Dr. E. BIGSBY & J. R. BECHTEL OSTEOPATHS.
In the last few issues of this paper we have endeavored to bring before its readers the fact that Osteopathy is a complete science in itself, capable of curing or preventing many ailments that have buffled the best medical skill of the land, as well as those we as a people are continually subject to.
As practitioners of the same we think it is as rational to depart from the old way of treating diseases as it is to employ new ways of communication, that are entirely different from the ones handed down by our forefathers, or in the way of travel and transportation which have not only been improved upon but entirely changed so that the electrician would no more think of asking aid of steam to propel his machine than the engineer would ask the aid of the horse to speed him across thee continent.
Telegraph and telephone are both distinct from each other and from former ways of conveying intelligence across the country and to foreign shores. Yet in treating disease people seem to be content to plod along in the same old way of hundreds of years ago, once in a while grasping at something new, such as the X-rays, electricity, climate, &c., only to drop back again, after a short time, to taking drugs even more frequently than before until the drug store has become most as common as the grocery, and the "knife" is resorted to with but little hesitancy.
At present the X-ray seems to have reached its climax when it has located some foreign substance in the body without providing a way to remove it, while electricity will to some extent take the place of a sedative and do but little to restore.
We like Osteopathy because it is not only able to locate and relieve causes but removes them as well, and the most of our patients rejoice in the same.
We know not what legislation the medical fraternity may be able to have passed in regard to us, but we do know that if the state would establish a school of Osteopathy where students could be educated and trained in this science, there would soon be no need of laws to protect the people against "quacks" and "fakirs," for the people of Kansas know a good thing when they see it. Consultation free.
Office over 747 Massachusetts Street.