The Success of Osteopathy
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Booklet and pictures courtesy of Dick Blacher. Description by Paul Jackson.
The Success of Osteopathy
by Elbert Hubbard, 1912
These booklets measure 8" x
6" and has 16 pages. This book is about Osteopathy and
practitioners L. C. Kingsbury and W. H. Andrus These two DOs (Doctors of
Osteopathy) were graduates under Andrew Taylor Still. This booklet was reprinted
in 1938.
Andrew Taylor Still, MD (1828-1917) originally expressed the principles of
osteopathy in 1874, when medical science was in its infancy. A medical doctor,
Still believed that diseases were caused by mechanical interference with nerve
and blood supply and were curable by manipulation of "deranged, displaced bones,
nerves, muscles -- removing all obstructions -- thereby setting the machinery of
life moving." His autobiography states that he could "shake a child and stop
scarlet fever, croup, diphtheria, and cure whooping cough in three days by a
wring of its neck."
Osteopathic medicine advertises itself as a complete system of medical care. The
philosophy is to treat the whole person, not just the symptoms. It emphasizes
the interrelationships of structure and function, and the appreciation of the
body's ability to heal itself. The percentages of DOs involved in chelation
therapy, clinical ecology, orthomolecular therapy, homeopathy, ayurvedic
medicine, and several other dubious practices appear to be higher among
osteopaths than among medical doctors.
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