SURGERY IN OSTEOPATHY.
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Some people say it is easy to accept osteopathy for "bone diseases" but are very much perplexed as to how we can perform surgery.
It would certainly be very appalling if there were not some remedy for the present inclination in this line, which seems to be to see how much of the body can be cut off and how often a piece may be taken without causing death to the whole. The business of the osteopath is to restore and not to tear down, believing if it were better for one to be of part wood or cork it would have been an easy matter to have been so created in the first place. Also that if any portion of the being is removed some other part will suffer for want of it. Accordingly we remove the causes of goiter, cancer, tumors. ulcers, etc., knowing that if the cause is gone the disease will disappear not to return, but if the result is simply removed or clipped off the trouble too often returns only to be operated upon time after time until the patient is too weak to undergo more.
If a man's watch falls and the wheels become bent does he have the jeweler trim off the bent portion or straighten it, or if some portion becomes clogged does he pour acid and oil into the bowels of the same or adjust the part at fault?
This science has provided a way to adjust swollen and partially stiffened joints, straighten crooked limbs, curved spines, without the aid of appliances. If you think we understand our business call and see us. Consultation free.
Dr. E. BIGSBY & J. R. BECHTEL,
Office over 747 Mssachusetts Street