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Kansas University Weekly.
THE OSTEOPATHS
OVER
747 Msssachusetts Street,
GIVE THE FOLLOWING CLIPPINGS AND LETTER:
"Osteopathy is a new method of treating human diseases without the use of drugs, knife, saw, or appliances whatever, other than the skilled hands of the operator schooled in the practice of the new healing art. As a remedial science it is a rational departure from all other systems and theories of healing known to the civilized world.
"The new philosophy is based upon the most perfect knowledge of anatomy with an advanced understanding of the relations existing between the different parts of the human body and the fact that the Allwise Master Mechanic failed not to place within the machinery of man every force essential to physical health, save that which the natural appetite and sensations will demand.
"Upon this line, with an accurate knowledge of minute anatomy, osteopathy deals with the human body as an intricate, though perfectly constructed machine, which, if kept in proper adjustment, nourished and cared for, will run smoothly into a ripe and useful old age.
"The question is often asked how do they treat? Do they rub you? Is it massage or magnetism? I will say it is very different from any of those methods. I cannot describe how it is done, but if you have a pain in your back, limbs or any part of the body, they will locate the
cause of the pain and remove it. The diseases successfully treated by osteopathy include almost every ailment in the category of human ills, acute and chronic, but circumstances have seemed to force its development with special reference to ailments pronounced incurable or imperfectly handled by all the other forms of practice. In fact, a great majority are cases which stubbornly refuse to yield to medicine, and which had baffled the skill of the best physicians of the regular schools. Among the patients who visit osteopathy daily may be seen those afflicted with rheumatism, paralysis, nervous troubles, hip and spinal diseases, diseases of the eye, asthma, consumption, and throat troubles, female diseases, epilepsy, heart diseases, and in fact all complaints are successfully treated. And the names of manyprominet people can be given in evidence of what has been done for the suffering.No matter what your complaint, or how serious its nature, it will pay those who are afflicted to investigate this new science called osteopathy."—Holton (Kan.) Tribune.
"In the ladies' waiting room at the Infirmary Wednesday morning the writer was introduced to Mrs. J. W. Hoover, of Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Hoover came here last Thursday with her daughter, Carrie, a bright little girl of eleven years. The little girl was injured by a fall last summer, and developed a case of what the local doctor called "hip disease." The girl grew unable to walk, and suffered severely. Three prominet Louisville physicians were summoned, and pronounced it a bad case of "synovitis." They said treatment must be commenced at once, and proposed to put the girl in bed and hang a heavy weight to her limb. It would take six months in bed with a weight to her leg, they said, and at the end of that time, they could put her hip in a plaster cast. The cast would re-