south side over Kirksville millinerystore,

palace .ACE

-THEY HAVE THElivery _ BEST CAB ANDTRANSFER

stables, lineIn the city, and give special attention

patterson t0 the accomodation of patients 0f theA . T . still Infirmary .

Ask for Patter-son & miller's cab when you get off

MILLER

the train .

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ROSTER OF STUDENTSin

american school of osteopathyoctober

Ash, Mary EBaldwin, MollieDarling, AgnesDarling, Charles gHannah, Mrs BelleHartford, WniHartupee, w NHulett, c m Turner,Illinski, AnielkaKing, A mlandes, Mrs maemartin, ClaraMcCaw, CoraMahaffy, c wMahaffy, A DMayes, Mr m TMayes, Mrs FlorencePotter, will A.smith, l . b .Smith, Wilbur Lsmith, Ernest pShackelford, J Rstill, Thomas cstill, Mrs. Ellastrong, Mrs J wTaylor, L hVallier, Robertwest, Bertha m

JANUARY (1896) GLASS .bailey, m wBernard, h eBernard, Roybuckmaster, Robert memeny, harry WilliamFurrow, NettieGravett, h hHazzard, CharlesHobson, MaryHulett, mac FHulett. Mrs . Adelaide s .mcgavock, R eowen, J eOwen, Mrs J eParker, John wPendleton, Gid hproctor, Mrs Alice heathRankin, J TRider, Clarence LShackelford, Ed HSippy, A hWarner, John Rwilliams, Mrs D s

(1895) GLASS.Oneida, IllPlevna, MOEvanston, IllKirksville, MO

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west liberty, IowaEdgerton, Kansase St Louis, IllHester, M0Kirksville, MoPurcell, Kansasla Plata, MOBrashear, MO

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Englewood, MOLewiston, Mola panza, cal .Maryville, MoEvanston, Illinoiscolumbia, MOLeonard, MOWashburn, Ill

Brashear, MissouriChicago, Illinois

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SECOND DIVISION .

PROSPECTUS

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the american school of Osteopathy .KIRKSVILLE, MO,

From this date the course of study in theAMERICAN SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHY will bedivided into four terms of six months each.These terms will begin in October and Aprilof each year . At those dates (and at no othertime) students will be admitted to the school .The studies will be as follows:

FIRST SIX MONTHS .

Anatomy-in class only.

SECOND SIX MONTHS .

Anatomy (demonstrations on the cadaver),Physiology and Principles of Osteopathy .

THIRD six months.

Anatomy (demonstrations on the cadaver),Physiology, Use of the Microscope (in recogniz-ing the tissues of the body, deposits in urine,etc.) Diagnosis and Symptomatology, Use ofthe stethescope, Analysis of Urine, etc., Clinicalinstruction in Osteopathic Practice .

FOURTH SIX MONTHS .

Anatomy and Physiology as in third term(optional for those who have passed the firstexamination), Diagnosis, Symptomatology, Sur-gery (accidents and injuries : their diagnosisand treatment), Treatment of Poisoning byNoxious Drugs, Midwifery and Diseases ofwomen. During this term students will act asassistants to the operators in the treating roomsof the Infirmary and thus acquire full knowledgeof Osteopathic work .

classEXAMINATIONSwill be conducted every month on all subjectsin the curriculum . Their object is merely tolet the student himself see how he is progress-ing. Professional examinations will be heldtwice yearly, the first after the completion ofIS months of study (Anatomy, Physiology,Microscopic work and Urinary Analysis), theother at the close of 24 months of regular at-tendance . The latter examination will coverall ground not included in the first examination.The"First" must be passed before appearing forthe "Final."

The AMERICAN SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHYis open to both sexes, with certain restrictionsas to character, habits, etc. The special qual-ifications, which will be rigidly insisted upon inevery student, are : Must be over 20 and under45 years of age, strictly temperate, of goodmoral character, good native ability, and at leastagood common school education.The tuition for the full course of two years is

$500. No one will be received for less thanfull course, and the full tuition in cash or itsequivalent must be arranged for in advance.The cost of living in Kirksville is about

the average in cities Of 5,000. Good board costsfrom $3 a week up.The next term will begin in October, 1896 ;

no students will be admitted to the school untilthen

A. T. STILL, Pres't .H . E. PATTERSON, Sec'y.

Bailey, h e Brashear, MObanning, John w la Plata, MOBeeman, e e Kirksville, MOBrown, Leander s ., Fort Collins, ColoCole, m D Kirksvilie, MODensmore, o mason city, lahibbets, Ulysses M. Kirksvilie, MoHarlan, F J Webb city, MOholme, T L Bolckow, MO .hook, Otis Kirksvilie MOhook, Virgil A Pond creek, Oklahomahudleson, mark e macon, MOIlgenfritz . Harry F Kirksville, MOKellogg, Howard glandes, Agues VLesslie, Frances e New York . N Ymacauley, Daniel B Chicago, Illmathews, s c pattonsburg, MOmccoy, Chas. K Kirksville, Momclain, harry c Wellsville, KasPrickett, Orson b Kirksville, MOsmiley, william msmith, Le Royspangler, Harvey LUnderwood, evelyn Kansas city, MOWilliarns, Roger K Council Bluffs, Iowa .

MAY ( 1896) GLASS .FIRST DIVISION.

Bolles, Newton A Denver . ColBurke, Mrs . Anna m Kirksville, MOCampbell, Mary Nettie 4, "Campbell, Arthur DCluett, Frank g St . Louis . MOFly, william e Kirksville, MOFly, Mrs Anna LFletcher, William Agentry, Benson Fgreen, Ginevra I ""

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hart, lawrence mHartford, Isaac J Queen City, MOHulett, Marcia lone Edgerton, KansasJohnson, Gid e Kirksville, MOJohnson, Mrs Alice Fairfield, IllJohnson, Norman s Horton, KansasJohnson, Willie 11 canton, IllJones, hiram R Estill, MOlittle, Chas w Des Moines, Iamiller, Frank c Kirksville, m0miller, Mrs Sadie hart " "

Peterson, Charles A Chesterton, IndShaw, Dudley H Maroa, IllWillard, Mrs Alice N Kirksville, MO