thic attenuated drugs.

OSTEOPATHY.--"The name 'Osteopathy' is made up of two Greek words:
'Osteon,' which means 'bone,' and 'pathos,' which means suffering (to
suffer). 'Pathy,' our English equivalent for this word, by usage has come
to mean "a system of treatment for suffering or disease. Hence, viewed
strictly from its derivation, this term, Osteopathy, would carry only the
meaning of bone suffering, 'bone disease' or 'bone treatment.'"

Definition.--"Osteopathy is that science of treating human ailments which
regards most diseases as being either primarily produced or maintained by
an obstruction to the free passage of nerve impulses or blood and lymph
flow, and undertakes by manipulation to remove such obstruction so that
nature may resume her perfect work."

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Explanation.--"While it is a distinctive theory of osteopathy that disease
conditions, not due to a specific poison, are traceable to mechanical
disorder in the body, or some part of it, and that the correction of such
disorder is not only the rational treatment, but is necessary to the
restoration of a permanent condition of health, yet as a palliative
treatment appropriate manipulations are occasionally employed to stimulate
or inhibit functional activity as conditions may require. Osteopaths also
employ such rational hygienic measures, common to all systems of healing,
as has been proven of undoubted value, and take into account environmental
influences, habits and modes of life, as affecting the body in maintaining
or regaining health."

The "American School of Osteopathy" is located in Kirksville, Missouri.

The course of study required is of three years duration, of nine months
each, and the degree of D. O. (Doctor of Osteopathy) is given to the
graduates.

OPERATIONS.

There has been a great change in regard to operations among the laity of
late years. There is much less opposition and prejudice. The people are
being educated to the necessity for operating in many diseases. A great
deal of the opposition was due to the doctors themselves. There have been
doctors who would operate at every opportunity. Some doctors could not
treat a woman for diseases of the womb and ovaries without suggesting that
an operation was necessary. There have been a great many healthy organs
removed, or at least organs that could have been saved by proper
treatment. Fortunately such doctors are becoming less in number and there
is more d