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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Philosophy of Osteopathy, by Andrew T. Still
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+Title: Philosophy of Osteopathy
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+   [Illustration: A. T. Still.]
+
+   Philosophy of Osteopathy;
+
+   BY
+
+   ANDREW T. STILL,
+
+
+   DISCOVERER OF THE SCIENCE OF OSTEOPATHY AND
+   PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL
+   OF OSTEOPATHY.
+
+
+   PUBLISHED BY
+   A. T. STILL, KIRKSVILLE, MO
+   1899.
+
+   Copyrighted, 1899, by
+   A. T. STILL.
+
+
+   Lithoprinted by
+   EDWARD BROTHERS, INC.
+   Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
+
+
+
+
+Preface.
+
+
+Many of my friends have been anxious ever since Osteopathy became an
+established fact, that I should write a treatise on the science. But I
+was never convinced that the time was ripe for such a production, nor am
+I even now convinced that this is not a little premature. Osteopathy is
+only in its infancy, it is a great unknown sea just discovered, and as
+yet we are only acquainted with its shore-tide.
+
+When I saw others who had not more than skimmed the surface of the
+science, taking up the pen to write books on Osteopathy, and after
+having carefully examined their productions, found they were drinking
+from the fountains of old schools of drugs, dragging back the science to
+the very systems from which I divorced myself so many years ago, and
+realized that hungry students were ready to swallow such mental poison,
+dangerous as it was, I became fully awakened to the necessity of some
+sort of Osteopathic literature for those wishing to be informed.
+
+This book is free from quotations from medical authors, and differs
+from them in opinion on almost every important question. I do not expect
+it to meet their approval; such a thing would be unnatural and
+impossible.
+
+It is my object in this work to teach principles as I understand them,
+and not rules. I do not instruct the student to punch or pull a certain
+bone, nerve or muscle for a certain disease, but by a knowledge of the
+normal and abnormal, I hope to give a specific knowledge for all
+diseases.
+
+This work has been written a little at a time for several years, just as
+I could snatch a moment from other cares to devote to it. I have
+carefully compiled these thoughts into a treatise. Every principle
+herein laid down has been fairly well tested by myself, and proven true.
+
+The book has been written by myself in my own way, without any ambition
+to fine writing, but to give to the world a start in a philosophy that
+may be a guide in the future.
+
+Owing to the great haste with which the book has been rushed through the
+press to meet the urgent demand, we will ask the indulgence of the
+public for any imperfection that may appear. Hoping the world may profit
+by these thoughts, I am,
+
+   Respectfully,
+   A. T. STILL.
+
+   Kirksville, Mo., Sept. 1, 1899.
+
+
+
+
+TABLE OF CONTENTS.
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+SOME INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
+
+Not a Work of Compilation--Authors Quoted--Method of Reasoning--The
+Osteopath an Artist--When I Became an Osteopath--Dr. Neal's Opinion--The
+Opinions of Others--What Studies Necessary--What I Mean by
+Anatomy--Principles--The Practicing Osteopath's Guide--The Fascia--Not a
+pleasing Task--Without Accepted Theories--Truths of Nature--Body, Motion
+and Mind--Osteopathy to Cure Disease--The Osteopath Should Find
+Health.                                                           Page 11
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+OSTEOPATHIC EXPLORATIONS.
+
+Divisions of the Body--Searching for the Cause--Duty of the Osteopathic
+Explorer--Classification and Division--The Abnormal--Nerve
+Powers--Witnesses to Examine--Abnormal Growths--Cerebro Spinal
+Fluid--Body in Perfect Health--Chemistry--Nature's Chemistry.     Page 29
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+THE HEAD.
+
+A Free Circulation--Death Blows--Something of the Neck--Order of
+Treatment--The Pelvis--Brains of Animals--Arterial Motion--Mental
+Vibrations--Overburdening the Mind--Hemiplegia.                   Page 43
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+EAR WAX AND ITS USES.
+
+Nature Makes Nothing in Vain--A Successful Experiment--A Question for
+Ages--The Position--Meaning of Life--Some Questions Asked--Condition in
+Certain Diseases Caused by Cold--Cerumen in Fluid State--Winter Kills
+Babies--Some Advice to Mothers--A Case in Point--Connection of the brain
+and Other Nerves in Digestion--Unaided Investigation.             Page 53
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+DISEASES OF THE CHEST.
+
+Where Confined--Consumption--Can Consumption Be Cured--Consumption
+Described--No Time for Surrender--Cerebral Spinal Fluid--How to Destroy
+Deadly Bombs of Decay--Battle of Blood for Life--Miliary
+Tuberculosis--Conversion of Bodies Into Gas--Forming a
+Tubercle--Breeding Contagion--The Seeds of Disease--Generating
+Fever--Whooping Cough--Clouds and Lungs Are Much Alike--The Wisdom of
+Nature--Water Formed in Lungs--The Law of Fives--Feeble Action of
+Heart--The Heart--From Neck to Heart--Dyspersia or Imperfect
+Digestion.                                                        Page 68
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+THE LYMPHATICS.
+
+Importance of the Subject--Demands of Nature on the
+Lymphatics--Dunglinson's Definition--Dangers of Dead Substances--Lymph
+Continued--Solvent in Nature--Where Are the Lymphatics Situated?--The
+Fat and Lean.                                                    Page 104
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+THE DIAPHRAGM.
+
+Investigation--A Struggle With Nature--Lesson of Cause and
+Effect--Something of Medical Etiquette--The Medical Doctor--An Explorer
+for Truth Must Be Independent--The Diaphragm Introduced--A Useful
+Study--Combatting Effect--Is Least Understood--A Case of Bilious
+Fever--A Demand on the Nerves--Danger of Compression--A Cause for
+Disease--Was a Mistake Made in the Creation--An Exploration--Result of
+Removal of Diaphragm--Sustaining Life in Principles--Law Applicable to
+Other Organs--Power of Diaphragm--Omentum.                       Page 114
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+LIVER, BOWELS AND KIDNEYS.
+
+Gender of the Liver--Productions of the Liver--A Hope for the
+Afflicted--Evidences of Truth--Loaded With Ignorance--Lack of Knowledge
+of the Kidney--How a Purgative Acts--Flux--Bloody Dysentery--Flux More
+Fully Described--Osteopathic Remedies--Medical Remedies--More of the
+Osteopathic Remedy.                                              Page 138
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+THE BLOOD.
+
+Uses for Fluids--Blood an Unknown Fluid--Harvey Only Reached the Banks
+of the River of Life--Blood Is Systematically Furnished--Fatality of
+Ignorance--To Find the Cause Must Be Honest--Following Arteries and
+Nerves--Feeding the Nerves--The Blood on Its Journey--Powers Necessary
+to Move Blood--Venous Blood Suspended.                           Page 149
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+THE FASCIA.
+
+Where Is Disease Sown?--An Illustration of Conception--The Greatest
+Problem--A Fountain of Supply--Fascia Omnipresent--Connection with
+Spinal Cord--Goes With and Covers All Muscles--Proofs in
+Contagion--Study of Nerves and Fascia--Tumefy--Tumefaction.      Page 161
+
+
+CHAPTER XI.
+
+FEVERS.
+
+Be Armed With Facts--Union of Human Gases With Oxygen--Fever and
+Nettle-rash. Nature Constructs for a Wise Purpose--Processes of Life
+Must be Kept in Motion--No Satisfaction from Authors--Animal
+Heat--Semeiology--Symptomatology--Definition of Fever--Fevers only
+Effects--Result of Stoppages of Vein or Artery--Aneurisms.       Page 175
+
+
+CHAPTER XII.
+
+SCARLET FEVER AND SMALLPOX.
+
+As defined by Allopathy--Scarlet Fever as Defined by
+Osteopathy--Smallpox--Power to Drive Greater Than in Measles.    Page 190
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII.
+
+A CHAPTER OF WONDERS AND SOME VALUABLE QUESTIONS.
+
+Wonders on the Increase--What Is Life?--How Is Action Produced--Acquaint
+Yourself With the Machinery--Duty of the Osteopath--Formation of
+Sacrum--The Pelvis--Appearance of OEdema--Do All Diseases Have
+Appearance in OEdema.                                            Page 193
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV.
+
+HAS MAN DEGENERATED?
+
+The Advent of Man--Care of the Stock Raiser--Mental Degeneration Makes
+It Unpleasant for an Original Thinker--Original Thinkers of the
+Ancients--Methods of Healing--Failure of Allopathy--Primitive
+Man--Evidences of Prehistoric Man--Mental Dwarfage.              Page 203
+
+
+CHAPTER XV.
+
+OSTEOPATHIC TREATMENT.
+
+Five Points--Visceral List--Care in Treating the Spinal Column--Most
+Important Chapter--Perfect Drainage--A Natural Cure.             Page 213
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI.
+
+REASONING TESTS.
+
+The Vermiform Appendix--Operating for Appendicitis--Expelling Power of
+the Vermiform Appendix--Care Exercised in Making Assertions--Reasoning
+Tests--A List of Unexplained Diseases--Concluding Remarks.       Page 223
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII.
+
+OBSTETRICS.
+
+Overloading--Similarity of Stomach and Womb--Births--Preparation for
+Delivery--Caution--Lasceration Need Not Occur--Care of Cord--Severing
+Cord--Putting on Belly Band--Delivery of Afterbirth--Preparing for
+Mother's Comfort--Post-Delivery Hemorrhage--Treatment for--Food for
+Mother--Treatment for Sore Breast.                               Page 234
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII.
+
+CONVULSIONS.
+
+Old Phrases--Results of Stoppage of Fluids--Old Theory of Fits--What the
+Real Cause may be--Listen for the Cause--What is a Fit--Sensory System
+Demanding Nourishment--The Causes--The Remedy--Dislocation of Atlas and
+of the Four Upper Ribs.                                          Page 250
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX.
+
+CONCLUDING REMARKS.
+
+Thoughts for Consideration--Offering a New Philosophy--Lymphatics and
+Fascia--A Satisfactory Experiment--Natural Washing Out.          Page 258
+
+
+CHAPTER XX.
+
+THE SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION.
+
+With What It Has Communication--Its Course--One of its
+Functions--Stimulation or Inhibition--Result Produced.           Page 263
+
+
+
+
+Philosophy of Osteopathy.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+SOME INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
+
+     Not a Work of Compilation--Authors Quoted--Method of Reasoning--The
+     Osteopath an Artist--When I Became an Osteopath--Dr. Neal's
+     Opinion--The Opinions of Others--What Studies Necessary--What I
+     Mean by Anatomy--Principles--The Practicing Osteopath's Guide--The
+     Fascia--Not a Pleasing Task--Without Accepted Theories--Truths of
+     Nature--Body, Motion and Mind--Osteopathy to Cure Disease--The
+     Osteopath Should Find Health.
+
+
+NOT A WORK OF COMPILATION.
+
+To readers of my book on the Philosophy of Osteopathy, I wish to say
+that I will not tire you with a book of compilations just to sell to the
+anxious reader. As I have spent thirty years of my life reading and
+following rules and remedies used for curing, and learned in sorrow it
+was useless to listen to their claims, for instead of getting good, I
+obtained much harm therefrom, I asked for, and obtained a mental divorce
+from them, and I want it to be understood that drugs and I are as far
+apart as the East is from the West; now, and forever. Henceforth I will
+follow the dictates of nature in all I say or write.
+
+
+AUTHORS QUOTED.
+
+I quote no authors but God and experience when I write, or lecture to
+the classes or the masses, because no book written by medical writers
+can be of much use to us, and it would be very foolish to look to them
+for advice and instruction on a science they know nothing of. They are
+illy able to advise for themselves, they have never been asked to advise
+us, and I am free to say but few persons who have been pupils of my
+school have tried to get wisdom from medical writers and apply it as
+worthy to be taught as any part of Osteopathy, philosophy or practice.
+Several books have been compiled, called "Principles of Osteopathy."
+They may sell but will fail to give the knowledge the student desires.
+
+
+METHOD OF REASONING.
+
+The student of any philosophy succeeds best by the more simple methods
+of reasoning. We reason for needed knowledge only, and should try and
+start out with as many known facts as possible. If we would reason on
+diseases of the organs of the head, neck, abdomen or pelvis, we must
+first know where these organs are, how and from what arteries the eye,
+ear, or tongue is fed.
+
+
+THE OSTEOPATH AN ARTIST.
+
+I believe you are taught anatomy in our school more thoroughly than any
+other school to date, because we want you to carry a living picture of
+all or any part of the body in your mind as a ready painter carries the
+picture of the face, scenery, beast or any thing he wishes to represent
+by his brush. He would only be a waster of time and paint and make a
+daub that would disgust any one who would employ him. We teach you
+anatomy in all its branches, that you may be able to have and keep a
+living picture before your mind all the time, so you can see all joints,
+ligaments, muscles, glands, arteries, veins, lymphatics, fascia
+superficial and deep, all organs, how they are fed, what they must do,
+and why they are expected to do a part, and what would follow in case
+that part was not done well and on time. I feel free to say to my
+students, keep your minds full of pictures of the normal body all the
+time, while treating the afflicted.
+
+
+WHEN I BECAME AN OSTEOPATH.
+
+In answer to the questions of how long have you been teaching this
+discovery, and what books are essential to the study? I will say I began
+to give reasons for my faith in the laws of life as given to men, worlds
+and beings by the God of nature, June, 1874, when I began to talk and
+propound questions to men of learning. I thought the sword and cannons
+of nature were pointed and trained upon our systems of drug doctoring.
+
+
+DR. NEAL'S OPINION.
+
+I asked Dr. J. M. Neal, of Edinburg, Scotland, for some information that
+I needed badly. He was a medical doctor of five years training, a man of
+much mental ability, who would give his opinions freely and to the
+point. I have been told by one or more Scotch M. D.'s that a Dr. John M.
+Neal, of Edinburg, was hung for murder. He was not hung while with me.
+The only thing made me doubt him being a Scotchman was he loved whiskey,
+and I had been told that the Scotch were a sensible people. John M. Neal
+said that "drugs was the bait of fools"; it was no science, and the
+system of drugs was only a trade, followed by the doctor for the money
+that could be obtained by it from the ignorant sick. He believed that
+nature was a law capable of vindicating its power all over the world.
+
+
+THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS.
+
+As this writing is for the information of the student I will continue
+the history by saying, that in the early days of Osteopathy I sought the
+opinions of the most learned, such as Dr. Schnebly, Professor of
+Language and History in the Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas; Dr.
+Dallas, a very learned M. D. of the Alopathic faith; Dr. F. A. Grove,
+well-known in Kirksville; J. B. Abbott, Indian agent, and many others of
+renown. Then back to the tombs of the dead, to better acquaint myself
+with the systems of medicine and the foundations of truth upon which
+they stood, if any. I will not worry your patience with a list of the
+names of authors that have written upon the subject of medicine, as
+remedial agents. I will use the word that the theologian often uses when
+asked whom Christ died for, the answer universally is, ALL. All
+intelligent medical writers say by word or inference that drugs or
+drugging is a system of blind guess work, and if we should let our
+opinions be governed by the marble lambs and other emblems of dead
+babies found in the cemeteries of the world, we would say that John M.
+Neal was possibly hung for murder, not through design, but through
+traditional ignorance of the power of nature to cure both old and young,
+by skillfully adjusting the engines of life so as to bring forth pure
+and healthy blood, the greatest known germicide, to one capable to
+reason who has the skill to conduct the vitalizing and protecting fluids
+to throat, lungs and all parts of the system, and ward off diseases as
+nature's God has indicated. With this faith and method of reasoning, I
+began to treat diseases by Osteopathy as an experimenter, and
+notwithstanding I obtained good results in all cases in diseases of
+climate and contagions, I hesitated for years to proclaim to the world
+that there was but little excuse for a master engineer to lose a child
+in cases of diphtheria, croup, measles, mumps, whooping cough, flux and
+other forms of summer diseases, peculiar to children. Neither was it
+necessary for the adult to die with diseases of summer, fall and winter.
+But at last I took my stand on this rock and my confidence in nature,
+where I have stood and fought the battles, and taken the enemy's flag in
+every engagement for the last twenty-five years.
+
+
+WHAT STUDIES NECESSARY.
+
+As you contemplate studying this science and have asked to know the
+necessary studies, I wish to impress it upon your minds that you begin
+with anatomy, and you end with anatomy, a knowledge of anatomy is all
+you want or need, as it is all you can use or ever will use in your
+practice, although you may live one hundred years. You have asked for my
+opinion as the founder of the science. Yours is an honest question, and
+God being my judge I will give you just as honest an answer. As I have
+said, a knowledge of anatomy with its application covers every inch of
+ground that is necessary to qualify you to become a skillful and
+successful Osteopath, when you go forth into the world to combat
+diseases.
+
+
+WHAT I MEAN BY ANATOMY.
+
+I will now define what I mean by anatomy. I speak by comparison and
+tell you what belongs to the study of anatomy. I will take a chicken
+whose parts and habits all persons are familiar with to illustrate. The
+chicken has a head, a neck, a breast, a tail, two legs, two wings, two
+eyes, two ears, two feet, one gizzard, one crop, one set of bowels, one
+liver, and one heart. This chicken has a nervous system, a glandular
+system, a muscular system, a system of lungs and other parts and
+principles not necessary to speak of in detail. But I want to emphasize,
+they belong to the chicken, and it would not be a chicken without every
+part or principle. These must all be present and answer roll call or we
+do not have a complete chicken. Now I will try and give you the parts of
+anatomy and the books that pertain to the same. You want some standard
+author on descriptive anatomy in which you learn the form and places of
+all bones, the place and uses of ligaments, muscles and all that belong
+to the soft parts. Then from the descriptive anatomy you are conducted
+into the dissecting room, in which you receive demonstrations, and are
+shown all parts through which blood and other fluids are conducted. So
+far you see you are in anatomy. From the demonstrator you are conducted
+to another room or branch of anatomy called physiology, a knowledge of
+which no Osteopath can do without and be a success. In that room you are
+taught how the blood and other fluids of life are produced, and the
+channels through which this fluid is conducted to the heart and lungs
+for purity and other qualifying processes, previous to entering the
+heart for general circulation to nourish and sustain the whole human
+body. I want to insist and impress it upon your minds that this is as
+much a part of anatomy as a wing is a part of a chicken. From this room
+of anatomy you are conducted to the room of histology, in which the eye
+is aided by powerful microscopes and made acquainted with the smallest
+arteries of the human body, which in life are of the greatest known
+importance, remembering that in the room of histology you are still
+studying anatomy, and what that machinery can and does execute every
+day, hour, and minute of life. From the histological room you are
+conducted to the room of elementary chemistry, in which you learn
+something of the laws of association of substances, that you can the
+better understand what has been told you in the physiological room,
+which is only a branch of anatomy, and intended to show you that nature
+can and does successfully compound and combine elements for muscles,
+blood, teeth and bone. From there you are taken to the room of the
+clinics, where you are first made acquainted with both the normal and
+abnormal human body, which is only a continuation of the study of
+anatomy. From there you are taken to the engineer's room (or operator's
+room) in which you are taught how to observe and detect abnormalities
+and the effect or effects they may and do produce, and how they effect
+health and cause that condition known as disease.
+
+
+PRINCIPLES.
+
+Principles to an Osteopath means a perfect plan and specification to
+build in form a house, an engine, a man, a world, or anything for an
+object or purpose. To comprehend this engine of life or man which is so
+constructed with all conveniences for which it was made, it is necessary
+to constantly keep the plan and specification before the mind, and in
+the mind, to such a degree that there is no lack of knowledge of the
+bearings and uses of all parts. After a complete knowledge of all parts
+with their forms, sizes and places of attachment which should be so
+thoroughly grounded in the memory that there would be no doubt of the
+intent of the builder for the use or purpose of the great and small
+parts, and why they have a part to perform in the workings of the
+engine. When this part of the specification is thoroughly learned from
+anatomy or the engineer's guide book, he will then take up the chapter
+on the division of forces, by which this engine moves and performs the
+duties for which it was created. In this chapter the mind will be
+referred to the brain to obtain a knowledge of that organ, where the
+force starts, how it is conducted to any belt, pully, journal, or
+division of the whole building. After learning where the force is
+obtained, and how conveyed from place to place throughout the whole
+body, he becomes interested and wisely instructed. He sees the various
+parts of this great system of life when preparing fluids commonly known
+as blood, passing through a set of tubes both great and small--some so
+vastly small, as to require the aid of powerful microscopes to see their
+infinitely small forms, through which the blood and other fluids are
+conducted by the heart and force of the brain, to construct organs,
+muscles, membranes and all the things necessary to life and motion, to
+the parts separately and combined. By this minute acquaintance with the
+normal body which has been learned in the specification as written in
+standard authors of anatomy and the dissecting rooms, he is well
+prepared to be invited into the inspection room to receive comparisons
+between the normal and abnormal engines, built according to nature's
+plan and specification, and absolutely perfect. He is called into this
+room for the purpose of comparing engines that have been strained from
+being thrown off the track, or run against other bodies with such force
+as to bend journals, pipes, break or loosen bolts; or otherwise
+deranged, so as to render it useless until repaired. To repair signifies
+to readjust from the abnormal condition in which the machinist finds it,
+to the condition of the normal engines which stand in the shop of
+repairs. His inspection would commence by first lining up the wheels
+with straight journals; then he would naturally be conducted to the
+boiler, steam chest, shafts, and every part that belongs to a completed
+engine. To know that they are straight and in place as shown upon the
+plan and described by the specification, he has done all that is
+required of a master mechanic. Then it goes into the hands of the
+engineer, who waters, fires and conducts this artificial being on its
+journey. You as Osteopathic machinists can go no farther than to adjust
+the abnormal condition, in which you find the afflicted. Nature will do
+the rest.
+
+
+THE PRACTICING OSTEOPATH'S GUIDE.
+
+The Osteopath reasons if he reasons at all, that order and health are
+inseparable, and that when order in all parts is found, disease cannot
+prevail, and if order is complete and disease should be found, there is
+no use for order. And if order and health are universally one in union,
+then the doctor cannot usefully, physiologically, or philosophically be
+guided by any scale of reason, otherwise. Does a chemist get results
+desired by accident? Are your accidents more likely to get good results
+than his? Does order and success demand thought and cool headed reason?
+If we wish to be governed by reason, we must take a position that is
+founded on truth and capable of presenting facts, to prove the validity
+of all truths we present. A truth is only a hopeful supposition if it is
+not supported by results. Thus all nature is kind enough to willingly
+exhibit specimens of its work as vindicating witnesses of its ability to
+prove its assertions by its work. Without that tangible proof, nature
+would belong to the gods of chance. The laws of mother, conception,
+growth and birth, from atoms to worlds would be a failure, a universe
+without a head to direct. But as the beautiful works of nature stand
+to-day, and in all time past, fully able by the evidence it holds before
+the eye and mind of reason, that all beings great and small came by the
+law of cause and effect, are we not bound to work by the laws of cause,
+if we wish an effect? If the heavens do move by cause when was its
+beings divorced from that great common law? Are we not bound to trust
+and work by the old and reliable self-evident laws, until something
+later has proven its superior ability to ward off disease and cure the
+sick.
+
+
+THE FASCIA.
+
+I know of no part of the body that equals the fascia as a hunting
+ground. I believe that more rich golden thought will appear to the
+mind's eye as the study of the fascia is pursued than any division of
+the body. Still one part is just as great and useful as any other in its
+place. No part can be dispensed with. But the fascia is the ground in
+which all causes of death do the destruction of life. Every view we
+take, a wonder appears. Here we find a place for the white corpuscles
+building anew and giving strength to throw impurities from the body by
+tubes that run from the skin to tanks of useful fluids, that would heap
+up and are no longer of use in the body. No doubt nerves exist in the
+fascia, that change the fluid to gas, and force it through the spongy
+and porous system as a delivery by the vital chain of wonders, that go
+on all the time to keep nerves wholly pure.
+
+
+NOT A PLEASANT TASK.
+
+I dislike to write, and only do so, when I think my productions will go
+into the hands of kind-hearted geniuses who read, not to find a book of
+quotations, but to go with the soul of the subject that is being
+explored for its merits,--weigh all truths and help bring its uses front
+for the good of man.
+
+Osteopathy has not asked a place in written literature prior to this
+date, and does not hope to appear on written pages even to suit the
+author of this imperfectly written book.
+
+
+WITHOUT ACCEPTED THEORIES.
+
+Columbus had to launch and navigate much and long, and meet many storms,
+because he had not the written experience of other travelers to guide
+him. He had only a few bits of drift-wood not common to his home growth,
+to cause him to move as he did. But there was a fact, a bit of wood that
+did not grow on his home soil.
+
+He reasoned that it must be from some land amid the sea whose shores had
+not before been known to his race. With these facts and his powerful
+mind of reason, he met all opposition, and moved alone; just as all men
+do who have no use for theories as their compass to guide them through
+the storms. This opposition a mental explorer must meet.
+
+I felt that I must anchor my boat to living truths and follow them
+wheresoever they might drift. Thus I launched my boat many years ago on
+the open seas, fearlessly, and have never found a wave of scorn nor
+abuse that truth could not eat, and do well on.
+
+
+TRUTHS OF NATURE.
+
+We often speak of truth. We say great truths, and use many other
+qualifying expressions. But no one truth is greater than any other
+truth. Each has a sphere of usefulness peculiar to itself. Thus we
+should treat with respect and reverence all truths, great and small. A
+truth is the complete work of nature, which can only be demonstrated by
+the vital principle belonging to that class of truths. Each truth or
+division as we see it, can only be made known to us by the self evident
+fact, which this truth is able to demonstrate by its action.
+
+If we take man as our object to base the beginning of our reason, we
+find the association of many elements, which differ in kind to suit the
+purpose for which they were designed. To us they act, to us they are
+wisely formed and located for the purpose for which they were designed.
+Through our five senses we deal with the material body. It has action.
+That we observe by vision which connects the mind to reason. High above
+the five senses on the subject of cause or causes of this, is motion. By
+the testimony of the witness the mind is connected in a manner by which
+it can reason on solidity and size. By smell, taste and sound, we make
+other connections between the chambers of reason and the object we
+desire to reason upon; and thus our foundation on which all five
+witnesses are arrayed to the superior principle which is mind.
+
+After seeing a human being complete in form, self moving, with power to
+stop or go on at will, to us he seems to obey some commander. He seems
+to go so far and stop; he lies down and gets up; he turns round and
+faces the objects that are traveling in the same direction he does.
+Possibly he faces the object by his own action. Then by about facing, he
+sees one coming with greater velocity, sees he can not escape by his own
+speed, so he steps aside and lets that body pass on, as though he moved
+in obedience to some order. The bystander would ask the question, "How
+did he know such a dangerous body was approaching?" He finds on the most
+crucial examination, that the sense of hearing is wholly without reason.
+The same is true with all the five senses pertaining to man, beast, or
+bird. This being the condition of the five physical senses, we are
+forced by reason to conclude there is a superior being who conducts the
+material man, sustains, supports and guards against danger; and after
+all our explorations, we have to decide that man is triune when
+complete.
+
+
+BODY, MOTION AND MIND.
+
+First the material body, second the spiritual being, third a being of
+mind which is far superior to all vital motions and material forms,
+whose duty is to wisely manage this great engine of life. This great
+principle known as mind, must depend for all evidences on the five
+senses, and on this testimony, all mental conclusions are bad, and all
+orders from this mental court are issued to move to any point or stop at
+any place. Thus to obtain good results, we must blend ourselves with,
+and travel in harmony with nature's truths. When this great machine man,
+ceases to move in all its parts, which we call death, the explorers
+knife discovers no mind, no motion. He simply finds formulated matter
+with no motor to move it, with no mind to direct it. He can trace the
+channels through which the fluids have circulated, he can find the
+relation of parts to other parts; in fact by the knife, he can expose to
+view the whole machinery that once was wisely active. Suppose the
+explorer is able to add the one principle motion, at once we would see
+an action, but it would be a confused action. Still he is not the man
+desired to be produced. There is one addition that is indispensable to
+control this active body, or machine, and that is mind. With that added
+the whole machinery then works as man. The three when united in full
+action are able to exhibit the thing desired--complete.
+
+
+OSTEOPATHY TO CURE DISEASE.
+
+The Osteopath seeks first physiological perfection of form, by normally
+adjusting the osseous frame work, so that all arteries may deliver blood
+to nourish and construct all parts. Also that the veins may carry away
+all impurities dependent upon them for renovation. Also that the nerves
+of all classes may be free and unobstructed while applying the powers of
+life and motion to all divisions, and the whole system of nature's
+laboratory.
+
+A full and complete supply of arterial blood must be generated and
+delivered to all parts, organs and glands, by the channels called the
+arteries. And when it has done its work, then without delay the veins
+must return all to heart and lungs for renewal. We must know some delay
+of fluids has been established on which nature begins the work of
+renewal by increased action of electricity, even to the solvent action
+of fever heat, by which watery substances evaporate and relieve the
+lymphatic system of stagnant, watery secretions. Thus fever is a natural
+and powerful remedy.
+
+
+THE OSTEOPATH SHOULD FIND HEALTH.
+
+To find health should be the object of the doctor. Anyone can find
+disease. He should make the grand round among the sentinels and
+ascertain if they are asleep, dead or have deserted their posts, and
+have allowed the enemy to get into camps. He should visit all posts.
+Before he goes out to make the rounds, he should know where all posts
+are, and the value of the supply he has charge of, whether it be shot,
+shell, grub, clothing, arms or anything of value to the Company or
+Division.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+OSTEOPATHIC EXPLORATIONS.
+
+     Divisions of the Body--Searching for the Cause--Duty of the
+     Osteopathic Explorer--Classification and Division--The
+     Abnormal--Nerve Powers--Witnesses to Examine--Abnormal
+     Growths--Cerebro Spinal Fluid--Body in Perfect
+     Health--Chemistry--Nature's Chemistry.
+
+
+DIVISIONS OF THE BODY.
+
+After many long years, treating and trying to teach the student of
+Osteopathy how to hunt for and find the local causes of diseases, not
+contagious, or infectious, I have succeeded in planning and suggesting a
+method, which I am sure the doctor can easily follow, and find any
+diversion from the normal, that would interfere with the nerves, veins,
+and arteries, of any organ or limb of the body. I have formulated a
+simple mental diagram that divides the body into three parts, chest,
+upper and lower limbs. The first division takes in head, neck, chest,
+abdomen and pelvis. The second division takes in head, neck, lower and
+upper arm and hand. The third division takes in foot, leg, thigh, pelvis
+and lumbar vertebra. I make this division for the purpose of holding the
+explorer to the limits of all supplies. In the ellipse of the chest is
+found all vital supplies; then from that center of life we have two
+branches only, one of the arm, and one of the lower limb. In each
+division we have five points of exploration.[1]
+
+[Footnote 1: Explore: (1) To seek for or after: to strive to attain by
+search; to look wisely and carefully for; to search through or into; to
+penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to
+explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science; "hidden
+frauds (to) explore."--WEBSTER.]
+
+
+SEARCHING FOR THE CAUSE.
+
+To illustrate, we will take the lower limb, whether there is lameness,
+soreness, gouty, rheumatic, neuralgic, swollen, shrunken, feverish,
+cold, smooth and glassy, sores, ulcers, erysipelas, milkleg, varicose
+veins, or any defect that the patient may complain of, who is the only
+reliable book or being of symptomatology. For convenience we will divide
+that lower limb into five parts, the foot, leg, thigh, pelvis and lumbar
+region. The patient (symptomatologist) tells us he has a pain in front,
+center and under part of foot. Now the doctor or bird dog, can find
+quails of reason in but one field that would lead him to the cause. As
+this field is divided into five parts and the hunter has carefully
+searched four divisions, he will find the cause or causes in the fifth
+and none other. If a dislocated bone is not found in the foot after
+ascertaining that there has been no crushing by falling bodies, horses
+feet, stepping on glass, nails and other things that would penetrate the
+foot, and irritate by being broken off, closed and remaining in the
+flesh; we will explore the leg for the quail, ascertain if the
+articulation is normal at ankle and knee. If we find the bone is not
+broken, the leg has no splinters of wood, nor injured flesh by bites
+from dogs or other animals, nor any other substance that would injure
+the leg, we are prepared to pass on and explore another place for pain
+in the foot. We go on to division No. 3 or the thigh division, and
+ascertain if the thigh is normal in all conditions, properly in socket,
+with all muscles, ligaments and nerves unoppressed. There are but two
+more divisions left for exploration, and they are the most important and
+interesting of the five, the pelvis and lumbar, through which all the
+nerves of the limb pass. We must stop at pelvis and observe carefully
+that there is no twist of ligaments before going to lumbar, which is the
+last of the five divisions. If we have found nothing in the previous
+four, and have explored them as carefully as we should, we have but one
+brush heap left, and that one contains the quail that we have been
+hunting for. As the lumbar contains and conveys all nerve forces to the
+pelvis from the brain and all divisions of the lower limbs, we will now
+examine the articulations of that part of the spine, and in that we are
+very certain to find the cause if we have made no mistake in our
+examination in the preceding divisions of the limb. As we enter the
+exploration of this part of the spine we must remember that we are about
+to deal with the many divisions of the nerves of the _cauda equina_. The
+great question before us, comes after this form. What would wound or
+bruise any division of nerves that would lead by the way of the great or
+lesser sciatic, to a bone in the front and under side of the foot? Jars,
+strains, twists, and dislocations, must be carefully searched for. A
+partial dislocation of one side of the spine would produce a twist which
+would throw one muscle on to another and another, straining ligaments,
+producing conjestion and inflammation, or some irritation that would
+lead to a suspension of the fluids necessary to the harmonious vitality
+of the foot, which is the great and only cause by which the suffering is
+produced in a foreign land, which we call a famine in the foot.
+
+
+DUTY OF THE OSTEOPATHIC EXPLORER.
+
+This method of exploration is not directed by the sound of the fog-horns
+of unreliable and unsatisfactory symptomatology. Osteopathy has a method
+of its own, which is correct or it has no method at all, and is guided
+by the surveyor's compass that will find all corners as established by
+the orders of the government and surveyor's general. Thus an Osteopath
+must find the true corners as set by the Divine Surveyor. The general
+surveyor hands our plats and specifications to the division general,
+with instructions to establish all lines and divisions, state, county,
+township and sections, and mark each one by stones or otherwise, so they
+cannot be lost; but are findable by any competent surveyor who follows
+the field notes displayed in anatomy. Thus you would see a successful
+Osteopath is guided by the field notes of nature to all corners, his
+business is to know that every corner stone is in its place, standing
+erect as nature designed and established it. If he tolerates any
+variation of this stone or stones from the place or places that God the
+grand surveyor of the universe has placed them, he will observe there is
+an infringement and cause for inharmony and discord of the possessors of
+the four quarter sections of land, for which this cornerstone was
+placed; and his sworn duty is to bring this stone from any variation
+from the field notes and establish it where it was first placed. Thus
+his ability to find the true corners and adjust all stones will mark him
+as a successful Osteopath.
+
+
+CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION.
+
+I will classify or divide man's body for convenience of exploration for
+diseases into head and neck first; then head, neck and chest, third,
+head, neck, chest and abdomen; then unite head, neck, chest, abdomen and
+sacrum. I will take up a few diseases under each division as they are
+located. By this method I think I can better show what nerves should be
+more or less active.
+
+
+THE ABNORMAL.
+
+A lesion may and does appear on a part or all of the person which may
+appear as a growth or withering away of a limb in all its muscles,
+nerves and blood supply. As in case of tumors on scalp, loss of hair,
+eruptions of face, growth of tonsils, ulcers of one or both ears,
+growths on outside and inside of eyes, a cause must precede an effect in
+all cases. A pain in head is an effect; cause is older than the effect
+and is absolute in all variations from normal conditions. A tumor on the
+head and under the skin is an effect only. It took matter to give it
+size, it took power to deliver that substance, the fact that a tumor was
+formed, shows that the power to build was present and did the work of
+construction. Another power should have been there to complete the work
+at that location; that power is the offbearing of the dead matter after
+the work of construction was complete.
+
+
+NERVE POWERS.
+
+If we think as men of reason should, we will count five nerve powers.
+They must all be present to build a part, and must answer promptly at
+roll call and work all the time. The names of these master workmen are
+sensation, motion, nutrition, voluntary and involuntary. All must answer
+at every roll call during life; none can be granted a leave of absence
+for a moment. Suppose sensation should leave a limb for a time, have we
+not a giving away of all cells and glands? An undue filling up follows
+quickly because sensation limits and tells when the supply is too great
+for the use of the builder's purpose. Suppose the nerve power known as
+motion should fail for a time, starvation would soon begin its deadly
+work for want of food. Suppose again the nerves of nutrition should fail
+to apply the nourishing showers we would surely die in sight of food.
+With the voluntary nerves we move or stay at the will of he or she who
+wishes to give direction to the motor powers, at any time a change by
+action is required. At this time I will stop defining the several and
+varied uses of the five kinds of nerves, and begin to account for
+growths and other variations, from the healthy to the unhealthy
+conditions of man. The above named are the five known powers of animal
+life, and to direct them wisely is the work of the doctor of
+Osteopathy.
+
+
+WITNESSES TO EXAMINE.
+
+He has five witnesses to examine in all cases he has under his care. He
+must give close attention to the source and supply of healthy blood. If
+blood is too scant he must look to the motor systems of blood making,
+that would surely invite his most careful attention and study of the
+abdomen. He cannot expect blood to quietly pass through the diaphragm if
+impeded by muscular constriction around aorta, vena cava or thoracic
+duct. The diaphragm can and is often pulled down on both vena cava and
+thoracic duct, obstructing blood and chyle from returning to heart so
+much as to limit the chyle below the requirement of healthy blood, or
+even suppress the nerve action of lymphatics to such degree as to cause
+dropsy of the abdomen, or a stoppage of venous blood by pressure on vena
+cava so long that venous blood would be in stages of ferment when it
+enters the heart for renovation, and when purified and returned the
+supply is too small to sustain life to a normal standard.
+
+
+ABNORMAL GROWTHS.
+
+Thus the importance of a careful attention to the normal certainty of
+all the ribs to which the diaphragm is attached is essential. The
+eleventh and twelfth ribs may, and do often get pushed so far from their
+normal bearings, that they are often found turned in a line with the
+spine, with cartilaginous ends down near ilio-lumbar articulation. When
+in such position they draw the diaphragm down heavily on vena cava at
+about the fourth lumbar. Then you have cause for intermittent pulse, as
+the heart finds no passage of blood through the prolapsed diaphragm
+which is also stopping the vena cava and producing universal stagnation
+of blood and other fluids in all organs and glands below the diaphragm.
+Thus you have a beginning for abnormal growths of womb, kidneys and all
+lymphatics of liver, kidneys, spleen, pancreas, and all tumors of
+abdomen.
+
+
+CEREBRO SPINAL FLUID.
+
+To satisfy the mind of a philosopher who is mentally capable of asking
+for and knowing truth, when presented by nature, you must come at him
+outside of the limits of conjecture, and address him with self-evident
+truths only. When he takes up the philosophy of the great subject of
+life, to him who does know truth, no substitute can to any degree
+satisfy his mental demands. To the one who would deal in conjectures or
+suppose so's, he will at once be placed in the proper category to which
+he belongs, which is the drift-wood that floats down the dark river that
+is overshadowed by the nightmare of ignorance and superstition. A
+seeker after truth, is a man of few words, and they are used by him only
+by the truths or facts discovered. He has no patience with the unmeaning
+records offered only to please the credulous, and by those of little or
+no truth that appears during a long recitation of ungrounded statements.
+From the above it is wisely seen that the object of these remarks is to
+present a few truths for the purpose of stimulating the attention of the
+listener. We will take man when formed. When we use the word formed, we
+mean the whole building being complete. The brain with all organs,
+nerves, vessels, and every minutia in form with all materials found or
+used in life.
+
+
+BODY IN PERFECT HEALTH.
+
+We look at it in perfect health which means perfection and harmony not
+in part, but of the whole body. So far we are only filled with love,
+wonder and admiration. Another period of observation appears to the
+philosopher. We find partial or universal discord from the lowest
+observable to the highest in action and death. Then the book of whys is
+opened and displays its leaves which calls out mental labor even to the
+degree of agony, to know the cause or causes that produce a failure of a
+limb in sensation, motion, nutrition, voluntary and involuntary
+functional exhibits. His mind will explore the bone, the ligament, the
+muscle, the fascia, the channels through which the blood travels from
+heart to local destiny, with lymphatics and their contents,--the nerves,
+the blood vessels and every channel through or over which all substances
+are transmitted all over the body, particularly the disabled limb in
+question. It proceeds too and does obtain blood abundantly to and from
+the heart, but the results obtained are not satisfactory, and another
+leaf is opened of why no good results are obtained and where is the
+mystery, what quality and element of force and vitality has been
+withheld? A thought strikes him that the cerebro spinal fluid is the
+highest known element that is contained in the human body, and unless
+the brain furnishes this fluid in abundance a disabled condition of the
+body will remain. He who is able to reason will see that this great
+river of life must be tapped and the withering field irrigated at once,
+or the harvest of health be forever lost.
+
+
+CHEMISTRY.
+
+As chemical compounds are not known to Osteopathy to be used as
+remedies, then its use as a study for the student is only to teach that
+elements in nature do combine and form other substances, and without
+changes and unions, no teeth, bone, hair, or muscle could appear in the
+body from the food eaten. Then chemistry is of great use as a part of a
+thorough Osteopathic education. It gives us the reasons why food is
+found in the body as bone, muscle and so on, to all kinds of flesh,
+teeth and bones found in animal forms. Unless we know chemistry
+reasonably well, we can not do away with much mental worry of what
+becomes of food after eating. By chemistry the truths of physiology are
+firmly established in the mind of the student of nature, that in man a
+chemistry of wonderful powers does all the work of animal forms, and
+that in the laboratory of nature's chemistry is the ruling power. By
+elementary chemistry we are led to see the beauties of physiology only.
+Thus chemistry of the elementary is one, and physiology is the witness
+that it is law in man as in all nature. Thus in chemistry we comprehend
+some of the laws of union in nature which we can use mentally with
+knowing confidence. In chemistry we become acquainted with the law of
+cause and change in union, which is a standard law sought by the student
+of Osteopathy.
+
+
+NATURE'S CHEMISTRY.
+
+Osteopathy believes that all parts of the human body do work on chemical
+compounds, and from the general supply manufacture for local wants; thus
+the liver builds for itself of the material that is prepared in its own
+division laboratory. The same of heart and brain. No disturbing or
+hindering causes will be tolerated to stay if an Osteopath can find and
+remove it. We must reason that to withhold the supply from a limb, to
+wither away would be natural. We suffer from two causes. First, want of
+supply (hunger), and the burdens of dead deposits along nerve centers,
+which five nerves by chemical changes while in fermentation should
+regulate local or general divisions.
+
+
+CORRECT METHOD OF REASONING.
+
+In concluding this chapter we will confine our labor to an effort to
+direct the beginner to a correct method of reasoning. When he is brought
+face to face with the stern realities of the "sick room," the Osteopath
+begins his inquiries and follows with his questions just far enough to
+know what division of the body is in trouble. If he finds an arm has
+lost motion, he goes to arm to explore for cause. He can begin his hunt
+for cause at hand, explore it carefully for wounds, strains or any
+lesion that could injure nerves of the arm. If he finds no probable
+cause there, he should explore bones for dislocations or strains of
+ligaments at elbow; if he finds no defect there sufficient to locate
+cause in lower arm or hand; he has only two more places left to inspect,
+the shoulder and neck with their articulations of bone and muscles. If
+found normal at shoulder, then go to neck, out of which go all or most
+of the nerves of the arm; if he finds no lesion or cause equal to the
+trouble so far, then he has been careless in his search and should go
+over and over from marrow to periostium of all bones of the neck and
+head, because there are only five divisions in which a lesion can exist.
+Carefully look, think, feel and know that the head of the humerus is
+true in the glenoid cavity, clavicle true at both ends of its
+articulation, with sternum and acromion processes. See that the biceps
+are in their grooves, and ribs on spine are true at manubrium and spine,
+and that neck is true on first dorsal. True in all joints of the neck,
+as the nerves of the arm come from the neck, there must be no variation
+from normal, or trouble will appear from that cause. As the neck has
+much to do with the arm, we should keep a living picture of the forms of
+each bone, how and where it articulates with others, how it is joined by
+ligaments, what blood vessels, nerves and muscles cross or range with it
+lengthwise, because to overlook a small nerve and blood vessel you may
+fail to remove a goitre, and all diseases of the head, face and neck.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+THE HEAD.
+
+     A Free Circulation--Death Blows--Something of the Neck--Order of
+     Treatment--The Pelvis--Brains of Animals--Arterial Motion--Mental
+     Vibrations--Overburdening the Mind--Hemiplegia.
+
+
+A FREE CIRCULATION.
+
+Before we treat of the head, we must follow blood from the heart to all
+organs of the head. Not only look at the pictures in Gray, Morris,
+Gerrish, or some finely illustrated work on anatomy, but we must apply a
+searching hand and know to a certainty that the constrictors of neck, or
+other muscles or ligaments do not pull cervical and hyoid bones so close
+as to bruise pneumogastric or any other nerves or fibres that would
+cause spasmodic contraction of digastric, stylo-hyoid or the whole
+remaining group of neck muscles and ligaments, with which you are or
+should be very familiar. Ever remember that the venous drainage must be
+kept normally active or congestion, and tumefaction, with inflammation
+of the glands of the head, face and neck will appear, and mark for you
+this oversight; because the perpetual health, ease and comfort of the
+head beginning with the scalp and hair, with their nerves, glands and
+purity of blood supply, a healthy eye, good hearing, healthy action of
+brain with its magnetic and electric forces to the vital parts which
+sustain life, memory and reason, depend directly and wholly upon
+unlimited freedom of the circulatory system of nerves, blood and
+cerebral fluid. They must be normal in action and quantity
+unembarrassed, otherwise bad hearing, ulcers of the ears, cross eyes,
+pterygium, cataract, granulated lids, staphyloma, lachrymosis and up to
+full list of diseases of the eye, with tonsilitis, injured voice, tumors
+and cancers of face, head, tongue, mouth and throat, along with
+erysipelas, blotches and pimples, and all diseases of the glandular
+system of the head and neck. Undoubtedly all these afflictions have
+their origin in obstructed normal action between the heart and the
+termination of all above it, for want of nerve and blood harmony.
+
+
+DEATH BLOWS.
+
+Remember that death blows are dealt out freely above the sternum by
+irritation and constriction of the parts above described. We should
+often refresh our minds, beginning with the muscles that connect the
+head and neck, and know to a certainty as we explore that junction that
+the capitas minor, major and lateralis, long and short of both anticus
+and posticus regions are indisputably normal to your hand and judgment.
+It is almost useless to say to the anatomist who has had the drilling in
+all branches of that science, previous to obtaining his diploma, to
+commence and detail the venous and excretory system, through which all
+those glands are drained, and kept in a healthy condition, but we say
+this much; let your morning, noon and evening prayer be this, Oh Lord!
+give me more anatomy each day I live, because experience has taught me
+the unavoidable demands when in the "sick room."
+
+
+SOMETHING OF THE NECK.
+
+Before you leave that wisely constructed neck, I want to press and
+imprint on your minds in the strongest terms that the wisest anatomist,
+and physiologist, the oldest and most successful Osteopath knows only
+enough of the neck, and its wondrous system of nerves, blood and muscles
+and its relation to all above and below it, to say, "From everlasting to
+everlasting thou art great, O Lord God Almighty!" Thy wisdom is surely
+boundless, for I see that man must be wise to know all about the neck,
+for we find by a twist of neck, we may become blind, deaf, spasmodic,
+lose speech and memory, and all that is known as the joys of man. On
+that division of the body all action of arms, legs, chest and all
+muscles get their life--power and motion. Think for a moment of the
+thousands and tens of thousands of large and small fluid vessels that
+pass to and from heart and brain, to every organ, bone, fibre, muscle
+and gland, both large and small, receiving and appropriating the
+substances as prepared in the chemical laboratory; so wisely situated,
+and so exact in all its works in the production and application of all
+substances in the body.
+
+
+ORDER OF TREATMENT.
+
+The reader will begin with the brain or head because I want to start
+with the head; first give such diseases as belong to that division of
+the body. Then the neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis. Thus we have five
+divisions in regular order, beginning with the head and finishing with
+the sacrum. The reader will find diseases of eye, ear, tongue, nose,
+face, scalp and hair under the chapter treating of the head. Next in
+regular order will be the division of the neck, with diseases of tonsils
+and glands of neck, swallow, trachæ, nerves, blood vessels and muscles,
+fascia and lymphatics, superior cervical ganglion and other nerves of
+the neck, as they affect vitality in diseases. Then we pass on to third
+division, with diseases of lung, heart, pericardium, and pleura, with
+all parts of chest. Then abdomen, liver, stomach and bowels, and all
+organs with resisting power of diaphragm. Fifth, pelvis, with its great
+supply of nerves, blood and other fluids. These give us cause to halt
+and seat the mind for a long season of observation. A great field opens
+at this point for the observing thinker.
+
+
+THE PELVIS.
+
+In the pelvis we find a system of nerves and arteries with blood for
+local supply, besides blood to construct womb, bladder, rectum, colon,
+cellular system and all the muscles of that cavity (the pelvis) all of
+which comes from arteries and branches above. We think it is not
+necessary to name them only in bulk, to a student versed in anatomy.
+Perhaps less is known of the pelvic system and its functions than any
+division of the body, and for that reason I have felt that we should
+know all that is possible to be learned. I believe more ignorance
+prevails to-day of internal causes of diseases than would if we reasoned
+that the pelvic nerves and vessels had much to do in forming the
+abdominal viscera.
+
+
+THE BRAIN OF ANIMALS.
+
+Of all parts of the body of man to be well studied, the brain should be
+the most attractive. It is the place where all force centers, where all
+nerves connect to one common battery. By its orders the laboratory of
+life begins to move on crude material and labors until blood is formed
+and becomes food for all nerves first; then arteries and veins by nerve
+action and forces, to suit each class of work to be done by that set of
+nerves which is to construct forms; keep blood constantly in motion by
+the arteries and from all parts back to the heart, through the veins,
+that the blood may be purified, renewed and re-enter the arteries to be
+taken to all places of need.
+
+
+ARTERIAL MOTION.
+
+Arterial motion is normal during all ages, from the quick pulse of the
+babe's arm, to the ages of each year to one hundred or more. At this
+great age the pulse is so slow that the heat is not generated by the
+nerves, whose motor velocity is not great enough to bring electricity to
+the stage of heat. All heat, high and low, surely is the effect of
+active electricity--plus to fever; minus to coldness. When an irritant
+enters the body by lung, skin or any other way, a change appears in the
+heart's action from its effects on the brain, to the high electric
+action and that burning heat called fever. If plus violent type (yellow
+fever), if minus, low grades (typhus, typhoid, plagues), and so on
+through the list.
+
+
+MENTAL VIBRATIONS.
+
+To think implies action of the brain. We can grade thought although we
+cannot measure its speed.
+
+Suppose a person of one kind of business thinks just fast enough to suit
+that profession. A man is engaged in raising hogs and that alone. He
+must reason on and of the nature of hogs. He begins about so: a hog
+eats, drinks, bathes, roots and sleeps. He knows the hog eats grain, so
+he feeds it corn, or some other suitable cereal, with plenty of water
+and good bedding. The swine is on his mind night and day.
+
+
+THE WHEELS OF THOUGHT.
+
+Now the question is, how fast does he think? How many revolutions do the
+wheels of his head make per minute to do all the necessary thinking
+connected with the hog business? Say his mental wheels revolve 100 times
+each minute. Then he adds sheep to his business, and if that should
+require 100 more revolutions and he takes charge of raising draft horses
+with 175 revolutions added, you see the wheels of his head whizzing off
+375 vibrations per minute. And at this time he adds the duties of the
+carpenter with 300 more revolutions, add them together and you see 675.
+To this number he adds the duties and thoughts of a sheriff, which are
+numerous enough to buzz his wheels at 1500 more, you find 2175 to be
+his mental revolutions so far. Now you have the great physical demands
+added to the mental motion which his brain has to support, yet he can do
+all so far, fairly well.
+
+
+OVERBURDENING THE MIND.
+
+He now adds to his labors the manufacturing of leather, from all kinds
+of hides, with the chemistry of fine tanning, which is equal to all
+previous mental motions. Add and you find 4250 revolutions all drawing
+on his brain each minute of the day. Add to this mental strain the
+increased action of his body which has to perform these duties and you
+see the beginning of a worry of both mind and body, to which you add
+manufacturing of engines, iron puddling, rolling, etc.; a delegate to a
+national convention, thoughts of the death of a near relative; add to
+this a security debt to meet during a money panic. By this time the mind
+begins to fag below the power of resistance.
+
+
+HEMIPLEGIA.
+
+Duration of such great mental vibrations for so long stops nutrition of
+all or one-half of the brain, and we have a case of "Hemiplegia," or the
+wheels of one-half of the brain run so fast as to overcome some fountain
+of nerve force and explode some cerebral artery in the brain and deposit
+a clot of blood at some motor supply or plexus.
+
+Thus we see men from over mental action fall in our National councils,
+courts, manufactories, churches, and almost all places of great mental
+activity. Slaves and savages seldom fall victims to paralysis of any
+kind, but escape all such, for they know nothing of the strains of mind
+and hurried nutrition. They eat and rest, live long and happy. The idea
+of riches never bothers their slumbers. Physical injuries may and often
+do wound motor, sensory and nutrient centers of brain; but the effect is
+just the same, partial or complete suspension of the motor and sensory
+systems.
+
+If you burst a boiler by high pressure or otherwise, your engine ceases
+to move. And just the same of an over-worked brain or body.
+
+Hemiplegia. "The half" and "I strike." Paralysis of one half of the
+body.[2]
+
+[Footnote 2: Chambers.]
+
+Hemiplegia is usually the result of a cerebral hemorrhage or embolism.
+It sometimes occurs suddenly without other marked symptoms, but commonly
+it is ushered in by an apoplectic attack and on return of consciousness
+it is observed that one side of the body is paralyzed, the paralysis
+being often profound in the beginning, and disappearing to a greater or
+less extent at a later period.
+
+Hemiplegia is much more rarely produced by a tumor. It then generally
+comes on slowly, the paralysis gradually increasing as the neoplasm
+encroaches more and more upon the motor tracks, though the tumor may be
+complicated by the occurrence of a hemorrhage and a sudden hemiplegia.
+
+A gradual hemiplegia may also be produced by an abcess or chronic
+softening of the brain substance. Other conditions or symptoms
+presented, will in such case, assist us to diagnose the nature of the
+lesion.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+EAR WAX AND ITS USES.
+
+     Nature Makes Nothing in Vain--A Successful Experiment--A Question
+     for Ages--The Position--Meaning of Life--Some Questions
+     Asked--Condition in Certain Diseases Caused by Cold--Cerumen in
+     Fluid State--Winter Kills Babies--Some Advice to Mothers--A Case in
+     Point--Connection of the brain and Other Nerves in
+     Digestion--Unaided Investigation.
+
+
+NATURE MAKES NOTHING IN VAIN.
+
+That nature makes nothing in vain is an established truth in the minds
+of all persons whose observation has created in such persons a desire to
+reason, and that being my faith for many years I asked myself to try and
+get a reason of why nature had made and placed in a person's head so
+much fine machinery just to make a little ear-wax. If nothing is made in
+vain, what is that bitter stuff made for? It is always there, and more
+being made all the time. I have read many authors or say so's about
+ear-wax, and about the best the wise or the unwise have said is that it
+would keep bugs and other insects out of our heads. I thought if that
+was all that it was made for nature had done a great deal to shoo off
+the bugs. The idea that it was made bitter and bad to eat just to make
+bugs sick was weak philosophy, if nature never did any useless work or
+made anything in vain. At this time I saw the doors all open and a good
+chance for the loaded mind to unload and give us other uses for ear-wax
+than bug food, and to lubricate the auditory nerves with dry wax. At
+this time of my desire to know some positive use or object that nature
+had in forming so much fine machinery and no use for its products when
+made, but to pull out of the head with a hairpin, I reasoned about so,
+that this dry hard wax was once in the gaseous or fluid state.
+
+
+A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT.
+
+When I had about concluded to sit down with the common herd of doctors
+and say that wax was wax, a fat boy of two summers was reported to me to
+be dying with croup. I began to think more about the dry wax that is
+always found in cases of croup, sore throat, tonsilitis, pneumonia, and
+all diseases of the lungs, nose and head. On examination I found the
+ear-wax dried up. So I put a few drops of glycerine, and after a
+minute's time a few drops of warm water in the child's head, and kept a
+wet rag corked into its ear frequently for twelve hours, and gave it
+Osteopathic treatment, at the end of which time all signs of croup had
+disappeared. I used the glycerine to soften the wax, which combining
+with water formed a harmless soap better qualified for washing the ear,
+and retaining the wax in solution than anything I have tried, for it is
+my opinion that the ear wax should be kept in a fluid state. When in
+that state the absorbent can more readily take it up and use it in the
+economy of life in this condition. The same day two ladies came to my
+house, sore in lungs, necks tied up, sore throats, fever and headache.
+As an experiment, in addition to Osteopathic treatment, I put a few
+drops of glycerine in their ears, followed with water to wet and soften
+the wax which was dry and hard, to get it back to a fluid state. Both
+got better of their sore lungs and throats in a short time, and in
+twenty-four hours they were about well, and lungs coughing out phlegm,
+easily. From this I think that the cause of croup is simply the result
+of abnormality of the cerumen system.
+
+
+A QUESTION FOR AGES.
+
+As a question of the uses of ear-wax has been before man for ages
+without an answer being given that passes the line of conjecture, I
+think there could be no reason why a few looks through the field glass
+of inquiry should not be given in a limited way on that great plane of
+fertility, for the minds of our most profound thinkers. As far as the
+writer can learn from reading and other methods of inquiry, the power
+and use of ear-wax has never been known, looked on, or thought of as one
+of life's agents for good or bad health. One asks this question: "Why
+are you talking about ear-wax, the filthy stuff?" In answer I asked,
+"What do you know about ear-wax?" The answer, "I don't know or care
+anything about the dirty stuff."
+
+
+THE POSITION.
+
+As my spleen is my organ of mirth, I let it bounce against my side a few
+times at such ignorance and gave the wax subject more study than ever--I
+began to read all the books I could find on Anatomy, Physiology, and
+Histology to get some knowledge of the machinery that the wise architect
+of that greatest of all temples had made to generate wax. At this time a
+conviction came to me to be sure of its uses before I gave an opinion. I
+find the center of nerve supply of the ears located at the base of the
+brain and side of the head, in front of the cerebellum, just below and
+near the center of the brain, a little above the foramen magnum, close
+to and behind the carotid arteries, deep and superficial, just above the
+entry of the spinal cord to the brain. Thus it is situated directly in
+communication with all nerves to and from the brain to every part of the
+body. Another question, and another came only to come and go without an
+answer--such as how and where is this wax made? Of what use is it? Why
+so awful bitter? Has it any living principle above dry earth? Is it
+produced in the brain, lymphatics, fascia, heart, lungs, nerves or
+where? How much of it would kill a man? Would it kill at all? What is it
+made for? Is it used by nerves as food, or used by lungs, heart, or any
+organ as an active principle in the magnetic or electric forces? So far
+all authors are silent even to offer a speculative opinion about how it
+is made and its uses. So far we get nothing from the ancient or modern
+writers, as to its uses or anything that would cause a man to think that
+the Creator had any great design, when he made so wisely constructed and
+so much machinery and gave it such prominent place in the center of the
+brain. By this time the reader begins to mentally ask what does this wax
+evangelist know about the wax and its uses? The writer wishes to observe
+and respect all nature and never be too hasty. To carefully explore all,
+and never leave until he finds the cause and use that nature's hand has
+placed in its works, never overlooking small packages as they often
+contain precious gems. I am sure no man of brilliant mind can pass this
+milepost and not hitch his team and do some precious loading. At this
+point my pen will give notice to all anatomists, histologists, chemists
+and physiologists that I will give "no sleep nor slumber to their
+eyes," until I hear from them an answer, yes or no to these questions:
+For what purpose did God make ear-wax? Is it food or refuse? If food,
+what is nourished by it? and how do you know your position is true and
+undebatable?
+
+
+MEANING OF LIFE.
+
+Life means existence; existence means subsistence; subsistence means
+something to subsist on, and of the degree of refinement to suit the
+being or principle whose function is to do the skilled work which is
+found marked on the tressle-board of the wisest of all builders, whose
+work is absolutely correct in form and action, and beautiful to behold.
+It calls out the admiration of man and God himself, who did say of man,
+"Not only good, but very good."
+
+
+SOME QUESTIONS ASKED.
+
+I consider ear-wax one of the most important questions before the minds
+of our physiologists. The first and only knowledge of which substance
+begins with the observer's eye when he beholds the dry wax as it is
+excreted and dropped into the cavities of the ears. A question
+arises--and stands without an answer--is this substance which is
+commonly called ear-wax, technically called cerumen, is it dead or is it
+alive while in this form and visible? If dead, why, and how did it lose
+its life? Why has it not been consumed if once a living substance? When
+alive, is it in the gaseous or fluid state? and when alive, and consumed
+as nutriment by the system what does it nourish? is the question for the
+philosopher's attention, not superficial, but his deepest thought? Why
+is it deposited in the center of the brain if not to impart its vital
+principle to all nerves interested in life and nutrition--both physical
+and spiritual. Its location, itself, would indicate its importance.
+Another thought is that no better place could be selected to establish
+and locate a universal supply office for the laborers of all parts of
+the whole superstructure. Another question arises: When we examine a
+person paralyzed on one side, why do we find this bread of life in such
+great quantities on the table and not consumed? Has not one-half of the
+brain and the nerves of that whole side, limbs and all, lost their power
+of digestion? Is hemiplegia a dyspepsia of the nerves of nutriment of
+the brain and organs of that side? If so we have some foundation on
+which to build an answer why this wax is not consumed and is dried up in
+the ears of the parylytic. The answer would be that nutrition is
+suspended.
+
+
+CONDITIONS IN CERTAIN DISEASES, CAUSED BY COLDS.
+
+Let us take croup, diphtheria, scarlet fever, la grippe, and all classes
+of colds--on to pneumonia. They present about the same symptoms,
+differing more in degrees of severity than of place. All affect the
+tonsils, nostrils, membraneous air-passages, and lungs about the same
+way. Croup exceeds by contracting the trachea enough to impede the
+passing of air to the lungs; diphtheria has more swelling of the
+tonsils, throat and glands of the neck, but all depend upon the same
+blood and nerve supply, or a general law of blood beginning with
+arteries to and from veins, lymphatics, glands and ducts to supply and
+take away all fluids that are of no farther use to the vital and
+material support. As all authors have agreed that the brain furnishes
+the propelling forces to the nerves, it would be proper to inquire how
+the brain is nourished. If so, we will begin and say the great cerebral
+system of arteries supply the brain of which it gives quality of all
+fluids and electric and magnetic forces, which must be generated in the
+brain. Then a question arises, if the heart, lungs, liver, pancreas,
+lymphatics, kidneys and all parts of the body depend upon the brain for
+power, what do they give in return? If they give back anything it must
+be of the kind of the organ from whence it comes; thus a kidney cannot
+give liver nor spleen. Each must help to keep up the universal harmony
+by furnishing its mite of its own kind. Suppose lung fever is the effect
+of lack of renal salts, where would be a better place to dispatch from
+to renal organs than the ears to reach the brain and touch the nerve
+that connects with the sympathetic ganglion.
+
+
+CERUMEN IN FLUID STATE.
+
+Suppose we take the cerumen in its fluid state, by the secretions to the
+lungs from the ears and see the action of air and other substances on
+it, and it on them. We may safely look for a general action of some
+kind. If it be magnetic food, we will see the magnetic power shown in
+the lungs, and through the whole system, vitalizing all organs and
+functions of life. Thus the lymphatics will move to wash out impurities,
+and the nutritive nerves will rebuild lost energy. As but little is
+known or said of how or where the cerumen is formed, we will guess it is
+formed under the skin in the glands of the fascia and conveyed to the
+ears by the secretory ducts. Its place and how it is manufactured is not
+the question of the greatest importance, but its uses in disease and
+health.
+
+
+WINTER KILLS BABIES.
+
+The writer has much reason to believe he has found a reliable pointer
+for the cause of croup, diphtheria, and pneumonia; also a rational and
+easy cure that any mother can administer and save the babe from choking
+to death in her arms. Having witnessed croup in all its deadly work for
+fifty years, and seen the best skill of each year and generation fail to
+save, or even give relief, I lost all hope and grew to believe there was
+no help and the doctor was only one more witness to the scene of death
+and carnage found along the mysterious road that croup travels to slay
+the babes of the whole earth. Of later days we have new and different
+names for the disease, but alas, it kills the babe just as it did before
+it was called diphtheria, la grippe and so on.
+
+
+SOME ADVICE TO MOTHERS.
+
+I write this more for the mothers than for the critics. We say to
+mothers, as you are not Osteopaths, you are perfectly safe in putting
+glycerine in a child's ears. It is made from oils and fats. I believe
+when the wax is not consumed it clogs up the excretories with dead
+matter, thus the irritation of the nerves of throat, neck, lungs and
+lymphatics which give cause for the swelling of the tonsils and glands
+of the neck. In this book can be found why I see wisdom in treating for
+croup from the nerve centers of the brain. So far the uses and
+importance of healthy ear-wax as a cure for disease has had no attention
+that I can find by any author on disease or physiology. I hope time and
+attention may lead us to a better knowledge of the cure of diphtheria,
+croup, scarlet fever and all diseases of the throat and lungs of
+children, and how to cure a greater per cent than has been up to this
+writing. My experience up to date with such diseases, when treated as
+indicated, has been very encouraging. Though it is but a short time
+since I began to treat by this method, it has proven good with the young
+and old.
+
+As all authors so far seem silent even as to how or when the wax is
+formed, we must resort to much careful dissection to find the relation
+of the cerumen system to health. To intelligently acquaint the mother
+with this treatment who does not understand anatomy so as to give
+Osteopathic treatment for croup, diphtheria, and so on, I will say; take
+a soft wet cloth and wash the child's neck and rub gently down from ears
+to breast and shoulders; keep ears wet, often dropping in the glycerine.
+Use glycerine because it will mix with the water and dissolve the wax,
+while sweet oil and other oils will not do so.
+
+
+A CASE IN POINT.
+
+At 2 o'clock p. m. I called to see a babe having malignant croup in its
+worst form, and examined its ears to see condition of wax. I had noticed
+in consumptives that some cases had great quantities of dry wax in one
+or both ears, but to this time had not thought of such deposits being an
+evidence of lost or suspended action of the nerves that manufactured
+cerumen. In this case I found wax dry and very hard, with much swelling
+and hardness in region of ears, eustachian tubes and tonsils. I reasoned
+that the excretory duct had become clogged, and that by the wax being
+retained in ducts and glands an irritation of the nerves of the cervical
+lymphatics had caused contraction near head, and produced congestion of
+the lymphatics, of the pneumogastric, and cutting off nerves supply from
+lungs. Believing this to be very likely I concluded to act on the above
+line of reasoning and see if I could give some relief. I did not stop to
+debate why the wax was hard and dry, but how to soften the wax, was the
+question of interest to me then. So I proceeded. I reasoned that soap
+and water would be the best treatment to clean the ears, and soften the
+wax. At this point to select the best make of soap in the ears was to be
+desired, so I took pure glycerine and water, dropped in a few drops and
+took a small roll of cloth, made it wet in warm water and pushed it in
+ears to keep them wet. In a few minutes I wet and inserted a soft cloth
+cork in the child's ears. I twisted the corks around in the ears, each
+time to mix the water and the wax to a softened condition, for to keep
+the wax wet was the object. In a few minutes I got the wax wet and the
+child coughed up phlegm easily, and when the dreaded hour, ten o'clock
+at night came, all danger had passed.
+
+
+CONNECTION OF BRAIN AND OTHER NERVES IN DIGESTION.
+
+If digestion is the effect of organs, fluids and forces, then the
+student of nature's law must be governed by well known truths, such as
+the location of the brain, connection of the nerves to other organs,
+bringing all parts interested in digestion in mental view. Thus you have
+a chance to know if one organ has an assisting relation to any other
+organ or system or if its products are of general or of special use. A
+few questions at this point of inquiry would be in place. Does the brain
+give assistance in digestion, and why may we reasonably suppose so, when
+digestion does its work normally and has a full, rich supply of blood?
+Yet disease enters the system, and begins its work with general
+weakness, swelling, wastings, and pain with some, or all the glands
+congested and sore, and a plenty of rich blood all the time. Then are we
+justified to go to the brain and examine the electric and magnetic
+batteries? We know such forces exist but as their location in the brain
+is not known farther than the fact of their existence, we do not know
+how they are fed, nor from where, so we are fully warranted in seeking a
+use for both powers--magnetic and electric. One says the power of
+electricity belongs more to the motor nerves and the magnetic to the
+nutrient system; if not they are happily blended and give the results.
+Without such forces life and motion could not be sustained. As it is not
+my object to write a treatise on general physiology, I will turn at once
+to the subject of the relation of life and health as affected by the
+abnormal supply and action of ear-wax.[3]
+
+[Footnote 3: "The secretion of the external auditory meatus, mixed with
+the secretion of the neighboring glands or ceruminous glands, forms the
+well known ear-wax or cerumen. The secretion in this place contains a
+reddish pigment of a bitterish sweet taste, the composition of which has
+not been investigated." American Text-Book of Physiology.]
+
+
+UNAIDED INVESTIGATION.
+
+As our investigations are without the assistance of ancient or modern
+writers we will have to reason that man is a machine of form and power,
+forming its own parts and generating its own powers as it has use for
+them. At this time we begin to reason thus, that all powers are
+invisible and we see effect only. We know such forces to be abundant in
+nature, and life is sustained by them. To find the substances in the
+body that causes them to act and how to act, has been the object of my
+journey as an explorer. If they give us health when normal action
+prevails and disease only when abnormal, then we are admonished to form
+a more intimate acquaintance with the qualities, and with all the
+products, when formed in this great laboratory which compounds and
+qualifies each substance to fill its mission of force, construction,
+purity and action.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+DISEASES OF THE CHEST.
+
+     Where Confined--Consumption--Can Consumption Be Cured--Consumption
+     Described--No Time for Surrender--Cerebral Spinal Fluid--How to
+     Destroy Deadly Bombs of Decay--Battle of Blood for Life--Militis
+     Tuberculosis--Conversion of Bodies Into Gas--Forming a
+     Tubercle--Breeding Contagion--The Seeds of Disease--Generating
+     Fever--Whooping Cough--Clouds and Lungs Are Much Alike--The Wisdom
+     of Nature--Water Formed in Lungs--The Law of Fives--Feeble Action
+     of Heart--The Heart--From Neck to Heart--Dyspepsia or Imperfect
+     Digestion.
+
+
+WHERE CONFINED.
+
+Diseases of the chest are generally confined to heart, lungs, pleura,
+the pericardium, mediastium, blood vessels, with nerves and lymphatics.
+As we open the breast we behold the heart, a very large machine or
+engine, situated conveniently to throw blood to all parts of the body.
+To it we see hose or pipes that go to each organ, all muscles, the
+stomach, bowels, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder and womb, all bones,
+fibers, ligaments, membranes, and its body, lungs and brain. When we
+follow this blood through its whole journey to feed the dependent parts,
+be they organ or muscle, we find just enough unloaded at each station to
+supply the demand as fast as consumed. Thus life is supplied at each
+stroke of the heart, which gives blood to keep digestion in full motion
+while other supplies of blood are being made and put in channels to
+carry to the heart, blood is freely given to keep those channels strong,
+clean and active. Thus much depends on the heart, and great care should
+be given to that study, because a healthy system depends almost wholly
+on a normal heart and lung. Thus to study well the frame work of the
+chest should be with the greatest care. Every joint of the neck and
+spine has much to do with a healthy heart and lung, because all vital
+fluids from crown to sacrum do or have passed through heart and lungs,
+and any slip of bone, strain or bruise will affect to some degree the
+usefulness of that fluid in its vitality, when appropriated in the place
+or organ it should sustain in a good healthy state. To the Osteopath,
+his first and last duty is to look well to a healthy blood and nerve
+supply. He should let his eye camp day and night on the spinal column;
+to know if the bones articulate truly in all facets and other bearings,
+and never rest day or night until he knows the spine is true and in line
+from atlas to sacrum, with all ribs known to be in perfect union with
+processes of spine. In reasoning for probable causes of diseases of
+chest, we are met with the fact that the heart and lungs are housed up,
+and out of reach of the hand and eye. We hear a cough, see blood and
+other substances after they pass out of the lungs; we learn of general
+and local pain and misery, feel heat and cold on skin, note abnormal
+breathing, but here we are at a stop, for want of facts. We know
+something is wrong, but cannot say what, until after death has done the
+work, then we open the chest and find tubercles, cancers, ulcers and
+abcesses. How came they there? is the unanswered question. The servant
+of that breast who failed to keep his room clean, is the one to find and
+punish.
+
+
+CONSUMPTION.
+
+I believe so much death by consumption will soon be with the things of
+the past, if the cases are taken early and handled by a skilled
+mind,--one trained for that responsible place. He or she must be taught
+this as a special branch. It is too deep for superficial knowledge or
+imperfect work. Life is in danger, and can be saved by skill, not by
+force and ignorance. He who sees only the dollar in the lung, is not the
+man to trust with your case.
+
+It is such men as have the ability to think, and the skill to comprehend
+and execute the application of nature's unerring laws, that obtain the
+results required. We believe the day has come, and long before noon, the
+fear of consumption will greatly pass from the minds of people. We have
+long since known and proven that a cough is only an effect. If an effect
+then a wise man will set his mental dogs on the track, which is (effect)
+to hunt the skunk, (cause). He has all the evidence by the cough,
+location of pain, tenderness of spine, neck, and quality of the
+substances coughed up to locate the cause, and to know, when he has
+found it, how to remove the cause, and give relief; will grow more
+simple as he reasons and notes effect. We do not think this result will
+be obtained every time by even an average mind, unless he has a special
+training for that purpose. He must not only know that the lungs are in
+the upper part of the chest close to the heart, liver and stomach, but
+he must know the relation all sustain to each other, that the blood must
+be abundantly supplied, support and nourish three sets of nerves, namely
+sensory, motor and nutrient; also voluntary and involuntary. If the
+supply should be diminished on the nutrient nerves, weakness would
+follow; reduce the supply from the motor and it will have the same
+effect. Motion becomes too feeble to carry blood to and from lungs
+normally, and the blood becomes diseased and congested, because it is
+not passed on to other parts with the force necessary for health of
+lungs.
+
+At this time the nerves of sensation become irritated by pressure and
+lack of nutriment, and we cough, which is an effort of nature to unload
+the burden of oppression that congestion causes with sensory nerves. If
+this be effect, then we must suffer and die, or remove the cause, put
+out the fire and stop waste of life, without which all is lost. Nature
+will do its work of repairing in due time. Let us reason by comparison.
+If we dislocate a shoulder, fever and heat will follow. The same is true
+of all limbs and joints of the body. If any obstructing blood or other
+fluid should be deposited in quantities great enough to stop other
+fluids from passing on their way, Nature will fire up its engine to
+remove such deposits by converting fluids into gas. As heat and motion
+have much to do as remedies, we may expect fever and pain until nature's
+furnace produces heat, forms and converts its fluids into gas and other
+deposits, and passes them through the excretories to space, and allows
+the body to work normally again.
+
+
+HOW CONSUMPTION USUALLY BEGINS.
+
+We believe consumption causes the death of thousands annually who might
+be saved. We must not let stupidity veil our reason, and we are to blame
+if we let so many run into "Consumption" from a simple hard cough. The
+remedy is natural, and we believe from results already obtained 75 per
+cent can be cured if taken in time. What we generally call
+"Consumption" begins with a cough, chilly sensations, and lasts a day or
+two. Sometimes fever accompanies with cough, either high or low. The
+cold generally relaxes in a few days, lungs get "loose," and much is
+raised and continues for a period, but the cough appears again and again
+with all changes of weather, and lasts longer each time, until it
+becomes permanent, then it is called "Consumption," because of this
+continuance. Medicines are administered freely and often, but the lungs
+grow worse, cough more continued and much harder, till finally blood
+begins to come from lungs with wasting of strength. Change of climate is
+suggested and taken, but with no change for the better; another and
+another travels to death on the same line. Then the doctor in council
+reports "hereditary consumption" and with his decision all are
+satisfied, and each member of the family feels that a cold and cough
+means a coffin, because the doctor says the family has "hereditary
+consumption." This shade tree has given comfort and contentment to the
+doctors of the whole past.
+
+
+CAN CONSUMPTION BE CURED?
+
+If you have a tiresome and weakening cough at the close of the winter,
+and wish to be cured, we would advise you to begin Osteopathic treatment
+at once, so the lungs can heal and harden against next winter's attack.
+
+This is the first I have written on "Consumption" because I wanted to
+test my conclusions by long and careful observations on cases that I
+have taken and successfully treated. I kept the results from public
+print until I could obtain positive proof that "Consumption" could be
+cured. So far the discovered causes give me little doubt, and the cures
+are a certainty in very many cases. An early beginning is one of the
+great considerations in incipient consumption.
+
+
+CONSUMPTION DESCRIBED.
+
+For fear you do not understand what I mean by "Consumption" I will write
+on a descriptive line quite pointedly. I will give start and progress to
+fully developed consumption. We often meet with cases of permanent
+cough, with expectorations of long duration, dating back two, five, ten,
+even thirty years, to the time they had measles. The severity of the
+cough and strain had congested even the lung substances, and a chronic
+inflammation was the result. If we analyze the sputa we find fibrin and
+even lung muscle. Does all this array of dangerous symptoms cause an
+Osteopath to give up in despair? It should not, on the other hand he
+should go deeper on the hunt of cause. He may find trouble in nerve
+fiber of pneumogastric nerve, atlas or hyoid, vertebra, rib, or
+clavicle, may be by pressing on some nerve that supplies mucous
+membrane of air cells or passages. A cut foot will often produce
+lockjaw, why not a pressure on some center branch or nerve fiber cause
+some division--nerve of the lungs that governs venous circulation which
+would contract and hold blood indefinitely as an irritant, equal to
+cause, perpetual coughing?
+
+
+NO TIME FOR SURRENDER.
+
+This is not the time for the brainy Osteopath to run up the white flag
+of defeat and surrender. Open the doors of your purest reason, put on
+the belt of energy and unload the sinking vessel of life. Throw
+overboard all dead weights from fascia and wake up the forces of the
+excretories. Let the nerves all show their powers to throw out every
+weight that would sink or reduce the vital energies of nature. Give them
+a chance to work, give them the full nourishment and the victory will be
+on the side of the intelligent engineer. Never surrender but die in the
+last ditch.
+
+Let us enter the field of active exploration and note the causes that
+would lead us to conclude we have the cause that produces "consumption"
+as it has ever been called.
+
+Begin at the brain, go down the ladder of observation, stop and whet
+your knives of mental steel sharp, get your nerves quiet by the opium
+of patience. Begin with the atlas, follow with the search-light of
+quickened reason, comb back your hair of mental strength, and never
+leave that bone till you have learned how many nerves pass through and
+around that wisely formed first part of the neck. Remember it was
+planned and builded by the mind and hand of the infinite. See what nerve
+fibers passes through and on to the base center, and each minute cell,
+fascia, gland and blood vessel of the lungs. Do you not know that each
+nerve fiber to its place is king and lord of all?
+
+
+CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID.
+
+I think consumption begins by closing the channels of cerebro-spinal
+fluid in neck, which fluid stands as one of, if not the most highly
+refined elements in animal bodies. Its fineness would indicate that it
+is a substance that must be delivered in full supply continually to keep
+health normal; if so, we will for experimental reasons look at the neck
+ligated, as found in measles, croup, colds and eruptive fevers. Supply
+is stopped from passing below atlas for three days. During such diseases
+fever runs high at this time and dries up the albumen, giving cause for
+tubercles to begin, as fever has dried out the water and left the
+albumen in small deposits in the lungs, liver, kidneys and bowels. If
+this view of the great uses of brain fluid is true as cause of
+glandular growths and other dead deposits; have we not a cause for
+militis tuberculosis? Have we not encouragement to prosecute with
+interest, in the hope of an answer to the question, "What is
+tuberculosis?" Our writers are just as much at sea to-day as a thousand
+years ago. I will give the reader some of the reasons why I think the
+mischief was started while fluid was cut off by congestion of neck. How
+can the fluid be cut off at neck is a very natural question. By the
+crudest method of reasoning we would conclude that from the form of the
+neck, many objects are indicated, and the material of which it is
+composed would give reason to turn all its powers of thought, to ask why
+it is so formed, as to twist, bend, straighten, stiffen and relax at
+will, to suit so many purposes? A very tough skin--a sheathe--surrounds
+the neck with blood vessels, nerves, muscles, bones, ligaments, fascia,
+glands great and small, throat and trachea. In bones we find a great
+canal for spinal cord. It is well and powerfully protected by a strong
+wall of bone, so no outer pressure can obstruct the flow of passing
+fluids, to keep vitality supplied by brain forces, but with all the
+guards given to protect the cord, we find that it can be overcome by
+impact fluids to such degree as to stop blood and other fluids from
+supplying lungs and all below.
+
+The fluid we speak of comes from the skull, and when in process of
+formation must not be disturbed until it has passed through all chances
+of being injured by force, air or light. Thus the great need of walls to
+hold the enemy outside the safety line. Such truths surely should
+attract our attention when we explore for causes. We can analyze
+material bodies but we have to stop at the life line for more knowledge.
+Our boats have been in port over 6000 years, waiting for knowledge about
+the whats and whys of life, until barnacles of ignorance have
+accumulated to such thickness that the conchologist has called that cake
+of shells "allopathy" which weighed anchor and turned to the great sea
+of human credulity to expound, with nothing but conjectures to offer. He
+toots his fog-horn in all lands and on all seas, and says, "age before
+reason." Thus one generation blindly follows another.
+
+
+HOW TO DESTROY DEADLY BOMBS OF DECAY.
+
+I think by this time the reader has gotten his mind in line with his
+exploring needle of thought to get some light or knowledge of why a
+growth and how a body that has never failed for few or many years,
+begins and continues to form and plant deadly bombs of decay in that
+once powerful engine of perfect health, to produce suicide. We see and
+know this to be the case in thousands of beings annually, and this same
+question is just as applicable to the herds of animals as to man. Thus
+we cry piteously for help, but no answer has come in past days; we go on
+and give place in lungs and other parts of the deadly tubercle. But one
+answer can be given in "Holy Writ" to suit these questions, "Cleanliness
+is next to Godliness." Turn the waters of life loose at the brain,
+remove all hindrances and the work will be done, and give us the eternal
+legacy, LONGEVITY.
+
+
+BATTLE OF BLOOD FOR LIFE.
+
+In America from the day of Washington and all centuries before his time,
+man has dreaded diseases of the lungs more universally than any other
+one disease. If we compare pulmonary diseases with other maladies we
+find more persons die of consumption, pneumonia, bronchitis and nervous
+coughs than from smallpox, typhus and bilious fever and all other fevers
+combined. Many diseases of contagious natures do not stay in city, town,
+country nor an army, but a short time; kills a few and disappears and
+may not return for many years. The same is the history of yellow fever,
+cholera and other epidemics. They slay their hundreds and stop as
+unceremoniously as they began. But when we think of diseases that begin
+to show their effects in tonsils, trachea and lining membranes of the
+air passages, we find we are in a boundless ocean; because we find all
+seasons of the year, which afford changes of weather: Wet, dry, windy,
+hot and cold, which mark 30° to 60° in twenty-four hours, chills the
+lungs and whole system, closes the excretory system against renovating
+equal to deposits, with all other chances to throw out dead matter and
+gases that destroy blood and life in proportion to the amount and time
+of abnormal retention.
+
+It takes no great mind to know from past observation that a common cold
+often holds on and settles down to chronic inflammation of the lungs,
+and the patient dies of consumption, croup, diphtheria, tonsilitis, and
+as catarrhal trouble stays and begins to waste vitality by failing to
+oxygenize blood while in the lungs, diphtheria paves the way for the
+young and old to die of consumption. Dance halls, opera houses,
+churches, school houses, and all crowded assemblies never fail to
+inspect and deposit the seeds of consumption in weak lungs.
+
+As one delves deeper and deeper into the machinery and exacting laws of
+life, he beholds works and workings of contented laborers of all parts
+of the one common whole--the great shafts and pillars of an engine
+working to the fullness of the meaning of perfection. He sees that great
+quarter-master the heart, pouring in and loading train after train and
+giving orders to the wagon-master to line his teams and march on quick
+time to all divisions, supply all companies, squads and sections with
+rations, clothing, ammunition, surgeons, splints and bandages, and put
+all the dead and wounded into the ambulances to be repaired or buried
+with military honors by Captain "VEIN," who fearlessly penetrates the
+densest bones, muscles and glands, with the living waters to quench the
+thirst of the blue corpuscles, who are worn out by doing fatigue duty in
+the great combat between life and death. He often has to run his trains
+on forced marches to get supplies to sustain his men of life when they
+have had to contend with long sieges of heat and cold. Of all officers
+of life, none have greater duties to perform than the quarter-master of
+blood supply, who borrows the force with which he runs his deliveries
+from the brain which give motion to all parts of active life.
+
+
+MILITIS TUBERCULOSIS.
+
+A tubercle is a separate body being enveloped.[4]
+
+[Footnote 4: Chambers.]
+
+As all descriptions of a tubercle in books amount to about this, that
+the tubercle is an amount of fleshy substance which may be albumen,
+fibrin, or any other substance collected and deposited at one place in
+the human body, and covered with a film composed generally of fibrinous
+substances, and deposited in its spherical form, and separated from all
+similarly formed spheres by fascia. They may be very numerous, for many
+hundreds may occupy one cubic inch and yet one is distinct from all
+others. They seem to develop only where fascia is abundant; in the
+lungs, liver, bowels and skin. After formation they may exist and show
+nothing but roughened surfaces, and when the period of dissolution and
+the solvent powers of the chemical laboratory take possession to banish
+them from the system, it generally begins its labors at such time as
+some catarrhal disease is preying upon the human system. Nature seems to
+make its first effort for the purpose of disposing of such substances as
+have accumulated at the catarrhal period. At which time it brings
+forward all the solvent qualities and applies them with the assistance
+of the motor force to drive out through the bowels, lungs, porous and
+excretory system all irritable substances. Electricity is called in as
+the motor force to be used in expelling all unkindly substances. By this
+effort of nature, which is an increased action of the motor nerves,
+electricity is brought to the degree of heat usually called fever, which
+if better understood we would possibly find to be the necessary heat of
+the furnace of the body being used to convert dead substances into gas
+which can travel through the excretory system and be thrown from the
+body much easier than water, lymph, albumen or fibrin.
+
+
+CONVERSION OF BODIES INTO GAS.
+
+During this process of gas burning, a very high temperature is obtained
+by the increased action of the arterial system through the motor nerves,
+permeating those tubercles and causing an inflammation of them by the
+gaseous disturbance so produced; another effort of nature to convert
+those tubercles into gas and relieve the body of their presence and
+irritable occupancy.
+
+As an illustration we will ask the reader if it would be reasonable to
+expect to pass a common towel through a pipe stem. Nevertheless nature
+can easily do it. Confine the towel in a cylinder and apply fire, which
+in time will convert the towel into gas or smoke, and enable it to pass
+through the stem. Is it not just as reasonable to suppose those high
+temperatures of the body are nature's furnaces, making fires out of
+those dead bodies, while passing them through the skin in order to get
+rid of these great and small towels which are packed all through the
+human fascia, and can only be passed from the body in a gaseous form;
+the gas generated by heat.
+
+The blackened eye of the pugilist soon fires up its furnaces and
+proceeds to generate gas from the dead blood that surrounds the eye.
+Though it may be considerable quantities under the skin, the blood soon
+disappears leaving the face and eye normal to all appearances. No pus
+has formed, nor deposit left, fever disappears, the eye is well. What
+better effort could nature offer than through its gas generating
+furnace. I will leave any other method for you to discover. I know of
+none that my reason can grasp.
+
+
+FORMING A TUBERCLE.
+
+When reason sees a white corpuscle in the fascia not taken up as a
+nutrient, it attaches itself to the fascia with all its uterine powers
+during the time of measles or other eruptive diseases, and soon takes
+form and is a vital and durable being whose name is tubercle; in form a
+sphere, and place of foetal life is a cell in the fascia of life
+giving power to all forms of flesh. Thus all tubercles are
+unappropriated substances whom mother fascia has clothed and ordered in
+camp for treatment and repairs, and placed them on the list of enrolled
+pensioners, to draw on the treasury of the fascia, until death shall
+discharge them.
+
+
+BREEDING CONTAGION.
+
+The mothers of the human race give birth to children from puberty to
+sterility. She may give birth a dozen times, but nature finally calls a
+halt, and the whole system of life sustaining nerves of the womb which
+are in the fascia, with blood in great abundance to supply foetal
+life, ceases to go farther with the processes of building beings.
+Vitality for that purpose stops, never to return. Nature has no longer a
+demand for her system to act as a constructing cause for other beings,
+of her kind, and she is free the remainder of her days.
+
+A question arises. Are children all she can develop in her system and
+give birth to? No, she can go through other processes of breeding. In
+her fascia there is one seed, if vitalized will develop a being called
+measles. She never has but one confinement. That set of nerves that gave
+support and growth to measles died in the delivery of the child, and
+never can conceive and produce any more measles. Another seed lives in
+her fascia waiting to be vitalized by the male principle of smallpox,
+and when it is born it always kills the nerves that gave it life and
+form. And the person never can have but one such child or being during
+life.
+
+Still another seed awaits the coming of the commissary to nourish while
+it consumes that vitality in the fascia of the glands to develop the
+portly child we call mumps. Both male and female conceive and give birth
+to such beings, then tear up the tracks and roads behind them, by
+killing the demand for such drink.
+
+I want to draw the mind of the reader to the fact that no being can be
+formed without material. A place in which to be developed, and all
+forces necessary to do the needed work. And as all excressences and
+abnormal growths, diseases and conditions, must have the friendly
+assistance of the fascia before development; the fascia is the place to
+look for cause of disease and the place to consult and begin the action
+of remedies in all diseases, even though it be the birth of a child.
+
+
+THE SEEDS OF DISEASE.
+
+We can arrive at truth only by the powerful rules of reason, so the
+philosopher has shouted from the house tops of all ages. He adjusts his
+many supposable causes, adds to and subtracts until he arrives at a
+conclusion based upon the facts of his observations. Knowing the
+principles that exist in substances and seeds, by which when associated
+with proper conditions that powerful engine known as animal life gives
+the truth with fact and motion as its voucher. We reason, if corn be
+planted in moist and warm earth, that action and growth will present the
+form of a living stalk of corn, which has existed in embryo, and still
+continues its vital actions as long as the proper conditions prevail, i.
+e., until the growth and development is completed. If you take a seed
+in your fingers, push it in the ground and cover it up, incubation,
+growth and development is expected in obedience to the law under which
+it serves. Thus we see to succeed we must deposit and cover up the seed
+in order that the laws of gestation may have an opportunity by which
+they get the results desired. As nature always presents itself to our
+minds as seeds deposited in soil and season to suit, and it is loyal to
+its own laws only, we are constrained by this method of reasoning to
+conclude that disease must have a soil in which to plant its seeds
+before gestation and development. It must have seasonable conditions,
+the rains of nourishment, also the necessary time required for such
+processes. All these laws must be fulfilled to the letter, otherwise a
+failure is absolute. As the great laboratory of nature is always at work
+in the human body, the chilling winds and poisonous breaths, with
+extremes of heat and cold at different seasons of the year by day and
+night, and the lungs and skin are continually secreting and excreting
+every minute, hour and day of our lives, is it not reasonable to suppose
+that we inhale many elements that are floating in the common winds that
+contain the seeds of some destructive element, to the harmony of fluids
+that are necessary to sustain the healthy animal forms.
+
+
+GENERATING FEVER.
+
+Suppose it should start the yeast, or kind of substance that lives
+greatly upon lime. If this yeast in its action and thirst for food to
+suit its life and appetite should call in from the earth, water and
+atmosphere for its daily food lime substances only, and by its power
+destroy all other principles taken as nourishment, is it not reasonable
+to suppose it would deposit such elements in over powering quantities in
+the fascia of the mucous membrane of the lungs in such quantities, as to
+overcome the renovating powers of the lungs and excretory system, by its
+paralyzing quantities of diseased fluids, all through the universal
+fascia of animal life. This deposit acts as an irritant to the sensory
+nerves to such an extent that the electricity of the motor nerves is
+forced to take charge of, and run the machinery of the human body, with
+such velocity as to raise the temperature of the body, by putting the
+electricity above the normal action of animal life, and thereby generate
+that temperature known as fever?
+
+The two extremes, heat and cold, may be the causes of retention and
+detention. One is detained by the contraction of cold until the blood
+and other fluids die by asphyxia. The warm temperature produces
+relaxation of the nerves, blood, and all other vessels of the fascia,
+during which time the arteries are injecting too great quantities of
+fluids to be renovated by the excretory systems. Thus you have a cause
+for decomposition of the blood and other substances, to be conveyed to
+the lungs for purification and renewal. You have a logical foundation
+and a cause for all diseases, catarrhal, climatic, contagions,
+infections, and epidemics. The fascia proves itself to be the probable
+matrix of life and death. Beginning with the mucous membrane penetrating
+all parts to supply and renovate the fluids of life, and nourishing all
+the nerves of nutrition and assimilation. When harmonious in normal
+action, health is good; when perverted, disease is destructive unto
+death.
+
+
+WHOOPING COUGH.
+
+I have perused all the authority obtainable, advised with and counciled
+for information in reference to the cause of whooping cough until I am
+constrained to think, whether I say so or not, that I have had many
+additions of words during the conversation, and to use a homely phrase,
+less sense than I started out with. My tongue is tired, my brain
+exhausted, my hopes disappointed and my mind disgusted, that after so
+much effort to obtain some positive knowledge of the disease in
+question, which is whooping cough, that I have received nothing that
+would give me any light whatever pertaining to the subject. It winds up
+thus, that it may be a germ that irritates the pneumogastric nerve. I go
+off as blank and empty as the fish lakes on the moon. I supposed writers
+would say something in reference to the irritating influence of this
+disease on the nerves and muscles that would contract or convulsively
+shorten the muscles that attach at the one end to the os hyoid, and at
+the other end at various points along the neck, and force the hyoid back
+against the pneumogastric nerve, hypoglossal, cervical, or some other
+nerve that would be irritated by such pressure on nerves by the os
+hyoid, when pulled back and held against such nerves. The above picture
+will give the reader some idea why I became so thoroughly disgusted with
+the heaps of compiled trash. I say trash because there was not a single
+truth, great or small, to guide me in search of the desired knowledge.
+And at this point I will say on my first exploration I found all of the
+nerves and muscles that attach to the os hyoid at any point contracted,
+shortened and pulling the hyoid back to and pressing against the
+pneumogastric nerve, and all the nerves in that vicinity. Also each and
+every muscle was in a hard and contracted condition in the region of
+this portion of the trachea, and extended up and into the back part of
+the tongue. Then I satisfied myself that this irritable condition of the
+muscles was possibly the cause of the spasms of the trachea during the
+convulsive cough. I proceeded at once with my hand guided by my judgment
+to suspend or stop for awhile the action of the nerves of sensation that
+go with and control the muscles of the machinery which conducts air to
+and from the lungs. That my first effort while acting upon this
+philosophy was a complete relaxation of all muscles and fibers of that
+part of the neck, and when they relaxed their hold upon the respiratory
+machinery the breathing became normal. I have been asked what bone I
+would pull when treating whooping cough? My answer would be, the bones
+that held by attachment the muscles of the hyoid system in such
+irritable condition that begin with the atlas and terminate with the
+sacrum. To him who has been a willing student of the American School of
+Osteopathy the successful management of whooping cough should be
+absolute, reliable and successful in all cases, when taken for treatment
+in anything like, a reasonable time.
+
+
+CLOUDS AND LUNGS ARE MUCH ALIKE.
+
+One is always the same in form and stays in the body of animals, while
+the clouds, the lungs of the sky, are never the same in form. They are
+sometimes very dense and separated from all others. Such are more
+furious in display. Then we see the softer clouds which cover all
+visible space above; they too give us rain but in a more quiet way and
+are more extended in space; they shade the sun, and form water by
+uniting oxygen and hydrogen, and supply vegetation and all demands for
+water. Now we see and know the uses for the clouds or lungs of the sky,
+and we are led to hunt and locate the water forming clouds of the animal
+beings. As we behold above us the forming clouds we see great activity,
+with darkness and attending shadows, without such shadows or darkness no
+rain can form.
+
+The lung of man, too, is in the shade, and surely like the clouds have
+much to do with the air which contains both gases, which compose water
+and other elements of life. With my power of reasoning, if the lungs do
+not generate water and supply the human system through the secretions to
+sustain life, and keep the body clean and healthy by the excretories, I
+am at a loss to know why so much wind is taken into the body just to
+blow out. One would say we live by the wind, and to cut it off we die.
+At this point I will ask the question, Where and how do fishes get their
+wind? If they can live on oxygen and hydrogen when united in the form of
+water, is not this the strongest conclusion we can come to that the
+lungs generate water of a purer quality than is found in the running
+brooks or ocean?
+
+Is it not reasonable to suppose that in the lungs can be found the
+fountain from which water is conveyed to the lymphatics and other parts
+of the body, to mix with the blood and keep it in proper condition while
+in construction and processes of renovation? Then if this be true, have
+we not established and located the fountain head and supply of the
+nutrient waters of life? If so are we not justified in going to that
+fountain for water to extinguish a fire that is consuming the body,
+which we call fever? This heat never appears until the water supplying
+the lymphatics is very much exhausted, previous to this exhibition of
+heat; which the chemist would conclude was the result of the action of
+phosphorous uniting with oxygen without hydrogen.
+
+We as philosophical machinists, to extinguish this fire by every method
+of reason, would be forced to go to the lungs, and place them in a
+condition that they can generate water at once and supply the excretory
+ducts, which will at the first pulsation of the heart throw water upon
+the consuming fire, and extinguish it by uniting oxygen with hydrogen,
+and cover the burning building with water by disabling the power of
+phosphorous and oxygen from uniting and keeping up the flames of
+destruction.
+
+
+THE WISDOM OF NATURE.
+
+For all my life previous to the day I spoke out with my conclusions of
+the wisdom of nature as a very wise and careful mechanic, I had been
+told that "God" was wise to a finish,--from my birth until I was
+thirty-five years old,--when I saw that all work done by that law of
+power and wisdom was absolutely perfect in all its requirements. In
+vegetable life no power of human can detect a flaw or even suggest an
+additional leaf, limb or fruit. I had made a long study of minerology in
+which I found each stone or mettle was in a division of life that was
+its own, and no other stone could appear dressed in its garb, from the
+black silurian to the purely transparent crystal. I saw that a diamond
+could not be a ruby, neither could it be an oak, a goose nor a goat.
+With all the teaching which had given God credit for his perfect
+construction, wisdom and ability in all nature, I reasoned that in
+parching seasons that the sun's fires were put out, and a feverish earth
+cooled by the falling dews of the clouds. I asked of my own reason if
+there was not a cloud of water in the human body that could be caused to
+drop its dews, put out the fires of fever, and save the forests of life
+that were being burned every fall season.
+
+
+WATER FORMED IN LUNGS.
+
+I reasoned that water was made by the union of two gases, hydrogen and
+oxygen,--then a question arose, Is it not fully in line with reason that
+union of the two gases can and does occur in the lungs and form water,
+that is taken up by the secretions carried to the lymphatics, and by
+them to all of the system and stored away for use? Thus I reasoned, and
+proceeded to seek nerve centers to cause the lymphatics to discharge
+this water on such places and in quantities sufficient to reduce the
+heat called fever. I succeeded, fevers vanished as with a magic touch,
+and left the persons, both old and young, in their normal temperatures
+without any difference as to kinds of fever to the complete list.
+
+Our lungs are surely the half-way place between life and death. We are
+told by chemistry that two gases make water for the uses of the body. Is
+it not true that nature makes water in great quantities often for
+special cases or conditions, for relief purposes, such as in asiatic
+cholera, cholera morbus, chills and fever; when the contents of stomach,
+bowels and skin run off many gallons of water, running through sheet and
+mattress and on floor, not from kidneys but skin. Is it not plain to the
+man of reason that the two gases, oxygen and hydrogen, do unite in the
+lungs, form water and give supply to this great river of water that
+washes life out in but a few hours in cases of cholera and other
+diseases. The person is very cold at such times, breath and lung far
+below the normal, and fully enough to condense gases to water.
+
+
+THE LAW OF FIVES.
+
+Lungs have five lobes, three on right lung, and two on left. Liver has
+five lobes, three on right lobe, and two on left lobe. Nerves have five
+qualities, nutrition, sensation, motion, voluntary and involuntary.
+Nerves have five senses, seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting.
+Since all principles differ in qualities or kinds of service, would it
+be amiss for us to inquire a little farther why the lungs and liver are
+provided with five divisions each, if not to do five kinds of work, and
+different from all other kinds in many ways?
+
+
+FEEBLE ACTION OF HEART.
+
+I want to draw your attention to the facts that there is no method known
+by which electricity or magnetic forces can be weighed. When we find the
+nerves that connect the heart and lungs to brain limited by pressure
+from twist or slip of neck, do we not see cause for croup? How would we
+reason to convey electricity without a connected wire? Not at all, we
+would know no electric force could reach to any point unless a continued
+connection was made. Now to the point; suppose the vagus nerve should be
+oppressed to a condition to cut off part of the electricity, would we be
+surprised if the heart should be feeble in action. I think much of the
+diseases of the "_heart_" are not of the organ but from a feeble supply
+of electricity that is cut off in medulla or heart nerves, between heart
+and brain. Why singing and roaring of ears in heart diseases, if there
+is no waste of pectoral electricity?
+
+
+THE HEART.
+
+With the knife of reason in hand and the microscope of mind of the
+greatest known power properly adjusted, we cut and lay open the breast
+of man. Here we dwell indefinitely. This is the engine of life, the
+self-propelling machine which has constructed all that is necessary to
+its own convenience and comfort. It has brought and deposited its own
+nourishment in the coronary arteries, whose duty is to construct and
+enlarge the heart from time to time as its demands increase. We see its
+main trunk of supply placed lengthways with the spinal column for the
+purpose of constructing a manufactory of nutriment. We pass from the
+heart upward about one foot, here we find it has constructed a battery
+of force and sensation, and contains all power necessary to carry on
+construction to the completed man.
+
+In that brain or battery is found all the motor and sensory elements of
+life, with nerves to transmit all nerve powers and principles found in
+the human body. There is not a known atom in the whole human make-up
+that has not been propelled by the heart through the channels by which
+it has provided for such purpose. Every muscle, bone, hair, and all
+other parts without an exception have traveled through this system of
+arteries to their separate destinations. All are indebted to the heart
+for their material size, and all qualities of motion and life sustaining
+principles of the human body.
+
+If the carotid artery should tire out and not be able to perform its
+duty the brain would tire out also, and cease to operate. Should the
+descending aorta come to a halt from any cause, all parts of the body
+depending upon that vessel would suffer a total loss of blood supply.
+Equally so with any other principal artery of limb or body, all mark a
+failure equal to the suspended supply. The parts and principles of the
+human body depending upon the heart are numerous beyond computation.
+Every expulsive stroke of the heart throws into line armed and equipped
+for duty thousands and millions of operators, whose duties are to
+inspect, repair injuries and construct anew if need be from the crown of
+the head to the sole of the foot. With the best eye of reason we see but
+dimly into the breast of man which contains the heart, the wonder of man
+and the secret of life.
+
+I have given these bulky descriptions of the forest and ocean to
+prepare the mind of man to begin the inspection of the machinery that
+has constructed the body of which he is the indweller. If we cannot
+swallow all, we can taste.
+
+
+FROM NECK TO HEART.
+
+The hearts of all animals should call the most careful attention of the
+student of nature. He finds in it the first act of life; from it go all
+parts or by it all parts of the body are made, and the student of nature
+soon learns that at the heart he finds the first evidence of the power
+of life to continue and give useful shape to matter. Its first work is
+to complete itself in material form with necessary chambers to hold
+blood and with tubes to convey to all places of need. He sees vessels
+leaving the heart to form brain, lungs, liver, trunk and limbs, and with
+each and all he can see the nerves of motion, sensation, nutrition, the
+voluntary and involuntary--all working in perfect harmony and content to
+do their part in the economy of life. Without that union in action a
+confusion will show in form of abnormality which is known as disease. On
+its work all nerves do depend for force and strength to build and
+renovate the body in all its bones, muscles and nerves--thus all
+channels to and from the heart must be cleared from all hindrance. No
+nerve can do its part unless it be well nourished. If not it will fail
+to execute its part for want of power--for by it all blood must move.
+These nerves are found in plexuses in all parts of the body; they are
+abundant in the skin, fascia, muscle, lymphatics and all organs great
+and small. The Osteopath must know or learn that no infringement can be
+tolerated in any part. Nature's demands are surely absolute, and require
+that the last farthing shall be paid in full. Now for a start--we will
+explore the neck; here we have the great and small occipital and the
+cervical group all receiving from the brain and feeding parts below.
+Thus we must stop at the neck and read the lessons that can be found
+there, and learn them well; or we will find that we will not be able to
+meet diseases only to be defeated. We must have the fight during the
+four seasons of the year. In the cold seasons we will find lung and
+other diseases--croup, pneumonia, diphtheria, sore throat. All these do
+their mischief through the nerves of the neck.
+
+Where is or who is the great thinker who knows and can tell all of the
+duties and actions of the nerves of the neck, or what nerve failed and
+slept while a tubercle was formed in the lungs? Which nerve slept while
+fat is heaped up in useless piles in the body? Let us wake up!
+Consumption does not come without a cause. What plexus is overcome and
+allows the lungs to waste away? To what ganglion of the spine would the
+finger of reason point, and say, "that is the cause of _phthisis
+pulmonalis_?" In our search we find a division of nerves run from the
+brain through the regions of the neck, and find a point at which a
+branch leaves a greater nerve on a line that leads to the lungs. We will
+likely find a ganglion at which place all or much of one or both lungs
+are supplied. Then we, by reason, would see that freedom of action
+cannot be. If some substance should intrude by pressure on any nerve in
+that region, we must judge by conditions if that pressure has cut off
+nutrition equal to feeble condition of the lungs.
+
+
+DYSPEPSIA OR IMPERFECT DIGESTION.
+
+In our physiologies we read much about digestion. We will start in where
+they stop. They bring us to the lungs with chyle fresh as made and
+placed in thoracic duct, previous to flowing into the heart to be
+transferred to lungs to be purified, charged with oxygen and otherwise
+qualified, and sent off for duty, through the arteries great and small,
+to the various parts of the system. But there is nothing said of the
+time when all blood is gas (if ever) before it is taken up by the
+secretions, after refinement, and driven to the lungs to be mixed with
+the old blood from the venous system. A few questions about the blood
+seem to hang around my mental crib for food. Reason says we cannot use
+blood before it has all passed through the gaseous stage of refinement,
+which reduces all material to the lowest forms of atoms, before
+constructing any material body. I think it safe to assume that all
+muscles and bones of our body have been in the gas state while in the
+process of preparing substances for blood. A world of questions arise at
+this point.
+
+
+QUESTIONS OF GAS.
+
+The first is, Where and how is food made into gas while in the body? If
+you will listen to a dyspeptic after eating you will wonder where he
+gets all the wind that he rifts from his stomach, and continues for one
+or two hours after each meal. That gas is generated in the stomach and
+intestines, and we are led to believe so because we know of no other
+place in which it can be made and thrown into the stomach by any tubes
+or other methods of entry. Thus by the evidence so far the stomach and
+bowels are the one place in which this gas is generated. Now comes
+question two: As I have spoken of the stomach that generates and ejects
+great quantities of gas for a longer or shorter time after meals, this
+class of people have always been called dyspeptics. Another class of the
+same race of beings stand side by side with him, without this gas
+generating. He, too, eats and drinks of the same kind of food, without
+any of the manifestations that have been described in the first class.
+Why does one stomach blow off gas continually, while the other does not?
+is a very deep, serious and interesting question. As number two throws
+off no gas from the stomach after eating, is this conclusive evidence
+that his stomach generates no gas? Or does his stomach and bowels form
+gas just as fast as No. 1? and the secretions of the stomach and bowels
+take up and retain the nutritious matter and pass the remainder of the
+gas by way of the excretory ducts through the skin? If the excretory
+ducts take up and carry this gas out of the body by way of the skin, and
+he is a healthy man, why not account for No. one's stomach ejecting this
+gas by way of the mouth, because of the fact that the secretions of the
+stomach are either clogged up or inactive, for want of vital motion of
+the nerve terminals of the stomach. Another question in connection with
+this subject: Why is the man whose stomach belches forth gas in such
+abundance also suffering with cold feet, hands and all over the body,
+while No. 2 is quite warm and comfortable, with a glow of warmth passing
+from his body all the time? With these hints I will ask the question:
+What is digestion?
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+THE LYMPHATICS.
+
+     Importance of the Subject--Demands of Nature on the
+     Lymphatics--Dunglinson's Definition--Dangers of Dead
+     Substances--Lymph Continued--Solvent in Nature--Where Are the
+     Lymphatics Situated?--The Fat and Lean.
+
+
+IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT.
+
+Possibly less is known of the lymphatics than any other division of the
+life-sustaining machinery of man. Thus ignorance of that division is
+equal to a total blank with the operator. Finer nerves dwell with the
+lymphatics than even with the eye. The eye is an organized effect, the
+lymphatics the cause; in them the spirit of life more abundantly dwells.
+No atom can leave the lymphatics in an imperfect state and get a union
+with any part of the body. There the atom obtains form and knowledge of
+how and what to do. The lymphatics consume more of the finer fluids of
+the brain than the whole viscera combined. By nature, coarser substances
+are necessary to construct the organs that run the blast, and rough
+forging divisions. The lymphatics form, finish, temper and send the
+bricks to the builder with intelligence, that he may construct by
+adjusting all according to nature's plans and specifications. Nature
+makes machinery that can produce just what is necessary, and when
+united, produces what the most capable minds could exact.
+
+The lymphatics are closely and universally connected with the spinal
+cord and all other nerves, long or short, universal or separate, and all
+drink from the waters of the brain. By an action of the nerves of the
+lymphatics, a union of qualities necessary to produce gall, sugar,
+acids, alkalies, bone, muscle and softer parts, with the thought that
+elements can be changed, suspended, collected and associated and produce
+any chemical compound necessary to sustain animal life, wash out, salt,
+sweeten and preserve the being from decay and death by chemical,
+electric, atmospheric or climatic conditions. By this we are admonished
+in all our treatment not to wound the lymphatics, as they are
+undoubtedly the life giving centers and organs. Thus it behooves us to
+handle them with wisdom and tenderness, for by and from them a withered
+limb, organ or any division of the body receives what we call
+reconstruction, or is builded anew, and without this cautious procedure
+your patient had better save his life and money by passing you by as a
+failure, until you are by knowledge qualified to deal with the
+lymphatics.
+
+
+DEMANDS OF NATURE ON THE LYMPHATICS.
+
+Why not reason on the broad plain of known facts, and give the why he or
+she has complete prostration. When all systems are cut off from a chance
+to move and execute such duties as nature has allotted to them, motor
+nerves must drive all substances to and sensation must judge the supply
+and demand. Nutrition must be in action the time and keep all parts well
+supplied with power to labor or a failure is sure to appear. We must
+ever remember the demands of nature on the lymphatics, liver and
+kidneys. They must work all the time or a confusion for lack in their
+duties will mark a cripple in some function of life over which they
+preside.
+
+
+DUNGLINSON'S DEFINITION.
+
+Dunglinson's scientific definition of the lymphatics is very extensive,
+comprehensive and right to the point for our use as doctors of
+Osteopathy. He describes the lymphatic glands as countless in number,
+universally distributed all through the human body, containing vitalized
+water and other fluids necessary to the support of animal life, running
+parallel with the venous system, and more abundantly there than in other
+locations of the body, at the same time discharging their contents into
+the veins while conveying the blood back to the heart from the whole
+system. Is it not reasonable to suppose that besides being nutrient
+centers, that they accumulate and pass water through the whole secretory
+and excretory systems of the body, in order to reduce nourishment to
+that degree from thick to thin, that it may easily pass through all
+tubes, ducts and vessels interested in distribution, as nourishment
+first, and renovation second, through the excretory ducts. The question
+arises whence cometh this water?
+
+
+DANGERS OF DEAD SUBSTANCES.
+
+This leads us back to the lungs as one of the great sources of which you
+have been informed under the head of "Lungs, Gases and Water." With this
+fountain of life saving water provided by nature to wash away impurities
+as they accumulate in our bodies, would it not be great stupidity in us
+to see a human being burn to death by the fires of fever, or die from
+asphyxia by allowing bad or dead lymph, albumen, or any substance to
+load down the powers of nature and keep the blood from being washed to
+normal purity? If so, let us go deeper into the study of the life-saving
+powers of the lymphatics. Do we not find in death that the lymphatics
+are dark, and in life they are healthy and red?
+
+
+LYMPH CONTINUED.
+
+What we meet with in all diseases is dead blood, stagnant lymph, and
+albumen in a semi-vital or dead and decomposing condition all through
+the lymphatics and other parts of the body, brain, lungs, kidneys, liver
+and fascia. The whole system is loaded with a confused mass of blood,
+that is mixed with much or little unhealthy substances, that should have
+been kept washed out by lymph. Stop and view the frog's superficial
+lymphatic glands; you see all parts move just as regular as the heart
+does; they are all in motion during life. For what purpose do they move?
+if not to carry the fluids to sustain by building up, while the
+excretory channels receive and pass out all that is of no further use to
+the body. Now we see this great system of supply is the source of
+construction and purity. If this be true we must keep them normal all
+the time or see confused nature in the form of disease, the list
+through. Thus we strike at the source of life and death when we go to
+the lymphatics.
+
+With this fountain of life-saving water, provided by nature to wash away
+impurities as they accumulate in our bodies, would it not be great
+stupidity in us to see a human being burn to death by the fires of
+fever, or die from asphyxia, by allowing bad or dead lymph, albumen or
+any substance to load down the powers of nature to keep the blood washed
+to normal purity? If so let us go deeper in the study of the
+life-sustaining powers of the lymphatics.
+
+
+NATURE'S SOLVENTS.
+
+The brain flushes the nerves of the lymphatics first, and more than any
+other system of the body. No part is so small or remote that it is not
+in direct connection with some part or chain of the lymphatics. The
+doctor of Osteopathy has much to think about when he consults natural
+remedies, and how they are supplied and administered, and as disease is
+the effect of tardy deposits in some or all parts of the body, reason
+would bring us to hunt a solvent of such deposits, which hinder the
+natural motion of blood and other fluids in functional works, which are
+to keep the body pure from any substance that would check vital action.
+When we have searched and found that the lymphatics are almost the sole
+requisite of the body we then must admit that their use is equal to the
+abundant and universal supply of such glands. If we think and use a
+homely word and say that disease is only too much dirt in the wheels of
+life, then we will see that nature takes this method to wash out the
+dirt. As an application, pneumonia is too much dirt in the wheels of the
+lungs, if so we must wash out; no where can we go to a better place for
+water than to the lymphatics. Are they not like a fire company with
+nozzles in all windows ready to flush the burning house?
+
+
+WHERE ARE THE LYMPHATICS SITUATED?
+
+A student of life must take in all parts, and study their uses and
+relations to other parts and systems. We lay much stress on the uses of
+blood and the powers of the nerves, but have we any evidence that they
+are of more vital importance than the lymphatics? If not let us halt at
+this universal system of irrigation and study its great uses in
+sustaining animal life. Where are they situated in the body? Answer by,
+where are they not? No space is so small as to be out of connection with
+the lymphatics, with their nerves, secretory and excretory ducts. Thus
+the system of lymphatics is complete and universal in the whole body.
+After beholding the lymphatics distributed along all nerves, blood
+channels, muscles, glands and all organs of the body, from the brain to
+the soles of the feet, all loaded to fullness with watery liquids, we
+certainly can make but one conclusion as to their use, which would be to
+mingle with and carry out all impurities of the body, by first mixing
+with such substances and reducing them to that degree of fluids in
+fineness, that could pass through the smallest tubes of the excretory
+system, and by that method free the body from all deposits of either
+solids or fluids, and leave nourishment.
+
+
+THE FAT AND LEAN.
+
+A question: Why is he too fat and she only skin and bone, while a third
+is just right? If one is just right, why not all? If we get fat by a
+natural process why not reverse the process and stop at any desirable
+point in flesh size? I believe the law of life is simple and natural in
+both respects if wisely understood. Have we nerves of motion to carry
+food to all parts, organs, glands and muscles? Have we channels to
+convey to all? Have we fluids to suit all demands? Have we brain power
+equal to all force needed? Is blood formed sufficiently to fill all
+demands? Does that blood contain fat, water, muscle, skin, hair and all
+kinds to suit each division, organ, and nerve? If so and blood has
+builded too much flesh, can it not take that bulk away by returning
+blood to gas and other fluids? Can that which has been done be done
+again? If yes be the correct answer, then we should hope to return
+blood, fat, flesh and bone to gas and pass them away while in gaseous
+condition, and do away with all unnatural size or lack of size. I
+believe that it is natural to build and destroy all material form from
+the lowest animated being to the greatest rolling world. I believe no
+world could be constructed without strict obedience to a governing law,
+which gives size by addition and reduces that size by subtraction. Thus
+a fat man is builded by great addition, and if desired can be reduced
+by much subtraction, which is simply a rule of numbers. We multiply to
+enlarge, also subtract when we wish a reduction. Turn your eye for a
+time to the supply trains of nature. When the crop is abundant, the
+lading would be great, and when the seasons do not suit, the crops are
+short or shorter to no lading at all. Thus we have the fat man and the
+lean man. Is it not reasonable as a conclusion of the most exacting
+philosophy that the train of cars that can bring loads of stone, brick
+and mortar until a great bulk is formed, can also carry away until this
+bulk disappears in part or all? This being my conclusion I will say by
+many years of careful observation of the work of creating bodies and
+destroying the same, that to add to is the law of giving size, and to
+subtract from is the law of reduction. Both are natural, and both can be
+made practical in the reduction or addition of flesh, when found too
+great in quantity, or we can add to and give size to the starving muscle
+through the action of the motor and nutrient system conveyed to, and
+appropriated from the laboratory in which all bodily substances are
+formed. Thus the philosophy is absolute, and the sky is clear to proceed
+with addition and subtraction of flesh. I believe I am prepared to say
+at this time that I understand the nervous system well enough to direct
+the laboratory of nature and cause it through its skilled arts to
+unload, or reduce, he who is over-burdened with a super-abundance of
+flesh, and add to the scanty muscle a sufficiency to give power of
+comfortable locomotion and other forces, by opening the gate of the
+supply trains of nutrition.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+THE DIAPHRAGM.
+
+     Investigation--A Struggle With Nature--Lesson of Cause and
+     Effect--Something of Medical Etiquette--The Medical Doctor--An
+     Explorer for Truth Must Be Independent--The Diaphragm Introduced--A
+     Useful Study--Combatting Effect--Is Least Understood--A Case of
+     Bilious Fever--A Demand on the Nerves--Danger of Compression--A
+     Cause for Disease--Was a Mistake Made in the Creation--An
+     Exploration--Result of Removal of Diaphragm--Sustaining Life in
+     Principles--Law Applicable to Other Organs--Power of
+     Diaphragm--Omentum.
+
+
+INVESTIGATION.
+
+Let us halt at the origin of the splanchnic and take a look. At this
+point we see the lower branches; sensation, motion, and nutrition, all
+slant above the diaphragm pointing to the solar plexus which sends off
+branches to pudic and sacral plexus of sensory system of nerves; just at
+the place to join the life giving ganglion of sacrum with orders from
+the brain to keep the process of blood forming in full motion all the
+time. A question arises, how is this motion supplied and from where? The
+answer is by the brain as nerve supply, heart as blood supply, all of
+which comes from above the diaphragm, to keep machinery in form and
+supplied with motion, that it may be able to generate chyle to send back
+to heart, to be formed into blood and thrown into arteries to build all
+parts as needed, and keep brain fed up to its normal supply of power
+generating needs. We see above the diaphragm, the lungs, heart and
+brain, the three sources of blood and nerve supply. All three are
+guarded by strong walls, that they may do their part in keeping up the
+life supply as far as blood and nerve force is required. But as they
+generate no blood nor nerve material, they must take the place of
+manufactories and purchase material from a foreign land, to be able to
+have an abundance all the time. We see nature has placed its
+manufacturies above a given line in the breast, and grows the crude
+material below said line. Now as growth means motion and supply, we must
+combine in a friendly way, and conduct the force from above to the
+region below the septum or diaphragm, that we may use the powers as
+needed. This wall must and does have openings to let blood and nerves
+penetrate with supply and force to do the work of manufacturing.
+
+
+A STRUGGLE WITH NATURE.
+
+After all this has been done and a twist, pressure or obstructing fold
+should appear from any cause, would we not have a cut off of motion to
+return chyle, sensation to supply vitality, and venous motion to carry
+off arterial supply that has been driven from heart above? Have we not
+found the cause to stop all processes of life below diaphragm? In short,
+are we not in a condition to soon be in a complete state of stagnation?
+As soon as the arteries have filled the venous system, which is without
+sensation to return blood to the heart, then the heart can do nothing
+but wear out its energies trying to drive blood into a dead being below
+the diaphragm known as the venous system. It is dead until sensation
+reaches the vein from the sacral and pudic plexus.
+
+
+LESSON OF CAUSE AND EFFECT.
+
+Previous to all discoveries that have been made a demand for the
+usefulness of such discovery, is felt and talked of for years, centuries
+and cycles of time. Its discovery is an open question and free to all,
+because in this fact all are interested. That lack may be felt and
+spoken of by all agriculturists, and the inquiry directed to a better
+plow, a better sickle or mowing machine with which to reap standing
+grain. The thinker reduces his thoughts to practice, and cuts the grain,
+leaving it in such condition that a raker is needed to bunch it previous
+to binding.
+
+His victory is heralded to the world as king of the harvest, and so
+accepted. The discoverer says, "I wish I could bunch that grain." He
+begins to reason from the great principle of cause and effect, and
+sleeps not until he has added to his already made discovery, an addition
+so ingeniously constructed that it will drop the grain in bunches ready
+for the binder. The discoverer stands by and sees in the form of a human
+being hands, arms and a band; he watches the motion then starts in to
+rustle with cause and effect again. He thinks and sweats day and night,
+and by the genius of thought produces a machine to bind the grain. By
+this time another suggestion arises, how to separate the wheat as the
+machine journeys in its cutting process. To his convictions nothing will
+solve this problem but mental action. He thinks and dreams of cause and
+effect. His mind seems to forget all the words of his mother tongue but
+cause and effect. He talks and preaches cause and effect in so many
+places that his associates begin to think he is mentally failing, and
+will soon be a subject for the asylum. He becomes disgusted with their
+lack of appreciation, seeks seclusion and formulates the desired
+addition and threshes the grain ready for the bag. He has solved the
+question and proved to his neighbors that the asylum was built for them,
+not for him. With cause and effect which is ever before the
+philosopher's eye, he ploughs the ocean regardless of the furious
+waves, he dreads not the storms on the seas, because he has so
+constructed a vessel with a resistance superior to the force of the
+lashing waves of the ocean, and the world scores him another victory. He
+opens his mouth and says by the law of cause and effect I will talk to
+my mother who is hundreds of miles away. He disturbs her rest by the
+rattling of a little electric bell in her room. Tremblingly the aged
+mother approaches the telephone and asks "Who is there?" And is
+answered, "It is me, Jimmie," and asks, "To whom am I talking?" She says
+"Mrs. Sarah Murphy." He says, "God bless you, mother; I am at Galveston,
+Texas, and you are in Boston, Mass." She laughs and cries with joy; he
+hears every emotion of her trembling voice. She says to him, "You have
+succeeded at last. I have never doubted your final success,
+notwithstanding the neighbors have annoyed me almost to death, telling
+me you would land in the asylum, because no man could talk so as to be
+heard 1000 miles away; his lungs, were too weak, and his tongue too
+short."
+
+Now, friends, I have given you a long introductory foundation previous
+to giving you the cause of disease, with the philosophy that I have
+given upon cause and effect. I think it absolutely clear and the effect
+so unerring in its results, that with Pythagoras I can say "Eureka."
+
+
+SOMETHING OF MEDICAL ETIQUETTE.
+
+To know we have found a general cause for disease, one that will stand
+the heights and depths of direct and cross examinations, as given by the
+high courts of cool headed reason, has been the mental effort of all
+doctors and healers, since time began its record. They have had to treat
+disease as best they could, by such methods as customs had established
+as the best known for such diseases; notwithstanding their failures and
+the great mortality under such a system of treatment. They have not felt
+justified to go beyond the rules of symptomatology as adopted by their
+schools, with diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Should they digress
+from the rules of the etiquette of their alma maters they would lose the
+brotherly love and support of the medical association to which they
+belong, under the belief that, "A bad name is as bad as death to a dog."
+
+
+THE MEDICAL DOCTOR.
+
+He says that in union there is safety, and resolves to stick to, live
+and do as his school has disciplined all its pupils, with this command,
+"The day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Stick to the
+brotherhood."
+
+
+AN EXPLORER FOR TRUTH MUST BE INDEPENDENT.
+
+The explorer for truth must first declare his independence of all
+obligations or brotherhoods of any kind whatsoever. He must be free to
+think and reason. He must establish his observatory upon hills of his
+own; he must establish them above the imaginary high planes of rulers,
+kings, professors of schools of all kinds and denominations. He must be
+the Czar of his own mental empire, unencumbered with anything that will
+annoy while he makes his observations. I believe the reasons are so
+plain, so easily comprehended, the facts in its support so brilliant,
+that I will offer the same, though I be slaughtered on the altar of
+bigotry and intolerance. This philosophy is not intended for minds not
+thoroughly well posted by dissection and otherwise of the whole human
+anatomy. You must know its physiological laboratories and workings with
+the brain as the battery, the lungs as the source or machine that
+renovates the blood from all impurities, and the heart as the living
+engine or quarter-master, whose duty is to supply the commissaries with
+blood and other fluids to all divisions and sub-divisions of the human
+body, which is busily engaged producing material suited to the
+production of bone and muscle, and all other substances necessary to
+keep the machinery of life in full force and action.
+
+Without this knowledge on the part of the reader, the words of this
+philosophy will fall as blanks before reaching his magazine of reason.
+Thus this is addressed to the independent man or woman that can, will
+and does reason.
+
+
+THE DIAPHRAGM INTRODUCED.
+
+At this point we will introduce the diaphragm, which separates the
+heart, lungs and brain from the organs of life that are limited to the
+abdomen and pelvis. A question arises at this point; what has the
+diaphragm to do with good or bad health? At this time we will analyze
+the diaphragm; we will examine its construction, and its uses; we will
+examine its openings through which blood passes both above and below. We
+will examine the opening through which food passes to stomach. We will
+carefully examine the passage or opening for nerve supply to the abdomen
+below, to run this great system of chemistry, which is producing the
+various kinds of substances necessary to the hard and soft parts of the
+body. We must know the nerve supply of the lymphatics, womb, liver,
+kidneys, pancreas, the generative organs, what they are, what they do,
+and what are demanded of them, before we are able to feed our own minds
+from the cup that contains the essence of reason as expressed from the
+tree of life.
+
+
+A USEFUL STUDY.
+
+The diaphragm surely gives much food to the one who would search for the
+great whys of disease as reported causes seem to be far back in the fogs
+of mystery. It may help us to arrive at some facts if we take each organ
+and division and make a full acquaintance of all its parts and uses
+before we combine it with others.
+
+
+COMBATTING EFFECTS.
+
+In all ages, the Doctor has for lack of knowledge of the true cause of
+diseases, combatted effects with his remedies. He treats pain with
+remedies to deaden pain; congestion to wash out overplus of blood that
+has been carried to parts or organs of the body by arteries of blood and
+channels of secretions and not taken up and passed out and off by the
+excretories. He sees the abnormal size and leaves the hunting of the
+cause that has given growth to such proportions and begins to seek rest
+and ease for his patient. Then he treats to reduce by medicine to carry
+the waste fluids to bowels, bladder and skin, with tonics to give
+strength and stimulants to increase the action of the heart in order to
+force local deposits to the general excretory system. At this time let
+the Osteopathic Doctor take a close hunt for any fold in muscles of the
+system that would cause a cut-off of the normal supply of blood or
+suspend the action of nerves whose office is to give power and action to
+the excretory system sufficient to keep the dead matter carried off as
+fast as it accumulates. Let us stop and acquaint ourselves with the true
+condition of the diaphragm. It must be normal in place, as it is so
+situated that it will admit of no abnormality. It must be kept
+stretched, just as Nature arranged that it should, like a drum-head. It
+is attached all around to the chest, though it crosses five or six ribs
+on its descent from the seventh rib to the sternum at the lower point
+and down to fourth lumbar vertebra. It is a continuous slanting floor,
+above bowels and abdominal organs, and below heart and lungs. It must,
+by all reason, be kept normal in tightness at all places, without a fold
+or wrinkle, that could press the aorta, nerves, oesophagus, or
+anything that contributes to the supply or circulation of any vital
+substance. Now can there be any move in spine or ribs that would or
+could change the normal shape of the diaphragm? If so, where and why?
+
+
+IS LEAST UNDERSTOOD.
+
+The diaphragm is possibly the least understood as being the cause of
+more diseases, when its supports are not all in line and normal
+position, than any other part of the body. It has many openings through
+which nerves, blood and food pass while going from chest to all parts
+below. It begins at the lower end of the breast-bone and crosses to ribs
+back and down, in a slanting direction to the third or fourth lumbar
+vertebra. Like an apron, it holds all that is above it up, such as heart
+and lungs, and is the fence that divides the organs of the abdomen from
+the chest. Below it are the stomach, bowels, liver, spleen, kidneys,
+pancreas, womb, bladder; also the great system of lymphatics of the
+whole blood and nerve supply of the organs and systems of nutrition and
+life supply. All parts of the body have a direct or indirect connection
+with this great separating muscle. It assists in breathing, in all
+animals, when normal, and when prolapsed by the falling in and down of
+any of the five or six ribs by which it is supported in place, then we
+suffer from the effects of suspended normal arterial supply, and venous
+stagnation below diaphragm. The aorta meets resistance as it goes down
+with blood to nourish, and the vein as it goes back with impurities
+contained in venous blood, also meets an obstruction at the diaphragm,
+as it returns to the heart through the vena cava, because of the packing
+of a fallen diaphragm on and about the blood vessels that must not be
+obstructed. Thus heart trouble, lung disease, brain, liver, womb, tumors
+of the abdomen and through the list of effects can be traced to the
+diaphragm as the cause.
+
+I am strongly impressed that the diaphragm has much to do in keeping all
+the machinery and organs of life in a healthy condition, and will try
+and give some of the reasons why, as I now understand them. First, it is
+found to be wisely located just below the heart and lungs; one being the
+engine of the blood, and the other is the engine of the air. This strong
+wall holds all substances or other bodies away from any chance to press
+on either engine, while performing their parts in the economy of life.
+Each engine has a sacred duty to perform under the penal law of death to
+itself and all other divisions of the whole being, man. If it should
+neglect its work of which it is a vital part, should we take down this
+wall and allow the liver, stomach and spleen to occupy any of the places
+allotted to these engines of life, a confusion would surely be the
+result; ability of the heart to force blood to the lungs would be
+overcome and cause trouble.
+
+
+A CASE OF BILIOUS FEVER.
+
+Suppose we take a few diseases and submit them to the crucial ordeal of
+reason, and see if we do, or can find any one of the climatic fevers
+that appear with its full list of symptoms and have no assistance from
+an irritated diaphragm. For example take a case of common bilious fever
+of North America. It generally begins with a tired and sore feeling of
+limbs and muscles, pain in spine, head, and lumbar region. At this point
+of our inquiry we are left in an open sea of mystery and conjecture as
+to cause. One says, "malaria," and goes no farther, gives a name and
+stops. If you ask for the cause of such torturous pain in head and back,
+with fever and vomiting, he will tell you that the very best authorities
+agree that the cause is malaria, with its peculiar diagnostic tendency
+to affect the brain, spine and stomach, and administers quinine and
+leaves, thinking he has said and done all.
+
+Reason would lead seekers for cause of the pain above located to
+remember that all blood passes first as chyme up to heart and lungs,
+directly through the diaphragm, conducted through the thoracic duct,
+first to heart, thence to lungs, at the same time rivers of blood are
+pouring into the heart from all of the system. Much of it very impure,
+from diseased or stale blood. Much of the chyle is dead before it enters
+the great thoracic duct and goes to the lungs without enough pure blood
+to sustain life. Then disease appears.
+
+As a cut-off the diaphragm, when dropped front and down, and across the
+aorta and vena cava by a lowering of the ribs, on both sides of the
+spine; it would be a complete pressure over coelic axis, with liver
+supply, renal, pelvic, to a complete abdominal stoppage. Then we have
+over-due blood for other parts to send off dead corpuscles by asphyxia,
+with no hope that it can sustain life and health of the parts for which
+it was designed. Thus we know that nature would not be true to its own
+laws, if it would do good work with bad material.
+
+
+A DEMAND ON THE NERVES.
+
+Why not reason on the broad scale of known fact, and give the "why" he
+or she has complete prostration when all systems are wholly cut off from
+a chance to move and execute such duties as nature has allotted to them.
+Motor nerves must drive all substances to, and sensation must judge the
+supply and demand. Nutrition must be in action all the time and keep all
+parts well supplied or a failure is sure to appear. We must ever
+remember the demands of nature on the lymphatics, liver and kidneys,
+that nerves work all the time or a confusion for lack in their duties
+will mark a cripple in some function of life over which they preside.
+
+
+DANGER OF COMPRESSION.
+
+At this time we see by all systems of reason that no delay in passage of
+food or blood, can be tolerated at the diaphragm, because any
+irritation is bound to cause muscular contraction and impede the
+natural flow of blood, first through the abdominal aorta, and even to a
+temporary, partial or complete stoppage of arterial supply to the
+abdomen. Or the vena cava may be so pressed as to completely stop the
+return of venous blood from the stomach, kidneys, bowels and all other
+organs, such as the lymphatics, pancreas, fascia, cellular membranes,
+nerve centers, ganglionic and all systems of supply of organs of life
+found in the abdomen. Thus by pressure, stricture or contraction to the
+passage of blood can be stopped, either above or below the diaphragm,
+and be the cause of blood being detained long enough to die from
+asphyxia, and be left in the body of all organs below the diaphragm.
+
+
+A CAUSE FOR DISEASE.
+
+Thus you see a cause for Bright's disease of kidneys, disease of womb,
+ovaries, jaundice, dysentery, leucorrhoea, painful monthlies, spasms,
+dyspepsia, and on through the whole list of diseases now booked as
+"causes unknown," and treated by the rule of "cut and try." We do know
+that all blood for use of the whole system below the twelfth dorsal
+vertebra does pass through the diaphragm, and all nerve supply, also
+passes through the diaphragm and spinal column for limb and life. This
+being a known fact, we have only to use reason to know that an
+unhealthy condition of the diaphragm is bound to be followed by many
+diseases. A list of questions arise at this point with the inquirers
+that must and can be answered every time by reason only. The diaphragm
+is a musculo-fibrinous organ and depends for blood and nerve supply
+above its own location, and that supply must be given freely and pure
+for nerve and blood or we will have a diseased organ to start with; then
+we may find a universal atrophy or oedema, which would, besides its
+own deformity not be able to rise and fall, to assist the lungs to mix
+air with blood to purify venous blood, as it is carried to the lungs to
+throw off impurities and take on oxygen previous to returning to the
+heart, to be sent off as nourishment for the system. It is only in
+keeping with reason that without a healthy diaphragm both in its form
+and action, disease is bound to be the result. A question from our side
+of the argument is: How can a carpenter build a good house out of
+rotten, twisted or warped wood? If he can, then we can hope to be
+healthy with diseased blood, but if we must have good material in
+building, then we should form our thoughts to suit the heads of
+inspectors, and inspect the passage of blood through the diaphragm,
+pleury, pericardium and the fascia, superficial, deep and universal.
+Disease is just as liable to begin its work in the fascia and
+epithelium as any other place. Thus the necessity of pure blood and
+healthy fascia, because all functions are equally responsible for good
+and bad results.
+
+
+WAS A MISTAKE MADE IN THE CREATION?
+
+At a given period of time the Lord said, "Let us make man." After He had
+made him He examined him, and pronounced him good, and not only good,
+but very good. Did He know what good was? Had He the skill to be a
+competent judge? If He was perfectly competent to judge skilled arts His
+approval of the work when done was the fiat of mental competency backed
+by perfection. Since that architect and skilled mechanic has finished
+man and given him dominion over the fowls of the air, the beast of the
+field and fishes of the sea, hasn't that person, being or superstructure
+proven to us that God, the creator of all things, has armed him with
+strength, with the mind and machinery to direct and execute? This being
+demonstrated and leaving us without a doubt as to its perfection, are we
+not admonished by all that is good and great to enter upon a minute
+examination of all the parts belonging to this being; acquaint ourselves
+with their uses and all the designs for which the whole being was
+created. If we are honestly interested with the acquaintance of the
+forms and uses of the parts in detail by close and thorough examination
+of the material, its form and object of its form, from whence this
+substance is obtained; how it is produced and sustained through life in
+kind and form. How it is moved, where it gets its power, and for what
+object does it move? A demand for a crucial examination of the skull,
+the heart, lungs, of the chest, the stomach, liver and other organs of
+the abdomen is made. The septum of the brain, the pericardium of the
+chest--the diaphragm of the abdomen which is a dividing septum between
+the abdomen and chest. In this examination we must know the reasons why
+any organs, vessel or any other substance is located at a given place.
+We must run with all the rivers of blood that travel through the system.
+
+
+AN EXPLORATION.
+
+We must start our exploring boat with the aorta, and float with this
+vital current; see the captain as he unloads supplies for the diaphragm
+and all that is under it. We must follow him and see what branch of this
+river will lead to a little or great toe, or to the terminals of the
+whole foot. We must pass through the waters of the dead sea by the way
+of the vena cava, and observe the boats loaded with exhausted and worn
+out blood, as it is poured in and channeled back to the heart, with all
+below the diaphragm. Carefully watch the emptying of the vena azygos
+major and minor, with the veins of the arms and head all being poured in
+from little or great rivers to the vena innominate on their way to the
+great hospital of life and nourishment; whose quarter-master is the
+heart; whose finishing mechanic is the lung. Having acquainted ourselves
+with the forms and locations of this great personality we are ready at
+this time after examination, and found worthy and well qualified to
+enter into a higher class in which we can obtain an acquaintance with
+the physiological workings separately and conjoined of the whole being.
+At this place we become acquainted with the hows and whys of the
+production of blood, bone and all elements found in them, necessary to
+sustain sensation, motion, nutrition, voluntary and involuntary action
+of the nerve system. The hows and whys of the lymphatics, the life
+sustaining powers of the brain, heart, lungs, and all the abdominal
+system, with their various actions and uses, from the lowest cellular
+membrane to the highest organ of the body.
+
+
+RESULT OF REMOVAL OF DIAPHRAGM.
+
+When we consult the form of the cross-bar that divides the body in two
+conjoined divisions and reason on its use, we arrive at the fact that
+the heart and lungs must have ample space or room to suit their actions
+while performing their functions. At this time a question comes up: What
+effect would follow the removal of the fence between heart, lungs and
+brain, above that dividing muscle, and the machinery that is situated
+below said cross-bar? We see at a glance that we would meet failure to
+the extent of the infringement on demanded room for normal work of heart
+to deliver below lungs to prepare blood, and the brain to pass nerve
+power to either engine above, and all organs below the diaphragm.
+
+
+SUSTAINING LIFE PRINCIPLES.
+
+The life of the living tree is with the bark and superficial fascia
+which lies between the bark of the body of the tree, its periostium. The
+remainder of the tree takes the position or place of secreting. Its
+excretory system is first upwards from the surface of the ground, and
+washes out frozen impurities in the spring, after which it secretes and
+conveys to the ground through the trunk of the tree to the roots which
+is like unto the placenta attached to mother earth, qualifying all
+substances of constructing fiber and leaf, of that part of the tree
+above the ground. Each year produces a new tree which is seen and known
+by circular rings called annular growths. That growth which was
+completed last year is now a stale being of the past and has no vital
+action of itself. But like all stale beings its process is a life of
+another order, and dependent upon the fascia for its life and cellular
+action which lies under the bark, for its own existence as a living
+tree. It can only act as a chemical laboratory and furnish crude
+material which is taken up by the superficial fascia and conveyed up to
+the lungs, and exchanges dead for living matter, to receive and return
+to all parts of the tree, keeping up vital formation. With frost its
+vital process ceases through the winter season until mother earth
+stimulates the placenta, and starts the growth of a new being, which is
+developed and placed in form on the old trunk. Thus you see everything
+of animal growth as we would call them, is a new being, and becomes a
+part of the next being or growth formed.
+
+
+STALE LIFE.
+
+Should this form of vitality cease with the tree another principle which
+we call stale life takes possession and constructs another tree which is
+just the reverse of the living tree, and builds a tree after its own
+power of formulation from the dead matter, to which it imparts a
+principle of stale life, which life produces mushrooms, frogstools and
+other peculiar forms of stale beings, from this form of growth.
+
+Thus we are prepared to reason that blood when ligated and retained in
+that condition of dead corpuscles, and no longer able to support animal
+life, can form a zoophyte and all the forms peculiar to the great law of
+association, as tumefactions of the lymphatics, pancreas, liver,
+kidneys, uterus, with all the glandular system, be they lymphatics,
+cellular, ganglia or any other parts of the body susceptible of such
+growths, below the diaphragm. Thus we can account for tubercles of the
+abdomen and all organs therein found.
+
+
+LAW APPLICABLE TO OTHER ORGANS.
+
+This same law is equally applicable to the heart, lungs, the brain,
+tissues, glands, fascia and all substances capable of receiving without
+the ability to excrete stale substances.
+
+As oedema marks the first tardiness of fluids we have the beginning
+step which will lead from miliary tuberculosis to the largest known
+forms of tubercles, which is the effect of the active principles of
+stale life or the life of dead matter.
+
+
+POWER OF DIAPHRAGM.
+
+At this point we will draw the attention of the reader to the fact that
+the diaphragm can contract and suspend the passage of blood and produce
+all the stagnant changes from start to completed deadly tubercle. Also
+the cancer, the wen, glandular thickening of neck, face, scalp, fascia
+and all substances found above the diaphragm. In this stale life we have
+a compass that will lead us as explorers from the North star, to the
+South pole, the rising sun of reason, and the evening dews of eternity.
+This diaphragm says: "By me you live and by me you die. I hold in my
+hand the powers of life and death, acquaint now thyself with me and be
+at ease."
+
+
+OMENTUM.
+
+The truth of the presentation of facts should be the principle object of
+every person who takes his pen with a view to give the reasons why
+certain witnesses' testimony are indispensable to establish supposable
+or known truths. This being the case I have summoned before this court
+of inquiry an important witness. He has now taken the oath to tell the
+truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, of the case before
+this court. His name is the Great Omentum. Mr. Omentum, state if you
+know of any reason why or how by irritation from a misplacement of your
+body or any of its attachments to or about the diaphragm, the spine,
+stomach or other places that could cause irritation and thickening by
+congestion of your own body to such degree as to impede the flow of
+arterial or venous blood, over whose position you occupy much space from
+the diaphragm downward? State what effect a falling down of the eleventh
+and twelfth ribs on both sides of the spine with their cartilaginous
+points turned inward and down; if they should draw the diaphragm down
+and across your body? What would be the effect on circulation of the
+blood, and other fluids on the kidneys and other organs of the abdomen
+and pelvis? Would it not be the foundation for destructive congestion,
+and abnormal growth? State if you know if any such ligation would cause
+swelling by retention of blood in the spleen, liver, kidneys or other
+organs of the abdomen and pelvis? Would it be reasonable to suppose that
+you could perform your functions in office with any irritating condition
+caused by prolapses of diaphragm? Would not an irritation of your
+attachment to the diaphragm, spine or stomach be great enough to impede
+the blood on its passage through the aorta to the abdomen, or impede the
+flow of blood back and through the diaphragm? If so state how and why?
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+LIVER, BOWELS AND KIDNEYS.
+
+     Gender of the Liver--Productions of the Liver--A Hope for the
+     Afflicted--Evidences of Truth--Loaded With Ignorance--Lack of
+     Knowledge of the Kidney--How a Purgative Acts--Flux--Bloody
+     Dysentery--Flux More Fully Described--Osteopathic Remedies--Medical
+     Remedies--More of the Osteopathic Remedy.
+
+
+GENDER OF THE LIVER.
+
+Let us abruptly assume that the liver is the abiding placenta of all
+animated beings. If this position be true we are warranted and justified
+in the conclusion that the germs necessary to form blood vessels and
+other parts of the body must look to the liver for the fluids in which
+they would expect to construct in form and size. It seems to be nature's
+chemical laboratory, in which are prepared by receiving chemical
+qualities and quantities to suit the formation of hard and soft
+substances, which are to become the parts and the whole of any organ,
+gland, muscle, nerve, cell, veins and arteries. In evidence of the
+probability of the truth of this position, we will draw your attention,
+first to its central location between the sacral and cerebral nerve
+centers. There it lies between the "stomach" the vessel which receives
+all material previous to being manipulated for all nutrient purposes,
+and the heart, the great receiving and distributing quarter-master of
+all animal life. It supplies squads, sections, companies, regiments,
+battalions, brigades and divisions--to the whole army, and all parts
+that are dependent upon the nutrient system.
+
+
+PRODUCTIONS OF THE LIVER.
+
+The liver seems to be able to qualify by calling to itself all
+substances necessary to produce gall. Its communications with all parts
+of the body is direct, circuitous, universal and absolute. If pure it
+produces healthy gall and other substances, and in fact when healthy
+itself all other fluids are considered to be pure, at which time we are
+supposed to enjoy good health and universal bodily comfort. With a
+diseased liver we have perverted action which possibly accounts for
+impure and unhealthy deposits in the nasal passage and other parts of
+the body in their own peculiar form. Polypus of the nose, tumefaction of
+lungs, lymphatics, liver, kidneys, uterus, and even the brain itself.
+Suppose such deposits, composed of albumen and fibrin, prepared in the
+liver should be deposited in the lining membranes of veins leading to
+the heart, and by some other chemical action this accumulated mass
+should come loose from the veins, would we not expect what is commonly
+called clots enter the heart, and shut off the arteries, supplying the
+lungs, stop the further circulation of blood and cause instantaneous
+death called heart failure, apoplexy and so on? Is it not reasonable to
+suppose that under those deposits that softening of arteries has its
+beginning, which results in aneurisms and death by rupture of such
+abnormally formed arteries? Are the lungs not liable to receive such
+deposits and form tubercles to such proportions as to become living
+zoophytes capable of covering all of the mucous membrane of the lungs,
+air passages and cells, and establish a perpetual dwelling of zoophytes
+and absorb to themselves for their own maintenance and existence, blood
+and nourishment of the whole body unto death? This being the result of
+one chemical action of the body and all by and from nature, is it not
+reasonable to suppose that the provision by nature is ready to produce
+of itself the chemicals of kind, quality and quantity equal to the
+destruction of this enemy of life?
+
+
+A HOPE FOR THE AFFLICTED.
+
+I think before all diseases pass the zenith, after which the decline is
+beyond the vital rally, they are curable by the genius of nature's own
+remedies, and believe the truths of this conclusion have been supported
+abundantly by daily demonstrations. I believe there is hope for the
+consumptive equal to one-half if not greater when taken in proper time,
+which is at any period of the disease, previous to breaking down by
+ulceration or otherwise, lung tissue, and even after this period, hope
+is not altogether lost.
+
+
+EVIDENCES OF TRUTH.
+
+Nature and good sense are terms that mean much to persons who are used
+to set aside all else for facts. A fact may and often does stay before
+our eyes for all time powerful in truth, but we heed not its lessons.
+Instances, at least a few, would not be amiss at this time. Electricity,
+the most powerful force known, was never able with all its works to get
+the attention of man's thoughts, more than to call it thunder and
+lightning, and let it pass from his mind from time to time, till
+brighter ages woke up a Franklin, Edison, Morse and others who heeded
+its useful lessons enough to make application of its powers for its
+force and speed. By the results obtained, they and others have used its
+powers and gotten truths as rewards, that they did not know even existed
+in or out of electricity or in any of the store-houses of all nature.
+But as the winds of time have blown open a few leaves of nature's book,
+and their brilliant pages and useful lessons have found a lodging place
+in such persons as were endowed with wisdom to see, and patience to
+persevere, by their energy and wisdom to-day we have many pages to add
+to our books of useful knowledge. We can now talk around and all over
+the earth by the power of the dreaded thunder and lightning. By it we
+travel, by it we see at night, by it we search on land and sea for
+friend or foe; in fact, it is dreaded no more but sought, used and loved
+by all who know of its uses in civil life. Thus our enemy has become our
+footstool. By the speed of man's ability we know and use the comforts
+that nature holds in store for us until we call for and use them.
+
+Other and just as useful questions as electricity await our attention.
+Parts and uses of the human body, to-day are to us as little understood
+as electricity was at any time. The lung to-day is an unknown mystery,
+as to what its power and uses are; we only know that air goes in and out
+of the lungs; farther than that we are at sea. We have just as little
+knowledge of the heart as the lungs, we find a hollow fibrinous tank
+receiving and discharging blood; we are not prepared to say whether the
+corpuscle is formed in the heart or not; all else is conjectural and
+speculative on the subject the corpuscle. We see channels leading to and
+from it, to and from all parts of the body, muscles and glands. We know
+it moves when we are alive, we know it is silent in death.
+
+
+LOADED WITH IGNORANCE.
+
+We pass from there to the liver loaded down with ignorance, from what we
+know, cannot tell whether it is male or female, we simply know its size,
+location and something of its form and action, but nothing beyond
+conjecture. It stands to-day one of the wonders to him that tries to
+reason.
+
+
+LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE KIDNEY.
+
+We will leave this organ of many pounds with an open confession of our
+ignorance and take up the kidney. At what time was the man and woman
+born that knew and left on record a true and reliable knowledge of the
+renal capsule. We do not know whether that is the organ that makes our
+teeth, our hair or generates a powerful acid by which lime is kept in
+solution, so as not to form stones and such deposits.
+
+
+HOW A PURGATIVE ACTS.
+
+Nature's method is simple and easily comprehended in delivering
+purgative medicines, with their softening powers to dry constipated
+fecal matter. For instance: We would give a purgative in the shape of
+salts, rhubarb, calomel and other substances of choice. The first
+question of the physician is how is this to pass through so densely
+packed substance or fecal matter which is in the bowels? At this time we
+will be short in the statement. The purgative poisons are taken up by
+the the secretions conveyed to the lymphatics. To soften and wash out is
+the object of nature. The lymphatics begin the work of washing out by
+starting action of the excretories and furnishes the water to soften,
+which is injected into the bowels from the mouth to the extremities by a
+system of salivation.
+
+
+FLUX (BLOODY DYSENTERY.)
+
+Flux is common in all temperate climates. It generally shows its true
+nature as dysentery after a few hours of tiresome feeling, aching in
+head, back and bowels. At first nothing is felt or thought of more than
+a few movements of the bowels than is common for each day. Some pain and
+griping are felt with increase at each stool, until a chilly feeling is
+felt all over the body, with violent pains in lower bowels, with
+pressing desire to go to stool, and during and after passage of stool a
+feeling that there is still something in the bowels that must pass. Soon
+that down pressure partially subsides, and on examination of passage a
+quantity of blood is seen which shows the case is bloody flux, as the
+disease is called and known in the southern states of North America, or
+bloody dysentery in the more northern states. It generally subsides by
+the use of family remedies, such as sedatives, astringents, and
+palliative diets. But the severity in other cases increases and the
+discharges have more blood, greater pain, mixed with gelatinous
+substance even to mucous membrane of bowels, high fever all over except
+abdomen, which is quite cold to the hand. Back, head and limbs suffer
+much with heat and pain, and much nausea is felt at all motions of
+bowels. Bowels change from cold to hot, even to 104, at which time all
+symptoms point to inflammation of the bowels. The colon in particular,
+at which time discharge grows black, frothy and very offensive from
+decomposition of blood. Soon collapse and death close out the case,
+notwithstanding the very best skill has been employed to save the life
+of the patient. The doctor has tried to stop pain by opiates and other
+sedatives, tried to check bowels with astringents, used tonics and
+stimulants, but all have failed, the patient is dead.
+
+
+HOW DOES THE OSTEOPATH CURE?
+
+But the question for the Osteopath is: At what point would you work to
+suppress the sensation of the colon and permit veins to open and allow
+blood to return to heart? Does irritation of a sensory nerve cause vein
+to contract and refuse blood to complete circuit from and to the heart?
+Does flux begin with the sensory nerves of bowels? If so, reduce
+sensation at all points connecting with bowels, stop all overplus, keep
+veins free and open from cutaneous to deep sensory ganglion of whole
+spine and abdomen. Remember the fascia is what suffers and dies in all
+cases of death by bowels and lungs. Thus the nerves of all the fascia of
+bowels and abdomen must work or you may lose all cases of flux, for in
+the fascia exists much of the soothing and vital qualities of nature.
+Guard it well, so it can work to repair all losses or death will begin
+in fascia and through pass it to the whole system.
+
+
+FLUX MORE FULLY DESCRIBED.
+
+"Bloody flux" is a flow of blood with other fluids from the mucous
+membrane of the bowels. A disease generally of the summer and fall
+seasons, and is more abundant south than north of latitude 40° of North
+America. It is so well known in this country by its ravages that to
+describe it is almost useless, as bloody fluids pass from bowels in all
+cases.
+
+We reason that the veins have contracted by nerve irritation and fail to
+convey blood to heart on normal time. By which delay decomposition does
+its work. Thus a cause is seen for excreting fluids by motor action of
+bowels, when supplied by the excretory system.
+
+
+OSTEOPATHIC REMEDIES.
+
+An Osteopath to successfully treat flux or bloody dysentery must reason
+and address his attention first to the soreness and irritation of
+bowels, which he finds suffering with oedema of mucous membrane of all
+the glands and blood vessels belonging to the lower bowels. As quiet is
+the first thing desired, he will direct his attention to the sensory
+nerves of the colon and small intestines, in order to reduce the
+resistance of the veins and diminish the arterial action. When he has
+diminished sensation of the veins of the bowels, the arterial force
+completes its circuit through the veins back to the heart, with much
+less arterial action, because venous resistance has ceased and the
+circuit is normal, and healthy action is the result.
+
+
+MEDICAL REMEDIES.
+
+The medicine man addresses his remedies first to the misery, with the
+desire to relax the nerves and overcome pain, and obtains this result
+through some class of opiates. After a short rest he addresses his
+attention to the motor action of the heart, with the view of giving
+arteries greater power to force arterial blood through all obstructions,
+and tries to stop all excretory wastings by the use of astringents
+combined with sedatives and soothing fluids.
+
+
+MORE OF THE OSTEOPATHIC REMEDY.
+
+The Osteopath will govern sensory and motor nerves by digital
+suspension of the abnormal irritability of the sensory nerves on the
+various parts of the spine as indicated by the disease.
+
+He uses no injections for the bowels for the reason that the necessary
+fluids naturally flow into the bowels to lubricate and quiet, and
+proceed at once to repair all irritated surfaces, which is abundantly
+supplied by nature from the mouth of the sphincter ani, without which
+forethought and preparation, nature's God will prove his incompetency
+for the great battle of life.
+
+You administer medicines from the chemistry of the arts by mouth,
+injection and otherwise. We adjust the machinery and depend upon
+nature's chemical laboratory for all elements necessary to repair, give
+ease and comfort, while nature's corpuscles do all the work necessary.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+THE BLOOD.
+
+     Uses for Fluids--Blood an Unknown Fluid--Harvey Only Reached the
+     Banks of the River of Life--Blood Is Systematically
+     Furnished--Fatality of Ignorance--To Find the Cause Must Be
+     Honest--Following Arteries and Nerves--Feeding the Nerves--The
+     Blood on Its Journey--Powers Necessary to Move Blood--Venous Blood
+     Suspended.
+
+
+USES FOR FLUIDS.
+
+If a thousand kinds of fluids exist in our bodies a thousand uses
+require their help, or they would not appear. Thus to know how and why
+they help in the economy of life is the study of he who acts only when
+he knows at what places each must appear, and fill the part and use for
+which it is designed. If the demand for a substance is absolute its
+chance to act and answer that call and obey such command must not be
+hindered while in preparation, nor on its journey to local destination,
+for by its power all action may depend. Thus blood, albumen, gall,
+acids, alkalies, oils, brain fluid and other substances formed by
+associations while in physiological processes of formation must be on
+time in place and measured abundantly, that the biogenic laws of nature
+can have full power with time to act, and material in abundance and of
+kinds to suit. Thus all things else may be in place in ample quantities
+and fail because the power is withheld and no action for want of brain
+fluids with its power to vivify all animated nature which have followed
+any fluid found in the body, and followed it from formation to use and
+exhaustion step by step until he knows what form a union with one or
+many kinds. Thus we can do no more than feed and trust the laws of life
+as nature gives them to man. We must arrange our bodies in such true
+lines that ample nature can select and associate by its definite
+measures, weights and choices of kinds, that which can make all fluids
+needed for our bodily uses, from the crude blood to the active flames of
+life, as seen when marshalled for the duties of that stands and obey the
+edicts of the mind of the infinite.
+
+
+BLOOD AN UNKNOWN FLUID.
+
+Blood is an unknown red or black fluid, found inside of the human body,
+in tubes, channels or tunnels. What it is, how it is made, and what it
+does after it leaves the heart in the arteries, before it returns to the
+heart through the veins, is one of the mysteries of animal life. It has
+been tried to be analyzed to know of what it is composed, and when done,
+we know but little more of what it really is, than we know what sulphur
+is made of. We know it is a colored fluid, and it is in all parts of the
+flesh and bone. We know it builds up heaps of flesh, but how, is the
+question that leads us to honor the unknowable law of life, by which it
+does the work of its mysterious construction of all forms found in the
+parts of man. In all our efforts to learn what it is, what it is made
+of, and what enters it as life and gives it the building powers with
+that intelligence it displays in building, that we see in daily
+observation, is to us such an incomprehensible wonder, that with the
+"sacred writers" we are constrained to say, Great is the mystery of
+"Godliness." I dislike to say we know but very little about the blood,
+"in fact, nothing at all," but such is the truth under oath. We cannot
+make one drop of blood because of our ignorance of the laws of its
+production. If we knew what its components were, we would soon build
+large machinery, make and have blood for sale in quantities to suit the
+purchaser. But alas! we cannot with all the combined intelligence of
+man, make one drop of blood, because we do not know what it is. Then, as
+its production is by the skill of a foreigner whose education has grown
+to suit the work, we must silently sit by and willingly receive the work
+when handed out for use by the producer. At this point I will say that
+an intelligent Osteopath is willing to be governed by the immutable
+laws of nature, and feel that he is justified to pass the fluid on from
+place to place and trust results.
+
+
+HARVEY ONLY REACHED THE BANKS OF THE RIVER OF LIFE.
+
+When Harvey solved by his powers of reason a knowledge of the
+circulation of the blood, he only reached the banks of the river of
+life. He saw that the heads and mouths of the rivers of blood begin and
+end in the heart, to do the mysterious works of constructing man. Then
+he went into camp and left this compound for other minds to speculate
+on, of the how it was made, of what composed, and how it became a medium
+of life which sustains all beings. He saw the genius of nature had
+written its wisdom and will of life, by the red ink of all truth.
+
+
+BLOOD IS SYSTEMATICALLY FURNISHED.
+
+Blood is systematically furnished from the heart to all divisions of our
+bodies. When we go any course from the heart we will find one or more
+arteries leaving heart. If we go toward the head, we find caroted,
+cervical and vertebral arteries in pairs, large enough to supply blood
+abundantly for bone, brain, and muscle. That blood builds all the brain,
+all the bone, nerves, muscles, glands, membranes, fascia and skin. Then
+we see wisdom just as much in the venous system, as in the arterial.
+Thus the arteries supply all demands, and the veins carry away all
+waste material, with returning blood of veins. We find building and
+healthy renovation are united in a perpetual effort to construct and
+sustain purity. In these two are the facts and truths of life and
+health. If we go to any other part or organ of the body, we find just
+the same law of supply, arteries first, then renovation, beginning with
+the veins. The rule of artery and vein is universal in all living
+beings, and the Osteopath must know that, and abide by its rulings, or
+he will not succeed as a healer. Place him in open combat with fevers of
+winter or summer and he saves, or loses, his patients, just in
+proportion to his ability to sustain the artery to feed, and the veins
+to purify by taking away the dead substances before they ferment, in the
+lymphatics and cellular system. He shows just the same stupidity and
+ignorance of support from arteries and purity by the veins when he fails
+to cure erysipelas, flux, pneumonia, croup, scarlet fever, diphtheria,
+measles, mumps, rheumatism, and on to all diseases of climate and
+seasons.
+
+
+FATALITY OF IGNORANCE.
+
+It is ignorance and inattention to the arteries to supply and the veins
+to carry away all deposits before they form tumors in lungs, abdomen or
+any part of the system. Thus man's ignorance of how and why the blood
+renovates and why tumors are formed, has allowed the knife to be found
+in the belts of so many doctors to-day. On this law Osteopathy has
+successfully stood and cured more than any school of cures, and has
+sustained all its diplomates financially and otherwise. I write this
+article on blood for the student of Osteopathy. I want him to put nature
+to a test of its merit, and know if it is a law equal to all demands. If
+not, he is very much and seriously limited when he goes into war with
+diseases. What is to be understood by "Disease?"[5]
+
+[Footnote 5: DISEASE. 1. "Lack of ease. 2. An alteration in the state of
+the body, or some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the
+performance of the vital functions and causing or threatening pain and
+weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disease;
+disorder."--Webster's International Dictionary.]
+
+When we use the word "disease," we mean anything that makes an unnatural
+showing in the body by pain, overgrowth of muscle; gland; organ;
+physical pain; numbness; heat; cold; or anything that we find not
+necessary to life and comfort. I have no wish to rob surgery of its
+useful claims, and its scientific merits to suffering man and beast.
+Such is not my object, but to place the Osteopath's eye of reason on the
+hunt of the great whys that the knife is useful at all, I am sure it
+comes often to remove growths and diseased flesh and bone that have
+gotten so by man's ignorance of a few great truths. 1st, If blood is
+allowed to be taken to a gland or organ, and not taken away in due time
+the accumulation will become bulky enough to stop the excretory nerves
+and cause local paralysis; then the nutrient nerves proceed to construct
+tumors, and on and on until there is no relief but the knife or death.
+Had this blood not been conveyed there, it would not be there at all,
+either in bulk or less quantities. Had it simply done its work and
+passed on we could have no material to grow such abnormal beings. If a
+tumefaction appears in one side, and not in the other, why so? and why
+is there no growth in one side the same as the other? It takes no great
+effort of mind to see that the veins did not receive and carry off the
+blood, and a growth was natural, as the condition could not do otherwise
+and be true to nature. Thus man's ignorance has made a condition for the
+knife. Had he taken the hint and let the blood pass on when its work was
+done, he would not have to witness the guillotine of death to his
+patients, whose early pains told him a renal vein or some vessel below
+the diaphragm was ligated by an impacted colon, or a few ribs pulling
+and bringing diaphragm down across vena cava and thoracic duct and
+causing excitement or paralysis of solar plexus, or any other nerves
+that pass through diaphragm with blood to and from heart and lungs.
+
+
+TO FIND THE CAUSE.
+
+How to find causes of diseases or where a hindrance is located that
+stops blood is a great mental worry to the Osteopath when he is called
+to treat a patient. The patient tells him "where he hurts," how much "he
+hurts," how long "he has hurt," how hot or cold he is. The doctor puts
+this symptom and that symptom in a column, adds them up according to the
+latest books on symptomatology, finally he is able to guess at some name
+to call the disease. Then he proceeds and treats as his pap's father
+heard his granny say their old family doctor treated "them sort of
+diseases in North Carolina." An Osteopath feels bad to have to hunt
+cause for diseases, and not know how to start out to find the mechanical
+cause. He feels that the people expect more than guessing of an
+Osteopath. He feels that he must put his hand on the cause and prove
+what he says by what he does, that he will not get off by the feeble
+minded trash of stale habits that go with doctors of medicine, and by
+his knowledge he must show his ability to go beyond the musty bread of
+symptomatology and water his patients made, from the cider of the ripe
+apples from the tree of knowledge.
+
+
+MUST BE HONEST.
+
+An Osteopath should be a clear-headed, conscientious, truth loving man,
+and never speak until he knows he has found and can demonstrate the
+truth he claims to know.
+
+
+FOLLOWING ARTERIES AND NERVES.
+
+I understand anatomy and physiology after fifty years casual and close
+attention, the last twenty years being very continued and close
+attention to what has been said, by all the best writers whom I have
+perused, many of whom are considered standard guides for the student and
+practitioner to be governed by. I have dissected and witnessed the very
+best anatomists that the world affords dissect. I have followed the
+knife after arteries through the whole distribution of blood of arterial
+systems, to the great and small vessels, until the lenses of the most
+powerful microscopes seemed to exhaust their ability to perceive the
+termination of the artery; with the same care following the knife and
+microscope from nerve center to terminals of the large to the infinitely
+small fibers around which those fine nerve vines entwine. First like a
+bean entwining by way of the right around and up continuing to the
+right, and then turn my microscope to the entwining of another set of
+nerves which is to the left universally as the hop. Those nerves are
+solid, cylindrical and stratified in form, with many leading from the
+lymphatics to the artery, and to the red and white muscles, fascia,
+cellular-membrane, striated and unstriated organs, all connecting to and
+traveling with the artery, and continuing with it through its whole
+circuit from start to terminals.
+
+
+FEEDING THE NERVES.
+
+Like a thirsty herd of camels, the whole nerve system, sensory, motor,
+nutrient, voluntary and involuntary; this herd of sappers or hungry
+nerves seems to be in sufficient quantities and numbers to consume all
+blood and cause the philosopher to ask the question: "Is not the labor
+of the artery complete when it has fed the hungry nerves?" Is he not
+justified in the conclusion that the nerves do gestate and send forth
+all substances that are applied by nature in the construction of man? If
+this philosophy be true, then he who arms himself for the battles of
+Osteopathy when combating diseases, has a guide and a light whereby he
+can land safely in port from every voyage.
+
+
+THE BLOOD ON ITS JOURNEY.
+
+Turn the eye of reason to the heart and observe the blood start on its
+journey. It leaves in great haste and never stops even in the smaller
+arteries. It is all in motion and very quick and powerful at all
+places. Its motion indicates no evidence of construction even supposable
+during such time, but we can find in the lymphatics, cells or pockets,
+motion slow enough to suppose that in such cells, living beings can be
+formed and carried to their places by the lymphatics for the purposes
+they must fill, as bone, or muscle. Let us reason that blood has a great
+and universal duty to perform, if it constructs, nourishes, and keeps
+the whole nerve system normal in form and function.
+
+
+POWERS NECESSARY TO MOVE BLOOD.
+
+As blood and other fluids of life are ponderable bodies of different
+consistences, and are moved through the system to construct, purify,
+vitalize and furnish power necessary to keep the machinery in action, we
+must reason on the different powers necessary to move those bodies
+through arteries, veins, ducts, over nerves, spongy membranes, fascia,
+muscles, ligaments, glands and skin; and judge from their unequal
+density, and adjust force to meet the demand according to kinds, to be
+sent to and from all parts.
+
+
+VENOUS BLOOD SUSPENDED.
+
+Suppose venous blood to be suspended by cold or other causes in the
+lungs to the amount of oedema of the fascia, another mental look would
+see the nerves of the fascia of the lungs in a high state of
+excitement, cramping fascia on veins which is bound to stop flow of
+blood to heart. No blood can pass through a vein that is closed by
+resistance, nor can it ever do it until resistance is suspended. Thus
+the cause of nerve irritation must be found and removed before the
+channels can relax and open sufficiently to admit the passage of the
+fluids being obstructed. And in order to remove this obstructing cause,
+we must go to the nerve supply of the lungs, or any other part of the
+body, and direct our attention to the cause of the nerve excitement, and
+that only; and prosecute the investigation to a finish. If the breathing
+be too fast and hurried, address your attention to the motor nerves,
+then to the sensory, for through them you regulate and reduce the
+excitement of the motor nerves of the arteries. As soon as sensation is
+reduced the motor and sensory circuit is completed and the labor of the
+artery is less, because of venous resistance having been removed. The
+circuit of electricity is complete as proven by the completed arterial
+and venous circuit for the reduction of motor irritation. The high
+temperature disappears because distress gives place to the normal, and
+recovery is the result.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+THE FASCIA.
+
+     Where Is Disease Sown?--An Illustration of Conception--The Greatest
+     Problem--A Fountain of Supply--Fascia Omnipresent--Connection with
+     Spinal Cord--Goes With and Covers All Muscles--Proofs in
+     Contagion--Study of Nerves and Fascia--Tumefy--Tumefaction.
+
+
+WHERE DISEASE IS SOWN.
+
+Disease is evidently sown as atoms of gas fluids, or solids. A suitable
+place is necessary first to deposit the active principle of life, be
+that what it may. Then a responsive kind of nourishment must be obtained
+by the being to be developed. Thus we must find in animals that part of
+the body that can assist by action and by qualified food to develop the
+being in foetal life. Reason calls the mind to the rule of man's
+gestative life first, and as a basis of thought, we look at the
+quickening atom, the coming being, when only by the aid of a powerful
+microscope can we see the vital germ. It looks like an atom of white
+fibrin or detached particle of fascia. It leaves one parent as an atom
+of fascia, and to live and grow, must dwell among friendly surroundings,
+and be fed by such food as contains albumen, fibrin and lymph; also the
+nerve generating power and qualities, as it then and there begins to
+construct a suitable form in which to live and flourish. And as the
+fascia is the best suited with nerves, blood, and white corpuscles, it
+is but reasonable to look for the part that is composed of the greatest
+per cent of fascia, and expect it, the germ, to dwell there for support
+and growth.
+
+
+AN ILLUSTRATION OF CONCEPTION.
+
+When you follow the germ from father until it has left his system of
+fascia, we find it flourishing in the womb, which organ is almost a
+complete being of itself. The center, origin, and mother of all fascias.
+It there dwells and grows to birth, and appears as a completed being, a
+product of the life giving powers of the fascia.
+
+With this foundation established we think we prove conception, growth,
+and cause of all diseases to be in the fascia.
+
+As this philosophy has chosen the fascia as a foundation on which to
+stand, we hope the reader will chain his patience for a few minutes on
+the subject of the fascia, and its relation to vitality. It stands
+before the philosopher as one of, if not the deepest living problems
+ever brought before the mind of man.
+
+We will ask your attention in the attached effort to describe the fascia
+at greater length: It being that principle that sheathes, permeates,
+divides and sub-divides every portion of all animal bodies; surrounding
+and penetrating every muscle and all its fibers--every artery, and every
+fiber and principle thereunto belonging, and grows more wonderful as
+your eye is turned upon the venous system with its great company of
+lymphatics, which supplies the water of life, used to reduce too heavily
+thickened blood of the veins, as it approaches the heart on its journey,
+to be renewed after purification and thrown back into the arteries to
+patrol, nourish and supply from headquarters to the videts of this great
+moving army of life, the substance of which we are now speaking.
+
+
+THE GREATEST PROBLEM.
+
+The fascia is universal in man and equal in self to all other parts, and
+stands before the world to-day the greatest problem, the most pleasing
+thought. It carries to the mind of the philosopher the evidence,
+absolute, that it is the "material man," and the dwelling place his of
+spiritual being. It is the house of God, the dwelling place of the
+Infinite so far as man is concerned. It is the fort which the enemy of
+life takes by conquest through disease and winds up the combat and
+places thereon the black flag of "no quarters." That enemy is sure to
+capture all forts known as human beings at some time, although the
+engagement may last for many years. Procrastination of surrender can
+only be obtained by giving timely support to the supply of nourishment,
+with an unobstructed condition, kept up in favor of the nerves
+interested in the renewal of the human system, that powerful life force
+that is bequeathed to man and all other beings, and acts through the
+fascia of man and beast.
+
+
+A FOUNTAIN OF SUPPLY.
+
+The fascia gives one of, if not the greatest problems to solve as to the
+part it takes in life and death. It belts each muscle, vein, nerve, and
+all organs of the body. It is almost a network of nerves, cells and
+tubes, running to and from it; it is crossed and filled with, no doubt,
+millions of nerve centers and fibers to carry on the work of secreting
+and excreting fluid vital and destructive. By its action we live, and by
+its failure we shrink, or swell, and die. Each muscle plays its part in
+active life. Each fiber of all muscles owes its pliability to that
+yielding septum-washer, that gives all muscles help to glide over and
+around all adjacent muscles and ligaments, without friction or jar. It
+not only lubricates the fibers but gives nourishment to all parts of
+the body. Its nerves are so abundant that no atom of flesh fails to get
+nerve and fluid supply therefrom.
+
+
+FASCIA OMNIPRESENT.
+
+This life is surely too short to solve the uses of the fascia in animal
+forms. It penetrates even its own finest fibers to supply and assist its
+gliding elasticity. Just a thought of the completeness and universality
+in all parts, even though you turn the visions of your mind to follow
+the infinitely fine nerves. There you see the fascia, and in your wonder
+and surprise, you exclaim, "Omnipresent in man and all other living
+beings of the land and sea."
+
+Other great questions come to haunt the mind with joy and admiration,
+and we can see all the beauties of life on exhibition by that great
+power with which the fascia is endowed. The soul of man with all the
+streams of pure living water seems to dwell in the fascia of his body.
+
+Does it not throw hot shot and shells of thought into man's famishing
+chamber of reason; to feel that he has seen by thought the frame work of
+life the dwelling place on which life sojourns? He feels that he can
+find all disturbing causes of life, the place that diseases germinate
+and grow, the seeds of disease and death.
+
+
+CONNECTION WITH THE SPINAL CORD.
+
+As life finds its general nutrient law in the fascia and its nerves, we
+must connect them to the great source of supply by a cord running the
+length of the spine, by which all nerves are supplied by the brain. The
+cord throws out and supplies millions of nerves by which all organs and
+parts are supplied with the elements of motion, all go to and terminate
+in that great system, the fascia.
+
+As we dip our cups deeper and deeper into the ocean of thought we feel
+that the solution of life and health is close to the field of the
+telescope of our mental search lights, and soon we will find the road to
+health so plainly written that the wayfaring man cannot err though he be
+a fool.
+
+
+GOES WITH AND COVERS ALL MUSCLES.
+
+As the student of anatomy explores the subject under his knife and
+microscope he easily finds this membrane goes with and covers all
+muscles, tendons and fibers, and separates them even to the least fiber.
+All organs have a covering of this substance, though they may have names
+to suit the organs, surfaces or parts spoken of.
+
+We write much of the universality of the fascia to impress the reader
+with the idea that this connecting substance must be free at all parts
+to receive and discharge all fluids, if healthy to appropriate and use
+in sustaining animal life, and eject all impurities that health may not
+be impaired by the dead and poisoning fluids. Thus a knowledge of the
+universal extent of the fascia is almost imperative, and is one of the
+greatest aids to the person who seeks cause of disease. He of all men
+should know more of the fascia, and when disease is local or general.
+That the fascia and its nerves demand his attention first, and on his
+knowledge of the same, much of his success, and the life of his patients
+do depend.
+
+Will the student of Osteopathy stop just a moment and see his medical
+cotemporary plow the skin with the needle of his hypodermic syringe. He
+drives it into and unloads his morphine and other poisonous drugs under
+the skin, and into the very center of the nerves of the superficial
+fascia. He produces paralysis of all nerves by this method, just as
+certainly as if he had put his poison in the cerebellum, but not so
+certain to produce instantaneous death as to unload in the brain. But if
+he is faithfully ignorant, he will kill just as certainly at one place
+as the other, because the poisonous effects can be easily taken to every
+fiber of the whole body by the nerves and fibers of the fascia.
+
+When you deal with the fascia you deal and do business with the branch
+offices of the brain, and under the general corporation law, the same as
+the brain itself, and why not treat it with the same degree of respect?
+
+The doctor of medicine does effectual work through the medium of the
+fascia. Why not you relax, contract, stimulate and clean the whole
+system of all diseases by that willing and sufficient power to renovate
+all parts of the system, from deadly compounds that generate through
+delay and stagnation of fluids while in the fascia.
+
+Our school is young, but the laws that govern life are as old as the
+hours of all ages. We may find much that has never been written nor
+practiced before, but all such discoveries are truths born with the
+birth of eternity, old as God and as true as life.
+
+The difference between a philosopher and a less powerful thinker is one
+observes alone, and depends on his own powers of mind to arrive at
+truth. Another lacks self confidence and mental energy.
+
+
+PROOFS IN CONTAGION.
+
+If disease is so highly attenuated, so etherial, and penetrable in
+quality, and multiple in atoms; and a breath of air two quarts or more
+taken into the lungs fully charged with contagion, how many thousand air
+cells could be impregnated by one single breath? Say we take a case of
+measles into a schoolroom of sixty pupils, in a warm and poorly
+oxygenized atmosphere all day, would not the living gas thrown off from
+active measles enter and irritate the air cells and close the most
+irritable cells with the poisonous gas retained for active development
+in those womb-like departments in the lungs.
+
+Now you have the seeds in thousands of cells, which are as vital and
+well supplied by nerves and blood as the womb itself. Would not reason
+see the development of millions more of the vital beings who get their
+nourishment from the vitality found in the human fascia, which comes
+nearer to the surface in the lungs than in any part of the system,
+except it be the womb.
+
+In proof of the certainty of measles being taken up by the lungs at one
+breath and caught by the secretions and conveyed to the universal system
+of fascia to develop the contagion, I will give the case of one of my
+boys who was sick with cold as I supposed; watering of eyes, cough,
+fever and headache. He was in the country about eight miles from home,
+and on our return stopped to get his books at a small school house. He
+ran in, picked up his books that were lying upon the desk, walked the
+length of the room which was about forty feet, was not there over
+one-half minute and in just nine days forty-two children broke out with
+measles. So certain is contagion to be taken up by the nerves and
+vitalizing fluids of the fascia.
+
+It seems that all the fascia needs to develop anything is to have the
+seed planted in its arms for construction, the work will be done,
+labeled, and handed out for inspection by the inspectors of all works.
+
+
+STUDY OF NERVES AND FASCIA.
+
+We must remember as we reason on the power of life which is located in
+the fascia, that it occupies the whole body, and should we find a local
+region that is disordered and wish to, we can relieve that part through
+that local plexus of nerves which controls that organ and division. Thus
+your attention should be directed to all nerves of that part. Sensory,
+to modify sensation, blood must not be let run to the part by wild
+motion, its flow must be gentle to suit the demands of nutrition,
+otherwise weakness takes the place of strength, then we lose the
+benefits of the nerves of nutrition, by which strength of all systems of
+force are kept in action during life.
+
+Suppose the nerves that supply the lungs with motion should stop, the
+lungs would stop also; suppose they should half stop, the lungs would
+surely half stop. Now we must reason, if we succeed in relieving lungs,
+that all kinds of nerves are found in them. The lungs move, thus you
+find motor; they have feeling, thus the sensory; they grow by nutrition,
+(thus the nutrient nerves;) they move by will, or without it; they have
+a voluntary and involuntary system; they move in sleep by the
+involuntary system.
+
+The blood supply comes under the motor system of nerves, and delivers at
+proper places for the convenience of the nerves of nutrition. The
+sensory nerves limit the supply of arterial blood to the quantity
+necessary, as the construction is going on by each successive stroke of
+the heart. They limit the action of the lungs, receive and expel air in
+quantities sufficient to keep up purity of the blood, etc. With this
+foundation we observe if too great action of the motor nerves, shows by
+breathing too often to be normal, we are admonished to reduce breathing
+by addressing attention to the sensory nerves of lungs, in order that
+the blood may pass through the veins, whose irritability has refused to
+receive the blood, farther than arterial terminals. So soon as sensation
+is reduced relaxation of nerve fibers of veins tolerates the passage of
+venous blood, which is deposited in the spongy portions of the lungs in
+such quantities as to overcome the activity of the nerves of renovation
+that accompanies the fascia in its process of ejection of all fluids
+that have been detained an abnormal time, first in the region of the
+fascia, then in the arterial and venous circulation. Thus you see what
+must be done. The veins as channels must carry away all blood as soon as
+it has deposited its nutrient supplies to the places for which it is
+constructed, otherwise, by delay vitality by asphyxia is lost to the
+blood which calls a greater force of the arterial pumps to drive the
+blood through the parts, ruptures its capillaries and deposits the blood
+in the mucous membrane; until nerves of the fascia becomes powerless by
+surrounding pressure, which causes through the sensory nerves an
+irritability at the heart, which puts in force all its powers of motion.
+
+
+TUMEFY, TUMEFACTION.
+
+Webster's definition of tumefaction is to swell by any fluids or solids
+being detained abnormally at any place in the body.
+
+The location may be in, or on any part of the system. No part is exempt;
+even the brain, heart, lungs, liver, stomach and bowels, bladder,
+kidneys, uterus, lymphatics, glands, nerves, veins, arteries, skin and
+all membranes are subject to swellings locally or generally, and with
+equal certainty they perish and shrink away. If either condition should
+exist death to the parts or all of the body will occur from want of
+nutrition. Instance, in lung fever which begins when swelling is
+established in lymphatics of lungs, trachea, nostrils, throat and face.
+At once you see the pressure on the nerve fibers compressed to such
+degree that they cannot operate excretories of lungs or any part of the
+pulmonary, system. Veins, suspended by irritation of the nerves,
+arteries are excited to fever heat in action with increase of
+tumefaction. A tumefying condition undoubtedly marks the beginning of
+all catarrhal diseases. Its ravages extend to the diseases of the fall
+and winter seasons. They are so marked on examination that the most
+skeptical cannot dispute or doubt the truth of this position. In fact he
+is already committed to a belief that there is something in the fluids
+that he must purify by the chemical process of drugs.
+
+
+MEDICAL DOCTOR'S TREATMENT.
+
+He looks on, and treats winter diseases with powerful purgatives,
+sweats, blisters, hot and cold applications with a view to remove
+congesting fluids. He is not very certain which team of medical power he
+can depend on. He hitches up many kinds of drugs hoping that a few of
+them may be able to carry the burden. He bridles his horses with opium,
+loads them down with purgative powders, and whips them through with
+castor oil, and for fear they will not travel fast enough he uses as a
+spur a delicately formed instrument known as the hypodermic syringe. He
+punches and prods until his horses fall exhausted. Disease and death
+should give him a large pension for the assistance he has rendered in
+their service. All is guess work whose father and mother are "Tradition
+and Ignorance." Ignorance of the kind that is wholly inexcusable to
+anyone but a medical doctor. An Osteopath who does not understand the
+general law of tumefaction of the whole system is not excusable from the
+fact that tumefaction, disease and death are so plainly written on the
+face of all diseases that the blind need not have eyes to see, nor the
+philosopher any brain to enable him to know this foundation is the
+highest known truth of all man's intellectual possessions. Thus by the
+law of tumefaction, death can and does succumb to its indomitable will.
+Observations without record will show any fair minded person that
+tumefaction does cause death in the majority of cases. But another power
+is equally as effective in destruction of life which is just the reverse
+of tumefaction. It destroys by withholding nutrition and all of the
+fluids; the effect is starvation, shrinkage and death. Thus you see it
+is equally certain in results. In the one case death ensues from an
+overplus of unappropriated fluids of nutrition, in the other there is no
+appropriation to sustain animal life and the patient dies from
+starvation. The same law holds good in the parts as well as in the whole
+body.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI.
+
+FEVERS.
+
+     Be Armed With Facts--Union of Human Gases With Oxygen--Fever and
+     Nettle-rash. Nature Constructs for a Wise Purpose--Processes of
+     Life Must be Kept in Motion--No Satisfaction from Authors--Animal
+     Heat--Semeiology--Symptomatology--Definition of Fever--Fevers only
+     Effects--Result of Stoppages of Vein or Artery--Aneurisms.
+
+
+BE ARMED WITH FACTS.
+
+When we reason for causes we must begin with facts, and hold them
+constantly in line for action, and use, all the time. It would be good
+advice never to enter a contest without your saber is of the purest
+steel of reason. By such only can you cut your way to the magazine of
+truth.
+
+As we line up to learn something of the cause of fever, we are met by
+heat, a living fact. Does that put the machinery of your mind in motion?
+If not, what will arouse your mental energy? You see that heat is not
+like cold. It is not a horse with eyes, head, neck, body, limbs and
+tail; but it is as much of a being as the horse; it is a being of heat.
+If cause made the horse, and cause made the heat, why not devote all
+energy in seeking for cause in all disturbances of life?
+
+
+UNION OF HUMAN GASES WITH OXYGEN.
+
+Who says heat is not a union of the human gases with oxygen and other
+substances as they pass out of the excretory system. By what force do
+parts of the engine of life move? If by the motor power of electricity,
+how fast must the heart or life current run to ignite the gasolene of
+the body and set a person on fire and burn to fever heat?
+
+If we know anything of the laws of electricity, we must know velocity
+modulates its temperature. Thus heat and cold are the effect.
+
+If we understand anatomy as we should, we know man is the greatest
+engine ever produced, complete in form, an electro-magnet, a motor, and
+would be incomplete if it could not burn its own gases.
+
+When man, is said to have fever, he is only on "fire," to burn out the
+deadly gases, which a perverted, dirty, abnormal, laboratory, has
+allowed to accumulate by friction of the journals of his body, or in the
+supply of vital fluids. We are only complete when normal in all
+parts,--a true compass points to the normal only.
+
+When reasoning on the fever subject would it not be strictly in line to
+suppose that the lowest perceptible grade of fever requires a less
+additional physical energy to remove some foreign body from the person,
+that at first would naturally show a very light effect upon the human
+system, which would be the effect of itchy sensation.
+
+
+FEVER AND NETTLE-RASH.
+
+Let us stop and reason. Might this effect (itching) not come from
+obstructed gases that flow through and from the skin? If gas should be
+detained in the system by the excretory ducts the substance closing the
+porous system would cause irritation of nerves, and increase the heart's
+action to such degree that the temperature is raised to fever heat, by
+the velocity with which electricity is brought into action. Electricity
+being the force that is naturally required to contract muscles and force
+gases from the body.
+
+Let us advance higher in the scale of foreign bodies until we arrive to
+the condition of steam, which is more dense than gas. Would it not take
+more force to discharge it? By the same rule of reasoning we find water
+to be much thicker as an element than either gas or steam.
+
+Then we have lymph as another element, albumen, fibrin, with all the
+elements found in arterial and venous blood, all of which forces
+required to circulate, pass through and out of the system, must be
+increased to suit. Therefore we are brought to this conclusion, that the
+different degrees of temperature do mark the density of the fluids with
+which the motor engine has to contend.
+
+If gas produces an itching sensation, would it not be reasonable to
+suppose that the consistence of lymph would cause elevations on the
+skin, such as nettle-rash.
+
+If this method of reasoning sustains us thus far, why not argue that
+albumen obstructed while in the system of the fascia would require a
+much greater force to put it through the skin. The excretions of the
+body would cause a much greater heat to even throw the albumen as far as
+the cuticle.
+
+If a greater, with a greater velocity, why not grant to this as cause of
+the disturbance of motor energy equal to measles. Let us add to this
+albumen a quantity of fibrin, have we not cause to expect the energy
+hereby required to be equal to that nerve and blood energy found in
+smallpox?
+
+If this be true, have we not a foundation in truth on which to base our
+conclusions? That the difference in forces manifested is the resistance
+offered by the difference in the consistence of devitalized fluids which
+the nerves and fibers of the fascia labor to excrete.
+
+
+NATURE CONSTRUCTS TO SUIT A WISE PURPOSE.
+
+By close observation the philosopher who is hunting to acquaint himself
+with the laws of cause and effect, finds upon his voyages as an
+explorer, that nature as cause does construct for wise purposes; and
+shows as much wisdom in the construction and preparation of all bodies,
+beings and worlds, as the workings of those beings show when in action.
+
+As life, the highest known principle sent forth by nature to vivify,
+construct and govern all beings, it is expected to be the indweller and
+operator, and one of the greatest perceivable and universal laws of
+nature. And when it becomes necessary to break the friendly relation
+between life and matter, nature closes up the channels of supply.
+
+It may begin its work near the heart, at the origin of the greatest
+blood vessels, or do its work at any point. It may begin its closing
+process at the extremities of the veins or anywhere where exhausted
+vital fluids may enter for return to the heart for renewal by union with
+new material.
+
+As nature is never satisfied with incompleteness in anything, all
+interferences from whatsoever cause are sufficient for nature to call a
+halt and begin the work of excavation by bringing the necessary fluids,
+already prepared in the chemical laboratory, to dissolve and wash away
+all obstructing deposits previous to beginning the work of
+reconstruction, which is to repair all injured parts of the machinery
+if disabled by atmospheric cause, poisons, or otherwise.
+
+When nature renovates it is never satisfied to leave any obstruction in
+any part of the body. All the powers of its battery force are brought in
+line to do duty, and never stop short of completeness which ends in
+perfection.
+
+All seasons of the year come and go, and we see year in and out the
+perpetual processes of construction of one class of bodies, and the
+passing away of others.
+
+Vegetation builds forests, and cold builds mountains of ice to be
+dissolved and sent into the ocean to purify the water, and keep the
+brines from drying to powder, as salt.
+
+
+PROCESSES OF LIFE MUST BE KEPT IN MOTION.
+
+All the processes of earth-life, must be kept in perpetual motion to
+cultivate and be kept in healthy condition, or the world would wither
+and die, and go to the tombs of space, to join the funeral procession of
+other dead worlds. Thus you see all nature comes and goes by the fiat of
+wisely adjusted laws.
+
+
+NO SATISFACTION FROM AUTHORS.
+
+Read all the authors from Æsculapius to this date, and all combined
+leave the inquirers without a single fact as to the cause or causes of
+fever.
+
+One says fever may come from too much carbon. Another says chemical
+defects may be the cause.
+
+I would like to agree with some of the good men of our date or the
+ancient theorists if I could, but they, both dead and alive, are a blank
+except the tons of paper they have covered all over with conjectures,
+and closed out by the words "Perhaps so's and howevers" spoken in all
+tongues and languages on earth.
+
+All have explored for centuries for the cause of fevers, and on return
+from their multiple voyages say, we hope some day to find the cause. We
+have killed many dogs experimenting, but have failed to find the cause
+of fever.
+
+
+ANIMAL HEAT.
+
+To think of fever, we think of animal heat. By habit we want to know how
+great the heat is. We measure by a yard stick till we find we have 100°,
+102°, 104°, to 106°, at this point we stop as we find too many yards of
+red calico to suit the size of the purse of life. Which we think cannot
+consume more than 106 yards of heat. We begin to ask for the substances
+that are more powerful than fire. We try all known fire compounds and
+fail. The fire department had done faithful work, and all it could bring
+to bear on the fire. It had put on hose and steam, knocked shingles off
+and windows out, but not until the fire had ruined the house with all
+its inside and outside usefulness and beauties. Another and another
+house gets on fire and burns just as the first did. All are content to
+see the ruins and say it is the will of the Lord; never thinking for a
+moment that it was with the aid of the heart that the brain burned up
+the body.
+
+Of what use is a knowledge of anatomy to man if he overlooks cause and
+effect in the results obtained by the machinery that anatomy should
+teach? He finds each part connected to all others with the wisdom that
+has given a set of plans and specifications that are without a flaw or
+omission. The body generates its own heat and modulates to suit climate
+and season. It can generate through its electro-motor system far beyond
+the kindly normal, to the highest known fever heat, and is capable of
+modulations far above or below normal. A knowledge of Osteopathy will
+prepare you to bring the system under the rulings of the physical laws
+of life. Fever is electric heat only.
+
+
+SEMEIOLOGY.
+
+(Med.) The science of the signs or symptoms of disease.
+
+
+SYMPTOMATOLOGY.
+
+The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which
+treats of the symptoms of disease. Semeiology.
+
+These definitions are from Webster's International Dictionary,
+considered by all English speaking people as a standard authority. Both
+words are chosen names to represent that system of guess work, which is
+now and has been used as a method of ascertaining what disease is or
+might be. It is supposed to be the best method known to date to classify
+or name diseases, after which guessing begins in earnest. What kinds of
+poisons, how much and how often to use them, and guess how much good or
+how much harm is being done to the sick person.
+
+To illustrate more forcibly, to the mind of the reader that such system
+though honored by age is only worthy the name of guess work, as shown by
+the following standard authority on fevers:
+
+
+POTTER'S DEFINITION OF FEVER.
+
+"Fever is a condition in which there are present the phenomena of rise
+of temperature, quickened circulation, marked tissue change, and
+disordered secretions.
+
+"The primary cause of the fever phenomena is still a mooted (discussed
+and debated) question, and is either a disorder of the sympathetic
+nervous system giving rise to disturbances of the vaso-motor filaments,
+or a derangement of the nerve centers located adjacent to the corpus
+striatum, which have been found, by experiment, to govern the processes
+of heat production, distribution, and dissipation.
+
+"Rise of temperature is the pre-eminent feature of all fevers, and can
+only be positively determined by the use of the clinical thermometer.
+The term feverishness is used when the temperature ranges from 99° to
+100° fahr.; slight fever if 100° or 101°; moderate, 102° or 103°; high
+if 104° or 105° and intense if it exceed the latter. The term
+hyperpyrexia is used when the temperature shows a tendency to remain at
+106° fahr. and above.
+
+"Quickened circulation is the rule in fevers, the frequency usually
+maintaining a fair ratio with the increase of the temperature. A rise of
+one degree fahr. is usually attended with an increase of eight to ten
+beats of the pulse per minute.
+
+"The following table gives a fair comparison between temperature and
+pulse:--
+
+   TABLE OF DEGREES.
+
+   A temperature of 98° corresponds to a pulse of 60°
+          "         99°       "      "      "     70°
+          "        100°F      "      "      "     80°
+          "        101°F      "      "      "     90°
+          "        102°F      "      "      "    100°
+          "        103°F      "      "      "    110°
+          "        104°F      "      "      "    120°
+          "        105°F      "      "      "    130°
+          "        106°F      "      "      "    140°
+
+"The tissue waste is marked in proportion to the severity and duration
+of the febrile phenomena, being slight or (nil) in febricula, and
+excessive in typhoid fever.
+
+"The disordered secretions are manifested by the deficiency in the
+salivary, gastric, intestinal, and nephritic secretions, the tongue
+being furred, the mouth clammy, and there occurring anorexia, thirst,
+constipation, and scanty, high-colored acid urine."[6]
+
+[Footnote 6: What has the student gained by reading the above definition
+of this standard author and representative of present medical attainment
+but a labored effort to explain what he does not know.]
+
+
+FEVERS ONLY EFFECTS.
+
+Fevers are effects only. The cause may be far from mental conclusions.
+If we have a house with one bell, and ten wires each fastened to a door
+running to the center, all having wire connection and so arranged that
+to pull any one wire will set the bell in motion, and without an
+indicator you cannot tell which wire is disturbed, producing the effect
+or ringing of the bell at the center. An electrician would know at once
+the cause, but to discriminate and locate the wire disturbed is the
+study.
+
+Before a bell can be heard from any door, the general battery must be
+charged. Thus you see but one source of supply. To better illustrate--we
+will take a house with eight rooms, and all supplied by one battery--one
+is a reception room, one a parlor, one a sitting room, one bed room,
+one cloak room, one dining room, one a kitchen, and one a basement room,
+all having wires and bells running to one bell in the clerk's office,
+which has an indicator for each room by numbers on its face. If the
+machinery is in good order he can call and answer correctly all the time
+and never make a mistake. But should he ring to call the cook and her
+bell keep on ringing and she and clerk could not stop it, and they
+summon an electrician, what would you think if he began at the parlor
+bell to adjust a trouble of the kitchen bell? Surely you would not have
+him treat the parlor bell first, because you know the cook could only
+answer by the effect, or rattling of the office bell. Hers is cause,
+sound at office, effect. Now to apply this illustration, we will say a
+system of bells and connecting wires run to all parts or rooms of the
+body, from the battery of power or the brain, conveyed by the strings of
+wires or nerves, that are put up and run to all active or vital parts of
+the body. Thus arranged we see how blood is driven to any part of the
+system, by the power that is sent over the nerves from the brain to the
+spinal cord, and from there to all nerves of each and all divisions of
+the body. Then your blood that has done its work in constructing parts
+or all of the system, entering veins to be returned to the heart for
+renewal. Each vein, great and small, has nerves with them as servants
+of power, to force blood back to heart through the different sets of
+tubes known as veins, and made to suit the duties they have to perform
+in the process of life. As it travels to the heart with blood too thick
+to suit the lungs, the great system of lymphatics pour in water to suit
+demands, preparatory to entering the lungs to be purified and renewed.
+Thus you see nature has amply prepared all the machinery and power to
+prepare material and construct all parts, and when in normal condition
+the mind and wisdom of God is satisfied that the machine will go on and
+build and run according to the plan and specification. If this be true
+as nature proves at every point and principle, what can man do farther
+than plumb, line up, and trust to nature to get results desired, "life
+and health?" Can we add or suggest any improvement? If not, what is left
+for us to do is to keep bells, batteries and wires in normal place and
+trust to normal law as given by nature.
+
+
+RESULT OF STOPPAGE OF VEIN OR ARTERY.
+
+But few questions remain to be asked by the philosophical navigator when
+he sets sail to go to the cause of flux. Would he go to blood supply?
+Certainly, there must be supply previous to deposit. Reason would cause
+us to combine the fact that blood must be in perpetual motion from and
+to the heart during life, and that law is the fiat of all nature which
+is indispensable and absolute. Blood must not stop its motion nor be
+allowed to unduly deposit, as the heart's action is perpetual in motion.
+The work is complete of the heart if it delivers blood into the
+exploring arteries. Each division must to do its part fully as a normal
+heart does, or can in the greatest measure of health; and a normally
+formed heart is just as much interested in the blood that is running
+constantly for repairs and additions, as the whole system is on the
+arteries for supply. Thus you must have perfection in shape first, and
+from it to all parts as far as an artery reaches. All hindrances must be
+kept away from the arteries great and small. Health permits of no
+stopping of blood in either the vein or artery. If an artery cannot
+unload its consents a strain follows, and as an artery must have room to
+deposit its supplies it proceeds to build other vessels adjacent to the
+points of obstruction.
+
+
+ANEURISMS.
+
+Some are builded to enormous sizes. We call them aneurisms or
+accommodation chambers, builded by nature's constructing ability of the
+arteries as deposits for blood. The artery should pass farther on, thus
+you by reason must know an obstruction has limited the flow of blood,
+and the tumor is only an effect, and obstruction is the cause of all
+abnormal deposits, either from vein or artery. Unobstructed blood cannot
+form a tumor, nor allow inharmony to dwell in any part of the system.
+Flux is an effect, blood supply and circulation both at variation from
+normal. An artery finds veins of bowels irritated and contracted to such
+degree that arterial blood cannot enter veins with cargo of blood at
+all, and deposits its blood at terminal points in mucous membrane of
+bowels, and when membrane fails to hold all blood so delivered, then the
+first blood which dies of asphyxia finds an outlet into the bowels to be
+carried off and out by peristaltic actions. Thus you have a continuous
+deposit and discharge for arterial blood until death stops the supply.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII.
+
+SCARLET FEVER AND SMALLPOX.
+
+     As defined by Allopathy--Scarlet Fever as Defined by
+     Osteopathy--Smallpox--Power to Drive Greater Than in Measles.
+
+
+AS DEFINED BY ALLOPATHY.
+
+"Scarlet fever begins with a short period of tired feeling. A short
+period of chilly sensation, fullness of eyes and sore throat. In a few
+hours fever begins with great heat of back of head. It soon extends all
+over the body, sick stomach and vomiting generally accompany the
+disease. Rash of a red color beginning on back, and extends to throat
+and limbs. About the second or third day, the fever is very high, from
+100° to 104° and generally lasts to fifth and seventh day, at which time
+fever begins to diminish, with itching over the body. The skin at this
+time throws off all of the dead scales that had been red rash in the
+fore-part of the disease. Often the lining membranes of the mouth,
+throat and tonsils slough and bleed. Also pus is often formed just under
+the skin in front of the throat. Such cases usually die.[7]
+
+   ALLOPATHY."
+
+[Footnote 7: Very true, if treated by the medicine man.]
+
+
+SCARLET FEVER AS DEFINED BY OSTEOPATHY.
+
+Is a disease generally of the early spring and late fall seasons.
+Generally comes with cold and damp weathers during east winds. It begins
+with sore throat, chilly and tired feelings, followed with headache and
+vomiting. In a few hours chilly feeling leaves and fever sets in very
+high, burns your hands. The patient is rounded in chest, abdomen, face
+and limbs by congestion of the fascia and all of the lymphatic glands.
+This stagnation will soon begin its work of fermentation of the fluids
+of fascia, then you see the rash. If you do not want to see the rash and
+sloughing of throat, with a dead patient, I would advise you to train
+your guns on the blood, nerves, and lymphatics of the fascia and stop
+the cause at once, or quit.
+
+   OSTEOPATHY.
+
+
+SMALLPOX.
+
+If we give a thought to the action of the electro-motor force, we would
+be constrained to believe that a power that could drive gas through a
+body of great density, would be much less than one that could force
+lymph through the same density. The same of albumen.
+
+
+POWER TO DRIVE GREATER THAN IN MEASLES.
+
+Thus in smallpox the motor energy must be equal to the force that would
+convey albumen through all tissues. Measles would be less, and so on
+according to the thickness of the fluids present. Thus you see the power
+to drive dead fluids from fascia must be much greater in smallpox than
+in cases of measles. Then we must see why the pulse of smallpox is so
+powerful during development of the pox. After killing the fluids by
+retention in the fascia of the skin, a greater force yet is created by
+hurting nerve fibers of fascia; then the motor energy appears and all
+the powers of life go to help the arteries force fluids through the skin
+and push to and leave them in the fascia of the skin to be eliminated as
+best it can. In some parts elimination fails, such places are called
+pox. They supurate and drop out leaving a pit (the pox mark). Now had
+the nerves of the skin and fascia not been irritated to contract the
+skin against the fascia passing its dead fluids through the excretory
+ducts of the skin, we probably would have no eruption. It is not quite
+reasonable to conclude that after the heart overloads the fascia and the
+nerves lose their control by pressure of fluids, that all that is left
+is chemical action to the production of pus, which throws it out of
+fascia in intervening spaces? Then should the fascia have greater death
+of its substances, we have one spot to run into others, and we have
+"confluent smallpox."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII.
+
+A CHAPTER OF WONDERS AND SOME VALUABLE QUESTIONS.
+
+     Wonders on the Increase--What Is Life?--How Is Action
+     Produced--Acquaint Yourself With the Machinery--Duty of the
+     Osteopath--Formation of Sacrum--The Pelvis--Appearance of
+     OEdema--Do All Diseases Have Appearance in OEdema.
+
+
+WONDERS ON THE INCREASE.
+
+Wonders are daily callers, and seem greatly on the increase during the
+Eighteenth century. As we read history we learn that no one hundred
+years of the past has produced wonders in such number and variety.
+Stupid systems of government have given place to better and wiser.
+Voyages of the ocean have had months by sail reduced to days by steam.
+Journeys over land that would require six months by horse and ox, are
+now accomplished in six days by rail. Our law, medical and other schools
+of five and seven years, are now but two or three; and the graduates of
+such schools are far superior in useful knowledge to those of the five
+and seven. And no wonder at that, for the facilities for giving the
+pupil an education are so far superior that the knowledge sought, can be
+obtained in less time. Our schools are not intended to use the greatest
+number of days that are allotted to man. But at this day schooling and
+learning mean, to obtain useful knowledge in the quickest way that a
+thoroughness can be obtained. If there is any method by which arithmetic
+can be taught so as to master it in thirty days instead of thirty months
+let us have it. We want knowledge, we are willing to pay for it, we want
+all we pay for, and we want our heads kept out of the sausage-mill of
+time wasting.
+
+A great question now stands before us: What are the possibilities of
+mind to improve our methods of gaining knowledge, shorten time, and
+getting greater and better results? I am free to say the question is too
+momentous to form an answer, as each day brings a new wonder, to the man
+or woman who reasons on cause, and gives demonstrations by effects.
+
+
+WHAT IS LIFE?
+
+The philosopher who first asked that question no one knows. But all
+intelligent persons are interested in the solution of this problem, at
+least to know some tangible reason why it is called life; whether life
+is personal or so arranged that it might be called an individualized
+principle of nature.
+
+I wish to think for a time on this line, because we should make a wise
+handling of the machinery of the body.
+
+If life in man has been formed to suit the size and duties of the being;
+if life has a living and separate personage, then we should be governed
+by such reasons as would give it the greatest chance to go on with its
+labors in the bodies of man and beast.
+
+We know by experience that a spark of fire will start the principles of
+powder into motion, which, were it not stimulated by the positive
+principle of father nature, which finds this germ lying quietly in the
+womb of space, would be silently inactive for all ages, without being
+able to move or help itself, save for the motor principle of life given
+by the father of all motion.
+
+
+HOW IS ACTION PRODUCED.
+
+Right here we could and should ask the question: Is this action produced
+by electricity put in motion, or is it the active principle that comes
+as a spiritual man? If so, it is useless to try, or hope to know what
+life is in its minutia. But we do know that life can only display its
+natural forces by the visible action of the forms it produces.
+
+If we inspect man as a machine, we find a complete building, a machine
+that courts inspection and criticism. It demands a full exploration of
+all its parts with their uses. Then the mind is asked to see or find the
+connection between the physical, and the spiritual. By nature you can
+reason on the roads that the powers of life are arranged to suit its
+system of motion.
+
+If life is an individualized personage, as we might express that
+mysterious something, and it must have definite arrangements by which it
+can be united and act with matter; then we are admonished to acquaint
+ourselves with the arrangements of those natural connections, the one or
+many, as they are connected to all parts of the completed being.
+
+As motion is the first and only evidence of life, by this thought we are
+conducted to the machinery through which life works to accomplish these
+results.
+
+
+ACQUAINT YOURSELF WITH THE MACHINERY.
+
+If the brain be that division in which force is generated or stored, you
+must at all hazards acquaint yourself with that structure of this
+machine; trace the connection from brain to heart, from heart to lungs,
+and other organs that can be acted upon by the brain, whose duty may be
+to construct the fleshy and bony parts of the body. Trace from the brain
+to the chemical laboratories, and note their action as they unite and
+prepare blood and other fluids, that are used in the economy of this
+vital, self-constructing and self-moving wonder, commonly known as man;
+wherein life and matter do unite, and express their friendly relation
+one with the other; and while this relation exists we have the living
+man only, expressing and proving the relation that can exist between
+life and matter, from the lowest living atom, to the greatest worlds.
+They can only express form and action by this law. Harmony only dwells
+where obstructions do not exist.
+
+
+DUTY OF THE OSTEOPATH.
+
+The Osteopath finds here the field in which he can dwell forever. His
+duties as a philosopher admonish him, that life and matter can be
+united, and that union cannot continue with any hindrance to the free
+and absolute motion. Therefore his duty is to keep away from the track
+all that will hinder the complete passage of the forces of the nervous
+system, that by that power the blood may be delivered and adjusted, to
+keep the system in normal condition. Here is your duty; do it well, if
+you wish to succeed.
+
+
+FORMATION OF SACRUM.
+
+We believe only when we do not know. Belief and doubt are equal terms.
+If we believe the sacrum is formed by a local system, then we can or
+will have cause to believe that the rectum and colon appear after the
+outer skin is in process of forming. For want of the truths we are left
+in speculative doubt. I believe the lower bowels are formed by local
+machinery that receives and appropriates to the purpose of construction
+of such parts or organs as nature designs to be used there. If we
+dissect a chicken as soon as hatched we will find the colon beginning at
+rectum and complete in form, but not connected to the small intestines.
+
+
+THE PELVIS.
+
+To get more directly at the point I want to make I will say I have some
+reasons to believe that the lower bowels are builded from rectum to the
+vermiform appendix, by acts of pelvis. It may be well to state that I
+have seen formation of rectum and colon in the chicken, before the small
+intestines were visible at all. Then in same chicken I saw, liver, lung,
+crop and gizzard, and only one artery in the region of the small
+intestines. From this I was led to believe that the pelvis did much of
+the forming of the viscera. If so, then we could look for much relief
+through the system of the pelvis.
+
+
+APPEARANCE OF OEDEMA.
+
+OEdema is the one word that appears to be at the first showing of life
+and death in animal forms. Previous to death by general swelling of
+system, a watery swelling of fascia and lymphatics, even to those of
+nerve fibers. If a disease should destroy life by withholding all
+fluids, we can trace such cause in the beginning to a time when there
+was watery swelling of the centers of nerves of nutrition, to such
+amount as to cut off nerve supply until sensation ceased to renovate and
+keep off accumulating fluids so long that fermentation did the work of
+heating till all fluids had dried up, and the channels of supply closed
+by adhesive inflammation, and death follows by the law of general
+atrophy.
+
+
+DO ALL DISEASES HAVE BEGINNING IN OEDEMA?
+
+To assert that all diseases have their beginning in oedema may be wide
+in range, but we often find one principle to rule over much territory.
+"Instance:" Mind is the supreme ruler of all beings, from the mites of
+life to the monsters of the land and sea. Thus we see a ruling principle
+is without limit. The same of numbers. By heat all metals melt to
+fluidity; acids must have oxygen to begin as solvents in most metals. We
+only speak imperfectly of some common laws to prepare the student to
+think on the line of probabilities as I hold them out for consideration.
+Suppose we begin at the atoms of fluids such as enter to construct
+animal or vegetable forms, and pen up till decomposition begins. By
+such delay does not nature call a halt and refuse to obey the laws of
+construction and let all other supplies pile up even to death? Is not
+all this the result of oedema? OEdema surely begins with the first
+tardy atom of matter.
+
+Pneumonia begins by its oedematous accumulations of dead atoms, even
+to the death of the whole body, all having found a start in atoms only.
+
+
+QUESTIONS FOR THE OSTEOPATH.
+
+We will close this chapter by propounding a few questions which the
+Osteopath should keep in mind.
+
+Are the human and animal forms complete as working machines?
+
+Has nature furnished man with powers to make his bones; give them the
+needed shapes of durable material, strong in kind?
+
+Does a section in nature's law provide fastenings to hold these to one
+another?
+
+Then another question arises: How will this body move, and where and how
+is the force applied?
+
+Where and how is this force obtained?
+
+How is it generated and supplied to these parts of motion?
+
+What makes these muscles, ligaments, nerves, veins, arteries?
+
+Are they self-forming, or has nature prepared machinery to make them?
+
+Does animal life contain knowledge and force to construct all of the
+parts of man?
+
+Can it run the machine after it has finished it?
+
+By what power does it move?
+
+Is there a blood vessel running to all parts of this body to supply all
+these demands?
+
+If it has a battery of force, where is it?
+
+What does it use for force?
+
+Is it electricity? If so how does it collect and use this substance?
+
+How does it convey its powers to any or all places?
+
+How does the man keep warm without fire?
+
+How does he build and lose flesh all the time?
+
+Where and how is the supply made and delivered to proper places?
+
+How is it applied and what holds it to its place when adjusted?
+
+What makes it build the house of life?
+
+Do demand and supply govern the work? If not, what does?
+
+Are the laws of animal life sufficient to do all this work of building
+and repairing wastes and keep it in running condition?
+
+If it does, what can man do or suggest to help it?
+
+Is this machine capable of being run fast or slow if need be?
+
+Does man have in him some kind of chemical laboratory that can turn out
+such products as he needs to fill all his physical demands?
+
+If by heat, exercise, or any other cause he gets warm, can that
+chemistry cool him to normal?
+
+If too cold can it warm him? Can it adjust him to heat and cold?
+
+If so, how is it done? Is the law of life and longevity fully vindicated
+in man's make up?
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV.
+
+HAS MAN DEGENERATED?
+
+     The Advent of Man--Care of the Stock Raiser--Mental Degeneration
+     Makes It Unpleasant for an Original Thinker--Original Thinkers of
+     the Ancients--Methods of Healing--Failure of Allopathy--Primitive
+     Man--Evidences of Prehistoric Man--Mental Dwarfage.
+
+
+THE ADVENT OF MAN.
+
+The exact time when man's foot appeared on the earth, no record shows. A
+knowledge of his advent might be profitable. The unwritten history of
+the human races with the genius or lack of genius, might to us be an
+open book of knowledge. As it is not supposable that the mind of man has
+just become observingly active in the last few centuries, absolute
+evidence of purer and deeper reason than we have been able to present,
+stand recorded on the faces of many valuable "lost arts" which we have
+never been able to equal. Is it not very reasonable to suppose that the
+powers of mind have wonderfully degenerated from some cause?
+
+
+CARE OF THE STOCK RAISER.
+
+The stock raiser carefully preserves the best and most healthy of the
+males and females of his flocks and herds for breeding purposes, that
+their offspring might be healthy and well developed, for the purposes
+for which he raises them. As a result he raises stock from the poultry
+house up, with marked improvement in form, strength and usefulness.
+Should he be foolish enough to kill off all the healthy and well
+developed males as they appear in his herds of cattle and other stock,
+for one or two centuries, would any one with average intelligence
+suppose that the standard of animals would or could be kept up, by
+breeding from the unfortunate stock, that had been pierced through the
+lungs while fighting with more powerful animals. If for breeding
+purposes he would save calves, colts, lambs, pigs, goats or any other
+young males to breed from, that had had a leg frozen off, one or both
+eyes plucked out, necks and ears torn by panthers, what would you think
+of the man's sanity?
+
+On this line we would ask what has been the procedure of all nations?
+Has it not been to select the strong and healthy males, drive them out
+to the field of battle, destroy a million or more of the strongest men,
+as our war of the sixties shows. Since that war closed the fathers of
+our children are mainly the crippled, worn out, and degenerated physical
+wrecks, with the assistance of the refused, who for lack of physical
+ability were barred from entering the United States' service. Such
+physical and mental wrecks are the fathers of the children born during
+the last thirty years. Every healthy young lady who married and became a
+mother after the early sixties, had to select a husband from a war or
+hereditary wreck. From that degenerated stock of human beings our
+asylums are filled, and the beams of the gallows pulled down by the
+weight of the bodies of those mental dwarfs. Run this train of reason
+back for a few hundred or thousand of years,--this degenerating force,
+bearing upon the offspring, and is it a wonder that we have physical and
+mental wrecks all over the country?
+
+
+MENTAL DEGENERATION MAKES IT UNPLEASANT FOR THE ORIGINAL THINKER.
+
+Now if we have been mentally degenerating, killing our best men back for
+a few thousand years time, and still have a few left who are fairly good
+reasoners, what was their mental powers then, compared with now? They
+could think from native ability; we only through acquired ability by our
+methods of education. Should an original thinker occasionally appear
+from the crippled and maimed, he will have much that is unpleasant to
+contend with, unless he is generous enough to credit the cause to an
+effect produced by the lack of mental and physical forces in the sires
+just described. A man or woman who is able to reason, cannot afford to
+wear out his or her physical and mental forces by spending time in
+tiresome discussions with such blank masses, who are very fortunate to
+have intelligence enough to make a living under the methods that require
+the least mental action.
+
+It would not be manly nor lady like to allow a feeling of combattiveness
+to arise and spend your forces on such persons. Pre-natal causes have
+dropped them where they are, and a philosopher knows he must submit to
+the conditions, and he is sorrowful in place of vengeful and
+vindicative, and all that is left for him to do is to trim his lamps and
+let the lights defend themselves.
+
+
+ORIGINAL THINKERS OF THE ANCIENTS.
+
+On this line we have much to think of. Anciently they did think: Great
+minds existed then, as is evidenced by the architecture displayed in
+constructing temples and pyramids. As in philosophy, chemistry, and
+mathematics, they stand to-day as living facts of their intelligence. In
+some ways we are equal and even surpass the ancients. Before the
+establishment of religious and political governments, national and
+tribal creeds, to sustain which the powerful minds and bodies of
+thousands and millions have been slain and their wise councils
+prohibited by death. Reason says under the circumstances we must kindly
+make and do the best we can in our day and time. No doubt their religion
+was better than ours, before they began to fight about their gods and
+governments.
+
+
+METHODS OF HEALING.
+
+Some evidence crops out now and then that their methods of healing were
+natural and wisely applied, and crowned with good results. As far as
+history speaks of the ancient healing arts they were logical,
+philosophical, good in results and harmless. It is true enough that we
+have great systems of chemistry that are useful in the mechanical arts,
+but very limited in their uses in the healing arts. In fact, a very
+great per cent of the gray-haired philosophers of all medical schools,
+unhesitatingly assert that the world would be better off without them.
+These conclusions are sent forth by competent and honest investigators,
+who have tested all known methods and medicines, and carefully observed
+the results from a quarter to a half a century. Let us call it "a
+trade," as the use of drugs is not a science.
+
+The author will now say, the health hunter in a majority of cases, when
+he administers drugs, gives one dose for health and nine for the dollar.
+
+As it becomes necessary to throw off oppressive governments, it becomes
+just as necessary to throw off other useless customs, without which no
+substitute has ever been received.
+
+
+FAILURE OF ALLOPATHY.
+
+Allopathy, a school of medicine known and fostered by all nations, drove
+on with its exploring teams; gave up the search, went into camp and
+builded temples to the god who purged, puked, perspired, opiated, drank
+whiskey and other stimulants; destroyed its thousands, ruined nations,
+established whiskey saloons, opium dens, insane asylums, naked mothers
+and hungry babies, and still cries aloud, and says: "Come unto me and I
+will give you rest. I have opium, morphine, and whiskey by the barrel. I
+am the god of all healing knowledge, and want to be so recognized by
+people and statute. I do not wish to be annoyed by Eclecticism,
+Homoeopathy, Christian science, massage, Swedish movements, nor
+Osteopathy. I do not like Osteopathy any better than I do a tiger. It
+scratches me and tears away all my disciples. I cannot destroy it. It
+uses neither opium nor whiskey, and it is impossible to catch it asleep.
+It scratches us, and has scratched our power out of four states during
+the last twelve months, with no telling where it will scratch next time.
+We must prepare for more war, I have heard from my scouts that on its
+flag the inscription reads thus: 'No quarters for allopathy in
+particular and none at all for any schools of medicine farther than
+surgery, and war to the hilt on three-fourths of that as practiced in
+the present day. The use of the knife in everything and for everything
+must be stopped; not by statute law, but through a higher education of
+the masses, which will give them more confidence in nature's ability to
+heal.'"
+
+
+PRIMITIVE MAN.
+
+It is reasonable to suppose that the mind that constructed man was fully
+competent to undertake and complete the being to suit the purpose for
+which he was designed. After giving him physical perfection in every
+limb, organ, or part of his body, it is reasonable to suppose, that at
+that time, he gave him all the mental powers needed for all purposes
+during the life of his race, and with that perfection in the physical,
+it is supposable he approached very nearly to intellectual perfection.
+He was a mathematician, not by collegiate process, but by native
+ability. He did not have to take a course in a university to study
+chemistry, because of the fact that he was a chemist when he was born.
+Possibly he could speak or understand all languages spoken by the human
+tongue, from the powers of his mind, which occupied a pure and healthy
+physique. In a word he was well made and fully endowed with all the
+physical and mental forces necessary to the whole journey of his life.
+Now a question arises: "When did he begin to degenerate physically and
+mentally?" Let us reason some on this line, which seems to be a rather
+solid foundation, and as history is young itself, and has imperfectly
+recorded only such events as have transpired during a few centuries,
+with records imperfectly preserved.
+
+
+EVIDENCES OF PREHISTORIC MAN.
+
+We see evidences all along the journey of prehistoric man's life, though
+the being and his bones have been mostly obliterated; we see close to
+his bony remains the stone axe, the flint-dart. We find acres of ground
+in many places close to mounds and caves, with countless millions of
+slivers that have been scaled from flints and formed to suit war
+purposes; while the many bones that are found in caves, heaps and piles,
+indicate that many thousands fell in mortal combat then and there.
+Possibly they were old in the skilled arts of war at that day. Their
+great and powerful men, who should have been parents of the coming
+generations, were slain and destroyed and the conquered became the
+captives and slaves of the more powerful, with all opportunities for
+mental development suppressed. Other nations and tribes willingly
+entered the bloody fields of battle, with nothing to report but the
+death of the best physically formed men, and leaving the propagation of
+the race or races to be kept up by those who were left behind as
+unqualified to go into battle, for lack of strength of either body or
+mind.
+
+This process of destroying the mentally and physically great has been
+kept up to the limits of our history's record. We have to go to schools
+about one-half of our time in order to cultivate and stimulate our
+mental energies sufficiently well, that we may follow the ordinary
+business pursuits of life.
+
+
+MENTAL DWARFAGE.
+
+Without worrying the patience of the reader any further, we will ask him
+if it is not reasonable that during all the past thousands of years,
+that men have fought over their gods and governments, has it not
+produced the mental dwarfage from the causes he has had to face? Our
+professional men are only imitators of one another. They must spend
+years in school because of a lack of native ability. This is our
+condition, and we must make the best we can of it. Most of our learned
+men, so-called, at the present day, stand upon heaps of mental rubbish.
+You seldom see in an editor's columns any evidence of mental greatness.
+He clips, quotes and sells his wisdom. He takes up some hobby,
+religious or scientific. He lauds his own religious views; his
+scientific ideas he wishes embalmed for the use of future generations.
+His law is _the_ law. His medicine is God's pills, notwithstanding he is
+the laughing stock of all who know him. I want to be good to them. I
+expect to be good to them, as they are suffering from the effects of
+pre-natal causes, thrown upon them by their ancestors for thousands of
+years. By those causes they have been possibly wounded worse than I
+have, and I do not expect to spend any time in combats with mental
+dwarfs; political, religious, or scientific bigots. If I can
+successfully run my boat over the riffles of time, I shall credit it to
+good luck, not native ability, for I, too, feel what they should,--the
+deep plowings of mental dwarfage, that is the result of killing all the
+great and good men for ages.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV.
+
+OSTEOPATHIC TREATMENT.
+
+     Five Points--Visceral List--Care in Treating the Spinal
+     Column--Most Important Chapter--Perfect Drainage--A Natural Cure.
+
+
+FIVE POINTS.
+
+The five points of observation will cover easily the whole body, and we
+cannot omit any one of them, and successfully examine any disease of the
+system. Local injuries are, however, an exception to this rule, and even
+a local hurt often causes general effect. Suppose a fall should jar the
+lumbar vertebra, and push it at some articulation, front, back, or
+laterally; say the lumbar, with one or two short ribs turned down
+against the lumbar nerves with a prolapsed and loosened diaphragm,
+pressing heavily on the abdominal aorta, vena cava, and thoracic duct;
+have you not found cause to stop or derange the circulation of blood in
+arteries, veins, lymphatics and all other organs below diaphragm? Then
+heart trouble would be the natural result. Fibroid tumors, painful
+monthlies, constipation, diabetis, dyspepsia or any trouble of the
+system that could come from bad blood would be natural results, because
+lymph is too old to be pure when it enters the lungs for purifying. If
+blood or chyle is kept too long below the diaphragm, it becomes diseased
+before it reaches the lungs, and after renovation, but little good blood
+is left. Then the dead matter is separated from blood and blown out at
+the lungs while in vapor. Thus nutriment is not great enough to keep up
+normal supply. In this stage the patient is low in flesh and feeble
+generally, because of trouble with blood and chyle to pass normally
+through the diaphragm.
+
+
+VISCERAL LIST.
+
+The failure of free action of blood produces general debility,
+congestion, low types of fever, dropsy, constipation, tumefaction and on
+to the whole list of visceral of diseases.
+
+From this we are called to the pelvis. If the innominate bones are
+twisted on sacrum or are driven too high or too low, an injury to the
+sacral system of blood and nerves would be cause equal to congestion,
+inflammation of womb or bladder-diseases, with a crippled condition of
+all the spinal nerves. This would be cause enough to produce hysteria,
+and on to the whole list of diseases to spinal injuries. The Osteopath
+has great demands for his powers of reason when he considers the
+relation of diseases generally to the pelvis; and this knowledge he
+must have before his work can be attended with success.
+
+As I said, five points comprise the fields in which the Osteopath must
+search. I have given you quite pointedly and at length, hints on spine
+and sacrum which cover the territory below the diaphragm. In conclusion
+I will simply refer you to the chest, neck and brain, and say, "let your
+search light ever shine bright on the brain." On it we must depend for
+power. About all nerves do run through the neck and branch off to supply
+both above and below, to do their parts in animal life, to the heart,
+brain and sum total of man and beast. Search faithfully for cause of
+diseases in head, neck, chest, spine and pelvis; for all organs, limbs
+and parts are directly related to and depend on these five localities to
+which I have just called your attention.
+
+With your knowledge of anatomy, I am sure you can practice and be
+successful, and should be in all cases over which Osteopathy is supposed
+to preside.
+
+
+CARE IN TREATING THE SPINAL CORD.
+
+I want to offer you the facts, not advice, but pure and well sustained
+facts, the only witnesses that ever enter the courts of truth. A spinal
+cord is a fact; you see it--thus a fact. That which you can see, feel,
+hear, smell or taste is a fact, and the knowledge of the ability of any
+one fact to accomplish any one thing, how it accomplishes it and for
+what purpose, is a truth sought for in philosophy. The spinal cord is
+the present fact for consideration. You see it, you feel it, thus you
+have two facts with which you can start to obtain a knowledge of the use
+of this spinal cord. In it you have one common straight cylinder which
+is filled with an unknown substance, and by an unknown power wisely
+directed. It is wisely formed, located, and protected. It throws off
+branches which are wisely located. They have bundles, many and few; they
+are connected to their support, which is the brain, by a continuous cord
+in length and form to suit. After it has concluded throwing off branches
+at local places for special purposes, then like a flashlight, it throws
+off a bundle of branches called horse-tail plexus, _caudae equinae_,
+which simply signifies the many branches that convey fluids and
+influences to the extremities, to execute the vital work for which they
+are formed and located. While the laws of life and their procedure to
+execute and accomplish the work designed by nature for them to do, is
+mysterious and to the finite mind incomprehensible, you can only see
+what they do or perform, after the work is done and ready for your
+inspection.
+
+
+HOW TO TREAT THE SPINAL COLUMN.
+
+Now as we are dealing with the omnipresent nerve principle of animal
+life, I will tell you this one serious truth, and support it by the fact
+of observation. To treat the spine, and thereby irritate the spinal cord
+oftener than once or twice a week will cause the vital assimilation to
+be perverted, and become the death-producing excretor, by producing the
+abortion of the living molecules of life, before fully matured, while in
+the cellular system, which lies immediately under the lymphatics.
+
+Your patients will linger long from the change of the nutrient ducts to
+throw off their dead matter into the excretories, which death was caused
+by the undue, or too many treatments of the spinal cord. If you will
+allow yourself to think for a moment, or think at all of the spinal cord
+being irritated, and what effect it will have on the uterus you will
+realize that I have told you a truth, and produced an array of facts to
+stand by that truth. Many of your patients are well six months before
+they are discharged. They are kept on hands because they are weak, and
+they are weak, because you keep them so from irritating the spinal cord.
+Throw off your goggles and receive the rays of the sunlight which
+forever stand in the bosom of reason.
+
+
+MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTER OF ALL.
+
+This is the most important chapter of this book, because at this point
+the engine of life is turned over to you as an engineer and by you it is
+expected to be wisely conducted on its journey.
+
+Your responsibility here is doubled. Your first position is that of a
+master mechanic, who is capable of drawing plans and writing minutely a
+specification whereby the engineer may know what a well constructed
+machine is in every particular. He knows the parts and relations of both
+as constructor and operator, and you are supposed to be the foreman in
+the shop of repairs. The living person is the engine, nature the
+engineer, and you the master mechanic.
+
+This being your position it is expected that you will carefully inspect
+all parts of the engines run into your repair shop, note all variations
+from the truly normal, and adjust from those variations as nearly as
+possible to the conditions of the true specimen that stands in the shop.
+
+
+PERFECT DRAINAGE.
+
+At this point it will be proper to suppose a case by way of
+illustration. Suppose by some accident the bones of the neck should be
+thrown at variance from the normal to a bend or twist. We may then
+expect inharmony in the circulation of the blood to the head and face
+with all the organs and glands above the neck. We will find imperfect
+supply of blood and other fluids to the head. We may expect swelling of
+head and face with local or general misery. Thus you have a cause for
+headache, dizziness, blindness, enlarged tonsils, sore tongue, loss of
+sight, hearing, memory, and on through the list of head diseases, all
+because of perverted circulation of the fluids of the brain proper of
+any local division. It is important to have perfect drainage, for
+without it, the good results from a treatment cannot be expected to
+follow your efforts to relieve diseases above the neck.
+
+
+WHAT TREATING MEANS.
+
+Here I want to emphasize that the word treat has but one meaning, that
+is to know you are right, and do your work accordingly. I will only
+hint, and would feel embarrassed to go any farther than to hint to you,
+the importance of an undisturbed condition of the five known kinds of
+nerves, namely: sensation, motion, nutrition, voluntary and involuntary,
+all of which you must labor to keep in perpetual harmony while treating
+any disease of the head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, spine and limbs.
+
+If you would allow yourself to reason at all, you must know that
+sensation must be normal and always on guard to give notice by local or
+general misery, of unnatural accumulation of the circulating fluids.
+Each set of nerves must be free to act and do their part. Your duty as a
+master mechanic is to know that the engine kept is in so perfect a
+condition that there will be no functional disturbance to any nerve,
+vein, or artery that supplies and governs the skin, the fascia, the
+muscle, the blood or any fluid that should freely circulate to sustain
+life and renovate the system from deposits that would cause what we call
+disease.
+
+
+A NATURAL CURE.
+
+Your Osteopathic knowledge has surely taught you, that with an intimate
+acquaintance with the nerve and blood supply, you can arrive at a
+knowledge of the hidden cause of disease, and conduct your treatment to
+a successful termination. This is not by your knowledge of chemistry,
+but by the absolute knowledge of what is in man. What is normal, and
+what abnormal, what is effect and how to find the cause. Do you ever
+suspect renal or bladder trouble without first receiving knowledge from
+your patient, that there is soreness and tenderness in the region of the
+kidneys at some point along the spine. By this knowledge you are invited
+to explore the spine for the purpose of ascertaining whether it is
+normal or not. If by your intimate acquaintance and observance of a
+normal spine you should detect an abnormal form although it be small,
+you are then admonished to look out for disease of kidneys, bladder or
+both, from the discovered cause for disturbance of the renal nerves by
+such displacement, or some slight variation from the normal in the
+articulation of the spine. If this is not worthy of your attention, your
+mind is surely too crude to observe those fine beginnings that lead to
+death. Your skill would be of little use in incipient cases of Bright's
+disease of the kidneys. Has not your acquaintance with the human body
+opened your mind's eye to observe that in the laboratory of the human
+body, the most wonderful chemical results are being accomplished every
+day, minute and hour of your life? Can that laboratory be running in
+good order and tolerate the forming of a gall or bladder stone? Does not
+the body generate acids, alkalies, substances and fluids necessary to
+wash out all impurities? If you think an unerring God has made all those
+necessary preparations, why not so assert, and stand upon that stone?
+
+You cannot do otherwise, and not betray your ignorance to the thinking
+world. If in the human body you can find the most wonderful chemical
+laboratory mind can conceive of, why not give more of your time to that
+subject, that you may obtain a better understanding of its workings?
+Can you afford to treat your patients without such qualification? Is it
+not ignorance of the workings of this Divine law that has given birth to
+the foundationless nightmare that now prevails to such an alarming
+extent all over civilization, that a deadly drug will prove its efficacy
+in warding off disease in a better way than has been prescribed by the
+intelligent God, who has formulated and combined life, mind and matter
+in such a manner that it becomes the connecting link between a world of
+mind, and that element known as matter? Can a deep philosopher do
+otherwise than conclude that nature has placed in man all the qualities
+for his comfort and longevity? Or will he drink that which is deadly,
+and cast his vote for the crucifixion of knowledge?
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI.
+
+REASONING TESTS.
+
+     The Vermiform Appendix--Operating for Appendicitis--Expelling Power
+     of the Vermiform Appendix--Care Exercised in Making
+     Assertions--Reasoning Tests--A List of Unexplained
+     Diseases--Concluding Remarks.
+
+
+THE VERMIFORM APPENDIX.
+
+At the present time more than at any other period since the birth of
+Christ, the medical and surgical world have centralized their minds for
+the purpose of relieving locally inside, below the kidney of the male or
+female, excruciating pain, which appears in both sexes in the region
+above described.
+
+From some cause, possibly justifiable, it has been decided to open the
+human body and explore the region just below the right kidney in search
+of the cause of this trouble. Such explorations have been made upon the
+dead first. Small seeds and other substances have been found in the
+vermiform appendix, which is a hollow tube over an inch in length. These
+discoveries, as found in the dead subject, have led to explorations in
+the same location in the living. In some of the cases, though very few,
+seeds and other substances have been found in the vermiform appendix,
+supposed to be the cause of local or general inflammation of the
+appendix. Some have been successfully removed, and permanent relief
+followed the operation. These explorations and successes in finding
+substances in the vermiform appendix, their removal, and successful
+recovery in some cases, have led to what may properly be termed a hasty
+system of diagnosis, and it has become very prevalent, and resorted to
+by the physicians of many schools, under the impression that the
+vermiform appendix is of no known use, and that the human being is just
+as well off without it.
+
+
+OPERATING FOR APPENDICITIS.
+
+Therefore it is resolved, that as nothing positive is known of the
+trouble in the location above described, it is guessed that it is a
+disease of the vermiform appendix. Therefore they etherize and dissect
+down for the purpose of exploring, to ascertain if the guess is right or
+wrong. In the diagnosis this is a well-defined case of appendicitis; the
+surgeon's knife is driven through the quivering flesh in great eagerness
+in search of the vermiform appendix. The bowels are rolled over and
+around in search of the appendix. Sometimes some substances are found in
+it; but often to the chargrin of the exploring physician, it is found to
+be in a perfectly healthy and natural condition, and so seldom is it
+found impact with seeds or any substance whatever, that as a general
+rule it is a useless and dangerous experiment. The per cent of deaths
+caused by the knife and ether, and the permanently crippled, will
+justify the assertion that it would be far better for the human race if
+they lived and died in ignorance of appendicitis. A few genuine cases
+might die from that cause; but if the knife were the only known remedy,
+it were better that one should occasionally die than to continue this
+system, at least until the world recognizes a relief which is absolutely
+safe, without the loss of a drop of blood, that has for its foundation
+and philosophy a fact based upon the longitudinal contractile ability of
+the appendix itself, which is able to eject by its natural forces any
+substances that may by an unnatural move be forced into the appendix.[8]
+
+[Footnote 8: My first Osteopathic treatment for appendicitis was in
+1877, at which time I operated on a Mr. Surratt and gave permanent
+relief. During the early eighties I treated and permanently cured Mrs
+Emily Pickler of Kirksville, mother of our representative, S. M.
+Pickler, and mother of ex-congressman John A. Pickler of South Dakota.
+The infirmary has had bad cases of appendicitis probably running up into
+hundreds without failing to relieve and cure a single case. The ability
+of the appendix to receive and discharge foreign substances is taught in
+the American School of Osteopathy and is successfully practiced by its
+diplomates. In the case of Mr. Surratt I found lateral twist of lumbar
+bones; I adjusted spine, lifted bowels, and he got well. When I was
+called to Mrs. Pickler she had been put on light diet, by the surgeon,
+preparatory to the knife. She soon recovered under my treatment without
+any surgical operation and is alive and well to this date.]
+
+
+EXPELLING POWER OF THE VERMIFORM APPENDIX.
+
+To a philosopher such questions as this must arise: Has the appendix at
+its entrance a sphincter muscle similar in action to that of the rectum
+and oesophagus? Has it the power to contract and dilate?--contract and
+shorten in its length and eject all substances when the nerves are in a
+normal condition? And where is the nerve that failed to execute the
+expulsion of any substance that may enter the cavity of the appendix?
+Has God been so forgetful as to leave the appendix in such condition as
+to receive foreign bodies without preparing it by contraction or
+otherwise to throw out such substances? If He has He surely forgot part
+of His work. So reason has concluded for me, and on that line I have
+proceeded to operate for twenty-five years without pain or misery to the
+patient, and given permanent relief in all cases that have come to me.
+With the former diagnosis of doctors and surgeons that appendicitis was
+the malady, and the choice of relief was the knife or death, or possibly
+both, many such cases have come for Osteopathic treatment, and
+examination has revealed that in every case there has been previous
+injury to some set of spinal nerves, caused by jars, strains or falls.
+Every case of appendicitis, gall or renal stones can be traced to some
+such cause. These principles I have proclaimed and thought for
+twenty-five years.
+
+
+CARE EXERCISED IN MAKING ASSERTIONS.
+
+We should use much caution in our assertions that nature had made its
+work so complete in animal forms and furnished them with such wisely
+prepared principles that they could produce and administer remedies to
+suit, and not leave the body to find them. Should we so conclude and
+find by experiment that man is so arranged, and wisely furnished by
+deity as to ferret out disease, purify and keep the temple of life in
+ease and health; we must use great care when we assert such is not
+undeniably true up to the present. The opposite opinion has had full
+sway for twenty centuries at least, and man has by habit, long usage,
+and ignorance so adjusted his mind to submit to customs of the great
+past that should he try, without previous training, to reason and bring
+his mind to such altitude of thought of the greatness and wisdom of the
+infinite, he might become insane or fall back in a stupor, and exist
+only as a living mental blank in the great ocean of life, where beings
+dwell without minds to govern their actions. It would be a great
+calamity to have all the untrained minds shocked so seriously as to
+cause them to lose the mite of reason they now have, and be sent back
+once more to dwell in Darwin's protoplasm. I tell you there is danger,
+and we must be careful and show the people small stars, and but one at a
+time, till they can begin to reason and realize that God has done all
+that the wisest can attribute to Him.
+
+
+REASONING TESTS.
+
+There is but one method of reasoning. That method is by the laws
+governing the subject to be reasoned upon.
+
+Reasoning is the action of the mind while hunting for truths.
+
+
+THE ABDOMEN.
+
+As we are about to camp close to the abdomen for a season of
+explorations and a more reasonable knowledge of its organs and their
+functions, we will search its geography first, and find its location on
+the body or globe of life. We find a boundary line established by the
+general surveyor, about the middle of the body, called the diaphragm.
+This line has a very strong wall or striated muscle that can and does
+dilate and contract to suit for breathing, and quantities of food that
+may be stored for a time in stomach and bowels for use. The abdomen is
+much longer than wide. In short, it is a house or shop builded for
+manufacturing purposes. In it we find the machinery that produces rough
+blood or chyle, and sends it to heart and lungs to be finished to
+perfect living blood, to supply and sustain all the organs of this
+division. This diaphragm or wall has several openings through which
+blood and nutriment pass to and from abdomen to heart, lungs and brain.
+I want to draw your special attention to the fact that this diaphragm
+must be truly normal. It must be anchored and held in its true position
+without any variation, and in order that you shall fully understand what
+I mean, I will ask you to go with me mentally to all the ribs, beginning
+with the sternum, see attachments, follow across with a downward course
+to the attachments of this great muscular septum to the lower lumbar
+region, where the right crus receives a branch or strong muscle from the
+left side, and the left crus receives a muscle from the right which
+becomes one common muscle known as the left crus, the same of the right
+crus receiving a muscle or tendon from the left, which you will easily
+comprehend from examining descriptive cuts in Gray, Morris, Gerrish, or
+any well illustrated work of anatomy. You see at once a chance for
+constriction of the aorta by the muscles under which it passes, causing
+without doubt much of the disease known as palpitation of the heart,
+which is only a bouncing back of the blood that has been stopped at the
+crura. Farther away from the spine near the center of the diaphragm we
+find the return opening through this wall, provided to accommodate the
+vena cava. To the left a few inches below the vena cava we find another
+opening provided for the oesophagus and its nerves; like the aorta, it
+has two muscles of the diaphragm crossing directly between oesophagus
+and the aorta, in such shape as to be able to produce powerful
+prohibitory constriction to normal swallowing.
+
+
+A LIST OF UNEXPLAINED DISEASES.
+
+At this point I will draw your attention to what I consider is the cause
+of a whole list of hitherto unexplained diseases, which I think are only
+effects, caused by the blood and other fluids being prohibited from
+doing normal service by constrictions at the various openings of the
+diaphragm. Thus prohibition of free action of the thoracic duct would
+produce congestion of receptaculum chyli, because of not being able to
+discharge its contents as fast as received. Is it not reasonable to
+suppose a ligation of the thoracic duct at the diaphragm would retain
+this chyle until it would be diseased by age and fermentation, and be
+thrown off into the substances of other organs of the abdomen and set up
+new growths, such as enlargement of the uterus, ovaries, kidneys, liver,
+spleen, pancreas, omentum, lymphatics, cellular membranes, and all that
+is known as flesh and blood below the diaphragm? Have you not reason to
+explore and demand a deeper and more thorough anatomical knowledge of
+the diaphragm and its power to produce disease while in an abnormal
+condition, which can be caused by irritations, wounds or hurts, from the
+base of the brain to the coccyx? Remember this is an anatomical and
+philosophical question that will demand your attention to the mechanical
+formation, physiological action and the unobstructed privileges of
+fluids when prepared in the laboratory of nature, to be sent at once to
+their ordained destination, before such substances are diseased or dead
+with age. You must remember that you have been well drilled, or talked
+out of patience in the room of symptomatology and all you have learned
+is, something ails the kidneys, and are told their contents when
+analyzed are not normally pure urine. In urinalisis you are told "here
+is sugar," "here is fat," "here is iron," "here is pus," "here is
+albumen," and this is diabetis, this is Bright's disease, but no
+suggestion is handed to the student's mind to make him know that these
+numerous variations from normal urine are simply effects, and the
+diaphragm has caused all the trouble, by first being irritated from
+hurts, by ribs falling, spinal strains, wounds and on from the coccyx to
+the base of the brain. Symptomatology is very wide and wise in putting
+this and that together and giving it names, but fails to give the cause
+of all these abdominal lesions. Never for once has it said or intimated
+that the diaphragm is prolapsed by misplaced ribs to which it is
+attached, or that it is diseased by hurts of spine and nerves above its
+own location. Allow yourself to think of the universality of the
+distribution of the superior cervical ganglion and other nerves which
+are of such great importance that I will by permission insert in the
+last chapter of this book a description of that great system of the
+sympathetic nerves by Dr. Wm. Smith, whose superior knowledge of anatomy
+makes him eminently qualified to describe the location and uses of this
+great sympathetic system of the nerves of life.
+
+
+CONCLUDING REMARKS.
+
+As you read his able essay remember there are four other sets of nerves
+equal to, and just as important in their divisions of life, which are
+the motor, nutrient, voluntary and involuntary. All of which you as an
+engineer must know, and by proper adjustment of the body give them
+unlimited power to perform their separate and united parts in sustaining
+life and health. Now as I have tried to place into your hands a compass,
+flag and chain that will lead you from effect to cause of disease in
+any part or organ of the whole abdomen I hope that many mysteries which
+have hung over your mental horizon will pass away, and give you abiding
+truths, placed upon the everlasting rock of cause and effect. You have
+as little use for old symptomatology as an Irishman has for a cork when
+the bottle is empty. Osteopathy is knowledge, or it is nothing.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII.
+
+OBSTETRICS.
+
+     Overloading--Similarity of Stomach and Womb--Births--Preparation
+     for Delivery--Caution--Lasceration Need Not Occur--Care of
+     Cord--Severing Cord--Putting on Belly Band--Delivery of
+     Afterbirth--Preparing for Mother's Comfort--Post-Delivery
+     Hemorrhage--Treatment for--Food for Mother--Treatment for Sore
+     Breast.
+
+
+OVERLOADING.
+
+When in the course of human events and actions of life, a woman
+disregards the laws of nature to such an extent as to overload the
+stomach beyond its powers and limits; or another way to present the
+thought, we will say, if you fill the stomach so full as to occupy all
+space, or so much of the space as to cripple the laws of digestion and
+retain the food, the decomposition sets up an irritation of the nerves
+of mucous membrane to such a degree as to cause sickness and vomiting,
+or any other method of disgorging the stomach, which is the natural
+process to unload an overloaded vessel. When the nerves cannot take up
+nutrition, they will then take up destruction and other elements which
+are detrimental to the process of nutrition, and there is no other
+process for relief but to unload. The loading that has been deposited
+in the stomach was for the purpose of sustaining a being. The stomach
+itself is a sack. When filled to its greatest capacity, it irritates all
+the surroundings, and in return they irritate the stomach. Thus it
+unloads naturally for relief. Now we wish to treat of another vessel
+similar in size, similar in all its actions, which receives nourishment
+for a being, which nourishment is contained in the blood, and conveyed
+from the channels commonly known as uterine arteries. To all intents and
+purposes this nourishment is taken there to sustain animal life, after
+having constructed the machinery then it appropriates the blood to the
+growth and existence of a human being. One is the womb, the other the
+stomach. The placenta in the womb is provided with all the machinery
+necessary to the preparation of blood, such as is used for all purposes
+in forming and developing a child. Which is the stomach? Which is the
+womb? and what is the difference? Both receive and distribute
+nourishment to sustain animal life. Both get sick, both vomit when
+irritated and discharge their loading by the natural law of "throw up"
+and "throw down." Now note the difference and govern yourselves
+accordingly. One is mid-wifery, or treatment of the lower stomach during
+gestation and delivery. The other is the upper stomach that takes
+coarser material and refines the unrefined substances, keeps the outer
+man in form and being; the other contains the inner man or child, and by
+the law of ejection, when it becomes an irritant, it is thrown out by
+the nerves that govern the muscles of ejection.
+
+
+BIRTHS.
+
+To illustrate: I will say, just as long as digestion and assimilation
+keep in harmony and the mother generates good blood in abundance, the
+child grows, and by nature the womb is willing to let the work of
+building the body of the child go on indefinitely; but nature has placed
+all the functions of animal life under laws that are absolute and must
+be obeyed. We by reason are asked to note the similarity of the stomach
+and the womb, as both receive and pass nutriment to a body for
+assimilation and growth. When a stomach gets overloaded, sickness
+begins, as digestion and assimilation has stopped, then the decaying
+matter is taken up by the terminal nerves, and conveyed to the solar
+plexus, and causes the nerves of ejection, to throw the dying matter out
+of the stomach which is above. Try your reason and see the stomach below
+sicken and unload its burden. Is this sickness natural and wisely
+caused? If this is not the philosophy of mid-wifery what is? As soon as
+a being takes possession of its room, the commissary of supplies begins
+to furnish rations for that being, who has to build for itself a
+dwelling place. The house must be built strictly to the letter of the
+specifiction. Much bone and flesh must be put into the house of life,
+and some of all elements known to the chemist, must be used and wisely
+blended to give strength; also all material to be used in the house must
+be exact in form and given strength equal to all forces, that may be
+necessary to execute the hard and continued labors of the machinery that
+may be used in all transactions and motions of mind and body. Now we
+must go to the manufacturing chief, and have him through the
+quartermaster deliver and keep a full supply of all kinds of material
+for the work, and when the engine is done, put it on an inclined plane
+and cut the stay-chains and let it run out of the shop. Be careful and
+not let the engine deface nor tear the door as it comes out. A question
+is asked: On what road does the quarter-master send the supplies? As
+there is but one system over which an engine can bring supplies, we will
+call that road the uterine system of arteries. The mechanic reports that
+he will open the door of this great shop of manufacturing, and let it
+roll out the engine by the power and methods prepared to run out
+finished work. First you see a door open because the lock is taken off
+by a key that opens all mysteries; and the great ropes that have been
+far inferior to the force of resistance, that has held the door shut,
+are all sufficient in power. By getting sick, muscles become convulsed
+to rigidity of great strength with force enough to push the new engine
+of life out into open space easily, by nature's team that never fails to
+obey orders to deliver all goods intrusted to its care.
+
+
+PREPARATION FOR DELIVERY.
+
+A student of mid-wifery can only learn a few general principles, before
+he gets into the field of experience. Actual contact with labor teaches
+him that much that he has read and had told to him by professors of
+mid-wifery in the lectures, is of but little use to him at the bedside.
+What he needs to know is, what he will have to do after he gets there.
+He must know the form and size of the bones of a woman, how large a hole
+the three bones of the pelvis make, for the reason that the child's head
+will soon come through that hole. He must know a normal head cannot come
+through a pelvis that has been crushed in so much as to bring the pubis
+within one and one-half to two and one-half inches of the sacrum. He
+must examine and know, and do this soon after he is called, for the
+reason, that he will have to use instruments in such deformities, and
+may wish the counsel of an older and more experienced doctor. And this
+precaution will give him time to be ready for any emergency.
+
+But more than ninety per cent of all cases are of a very simple nature.
+The mother is warned by pains in back and womb, coming and repeating at
+intervals of one-half hour to less time. When by the finger the doctor
+can tell the mouth of the womb has opened to the size of a quarter or
+half dollar, he then may know that labor will soon start in good
+earnest, and at this time it is well to call for a twine, cut two
+strings about a foot long, to tie around the navel cord.
+
+
+CAUTION.
+
+The first duty of the obstetrician is to carefully examine the bones of
+the pelvis and spine of the mother, to ascertain if they are normal in
+shape and position. If there is any doubt about the spine and pelvis
+being in good condition for the passage of the head, through the bones,
+and you find pelvic deformity enough to prohibit the passage of the
+head, notify the parties of the danger in the case at once, and that you
+do not wish to take the responsibility alone, as it may require
+instruments to deliver the child, as there is danger of death to the
+child and mother also, but less danger to the mother than to the child.
+Now you have done that which is a safeguard against all trouble
+following criminal ignorance.
+
+I will give you a condensed rule of procedure in all normal cases of
+obstetrics. With index finger, examine os uteri; if closed and only
+backache, have patient turn on right side, and press hand on abdomen
+above pelvis, and gently press or lift belly up just enough to allow
+blood to pass down and up pelvis and limbs. Relax all nerves of the
+pelvis at pubes.
+
+
+SECOND EXAMINATION.
+
+Caution: Wait a few hours; examine os again. If still closed and no
+periodical pains are present, you are safe to leave case in the hands of
+the nurse, instructed to send for you if regular pains return at
+intervals. On your return, explore os again, if found to open as large
+as a dime, you are by this notified that labor has begun its work of
+delivery. You now place patient on her back, propped to an easy angle of
+near thirty degrees, with rubber blanket in place. After you find os,
+dilated to nearly the size of a dollar, then relax nerves at pubes. Soon
+you will find in mouth of womb an egg-shaped pouch of water, which you
+must not press with fingers till very late in labor, for fear of
+stopping labor for perhaps many hours. Remember the head can and does
+turn in pelvis to suit the easiest passage through the bones, while in
+the fluids of the amniotic sack. Now, as you know why not to rupture
+sack and spill fluids, you are prepared to proceed to other duties,
+which are to prevent rupture of perineum. Place the left hand on the
+belly, about two inches above symphesis and push the soft parts down
+with the left hand; support the perineum with the right hand until head
+passes over. This is necessary to prevent rupture of perineum.
+
+
+LASCERATION NEED NOT OCCUR.
+
+If you follow this law of nature, lasceration may occur in one out of a
+thousand cases, and you will be to blame for that one, and may be
+censured for criminal ignorance. Now you have conducted head safely
+through pelvis and vagina to the world. You will find pains stop right
+short off for about a minute, which is the time to learn whether the
+navel cord is wrapped around the child's neck.
+
+
+CARE OF CORD.
+
+If it is found all around the neck once or more, you must slip finger
+down neck and loosen cord to let blood pass through the cord till next
+pain comes, in order to ward off asphyxia of child.
+
+When pain comes, gently pull child's head down toward the bed. There is
+no danger of hurting the perineum now since the head has passed the soft
+parts. At this time the danger is suffocation of child. Never draw child
+too far away from mother's birth place by force, as you may tear navel
+string from the child and cause it to bleed to death. If you value the
+life of the child, then you must be careful not to place the navel end
+of the string in any danger of being torn off. Now you have made a good
+job for both mother and child so far. The child is in the world; and you
+want to show the mother a living baby for her labor and suffering of the
+past nine months. The baby is born and the mother is not torn, but the
+baby has not yet cried. Turn it on its side, face down, run your finger
+in its mouth and draw out all fluids, thick or thin, to let the breath
+pass to the lungs. Then blow cold breath on its face and breast to cause
+its lungs to act.
+
+
+SEVERING CORD.
+
+Baby cries, all is safe now. Baby is born safely and cries nicely, but
+still has cord fastened to afterbirth. It has no further use for cord,
+as life does not depend upon blood from the afterbirth any longer. Take
+the cord about three inches from the child's belly, between thumb and
+finger, and strip towards child to push bowels out of the cord if there
+should be any in it, as a safeguard for bowels, then tie a strong string
+around cord, first three inches from child's belly, second, four inches;
+take the cord in your hand and look what you are doing. If baby's hand
+should fall back to cord, you might cut off one or two fingers, or wound
+the hand or arm very seriously. Cut cord between the two ties just made
+on navel string. Look out for your scissors; pass the child over to the
+nurse to be washed and dressed, while you deliver the afterbirth from
+pelvis or womb.
+
+
+PUTTING ON BELLY BAND.
+
+When the child's shirt is on, cut a hole the size of your thumb in a
+doubled piece of cloth, five inches long by four wide, put the hole two
+inches from one end, and run the cord through the hole. Lay the cloth
+across the child's belly, then fold the cloth lengthwise over the cord,
+which must lie across the child so it will not stretch cord by handling
+or straightening child out. Now you are ready to finish the delivery of
+the afterbirth. You have a plug of soft and tender flesh to get out of
+the womb and vagina.
+
+
+DELIVERY OF AFTERBIRTH.
+
+As the afterbirth has been grown tight to the womb during all the days
+of mother's pregnancy, and furnished all the blood to build and keep the
+child alive in the womb for nine months, it has done all it can do for
+the child, and is now ready to leave the womb.
+
+You are there to assist it to get out of the place it has occupied so
+long. You must begin first to rotate or roll the placenta first one way
+and then another, up, down and across the vagina, by gently pulling the
+cord. Look out or you will pull the cord loose from the placenta; then
+you will have made your first blunder,--no cord to pull placenta with,
+and the mother bleeding and faint from loss of blood. Now is the time
+and place to save life. Pass your hand forward into the soft parts to
+get your fingers behind the placenta; now give a rolling pull and bring
+it out with the hand. You will find it an easy matter to get your hand
+into the vagina and womb after the birth of the child. Get all the
+placenta out, then take a wad of cloth or rags as large as the child's
+head, and press it under the cross bone of the pelvis; push the cloth
+under and up, so as to completely plug the pelvis. Now pull the hair
+gently over the symphesis, which will cause the womb to contract by
+irritation.
+
+
+PREPARING FOR MOTHER'S COMFORT.
+
+All is now done but to provide for the mother's comfort, which is your
+next duty. Draw her chemise down her back and legs until it is straight,
+then with safety pins, pin the chemise on inner side of thighs so that
+the chemise will go around both thighs separately. Now you have the
+shirt fast to keep it from sliding upwards, and you are ready to make a
+band of the chemise to support the womb and abdomen. Bring the chemise
+tightly together for two or three inches above the pelvis to form a
+band. Previous to pinning, draw the lump (womb) you feel above
+symphesis, up, then pin, and the belt you have made of the chemise will
+support the womb. All is safe now, but you must not leave for two hours.
+You may have delivered a feeble woman, who may flood to death after
+delivery of the child, if you do not leave her safe. I have in mind one
+case who flooded all of two quarts at a single dash. The first symptom
+was a pain in the head.
+
+
+POST-DELIVERY HEMORRHAGE.
+
+I know of only two causes that would produce hemorrhage or bleeding
+after the child is delivered. One is when the afterbirth (placenta), is
+separated from its attachment to the womb and still retained in the
+womb or vagina, or when a part is separated and still lies in the womb,
+that retention of placenta prevents the natural circular contraction of
+the womb, to close on itself and retain it, with force enough to prevent
+the further discharge of blood, would give a chance for a continued
+stream. Then should the patient bleed profusely after the placenta has
+been removed, another cause would be in pulling away the afterbirth, as
+part of the upper portion of the womb may be pulled to an inverted
+position, which would be like a hat if you press the top down with the
+hand. Then there is a chance for leakage because of this unnatural fold
+made in the womb.
+
+
+TREATMENT FOR.
+
+My method of relief is to insert the hand, and with back of fingers
+smooth out all folds. Before you draw the right hand from the womb place
+left hand on abdomen, catch the womb between the thumb and finger and
+withdraw hand. With the left hand pull the hair above symphesis or
+scratch the flesh just above across the region of the symphesis, just
+enough to make an irritation. After the hand is out of vagina pass a
+small bundle of cloths as far under the symphesis as would be necessary
+to hold everything up, then fasten chemise; beginning at symphesis draw
+it tight for about two inches above symphesis and with strong pins
+fasten it. Be sure you keep garment tight by pulling down between limbs.
+The coarser the chemise the better, as you want to make a strong bandage
+at that point so as not to push the womb down into the pelvis. If the
+patient's general health is fairly good let her tell you what she wants
+to eat, and go and get it. Let her diet be after her usual custom. You
+must remember she has just left the condition of a full abdomen. Lace
+her up, fill her up and make her comfortable for six hours; then change
+her bedding.
+
+
+FOOD FOR MOTHER.
+
+Remember this, if you stop digestion on her for some hours with teas,
+soups and shadows to eat, you carry her to the condition where it would
+be dangerous to give her a hearty meal. My experience and custom for
+forty years has been crowned with good success. I never lost a case in
+confinement. I have universally told the cook to give her plenty to eat.
+
+
+TREATMENT FOR SORE BREAST.
+
+If she begins to have fever followed by chilly sensations, with swelling
+of one or both breasts, I relieve that by laying her arm ranging with
+her body. Let some one hold the arm down to the bed, then I place both
+of my hands under the arm, pull it up with considerable force till I
+get it as high or higher than normal position of the shoulder. Then pull
+her shoulder straight out from the body a fairly good pull, then pull
+the arm up on a straight line with the face, and be sure that you have
+let loose the axillary and mammary veins, nerve and artery, which have
+been cramped by pulling the arm down during delivery. No breast should
+become caked in the hands of an Osteopath. Do not bother about the
+bowels for two or three days. It may be necessary to use the catheter if
+the water should fail to pass off after inhibiting the pubic system.
+This is straight mid-wifery and will guide you through at least in
+ninety per cent of the cases you will meet in normally formed women.
+
+Right here I wish to say one word: I think it is very wrong to teach,
+talk and spend so much time with pictures, cuts, talks and lectures, and
+hold up constantly to the view of the student, births coming from the
+worst imaginable deformities and call that a knowledge of mid-wifery. It
+is normal mid-wifery you want to know and be well-skilled in. The
+abnormal formations are few and far between, and when a case of that
+kind does appear, it is your knowledge of the normal that guides you
+through the variations. You will very likely never find two abnormals
+presenting the same form of bone. As this is intended to only present
+to the student natural delivery I will let the subject drop with one
+word about the sore tongue of the mother. Adjust her neck, relieve
+constrictor and all other muscles that would impede any blood vessel
+that should drain the mouth and tongue. Remember this, that a horse that
+is always hunting bugars never finds a smooth road.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII.
+
+CONVULSIONS.
+
+     Old Phrases--Results of Stoppage of Fluids--Old Theory of
+     Fits--What the Real Cause may be--Listen for the Cause--What is a
+     Fit--Sensory System Demanding Nourishment--The Causes--The
+     Remedy--Dislocation of Atlas and of Four Upper Ribs.
+
+
+OLD PHRASES.
+
+As old phrases that have long been in use as names for the various
+diseases have almost grown to the degree of disgust, I laid them aside
+and have been trying and have succeeded in unfolding natural laws to a
+better understanding, which do and should be our guide and action in
+treating all diseases that mar the peace and happiness of the human race
+by misery and death. By such old systems with their foolish and
+unreliable suggestions, of how to guide the doctor in treating diseases
+which have proven unworthy of respect, if merit is to be our rule of the
+weights and measures of intelligence. I have become so disgusted with
+such verbiage with the sense that follows the pens that have written
+treatise on disease, that I have concluded to do like Adam of old, give
+names that may appear novel to the reader when I wish to draw the
+attention of the student who is trying to obtain a knowledge of the
+mysteries hitherto unsolved and unexplained. We have panned and washed
+by their suggestions and have obtained no gold. There are two very large
+and powerful rivers passing their fluids in opposite directions over a
+territory that I will call the Klondike of life. This territory is
+bounded on the east by a great wall, which according to the old books
+has been called the diaphragm, through which comes forth a great river
+of life that spreads all over the plains of the anterior lumbar region.
+On that plain we find a great system of perfect irrigation of cities,
+villages, and fertile soils of life.
+
+
+RESULT OF STOPPAGE OF FLUIDS.
+
+This region of country covers one of the greatest and most fertile
+fields of life producing elements, and places them on the thoroughfares,
+and sends them back over the great central railroad, the thoracic duct,
+from lymphatics of the whole abdomen, to the heart and lungs to be
+converted into a higher order of living matter. When finished it is
+called blood, to sustain its own machinery, and all other machines of
+the body, giving rise to the mental question: "What would be the effect
+produced to life and health, if we should cut off, dam up or suspend the
+flowing of the aorta as it descends close by the vena cava and thoracic
+duct as they return with contents through the diaphragm on their journey
+to the heart and lungs for manufacture and finish. And after having
+supplied the plain, what would be the effect if the vena cava and its
+system of drainage, and the thoracic duct should be dammed up so that
+chyle and blood could not be carried to the heart and lungs for renewal,
+purification, and finish. How much thought would be required to see that
+by stopping the arterial flow or that of the vena cava an irritating and
+famishing condition would ensue, with congested veins, lymphatics and
+all organs of the abdomen, to that condition called fermentation,
+congestion and inflammation, which in time is thrown off by sloughing
+away the substances of the lymphatics of the whole abdominal system of
+glands that belong to a liver, a kidney, the uterus and the bowels, to
+the condition that has long since been a mystery, and called typhoid
+fever, dysentery, bilious fever, periodical spasms, and on through the
+whole list of general and special diseases of winter and summer. I would
+advise the practicing Osteopath to do some very careful panning up and
+down the rivers of this Klondike, for if you fail to find gold, and much
+of it, you had better spend the remainder of your life where reason
+dwelleth not. Ever remembering that ignorance of the geography and
+customs of this country is the wet powder of success."
+
+
+OLD THEORY OF FITS.
+
+We often see a woman or man afflicted with fits or falling sickness
+which the doctor has failed to cure. What is a fit? For want of a better
+knowledge we have an established theory that "hysteria" is purely her
+imagination and as we must respect old theories, we will call it a fit
+of meanness. This is what we have had for breakfast, dinner and supper
+and we are asked to respect such trash because of the "established
+theories."
+
+We are instructed by the universal "all" of the graduates of various
+medical schools to call her a criminal and proceed to punish her with a
+wet towel, well twisted, and administered freely--more comprehensively
+expressed by the term "spanker" and "spank her" very much--late from
+Scotland with all Europe, and schools in America, except the American
+School of Osteopathy, which recommends to "wallop" and "wallop" very
+freely the empty headed schools and theories that have no more sense
+than to torture a sick person and do so to disguise their ignorance of
+the cause of her disease, which is shown by the spasmodic effect that
+has been named by a little book of guess work, generally called and
+universally known as symptomatology.
+
+
+WHAT THE REAL CAUSE MAY BE.
+
+Not a single author has hinted or in any way intimated that the cause of
+her disease is a failure of the passing of the blood, chyle and other
+substances to and from the abdomen to nourish and renovate the abdominal
+viscera caused by a prolapsed diaphragm, which would cause resistance to
+the passing of the aorta, through which passes the arterial blood
+through the crura, and the vena cava that returns the venous blood, and
+through which crura the chyle is conducted from the receptaculum chyli
+before decomposition by fermentation sets up.
+
+
+LISTEN FOR THE CAUSE.
+
+The afflicted is intoxicated. Here is where she gets a poisonous alcohol
+and will never be relieved permanently until the "wet towel" of reason
+has slapped on both sides of the attending physician's head, so he can
+hear the squeezing and rattling of regurgitation, and straining and
+creaking of the fluids in their effort to pass through that great and
+strong towel called the diaphragm. Until he learns this I would apply
+the wet towel of reason to the doctor, for fear he becomes lukewarm in
+his studies and gives his patient a hypodermic injection of morphine,
+which is the advice as given at the last council of medical men who
+practice "old established" theories rather than be honest enough to say:
+"The woman is sick and I know it, but I do not know the cause of her
+trouble."
+
+
+WHAT IS A FIT?
+
+What is a fit? If God's judgment is to be respected a fit is the
+life-saving step and move, perfectly natural, perfectly reasonable, and
+should be so respected and received as divinely wise, because on that
+natural action which is produced on the constrictor nerves first, then
+the muscles, nerves, veins and arteries with all their centers. It
+appears at this time that the vital fluids have all been used up, or
+consumed, by the sensory system, and in order to be temporarily
+replenished, this convulsion shows its natural use by squeezing vital
+fluids from all parts of the body to nourish and sustain the sensory,
+which has been emptied by mental and vital action, until death is
+inevitable without this convulsing element to supply the sensory system,
+though it may be but a short time.
+
+
+SENSORY SYSTEM DEMANDING NOURISHMENT.
+
+The oftener the fits come, the oftener the nutrient system of the
+sensory cries aloud in its own, though unmistakable language, that it
+must have nourishment, that it may run the machinery of life, or it must
+give up the ghost and die. In this dire extremity and struggle for
+life, it has asked the motor system to suspend its action, use its power
+and squeeze out of any part of the whole body though it be the brain
+itself, a few drops of cerebro-spinal fluid, or anything higher or
+lower, so it may live.
+
+Those of you acquainted with the fertile fields of the Klondike referred
+to, will be enabled to furnish the sensory system with such nutriment,
+as will not make it necessary to appeal to you through the language used
+by the unconscious convulsions with all their horrible contortions.
+
+
+THE CAUSES.
+
+Thus you surely see with the microscope of reason that the sensory
+nerves must be constantly nourished, and that all nutriment for the
+nerves must be obtained from the abdomen, though its propelling force
+should come directly from the brain.
+
+
+THE REMEDY.
+
+The nerve courses from the brain must be unobstructed from the cerebrum,
+cerebellum, the medulla oblongata, and on through the whole spinal cord;
+with a normal neck, a normal back, and normal ribs, which to an
+Osteopath means careful work, with power to know, and mind to reason
+that the work is done wisely to a finish. I hope that with these
+suggestions you will go on with the investigation to a satisfactory
+degree of success.
+
+
+DISLOCATION OF THE FOUR UPPER RIBS.
+
+I wish to insert a short paragraph on a few effects following a down,
+front, and outer dislocation of the four upper ribs of either side. We
+have been familiar with asthma, goitre, pen-paralysis, shaking palsy,
+spasms, and heart diseases of various kinds. We have been as familiar
+with the existence of those abnormal variations as we are of the rising
+and the setting of the sun. Our best philosophers on diseases and causes
+have elaborately written and published their conclusions, and the world
+has carefully perused with deep interest, what they have said of all the
+diseases above named, also diseases of the lung, and to-day we are by
+them left in total darkness as to the cause of the above named diseases,
+also fits, insanity, loss of voice, brachial agitans, and many other
+diseases of the chest, neck and head. As the field is open and clear for
+any philosopher to establish his point of observation, note and report
+what he observes, I will avail myself of this opportunity, and say in a
+very few words, I have found no one of the diseases above indicated to
+have an existence without some variation of the first few of the upper
+ribs of the chest. With this I will leave farther exploration in the
+hands of other persons; and await the report of their observations pro
+and con.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX.
+
+CONCLUDING REMARKS.
+
+     Thoughts for Consideration--Offering a New Philosophy--Lymphatics
+     and Fascia--A Satisfactory Experiment--Natural Washing Out.
+
+
+THOUGHTS FOR CONSIDERATION.
+
+"Let us not forget the assembling of ourselves together." Whether this
+quotation applies to us or not, as an Osteopath I will venture to say
+that the honored dead, and the honest living intelligent healers of all
+schools, and all systems of trying to relieve our race from disease and
+suffering, so far as I have been able to ascertain, have been forced to
+guess how to proceed when they enter the "sick room" for want of a
+philosophical system of procedure. We have collected together many or
+few symptoms, named the disease, opened the battle, and on our side have
+met the enemy and fought bravely all battles very much the same way. I
+have spent one-half of a century in the field trying the many methods of
+attacks; and used the best arms and ammunition to date, and designed to
+do the greatest good. For twenty years or more I was content to be
+governed by the opinions and customs of older and more experienced
+physicians. I gave the disease its proper name. I gave the medicine as
+taught and practiced, but was not satisfied that the line of procedure
+was philosophically correct.
+
+
+OFFERING A NEW PHILOSOPHY.
+
+I believe at the present time I am fully prepared to say I can offer you
+a more rational philosophy of what should be the physician's first
+object, when called to repair a vessel that has become unseaworthy by
+accumulated barnacles, and is placed upon the dry dock for restoration
+to that condition called seaworthy, again. I believe this philosophy
+will sustain the strongest minds in the conclusion that our first and
+wisest step to successfully combat all diseases would be to inhibit
+first the nerves of the lymphatics, then produce muscular constricture
+and cause them to unload their diseased contents, and keep them
+unloading until renovation is absolutely complete; leaving the
+lymphatics in a purely healthy state, and keep them in this condition at
+any period of the disease. I have long since been of the opinion that if
+we could keep all impurities from accumulating in the lymphatics, and
+never allow them to become overloaded, we would have no such diseases as
+bilious fever, typhoid, mountain fever, malaria, pneumonia, flux, heart
+disease, brain disease, fits, insanity and on to the whole list of
+climatic troubles, and the troubles with the changes of winter and
+summer.
+
+
+LYMPHATICS AND FASCIA.
+
+I have thought for many years that the lymphatics and cellular system of
+the fascia, of the brain, the lungs, and the heart throughout the whole
+system of blood supply, do get filled up with impure and unhealthy
+fluids, long before any disease makes its appearance, and that the
+procedure of changes known as fermentation, with its electromagnetic
+disturbances, were the cause of at least ninety per cent of the diseases
+that we labor to relieve by some chemical preparation called drugs. When
+I was fully satisfied that we were liable to do more harm than good with
+such remedies, I began to hunt for more reasonable methods to relieve
+the system of its poisonous gases and fluids, through the excretory
+system of the lymphatics and other channels, through which we had hoped
+to renovate and purify the system.
+
+
+A SATISFACTORY EXPERIMENT.
+
+For twenty-five years I have tried to balance myself, divert my mind
+from all previous methods and see if I could not get more directly to
+the lymphatic system of nerves, and cause the millions of vessels known
+to exist in the body to begin to unload their contents and continue
+that action until all impurities were discharged by way of the bowels,
+lungs, kidneys and porous system.
+
+
+NATURAL WASHING OUT.
+
+At the conclusion of this philosophy I will endeavor to explain just how
+nature has provided to ward off diseases, by washing out before
+fermentation should set up in the lymphatics, from being received and
+retained the length of time, that destructive chemical changes would
+begin its work of converting elements into gas and discharging them from
+the system as unsuitable for nutriment. In order to avoid this calamity
+we are met with two important thoughts, one of the power of the nerves
+of the lymphatics to dilate and contract, also that of fascia and
+muscle, to dilate or constrict with great force when necessary to eject
+substances from gland, cell, muscle and fascia. Thus we see a cell
+loaded to fullness by secretion which it cannot do without; open-mouthed
+vessels through which it receives this fluid. Then again the system of
+cellular sphincters must dilate and contract in order to retain the
+fluids in those cell-like parts of the body. Now we are at the point
+when ready for use in other parts of the system, those sphincters must
+temporarily give away, that the gland may relax and dilate. Then the
+universal principle of constriction throughout the whole body can
+discharge the contents of the lymphatics of all divisions of the body,
+which is surely the normal condition. Let the lymphatics always receive
+and discharge naturally. If so we have no substance detained long enough
+to produce fermentation, fever, sickness and death.
+
+I think this thought has been presented plainly enough to be fully
+understood and practiced by the reader, if an Osteopath.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XX.
+
+THE SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION.
+
+     With what it has Communication--Its Position--One of its
+     Functions--Stimulation or Inhibition--Results Produced.
+
+
+WITH WHAT IT HAS COMMUNICATION.
+
+Every ganglion on the great chain of the sympathetic nerve has special
+and important functions, but upon the superior cervical falls the
+greatest burden of responsibility. This ganglion has communication with
+a greater number of nerves and organs than any other; is in direct
+communication with three cranial and four cervical nerves, indirectly
+with four more cranial nerves, and enters, by its branches into the
+formation of a large number of plexuses. Through this ganglion it is
+that much Osteopathic work is done, and the purpose of this brief paper
+is to point out some of the many effects which may be produced by its
+stimulation or inhibition.
+
+
+ITS POSITION.
+
+Anatomically we know that the superior cervical ganglion is situated in
+relation to the transverse processes of the upper three cervical
+vertebrae. It gives off branches which communicate directly with the
+vagus, glosso-pharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves; another branch, the
+ascending, passes into the carotid canal and enters into the formation
+of the carotid and cavernous plexuses; other branches pass to the
+pharynx, and a branch enters the formation of the cardiac plexuses. From
+the carotid and cavernous plexuses pass many nerves, only a few of which
+need special mention; one unites with the great superficial petrosal to
+form the Vidian nerve which goes to _Meckel's_ ganglion, branches pass
+to the Gasserian ganglion, while we have others passing to the third,
+fourth, the ophthalmic division of the fifth and the sixth nerve, also
+we have derived from the nerve the sympathetic root of the lenticular
+ganglion.
+
+
+ONE OF ITS FUNCTIONS.
+
+Physiologically we know that one of the special functions of the
+sympathetic nervous system is to control the tone of non-striate
+muscular tissue, and that we have filaments distributed from the
+sympathetic system in the muscular wall of every blood vessel, duct and
+organ throughout the body. We also know that the sympathetic is the
+accelerator nerve of the heart, being opposed in its action by the vagus
+which, is inhibitory; further, that the vagus is constant in its
+brake-like action, while the sympathetic only acts when stimulated
+either directly or reflexly. While the vagus is inhibitory to the heart
+it is motor to the lungs. Nerve force is not generated in the
+sympathetic system; the cerebro-spinal nerve force is conveyed to the
+ganglia by the rami communicantes and in the ganglia is transformed into
+sympathetic nerve force. We might compare the ganglia to electrical
+transformers. Such being the case it is not difficult to see that if the
+superior cervical ganglion receives the nerve-force for transformation
+from the upper four cervical nerves and we can prevent, or lessen, the
+passage of nerve-force from the spinal cord through those nerves to the
+ganglion, that we will, to a corresponding degree, lessen the amount of
+sympathetic nerve-force transformed in the ganglion and transmitted from
+it by its branches.
+
+
+STIMULATION OR INHIBITION.
+
+We can produce stimulation or inhibition of a nerve at will; press
+suddenly and with a little violence upon the ulnar nerve where it lies
+in relation with the internal condyle of the humerus and we will find a
+manifestation of its physiological action, evidenced by a sense of pain
+in the ulnar and radial sides of the fifth finger and the ulnar side of
+the fourth, together with contraction of the muscles supplied by that
+nerve. But if our pressure be less intense and more prolonged we will
+inhibit the nerve and produce a sense of numbness in the same area
+together with temporary loss of muscular control.
+
+Osteopaths well understand how to produce either stimulation or
+inhibition of the ganglia by way of the nerves passing to them from the
+spinal cord, and the results of such inhibition or stimulation in any
+sympathetic area can be prophesied readily by anyone who has read with
+attention what I have written; for instance, in the case of inhibition
+in the region of the nerves supplying the superior cervical ganglion
+with nerve force, we will find, first, throughout the area of
+distribution of the branches of this ganglion a relaxation of the
+vascular walls. This will be marked by two indications, first, the skin
+will become flushed and moist; second salivary secretion and lachrymal
+secretion will be increased. Second, the vagus is now allowed full sway,
+and we will find slowing of the heartbeat. It is well known that
+pressure over the seat of the first spinal nerve for a very brief period
+of time will control a congestive headache; the pressure in such case is
+made only for so long time as to produce stimulation of the sympathetic
+to greater activity, when we will attain a vaso-constrictor action,
+lessen the volume of blood in the cranial cavity and so abolish the
+headache. The arteries of the body may be divided into three groups, the
+large, the medium-sized and the small; in the first of these we find
+little muscular tissue and much elastic; in the second they exist in
+about equal proportions, while in the small arteries we find much
+muscular tissue and little elastic. As a consequence it is upon the
+smaller arteries that the sympathetic system has its greatest effect. As
+we dilate the smaller arteries and slow the heart action, it follows
+that we reduce the blood pressure, as we reduce blood pressure we reduce
+temperature, and within a very few minutes after the commencement of
+this inhibitory pressure on the upper four cervical nerves we will find
+in the large majority of cases, the capillaries over the entire surface
+of the body flushed, this being accompanied by a fall in the pulse rate
+and a marked diminution of the temperature. Indirectly at the same time
+we produce an effect upon the lungs; as we lessen blood pressure and the
+frequency of the heart action we find in accordance with the
+physiological rule an alteration in the respiration, it becomes slower
+and deeper. Arguing along these lines, and applying similar reasoning to
+each of the branches of this ganglion, anyone can trace out the many
+subsidiary results which may be expected from either stimulation of the
+rami communicantes nerves distributed to it, or their inhibition.
+Exactly similar rulings will find their prompt proof with regard to any
+other of the ganglia of the sympathetic system. We will find
+corresponding results in the cases of the thoracic ganglia which form by
+their branches the pulmonic plexuses; we get the same results from the
+splanchnic ganglia; while in the lumbar region we find that we have a
+ready means of control of the vascular system in the lower abdomen and
+pelvis. Much, very much, is still to be learned concerning the
+sympathetic nervous system, and all such increase in knowledge can come
+in one way only, clinical observation of Osteopathic treatment.
+
+   WILLIAM SMITH,
+   L. R. C. P. and S., (EDIN.), D. O.
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A. T. Still's Table or Device,
+
+That He Has Constructed For
+
+THE USE OF THE OPERATOR, THE EASE AND COMFORT OF THE PATIENT.
+
+
+It is a welcome success and does away with the lubberly old tables. It
+gives ease and support to all classes of patients. By its use the
+patient can sit in a chair or on a stool and feel at perfect ease during
+all treatments, then the operator gets results and is not tired to death
+when he has treated a patient; knows and feels that there has been some
+good done.
+
+The asthmatic knows he has gotten help because pain has left his chest
+and he breathes as with new lungs; he knows he is helped more by one
+treatment while sitting on a chair with his body easy and at rest in the
+cushioned swinging device than he would or has received by the best
+skill on any table. Then the operator says, "Thank fortune, I am not
+worn out, and know I have gotten every bone to the place it belongs, and
+I know I have given satisfactory relief because my patients say so."
+
+I think to an operator this device is his best friend. With it well
+understood he can do as much work as three good operators can do on the
+old tables. Remember this device does no part of the treatment but
+places the patient to your convenience while you do the work.
+
+I feel as I am the discoverer of the device, that I know its needs and
+feel free to advise pupils.
+
+The device will cost you $25 only.
+
+   A. T. STILL,
+   Founder.
+
+
+
+
+The American School of Osteopathy,
+
+KIRKSVILLE, MO.
+
+
+The course of study in The American School of Osteopathy is a carefully
+graded one, and is divided into four terms, of five months each. The
+terms beginning September and February of each year. The course thus
+requires two years for completion.
+
+
+COURSE OF STUDY.
+
+The course of study extends over two years, and is divided into four
+terms of five months each.
+
+
+FIRST TERM.
+
+The first term is devoted to Descriptive Anatomy including Osteology,
+Syndesmology and Myology; lectures on Histology illustrated by
+micro-stereopticon; the principles of General Chemistry and Physics.
+
+
+SECOND TERM.
+
+The second term includes Descriptive and Regional Anatomy; didactic and
+laboratory work in Histology; Physiology; Physiological Chemistry and
+Urinalysis; Principles of Osteopathy; Clinical Demonstrations in
+Osteopathy.
+
+
+THIRD TERM.
+
+The third term includes Demonstrations in Regional Anatomy; Physiology;
+lectures in Pathology illustrated by micro-stereopticon; Symptomatology;
+Physiological Psychology; Clinical Demonstrations in Osteopathy.
+
+
+FOURTH TERM.
+
+The fourth term includes Symptomatology; Minor Surgery; didactic and
+laboratory work in Pathology; Psycho-Pathology; Gynæocology; Obstetrics;
+Sanitation and Public Health; Venereal Diseases; Medical Jurisprudence;
+Clinical Demonstrations; Clinical Practice.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The school is open to students of both sexes without distinction, and
+all have equal opportunities and privileges, and are held to the same
+requirements.
+
+The methods of instruction are such as obtain in the best academic and
+collegiate institutions, and include recitations from standard
+text-books, lectures, quizzes, practical laboratory work, and practical
+clinical work.
+
+The equipment of the school is complete in every respect. The recitation
+and lecture rooms are amply provided with all necessary means of
+illustration, such as specimens fresh and preserved, skeletons, models,
+charts, manikins and diagrams.
+
+The respective laboratories are fitted up with all the necessary
+apparatus for practical work in the Anatomical, Histological,
+Microscopical, Chemical and Physiological departments.
+
+The clinical facilities and opportunities enjoyed by students in this
+school are exceptional. An abundance of material is always available for
+clinic demonstrations, which are continued daily through two terms, with
+practical work in the clinic operating rooms by each student, under the
+direction of the regular operators, daily during the whole of the last
+term.
+
+In addition to the regular clinical department, the A. T. Still
+Infirmary has constantly under treatment from three hundred to five
+hundred patients, and although the students do not see these patients,
+the many cases of diseases of all kinds under the care of the regular
+operators in the Infirmary give them constantly fresh and varied
+illustrations for use in their lectures. Sometimes, too, patients whose
+cases may be of special interest offer the use of their cases for the
+purpose of demonstration before the students.
+
+Opportunities are thus furnished to students for such practice and drill
+in the actual work of treating diseases as we believe is not equaled by
+any similar institution anywhere. The course of study is progressively
+graded with a view to giving students a thorough and comprehensive
+knowledge of the facts and principles upon which their future work is to
+be based. These clinic exercises in connection and immediately following
+give them facility and readiness in the art of applying the facts and
+principles which they have acquired in recognizing and treating diseased
+conditions.
+
+Catalogue mailed upon application. For information as to terms, etc.,
+apply to
+
+   A. T. STILL,        AMERICAN SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHY.
+   PRESIDENT.                   KIRKSVILLE, MO.
+
+
+
+
+The A. T. Still Infirmary
+
+Cures by the Science of Osteopathy all Diseases Which are Known as
+Curable.
+
+
+Dr. A. T. STILL, founder of the Science of Osteopathy, has associated
+with him, in his infirmary organization, the oldest and most successful
+practitioners and exponents of the science, selected with special
+reference to their fitness for the work of practically demonstrating the
+principles of Osteopathy and occupying positions as teachers and
+lecturers in the American School of Osteopathy. All are regular
+graduates of this school.
+
+The students in the school are not permitted to even assist in treating
+the Infirmary patients. All the work is done by regular operators.
+
+The examination previous to treatment is conducted by Dr. Still's three
+sons assisted by the operators. After examination the patient is
+assigned to the room in which he or she will receive treatment, and
+placed under the care of an Osteopath best suited to the case.
+
+The fees for treatment at the Infirmary are $25 per month. Where
+patients are unable to come to the Infirmary for treatment, an extra
+charge of $1 to $2 per visit is added.
+
+The Infirmary maintains a complete bathing department in charge of
+competent attendants. As good baths are therefore obtainable in
+Kirksville as in any city. The charges are very moderate--twenty-five
+cents for a single bath, or $2.00 for a commutation ticket for ten
+baths. When bath tickets are procured no other fees to attendants are
+necessary.
+
+A representative of the Infirmary meets all trains, day and night, to
+help all patients who may need assistance and see that they are properly
+cared for.
+
+
+OPERATIVE SURGERY.
+
+To correct a misapprehension on the part of many, it should be
+understood that the A. T. STILL INFIRMARY is fully prepared to receive
+and handle the most difficult cases requiring the highest order of
+skilled surgery, and it is not necessary to send such cases to the great
+city hospitals in the east for even the most difficult and delicate
+operations.
+
+Dr. J. B. Littlejohn, of the faculty, is a graduate in surgery from the
+University of Glasgow, Scotland, and held for three years the position
+of Surgeon under the Government Board of England, besides other
+important and responsible positions in Europe and America.
+
+Dr. Wm. Smith holds evidences of qualifications as follows: Licentiate
+of the Royal College of Surgery, Edinburg; Licentiate of the Royal
+College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; Licentiate in Midwifery,
+Edinburg and Glasgow; etc.
+
+Cases requiring careful and delicate Surgery, the removal of fibroid
+tumors, and in fact any operation of whatever nature will receive the
+best and most scientific treatment and care in this institution.
+
+The management has now secured a powerful and perfect Roentgen or X-Ray
+apparatus which will be used in connection with this department, in the
+examination of difficult cases.
+
+Patients coming to the A. T. Still Infirmary may rely upon the fact that
+they will in no case be subjected to unnecessary surgical operations, as
+the knife is never used unless absolutely necessary.
+
+Address all letters of inquiry to
+
+   A. T. STILL INFIRMARY,
+   KIRKSVILLE, MO
+
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+|Transcriber's note:                                                  |
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+|Corrections have been made to everyday words printed incorrectly, but|
+|all technical terms are as in the original.                          |
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+   <h1>Philosophy of Osteopathy;</h1>
+
+   <h4>BY</h4>
+
+   <h2>ANDREW T. STILL,</h2>
+
+
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Discoverer of the Science of Osteopathy and<br />
+President of the American School<br />
+of Osteopathy.</span><br /><br />
+
+PUBLISHED BY<br />
+A. T. STILL, <span class="smcap">Kirksville, Mo</span><br />
+1899.<br /><br />
+
+   Copyrighted, 1899, by<br />
+   A. T. STILL.<br /><br />
+
+
+   Lithoprinted by<br />
+<span class="smcap">Edward Brothers, Inc.</span><br />
+   Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="Preface" id="Preface"></a>Preface.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Many of my friends have been anxious ever since Osteopathy became an
+established fact, that I should write a treatise on the science. But I
+was never convinced that the time was ripe for such a production, nor am
+I even now convinced that this is not a little premature. Osteopathy is
+only in its infancy, it is a great unknown sea just discovered, and as
+yet we are only acquainted with its shore-tide.</p>
+
+<p>When I saw others who had not more than skimmed the surface of the
+science, taking up the pen to write books on Osteopathy, and after
+having carefully examined their productions, found they were drinking
+from the fountains of old schools of drugs, dragging back the science to
+the very systems from which I divorced myself so many years ago, and
+realized that hungry students were ready to swallow such mental poison,
+dangerous as it was, I became fully awakened to the necessity of some
+sort of Osteopathic literature for those wishing to be informed.</p>
+
+<p>This book is free from quotations from medical authors, and differs
+from them in opinion on almost every important question. I do not expect
+it to meet their approval; such a thing would be unnatural and
+impossible.</p>
+
+<p>It is my object in this work to teach principles as I understand them,
+and not rules. I do not instruct the student to punch or pull a certain
+bone, nerve or muscle for a certain disease, but by a knowledge of the
+normal and abnormal, I hope to give a specific knowledge for all
+diseases.</p>
+
+<p>This work has been written a little at a time for several years, just as
+I could snatch a moment from other cares to devote to it. I have
+carefully compiled these thoughts into a treatise. Every principle
+herein laid down has been fairly well tested by myself, and proven true.</p>
+
+<p>The book has been written by myself in my own way, without any ambition
+to fine writing, but to give to the world a start in a philosophy that
+may be a guide in the future.</p>
+
+<p>Owing to the great haste with which the book has been rushed through the
+press to meet the urgent demand, we will ask the indulgence of the
+public for any imperfection that may appear. Hoping the world may profit
+by these thoughts, I am,</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+Respectfully,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><span class="smcap">A. T. Still.</span></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 10em;">Kirksville, Mo., Sept. 1, 1899.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="TABLE_OF_CONTENTS" id="TABLE_OF_CONTENTS"></a>TABLE OF CONTENTS.</h2>
+
+
+<div class='centered'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="6" width="65%" cellspacing="0" summary="CONTENTS">
+<tr>
+<th align="center">CHAPTER I.<br /><span class="smcap">Some Introductory Remarks.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Not a Work of Compilation&mdash;Authors Quoted&mdash;Method of Reasoning&mdash;The
+Osteopath an Artist&mdash;When I Became an Osteopath&mdash;Dr. Neal's Opinion&mdash;The
+Opinions of Others&mdash;What Studies Necessary&mdash;What I Mean by
+Anatomy&mdash;Principles&mdash;The Practicing Osteopath's Guide&mdash;The Fascia&mdash;Not a
+pleasing Task&mdash;Without Accepted Theories&mdash;Truths of Nature&mdash;Body, Motion
+and Mind&mdash;Osteopathy to Cure Disease&mdash;The Osteopath Should Find Health.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_11'><b>11</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER II.<br /><span class="smcap">Osteopathic Explorations.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Divisions of the Body&mdash;Searching for the Cause&mdash;Duty of the Osteopathic
+Explorer&mdash;Classification and Division&mdash;The Abnormal&mdash;Nerve
+Powers&mdash;Witnesses to Examine&mdash;Abnormal Growths&mdash;Cerebro Spinal
+Fluid&mdash;Body in Perfect Health&mdash;Chemistry&mdash;Nature's Chemistry.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_29'><b>29</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER III.<br /><span class="smcap">The Head.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">A Free Circulation&mdash;Death Blows&mdash;Something of the Neck&mdash;Order of
+Treatment&mdash;The Pelvis&mdash;Brains of Animals&mdash;Arterial Motion&mdash;Mental
+Vibrations&mdash;Overburdening the Mind&mdash;Hemiplegia.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_43'><b>43</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER IV.<br /><span class="smcap">Ear Wax and Its Uses.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Nature Makes Nothing in Vain&mdash;A Successful Experiment&mdash;A Question for
+Ages&mdash;The Position&mdash;Meaning of Life&mdash;Some Questions Asked&mdash;Condition in
+Certain Diseases Caused by Cold&mdash;Cerumen in Fluid State&mdash;Winter Kills
+Babies&mdash;Some Advice to Mothers&mdash;A Case in Point&mdash;Connection of the brain
+and Other Nerves in Digestion&mdash;Unaided Investigation.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_53'><b>53</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER V.<br /><span class="smcap">Diseases of the Chest.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Where Confined&mdash;Consumption&mdash;Can Consumption Be Cured&mdash;Consumption
+Described&mdash;No Time for Surrender&mdash;Cerebral Spinal Fluid&mdash;How to Destroy
+Deadly Bombs of Decay&mdash;Battle of Blood for Life&mdash;Miliary
+Tuberculosis&mdash;Conversion of Bodies Into Gas&mdash;Forming a
+Tubercle&mdash;Breeding Contagion&mdash;The Seeds of Disease&mdash;Generating
+Fever&mdash;Whooping Cough&mdash;Clouds and Lungs Are Much Alike&mdash;The Wisdom of
+Nature&mdash;Water Formed in Lungs&mdash;The Law of Fives&mdash;Feeble Action of
+Heart&mdash;The Heart&mdash;From Neck to Heart&mdash;Dyspersia or Imperfect Digestion.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_68'><b>68</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER VI.<br /><span class="smcap">The Lymphatics.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Importance of the Subject&mdash;Demands of Nature on the
+Lymphatics&mdash;Dunglinson's Definition&mdash;Dangers of Dead Substances&mdash;Lymph
+Continued&mdash;Solvent in Nature&mdash;Where Are the Lymphatics Situated?&mdash;The
+Fat and Lean.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_104'><b>104</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER VII.<br /><span class="smcap">The Diaphragm.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Investigation&mdash;A Struggle With Nature&mdash;Lesson of Cause and
+Effect&mdash;Something of Medical Etiquette&mdash;The Medical Doctor&mdash;An Explorer
+for Truth Must Be Independent&mdash;The Diaphragm Introduced&mdash;A Useful
+Study&mdash;Combatting Effect&mdash;Is Least Understood&mdash;A Case of Bilious
+Fever&mdash;A Demand on the Nerves&mdash;Danger of Compression&mdash;A Cause for
+Disease&mdash;Was a Mistake Made in the Creation&mdash;An Exploration&mdash;Result of
+Removal of Diaphragm&mdash;Sustaining Life in Principles&mdash;Law Applicable to
+Other Organs&mdash;Power of Diaphragm&mdash;Omentum.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_114'><b>114</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER VIII.<br /><span class="smcap">Liver, Bowels and Kidneys.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Gender of the Liver&mdash;Productions of the Liver&mdash;A Hope for the
+Afflicted&mdash;Evidences of Truth&mdash;Loaded With Ignorance&mdash;Lack of Knowledge
+of the Kidney&mdash;How a Purgative Acts&mdash;Flux&mdash;Bloody Dysentery&mdash;Flux More
+Fully Described&mdash;Osteopathic Remedies&mdash;Medical Remedies&mdash;More of the
+Osteopathic Remedy.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_138'><b>138</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER IX.<br /><span class="smcap">The Blood.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Uses for Fluids&mdash;Blood an Unknown Fluid&mdash;Harvey Only Reached the Banks
+of the River of Life&mdash;Blood Is Systematically Furnished&mdash;Fatality of
+Ignorance&mdash;To Find the Cause Must Be Honest&mdash;Following Arteries and
+Nerves&mdash;Feeding the Nerves&mdash;The Blood on Its Journey&mdash;Powers Necessary
+to Move Blood&mdash;Venous Blood Suspended.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_149'><b>149</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER X.<br /><span class="smcap">The Fascia.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Where Is Disease Sown?&mdash;An Illustration of Conception&mdash;The Greatest
+Problem&mdash;A Fountain of Supply&mdash;Fascia Omnipresent&mdash;Connection with
+Spinal Cord&mdash;Goes With and Covers All Muscles&mdash;Proofs in
+Contagion&mdash;Study of Nerves and Fascia&mdash;Tumefy&mdash;Tumefaction.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_161'><b>161</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER XI.<br /><span class="smcap">Fevers.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Be Armed With Facts&mdash;Union of Human Gases With Oxygen&mdash;Fever and
+Nettle-rash. Nature Constructs for a Wise Purpose&mdash;Processes of Life
+Must be Kept in Motion&mdash;No Satisfaction from Authors&mdash;Animal
+Heat&mdash;Semeiology&mdash;Symptomatology&mdash;Definition of Fever&mdash;Fevers only
+Effects&mdash;Result of Stoppages of Vein or Artery&mdash;Aneurisms.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_175'><b>175</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER XII.<br /><span class="smcap">Scarlet Fever and Smallpox.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">As defined by Allopathy&mdash;Scarlet Fever as Defined by
+Osteopathy&mdash;Smallpox&mdash;Power to Drive Greater Than in Measles.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_190'><b>190</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER XIII.<br /><span class="smcap">A Chapter of Wonders and Some Valuable Questions.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Wonders on the Increase&mdash;What Is Life?&mdash;How Is Action Produced&mdash;Acquaint
+Yourself With the Machinery&mdash;Duty of the Osteopath&mdash;Formation of
+Sacrum&mdash;The Pelvis&mdash;Appearance of &OElig;dema&mdash;Do All Diseases Have
+Appearance in &OElig;dema.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_193'><b>193</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER XIV.<br /><span class="smcap">Has Man Degenerated?</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">The Advent of Man&mdash;Care of the Stock Raiser&mdash;Mental Degeneration Makes
+It Unpleasant for an Original Thinker&mdash;Original Thinkers of the
+Ancients&mdash;Methods of Healing&mdash;Failure of Allopathy&mdash;Primitive
+Man&mdash;Evidences of Prehistoric Man&mdash;Mental Dwarfage.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_203'><b>203</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER XV.<br /><span class="smcap">Osteopathic Treatment.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Five Points&mdash;Visceral List&mdash;Care in Treating the Spinal Column&mdash;Most
+Important Chapter&mdash;Perfect Drainage&mdash;A Natural Cure.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_213'><b>213</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER XVI.<br /><span class="smcap">Reasoning Tests.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">The Vermiform Appendix&mdash;Operating for Appendicitis&mdash;Expelling Power of
+the Vermiform Appendix&mdash;Care Exercised in Making Assertions&mdash;Reasoning
+Tests&mdash;A List of Unexplained Diseases&mdash;Concluding Remarks.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_223'><b>223</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER XVII.<br /><span class="smcap">Obstetrics.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Overloading&mdash;Similarity of Stomach and Womb&mdash;Births&mdash;Preparation for
+Delivery&mdash;Caution&mdash;Lasceration Need Not Occur&mdash;Care of Cord&mdash;Severing
+Cord&mdash;Putting on Belly Band&mdash;Delivery of Afterbirth&mdash;Preparing for
+Mother's Comfort&mdash;Post-Delivery Hemorrhage&mdash;Treatment for&mdash;Food for
+Mother&mdash;Treatment for Sore Breast.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_234'><b>234</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER XVIII.<br /><span class="smcap">Convulsions.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Old Phrases&mdash;Results of Stoppage of Fluids&mdash;Old Theory of Fits&mdash;What the
+Real Cause may be&mdash;Listen for the Cause&mdash;What is a Fit&mdash;Sensory System
+Demanding Nourishment&mdash;The Causes&mdash;The Remedy&mdash;Dislocation of Atlas and
+of the Four Upper Ribs.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_250'><b>250</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER XIX.<br /><span class="smcap">Concluding Remarks.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">Thoughts for Consideration&mdash;Offering a New Philosophy&mdash;Lymphatics and
+Fascia&mdash;A Satisfactory Experiment&mdash;Natural Washing Out.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_258'><b>258</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<th  align="center">CHAPTER XX.<br /><span class="smcap">The Superior Cervical Ganglion.</span></th>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="left" style="width: 80%">With What It Has Communication&mdash;Its Course&mdash;One of its
+Functions&mdash;Stimulation or Inhibition&mdash;Result Produced.</td>
+<td align="right" style="width: 20%"><a href='#Page_263'><b>263</b></a></td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><br /><br /><a name="Philosophy_of_Osteopathy" id="Philosophy_of_Osteopathy"></a>Philosophy of Osteopathy.<br /><br /></h2>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_I" id="CHAPTER_I"></a>CHAPTER I.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Some Introductory Remarks.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Not a Work of Compilation&mdash;Authors Quoted&mdash;Method of Reasoning&mdash;The
+Osteopath an Artist&mdash;When I Became an Osteopath&mdash;Dr. Neal's
+Opinion&mdash;The Opinions of Others&mdash;What Studies Necessary&mdash;What I
+Mean by Anatomy&mdash;Principles&mdash;The Practicing Osteopath's Guide&mdash;The
+Fascia&mdash;Not a Pleasing Task&mdash;Without Accepted Theories&mdash;Truths of
+Nature&mdash;Body, Motion and Mind&mdash;Osteopathy to Cure Disease&mdash;The
+Osteopath Should Find Health. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>NOT A WORK OF COMPILATION.</h4>
+
+<p>To readers of my book on the Philosophy of Osteopathy, I wish to say
+that I will not tire you with a book of compilations just to sell to the
+anxious reader. As I have spent thirty years of my life reading and
+following rules and remedies used for curing, and learned in sorrow it
+was useless to listen to their claims, for instead of getting good, I
+obtained much harm therefrom, I asked for, and obtained a mental divorce
+from them, and I want it to be understood that drugs and I are as far
+apart as the East is from the West; now, and forever. Henceforth I will
+follow the dictates of nature in all I say or write.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>AUTHORS QUOTED.</h4>
+
+<p>I quote no authors but God and experience when I write, or lecture to
+the classes or the masses, because no book written by medical writers
+can be of much use to us, and it would be very foolish to look to them
+for advice and instruction on a science they know nothing of. They are
+illy able to advise for themselves, they have never been asked to advise
+us, and I am free to say but few persons who have been pupils of my
+school have tried to get wisdom from medical writers and apply it as
+worthy to be taught as any part of Osteopathy, philosophy or practice.
+Several books have been compiled, called "Principles of Osteopathy."
+They may sell but will fail to give the knowledge the student desires.</p>
+
+
+<h4>METHOD OF REASONING.</h4>
+
+<p>The student of any philosophy succeeds best by the more simple methods
+of reasoning. We reason for needed knowledge only, and should try and
+start out with as many known facts as possible. If we would reason on
+diseases of the organs of the head, neck, abdomen or pelvis, we must
+first know where these organs are, how and from what arteries the eye,
+ear, or tongue is fed.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE OSTEOPATH AN ARTIST.</h4>
+
+<p>I believe you are taught anatomy in our school<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> more thoroughly than any
+other school to date, because we want you to carry a living picture of
+all or any part of the body in your mind as a ready painter carries the
+picture of the face, scenery, beast or any thing he wishes to represent
+by his brush. He would only be a waster of time and paint and make a
+daub that would disgust any one who would employ him. We teach you
+anatomy in all its branches, that you may be able to have and keep a
+living picture before your mind all the time, so you can see all joints,
+ligaments, muscles, glands, arteries, veins, lymphatics, fascia
+superficial and deep, all organs, how they are fed, what they must do,
+and why they are expected to do a part, and what would follow in case
+that part was not done well and on time. I feel free to say to my
+students, keep your minds full of pictures of the normal body all the
+time, while treating the afflicted.</p>
+
+
+<h4>WHEN I BECAME AN OSTEOPATH.</h4>
+
+<p>In answer to the questions of how long have you been teaching this
+discovery, and what books are essential to the study? I will say I began
+to give reasons for my faith in the laws of life as given to men, worlds
+and beings by the God of nature, June, 1874, when I began to talk and
+propound questions to men of learning. I thought the sword and cannons
+of nature were pointed and trained upon our systems of drug doctoring.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>DR. NEAL'S OPINION.</h4>
+
+<p>I asked Dr. J. M. Neal, of Edinburg, Scotland, for some information that
+I needed badly. He was a medical doctor of five years training, a man of
+much mental ability, who would give his opinions freely and to the
+point. I have been told by one or more Scotch M. D.'s that a Dr. John M.
+Neal, of Edinburg, was hung for murder. He was not hung while with me.
+The only thing made me doubt him being a Scotchman was he loved whiskey,
+and I had been told that the Scotch were a sensible people. John M. Neal
+said that "drugs was the bait of fools"; it was no science, and the
+system of drugs was only a trade, followed by the doctor for the money
+that could be obtained by it from the ignorant sick. He believed that
+nature was a law capable of vindicating its power all over the world.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS.</h4>
+
+<p>As this writing is for the information of the student I will continue
+the history by saying, that in the early days of Osteopathy I sought the
+opinions of the most learned, such as Dr. Schnebly, Professor of
+Language and History in the Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas; Dr.
+Dallas, a very learned M. D. of the Alopathic faith; Dr. F. A. Grove,
+well-known in Kirksville; J. B. Abbott, Indian agent, and many others of
+renown. Then<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> back to the tombs of the dead, to better acquaint myself
+with the systems of medicine and the foundations of truth upon which
+they stood, if any. I will not worry your patience with a list of the
+names of authors that have written upon the subject of medicine, as
+remedial agents. I will use the word that the theologian often uses when
+asked whom Christ died for, the answer universally is, <span class="smcap">ALL</span>. All
+intelligent medical writers say by word or inference that drugs or
+drugging is a system of blind guess work, and if we should let our
+opinions be governed by the marble lambs and other emblems of dead
+babies found in the cemeteries of the world, we would say that John M.
+Neal was possibly hung for murder, not through design, but through
+traditional ignorance of the power of nature to cure both old and young,
+by skillfully adjusting the engines of life so as to bring forth pure
+and healthy blood, the greatest known germicide, to one capable to
+reason who has the skill to conduct the vitalizing and protecting fluids
+to throat, lungs and all parts of the system, and ward off diseases as
+nature's God has indicated. With this faith and method of reasoning, I
+began to treat diseases by Osteopathy as an experimenter, and
+notwithstanding I obtained good results in all cases in diseases of
+climate and contagions, I hesitated for years to proclaim to the world
+that there was but little excuse for a master<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> engineer to lose a child
+in cases of diphtheria, croup, measles, mumps, whooping cough, flux and
+other forms of summer diseases, peculiar to children. Neither was it
+necessary for the adult to die with diseases of summer, fall and winter.
+But at last I took my stand on this rock and my confidence in nature,
+where I have stood and fought the battles, and taken the enemy's flag in
+every engagement for the last twenty-five years.</p>
+
+
+<h4>WHAT STUDIES NECESSARY.</h4>
+
+<p>As you contemplate studying this science and have asked to know the
+necessary studies, I wish to impress it upon your minds that you begin
+with anatomy, and you end with anatomy, a knowledge of anatomy is all
+you want or need, as it is all you can use or ever will use in your
+practice, although you may live one hundred years. You have asked for my
+opinion as the founder of the science. Yours is an honest question, and
+God being my judge I will give you just as honest an answer. As I have
+said, a knowledge of anatomy with its application covers every inch of
+ground that is necessary to qualify you to become a skillful and
+successful Osteopath, when you go forth into the world to combat
+diseases.</p>
+
+
+<h4>WHAT I MEAN BY ANATOMY.</h4>
+
+<p>I will now define what I mean by anatomy. I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> speak by comparison and
+tell you what belongs to the study of anatomy. I will take a chicken
+whose parts and habits all persons are familiar with to illustrate. The
+chicken has a head, a neck, a breast, a tail, two legs, two wings, two
+eyes, two ears, two feet, one gizzard, one crop, one set of bowels, one
+liver, and one heart. This chicken has a nervous system, a glandular
+system, a muscular system, a system of lungs and other parts and
+principles not necessary to speak of in detail. But I want to emphasize,
+they belong to the chicken, and it would not be a chicken without every
+part or principle. These must all be present and answer roll call or we
+do not have a complete chicken. Now I will try and give you the parts of
+anatomy and the books that pertain to the same. You want some standard
+author on descriptive anatomy in which you learn the form and places of
+all bones, the place and uses of ligaments, muscles and all that belong
+to the soft parts. Then from the descriptive anatomy you are conducted
+into the dissecting room, in which you receive demonstrations, and are
+shown all parts through which blood and other fluids are conducted. So
+far you see you are in anatomy. From the demonstrator you are conducted
+to another room or branch of anatomy called physiology, a knowledge of
+which no Osteopath can do without and be a success. In that room you are
+taught how<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> the blood and other fluids of life are produced, and the
+channels through which this fluid is conducted to the heart and lungs
+for purity and other qualifying processes, previous to entering the
+heart for general circulation to nourish and sustain the whole human
+body. I want to insist and impress it upon your minds that this is as
+much a part of anatomy as a wing is a part of a chicken. From this room
+of anatomy you are conducted to the room of histology, in which the eye
+is aided by powerful microscopes and made acquainted with the smallest
+arteries of the human body, which in life are of the greatest known
+importance, remembering that in the room of histology you are still
+studying anatomy, and what that machinery can and does execute every
+day, hour, and minute of life. From the histological room you are
+conducted to the room of elementary chemistry, in which you learn
+something of the laws of association of substances, that you can the
+better understand what has been told you in the physiological room,
+which is only a branch of anatomy, and intended to show you that nature
+can and does successfully compound and combine elements for muscles,
+blood, teeth and bone. From there you are taken to the room of the
+clinics, where you are first made acquainted with both the normal and
+abnormal human body, which is only a continuation of the study of
+anato<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span>my. From there you are taken to the engineer's room (or operator's
+room) in which you are taught how to observe and detect abnormalities
+and the effect or effects they may and do produce, and how they effect
+health and cause that condition known as disease.</p>
+
+
+<h4>PRINCIPLES.</h4>
+
+<p>Principles to an Osteopath means a perfect plan and specification to
+build in form a house, an engine, a man, a world, or anything for an
+object or purpose. To comprehend this engine of life or man which is so
+constructed with all conveniences for which it was made, it is necessary
+to constantly keep the plan and specification before the mind, and in
+the mind, to such a degree that there is no lack of knowledge of the
+bearings and uses of all parts. After a complete knowledge of all parts
+with their forms, sizes and places of attachment which should be so
+thoroughly grounded in the memory that there would be no doubt of the
+intent of the builder for the use or purpose of the great and small
+parts, and why they have a part to perform in the workings of the
+engine. When this part of the specification is thoroughly learned from
+anatomy or the engineer's guide book, he will then take up the chapter
+on the division of forces, by which this engine moves and performs the
+duties<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> for which it was created. In this chapter the mind will be
+referred to the brain to obtain a knowledge of that organ, where the
+force starts, how it is conducted to any belt, pully, journal, or
+division of the whole building. After learning where the force is
+obtained, and how conveyed from place to place throughout the whole
+body, he becomes interested and wisely instructed. He sees the various
+parts of this great system of life when preparing fluids commonly known
+as blood, passing through a set of tubes both great and small&mdash;some so
+vastly small, as to require the aid of powerful microscopes to see their
+infinitely small forms, through which the blood and other fluids are
+conducted by the heart and force of the brain, to construct organs,
+muscles, membranes and all the things necessary to life and motion, to
+the parts separately and combined. By this minute acquaintance with the
+normal body which has been learned in the specification as written in
+standard authors of anatomy and the dissecting rooms, he is well
+prepared to be invited into the inspection room to receive comparisons
+between the normal and abnormal engines, built according to nature's
+plan and specification, and absolutely perfect. He is called into this
+room for the purpose of comparing engines that have been strained from
+being thrown off the track, or run against other bodies with such force
+as to bend<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> journals, pipes, break or loosen bolts; or otherwise
+deranged, so as to render it useless until repaired. To repair signifies
+to readjust from the abnormal condition in which the machinist finds it,
+to the condition of the normal engines which stand in the shop of
+repairs. His inspection would commence by first lining up the wheels
+with straight journals; then he would naturally be conducted to the
+boiler, steam chest, shafts, and every part that belongs to a completed
+engine. To know that they are straight and in place as shown upon the
+plan and described by the specification, he has done all that is
+required of a master mechanic. Then it goes into the hands of the
+engineer, who waters, fires and conducts this artificial being on its
+journey. You as Osteopathic machinists can go no farther than to adjust
+the abnormal condition, in which you find the afflicted. Nature will do
+the rest.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE PRACTICING OSTEOPATH'S GUIDE.</h4>
+
+<p>The Osteopath reasons if he reasons at all, that order and health are
+inseparable, and that when order in all parts is found, disease cannot
+prevail, and if order is complete and disease should be found, there is
+no use for order. And if order and health are universally one in union,
+then the doctor cannot usefully, physiologically, or philosophically be
+guided by any scale of reason, otherwise. Does<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> a chemist get results
+desired by accident? Are your accidents more likely to get good results
+than his? Does order and success demand thought and cool headed reason?
+If we wish to be governed by reason, we must take a position that is
+founded on truth and capable of presenting facts, to prove the validity
+of all truths we present. A truth is only a hopeful supposition if it is
+not supported by results. Thus all nature is kind enough to willingly
+exhibit specimens of its work as vindicating witnesses of its ability to
+prove its assertions by its work. Without that tangible proof, nature
+would belong to the gods of chance. The laws of mother, conception,
+growth and birth, from atoms to worlds would be a failure, a universe
+without a head to direct. But as the beautiful works of nature stand
+to-day, and in all time past, fully able by the evidence it holds before
+the eye and mind of reason, that all beings great and small came by the
+law of cause and effect, are we not bound to work by the laws of cause,
+if we wish an effect? If the heavens do move by cause when was its
+beings divorced from that great common law? Are we not bound to trust
+and work by the old and reliable self-evident laws, until something
+later has proven its superior ability to ward off disease and cure the
+sick.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE FASCIA.</h4>
+
+<p>I know of no part of the body that equals the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> fascia as a hunting
+ground. I believe that more rich golden thought will appear to the
+mind's eye as the study of the fascia is pursued than any division of
+the body. Still one part is just as great and useful as any other in its
+place. No part can be dispensed with. But the fascia is the ground in
+which all causes of death do the destruction of life. Every view we
+take, a wonder appears. Here we find a place for the white corpuscles
+building anew and giving strength to throw impurities from the body by
+tubes that run from the skin to tanks of useful fluids, that would heap
+up and are no longer of use in the body. No doubt nerves exist in the
+fascia, that change the fluid to gas, and force it through the spongy
+and porous system as a delivery by the vital chain of wonders, that go
+on all the time to keep nerves wholly pure.</p>
+
+
+<h4>NOT A PLEASANT TASK.</h4>
+
+<p>I dislike to write, and only do so, when I think my productions will go
+into the hands of kind-hearted geniuses who read, not to find a book of
+quotations, but to go with the soul of the subject that is being
+explored for its merits,&mdash;weigh all truths and help bring its uses front
+for the good of man.</p>
+
+<p>Osteopathy has not asked a place in written literature prior to this
+date, and does not hope to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> appear on written pages even to suit the
+author of this imperfectly written book.</p>
+
+
+<h4>WITHOUT ACCEPTED THEORIES.</h4>
+
+<p>Columbus had to launch and navigate much and long, and meet many storms,
+because he had not the written experience of other travelers to guide
+him. He had only a few bits of drift-wood not common to his home growth,
+to cause him to move as he did. But there was a fact, a bit of wood that
+did not grow on his home soil.</p>
+
+<p>He reasoned that it must be from some land amid the sea whose shores had
+not before been known to his race. With these facts and his powerful
+mind of reason, he met all opposition, and moved alone; just as all men
+do who have no use for theories as their compass to guide them through
+the storms. This opposition a mental explorer must meet.</p>
+
+<p>I felt that I must anchor my boat to living truths and follow them
+wheresoever they might drift. Thus I launched my boat many years ago on
+the open seas, fearlessly, and have never found a wave of scorn nor
+abuse that truth could not eat, and do well on.</p>
+
+
+<h4>TRUTHS OF NATURE.</h4>
+
+<p>We often speak of truth. We say great truths, and use many other
+qualifying expressions. But no<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> one truth is greater than any other
+truth. Each has a sphere of usefulness peculiar to itself. Thus we
+should treat with respect and reverence all truths, great and small. A
+truth is the complete work of nature, which can only be demonstrated by
+the vital principle belonging to that class of truths. Each truth or
+division as we see it, can only be made known to us by the self evident
+fact, which this truth is able to demonstrate by its action.</p>
+
+<p>If we take man as our object to base the beginning of our reason, we
+find the association of many elements, which differ in kind to suit the
+purpose for which they were designed. To us they act, to us they are
+wisely formed and located for the purpose for which they were designed.
+Through our five senses we deal with the material body. It has action.
+That we observe by vision which connects the mind to reason. High above
+the five senses on the subject of cause or causes of this, is motion. By
+the testimony of the witness the mind is connected in a manner by which
+it can reason on solidity and size. By smell, taste and sound, we make
+other connections between the chambers of reason and the object we
+desire to reason upon; and thus our foundation on which all five
+witnesses are arrayed to the superior principle which is mind.</p>
+
+<p>After seeing a human being complete in form, self moving, with power to
+stop or go on at will, to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> us he seems to obey some commander. He seems
+to go so far and stop; he lies down and gets up; he turns round and
+faces the objects that are traveling in the same direction he does.
+Possibly he faces the object by his own action. Then by about facing, he
+sees one coming with greater velocity, sees he can not escape by his own
+speed, so he steps aside and lets that body pass on, as though he moved
+in obedience to some order. The bystander would ask the question, "How
+did he know such a dangerous body was approaching?" He finds on the most
+crucial examination, that the sense of hearing is wholly without reason.
+The same is true with all the five senses pertaining to man, beast, or
+bird. This being the condition of the five physical senses, we are
+forced by reason to conclude there is a superior being who conducts the
+material man, sustains, supports and guards against danger; and after
+all our explorations, we have to decide that man is triune when
+complete.</p>
+
+
+<h4>BODY, MOTION AND MIND.</h4>
+
+<p>First the material body, second the spiritual being, third a being of
+mind which is far superior to all vital motions and material forms,
+whose duty is to wisely manage this great engine of life. This great
+principle known as mind, must depend for all evidences on the five
+senses, and on this tes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span>timony, all mental conclusions are bad, and all
+orders from this mental court are issued to move to any point or stop at
+any place. Thus to obtain good results, we must blend ourselves with,
+and travel in harmony with nature's truths. When this great machine man,
+ceases to move in all its parts, which we call death, the explorers
+knife discovers no mind, no motion. He simply finds formulated matter
+with no motor to move it, with no mind to direct it. He can trace the
+channels through which the fluids have circulated, he can find the
+relation of parts to other parts; in fact by the knife, he can expose to
+view the whole machinery that once was wisely active. Suppose the
+explorer is able to add the one principle motion, at once we would see
+an action, but it would be a confused action. Still he is not the man
+desired to be produced. There is one addition that is indispensable to
+control this active body, or machine, and that is mind. With that added
+the whole machinery then works as man. The three when united in full
+action are able to exhibit the thing desired&mdash;complete.</p>
+
+
+<h4>OSTEOPATHY TO CURE DISEASE.</h4>
+
+<p>The Osteopath seeks first physiological perfection of form, by normally
+adjusting the osseous frame work, so that all arteries may deliver blood
+to nourish and construct all parts. Also that the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> veins may carry away
+all impurities dependent upon them for renovation. Also that the nerves
+of all classes may be free and unobstructed while applying the powers of
+life and motion to all divisions, and the whole system of nature's
+laboratory.</p>
+
+<p>A full and complete supply of arterial blood must be generated and
+delivered to all parts, organs and glands, by the channels called the
+arteries. And when it has done its work, then without delay the veins
+must return all to heart and lungs for renewal. We must know some delay
+of fluids has been established on which nature begins the work of
+renewal by increased action of electricity, even to the solvent action
+of fever heat, by which watery substances evaporate and relieve the
+lymphatic system of stagnant, watery secretions. Thus fever is a natural
+and powerful remedy.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE OSTEOPATH SHOULD FIND HEALTH.</h4>
+
+<p>To find health should be the object of the doctor. Anyone can find
+disease. He should make the grand round among the sentinels and
+ascertain if they are asleep, dead or have deserted their posts, and
+have allowed the enemy to get into camps. He should visit all posts.
+Before he goes out to make the rounds, he should know where all posts
+are, and the value of the supply he has charge of, whether it be shot,
+shell, grub, clothing, arms or anything of value to the Company or
+Division.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_II" id="CHAPTER_II"></a>CHAPTER II.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Osteopathic Explorations.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Divisions of the Body&mdash;Searching for the Cause&mdash;Duty of the
+Osteopathic Explorer&mdash;Classification and Division&mdash;The
+Abnormal&mdash;Nerve Powers&mdash;Witnesses to Examine&mdash;Abnormal
+Growths&mdash;Cerebro Spinal Fluid&mdash;Body in Perfect
+Health&mdash;Chemistry&mdash;Nature's Chemistry. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>DIVISIONS OF THE BODY.</h4>
+
+<p>After many long years, treating and trying to teach the student of
+Osteopathy how to hunt for and find the local causes of diseases, not
+contagious, or infectious, I have succeeded in planning and suggesting a
+method, which I am sure the doctor can easily follow, and find any
+diversion from the normal, that would interfere with the nerves, veins,
+and arteries, of any organ or limb of the body. I have formulated a
+simple mental diagram that divides the body into three parts, chest,
+upper and lower limbs. The first division takes in head, neck, chest,
+abdomen and pelvis. The second division takes in head, neck, lower and
+upper arm and hand. The third division takes in foot, leg, thigh, pelvis
+and lumbar vertebra. I make this division for the purpose of holding the
+explorer to the limits of all supplies. In the ellipse of the chest is
+found all vital supplies; then from that center of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> life we have two
+branches only, one of the arm, and one of the lower limb. In each
+division we have five points of exploration.<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></p>
+
+
+
+<h4>SEARCHING FOR THE CAUSE.</h4>
+
+<p>To illustrate, we will take the lower limb, whether there is lameness,
+soreness, gouty, rheumatic, neuralgic, swollen, shrunken, feverish,
+cold, smooth and glassy, sores, ulcers, erysipelas, milkleg, varicose
+veins, or any defect that the patient may complain of, who is the only
+reliable book or being of symptomatology. For convenience we will divide
+that lower limb into five parts, the foot, leg, thigh, pelvis and lumbar
+region. The patient (symptomatologist) tells us he has a pain in front,
+center and under part of foot. Now the doctor or bird dog, can find
+quails of reason in but one field that would lead him to the cause. As
+this field is divided into five parts and the hunter has carefully
+searched four divisions, he will find the cause or causes in the fifth
+and none other. If a dislocated bone is not found in the foot after
+ascertaining that there has been no crushing by falling bodies, horses<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span>
+feet, stepping on glass, nails and other things that would penetrate the
+foot, and irritate by being broken off, closed and remaining in the
+flesh; we will explore the leg for the quail, ascertain if the
+articulation is normal at ankle and knee. If we find the bone is not
+broken, the leg has no splinters of wood, nor injured flesh by bites
+from dogs or other animals, nor any other substance that would injure
+the leg, we are prepared to pass on and explore another place for pain
+in the foot. We go on to division No. 3 or the thigh division, and
+ascertain if the thigh is normal in all conditions, properly in socket,
+with all muscles, ligaments and nerves unoppressed. There are but two
+more divisions left for exploration, and they are the most important and
+interesting of the five, the pelvis and lumbar, through which all the
+nerves of the limb pass. We must stop at pelvis and observe carefully
+that there is no twist of ligaments before going to lumbar, which is the
+last of the five divisions. If we have found nothing in the previous
+four, and have explored them as carefully as we should, we have but one
+brush heap left, and that one contains the quail that we have been
+hunting for. As the lumbar contains and conveys all nerve forces to the
+pelvis from the brain and all divisions of the lower limbs, we will now
+examine the articulations of that part of the spine, and in that we are
+very certain to find the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> cause if we have made no mistake in our
+examination in the preceding divisions of the limb. As we enter the
+exploration of this part of the spine we must remember that we are about
+to deal with the many divisions of the nerves of the <i>cauda equina</i>. The
+great question before us, comes after this form. What would wound or
+bruise any division of nerves that would lead by the way of the great or
+lesser sciatic, to a bone in the front and under side of the foot? Jars,
+strains, twists, and dislocations, must be carefully searched for. A
+partial dislocation of one side of the spine would produce a twist which
+would throw one muscle on to another and another, straining ligaments,
+producing conjestion and inflammation, or some irritation that would
+lead to a suspension of the fluids necessary to the harmonious vitality
+of the foot, which is the great and only cause by which the suffering is
+produced in a foreign land, which we call a famine in the foot.</p>
+
+
+<h4>DUTY OF THE OSTEOPATHIC EXPLORER.</h4>
+
+<p>This method of exploration is not directed by the sound of the fog-horns
+of unreliable and unsatisfactory symptomatology. Osteopathy has a method
+of its own, which is correct or it has no method at all, and is guided
+by the surveyor's compass that will find all corners as established by<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span>
+the orders of the government and surveyor's general. Thus an Osteopath
+must find the true corners as set by the Divine Surveyor. The general
+surveyor hands our plats and specifications to the division general,
+with instructions to establish all lines and divisions, state, county,
+township and sections, and mark each one by stones or otherwise, so they
+cannot be lost; but are findable by any competent surveyor who follows
+the field notes displayed in anatomy. Thus you would see a successful
+Osteopath is guided by the field notes of nature to all corners, his
+business is to know that every corner stone is in its place, standing
+erect as nature designed and established it. If he tolerates any
+variation of this stone or stones from the place or places that God the
+grand surveyor of the universe has placed them, he will observe there is
+an infringement and cause for inharmony and discord of the possessors of
+the four quarter sections of land, for which this cornerstone was
+placed; and his sworn duty is to bring this stone from any variation
+from the field notes and establish it where it was first placed. Thus
+his ability to find the true corners and adjust all stones will mark him
+as a successful Osteopath.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION.</h4>
+
+<p>I will classify or divide man's body for conven<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span>ience of exploration for
+diseases into head and neck first; then head, neck and chest, third,
+head, neck, chest and abdomen; then unite head, neck, chest, abdomen and
+sacrum. I will take up a few diseases under each division as they are
+located. By this method I think I can better show what nerves should be
+more or less active.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE ABNORMAL.</h4>
+
+<p>A lesion may and does appear on a part or all of the person which may
+appear as a growth or withering away of a limb in all its muscles,
+nerves and blood supply. As in case of tumors on scalp, loss of hair,
+eruptions of face, growth of tonsils, ulcers of one or both ears,
+growths on outside and inside of eyes, a cause must precede an effect in
+all cases. A pain in head is an effect; cause is older than the effect
+and is absolute in all variations from normal conditions. A tumor on the
+head and under the skin is an effect only. It took matter to give it
+size, it took power to deliver that substance, the fact that a tumor was
+formed, shows that the power to build was present and did the work of
+construction. Another power should have been there to complete the work
+at that location; that power is the offbearing of the dead matter after
+the work of construction was complete.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>NERVE POWERS.</h4>
+
+<p>If we think as men of reason should, we will count five nerve powers.
+They must all be present to build a part, and must answer promptly at
+roll call and work all the time. The names of these master workmen are
+sensation, motion, nutrition, voluntary and involuntary. All must answer
+at every roll call during life; none can be granted a leave of absence
+for a moment. Suppose sensation should leave a limb for a time, have we
+not a giving away of all cells and glands? An undue filling up follows
+quickly because sensation limits and tells when the supply is too great
+for the use of the builder's purpose. Suppose the nerve power known as
+motion should fail for a time, starvation would soon begin its deadly
+work for want of food. Suppose again the nerves of nutrition should fail
+to apply the nourishing showers we would surely die in sight of food.
+With the voluntary nerves we move or stay at the will of he or she who
+wishes to give direction to the motor powers, at any time a change by
+action is required. At this time I will stop defining the several and
+varied uses of the five kinds of nerves, and begin to account for
+growths and other variations, from the healthy to the unhealthy
+conditions of man. The above named are the five known powers of animal
+life, and to direct them wisely is the work of the doctor of
+Osteopathy.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>WITNESSES TO EXAMINE.</h4>
+
+<p>He has five witnesses to examine in all cases he has under his care. He
+must give close attention to the source and supply of healthy blood. If
+blood is too scant he must look to the motor systems of blood making,
+that would surely invite his most careful attention and study of the
+abdomen. He cannot expect blood to quietly pass through the diaphragm if
+impeded by muscular constriction around aorta, vena cava or thoracic
+duct. The diaphragm can and is often pulled down on both vena cava and
+thoracic duct, obstructing blood and chyle from returning to heart so
+much as to limit the chyle below the requirement of healthy blood, or
+even suppress the nerve action of lymphatics to such degree as to cause
+dropsy of the abdomen, or a stoppage of venous blood by pressure on vena
+cava so long that venous blood would be in stages of ferment when it
+enters the heart for renovation, and when purified and returned the
+supply is too small to sustain life to a normal standard.</p>
+
+
+<h4>ABNORMAL GROWTHS.</h4>
+
+<p>Thus the importance of a careful attention to the normal certainty of
+all the ribs to which the diaphragm is attached is essential. The
+eleventh and twelfth ribs may, and do often get pushed so far from their
+normal bearings, that they are often<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> found turned in a line with the
+spine, with cartilaginous ends down near ilio-lumbar articulation. When
+in such position they draw the diaphragm down heavily on vena cava at
+about the fourth lumbar. Then you have cause for intermittent pulse, as
+the heart finds no passage of blood through the prolapsed diaphragm
+which is also stopping the vena cava and producing universal stagnation
+of blood and other fluids in all organs and glands below the diaphragm.
+Thus you have a beginning for abnormal growths of womb, kidneys and all
+lymphatics of liver, kidneys, spleen, pancreas, and all tumors of
+abdomen.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CEREBRO SPINAL FLUID.</h4>
+
+<p>To satisfy the mind of a philosopher who is mentally capable of asking
+for and knowing truth, when presented by nature, you must come at him
+outside of the limits of conjecture, and address him with self-evident
+truths only. When he takes up the philosophy of the great subject of
+life, to him who does know truth, no substitute can to any degree
+satisfy his mental demands. To the one who would deal in conjectures or
+suppose so's, he will at once be placed in the proper category to which
+he belongs, which is the drift-wood that floats down the dark river that
+is overshadowed by the nightmare of ignorance and superstition. A<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span>
+seeker after truth, is a man of few words, and they are used by him only
+by the truths or facts discovered. He has no patience with the unmeaning
+records offered only to please the credulous, and by those of little or
+no truth that appears during a long recitation of ungrounded statements.
+From the above it is wisely seen that the object of these remarks is to
+present a few truths for the purpose of stimulating the attention of the
+listener. We will take man when formed. When we use the word formed, we
+mean the whole building being complete. The brain with all organs,
+nerves, vessels, and every minutia in form with all materials found or
+used in life.</p>
+
+
+<h4>BODY IN PERFECT HEALTH.</h4>
+
+<p>We look at it in perfect health which means perfection and harmony not
+in part, but of the whole body. So far we are only filled with love,
+wonder and admiration. Another period of observation appears to the
+philosopher. We find partial or universal discord from the lowest
+observable to the highest in action and death. Then the book of whys is
+opened and displays its leaves which calls out mental labor even to the
+degree of agony, to know the cause or causes that produce a failure of a
+limb in sensation, motion, nutrition, voluntary and involuntary
+functional exhibits. His mind will ex<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>plore the bone, the ligament, the
+muscle, the fascia, the channels through which the blood travels from
+heart to local destiny, with lymphatics and their contents,&mdash;the nerves,
+the blood vessels and every channel through or over which all substances
+are transmitted all over the body, particularly the disabled limb in
+question. It proceeds too and does obtain blood abundantly to and from
+the heart, but the results obtained are not satisfactory, and another
+leaf is opened of why no good results are obtained and where is the
+mystery, what quality and element of force and vitality has been
+withheld? A thought strikes him that the cerebro spinal fluid is the
+highest known element that is contained in the human body, and unless
+the brain furnishes this fluid in abundance a disabled condition of the
+body will remain. He who is able to reason will see that this great
+river of life must be tapped and the withering field irrigated at once,
+or the harvest of health be forever lost.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CHEMISTRY.</h4>
+
+<p>As chemical compounds are not known to Osteopathy to be used as
+remedies, then its use as a study for the student is only to teach that
+elements in nature do combine and form other substances, and without
+changes and unions, no teeth, bone, hair, or muscle could appear in the
+body<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> from the food eaten. Then chemistry is of great use as a part of a
+thorough Osteopathic education. It gives us the reasons why food is
+found in the body as bone, muscle and so on, to all kinds of flesh,
+teeth and bones found in animal forms. Unless we know chemistry
+reasonably well, we can not do away with much mental worry of what
+becomes of food after eating. By chemistry the truths of physiology are
+firmly established in the mind of the student of nature, that in man a
+chemistry of wonderful powers does all the work of animal forms, and
+that in the laboratory of nature's chemistry is the ruling power. By
+elementary chemistry we are led to see the beauties of physiology only.
+Thus chemistry of the elementary is one, and physiology is the witness
+that it is law in man as in all nature. Thus in chemistry we comprehend
+some of the laws of union in nature which we can use mentally with
+knowing confidence. In chemistry we become acquainted with the law of
+cause and change in union, which is a standard law sought by the student
+of Osteopathy.</p>
+
+
+<h4>NATURE'S CHEMISTRY.</h4>
+
+<p>Osteopathy believes that all parts of the human body do work on chemical
+compounds, and from the general supply manufacture for local wants; thus
+the liver builds for itself of the material that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> is prepared in its own
+division laboratory. The same of heart and brain. No disturbing or
+hindering causes will be tolerated to stay if an Osteopath can find and
+remove it. We must reason that to withhold the supply from a limb, to
+wither away would be natural. We suffer from two causes. First, want of
+supply (hunger), and the burdens of dead deposits along nerve centers,
+which five nerves by chemical changes while in fermentation should
+regulate local or general divisions.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CORRECT METHOD OF REASONING.</h4>
+
+<p>In concluding this chapter we will confine our labor to an effort to
+direct the beginner to a correct method of reasoning. When he is brought
+face to face with the stern realities of the "sick room," the Osteopath
+begins his inquiries and follows with his questions just far enough to
+know what division of the body is in trouble. If he finds an arm has
+lost motion, he goes to arm to explore for cause. He can begin his hunt
+for cause at hand, explore it carefully for wounds, strains or any
+lesion that could injure nerves of the arm. If he finds no probable
+cause there, he should explore bones for dislocations or strains of
+ligaments at elbow; if he finds no defect there sufficient to locate
+cause in lower arm or hand; he has only two more places left to inspect,
+the shoulder and neck with their<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> articulations of bone and muscles. If
+found normal at shoulder, then go to neck, out of which go all or most
+of the nerves of the arm; if he finds no lesion or cause equal to the
+trouble so far, then he has been careless in his search and should go
+over and over from marrow to periostium of all bones of the neck and
+head, because there are only five divisions in which a lesion can exist.
+Carefully look, think, feel and know that the head of the humerus is
+true in the glenoid cavity, clavicle true at both ends of its
+articulation, with sternum and acromion processes. See that the biceps
+are in their grooves, and ribs on spine are true at manubrium and spine,
+and that neck is true on first dorsal. True in all joints of the neck,
+as the nerves of the arm come from the neck, there must be no variation
+from normal, or trouble will appear from that cause. As the neck has
+much to do with the arm, we should keep a living picture of the forms of
+each bone, how and where it articulates with others, how it is joined by
+ligaments, what blood vessels, nerves and muscles cross or range with it
+lengthwise, because to overlook a small nerve and blood vessel you may
+fail to remove a goitre, and all diseases of the head, face and neck.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III"></a>CHAPTER III.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">The Head.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>A Free Circulation&mdash;Death Blows&mdash;Something of the Neck&mdash;Order of
+Treatment&mdash;The Pelvis&mdash;Brains of Animals&mdash;Arterial Motion&mdash;Mental
+Vibrations&mdash;Overburdening the Mind&mdash;Hemiplegia. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>A FREE CIRCULATION.</h4>
+
+<p>Before we treat of the head, we must follow blood from the heart to all
+organs of the head. Not only look at the pictures in Gray, Morris,
+Gerrish, or some finely illustrated work on anatomy, but we must apply a
+searching hand and know to a certainty that the constrictors of neck, or
+other muscles or ligaments do not pull cervical and hyoid bones so close
+as to bruise pneumogastric or any other nerves or fibres that would
+cause spasmodic contraction of digastric, stylo-hyoid or the whole
+remaining group of neck muscles and ligaments, with which you are or
+should be very familiar. Ever remember that the venous drainage must be
+kept normally active or congestion, and tumefaction, with inflammation
+of the glands of the head, face and neck will appear, and mark for you
+this oversight; because the perpetual health, ease and comfort of the
+head beginning with the scalp and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> hair, with their nerves, glands and
+purity of blood supply, a healthy eye, good hearing, healthy action of
+brain with its magnetic and electric forces to the vital parts which
+sustain life, memory and reason, depend directly and wholly upon
+unlimited freedom of the circulatory system of nerves, blood and
+cerebral fluid. They must be normal in action and quantity
+unembarrassed, otherwise bad hearing, ulcers of the ears, cross eyes,
+pterygium, cataract, granulated lids, staphyloma, lachrymosis and up to
+full list of diseases of the eye, with tonsilitis, injured voice, tumors
+and cancers of face, head, tongue, mouth and throat, along with
+erysipelas, blotches and pimples, and all diseases of the glandular
+system of the head and neck. Undoubtedly all these afflictions have
+their origin in obstructed normal action between the heart and the
+termination of all above it, for want of nerve and blood harmony.</p>
+
+
+<h4>DEATH BLOWS.</h4>
+
+<p>Remember that death blows are dealt out freely above the sternum by
+irritation and constriction of the parts above described. We should
+often refresh our minds, beginning with the muscles that connect the
+head and neck, and know to a certainty as we explore that junction that
+the capitas minor, major and lateralis, long and short of both anticus
+and posticus regions are indisputably nor<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span>mal to your hand and judgment.
+It is almost useless to say to the anatomist who has had the drilling in
+all branches of that science, previous to obtaining his diploma, to
+commence and detail the venous and excretory system, through which all
+those glands are drained, and kept in a healthy condition, but we say
+this much; let your morning, noon and evening prayer be this, Oh Lord!
+give me more anatomy each day I live, because experience has taught me
+the unavoidable demands when in the "sick room."</p>
+
+
+<h4>SOMETHING OF THE NECK.</h4>
+
+<p>Before you leave that wisely constructed neck, I want to press and
+imprint on your minds in the strongest terms that the wisest anatomist,
+and physiologist, the oldest and most successful Osteopath knows only
+enough of the neck, and its wondrous system of nerves, blood and muscles
+and its relation to all above and below it, to say, "From everlasting to
+everlasting thou art great, O Lord God Almighty!" Thy wisdom is surely
+boundless, for I see that man must be wise to know all about the neck,
+for we find by a twist of neck, we may become blind, deaf, spasmodic,
+lose speech and memory, and all that is known as the joys of man. On
+that division of the body all action of arms, legs, chest and all
+muscles get their life<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span>&mdash;power and motion. Think for a moment of the
+thousands and tens of thousands of large and small fluid vessels that
+pass to and from heart and brain, to every organ, bone, fibre, muscle
+and gland, both large and small, receiving and appropriating the
+substances as prepared in the chemical laboratory; so wisely situated,
+and so exact in all its works in the production and application of all
+substances in the body.</p>
+
+
+<h4>ORDER OF TREATMENT.</h4>
+
+<p>The reader will begin with the brain or head because I want to start
+with the head; first give such diseases as belong to that division of
+the body. Then the neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis. Thus we have five
+divisions in regular order, beginning with the head and finishing with
+the sacrum. The reader will find diseases of eye, ear, tongue, nose,
+face, scalp and hair under the chapter treating of the head. Next in
+regular order will be the division of the neck, with diseases of tonsils
+and glands of neck, swallow, trach&aelig;, nerves, blood vessels and muscles,
+fascia and lymphatics, superior cervical ganglion and other nerves of
+the neck, as they affect vitality in diseases. Then we pass on to third
+division, with diseases of lung, heart, pericardium, and pleura, with
+all parts of chest. Then abdomen, liver, stomach and bowels, and all
+organs with re<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span>sisting power of diaphragm. Fifth, pelvis, with its great
+supply of nerves, blood and other fluids. These give us cause to halt
+and seat the mind for a long season of observation. A great field opens
+at this point for the observing thinker.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE PELVIS.</h4>
+
+<p>In the pelvis we find a system of nerves and arteries with blood for
+local supply, besides blood to construct womb, bladder, rectum, colon,
+cellular system and all the muscles of that cavity (the pelvis) all of
+which comes from arteries and branches above. We think it is not
+necessary to name them only in bulk, to a student versed in anatomy.
+Perhaps less is known of the pelvic system and its functions than any
+division of the body, and for that reason I have felt that we should
+know all that is possible to be learned. I believe more ignorance
+prevails to-day of internal causes of diseases than would if we reasoned
+that the pelvic nerves and vessels had much to do in forming the
+abdominal viscera.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE BRAIN OF ANIMALS.</h4>
+
+<p>Of all parts of the body of man to be well studied, the brain should be
+the most attractive. It is the place where all force centers, where all
+nerves connect to one common battery. By its orders the laboratory of
+life begins to move on crude material<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> and labors until blood is formed
+and becomes food for all nerves first; then arteries and veins by nerve
+action and forces, to suit each class of work to be done by that set of
+nerves which is to construct forms; keep blood constantly in motion by
+the arteries and from all parts back to the heart, through the veins,
+that the blood may be purified, renewed and re-enter the arteries to be
+taken to all places of need.</p>
+
+
+<h4>ARTERIAL MOTION.</h4>
+
+<p>Arterial motion is normal during all ages, from the quick pulse of the
+babe's arm, to the ages of each year to one hundred or more. At this
+great age the pulse is so slow that the heat is not generated by the
+nerves, whose motor velocity is not great enough to bring electricity to
+the stage of heat. All heat, high and low, surely is the effect of
+active electricity&mdash;plus to fever; minus to coldness. When an irritant
+enters the body by lung, skin or any other way, a change appears in the
+heart's action from its effects on the brain, to the high electric
+action and that burning heat called fever. If plus violent type (yellow
+fever), if minus, low grades (typhus, typhoid, plagues), and so on
+through the list.</p>
+
+
+<h4>MENTAL VIBRATIONS.</h4>
+
+<p>To think implies action of the brain. We can<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> grade thought although we
+cannot measure its speed.</p>
+
+<p>Suppose a person of one kind of business thinks just fast enough to suit
+that profession. A man is engaged in raising hogs and that alone. He
+must reason on and of the nature of hogs. He begins about so: a hog
+eats, drinks, bathes, roots and sleeps. He knows the hog eats grain, so
+he feeds it corn, or some other suitable cereal, with plenty of water
+and good bedding. The swine is on his mind night and day.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE WHEELS OF THOUGHT.</h4>
+
+<p>Now the question is, how fast does he think? How many revolutions do the
+wheels of his head make per minute to do all the necessary thinking
+connected with the hog business? Say his mental wheels revolve 100 times
+each minute. Then he adds sheep to his business, and if that should
+require 100 more revolutions and he takes charge of raising draft horses
+with 175 revolutions added, you see the wheels of his head whizzing off
+375 vibrations per minute. And at this time he adds the duties of the
+carpenter with 300 more revolutions, add them together and you see 675.
+To this number he adds the duties and thoughts of a sheriff, which are
+numerous enough to buzz his wheels at 1500 more, you find 2175 to be
+his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> mental revolutions so far. Now you have the great physical demands
+added to the mental motion which his brain has to support, yet he can do
+all so far, fairly well.</p>
+
+
+<h4>OVERBURDENING THE MIND.</h4>
+
+<p>He now adds to his labors the manufacturing of leather, from all kinds
+of hides, with the chemistry of fine tanning, which is equal to all
+previous mental motions. Add and you find 4250 revolutions all drawing
+on his brain each minute of the day. Add to this mental strain the
+increased action of his body which has to perform these duties and you
+see the beginning of a worry of both mind and body, to which you add
+manufacturing of engines, iron puddling, rolling, etc.; a delegate to a
+national convention, thoughts of the death of a near relative; add to
+this a security debt to meet during a money panic. By this time the mind
+begins to fag below the power of resistance.</p>
+
+
+<h4>HEMIPLEGIA.</h4>
+
+<p>Duration of such great mental vibrations for so long stops nutrition of
+all or one-half of the brain, and we have a case of "Hemiplegia," or the
+wheels of one-half of the brain run so fast as to overcome some fountain
+of nerve force and explode some cerebral artery in the brain and deposit
+a clot of blood at some motor supply or plexus.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Thus we see men from over mental action fall in our National councils,
+courts, manufactories, churches, and almost all places of great mental
+activity. Slaves and savages seldom fall victims to paralysis of any
+kind, but escape all such, for they know nothing of the strains of mind
+and hurried nutrition. They eat and rest, live long and happy. The idea
+of riches never bothers their slumbers. Physical injuries may and often
+do wound motor, sensory and nutrient centers of brain; but the effect is
+just the same, partial or complete suspension of the motor and sensory
+systems.</p>
+
+<p>If you burst a boiler by high pressure or otherwise, your engine ceases
+to move. And just the same of an over-worked brain or body.</p>
+
+<p>Hemiplegia. "The half" and "I strike." Paralysis of one half of the
+body.<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p>
+
+
+
+<p>Hemiplegia is usually the result of a cerebral hemorrhage or embolism.
+It sometimes occurs suddenly without other marked symptoms, but commonly
+it is ushered in by an apoplectic attack and on return of consciousness
+it is observed that one side of the body is paralyzed, the paralysis
+being often profound in the beginning, and disappearing to a greater or
+less extent at a later period.</p>
+
+<p>Hemiplegia is much more rarely produced by a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> tumor. It then generally
+comes on slowly, the paralysis gradually increasing as the neoplasm
+encroaches more and more upon the motor tracks, though the tumor may be
+complicated by the occurrence of a hemorrhage and a sudden hemiplegia.</p>
+
+<p>A gradual hemiplegia may also be produced by an abcess or chronic
+softening of the brain substance. Other conditions or symptoms
+presented, will in such case, assist us to diagnose the nature of the
+lesion.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IV" id="CHAPTER_IV"></a>CHAPTER IV.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Ear Wax and Its Uses.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Nature Makes Nothing in Vain&mdash;A Successful Experiment&mdash;A Question
+for Ages&mdash;The Position&mdash;Meaning of Life&mdash;Some Questions
+Asked&mdash;Condition in Certain Diseases Caused by Cold&mdash;Cerumen in
+Fluid State&mdash;Winter Kills Babies&mdash;Some Advice to Mothers&mdash;A Case in
+Point&mdash;Connection of the brain and Other Nerves in
+Digestion&mdash;Unaided Investigation. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>NATURE MAKES NOTHING IN VAIN.</h4>
+
+<p>That nature makes nothing in vain is an established truth in the minds
+of all persons whose observation has created in such persons a desire to
+reason, and that being my faith for many years I asked myself to try and
+get a reason of why nature had made and placed in a person's head so
+much fine machinery just to make a little ear-wax. If nothing is made in
+vain, what is that bitter stuff made for? It is always there, and more
+being made all the time. I have read many authors or say so's about
+ear-wax, and about the best the wise or the unwise have said is that it
+would keep bugs and other insects out of our heads. I thought if that
+was all that it was made for nature had done a great deal to shoo off
+the bugs. The idea that it was made bitter and bad to eat just to make
+bugs<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> sick was weak philosophy, if nature never did any useless work or
+made anything in vain. At this time I saw the doors all open and a good
+chance for the loaded mind to unload and give us other uses for ear-wax
+than bug food, and to lubricate the auditory nerves with dry wax. At
+this time of my desire to know some positive use or object that nature
+had in forming so much fine machinery and no use for its products when
+made, but to pull out of the head with a hairpin, I reasoned about so,
+that this dry hard wax was once in the gaseous or fluid state.</p>
+
+
+<h4>A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT.</h4>
+
+<p>When I had about concluded to sit down with the common herd of doctors
+and say that wax was wax, a fat boy of two summers was reported to me to
+be dying with croup. I began to think more about the dry wax that is
+always found in cases of croup, sore throat, tonsilitis, pneumonia, and
+all diseases of the lungs, nose and head. On examination I found the
+ear-wax dried up. So I put a few drops of glycerine, and after a
+minute's time a few drops of warm water in the child's head, and kept a
+wet rag corked into its ear frequently for twelve hours, and gave it
+Osteopathic treatment, at the end of which time all signs of croup had
+disappeared. I used the glycerine to soften the wax,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> which combining
+with water formed a harmless soap better qualified for washing the ear,
+and retaining the wax in solution than anything I have tried, for it is
+my opinion that the ear wax should be kept in a fluid state. When in
+that state the absorbent can more readily take it up and use it in the
+economy of life in this condition. The same day two ladies came to my
+house, sore in lungs, necks tied up, sore throats, fever and headache.
+As an experiment, in addition to Osteopathic treatment, I put a few
+drops of glycerine in their ears, followed with water to wet and soften
+the wax which was dry and hard, to get it back to a fluid state. Both
+got better of their sore lungs and throats in a short time, and in
+twenty-four hours they were about well, and lungs coughing out phlegm,
+easily. From this I think that the cause of croup is simply the result
+of abnormality of the cerumen system.</p>
+
+
+<h4>A QUESTION FOR AGES.</h4>
+
+<p>As a question of the uses of ear-wax has been before man for ages
+without an answer being given that passes the line of conjecture, I
+think there could be no reason why a few looks through the field glass
+of inquiry should not be given in a limited way on that great plane of
+fertility, for the minds of our most profound thinkers. As far as the
+writer can learn from reading and other methods<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> of inquiry, the power
+and use of ear-wax has never been known, looked on, or thought of as one
+of life's agents for good or bad health. One asks this question: "Why
+are you talking about ear-wax, the filthy stuff?" In answer I asked,
+"What do you know about ear-wax?" The answer, "I don't know or care
+anything about the dirty stuff."</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE POSITION.</h4>
+
+<p>As my spleen is my organ of mirth, I let it bounce against my side a few
+times at such ignorance and gave the wax subject more study than ever&mdash;I
+began to read all the books I could find on Anatomy, Physiology, and
+Histology to get some knowledge of the machinery that the wise architect
+of that greatest of all temples had made to generate wax. At this time a
+conviction came to me to be sure of its uses before I gave an opinion. I
+find the center of nerve supply of the ears located at the base of the
+brain and side of the head, in front of the cerebellum, just below and
+near the center of the brain, a little above the foramen magnum, close
+to and behind the carotid arteries, deep and superficial, just above the
+entry of the spinal cord to the brain. Thus it is situated directly in
+communication with all nerves to and from the brain to every part of the
+body. Another question, and another came only to come and go without an
+answer&mdash;such as how and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> where is this wax made? Of what use is it? Why
+so awful bitter? Has it any living principle above dry earth? Is it
+produced in the brain, lymphatics, fascia, heart, lungs, nerves or
+where? How much of it would kill a man? Would it kill at all? What is it
+made for? Is it used by nerves as food, or used by lungs, heart, or any
+organ as an active principle in the magnetic or electric forces? So far
+all authors are silent even to offer a speculative opinion about how it
+is made and its uses. So far we get nothing from the ancient or modern
+writers, as to its uses or anything that would cause a man to think that
+the Creator had any great design, when he made so wisely constructed and
+so much machinery and gave it such prominent place in the center of the
+brain. By this time the reader begins to mentally ask what does this wax
+evangelist know about the wax and its uses? The writer wishes to observe
+and respect all nature and never be too hasty. To carefully explore all,
+and never leave until he finds the cause and use that nature's hand has
+placed in its works, never overlooking small packages as they often
+contain precious gems. I am sure no man of brilliant mind can pass this
+milepost and not hitch his team and do some precious loading. At this
+point my pen will give notice to all anatomists, histologists, chemists
+and physiologists that I will give "no sleep nor slumber to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> their
+eyes," until I hear from them an answer, yes or no to these questions:
+For what purpose did God make ear-wax? Is it food or refuse? If food,
+what is nourished by it? and how do you know your position is true and
+undebatable?</p>
+
+
+<h4>MEANING OF LIFE.</h4>
+
+<p>Life means existence; existence means subsistence; subsistence means
+something to subsist on, and of the degree of refinement to suit the
+being or principle whose function is to do the skilled work which is
+found marked on the tressle-board of the wisest of all builders, whose
+work is absolutely correct in form and action, and beautiful to behold.
+It calls out the admiration of man and God himself, who did say of man,
+"Not only good, but very good."</p>
+
+
+<h4>SOME QUESTIONS ASKED.</h4>
+
+<p>I consider ear-wax one of the most important questions before the minds
+of our physiologists. The first and only knowledge of which substance
+begins with the observer's eye when he beholds the dry wax as it is
+excreted and dropped into the cavities of the ears. A question
+arises&mdash;and stands without an answer&mdash;is this substance which is
+commonly called ear-wax, technically called cerumen, is it dead or is it
+alive while in this form and visible? If dead, why, and how did it lose
+its life? Why has<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span> it not been consumed if once a living substance? When
+alive, is it in the gaseous or fluid state? and when alive, and consumed
+as nutriment by the system what does it nourish? is the question for the
+philosopher's attention, not superficial, but his deepest thought? Why
+is it deposited in the center of the brain if not to impart its vital
+principle to all nerves interested in life and nutrition&mdash;both physical
+and spiritual. Its location, itself, would indicate its importance.
+Another thought is that no better place could be selected to establish
+and locate a universal supply office for the laborers of all parts of
+the whole superstructure. Another question arises: When we examine a
+person paralyzed on one side, why do we find this bread of life in such
+great quantities on the table and not consumed? Has not one-half of the
+brain and the nerves of that whole side, limbs and all, lost their power
+of digestion? Is hemiplegia a dyspepsia of the nerves of nutriment of
+the brain and organs of that side? If so we have some foundation on
+which to build an answer why this wax is not consumed and is dried up in
+the ears of the parylytic. The answer would be that nutrition is
+suspended.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CONDITIONS IN CERTAIN DISEASES, CAUSED BY COLDS.</h4>
+
+<p>Let us take croup, diphtheria, scarlet fever, la grippe, and all classes
+of colds&mdash;on to pneumonia.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> They present about the same symptoms,
+differing more in degrees of severity than of place. All affect the
+tonsils, nostrils, membraneous air-passages, and lungs about the same
+way. Croup exceeds by contracting the trachea enough to impede the
+passing of air to the lungs; diphtheria has more swelling of the
+tonsils, throat and glands of the neck, but all depend upon the same
+blood and nerve supply, or a general law of blood beginning with
+arteries to and from veins, lymphatics, glands and ducts to supply and
+take away all fluids that are of no farther use to the vital and
+material support. As all authors have agreed that the brain furnishes
+the propelling forces to the nerves, it would be proper to inquire how
+the brain is nourished. If so, we will begin and say the great cerebral
+system of arteries supply the brain of which it gives quality of all
+fluids and electric and magnetic forces, which must be generated in the
+brain. Then a question arises, if the heart, lungs, liver, pancreas,
+lymphatics, kidneys and all parts of the body depend upon the brain for
+power, what do they give in return? If they give back anything it must
+be of the kind of the organ from whence it comes; thus a kidney cannot
+give liver nor spleen. Each must help to keep up the universal harmony
+by furnishing its mite of its own kind. Suppose lung fever is the effect
+of lack of renal salts, where<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> would be a better place to dispatch from
+to renal organs than the ears to reach the brain and touch the nerve
+that connects with the sympathetic ganglion.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CERUMEN IN FLUID STATE.</h4>
+
+<p>Suppose we take the cerumen in its fluid state, by the secretions to the
+lungs from the ears and see the action of air and other substances on
+it, and it on them. We may safely look for a general action of some
+kind. If it be magnetic food, we will see the magnetic power shown in
+the lungs, and through the whole system, vitalizing all organs and
+functions of life. Thus the lymphatics will move to wash out impurities,
+and the nutritive nerves will rebuild lost energy. As but little is
+known or said of how or where the cerumen is formed, we will guess it is
+formed under the skin in the glands of the fascia and conveyed to the
+ears by the secretory ducts. Its place and how it is manufactured is not
+the question of the greatest importance, but its uses in disease and
+health.</p>
+
+
+<h4>WINTER KILLS BABIES.</h4>
+
+<p>The writer has much reason to believe he has found a reliable pointer
+for the cause of croup, diphtheria, and pneumonia; also a rational and
+easy cure that any mother can administer and save the babe from choking
+to death in her arms. Hav<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span>ing witnessed croup in all its deadly work for
+fifty years, and seen the best skill of each year and generation fail to
+save, or even give relief, I lost all hope and grew to believe there was
+no help and the doctor was only one more witness to the scene of death
+and carnage found along the mysterious road that croup travels to slay
+the babes of the whole earth. Of later days we have new and different
+names for the disease, but alas, it kills the babe just as it did before
+it was called diphtheria, la grippe and so on.</p>
+
+
+<h4>SOME ADVICE TO MOTHERS.</h4>
+
+<p>I write this more for the mothers than for the critics. We say to
+mothers, as you are not Osteopaths, you are perfectly safe in putting
+glycerine in a child's ears. It is made from oils and fats. I believe
+when the wax is not consumed it clogs up the excretories with dead
+matter, thus the irritation of the nerves of throat, neck, lungs and
+lymphatics which give cause for the swelling of the tonsils and glands
+of the neck. In this book can be found why I see wisdom in treating for
+croup from the nerve centers of the brain. So far the uses and
+importance of healthy ear-wax as a cure for disease has had no attention
+that I can find by any author on disease or physiology. I hope time and
+attention may lead us to a better<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> knowledge of the cure of diphtheria,
+croup, scarlet fever and all diseases of the throat and lungs of
+children, and how to cure a greater per cent than has been up to this
+writing. My experience up to date with such diseases, when treated as
+indicated, has been very encouraging. Though it is but a short time
+since I began to treat by this method, it has proven good with the young
+and old.</p>
+
+<p>As all authors so far seem silent even as to how or when the wax is
+formed, we must resort to much careful dissection to find the relation
+of the cerumen system to health. To intelligently acquaint the mother
+with this treatment who does not understand anatomy so as to give
+Osteopathic treatment for croup, diphtheria, and so on, I will say; take
+a soft wet cloth and wash the child's neck and rub gently down from ears
+to breast and shoulders; keep ears wet, often dropping in the glycerine.
+Use glycerine because it will mix with the water and dissolve the wax,
+while sweet oil and other oils will not do so.</p>
+
+
+<h4>A CASE IN POINT.</h4>
+
+<p>At 2 o'clock p. m. I called to see a babe having malignant croup in its
+worst form, and examined its ears to see condition of wax. I had noticed
+in consumptives that some cases had great quantities of dry wax in one
+or both ears, but to this time had not thought of such deposits being an
+evidence of lost<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> or suspended action of the nerves that manufactured
+cerumen. In this case I found wax dry and very hard, with much swelling
+and hardness in region of ears, eustachian tubes and tonsils. I reasoned
+that the excretory duct had become clogged, and that by the wax being
+retained in ducts and glands an irritation of the nerves of the cervical
+lymphatics had caused contraction near head, and produced congestion of
+the lymphatics, of the pneumogastric, and cutting off nerves supply from
+lungs. Believing this to be very likely I concluded to act on the above
+line of reasoning and see if I could give some relief. I did not stop to
+debate why the wax was hard and dry, but how to soften the wax, was the
+question of interest to me then. So I proceeded. I reasoned that soap
+and water would be the best treatment to clean the ears, and soften the
+wax. At this point to select the best make of soap in the ears was to be
+desired, so I took pure glycerine and water, dropped in a few drops and
+took a small roll of cloth, made it wet in warm water and pushed it in
+ears to keep them wet. In a few minutes I wet and inserted a soft cloth
+cork in the child's ears. I twisted the corks around in the ears, each
+time to mix the water and the wax to a softened condition, for to keep
+the wax wet was the object. In a few minutes I got the wax wet and the
+child coughed up phlegm easily, and when the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> dreaded hour, ten o'clock
+at night came, all danger had passed.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CONNECTION OF BRAIN AND OTHER NERVES IN DIGESTION.</h4>
+
+<p>If digestion is the effect of organs, fluids and forces, then the
+student of nature's law must be governed by well known truths, such as
+the location of the brain, connection of the nerves to other organs,
+bringing all parts interested in digestion in mental view. Thus you have
+a chance to know if one organ has an assisting relation to any other
+organ or system or if its products are of general or of special use. A
+few questions at this point of inquiry would be in place. Does the brain
+give assistance in digestion, and why may we reasonably suppose so, when
+digestion does its work normally and has a full, rich supply of blood?
+Yet disease enters the system, and begins its work with general
+weakness, swelling, wastings, and pain with some, or all the glands
+congested and sore, and a plenty of rich blood all the time. Then are we
+justified to go to the brain and examine the electric and magnetic
+batteries? We know such forces exist but as their location in the brain
+is not known farther than the fact of their existence, we do not know
+how they are fed, nor from where, so we are fully warranted in seeking a
+use for both powers&mdash;magnetic<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span> and electric. One says the power of
+electricity belongs more to the motor nerves and the magnetic to the
+nutrient system; if not they are happily blended and give the results.
+Without such forces life and motion could not be sustained. As it is not
+my object to write a treatise on general physiology, I will turn at once
+to the subject of the relation of life and health as affected by the
+abnormal supply and action of ear-wax.<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a></p>
+
+
+
+<h4>UNAIDED INVESTIGATION.</h4>
+
+<p>As our investigations are without the assistance of ancient or modern
+writers we will have to reason that man is a machine of form and power,
+forming its own parts and generating its own powers as it has use for
+them. At this time we begin to reason thus, that all powers are
+invisible and we see effect only. We know such forces to be abundant in
+nature, and life is sustained by them. To find the substances in the
+body that causes them to act and how to act, has been the object of my
+journey as an explorer. If they give us health when normal action
+prevails and disease only when<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span> abnormal, then we are admonished to form
+a more intimate acquaintance with the qualities, and with all the
+products, when formed in this great laboratory which compounds and
+qualifies each substance to fill its mission of force, construction,
+purity and action.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_V" id="CHAPTER_V"></a>CHAPTER V.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Diseases of the Chest.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Where Confined&mdash;Consumption&mdash;Can Consumption Be Cured&mdash;Consumption
+Described&mdash;No Time for Surrender&mdash;Cerebral Spinal Fluid&mdash;How to
+Destroy Deadly Bombs of Decay&mdash;Battle of Blood for Life&mdash;Militis
+Tuberculosis&mdash;Conversion of Bodies Into Gas&mdash;Forming a
+Tubercle&mdash;Breeding Contagion&mdash;The Seeds of Disease&mdash;Generating
+Fever&mdash;Whooping Cough&mdash;Clouds and Lungs Are Much Alike&mdash;The Wisdom
+of Nature&mdash;Water Formed in Lungs&mdash;The Law of Fives&mdash;Feeble Action
+of Heart&mdash;The Heart&mdash;From Neck to Heart&mdash;Dyspepsia or Imperfect
+Digestion. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>WHERE CONFINED.</h4>
+
+<p>Diseases of the chest are generally confined to heart, lungs, pleura,
+the pericardium, mediastium, blood vessels, with nerves and lymphatics.
+As we open the breast we behold the heart, a very large machine or
+engine, situated conveniently to throw blood to all parts of the body.
+To it we see hose or pipes that go to each organ, all muscles, the
+stomach, bowels, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder and womb, all bones,
+fibers, ligaments, membranes, and its body, lungs and brain. When we
+follow this blood through its whole journey to feed the dependent parts,
+be they organ or muscle, we find just enough unloaded at each station to
+supply the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span> demand as fast as consumed. Thus life is supplied at each
+stroke of the heart, which gives blood to keep digestion in full motion
+while other supplies of blood are being made and put in channels to
+carry to the heart, blood is freely given to keep those channels strong,
+clean and active. Thus much depends on the heart, and great care should
+be given to that study, because a healthy system depends almost wholly
+on a normal heart and lung. Thus to study well the frame work of the
+chest should be with the greatest care. Every joint of the neck and
+spine has much to do with a healthy heart and lung, because all vital
+fluids from crown to sacrum do or have passed through heart and lungs,
+and any slip of bone, strain or bruise will affect to some degree the
+usefulness of that fluid in its vitality, when appropriated in the place
+or organ it should sustain in a good healthy state. To the Osteopath,
+his first and last duty is to look well to a healthy blood and nerve
+supply. He should let his eye camp day and night on the spinal column;
+to know if the bones articulate truly in all facets and other bearings,
+and never rest day or night until he knows the spine is true and in line
+from atlas to sacrum, with all ribs known to be in perfect union with
+processes of spine. In reasoning for probable causes of diseases of
+chest, we are met with the fact that the heart and lungs are housed up,
+and out of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span> reach of the hand and eye. We hear a cough, see blood and
+other substances after they pass out of the lungs; we learn of general
+and local pain and misery, feel heat and cold on skin, note abnormal
+breathing, but here we are at a stop, for want of facts. We know
+something is wrong, but cannot say what, until after death has done the
+work, then we open the chest and find tubercles, cancers, ulcers and
+abcesses. How came they there? is the unanswered question. The servant
+of that breast who failed to keep his room clean, is the one to find and
+punish.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CONSUMPTION.</h4>
+
+<p>I believe so much death by consumption will soon be with the things of
+the past, if the cases are taken early and handled by a skilled
+mind,&mdash;one trained for that responsible place. He or she must be taught
+this as a special branch. It is too deep for superficial knowledge or
+imperfect work. Life is in danger, and can be saved by skill, not by
+force and ignorance. He who sees only the dollar in the lung, is not the
+man to trust with your case.</p>
+
+<p>It is such men as have the ability to think, and the skill to comprehend
+and execute the application of nature's unerring laws, that obtain the
+results required. We believe the day has come, and long before noon, the
+fear of consumption will greatly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> pass from the minds of people. We have
+long since known and proven that a cough is only an effect. If an effect
+then a wise man will set his mental dogs on the track, which is (effect)
+to hunt the skunk, (cause). He has all the evidence by the cough,
+location of pain, tenderness of spine, neck, and quality of the
+substances coughed up to locate the cause, and to know, when he has
+found it, how to remove the cause, and give relief; will grow more
+simple as he reasons and notes effect. We do not think this result will
+be obtained every time by even an average mind, unless he has a special
+training for that purpose. He must not only know that the lungs are in
+the upper part of the chest close to the heart, liver and stomach, but
+he must know the relation all sustain to each other, that the blood must
+be abundantly supplied, support and nourish three sets of nerves, namely
+sensory, motor and nutrient; also voluntary and involuntary. If the
+supply should be diminished on the nutrient nerves, weakness would
+follow; reduce the supply from the motor and it will have the same
+effect. Motion becomes too feeble to carry blood to and from lungs
+normally, and the blood becomes diseased and congested, because it is
+not passed on to other parts with the force necessary for health of
+lungs.</p>
+
+<p>At this time the nerves of sensation become irritated by pressure and
+lack of nutriment, and we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span> cough, which is an effort of nature to unload
+the burden of oppression that congestion causes with sensory nerves. If
+this be effect, then we must suffer and die, or remove the cause, put
+out the fire and stop waste of life, without which all is lost. Nature
+will do its work of repairing in due time. Let us reason by comparison.
+If we dislocate a shoulder, fever and heat will follow. The same is true
+of all limbs and joints of the body. If any obstructing blood or other
+fluid should be deposited in quantities great enough to stop other
+fluids from passing on their way, Nature will fire up its engine to
+remove such deposits by converting fluids into gas. As heat and motion
+have much to do as remedies, we may expect fever and pain until nature's
+furnace produces heat, forms and converts its fluids into gas and other
+deposits, and passes them through the excretories to space, and allows
+the body to work normally again.</p>
+
+
+<h4>HOW CONSUMPTION USUALLY BEGINS.</h4>
+
+<p>We believe consumption causes the death of thousands annually who might
+be saved. We must not let stupidity veil our reason, and we are to blame
+if we let so many run into "Consumption" from a simple hard cough. The
+remedy is natural, and we believe from results already obtained 75 per
+cent can be cured if taken in time. What we generally<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span> call
+"Consumption" begins with a cough, chilly sensations, and lasts a day or
+two. Sometimes fever accompanies with cough, either high or low. The
+cold generally relaxes in a few days, lungs get "loose," and much is
+raised and continues for a period, but the cough appears again and again
+with all changes of weather, and lasts longer each time, until it
+becomes permanent, then it is called "Consumption," because of this
+continuance. Medicines are administered freely and often, but the lungs
+grow worse, cough more continued and much harder, till finally blood
+begins to come from lungs with wasting of strength. Change of climate is
+suggested and taken, but with no change for the better; another and
+another travels to death on the same line. Then the doctor in council
+reports "hereditary consumption" and with his decision all are
+satisfied, and each member of the family feels that a cold and cough
+means a coffin, because the doctor says the family has "hereditary
+consumption." This shade tree has given comfort and contentment to the
+doctors of the whole past.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CAN CONSUMPTION BE CURED?</h4>
+
+<p>If you have a tiresome and weakening cough at the close of the winter,
+and wish to be cured, we would advise you to begin Osteopathic treatment
+at once, so the lungs can heal and harden against next winter's attack.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>This is the first I have written on "Consumption" because I wanted to
+test my conclusions by long and careful observations on cases that I
+have taken and successfully treated. I kept the results from public
+print until I could obtain positive proof that "Consumption" could be
+cured. So far the discovered causes give me little doubt, and the cures
+are a certainty in very many cases. An early beginning is one of the
+great considerations in incipient consumption.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CONSUMPTION DESCRIBED.</h4>
+
+<p>For fear you do not understand what I mean by "Consumption" I will write
+on a descriptive line quite pointedly. I will give start and progress to
+fully developed consumption. We often meet with cases of permanent
+cough, with expectorations of long duration, dating back two, five, ten,
+even thirty years, to the time they had measles. The severity of the
+cough and strain had congested even the lung substances, and a chronic
+inflammation was the result. If we analyze the sputa we find fibrin and
+even lung muscle. Does all this array of dangerous symptoms cause an
+Osteopath to give up in despair? It should not, on the other hand he
+should go deeper on the hunt of cause. He may find trouble in nerve
+fiber of pneumogastric nerve, atlas or hyoid, vertebra, rib, or
+clavicle, may be by<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> pressing on some nerve that supplies mucous
+membrane of air cells or passages. A cut foot will often produce
+lockjaw, why not a pressure on some center branch or nerve fiber cause
+some division&mdash;nerve of the lungs that governs venous circulation which
+would contract and hold blood indefinitely as an irritant, equal to
+cause, perpetual coughing?</p>
+
+
+<h4>NO TIME FOR SURRENDER.</h4>
+
+<p>This is not the time for the brainy Osteopath to run up the white flag
+of defeat and surrender. Open the doors of your purest reason, put on
+the belt of energy and unload the sinking vessel of life. Throw
+overboard all dead weights from fascia and wake up the forces of the
+excretories. Let the nerves all show their powers to throw out every
+weight that would sink or reduce the vital energies of nature. Give them
+a chance to work, give them the full nourishment and the victory will be
+on the side of the intelligent engineer. Never surrender but die in the
+last ditch.</p>
+
+<p>Let us enter the field of active exploration and note the causes that
+would lead us to conclude we have the cause that produces "consumption"
+as it has ever been called.</p>
+
+<p>Begin at the brain, go down the ladder of observation, stop and whet
+your knives of mental steel sharp, get your nerves quiet by the opium
+of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span> patience. Begin with the atlas, follow with the search-light of
+quickened reason, comb back your hair of mental strength, and never
+leave that bone till you have learned how many nerves pass through and
+around that wisely formed first part of the neck. Remember it was
+planned and builded by the mind and hand of the infinite. See what nerve
+fibers passes through and on to the base center, and each minute cell,
+fascia, gland and blood vessel of the lungs. Do you not know that each
+nerve fiber to its place is king and lord of all?</p>
+
+
+<h4>CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID.</h4>
+
+<p>I think consumption begins by closing the channels of cerebro-spinal
+fluid in neck, which fluid stands as one of, if not the most highly
+refined elements in animal bodies. Its fineness would indicate that it
+is a substance that must be delivered in full supply continually to keep
+health normal; if so, we will for experimental reasons look at the neck
+ligated, as found in measles, croup, colds and eruptive fevers. Supply
+is stopped from passing below atlas for three days. During such diseases
+fever runs high at this time and dries up the albumen, giving cause for
+tubercles to begin, as fever has dried out the water and left the
+albumen in small deposits in the lungs, liver, kidneys and bowels. If
+this view of the great uses of brain fluid is true as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> cause of
+glandular growths and other dead deposits; have we not a cause for
+militis tuberculosis? Have we not encouragement to prosecute with
+interest, in the hope of an answer to the question, "What is
+tuberculosis?" Our writers are just as much at sea to-day as a thousand
+years ago. I will give the reader some of the reasons why I think the
+mischief was started while fluid was cut off by congestion of neck. How
+can the fluid be cut off at neck is a very natural question. By the
+crudest method of reasoning we would conclude that from the form of the
+neck, many objects are indicated, and the material of which it is
+composed would give reason to turn all its powers of thought, to ask why
+it is so formed, as to twist, bend, straighten, stiffen and relax at
+will, to suit so many purposes? A very tough skin&mdash;a sheathe&mdash;surrounds
+the neck with blood vessels, nerves, muscles, bones, ligaments, fascia,
+glands great and small, throat and trachea. In bones we find a great
+canal for spinal cord. It is well and powerfully protected by a strong
+wall of bone, so no outer pressure can obstruct the flow of passing
+fluids, to keep vitality supplied by brain forces, but with all the
+guards given to protect the cord, we find that it can be overcome by
+impact fluids to such degree as to stop blood and other fluids from
+supplying lungs and all below.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The fluid we speak of comes from the skull, and when in process of
+formation must not be disturbed until it has passed through all chances
+of being injured by force, air or light. Thus the great need of walls to
+hold the enemy outside the safety line. Such truths surely should
+attract our attention when we explore for causes. We can analyze
+material bodies but we have to stop at the life line for more knowledge.
+Our boats have been in port over 6000 years, waiting for knowledge about
+the whats and whys of life, until barnacles of ignorance have
+accumulated to such thickness that the conchologist has called that cake
+of shells "allopathy" which weighed anchor and turned to the great sea
+of human credulity to expound, with nothing but conjectures to offer. He
+toots his fog-horn in all lands and on all seas, and says, "age before
+reason." Thus one generation blindly follows another.</p>
+
+
+<h4>HOW TO DESTROY DEADLY BOMBS OF DECAY.</h4>
+
+<p>I think by this time the reader has gotten his mind in line with his
+exploring needle of thought to get some light or knowledge of why a
+growth and how a body that has never failed for few or many years,
+begins and continues to form and plant deadly bombs of decay in that
+once powerful engine of perfect health, to produce suicide. We see and
+know this to be the case in thousands of beings<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span> annually, and this same
+question is just as applicable to the herds of animals as to man. Thus
+we cry piteously for help, but no answer has come in past days; we go on
+and give place in lungs and other parts of the deadly tubercle. But one
+answer can be given in "Holy Writ" to suit these questions, "Cleanliness
+is next to Godliness." Turn the waters of life loose at the brain,
+remove all hindrances and the work will be done, and give us the eternal
+legacy, <span class="smcap">LONGEVITY</span>.</p>
+
+
+<h4>BATTLE OF BLOOD FOR LIFE.</h4>
+
+<p>In America from the day of Washington and all centuries before his time,
+man has dreaded diseases of the lungs more universally than any other
+one disease. If we compare pulmonary diseases with other maladies we
+find more persons die of consumption, pneumonia, bronchitis and nervous
+coughs than from smallpox, typhus and bilious fever and all other fevers
+combined. Many diseases of contagious natures do not stay in city, town,
+country nor an army, but a short time; kills a few and disappears and
+may not return for many years. The same is the history of yellow fever,
+cholera and other epidemics. They slay their hundreds and stop as
+unceremoniously as they began. But when we think of diseases that begin
+to show their effects in tonsils, trachea and lining mem<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span>branes of the
+air passages, we find we are in a boundless ocean; because we find all
+seasons of the year, which afford changes of weather: Wet, dry, windy,
+hot and cold, which mark 30&deg; to 60&deg; in twenty-four hours, chills the
+lungs and whole system, closes the excretory system against renovating
+equal to deposits, with all other chances to throw out dead matter and
+gases that destroy blood and life in proportion to the amount and time
+of abnormal retention.</p>
+
+<p>It takes no great mind to know from past observation that a common cold
+often holds on and settles down to chronic inflammation of the lungs,
+and the patient dies of consumption, croup, diphtheria, tonsilitis, and
+as catarrhal trouble stays and begins to waste vitality by failing to
+oxygenize blood while in the lungs, diphtheria paves the way for the
+young and old to die of consumption. Dance halls, opera houses,
+churches, school houses, and all crowded assemblies never fail to
+inspect and deposit the seeds of consumption in weak lungs.</p>
+
+<p>As one delves deeper and deeper into the machinery and exacting laws of
+life, he beholds works and workings of contented laborers of all parts
+of the one common whole&mdash;the great shafts and pillars of an engine
+working to the fullness of the meaning of perfection. He sees that great
+quarter-master the heart, pouring in and loading train after<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span> train and
+giving orders to the wagon-master to line his teams and march on quick
+time to all divisions, supply all companies, squads and sections with
+rations, clothing, ammunition, surgeons, splints and bandages, and put
+all the dead and wounded into the ambulances to be repaired or buried
+with military honors by Captain "<span class="smcap">Vein</span>," who fearlessly penetrates the
+densest bones, muscles and glands, with the living waters to quench the
+thirst of the blue corpuscles, who are worn out by doing fatigue duty in
+the great combat between life and death. He often has to run his trains
+on forced marches to get supplies to sustain his men of life when they
+have had to contend with long sieges of heat and cold. Of all officers
+of life, none have greater duties to perform than the quarter-master of
+blood supply, who borrows the force with which he runs his deliveries
+from the brain which give motion to all parts of active life.</p>
+
+
+<h4>MILITIS TUBERCULOSIS.</h4>
+
+<p>A tubercle is a separate body being enveloped.<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a></p>
+
+
+
+<p>As all descriptions of a tubercle in books amount to about this, that
+the tubercle is an amount of fleshy substance which may be albumen,
+fibrin, or any other substance collected and deposited at one place in
+the human body, and covered with a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span> film composed generally of fibrinous
+substances, and deposited in its spherical form, and separated from all
+similarly formed spheres by fascia. They may be very numerous, for many
+hundreds may occupy one cubic inch and yet one is distinct from all
+others. They seem to develop only where fascia is abundant; in the
+lungs, liver, bowels and skin. After formation they may exist and show
+nothing but roughened surfaces, and when the period of dissolution and
+the solvent powers of the chemical laboratory take possession to banish
+them from the system, it generally begins its labors at such time as
+some catarrhal disease is preying upon the human system. Nature seems to
+make its first effort for the purpose of disposing of such substances as
+have accumulated at the catarrhal period. At which time it brings
+forward all the solvent qualities and applies them with the assistance
+of the motor force to drive out through the bowels, lungs, porous and
+excretory system all irritable substances. Electricity is called in as
+the motor force to be used in expelling all unkindly substances. By this
+effort of nature, which is an increased action of the motor nerves,
+electricity is brought to the degree of heat usually called fever, which
+if better understood we would possibly find to be the necessary heat of
+the furnace of the body being used to convert dead substances into gas
+which can<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span> travel through the excretory system and be thrown from the
+body much easier than water, lymph, albumen or fibrin.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CONVERSION OF BODIES INTO GAS.</h4>
+
+<p>During this process of gas burning, a very high temperature is obtained
+by the increased action of the arterial system through the motor nerves,
+permeating those tubercles and causing an inflammation of them by the
+gaseous disturbance so produced; another effort of nature to convert
+those tubercles into gas and relieve the body of their presence and
+irritable occupancy.</p>
+
+<p>As an illustration we will ask the reader if it would be reasonable to
+expect to pass a common towel through a pipe stem. Nevertheless nature
+can easily do it. Confine the towel in a cylinder and apply fire, which
+in time will convert the towel into gas or smoke, and enable it to pass
+through the stem. Is it not just as reasonable to suppose those high
+temperatures of the body are nature's furnaces, making fires out of
+those dead bodies, while passing them through the skin in order to get
+rid of these great and small towels which are packed all through the
+human fascia, and can only be passed from the body in a gaseous form;
+the gas generated by heat.</p>
+
+<p>The blackened eye of the pugilist soon fires up<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span> its furnaces and
+proceeds to generate gas from the dead blood that surrounds the eye.
+Though it may be considerable quantities under the skin, the blood soon
+disappears leaving the face and eye normal to all appearances. No pus
+has formed, nor deposit left, fever disappears, the eye is well. What
+better effort could nature offer than through its gas generating
+furnace. I will leave any other method for you to discover. I know of
+none that my reason can grasp.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FORMING A TUBERCLE.</h4>
+
+<p>When reason sees a white corpuscle in the fascia not taken up as a
+nutrient, it attaches itself to the fascia with all its uterine powers
+during the time of measles or other eruptive diseases, and soon takes
+form and is a vital and durable being whose name is tubercle; in form a
+sphere, and place of f&oelig;tal life is a cell in the fascia of life
+giving power to all forms of flesh. Thus all tubercles are
+unappropriated substances whom mother fascia has clothed and ordered in
+camp for treatment and repairs, and placed them on the list of enrolled
+pensioners, to draw on the treasury of the fascia, until death shall
+discharge them.</p>
+
+
+<h4>BREEDING CONTAGION.</h4>
+
+<p>The mothers of the human race give birth to children from puberty to
+sterility. She may give<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span> birth a dozen times, but nature finally calls a
+halt, and the whole system of life sustaining nerves of the womb which
+are in the fascia, with blood in great abundance to supply f&oelig;tal
+life, ceases to go farther with the processes of building beings.
+Vitality for that purpose stops, never to return. Nature has no longer a
+demand for her system to act as a constructing cause for other beings,
+of her kind, and she is free the remainder of her days.</p>
+
+<p>A question arises. Are children all she can develop in her system and
+give birth to? No, she can go through other processes of breeding. In
+her fascia there is one seed, if vitalized will develop a being called
+measles. She never has but one confinement. That set of nerves that gave
+support and growth to measles died in the delivery of the child, and
+never can conceive and produce any more measles. Another seed lives in
+her fascia waiting to be vitalized by the male principle of smallpox,
+and when it is born it always kills the nerves that gave it life and
+form. And the person never can have but one such child or being during
+life.</p>
+
+<p>Still another seed awaits the coming of the commissary to nourish while
+it consumes that vitality in the fascia of the glands to develop the
+portly child we call mumps. Both male and female conceive and give birth
+to such beings, then tear up<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span> the tracks and roads behind them, by
+killing the demand for such drink.</p>
+
+<p>I want to draw the mind of the reader to the fact that no being can be
+formed without material. A place in which to be developed, and all
+forces necessary to do the needed work. And as all excressences and
+abnormal growths, diseases and conditions, must have the friendly
+assistance of the fascia before development; the fascia is the place to
+look for cause of disease and the place to consult and begin the action
+of remedies in all diseases, even though it be the birth of a child.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE SEEDS OF DISEASE.</h4>
+
+<p>We can arrive at truth only by the powerful rules of reason, so the
+philosopher has shouted from the house tops of all ages. He adjusts his
+many supposable causes, adds to and subtracts until he arrives at a
+conclusion based upon the facts of his observations. Knowing the
+principles that exist in substances and seeds, by which when associated
+with proper conditions that powerful engine known as animal life gives
+the truth with fact and motion as its voucher. We reason, if corn be
+planted in moist and warm earth, that action and growth will present the
+form of a living stalk of corn, which has existed in embryo, and still
+continues its vital actions as long as the proper conditions prevail, i.
+e., until<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span> the growth and development is completed. If you take a seed
+in your fingers, push it in the ground and cover it up, incubation,
+growth and development is expected in obedience to the law under which
+it serves. Thus we see to succeed we must deposit and cover up the seed
+in order that the laws of gestation may have an opportunity by which
+they get the results desired. As nature always presents itself to our
+minds as seeds deposited in soil and season to suit, and it is loyal to
+its own laws only, we are constrained by this method of reasoning to
+conclude that disease must have a soil in which to plant its seeds
+before gestation and development. It must have seasonable conditions,
+the rains of nourishment, also the necessary time required for such
+processes. All these laws must be fulfilled to the letter, otherwise a
+failure is absolute. As the great laboratory of nature is always at work
+in the human body, the chilling winds and poisonous breaths, with
+extremes of heat and cold at different seasons of the year by day and
+night, and the lungs and skin are continually secreting and excreting
+every minute, hour and day of our lives, is it not reasonable to suppose
+that we inhale many elements that are floating in the common winds that
+contain the seeds of some destructive element, to the harmony of fluids
+that are necessary to sustain the healthy animal forms.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>GENERATING FEVER.</h4>
+
+<p>Suppose it should start the yeast, or kind of substance that lives
+greatly upon lime. If this yeast in its action and thirst for food to
+suit its life and appetite should call in from the earth, water and
+atmosphere for its daily food lime substances only, and by its power
+destroy all other principles taken as nourishment, is it not reasonable
+to suppose it would deposit such elements in over powering quantities in
+the fascia of the mucous membrane of the lungs in such quantities, as to
+overcome the renovating powers of the lungs and excretory system, by its
+paralyzing quantities of diseased fluids, all through the universal
+fascia of animal life. This deposit acts as an irritant to the sensory
+nerves to such an extent that the electricity of the motor nerves is
+forced to take charge of, and run the machinery of the human body, with
+such velocity as to raise the temperature of the body, by putting the
+electricity above the normal action of animal life, and thereby generate
+that temperature known as fever?</p>
+
+<p>The two extremes, heat and cold, may be the causes of retention and
+detention. One is detained by the contraction of cold until the blood
+and other fluids die by asphyxia. The warm temperature produces
+relaxation of the nerves, blood, and all other vessels of the fascia,
+during which time the arter<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span>ies are injecting too great quantities of
+fluids to be renovated by the excretory systems. Thus you have a cause
+for decomposition of the blood and other substances, to be conveyed to
+the lungs for purification and renewal. You have a logical foundation
+and a cause for all diseases, catarrhal, climatic, contagions,
+infections, and epidemics. The fascia proves itself to be the probable
+matrix of life and death. Beginning with the mucous membrane penetrating
+all parts to supply and renovate the fluids of life, and nourishing all
+the nerves of nutrition and assimilation. When harmonious in normal
+action, health is good; when perverted, disease is destructive unto
+death.</p>
+
+
+<h4>WHOOPING COUGH.</h4>
+
+<p>I have perused all the authority obtainable, advised with and counciled
+for information in reference to the cause of whooping cough until I am
+constrained to think, whether I say so or not, that I have had many
+additions of words during the conversation, and to use a homely phrase,
+less sense than I started out with. My tongue is tired, my brain
+exhausted, my hopes disappointed and my mind disgusted, that after so
+much effort to obtain some positive knowledge of the disease in
+question, which is whooping cough, that I have received nothing that
+would give me any light whatever pertaining to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span> subject. It winds up
+thus, that it may be a germ that irritates the pneumogastric nerve. I go
+off as blank and empty as the fish lakes on the moon. I supposed writers
+would say something in reference to the irritating influence of this
+disease on the nerves and muscles that would contract or convulsively
+shorten the muscles that attach at the one end to the os hyoid, and at
+the other end at various points along the neck, and force the hyoid back
+against the pneumogastric nerve, hypoglossal, cervical, or some other
+nerve that would be irritated by such pressure on nerves by the os
+hyoid, when pulled back and held against such nerves. The above picture
+will give the reader some idea why I became so thoroughly disgusted with
+the heaps of compiled trash. I say trash because there was not a single
+truth, great or small, to guide me in search of the desired knowledge.
+And at this point I will say on my first exploration I found all of the
+nerves and muscles that attach to the os hyoid at any point contracted,
+shortened and pulling the hyoid back to and pressing against the
+pneumogastric nerve, and all the nerves in that vicinity. Also each and
+every muscle was in a hard and contracted condition in the region of
+this portion of the trachea, and extended up and into the back part of
+the tongue. Then I satisfied myself that this irritable condition of the
+muscles was possibly the cause of the spasms<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> of the trachea during the
+convulsive cough. I proceeded at once with my hand guided by my judgment
+to suspend or stop for awhile the action of the nerves of sensation that
+go with and control the muscles of the machinery which conducts air to
+and from the lungs. That my first effort while acting upon this
+philosophy was a complete relaxation of all muscles and fibers of that
+part of the neck, and when they relaxed their hold upon the respiratory
+machinery the breathing became normal. I have been asked what bone I
+would pull when treating whooping cough? My answer would be, the bones
+that held by attachment the muscles of the hyoid system in such
+irritable condition that begin with the atlas and terminate with the
+sacrum. To him who has been a willing student of the American School of
+Osteopathy the successful management of whooping cough should be
+absolute, reliable and successful in all cases, when taken for treatment
+in anything like, a reasonable time.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CLOUDS AND LUNGS ARE MUCH ALIKE.</h4>
+
+<p>One is always the same in form and stays in the body of animals, while
+the clouds, the lungs of the sky, are never the same in form. They are
+sometimes very dense and separated from all others. Such are more
+furious in display. Then we see the softer clouds which cover all
+visible space above;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span> they too give us rain but in a more quiet way and
+are more extended in space; they shade the sun, and form water by
+uniting oxygen and hydrogen, and supply vegetation and all demands for
+water. Now we see and know the uses for the clouds or lungs of the sky,
+and we are led to hunt and locate the water forming clouds of the animal
+beings. As we behold above us the forming clouds we see great activity,
+with darkness and attending shadows, without such shadows or darkness no
+rain can form.</p>
+
+<p>The lung of man, too, is in the shade, and surely like the clouds have
+much to do with the air which contains both gases, which compose water
+and other elements of life. With my power of reasoning, if the lungs do
+not generate water and supply the human system through the secretions to
+sustain life, and keep the body clean and healthy by the excretories, I
+am at a loss to know why so much wind is taken into the body just to
+blow out. One would say we live by the wind, and to cut it off we die.
+At this point I will ask the question, Where and how do fishes get their
+wind? If they can live on oxygen and hydrogen when united in the form of
+water, is not this the strongest conclusion we can come to that the
+lungs generate water of a purer quality than is found in the running
+brooks or ocean?</p>
+
+<p>Is it not reasonable to suppose that in the lungs<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span> can be found the
+fountain from which water is conveyed to the lymphatics and other parts
+of the body, to mix with the blood and keep it in proper condition while
+in construction and processes of renovation? Then if this be true, have
+we not established and located the fountain head and supply of the
+nutrient waters of life? If so are we not justified in going to that
+fountain for water to extinguish a fire that is consuming the body,
+which we call fever? This heat never appears until the water supplying
+the lymphatics is very much exhausted, previous to this exhibition of
+heat; which the chemist would conclude was the result of the action of
+phosphorous uniting with oxygen without hydrogen.</p>
+
+<p>We as philosophical machinists, to extinguish this fire by every method
+of reason, would be forced to go to the lungs, and place them in a
+condition that they can generate water at once and supply the excretory
+ducts, which will at the first pulsation of the heart throw water upon
+the consuming fire, and extinguish it by uniting oxygen with hydrogen,
+and cover the burning building with water by disabling the power of
+phosphorous and oxygen from uniting and keeping up the flames of
+destruction.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE WISDOM OF NATURE.</h4>
+
+<p>For all my life previous to the day I spoke out with my conclusions of
+the wisdom of nature as a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span> very wise and careful mechanic, I had been
+told that "God" was wise to a finish,&mdash;from my birth until I was
+thirty-five years old,&mdash;when I saw that all work done by that law of
+power and wisdom was absolutely perfect in all its requirements. In
+vegetable life no power of human can detect a flaw or even suggest an
+additional leaf, limb or fruit. I had made a long study of minerology in
+which I found each stone or mettle was in a division of life that was
+its own, and no other stone could appear dressed in its garb, from the
+black silurian to the purely transparent crystal. I saw that a diamond
+could not be a ruby, neither could it be an oak, a goose nor a goat.
+With all the teaching which had given God credit for his perfect
+construction, wisdom and ability in all nature, I reasoned that in
+parching seasons that the sun's fires were put out, and a feverish earth
+cooled by the falling dews of the clouds. I asked of my own reason if
+there was not a cloud of water in the human body that could be caused to
+drop its dews, put out the fires of fever, and save the forests of life
+that were being burned every fall season.</p>
+
+
+<h4>WATER FORMED IN LUNGS.</h4>
+
+<p>I reasoned that water was made by the union of two gases, hydrogen and
+oxygen,&mdash;then a question arose, Is it not fully in line with reason that
+union<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span> of the two gases can and does occur in the lungs and form water,
+that is taken up by the secretions carried to the lymphatics, and by
+them to all of the system and stored away for use? Thus I reasoned, and
+proceeded to seek nerve centers to cause the lymphatics to discharge
+this water on such places and in quantities sufficient to reduce the
+heat called fever. I succeeded, fevers vanished as with a magic touch,
+and left the persons, both old and young, in their normal temperatures
+without any difference as to kinds of fever to the complete list.</p>
+
+<p>Our lungs are surely the half-way place between life and death. We are
+told by chemistry that two gases make water for the uses of the body. Is
+it not true that nature makes water in great quantities often for
+special cases or conditions, for relief purposes, such as in asiatic
+cholera, cholera morbus, chills and fever; when the contents of stomach,
+bowels and skin run off many gallons of water, running through sheet and
+mattress and on floor, not from kidneys but skin. Is it not plain to the
+man of reason that the two gases, oxygen and hydrogen, do unite in the
+lungs, form water and give supply to this great river of water that
+washes life out in but a few hours in cases of cholera and other
+diseases. The person is very cold at such times, breath and lung far
+below<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span> the normal, and fully enough to condense gases to water.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE LAW OF FIVES.</h4>
+
+<p>Lungs have five lobes, three on right lung, and two on left. Liver has
+five lobes, three on right lobe, and two on left lobe. Nerves have five
+qualities, nutrition, sensation, motion, voluntary and involuntary.
+Nerves have five senses, seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting.
+Since all principles differ in qualities or kinds of service, would it
+be amiss for us to inquire a little farther why the lungs and liver are
+provided with five divisions each, if not to do five kinds of work, and
+different from all other kinds in many ways?</p>
+
+
+<h4>FEEBLE ACTION OF HEART.</h4>
+
+<p>I want to draw your attention to the facts that there is no method known
+by which electricity or magnetic forces can be weighed. When we find the
+nerves that connect the heart and lungs to brain limited by pressure
+from twist or slip of neck, do we not see cause for croup? How would we
+reason to convey electricity without a connected wire? Not at all, we
+would know no electric force could reach to any point unless a continued
+connection was made. Now to the point; suppose the vagus nerve should be
+oppressed to a condition to cut off part of the electricity, would we be
+surprised if the heart<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span> should be feeble in action. I think much of the
+diseases of the "<i>heart</i>" are not of the organ but from a feeble supply
+of electricity that is cut off in medulla or heart nerves, between heart
+and brain. Why singing and roaring of ears in heart diseases, if there
+is no waste of pectoral electricity?</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE HEART.</h4>
+
+<p>With the knife of reason in hand and the microscope of mind of the
+greatest known power properly adjusted, we cut and lay open the breast
+of man. Here we dwell indefinitely. This is the engine of life, the
+self-propelling machine which has constructed all that is necessary to
+its own convenience and comfort. It has brought and deposited its own
+nourishment in the coronary arteries, whose duty is to construct and
+enlarge the heart from time to time as its demands increase. We see its
+main trunk of supply placed lengthways with the spinal column for the
+purpose of constructing a manufactory of nutriment. We pass from the
+heart upward about one foot, here we find it has constructed a battery
+of force and sensation, and contains all power necessary to carry on
+construction to the completed man.</p>
+
+<p>In that brain or battery is found all the motor and sensory elements of
+life, with nerves to transmit all nerve powers and principles found in
+the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span> human body. There is not a known atom in the whole human make-up
+that has not been propelled by the heart through the channels by which
+it has provided for such purpose. Every muscle, bone, hair, and all
+other parts without an exception have traveled through this system of
+arteries to their separate destinations. All are indebted to the heart
+for their material size, and all qualities of motion and life sustaining
+principles of the human body.</p>
+
+<p>If the carotid artery should tire out and not be able to perform its
+duty the brain would tire out also, and cease to operate. Should the
+descending aorta come to a halt from any cause, all parts of the body
+depending upon that vessel would suffer a total loss of blood supply.
+Equally so with any other principal artery of limb or body, all mark a
+failure equal to the suspended supply. The parts and principles of the
+human body depending upon the heart are numerous beyond computation.
+Every expulsive stroke of the heart throws into line armed and equipped
+for duty thousands and millions of operators, whose duties are to
+inspect, repair injuries and construct anew if need be from the crown of
+the head to the sole of the foot. With the best eye of reason we see but
+dimly into the breast of man which contains the heart, the wonder of man
+and the secret of life.</p>
+
+<p>I have given these bulky descriptions of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span> forest and ocean to
+prepare the mind of man to begin the inspection of the machinery that
+has constructed the body of which he is the indweller. If we cannot
+swallow all, we can taste.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM NECK TO HEART.</h4>
+
+<p>The hearts of all animals should call the most careful attention of the
+student of nature. He finds in it the first act of life; from it go all
+parts or by it all parts of the body are made, and the student of nature
+soon learns that at the heart he finds the first evidence of the power
+of life to continue and give useful shape to matter. Its first work is
+to complete itself in material form with necessary chambers to hold
+blood and with tubes to convey to all places of need. He sees vessels
+leaving the heart to form brain, lungs, liver, trunk and limbs, and with
+each and all he can see the nerves of motion, sensation, nutrition, the
+voluntary and involuntary&mdash;all working in perfect harmony and content to
+do their part in the economy of life. Without that union in action a
+confusion will show in form of abnormality which is known as disease. On
+its work all nerves do depend for force and strength to build and
+renovate the body in all its bones, muscles and nerves&mdash;thus all
+channels to and from the heart must be cleared from all hindrance. No
+nerve can do its part unless<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span> it be well nourished. If not it will fail
+to execute its part for want of power&mdash;for by it all blood must move.
+These nerves are found in plexuses in all parts of the body; they are
+abundant in the skin, fascia, muscle, lymphatics and all organs great
+and small. The Osteopath must know or learn that no infringement can be
+tolerated in any part. Nature's demands are surely absolute, and require
+that the last farthing shall be paid in full. Now for a start&mdash;we will
+explore the neck; here we have the great and small occipital and the
+cervical group all receiving from the brain and feeding parts below.
+Thus we must stop at the neck and read the lessons that can be found
+there, and learn them well; or we will find that we will not be able to
+meet diseases only to be defeated. We must have the fight during the
+four seasons of the year. In the cold seasons we will find lung and
+other diseases&mdash;croup, pneumonia, diphtheria, sore throat. All these do
+their mischief through the nerves of the neck.</p>
+
+<p>Where is or who is the great thinker who knows and can tell all of the
+duties and actions of the nerves of the neck, or what nerve failed and
+slept while a tubercle was formed in the lungs? Which nerve slept while
+fat is heaped up in useless piles in the body? Let us wake up!
+Consumption does not come without a cause. What plexus is overcome and
+allows the lungs to waste away? To<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span> what ganglion of the spine would the
+finger of reason point, and say, "that is the cause of <i>phthisis
+pulmonalis</i>?" In our search we find a division of nerves run from the
+brain through the regions of the neck, and find a point at which a
+branch leaves a greater nerve on a line that leads to the lungs. We will
+likely find a ganglion at which place all or much of one or both lungs
+are supplied. Then we, by reason, would see that freedom of action
+cannot be. If some substance should intrude by pressure on any nerve in
+that region, we must judge by conditions if that pressure has cut off
+nutrition equal to feeble condition of the lungs.</p>
+
+
+<h4>DYSPEPSIA OR IMPERFECT DIGESTION.</h4>
+
+<p>In our physiologies we read much about digestion. We will start in where
+they stop. They bring us to the lungs with chyle fresh as made and
+placed in thoracic duct, previous to flowing into the heart to be
+transferred to lungs to be purified, charged with oxygen and otherwise
+qualified, and sent off for duty, through the arteries great and small,
+to the various parts of the system. But there is nothing said of the
+time when all blood is gas (if ever) before it is taken up by the
+secretions, after refinement, and driven to the lungs to be mixed with
+the old blood from the venous system. A few questions about the blood
+seem to hang<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span> around my mental crib for food. Reason says we cannot use
+blood before it has all passed through the gaseous stage of refinement,
+which reduces all material to the lowest forms of atoms, before
+constructing any material body. I think it safe to assume that all
+muscles and bones of our body have been in the gas state while in the
+process of preparing substances for blood. A world of questions arise at
+this point.</p>
+
+
+<h4>QUESTIONS OF GAS.</h4>
+
+<p>The first is, Where and how is food made into gas while in the body? If
+you will listen to a dyspeptic after eating you will wonder where he
+gets all the wind that he rifts from his stomach, and continues for one
+or two hours after each meal. That gas is generated in the stomach and
+intestines, and we are led to believe so because we know of no other
+place in which it can be made and thrown into the stomach by any tubes
+or other methods of entry. Thus by the evidence so far the stomach and
+bowels are the one place in which this gas is generated. Now comes
+question two: As I have spoken of the stomach that generates and ejects
+great quantities of gas for a longer or shorter time after meals, this
+class of people have always been called dyspeptics. Another class of the
+same race of beings stand side by side with him, without this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span> gas
+generating. He, too, eats and drinks of the same kind of food, without
+any of the manifestations that have been described in the first class.
+Why does one stomach blow off gas continually, while the other does not?
+is a very deep, serious and interesting question. As number two throws
+off no gas from the stomach after eating, is this conclusive evidence
+that his stomach generates no gas? Or does his stomach and bowels form
+gas just as fast as No. 1? and the secretions of the stomach and bowels
+take up and retain the nutritious matter and pass the remainder of the
+gas by way of the excretory ducts through the skin? If the excretory
+ducts take up and carry this gas out of the body by way of the skin, and
+he is a healthy man, why not account for No. one's stomach ejecting this
+gas by way of the mouth, because of the fact that the secretions of the
+stomach are either clogged up or inactive, for want of vital motion of
+the nerve terminals of the stomach. Another question in connection with
+this subject: Why is the man whose stomach belches forth gas in such
+abundance also suffering with cold feet, hands and all over the body,
+while No. 2 is quite warm and comfortable, with a glow of warmth passing
+from his body all the time? With these hints I will ask the question:
+What is digestion?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VI" id="CHAPTER_VI"></a>CHAPTER VI.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">The Lymphatics.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Importance of the Subject&mdash;Demands of Nature on the
+Lymphatics&mdash;Dunglinson's Definition&mdash;Dangers of Dead
+Substances&mdash;Lymph Continued&mdash;Solvent in Nature&mdash;Where Are the
+Lymphatics Situated?&mdash;The Fat and Lean. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT.</h4>
+
+<p>Possibly less is known of the lymphatics than any other division of the
+life-sustaining machinery of man. Thus ignorance of that division is
+equal to a total blank with the operator. Finer nerves dwell with the
+lymphatics than even with the eye. The eye is an organized effect, the
+lymphatics the cause; in them the spirit of life more abundantly dwells.
+No atom can leave the lymphatics in an imperfect state and get a union
+with any part of the body. There the atom obtains form and knowledge of
+how and what to do. The lymphatics consume more of the finer fluids of
+the brain than the whole viscera combined. By nature, coarser substances
+are necessary to construct the organs that run the blast, and rough
+forging divisions. The lymphatics form, finish, temper and send the
+bricks to the builder with intelligence, that he may con<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span>struct by
+adjusting all according to nature's plans and specifications. Nature
+makes machinery that can produce just what is necessary, and when
+united, produces what the most capable minds could exact.</p>
+
+<p>The lymphatics are closely and universally connected with the spinal
+cord and all other nerves, long or short, universal or separate, and all
+drink from the waters of the brain. By an action of the nerves of the
+lymphatics, a union of qualities necessary to produce gall, sugar,
+acids, alkalies, bone, muscle and softer parts, with the thought that
+elements can be changed, suspended, collected and associated and produce
+any chemical compound necessary to sustain animal life, wash out, salt,
+sweeten and preserve the being from decay and death by chemical,
+electric, atmospheric or climatic conditions. By this we are admonished
+in all our treatment not to wound the lymphatics, as they are
+undoubtedly the life giving centers and organs. Thus it behooves us to
+handle them with wisdom and tenderness, for by and from them a withered
+limb, organ or any division of the body receives what we call
+reconstruction, or is builded anew, and without this cautious procedure
+your patient had better save his life and money by passing you by as a
+failure, until you are by knowledge qualified to deal with the
+lymphatics.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>DEMANDS OF NATURE ON THE LYMPHATICS.</h4>
+
+<p>Why not reason on the broad plain of known facts, and give the why he or
+she has complete prostration. When all systems are cut off from a chance
+to move and execute such duties as nature has allotted to them, motor
+nerves must drive all substances to and sensation must judge the supply
+and demand. Nutrition must be in action the time and keep all parts well
+supplied with power to labor or a failure is sure to appear. We must
+ever remember the demands of nature on the lymphatics, liver and
+kidneys. They must work all the time or a confusion for lack in their
+duties will mark a cripple in some function of life over which they
+preside.</p>
+
+
+<h4>DUNGLINSON'S DEFINITION.</h4>
+
+<p>Dunglinson's scientific definition of the lymphatics is very extensive,
+comprehensive and right to the point for our use as doctors of
+Osteopathy. He describes the lymphatic glands as countless in number,
+universally distributed all through the human body, containing vitalized
+water and other fluids necessary to the support of animal life, running
+parallel with the venous system, and more abundantly there than in other
+locations of the body, at the same time discharging their contents into
+the veins while conveying the blood back to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span> the heart from the whole
+system. Is it not reasonable to suppose that besides being nutrient
+centers, that they accumulate and pass water through the whole secretory
+and excretory systems of the body, in order to reduce nourishment to
+that degree from thick to thin, that it may easily pass through all
+tubes, ducts and vessels interested in distribution, as nourishment
+first, and renovation second, through the excretory ducts. The question
+arises whence cometh this water?</p>
+
+
+<h4>DANGERS OF DEAD SUBSTANCES.</h4>
+
+<p>This leads us back to the lungs as one of the great sources of which you
+have been informed under the head of "Lungs, Gases and Water." With this
+fountain of life saving water provided by nature to wash away impurities
+as they accumulate in our bodies, would it not be great stupidity in us
+to see a human being burn to death by the fires of fever, or die from
+asphyxia by allowing bad or dead lymph, albumen, or any substance to
+load down the powers of nature and keep the blood from being washed to
+normal purity? If so, let us go deeper into the study of the life-saving
+powers of the lymphatics. Do we not find in death that the lymphatics
+are dark, and in life they are healthy and red?</p>
+
+
+<h4>LYMPH CONTINUED.</h4>
+
+<p>What we meet with in all diseases is dead<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span> blood, stagnant lymph, and
+albumen in a semi-vital or dead and decomposing condition all through
+the lymphatics and other parts of the body, brain, lungs, kidneys, liver
+and fascia. The whole system is loaded with a confused mass of blood,
+that is mixed with much or little unhealthy substances, that should have
+been kept washed out by lymph. Stop and view the frog's superficial
+lymphatic glands; you see all parts move just as regular as the heart
+does; they are all in motion during life. For what purpose do they move?
+if not to carry the fluids to sustain by building up, while the
+excretory channels receive and pass out all that is of no further use to
+the body. Now we see this great system of supply is the source of
+construction and purity. If this be true we must keep them normal all
+the time or see confused nature in the form of disease, the list
+through. Thus we strike at the source of life and death when we go to
+the lymphatics.</p>
+
+<p>With this fountain of life-saving water, provided by nature to wash away
+impurities as they accumulate in our bodies, would it not be great
+stupidity in us to see a human being burn to death by the fires of
+fever, or die from asphyxia, by allowing bad or dead lymph, albumen or
+any substance to load down the powers of nature to keep the blood washed
+to normal purity? If so let us go<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span> deeper in the study of the
+life-sustaining powers of the lymphatics.</p>
+
+
+<h4>NATURE'S SOLVENTS.</h4>
+
+<p>The brain flushes the nerves of the lymphatics first, and more than any
+other system of the body. No part is so small or remote that it is not
+in direct connection with some part or chain of the lymphatics. The
+doctor of Osteopathy has much to think about when he consults natural
+remedies, and how they are supplied and administered, and as disease is
+the effect of tardy deposits in some or all parts of the body, reason
+would bring us to hunt a solvent of such deposits, which hinder the
+natural motion of blood and other fluids in functional works, which are
+to keep the body pure from any substance that would check vital action.
+When we have searched and found that the lymphatics are almost the sole
+requisite of the body we then must admit that their use is equal to the
+abundant and universal supply of such glands. If we think and use a
+homely word and say that disease is only too much dirt in the wheels of
+life, then we will see that nature takes this method to wash out the
+dirt. As an application, pneumonia is too much dirt in the wheels of the
+lungs, if so we must wash out; no where can we go to a better place for
+water than to the lymphatics. Are they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span> not like a fire company with
+nozzles in all windows ready to flush the burning house?</p>
+
+
+<h4>WHERE ARE THE LYMPHATICS SITUATED?</h4>
+
+<p>A student of life must take in all parts, and study their uses and
+relations to other parts and systems. We lay much stress on the uses of
+blood and the powers of the nerves, but have we any evidence that they
+are of more vital importance than the lymphatics? If not let us halt at
+this universal system of irrigation and study its great uses in
+sustaining animal life. Where are they situated in the body? Answer by,
+where are they not? No space is so small as to be out of connection with
+the lymphatics, with their nerves, secretory and excretory ducts. Thus
+the system of lymphatics is complete and universal in the whole body.
+After beholding the lymphatics distributed along all nerves, blood
+channels, muscles, glands and all organs of the body, from the brain to
+the soles of the feet, all loaded to fullness with watery liquids, we
+certainly can make but one conclusion as to their use, which would be to
+mingle with and carry out all impurities of the body, by first mixing
+with such substances and reducing them to that degree of fluids in
+fineness, that could pass through the smallest tubes of the excretory
+system, and by that method free the body from all deposits of either
+solids or fluids, and leave nourishment.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>THE FAT AND LEAN.</h4>
+
+<p>A question: Why is he too fat and she only skin and bone, while a third
+is just right? If one is just right, why not all? If we get fat by a
+natural process why not reverse the process and stop at any desirable
+point in flesh size? I believe the law of life is simple and natural in
+both respects if wisely understood. Have we nerves of motion to carry
+food to all parts, organs, glands and muscles? Have we channels to
+convey to all? Have we fluids to suit all demands? Have we brain power
+equal to all force needed? Is blood formed sufficiently to fill all
+demands? Does that blood contain fat, water, muscle, skin, hair and all
+kinds to suit each division, organ, and nerve? If so and blood has
+builded too much flesh, can it not take that bulk away by returning
+blood to gas and other fluids? Can that which has been done be done
+again? If yes be the correct answer, then we should hope to return
+blood, fat, flesh and bone to gas and pass them away while in gaseous
+condition, and do away with all unnatural size or lack of size. I
+believe that it is natural to build and destroy all material form from
+the lowest animated being to the greatest rolling world. I believe no
+world could be constructed without strict obedience to a governing law,
+which gives size by addition and reduces that size by subtraction. Thus
+a fat<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span> man is builded by great addition, and if desired can be reduced
+by much subtraction, which is simply a rule of numbers. We multiply to
+enlarge, also subtract when we wish a reduction. Turn your eye for a
+time to the supply trains of nature. When the crop is abundant, the
+lading would be great, and when the seasons do not suit, the crops are
+short or shorter to no lading at all. Thus we have the fat man and the
+lean man. Is it not reasonable as a conclusion of the most exacting
+philosophy that the train of cars that can bring loads of stone, brick
+and mortar until a great bulk is formed, can also carry away until this
+bulk disappears in part or all? This being my conclusion I will say by
+many years of careful observation of the work of creating bodies and
+destroying the same, that to add to is the law of giving size, and to
+subtract from is the law of reduction. Both are natural, and both can be
+made practical in the reduction or addition of flesh, when found too
+great in quantity, or we can add to and give size to the starving muscle
+through the action of the motor and nutrient system conveyed to, and
+appropriated from the laboratory in which all bodily substances are
+formed. Thus the philosophy is absolute, and the sky is clear to proceed
+with addition and subtraction of flesh. I believe I am prepared to say
+at this time that I understand the nervous system well enough<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span> to direct
+the laboratory of nature and cause it through its skilled arts to
+unload, or reduce, he who is over-burdened with a super-abundance of
+flesh, and add to the scanty muscle a sufficiency to give power of
+comfortable locomotion and other forces, by opening the gate of the
+supply trains of nutrition.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VII" id="CHAPTER_VII"></a>CHAPTER VII.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">The Diaphragm.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Investigation&mdash;A Struggle With Nature&mdash;Lesson of Cause and
+Effect&mdash;Something of Medical Etiquette&mdash;The Medical Doctor&mdash;An
+Explorer for Truth Must Be Independent&mdash;The Diaphragm Introduced&mdash;A
+Useful Study&mdash;Combatting Effect&mdash;Is Least Understood&mdash;A Case of
+Bilious Fever&mdash;A Demand on the Nerves&mdash;Danger of Compression&mdash;A
+Cause for Disease&mdash;Was a Mistake Made in the Creation&mdash;An
+Exploration&mdash;Result of Removal of Diaphragm&mdash;Sustaining Life in
+Principles&mdash;Law Applicable to Other Organs&mdash;Power of
+Diaphragm&mdash;Omentum. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>INVESTIGATION.</h4>
+
+<p>Let us halt at the origin of the splanchnic and take a look. At this
+point we see the lower branches; sensation, motion, and nutrition, all
+slant above the diaphragm pointing to the solar plexus which sends off
+branches to pudic and sacral plexus of sensory system of nerves; just at
+the place to join the life giving ganglion of sacrum with orders from
+the brain to keep the process of blood forming in full motion all the
+time. A question arises, how is this motion supplied and from where? The
+answer is by the brain as nerve supply, heart as blood supply, all of
+which<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span> comes from above the diaphragm, to keep machinery in form and
+supplied with motion, that it may be able to generate chyle to send back
+to heart, to be formed into blood and thrown into arteries to build all
+parts as needed, and keep brain fed up to its normal supply of power
+generating needs. We see above the diaphragm, the lungs, heart and
+brain, the three sources of blood and nerve supply. All three are
+guarded by strong walls, that they may do their part in keeping up the
+life supply as far as blood and nerve force is required. But as they
+generate no blood nor nerve material, they must take the place of
+manufactories and purchase material from a foreign land, to be able to
+have an abundance all the time. We see nature has placed its
+manufacturies above a given line in the breast, and grows the crude
+material below said line. Now as growth means motion and supply, we must
+combine in a friendly way, and conduct the force from above to the
+region below the septum or diaphragm, that we may use the powers as
+needed. This wall must and does have openings to let blood and nerves
+penetrate with supply and force to do the work of manufacturing.</p>
+
+
+<h4>A STRUGGLE WITH NATURE.</h4>
+
+<p>After all this has been done and a twist, pressure or obstructing fold
+should appear from any cause,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span> would we not have a cut off of motion to
+return chyle, sensation to supply vitality, and venous motion to carry
+off arterial supply that has been driven from heart above? Have we not
+found the cause to stop all processes of life below diaphragm? In short,
+are we not in a condition to soon be in a complete state of stagnation?
+As soon as the arteries have filled the venous system, which is without
+sensation to return blood to the heart, then the heart can do nothing
+but wear out its energies trying to drive blood into a dead being below
+the diaphragm known as the venous system. It is dead until sensation
+reaches the vein from the sacral and pudic plexus.</p>
+
+
+<h4>LESSON OF CAUSE AND EFFECT.</h4>
+
+<p>Previous to all discoveries that have been made a demand for the
+usefulness of such discovery, is felt and talked of for years, centuries
+and cycles of time. Its discovery is an open question and free to all,
+because in this fact all are interested. That lack may be felt and
+spoken of by all agriculturists, and the inquiry directed to a better
+plow, a better sickle or mowing machine with which to reap standing
+grain. The thinker reduces his thoughts to practice, and cuts the grain,
+leaving it in such condition that a raker is needed to bunch it previous
+to binding.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>His victory is heralded to the world as king of the harvest, and so
+accepted. The discoverer says, "I wish I could bunch that grain." He
+begins to reason from the great principle of cause and effect, and
+sleeps not until he has added to his already made discovery, an addition
+so ingeniously constructed that it will drop the grain in bunches ready
+for the binder. The discoverer stands by and sees in the form of a human
+being hands, arms and a band; he watches the motion then starts in to
+rustle with cause and effect again. He thinks and sweats day and night,
+and by the genius of thought produces a machine to bind the grain. By
+this time another suggestion arises, how to separate the wheat as the
+machine journeys in its cutting process. To his convictions nothing will
+solve this problem but mental action. He thinks and dreams of cause and
+effect. His mind seems to forget all the words of his mother tongue but
+cause and effect. He talks and preaches cause and effect in so many
+places that his associates begin to think he is mentally failing, and
+will soon be a subject for the asylum. He becomes disgusted with their
+lack of appreciation, seeks seclusion and formulates the desired
+addition and threshes the grain ready for the bag. He has solved the
+question and proved to his neighbors that the asylum was built for them,
+not for him. With cause and effect which is ever before the
+philoso<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span>pher's eye, he ploughs the ocean regardless of the furious
+waves, he dreads not the storms on the seas, because he has so
+constructed a vessel with a resistance superior to the force of the
+lashing waves of the ocean, and the world scores him another victory. He
+opens his mouth and says by the law of cause and effect I will talk to
+my mother who is hundreds of miles away. He disturbs her rest by the
+rattling of a little electric bell in her room. Tremblingly the aged
+mother approaches the telephone and asks "Who is there?" And is
+answered, "It is me, Jimmie," and asks, "To whom am I talking?" She says
+"Mrs. Sarah Murphy." He says, "God bless you, mother; I am at Galveston,
+Texas, and you are in Boston, Mass." She laughs and cries with joy; he
+hears every emotion of her trembling voice. She says to him, "You have
+succeeded at last. I have never doubted your final success,
+notwithstanding the neighbors have annoyed me almost to death, telling
+me you would land in the asylum, because no man could talk so as to be
+heard 1000 miles away; his lungs, were too weak, and his tongue too
+short."</p>
+
+<p>Now, friends, I have given you a long introductory foundation previous
+to giving you the cause of disease, with the philosophy that I have
+given upon cause and effect. I think it absolutely clear<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span> and the effect
+so unerring in its results, that with Pythagoras I can say "Eureka."</p>
+
+
+<h4>SOMETHING OF MEDICAL ETIQUETTE.</h4>
+
+<p>To know we have found a general cause for disease, one that will stand
+the heights and depths of direct and cross examinations, as given by the
+high courts of cool headed reason, has been the mental effort of all
+doctors and healers, since time began its record. They have had to treat
+disease as best they could, by such methods as customs had established
+as the best known for such diseases; notwithstanding their failures and
+the great mortality under such a system of treatment. They have not felt
+justified to go beyond the rules of symptomatology as adopted by their
+schools, with diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Should they digress
+from the rules of the etiquette of their alma maters they would lose the
+brotherly love and support of the medical association to which they
+belong, under the belief that, "A bad name is as bad as death to a dog."</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE MEDICAL DOCTOR.</h4>
+
+<p>He says that in union there is safety, and resolves to stick to, live
+and do as his school has disciplined all its pupils, with this command,
+"The day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Stick to the
+brotherhood."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>AN EXPLORER FOR TRUTH MUST BE INDEPENDENT.</h4>
+
+<p>The explorer for truth must first declare his independence of all
+obligations or brotherhoods of any kind whatsoever. He must be free to
+think and reason. He must establish his observatory upon hills of his
+own; he must establish them above the imaginary high planes of rulers,
+kings, professors of schools of all kinds and denominations. He must be
+the Czar of his own mental empire, unencumbered with anything that will
+annoy while he makes his observations. I believe the reasons are so
+plain, so easily comprehended, the facts in its support so brilliant,
+that I will offer the same, though I be slaughtered on the altar of
+bigotry and intolerance. This philosophy is not intended for minds not
+thoroughly well posted by dissection and otherwise of the whole human
+anatomy. You must know its physiological laboratories and workings with
+the brain as the battery, the lungs as the source or machine that
+renovates the blood from all impurities, and the heart as the living
+engine or quarter-master, whose duty is to supply the commissaries with
+blood and other fluids to all divisions and sub-divisions of the human
+body, which is busily engaged producing material suited to the
+production of bone and muscle, and all other substances necessary to
+keep the machinery of life in full force and action.</p>
+
+<p>Without this knowledge on the part of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span> reader, the words of this
+philosophy will fall as blanks before reaching his magazine of reason.
+Thus this is addressed to the independent man or woman that can, will
+and does reason.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE DIAPHRAGM INTRODUCED.</h4>
+
+<p>At this point we will introduce the diaphragm, which separates the
+heart, lungs and brain from the organs of life that are limited to the
+abdomen and pelvis. A question arises at this point; what has the
+diaphragm to do with good or bad health? At this time we will analyze
+the diaphragm; we will examine its construction, and its uses; we will
+examine its openings through which blood passes both above and below. We
+will examine the opening through which food passes to stomach. We will
+carefully examine the passage or opening for nerve supply to the abdomen
+below, to run this great system of chemistry, which is producing the
+various kinds of substances necessary to the hard and soft parts of the
+body. We must know the nerve supply of the lymphatics, womb, liver,
+kidneys, pancreas, the generative organs, what they are, what they do,
+and what are demanded of them, before we are able to feed our own minds
+from the cup that contains the essence of reason as expressed from the
+tree of life.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>A USEFUL STUDY.</h4>
+
+<p>The diaphragm surely gives much food to the one who would search for the
+great whys of disease as reported causes seem to be far back in the fogs
+of mystery. It may help us to arrive at some facts if we take each organ
+and division and make a full acquaintance of all its parts and uses
+before we combine it with others.</p>
+
+
+<h4>COMBATTING EFFECTS.</h4>
+
+<p>In all ages, the Doctor has for lack of knowledge of the true cause of
+diseases, combatted effects with his remedies. He treats pain with
+remedies to deaden pain; congestion to wash out overplus of blood that
+has been carried to parts or organs of the body by arteries of blood and
+channels of secretions and not taken up and passed out and off by the
+excretories. He sees the abnormal size and leaves the hunting of the
+cause that has given growth to such proportions and begins to seek rest
+and ease for his patient. Then he treats to reduce by medicine to carry
+the waste fluids to bowels, bladder and skin, with tonics to give
+strength and stimulants to increase the action of the heart in order to
+force local deposits to the general excretory system. At this time let
+the Osteopathic Doctor take a close hunt for any fold in muscles of the
+system that would cause a cut-off of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span> the normal supply of blood or
+suspend the action of nerves whose office is to give power and action to
+the excretory system sufficient to keep the dead matter carried off as
+fast as it accumulates. Let us stop and acquaint ourselves with the true
+condition of the diaphragm. It must be normal in place, as it is so
+situated that it will admit of no abnormality. It must be kept
+stretched, just as Nature arranged that it should, like a drum-head. It
+is attached all around to the chest, though it crosses five or six ribs
+on its descent from the seventh rib to the sternum at the lower point
+and down to fourth lumbar vertebra. It is a continuous slanting floor,
+above bowels and abdominal organs, and below heart and lungs. It must,
+by all reason, be kept normal in tightness at all places, without a fold
+or wrinkle, that could press the aorta, nerves, &oelig;sophagus, or
+anything that contributes to the supply or circulation of any vital
+substance. Now can there be any move in spine or ribs that would or
+could change the normal shape of the diaphragm? If so, where and why?</p>
+
+
+<h4>IS LEAST UNDERSTOOD.</h4>
+
+<p>The diaphragm is possibly the least understood as being the cause of
+more diseases, when its supports are not all in line and normal
+position, than any other part of the body. It has many openings through<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span>
+which nerves, blood and food pass while going from chest to all parts
+below. It begins at the lower end of the breast-bone and crosses to ribs
+back and down, in a slanting direction to the third or fourth lumbar
+vertebra. Like an apron, it holds all that is above it up, such as heart
+and lungs, and is the fence that divides the organs of the abdomen from
+the chest. Below it are the stomach, bowels, liver, spleen, kidneys,
+pancreas, womb, bladder; also the great system of lymphatics of the
+whole blood and nerve supply of the organs and systems of nutrition and
+life supply. All parts of the body have a direct or indirect connection
+with this great separating muscle. It assists in breathing, in all
+animals, when normal, and when prolapsed by the falling in and down of
+any of the five or six ribs by which it is supported in place, then we
+suffer from the effects of suspended normal arterial supply, and venous
+stagnation below diaphragm. The aorta meets resistance as it goes down
+with blood to nourish, and the vein as it goes back with impurities
+contained in venous blood, also meets an obstruction at the diaphragm,
+as it returns to the heart through the vena cava, because of the packing
+of a fallen diaphragm on and about the blood vessels that must not be
+obstructed. Thus heart trouble, lung disease, brain, liver, womb, tumors
+of the abdomen and through the list of ef<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span>fects can be traced to the
+diaphragm as the cause.</p>
+
+<p>I am strongly impressed that the diaphragm has much to do in keeping all
+the machinery and organs of life in a healthy condition, and will try
+and give some of the reasons why, as I now understand them. First, it is
+found to be wisely located just below the heart and lungs; one being the
+engine of the blood, and the other is the engine of the air. This strong
+wall holds all substances or other bodies away from any chance to press
+on either engine, while performing their parts in the economy of life.
+Each engine has a sacred duty to perform under the penal law of death to
+itself and all other divisions of the whole being, man. If it should
+neglect its work of which it is a vital part, should we take down this
+wall and allow the liver, stomach and spleen to occupy any of the places
+allotted to these engines of life, a confusion would surely be the
+result; ability of the heart to force blood to the lungs would be
+overcome and cause trouble.</p>
+
+
+<h4>A CASE OF BILIOUS FEVER.</h4>
+
+<p>Suppose we take a few diseases and submit them to the crucial ordeal of
+reason, and see if we do, or can find any one of the climatic fevers
+that appear with its full list of symptoms and have no assistance from
+an irritated diaphragm. For ex<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span>ample take a case of common bilious fever
+of North America. It generally begins with a tired and sore feeling of
+limbs and muscles, pain in spine, head, and lumbar region. At this point
+of our inquiry we are left in an open sea of mystery and conjecture as
+to cause. One says, "malaria," and goes no farther, gives a name and
+stops. If you ask for the cause of such torturous pain in head and back,
+with fever and vomiting, he will tell you that the very best authorities
+agree that the cause is malaria, with its peculiar diagnostic tendency
+to affect the brain, spine and stomach, and administers quinine and
+leaves, thinking he has said and done all.</p>
+
+<p>Reason would lead seekers for cause of the pain above located to
+remember that all blood passes first as chyme up to heart and lungs,
+directly through the diaphragm, conducted through the thoracic duct,
+first to heart, thence to lungs, at the same time rivers of blood are
+pouring into the heart from all of the system. Much of it very impure,
+from diseased or stale blood. Much of the chyle is dead before it enters
+the great thoracic duct and goes to the lungs without enough pure blood
+to sustain life. Then disease appears.</p>
+
+<p>As a cut-off the diaphragm, when dropped front and down, and across the
+aorta and vena cava by a lowering of the ribs, on both sides of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span>
+spine; it would be a complete pressure over c&oelig;lic axis, with liver
+supply, renal, pelvic, to a complete abdominal stoppage. Then we have
+over-due blood for other parts to send off dead corpuscles by asphyxia,
+with no hope that it can sustain life and health of the parts for which
+it was designed. Thus we know that nature would not be true to its own
+laws, if it would do good work with bad material.</p>
+
+
+<h4>A DEMAND ON THE NERVES.</h4>
+
+<p>Why not reason on the broad scale of known fact, and give the "why" he
+or she has complete prostration when all systems are wholly cut off from
+a chance to move and execute such duties as nature has allotted to them.
+Motor nerves must drive all substances to, and sensation must judge the
+supply and demand. Nutrition must be in action all the time and keep all
+parts well supplied or a failure is sure to appear. We must ever
+remember the demands of nature on the lymphatics, liver and kidneys,
+that nerves work all the time or a confusion for lack in their duties
+will mark a cripple in some function of life over which they preside.</p>
+
+
+<h4>DANGER OF COMPRESSION.</h4>
+
+<p>At this time we see by all systems of reason that no delay in passage of
+food or blood, can be tolerated at the diaphragm, because any
+irritation<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span> is bound to cause muscular contraction and impede the
+natural flow of blood, first through the abdominal aorta, and even to a
+temporary, partial or complete stoppage of arterial supply to the
+abdomen. Or the vena cava may be so pressed as to completely stop the
+return of venous blood from the stomach, kidneys, bowels and all other
+organs, such as the lymphatics, pancreas, fascia, cellular membranes,
+nerve centers, ganglionic and all systems of supply of organs of life
+found in the abdomen. Thus by pressure, stricture or contraction to the
+passage of blood can be stopped, either above or below the diaphragm,
+and be the cause of blood being detained long enough to die from
+asphyxia, and be left in the body of all organs below the diaphragm.</p>
+
+
+<h4>A CAUSE FOR DISEASE.</h4>
+
+<p>Thus you see a cause for Bright's disease of kidneys, disease of womb,
+ovaries, jaundice, dysentery, leucorrh&oelig;a, painful monthlies, spasms,
+dyspepsia, and on through the whole list of diseases now booked as
+"causes unknown," and treated by the rule of "cut and try." We do know
+that all blood for use of the whole system below the twelfth dorsal
+vertebra does pass through the diaphragm, and all nerve supply, also
+passes through the diaphragm and spinal column for limb and life. This
+being a known fact, we have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span> only to use reason to know that an
+unhealthy condition of the diaphragm is bound to be followed by many
+diseases. A list of questions arise at this point with the inquirers
+that must and can be answered every time by reason only. The diaphragm
+is a musculo-fibrinous organ and depends for blood and nerve supply
+above its own location, and that supply must be given freely and pure
+for nerve and blood or we will have a diseased organ to start with; then
+we may find a universal atrophy or &oelig;dema, which would, besides its
+own deformity not be able to rise and fall, to assist the lungs to mix
+air with blood to purify venous blood, as it is carried to the lungs to
+throw off impurities and take on oxygen previous to returning to the
+heart, to be sent off as nourishment for the system. It is only in
+keeping with reason that without a healthy diaphragm both in its form
+and action, disease is bound to be the result. A question from our side
+of the argument is: How can a carpenter build a good house out of
+rotten, twisted or warped wood? If he can, then we can hope to be
+healthy with diseased blood, but if we must have good material in
+building, then we should form our thoughts to suit the heads of
+inspectors, and inspect the passage of blood through the diaphragm,
+pleury, pericardium and the fascia, superficial, deep and universal.
+Disease is just as liable to begin its work<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span> in the fascia and
+epithelium as any other place. Thus the necessity of pure blood and
+healthy fascia, because all functions are equally responsible for good
+and bad results.</p>
+
+
+<h4>WAS A MISTAKE MADE IN THE CREATION?</h4>
+
+<p>At a given period of time the Lord said, "Let us make man." After He had
+made him He examined him, and pronounced him good, and not only good,
+but very good. Did He know what good was? Had He the skill to be a
+competent judge? If He was perfectly competent to judge skilled arts His
+approval of the work when done was the fiat of mental competency backed
+by perfection. Since that architect and skilled mechanic has finished
+man and given him dominion over the fowls of the air, the beast of the
+field and fishes of the sea, hasn't that person, being or superstructure
+proven to us that God, the creator of all things, has armed him with
+strength, with the mind and machinery to direct and execute? This being
+demonstrated and leaving us without a doubt as to its perfection, are we
+not admonished by all that is good and great to enter upon a minute
+examination of all the parts belonging to this being; acquaint ourselves
+with their uses and all the designs for which the whole being was
+created. If we are honestly interested with the acquaintance of the
+forms and uses of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span> parts in detail by close and thorough examination
+of the material, its form and object of its form, from whence this
+substance is obtained; how it is produced and sustained through life in
+kind and form. How it is moved, where it gets its power, and for what
+object does it move? A demand for a crucial examination of the skull,
+the heart, lungs, of the chest, the stomach, liver and other organs of
+the abdomen is made. The septum of the brain, the pericardium of the
+chest&mdash;the diaphragm of the abdomen which is a dividing septum between
+the abdomen and chest. In this examination we must know the reasons why
+any organs, vessel or any other substance is located at a given place.
+We must run with all the rivers of blood that travel through the system.</p>
+
+
+<h4>AN EXPLORATION.</h4>
+
+<p>We must start our exploring boat with the aorta, and float with this
+vital current; see the captain as he unloads supplies for the diaphragm
+and all that is under it. We must follow him and see what branch of this
+river will lead to a little or great toe, or to the terminals of the
+whole foot. We must pass through the waters of the dead sea by the way
+of the vena cava, and observe the boats loaded with exhausted and worn
+out blood, as it is poured in and channeled back to the heart, with all
+below the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span> diaphragm. Carefully watch the emptying of the vena azygos
+major and minor, with the veins of the arms and head all being poured in
+from little or great rivers to the vena innominate on their way to the
+great hospital of life and nourishment; whose quarter-master is the
+heart; whose finishing mechanic is the lung. Having acquainted ourselves
+with the forms and locations of this great personality we are ready at
+this time after examination, and found worthy and well qualified to
+enter into a higher class in which we can obtain an acquaintance with
+the physiological workings separately and conjoined of the whole being.
+At this place we become acquainted with the hows and whys of the
+production of blood, bone and all elements found in them, necessary to
+sustain sensation, motion, nutrition, voluntary and involuntary action
+of the nerve system. The hows and whys of the lymphatics, the life
+sustaining powers of the brain, heart, lungs, and all the abdominal
+system, with their various actions and uses, from the lowest cellular
+membrane to the highest organ of the body.</p>
+
+
+<h4>RESULT OF REMOVAL OF DIAPHRAGM.</h4>
+
+<p>When we consult the form of the cross-bar that divides the body in two
+conjoined divisions and reason on its use, we arrive at the fact that
+the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span> heart and lungs must have ample space or room to suit their actions
+while performing their functions. At this time a question comes up: What
+effect would follow the removal of the fence between heart, lungs and
+brain, above that dividing muscle, and the machinery that is situated
+below said cross-bar? We see at a glance that we would meet failure to
+the extent of the infringement on demanded room for normal work of heart
+to deliver below lungs to prepare blood, and the brain to pass nerve
+power to either engine above, and all organs below the diaphragm.</p>
+
+
+<h4>SUSTAINING LIFE PRINCIPLES.</h4>
+
+<p>The life of the living tree is with the bark and superficial fascia
+which lies between the bark of the body of the tree, its periostium. The
+remainder of the tree takes the position or place of secreting. Its
+excretory system is first upwards from the surface of the ground, and
+washes out frozen impurities in the spring, after which it secretes and
+conveys to the ground through the trunk of the tree to the roots which
+is like unto the placenta attached to mother earth, qualifying all
+substances of constructing fiber and leaf, of that part of the tree
+above the ground. Each year produces a new tree which is seen and known
+by circular rings called annular growths. That growth which was
+com<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span>pleted last year is now a stale being of the past and has no vital
+action of itself. But like all stale beings its process is a life of
+another order, and dependent upon the fascia for its life and cellular
+action which lies under the bark, for its own existence as a living
+tree. It can only act as a chemical laboratory and furnish crude
+material which is taken up by the superficial fascia and conveyed up to
+the lungs, and exchanges dead for living matter, to receive and return
+to all parts of the tree, keeping up vital formation. With frost its
+vital process ceases through the winter season until mother earth
+stimulates the placenta, and starts the growth of a new being, which is
+developed and placed in form on the old trunk. Thus you see everything
+of animal growth as we would call them, is a new being, and becomes a
+part of the next being or growth formed.</p>
+
+
+<h4>STALE LIFE.</h4>
+
+<p>Should this form of vitality cease with the tree another principle which
+we call stale life takes possession and constructs another tree which is
+just the reverse of the living tree, and builds a tree after its own
+power of formulation from the dead matter, to which it imparts a
+principle of stale life, which life produces mushrooms, frogstools and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span>
+other peculiar forms of stale beings, from this form of growth.</p>
+
+<p>Thus we are prepared to reason that blood when ligated and retained in
+that condition of dead corpuscles, and no longer able to support animal
+life, can form a zoophyte and all the forms peculiar to the great law of
+association, as tumefactions of the lymphatics, pancreas, liver,
+kidneys, uterus, with all the glandular system, be they lymphatics,
+cellular, ganglia or any other parts of the body susceptible of such
+growths, below the diaphragm. Thus we can account for tubercles of the
+abdomen and all organs therein found.</p>
+
+
+<h4>LAW APPLICABLE TO OTHER ORGANS.</h4>
+
+<p>This same law is equally applicable to the heart, lungs, the brain,
+tissues, glands, fascia and all substances capable of receiving without
+the ability to excrete stale substances.</p>
+
+<p>As &oelig;dema marks the first tardiness of fluids we have the beginning
+step which will lead from miliary tuberculosis to the largest known
+forms of tubercles, which is the effect of the active principles of
+stale life or the life of dead matter.</p>
+
+
+<h4>POWER OF DIAPHRAGM.</h4>
+
+<p>At this point we will draw the attention of the reader to the fact that
+the diaphragm can contract and suspend the passage of blood and produce
+all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span> the stagnant changes from start to completed deadly tubercle. Also
+the cancer, the wen, glandular thickening of neck, face, scalp, fascia
+and all substances found above the diaphragm. In this stale life we have
+a compass that will lead us as explorers from the North star, to the
+South pole, the rising sun of reason, and the evening dews of eternity.
+This diaphragm says: "By me you live and by me you die. I hold in my
+hand the powers of life and death, acquaint now thyself with me and be
+at ease."</p>
+
+
+<h4>OMENTUM.</h4>
+
+<p>The truth of the presentation of facts should be the principle object of
+every person who takes his pen with a view to give the reasons why
+certain witnesses' testimony are indispensable to establish supposable
+or known truths. This being the case I have summoned before this court
+of inquiry an important witness. He has now taken the oath to tell the
+truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, of the case before
+this court. His name is the Great Omentum. Mr. Omentum, state if you
+know of any reason why or how by irritation from a misplacement of your
+body or any of its attachments to or about the diaphragm, the spine,
+stomach or other places that could cause irritation and thickening by
+congestion of your own body to such<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span> degree as to impede the flow of
+arterial or venous blood, over whose position you occupy much space from
+the diaphragm downward? State what effect a falling down of the eleventh
+and twelfth ribs on both sides of the spine with their cartilaginous
+points turned inward and down; if they should draw the diaphragm down
+and across your body? What would be the effect on circulation of the
+blood, and other fluids on the kidneys and other organs of the abdomen
+and pelvis? Would it not be the foundation for destructive congestion,
+and abnormal growth? State if you know if any such ligation would cause
+swelling by retention of blood in the spleen, liver, kidneys or other
+organs of the abdomen and pelvis? Would it be reasonable to suppose that
+you could perform your functions in office with any irritating condition
+caused by prolapses of diaphragm? Would not an irritation of your
+attachment to the diaphragm, spine or stomach be great enough to impede
+the blood on its passage through the aorta to the abdomen, or impede the
+flow of blood back and through the diaphragm? If so state how and why?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_VIII" id="CHAPTER_VIII"></a>CHAPTER VIII.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Liver, Bowels and Kidneys.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Gender of the Liver&mdash;Productions of the Liver&mdash;A Hope for the
+Afflicted&mdash;Evidences of Truth&mdash;Loaded With Ignorance&mdash;Lack of
+Knowledge of the Kidney&mdash;How a Purgative Acts&mdash;Flux&mdash;Bloody
+Dysentery&mdash;Flux More Fully Described&mdash;Osteopathic Remedies&mdash;Medical
+Remedies&mdash;More of the Osteopathic Remedy. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>GENDER OF THE LIVER.</h4>
+
+<p>Let us abruptly assume that the liver is the abiding placenta of all
+animated beings. If this position be true we are warranted and justified
+in the conclusion that the germs necessary to form blood vessels and
+other parts of the body must look to the liver for the fluids in which
+they would expect to construct in form and size. It seems to be nature's
+chemical laboratory, in which are prepared by receiving chemical
+qualities and quantities to suit the formation of hard and soft
+substances, which are to become the parts and the whole of any organ,
+gland, muscle, nerve, cell, veins and arteries. In evidence of the
+probability of the truth of this position, we will draw your attention,
+first to its central location between the sacral and cerebral nerve
+centers. There it lies between the "stomach" the vessel which receives
+all material previous to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span> being manipulated for all nutrient purposes,
+and the heart, the great receiving and distributing quarter-master of
+all animal life. It supplies squads, sections, companies, regiments,
+battalions, brigades and divisions&mdash;to the whole army, and all parts
+that are dependent upon the nutrient system.</p>
+
+
+<h4>PRODUCTIONS OF THE LIVER.</h4>
+
+<p>The liver seems to be able to qualify by calling to itself all
+substances necessary to produce gall. Its communications with all parts
+of the body is direct, circuitous, universal and absolute. If pure it
+produces healthy gall and other substances, and in fact when healthy
+itself all other fluids are considered to be pure, at which time we are
+supposed to enjoy good health and universal bodily comfort. With a
+diseased liver we have perverted action which possibly accounts for
+impure and unhealthy deposits in the nasal passage and other parts of
+the body in their own peculiar form. Polypus of the nose, tumefaction of
+lungs, lymphatics, liver, kidneys, uterus, and even the brain itself.
+Suppose such deposits, composed of albumen and fibrin, prepared in the
+liver should be deposited in the lining membranes of veins leading to
+the heart, and by some other chemical action this accumulated mass
+should come loose from the veins, would we not expect<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span> what is commonly
+called clots enter the heart, and shut off the arteries, supplying the
+lungs, stop the further circulation of blood and cause instantaneous
+death called heart failure, apoplexy and so on? Is it not reasonable to
+suppose that under those deposits that softening of arteries has its
+beginning, which results in aneurisms and death by rupture of such
+abnormally formed arteries? Are the lungs not liable to receive such
+deposits and form tubercles to such proportions as to become living
+zoophytes capable of covering all of the mucous membrane of the lungs,
+air passages and cells, and establish a perpetual dwelling of zoophytes
+and absorb to themselves for their own maintenance and existence, blood
+and nourishment of the whole body unto death? This being the result of
+one chemical action of the body and all by and from nature, is it not
+reasonable to suppose that the provision by nature is ready to produce
+of itself the chemicals of kind, quality and quantity equal to the
+destruction of this enemy of life?</p>
+
+
+<h4>A HOPE FOR THE AFFLICTED.</h4>
+
+<p>I think before all diseases pass the zenith, after which the decline is
+beyond the vital rally, they are curable by the genius of nature's own
+remedies, and believe the truths of this conclusion have been supported
+abundantly by daily demonstrations. I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span> believe there is hope for the
+consumptive equal to one-half if not greater when taken in proper time,
+which is at any period of the disease, previous to breaking down by
+ulceration or otherwise, lung tissue, and even after this period, hope
+is not altogether lost.</p>
+
+
+<h4>EVIDENCES OF TRUTH.</h4>
+
+<p>Nature and good sense are terms that mean much to persons who are used
+to set aside all else for facts. A fact may and often does stay before
+our eyes for all time powerful in truth, but we heed not its lessons.
+Instances, at least a few, would not be amiss at this time. Electricity,
+the most powerful force known, was never able with all its works to get
+the attention of man's thoughts, more than to call it thunder and
+lightning, and let it pass from his mind from time to time, till
+brighter ages woke up a Franklin, Edison, Morse and others who heeded
+its useful lessons enough to make application of its powers for its
+force and speed. By the results obtained, they and others have used its
+powers and gotten truths as rewards, that they did not know even existed
+in or out of electricity or in any of the store-houses of all nature.
+But as the winds of time have blown open a few leaves of nature's book,
+and their brilliant pages and useful lessons have found a lodging place
+in such persons<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span> as were endowed with wisdom to see, and patience to
+persevere, by their energy and wisdom to-day we have many pages to add
+to our books of useful knowledge. We can now talk around and all over
+the earth by the power of the dreaded thunder and lightning. By it we
+travel, by it we see at night, by it we search on land and sea for
+friend or foe; in fact, it is dreaded no more but sought, used and loved
+by all who know of its uses in civil life. Thus our enemy has become our
+footstool. By the speed of man's ability we know and use the comforts
+that nature holds in store for us until we call for and use them.</p>
+
+<p>Other and just as useful questions as electricity await our attention.
+Parts and uses of the human body, to-day are to us as little understood
+as electricity was at any time. The lung to-day is an unknown mystery,
+as to what its power and uses are; we only know that air goes in and out
+of the lungs; farther than that we are at sea. We have just as little
+knowledge of the heart as the lungs, we find a hollow fibrinous tank
+receiving and discharging blood; we are not prepared to say whether the
+corpuscle is formed in the heart or not; all else is conjectural and
+speculative on the subject the corpuscle. We see channels leading to and
+from it, to and from all parts of the body, muscles and glands.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span> We know
+it moves when we are alive, we know it is silent in death.</p>
+
+
+<h4>LOADED WITH IGNORANCE.</h4>
+
+<p>We pass from there to the liver loaded down with ignorance, from what we
+know, cannot tell whether it is male or female, we simply know its size,
+location and something of its form and action, but nothing beyond
+conjecture. It stands to-day one of the wonders to him that tries to
+reason.</p>
+
+
+<h4>LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE KIDNEY.</h4>
+
+<p>We will leave this organ of many pounds with an open confession of our
+ignorance and take up the kidney. At what time was the man and woman
+born that knew and left on record a true and reliable knowledge of the
+renal capsule. We do not know whether that is the organ that makes our
+teeth, our hair or generates a powerful acid by which lime is kept in
+solution, so as not to form stones and such deposits.</p>
+
+
+<h4>HOW A PURGATIVE ACTS.</h4>
+
+<p>Nature's method is simple and easily comprehended in delivering
+purgative medicines, with their softening powers to dry constipated
+fecal matter. For instance: We would give a purgative in the shape of
+salts, rhubarb, calomel and other substances of choice. The first
+question of the physician is how is this to pass through so densely<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span>
+packed substance or fecal matter which is in the bowels? At this time we
+will be short in the statement. The purgative poisons are taken up by
+the the secretions conveyed to the lymphatics. To soften and wash out is
+the object of nature. The lymphatics begin the work of washing out by
+starting action of the excretories and furnishes the water to soften,
+which is injected into the bowels from the mouth to the extremities by a
+system of salivation.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FLUX (BLOODY DYSENTERY.)</h4>
+
+<p>Flux is common in all temperate climates. It generally shows its true
+nature as dysentery after a few hours of tiresome feeling, aching in
+head, back and bowels. At first nothing is felt or thought of more than
+a few movements of the bowels than is common for each day. Some pain and
+griping are felt with increase at each stool, until a chilly feeling is
+felt all over the body, with violent pains in lower bowels, with
+pressing desire to go to stool, and during and after passage of stool a
+feeling that there is still something in the bowels that must pass. Soon
+that down pressure partially subsides, and on examination of passage a
+quantity of blood is seen which shows the case is bloody flux, as the
+disease is called and known in the southern states of North America, or
+bloody dysentery in the more northern states. It generally subsides by
+the use<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span> of family remedies, such as sedatives, astringents, and
+palliative diets. But the severity in other cases increases and the
+discharges have more blood, greater pain, mixed with gelatinous
+substance even to mucous membrane of bowels, high fever all over except
+abdomen, which is quite cold to the hand. Back, head and limbs suffer
+much with heat and pain, and much nausea is felt at all motions of
+bowels. Bowels change from cold to hot, even to 104, at which time all
+symptoms point to inflammation of the bowels. The colon in particular,
+at which time discharge grows black, frothy and very offensive from
+decomposition of blood. Soon collapse and death close out the case,
+notwithstanding the very best skill has been employed to save the life
+of the patient. The doctor has tried to stop pain by opiates and other
+sedatives, tried to check bowels with astringents, used tonics and
+stimulants, but all have failed, the patient is dead.</p>
+
+
+<h4>HOW DOES THE OSTEOPATH CURE?</h4>
+
+<p>But the question for the Osteopath is: At what point would you work to
+suppress the sensation of the colon and permit veins to open and allow
+blood to return to heart? Does irritation of a sensory nerve cause vein
+to contract and refuse blood to complete circuit from and to the heart?
+Does flux begin with the sensory nerves of bowels? If so, re<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span>duce
+sensation at all points connecting with bowels, stop all overplus, keep
+veins free and open from cutaneous to deep sensory ganglion of whole
+spine and abdomen. Remember the fascia is what suffers and dies in all
+cases of death by bowels and lungs. Thus the nerves of all the fascia of
+bowels and abdomen must work or you may lose all cases of flux, for in
+the fascia exists much of the soothing and vital qualities of nature.
+Guard it well, so it can work to repair all losses or death will begin
+in fascia and through pass it to the whole system.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FLUX MORE FULLY DESCRIBED.</h4>
+
+<p>"Bloody flux" is a flow of blood with other fluids from the mucous
+membrane of the bowels. A disease generally of the summer and fall
+seasons, and is more abundant south than north of latitude 40&deg; of North
+America. It is so well known in this country by its ravages that to
+describe it is almost useless, as bloody fluids pass from bowels in all
+cases.</p>
+
+<p>We reason that the veins have contracted by nerve irritation and fail to
+convey blood to heart on normal time. By which delay decomposition does
+its work. Thus a cause is seen for excreting fluids by motor action of
+bowels, when supplied by the excretory system.</p>
+
+
+<h4>OSTEOPATHIC REMEDIES.</h4>
+
+<p>An Osteopath to successfully treat flux or<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span> bloody dysentery must reason
+and address his attention first to the soreness and irritation of
+bowels, which he finds suffering with &oelig;dema of mucous membrane of all
+the glands and blood vessels belonging to the lower bowels. As quiet is
+the first thing desired, he will direct his attention to the sensory
+nerves of the colon and small intestines, in order to reduce the
+resistance of the veins and diminish the arterial action. When he has
+diminished sensation of the veins of the bowels, the arterial force
+completes its circuit through the veins back to the heart, with much
+less arterial action, because venous resistance has ceased and the
+circuit is normal, and healthy action is the result.</p>
+
+
+<h4>MEDICAL REMEDIES.</h4>
+
+<p>The medicine man addresses his remedies first to the misery, with the
+desire to relax the nerves and overcome pain, and obtains this result
+through some class of opiates. After a short rest he addresses his
+attention to the motor action of the heart, with the view of giving
+arteries greater power to force arterial blood through all obstructions,
+and tries to stop all excretory wastings by the use of astringents
+combined with sedatives and soothing fluids.</p>
+
+
+<h4>MORE OF THE OSTEOPATHIC REMEDY.</h4>
+
+<p>The Osteopath will govern sensory and motor<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span> nerves by digital
+suspension of the abnormal irritability of the sensory nerves on the
+various parts of the spine as indicated by the disease.</p>
+
+<p>He uses no injections for the bowels for the reason that the necessary
+fluids naturally flow into the bowels to lubricate and quiet, and
+proceed at once to repair all irritated surfaces, which is abundantly
+supplied by nature from the mouth of the sphincter ani, without which
+forethought and preparation, nature's God will prove his incompetency
+for the great battle of life.</p>
+
+<p>You administer medicines from the chemistry of the arts by mouth,
+injection and otherwise. We adjust the machinery and depend upon
+nature's chemical laboratory for all elements necessary to repair, give
+ease and comfort, while nature's corpuscles do all the work necessary.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_IX" id="CHAPTER_IX"></a>CHAPTER IX.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">The Blood.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Uses for Fluids&mdash;Blood an Unknown Fluid&mdash;Harvey Only Reached the
+Banks of the River of Life&mdash;Blood Is Systematically
+Furnished&mdash;Fatality of Ignorance&mdash;To Find the Cause Must Be
+Honest&mdash;Following Arteries and Nerves&mdash;Feeding the Nerves&mdash;The
+Blood on Its Journey&mdash;Powers Necessary to Move Blood&mdash;Venous Blood
+Suspended. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>USES FOR FLUIDS.</h4>
+
+<p>If a thousand kinds of fluids exist in our bodies a thousand uses
+require their help, or they would not appear. Thus to know how and why
+they help in the economy of life is the study of he who acts only when
+he knows at what places each must appear, and fill the part and use for
+which it is designed. If the demand for a substance is absolute its
+chance to act and answer that call and obey such command must not be
+hindered while in preparation, nor on its journey to local destination,
+for by its power all action may depend. Thus blood, albumen, gall,
+acids, alkalies, oils, brain fluid and other substances formed by
+associations while in physiological processes of formation must be on
+time in place and measured abundantly, that the biogenic laws of nature
+can have full power with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</a></span> time to act, and material in abundance and of
+kinds to suit. Thus all things else may be in place in ample quantities
+and fail because the power is withheld and no action for want of brain
+fluids with its power to vivify all animated nature which have followed
+any fluid found in the body, and followed it from formation to use and
+exhaustion step by step until he knows what form a union with one or
+many kinds. Thus we can do no more than feed and trust the laws of life
+as nature gives them to man. We must arrange our bodies in such true
+lines that ample nature can select and associate by its definite
+measures, weights and choices of kinds, that which can make all fluids
+needed for our bodily uses, from the crude blood to the active flames of
+life, as seen when marshalled for the duties of that stands and obey the
+edicts of the mind of the infinite.</p>
+
+
+<h4>BLOOD AN UNKNOWN FLUID.</h4>
+
+<p>Blood is an unknown red or black fluid, found inside of the human body,
+in tubes, channels or tunnels. What it is, how it is made, and what it
+does after it leaves the heart in the arteries, before it returns to the
+heart through the veins, is one of the mysteries of animal life. It has
+been tried to be analyzed to know of what it is composed, and when done,
+we know but little more of what it really<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[Pg 151]</a></span> is, than we know what sulphur
+is made of. We know it is a colored fluid, and it is in all parts of the
+flesh and bone. We know it builds up heaps of flesh, but how, is the
+question that leads us to honor the unknowable law of life, by which it
+does the work of its mysterious construction of all forms found in the
+parts of man. In all our efforts to learn what it is, what it is made
+of, and what enters it as life and gives it the building powers with
+that intelligence it displays in building, that we see in daily
+observation, is to us such an incomprehensible wonder, that with the
+"sacred writers" we are constrained to say, Great is the mystery of
+"Godliness." I dislike to say we know but very little about the blood,
+"in fact, nothing at all," but such is the truth under oath. We cannot
+make one drop of blood because of our ignorance of the laws of its
+production. If we knew what its components were, we would soon build
+large machinery, make and have blood for sale in quantities to suit the
+purchaser. But alas! we cannot with all the combined intelligence of
+man, make one drop of blood, because we do not know what it is. Then, as
+its production is by the skill of a foreigner whose education has grown
+to suit the work, we must silently sit by and willingly receive the work
+when handed out for use by the producer. At this point I will say that
+an intelligent Osteopath is willing to be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span> governed by the immutable
+laws of nature, and feel that he is justified to pass the fluid on from
+place to place and trust results.</p>
+
+
+<h4>HARVEY ONLY REACHED THE BANKS OF THE RIVER OF LIFE.</h4>
+
+<p>When Harvey solved by his powers of reason a knowledge of the
+circulation of the blood, he only reached the banks of the river of
+life. He saw that the heads and mouths of the rivers of blood begin and
+end in the heart, to do the mysterious works of constructing man. Then
+he went into camp and left this compound for other minds to speculate
+on, of the how it was made, of what composed, and how it became a medium
+of life which sustains all beings. He saw the genius of nature had
+written its wisdom and will of life, by the red ink of all truth.</p>
+
+
+<h4>BLOOD IS SYSTEMATICALLY FURNISHED.</h4>
+
+<p>Blood is systematically furnished from the heart to all divisions of our
+bodies. When we go any course from the heart we will find one or more
+arteries leaving heart. If we go toward the head, we find caroted,
+cervical and vertebral arteries in pairs, large enough to supply blood
+abundantly for bone, brain, and muscle. That blood builds all the brain,
+all the bone, nerves, muscles, glands, membranes, fascia and skin. Then
+we see wisdom just as much in the venous system, as in the arterial.
+Thus the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</a></span> arteries supply all demands, and the veins carry away all
+waste material, with returning blood of veins. We find building and
+healthy renovation are united in a perpetual effort to construct and
+sustain purity. In these two are the facts and truths of life and
+health. If we go to any other part or organ of the body, we find just
+the same law of supply, arteries first, then renovation, beginning with
+the veins. The rule of artery and vein is universal in all living
+beings, and the Osteopath must know that, and abide by its rulings, or
+he will not succeed as a healer. Place him in open combat with fevers of
+winter or summer and he saves, or loses, his patients, just in
+proportion to his ability to sustain the artery to feed, and the veins
+to purify by taking away the dead substances before they ferment, in the
+lymphatics and cellular system. He shows just the same stupidity and
+ignorance of support from arteries and purity by the veins when he fails
+to cure erysipelas, flux, pneumonia, croup, scarlet fever, diphtheria,
+measles, mumps, rheumatism, and on to all diseases of climate and
+seasons.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FATALITY OF IGNORANCE.</h4>
+
+<p>It is ignorance and inattention to the arteries to supply and the veins
+to carry away all deposits before they form tumors in lungs, abdomen or
+any part of the system. Thus man's ignorance of how<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[Pg 154]</a></span> and why the blood
+renovates and why tumors are formed, has allowed the knife to be found
+in the belts of so many doctors to-day. On this law Osteopathy has
+successfully stood and cured more than any school of cures, and has
+sustained all its diplomates financially and otherwise. I write this
+article on blood for the student of Osteopathy. I want him to put nature
+to a test of its merit, and know if it is a law equal to all demands. If
+not, he is very much and seriously limited when he goes into war with
+diseases. What is to be understood by "Disease?"<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a></p>
+
+
+
+<p>When we use the word "disease," we mean anything that makes an unnatural
+showing in the body by pain, overgrowth of muscle; gland; organ;
+physical pain; numbness; heat; cold; or anything that we find not
+necessary to life and comfort. I have no wish to rob surgery of its
+useful claims, and its scientific merits to suffering man and beast.
+Such is not my object, but to place the Osteopath's eye of reason on the
+hunt of the great whys that the knife is useful at all, I am sure it
+comes often to remove growths and diseased flesh and bone that have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[Pg 155]</a></span>
+gotten so by man's ignorance of a few great truths. 1st, If blood is
+allowed to be taken to a gland or organ, and not taken away in due time
+the accumulation will become bulky enough to stop the excretory nerves
+and cause local paralysis; then the nutrient nerves proceed to construct
+tumors, and on and on until there is no relief but the knife or death.
+Had this blood not been conveyed there, it would not be there at all,
+either in bulk or less quantities. Had it simply done its work and
+passed on we could have no material to grow such abnormal beings. If a
+tumefaction appears in one side, and not in the other, why so? and why
+is there no growth in one side the same as the other? It takes no great
+effort of mind to see that the veins did not receive and carry off the
+blood, and a growth was natural, as the condition could not do otherwise
+and be true to nature. Thus man's ignorance has made a condition for the
+knife. Had he taken the hint and let the blood pass on when its work was
+done, he would not have to witness the guillotine of death to his
+patients, whose early pains told him a renal vein or some vessel below
+the diaphragm was ligated by an impacted colon, or a few ribs pulling
+and bringing diaphragm down across vena cava and thoracic duct and
+causing excitement or paralysis of solar plexus, or any other nerves
+that pass<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[Pg 156]</a></span> through diaphragm with blood to and from heart and lungs.</p>
+
+
+<h4>TO FIND THE CAUSE.</h4>
+
+<p>How to find causes of diseases or where a hindrance is located that
+stops blood is a great mental worry to the Osteopath when he is called
+to treat a patient. The patient tells him "where he hurts," how much "he
+hurts," how long "he has hurt," how hot or cold he is. The doctor puts
+this symptom and that symptom in a column, adds them up according to the
+latest books on symptomatology, finally he is able to guess at some name
+to call the disease. Then he proceeds and treats as his pap's father
+heard his granny say their old family doctor treated "them sort of
+diseases in North Carolina." An Osteopath feels bad to have to hunt
+cause for diseases, and not know how to start out to find the mechanical
+cause. He feels that the people expect more than guessing of an
+Osteopath. He feels that he must put his hand on the cause and prove
+what he says by what he does, that he will not get off by the feeble
+minded trash of stale habits that go with doctors of medicine, and by
+his knowledge he must show his ability to go beyond the musty bread of
+symptomatology and water his patients made, from the cider of the ripe
+apples from the tree of knowledge.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>MUST BE HONEST.</h4>
+
+<p>An Osteopath should be a clear-headed, conscientious, truth loving man,
+and never speak until he knows he has found and can demonstrate the
+truth he claims to know.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FOLLOWING ARTERIES AND NERVES.</h4>
+
+<p>I understand anatomy and physiology after fifty years casual and close
+attention, the last twenty years being very continued and close
+attention to what has been said, by all the best writers whom I have
+perused, many of whom are considered standard guides for the student and
+practitioner to be governed by. I have dissected and witnessed the very
+best anatomists that the world affords dissect. I have followed the
+knife after arteries through the whole distribution of blood of arterial
+systems, to the great and small vessels, until the lenses of the most
+powerful microscopes seemed to exhaust their ability to perceive the
+termination of the artery; with the same care following the knife and
+microscope from nerve center to terminals of the large to the infinitely
+small fibers around which those fine nerve vines entwine. First like a
+bean entwining by way of the right around and up continuing to the
+right, and then turn my microscope to the entwining of another set of
+nerves which is to the left universally as the hop. Those nerves are<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</a></span>
+solid, cylindrical and stratified in form, with many leading from the
+lymphatics to the artery, and to the red and white muscles, fascia,
+cellular-membrane, striated and unstriated organs, all connecting to and
+traveling with the artery, and continuing with it through its whole
+circuit from start to terminals.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FEEDING THE NERVES.</h4>
+
+<p>Like a thirsty herd of camels, the whole nerve system, sensory, motor,
+nutrient, voluntary and involuntary; this herd of sappers or hungry
+nerves seems to be in sufficient quantities and numbers to consume all
+blood and cause the philosopher to ask the question: "Is not the labor
+of the artery complete when it has fed the hungry nerves?" Is he not
+justified in the conclusion that the nerves do gestate and send forth
+all substances that are applied by nature in the construction of man? If
+this philosophy be true, then he who arms himself for the battles of
+Osteopathy when combating diseases, has a guide and a light whereby he
+can land safely in port from every voyage.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE BLOOD ON ITS JOURNEY.</h4>
+
+<p>Turn the eye of reason to the heart and observe the blood start on its
+journey. It leaves in great haste and never stops even in the smaller
+arteries. It is all in motion and very quick and pow<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[Pg 159]</a></span>erful at all
+places. Its motion indicates no evidence of construction even supposable
+during such time, but we can find in the lymphatics, cells or pockets,
+motion slow enough to suppose that in such cells, living beings can be
+formed and carried to their places by the lymphatics for the purposes
+they must fill, as bone, or muscle. Let us reason that blood has a great
+and universal duty to perform, if it constructs, nourishes, and keeps
+the whole nerve system normal in form and function.</p>
+
+
+<h4>POWERS NECESSARY TO MOVE BLOOD.</h4>
+
+<p>As blood and other fluids of life are ponderable bodies of different
+consistences, and are moved through the system to construct, purify,
+vitalize and furnish power necessary to keep the machinery in action, we
+must reason on the different powers necessary to move those bodies
+through arteries, veins, ducts, over nerves, spongy membranes, fascia,
+muscles, ligaments, glands and skin; and judge from their unequal
+density, and adjust force to meet the demand according to kinds, to be
+sent to and from all parts.</p>
+
+
+<h4>VENOUS BLOOD SUSPENDED.</h4>
+
+<p>Suppose venous blood to be suspended by cold or other causes in the
+lungs to the amount of &oelig;dema of the fascia, another mental look would
+see the nerves of the fascia of the lungs in a high<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[Pg 160]</a></span> state of
+excitement, cramping fascia on veins which is bound to stop flow of
+blood to heart. No blood can pass through a vein that is closed by
+resistance, nor can it ever do it until resistance is suspended. Thus
+the cause of nerve irritation must be found and removed before the
+channels can relax and open sufficiently to admit the passage of the
+fluids being obstructed. And in order to remove this obstructing cause,
+we must go to the nerve supply of the lungs, or any other part of the
+body, and direct our attention to the cause of the nerve excitement, and
+that only; and prosecute the investigation to a finish. If the breathing
+be too fast and hurried, address your attention to the motor nerves,
+then to the sensory, for through them you regulate and reduce the
+excitement of the motor nerves of the arteries. As soon as sensation is
+reduced the motor and sensory circuit is completed and the labor of the
+artery is less, because of venous resistance having been removed. The
+circuit of electricity is complete as proven by the completed arterial
+and venous circuit for the reduction of motor irritation. The high
+temperature disappears because distress gives place to the normal, and
+recovery is the result.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[Pg 161]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_X" id="CHAPTER_X"></a>CHAPTER X.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">The Fascia.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Where Is Disease Sown?&mdash;An Illustration of Conception&mdash;The Greatest
+Problem&mdash;A Fountain of Supply&mdash;Fascia Omnipresent&mdash;Connection with
+Spinal Cord&mdash;Goes With and Covers All Muscles&mdash;Proofs in
+Contagion&mdash;Study of Nerves and Fascia&mdash;Tumefy&mdash;Tumefaction. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>WHERE DISEASE IS SOWN.</h4>
+
+<p>Disease is evidently sown as atoms of gas fluids, or solids. A suitable
+place is necessary first to deposit the active principle of life, be
+that what it may. Then a responsive kind of nourishment must be obtained
+by the being to be developed. Thus we must find in animals that part of
+the body that can assist by action and by qualified food to develop the
+being in f&oelig;tal life. Reason calls the mind to the rule of man's
+gestative life first, and as a basis of thought, we look at the
+quickening atom, the coming being, when only by the aid of a powerful
+microscope can we see the vital germ. It looks like an atom of white
+fibrin or detached particle of fascia. It leaves one parent as an atom
+of fascia, and to live and grow, must dwell among friendly surroundings,
+and be fed by such food as contains albumen, fibrin and lymph; also the
+nerve gen<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[Pg 162]</a></span>erating power and qualities, as it then and there begins to
+construct a suitable form in which to live and flourish. And as the
+fascia is the best suited with nerves, blood, and white corpuscles, it
+is but reasonable to look for the part that is composed of the greatest
+per cent of fascia, and expect it, the germ, to dwell there for support
+and growth.</p>
+
+
+<h4>AN ILLUSTRATION OF CONCEPTION.</h4>
+
+<p>When you follow the germ from father until it has left his system of
+fascia, we find it flourishing in the womb, which organ is almost a
+complete being of itself. The center, origin, and mother of all fascias.
+It there dwells and grows to birth, and appears as a completed being, a
+product of the life giving powers of the fascia.</p>
+
+<p>With this foundation established we think we prove conception, growth,
+and cause of all diseases to be in the fascia.</p>
+
+<p>As this philosophy has chosen the fascia as a foundation on which to
+stand, we hope the reader will chain his patience for a few minutes on
+the subject of the fascia, and its relation to vitality. It stands
+before the philosopher as one of, if not the deepest living problems
+ever brought before the mind of man.</p>
+
+<p>We will ask your attention in the attached effort to describe the fascia
+at greater length: It be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span>ing that principle that sheathes, permeates,
+divides and sub-divides every portion of all animal bodies; surrounding
+and penetrating every muscle and all its fibers&mdash;every artery, and every
+fiber and principle thereunto belonging, and grows more wonderful as
+your eye is turned upon the venous system with its great company of
+lymphatics, which supplies the water of life, used to reduce too heavily
+thickened blood of the veins, as it approaches the heart on its journey,
+to be renewed after purification and thrown back into the arteries to
+patrol, nourish and supply from headquarters to the videts of this great
+moving army of life, the substance of which we are now speaking.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE GREATEST PROBLEM.</h4>
+
+<p>The fascia is universal in man and equal in self to all other parts, and
+stands before the world to-day the greatest problem, the most pleasing
+thought. It carries to the mind of the philosopher the evidence,
+absolute, that it is the "material man," and the dwelling place his of
+spiritual being. It is the house of God, the dwelling place of the
+Infinite so far as man is concerned. It is the fort which the enemy of
+life takes by conquest through disease and winds up the combat and
+places thereon the black flag of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span> "no quarters." That enemy is sure to
+capture all forts known as human beings at some time, although the
+engagement may last for many years. Procrastination of surrender can
+only be obtained by giving timely support to the supply of nourishment,
+with an unobstructed condition, kept up in favor of the nerves
+interested in the renewal of the human system, that powerful life force
+that is bequeathed to man and all other beings, and acts through the
+fascia of man and beast.</p>
+
+
+<h4>A FOUNTAIN OF SUPPLY.</h4>
+
+<p>The fascia gives one of, if not the greatest problems to solve as to the
+part it takes in life and death. It belts each muscle, vein, nerve, and
+all organs of the body. It is almost a network of nerves, cells and
+tubes, running to and from it; it is crossed and filled with, no doubt,
+millions of nerve centers and fibers to carry on the work of secreting
+and excreting fluid vital and destructive. By its action we live, and by
+its failure we shrink, or swell, and die. Each muscle plays its part in
+active life. Each fiber of all muscles owes its pliability to that
+yielding septum-washer, that gives all muscles help to glide over and
+around all adjacent muscles and ligaments, without friction or jar. It
+not only lubricates the fibers but gives<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span> nourishment to all parts of
+the body. Its nerves are so abundant that no atom of flesh fails to get
+nerve and fluid supply therefrom.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FASCIA OMNIPRESENT.</h4>
+
+<p>This life is surely too short to solve the uses of the fascia in animal
+forms. It penetrates even its own finest fibers to supply and assist its
+gliding elasticity. Just a thought of the completeness and universality
+in all parts, even though you turn the visions of your mind to follow
+the infinitely fine nerves. There you see the fascia, and in your wonder
+and surprise, you exclaim, "Omnipresent in man and all other living
+beings of the land and sea."</p>
+
+<p>Other great questions come to haunt the mind with joy and admiration,
+and we can see all the beauties of life on exhibition by that great
+power with which the fascia is endowed. The soul of man with all the
+streams of pure living water seems to dwell in the fascia of his body.</p>
+
+<p>Does it not throw hot shot and shells of thought into man's famishing
+chamber of reason; to feel that he has seen by thought the frame work of
+life the dwelling place on which life sojourns? He feels that he can
+find all disturbing causes of life, the place that diseases germinate
+and grow, the seeds of disease and death.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[Pg 166]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>CONNECTION WITH THE SPINAL CORD.</h4>
+
+<p>As life finds its general nutrient law in the fascia and its nerves, we
+must connect them to the great source of supply by a cord running the
+length of the spine, by which all nerves are supplied by the brain. The
+cord throws out and supplies millions of nerves by which all organs and
+parts are supplied with the elements of motion, all go to and terminate
+in that great system, the fascia.</p>
+
+<p>As we dip our cups deeper and deeper into the ocean of thought we feel
+that the solution of life and health is close to the field of the
+telescope of our mental search lights, and soon we will find the road to
+health so plainly written that the wayfaring man cannot err though he be
+a fool.</p>
+
+
+<h4>GOES WITH AND COVERS ALL MUSCLES.</h4>
+
+<p>As the student of anatomy explores the subject under his knife and
+microscope he easily finds this membrane goes with and covers all
+muscles, tendons and fibers, and separates them even to the least fiber.
+All organs have a covering of this substance, though they may have names
+to suit the organs, surfaces or parts spoken of.</p>
+
+<p>We write much of the universality of the fascia to impress the reader
+with the idea that this connecting substance must be free at all parts
+to receive and discharge all fluids, if healthy to appro<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</a></span>priate and use
+in sustaining animal life, and eject all impurities that health may not
+be impaired by the dead and poisoning fluids. Thus a knowledge of the
+universal extent of the fascia is almost imperative, and is one of the
+greatest aids to the person who seeks cause of disease. He of all men
+should know more of the fascia, and when disease is local or general.
+That the fascia and its nerves demand his attention first, and on his
+knowledge of the same, much of his success, and the life of his patients
+do depend.</p>
+
+<p>Will the student of Osteopathy stop just a moment and see his medical
+cotemporary plow the skin with the needle of his hypodermic syringe. He
+drives it into and unloads his morphine and other poisonous drugs under
+the skin, and into the very center of the nerves of the superficial
+fascia. He produces paralysis of all nerves by this method, just as
+certainly as if he had put his poison in the cerebellum, but not so
+certain to produce instantaneous death as to unload in the brain. But if
+he is faithfully ignorant, he will kill just as certainly at one place
+as the other, because the poisonous effects can be easily taken to every
+fiber of the whole body by the nerves and fibers of the fascia.</p>
+
+<p>When you deal with the fascia you deal and do business with the branch
+offices of the brain, and under the general corporation law, the same as
+the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</a></span> brain itself, and why not treat it with the same degree of respect?</p>
+
+<p>The doctor of medicine does effectual work through the medium of the
+fascia. Why not you relax, contract, stimulate and clean the whole
+system of all diseases by that willing and sufficient power to renovate
+all parts of the system, from deadly compounds that generate through
+delay and stagnation of fluids while in the fascia.</p>
+
+<p>Our school is young, but the laws that govern life are as old as the
+hours of all ages. We may find much that has never been written nor
+practiced before, but all such discoveries are truths born with the
+birth of eternity, old as God and as true as life.</p>
+
+<p>The difference between a philosopher and a less powerful thinker is one
+observes alone, and depends on his own powers of mind to arrive at
+truth. Another lacks self confidence and mental energy.</p>
+
+
+<h4>PROOFS IN CONTAGION.</h4>
+
+<p>If disease is so highly attenuated, so etherial, and penetrable in
+quality, and multiple in atoms; and a breath of air two quarts or more
+taken into the lungs fully charged with contagion, how many thousand air
+cells could be impregnated by one single breath? Say we take a case of
+measles into a schoolroom of sixty pupils, in a warm and poorly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</a></span>
+oxygenized atmosphere all day, would not the living gas thrown off from
+active measles enter and irritate the air cells and close the most
+irritable cells with the poisonous gas retained for active development
+in those womb-like departments in the lungs.</p>
+
+<p>Now you have the seeds in thousands of cells, which are as vital and
+well supplied by nerves and blood as the womb itself. Would not reason
+see the development of millions more of the vital beings who get their
+nourishment from the vitality found in the human fascia, which comes
+nearer to the surface in the lungs than in any part of the system,
+except it be the womb.</p>
+
+<p>In proof of the certainty of measles being taken up by the lungs at one
+breath and caught by the secretions and conveyed to the universal system
+of fascia to develop the contagion, I will give the case of one of my
+boys who was sick with cold as I supposed; watering of eyes, cough,
+fever and headache. He was in the country about eight miles from home,
+and on our return stopped to get his books at a small school house. He
+ran in, picked up his books that were lying upon the desk, walked the
+length of the room which was about forty feet, was not there over
+one-half minute and in just nine days forty-two children broke out with
+measles. So<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[Pg 170]</a></span> certain is contagion to be taken up by the nerves and
+vitalizing fluids of the fascia.</p>
+
+<p>It seems that all the fascia needs to develop anything is to have the
+seed planted in its arms for construction, the work will be done,
+labeled, and handed out for inspection by the inspectors of all works.</p>
+
+
+<h4>STUDY OF NERVES AND FASCIA.</h4>
+
+<p>We must remember as we reason on the power of life which is located in
+the fascia, that it occupies the whole body, and should we find a local
+region that is disordered and wish to, we can relieve that part through
+that local plexus of nerves which controls that organ and division. Thus
+your attention should be directed to all nerves of that part. Sensory,
+to modify sensation, blood must not be let run to the part by wild
+motion, its flow must be gentle to suit the demands of nutrition,
+otherwise weakness takes the place of strength, then we lose the
+benefits of the nerves of nutrition, by which strength of all systems of
+force are kept in action during life.</p>
+
+<p>Suppose the nerves that supply the lungs with motion should stop, the
+lungs would stop also; suppose they should half stop, the lungs would
+surely half stop. Now we must reason, if we succeed in relieving lungs,
+that all kinds of nerves are found in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</a></span> them. The lungs move, thus you
+find motor; they have feeling, thus the sensory; they grow by nutrition,
+(thus the nutrient nerves;) they move by will, or without it; they have
+a voluntary and involuntary system; they move in sleep by the
+involuntary system.</p>
+
+<p>The blood supply comes under the motor system of nerves, and delivers at
+proper places for the convenience of the nerves of nutrition. The
+sensory nerves limit the supply of arterial blood to the quantity
+necessary, as the construction is going on by each successive stroke of
+the heart. They limit the action of the lungs, receive and expel air in
+quantities sufficient to keep up purity of the blood, etc. With this
+foundation we observe if too great action of the motor nerves, shows by
+breathing too often to be normal, we are admonished to reduce breathing
+by addressing attention to the sensory nerves of lungs, in order that
+the blood may pass through the veins, whose irritability has refused to
+receive the blood, farther than arterial terminals. So soon as sensation
+is reduced relaxation of nerve fibers of veins tolerates the passage of
+venous blood, which is deposited in the spongy portions of the lungs in
+such quantities as to overcome the activity of the nerves of renovation
+that accompanies the fascia in its process of ejection of all fluids
+that have been detained an abnormal time, first in the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</a></span> region of the
+fascia, then in the arterial and venous circulation. Thus you see what
+must be done. The veins as channels must carry away all blood as soon as
+it has deposited its nutrient supplies to the places for which it is
+constructed, otherwise, by delay vitality by asphyxia is lost to the
+blood which calls a greater force of the arterial pumps to drive the
+blood through the parts, ruptures its capillaries and deposits the blood
+in the mucous membrane; until nerves of the fascia becomes powerless by
+surrounding pressure, which causes through the sensory nerves an
+irritability at the heart, which puts in force all its powers of motion.</p>
+
+
+<h4>TUMEFY, TUMEFACTION.</h4>
+
+<p>Webster's definition of tumefaction is to swell by any fluids or solids
+being detained abnormally at any place in the body.</p>
+
+<p>The location may be in, or on any part of the system. No part is exempt;
+even the brain, heart, lungs, liver, stomach and bowels, bladder,
+kidneys, uterus, lymphatics, glands, nerves, veins, arteries, skin and
+all membranes are subject to swellings locally or generally, and with
+equal certainty they perish and shrink away. If either condition should
+exist death to the parts or all of the body will occur from want of
+nutrition. Instance, in lung fever which begins when swelling is
+established in lymphatics of lungs, trachea, nostrils, throat and face.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</a></span>
+At once you see the pressure on the nerve fibers compressed to such
+degree that they cannot operate excretories of lungs or any part of the
+pulmonary, system. Veins, suspended by irritation of the nerves,
+arteries are excited to fever heat in action with increase of
+tumefaction. A tumefying condition undoubtedly marks the beginning of
+all catarrhal diseases. Its ravages extend to the diseases of the fall
+and winter seasons. They are so marked on examination that the most
+skeptical cannot dispute or doubt the truth of this position. In fact he
+is already committed to a belief that there is something in the fluids
+that he must purify by the chemical process of drugs.</p>
+
+
+<h4>MEDICAL DOCTOR'S TREATMENT.</h4>
+
+<p>He looks on, and treats winter diseases with powerful purgatives,
+sweats, blisters, hot and cold applications with a view to remove
+congesting fluids. He is not very certain which team of medical power he
+can depend on. He hitches up many kinds of drugs hoping that a few of
+them may be able to carry the burden. He bridles his horses with opium,
+loads them down with purgative powders, and whips them through with
+castor oil, and for fear they will not travel fast enough he uses as a
+spur a delicately formed instrument known as the hypodermic syringe. He
+punches and prods until<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</a></span> his horses fall exhausted. Disease and death
+should give him a large pension for the assistance he has rendered in
+their service. All is guess work whose father and mother are "Tradition
+and Ignorance." Ignorance of the kind that is wholly inexcusable to
+anyone but a medical doctor. An Osteopath who does not understand the
+general law of tumefaction of the whole system is not excusable from the
+fact that tumefaction, disease and death are so plainly written on the
+face of all diseases that the blind need not have eyes to see, nor the
+philosopher any brain to enable him to know this foundation is the
+highest known truth of all man's intellectual possessions. Thus by the
+law of tumefaction, death can and does succumb to its indomitable will.
+Observations without record will show any fair minded person that
+tumefaction does cause death in the majority of cases. But another power
+is equally as effective in destruction of life which is just the reverse
+of tumefaction. It destroys by withholding nutrition and all of the
+fluids; the effect is starvation, shrinkage and death. Thus you see it
+is equally certain in results. In the one case death ensues from an
+overplus of unappropriated fluids of nutrition, in the other there is no
+appropriation to sustain animal life and the patient dies from
+starvation. The same law holds good in the parts as well as in the whole
+body.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[Pg 175]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XI" id="CHAPTER_XI"></a>CHAPTER XI.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Fevers.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Be Armed With Facts&mdash;Union of Human Gases With Oxygen&mdash;Fever and
+Nettle-rash. Nature Constructs for a Wise Purpose&mdash;Processes of
+Life Must be Kept in Motion&mdash;No Satisfaction from Authors&mdash;Animal
+Heat&mdash;Semeiology&mdash;Symptomatology&mdash;Definition of Fever&mdash;Fevers only
+Effects&mdash;Result of Stoppages of Vein or Artery&mdash;Aneurisms. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>BE ARMED WITH FACTS.</h4>
+
+<p>When we reason for causes we must begin with facts, and hold them
+constantly in line for action, and use, all the time. It would be good
+advice never to enter a contest without your saber is of the purest
+steel of reason. By such only can you cut your way to the magazine of
+truth.</p>
+
+<p>As we line up to learn something of the cause of fever, we are met by
+heat, a living fact. Does that put the machinery of your mind in motion?
+If not, what will arouse your mental energy? You see that heat is not
+like cold. It is not a horse with eyes, head, neck, body, limbs and
+tail; but it is as much of a being as the horse; it is a being of heat.
+If cause made the horse, and cause made the heat, why not devote all
+energy in seeking for cause in all disturbances of life?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[Pg 176]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>UNION OF HUMAN GASES WITH OXYGEN.</h4>
+
+<p>Who says heat is not a union of the human gases with oxygen and other
+substances as they pass out of the excretory system. By what force do
+parts of the engine of life move? If by the motor power of electricity,
+how fast must the heart or life current run to ignite the gasolene of
+the body and set a person on fire and burn to fever heat?</p>
+
+<p>If we know anything of the laws of electricity, we must know velocity
+modulates its temperature. Thus heat and cold are the effect.</p>
+
+<p>If we understand anatomy as we should, we know man is the greatest
+engine ever produced, complete in form, an electro-magnet, a motor, and
+would be incomplete if it could not burn its own gases.</p>
+
+<p>When man, is said to have fever, he is only on "fire," to burn out the
+deadly gases, which a perverted, dirty, abnormal, laboratory, has
+allowed to accumulate by friction of the journals of his body, or in the
+supply of vital fluids. We are only complete when normal in all
+parts,&mdash;a true compass points to the normal only.</p>
+
+<p>When reasoning on the fever subject would it not be strictly in line to
+suppose that the lowest perceptible grade of fever requires a less
+additional physical energy to remove some foreign body from<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[Pg 177]</a></span> the person,
+that at first would naturally show a very light effect upon the human
+system, which would be the effect of itchy sensation.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FEVER AND NETTLE-RASH.</h4>
+
+<p>Let us stop and reason. Might this effect (itching) not come from
+obstructed gases that flow through and from the skin? If gas should be
+detained in the system by the excretory ducts the substance closing the
+porous system would cause irritation of nerves, and increase the heart's
+action to such degree that the temperature is raised to fever heat, by
+the velocity with which electricity is brought into action. Electricity
+being the force that is naturally required to contract muscles and force
+gases from the body.</p>
+
+<p>Let us advance higher in the scale of foreign bodies until we arrive to
+the condition of steam, which is more dense than gas. Would it not take
+more force to discharge it? By the same rule of reasoning we find water
+to be much thicker as an element than either gas or steam.</p>
+
+<p>Then we have lymph as another element, albumen, fibrin, with all the
+elements found in arterial and venous blood, all of which forces
+required to circulate, pass through and out of the system, must be
+increased to suit. Therefore we are brought to this conclusion, that the
+different degrees of tem<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[Pg 178]</a></span>perature do mark the density of the fluids with
+which the motor engine has to contend.</p>
+
+<p>If gas produces an itching sensation, would it not be reasonable to
+suppose that the consistence of lymph would cause elevations on the
+skin, such as nettle-rash.</p>
+
+<p>If this method of reasoning sustains us thus far, why not argue that
+albumen obstructed while in the system of the fascia would require a
+much greater force to put it through the skin. The excretions of the
+body would cause a much greater heat to even throw the albumen as far as
+the cuticle.</p>
+
+<p>If a greater, with a greater velocity, why not grant to this as cause of
+the disturbance of motor energy equal to measles. Let us add to this
+albumen a quantity of fibrin, have we not cause to expect the energy
+hereby required to be equal to that nerve and blood energy found in
+smallpox?</p>
+
+<p>If this be true, have we not a foundation in truth on which to base our
+conclusions? That the difference in forces manifested is the resistance
+offered by the difference in the consistence of devitalized fluids which
+the nerves and fibers of the fascia labor to excrete.</p>
+
+
+<h4>NATURE CONSTRUCTS TO SUIT A WISE PURPOSE.</h4>
+
+<p>By close observation the philosopher who is hunting to acquaint himself
+with the laws of cause<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[Pg 179]</a></span> and effect, finds upon his voyages as an
+explorer, that nature as cause does construct for wise purposes; and
+shows as much wisdom in the construction and preparation of all bodies,
+beings and worlds, as the workings of those beings show when in action.</p>
+
+<p>As life, the highest known principle sent forth by nature to vivify,
+construct and govern all beings, it is expected to be the indweller and
+operator, and one of the greatest perceivable and universal laws of
+nature. And when it becomes necessary to break the friendly relation
+between life and matter, nature closes up the channels of supply.</p>
+
+<p>It may begin its work near the heart, at the origin of the greatest
+blood vessels, or do its work at any point. It may begin its closing
+process at the extremities of the veins or anywhere where exhausted
+vital fluids may enter for return to the heart for renewal by union with
+new material.</p>
+
+<p>As nature is never satisfied with incompleteness in anything, all
+interferences from whatsoever cause are sufficient for nature to call a
+halt and begin the work of excavation by bringing the necessary fluids,
+already prepared in the chemical laboratory, to dissolve and wash away
+all obstructing deposits previous to beginning the work of
+reconstruction, which is to repair all injured parts of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[Pg 180]</a></span> machinery
+if disabled by atmospheric cause, poisons, or otherwise.</p>
+
+<p>When nature renovates it is never satisfied to leave any obstruction in
+any part of the body. All the powers of its battery force are brought in
+line to do duty, and never stop short of completeness which ends in
+perfection.</p>
+
+<p>All seasons of the year come and go, and we see year in and out the
+perpetual processes of construction of one class of bodies, and the
+passing away of others.</p>
+
+<p>Vegetation builds forests, and cold builds mountains of ice to be
+dissolved and sent into the ocean to purify the water, and keep the
+brines from drying to powder, as salt.</p>
+
+
+<h4>PROCESSES OF LIFE MUST BE KEPT IN MOTION.</h4>
+
+<p>All the processes of earth-life, must be kept in perpetual motion to
+cultivate and be kept in healthy condition, or the world would wither
+and die, and go to the tombs of space, to join the funeral procession of
+other dead worlds. Thus you see all nature comes and goes by the fiat of
+wisely adjusted laws.</p>
+
+
+<h4>NO SATISFACTION FROM AUTHORS.</h4>
+
+<p>Read all the authors from &AElig;sculapius to this date, and all combined
+leave the inquirers without a single fact as to the cause or causes of
+fever.</p>
+
+<p>One says fever may come from too much car<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[Pg 181]</a></span>bon. Another says chemical
+defects may be the cause.</p>
+
+<p>I would like to agree with some of the good men of our date or the
+ancient theorists if I could, but they, both dead and alive, are a blank
+except the tons of paper they have covered all over with conjectures,
+and closed out by the words "Perhaps so's and howevers" spoken in all
+tongues and languages on earth.</p>
+
+<p>All have explored for centuries for the cause of fevers, and on return
+from their multiple voyages say, we hope some day to find the cause. We
+have killed many dogs experimenting, but have failed to find the cause
+of fever.</p>
+
+
+<h4>ANIMAL HEAT.</h4>
+
+<p>To think of fever, we think of animal heat. By habit we want to know how
+great the heat is. We measure by a yard stick till we find we have 100&deg;,
+102&deg;, 104&deg;, to 106&deg;, at this point we stop as we find too many yards of
+red calico to suit the size of the purse of life. Which we think cannot
+consume more than 106 yards of heat. We begin to ask for the substances
+that are more powerful than fire. We try all known fire compounds and
+fail. The fire department had done faithful work, and all it could bring
+to bear on the fire. It had put on hose and steam, knocked shingles off
+and windows out, but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[Pg 182]</a></span> not until the fire had ruined the house with all
+its inside and outside usefulness and beauties. Another and another
+house gets on fire and burns just as the first did. All are content to
+see the ruins and say it is the will of the Lord; never thinking for a
+moment that it was with the aid of the heart that the brain burned up
+the body.</p>
+
+<p>Of what use is a knowledge of anatomy to man if he overlooks cause and
+effect in the results obtained by the machinery that anatomy should
+teach? He finds each part connected to all others with the wisdom that
+has given a set of plans and specifications that are without a flaw or
+omission. The body generates its own heat and modulates to suit climate
+and season. It can generate through its electro-motor system far beyond
+the kindly normal, to the highest known fever heat, and is capable of
+modulations far above or below normal. A knowledge of Osteopathy will
+prepare you to bring the system under the rulings of the physical laws
+of life. Fever is electric heat only.</p>
+
+
+<h4>SEMEIOLOGY.</h4>
+
+<p>(Med.) The science of the signs or symptoms of disease.</p>
+
+
+<h4>SYMPTOMATOLOGY.</h4>
+
+<p>The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which
+treats of the symptoms of disease. Semeiology.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>These definitions are from Webster's International Dictionary,
+considered by all English speaking people as a standard authority. Both
+words are chosen names to represent that system of guess work, which is
+now and has been used as a method of ascertaining what disease is or
+might be. It is supposed to be the best method known to date to classify
+or name diseases, after which guessing begins in earnest. What kinds of
+poisons, how much and how often to use them, and guess how much good or
+how much harm is being done to the sick person.</p>
+
+<p>To illustrate more forcibly, to the mind of the reader that such system
+though honored by age is only worthy the name of guess work, as shown by
+the following standard authority on fevers:</p>
+
+
+<h4>POTTER'S DEFINITION OF FEVER.</h4>
+
+<p>"Fever is a condition in which there are present the phenomena of rise
+of temperature, quickened circulation, marked tissue change, and
+disordered secretions.</p>
+
+<p>"The primary cause of the fever phenomena is still a mooted (discussed
+and debated) question, and is either a disorder of the sympathetic
+nervous system giving rise to disturbances of the vaso-motor filaments,
+or a derangement of the nerve centers located adjacent to the corpus
+striatum, which have been found, by experiment, to govern the processes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[Pg 184]</a></span>
+of heat production, distribution, and dissipation.</p>
+
+<p>"Rise of temperature is the pre-eminent feature of all fevers, and can
+only be positively determined by the use of the clinical thermometer.
+The term feverishness is used when the temperature ranges from 99&deg; to
+100&deg; fahr.; slight fever if 100&deg; or 101&deg;; moderate, 102&deg; or 103&deg;; high
+if 104&deg; or 105&deg; and intense if it exceed the latter. The term
+hyperpyrexia is used when the temperature shows a tendency to remain at
+106&deg; fahr. and above.</p>
+
+<p>"Quickened circulation is the rule in fevers, the frequency usually
+maintaining a fair ratio with the increase of the temperature. A rise of
+one degree fahr. is usually attended with an increase of eight to ten
+beats of the pulse per minute.</p>
+
+<p>"The following table gives a fair comparison between temperature and
+pulse:&mdash;</p>
+
+
+
+<div class='centered'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="2" width="55%" cellspacing="0" summary="comparison between temperature and
+pulse">
+<tr><th align='center' colspan="7">TABLE OF DEGREES.</th></tr>
+<tr><td align='center' style="width: 40%;">A temperature of</td><td align='right' style="width: 15%;">98&deg;</td><td align='center' style="width: 15%;">corresponds</td><td align='center' style="width: 15%;">to a</td><td align='center' style="width: 15%;">pulse of</td><td align='right' style="width: 15%;">60&deg;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>99&deg;</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>70&deg;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>100&deg;F</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>80&deg;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>101&deg;F</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>90&deg;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>102&deg;F</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>100&deg;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>103&deg;F</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>110&deg;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>104&deg;F</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>120&deg;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>105&deg;F</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>130&deg;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>106&deg;F</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='center'>"</td><td align='right'>"</td><td align='right'>140&deg;</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<p>"The tissue waste is marked in proportion to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[Pg 185]</a></span> the severity and duration
+of the febrile phenomena, being slight or (nil) in febricula, and
+excessive in typhoid fever.</p>
+
+<p>"The disordered secretions are manifested by the deficiency in the
+salivary, gastric, intestinal, and nephritic secretions, the tongue
+being furred, the mouth clammy, and there occurring anorexia, thirst,
+constipation, and scanty, high-colored acid urine."<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a></p>
+
+
+
+<h4>FEVERS ONLY EFFECTS.</h4>
+
+<p>Fevers are effects only. The cause may be far from mental conclusions.
+If we have a house with one bell, and ten wires each fastened to a door
+running to the center, all having wire connection and so arranged that
+to pull any one wire will set the bell in motion, and without an
+indicator you cannot tell which wire is disturbed, producing the effect
+or ringing of the bell at the center. An electrician would know at once
+the cause, but to discriminate and locate the wire disturbed is the
+study.</p>
+
+<p>Before a bell can be heard from any door, the general battery must be
+charged. Thus you see but one source of supply. To better illustrate&mdash;we
+will take a house with eight rooms, and all supplied by one battery&mdash;one
+is a reception room, one a par<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[Pg 186]</a></span>lor, one a sitting room, one bed room,
+one cloak room, one dining room, one a kitchen, and one a basement room,
+all having wires and bells running to one bell in the clerk's office,
+which has an indicator for each room by numbers on its face. If the
+machinery is in good order he can call and answer correctly all the time
+and never make a mistake. But should he ring to call the cook and her
+bell keep on ringing and she and clerk could not stop it, and they
+summon an electrician, what would you think if he began at the parlor
+bell to adjust a trouble of the kitchen bell? Surely you would not have
+him treat the parlor bell first, because you know the cook could only
+answer by the effect, or rattling of the office bell. Hers is cause,
+sound at office, effect. Now to apply this illustration, we will say a
+system of bells and connecting wires run to all parts or rooms of the
+body, from the battery of power or the brain, conveyed by the strings of
+wires or nerves, that are put up and run to all active or vital parts of
+the body. Thus arranged we see how blood is driven to any part of the
+system, by the power that is sent over the nerves from the brain to the
+spinal cord, and from there to all nerves of each and all divisions of
+the body. Then your blood that has done its work in constructing parts
+or all of the system, entering veins to be returned to the heart for
+renewal. Each vein, great and small, has nerves<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[Pg 187]</a></span> with them as servants
+of power, to force blood back to heart through the different sets of
+tubes known as veins, and made to suit the duties they have to perform
+in the process of life. As it travels to the heart with blood too thick
+to suit the lungs, the great system of lymphatics pour in water to suit
+demands, preparatory to entering the lungs to be purified and renewed.
+Thus you see nature has amply prepared all the machinery and power to
+prepare material and construct all parts, and when in normal condition
+the mind and wisdom of God is satisfied that the machine will go on and
+build and run according to the plan and specification. If this be true
+as nature proves at every point and principle, what can man do farther
+than plumb, line up, and trust to nature to get results desired, "life
+and health?" Can we add or suggest any improvement? If not, what is left
+for us to do is to keep bells, batteries and wires in normal place and
+trust to normal law as given by nature.</p>
+
+
+<h4>RESULT OF STOPPAGE OF VEIN OR ARTERY.</h4>
+
+<p>But few questions remain to be asked by the philosophical navigator when
+he sets sail to go to the cause of flux. Would he go to blood supply?
+Certainly, there must be supply previous to deposit. Reason would cause
+us to combine the fact that blood must be in perpetual motion from and
+to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[Pg 188]</a></span> heart during life, and that law is the fiat of all nature which
+is indispensable and absolute. Blood must not stop its motion nor be
+allowed to unduly deposit, as the heart's action is perpetual in motion.
+The work is complete of the heart if it delivers blood into the
+exploring arteries. Each division must to do its part fully as a normal
+heart does, or can in the greatest measure of health; and a normally
+formed heart is just as much interested in the blood that is running
+constantly for repairs and additions, as the whole system is on the
+arteries for supply. Thus you must have perfection in shape first, and
+from it to all parts as far as an artery reaches. All hindrances must be
+kept away from the arteries great and small. Health permits of no
+stopping of blood in either the vein or artery. If an artery cannot
+unload its consents a strain follows, and as an artery must have room to
+deposit its supplies it proceeds to build other vessels adjacent to the
+points of obstruction.</p>
+
+
+<h4>ANEURISMS.</h4>
+
+<p>Some are builded to enormous sizes. We call them aneurisms or
+accommodation chambers, builded by nature's constructing ability of the
+arteries as deposits for blood. The artery should pass farther on, thus
+you by reason must know an obstruction has limited the flow of blood,
+and the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[Pg 189]</a></span> tumor is only an effect, and obstruction is the cause of all
+abnormal deposits, either from vein or artery. Unobstructed blood cannot
+form a tumor, nor allow inharmony to dwell in any part of the system.
+Flux is an effect, blood supply and circulation both at variation from
+normal. An artery finds veins of bowels irritated and contracted to such
+degree that arterial blood cannot enter veins with cargo of blood at
+all, and deposits its blood at terminal points in mucous membrane of
+bowels, and when membrane fails to hold all blood so delivered, then the
+first blood which dies of asphyxia finds an outlet into the bowels to be
+carried off and out by peristaltic actions. Thus you have a continuous
+deposit and discharge for arterial blood until death stops the supply.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[Pg 190]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XII" id="CHAPTER_XII"></a>CHAPTER XII.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Scarlet Fever and Smallpox.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>As defined by Allopathy&mdash;Scarlet Fever as Defined by
+Osteopathy&mdash;Smallpox&mdash;Power to Drive Greater Than in Measles. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>AS DEFINED BY ALLOPATHY.</h4>
+
+<p>"Scarlet fever begins with a short period of tired feeling. A short
+period of chilly sensation, fullness of eyes and sore throat. In a few
+hours fever begins with great heat of back of head. It soon extends all
+over the body, sick stomach and vomiting generally accompany the
+disease. Rash of a red color beginning on back, and extends to throat
+and limbs. About the second or third day, the fever is very high, from
+100&deg; to 104&deg; and generally lasts to fifth and seventh day, at which time
+fever begins to diminish, with itching over the body. The skin at this
+time throws off all of the dead scales that had been red rash in the
+fore-part of the disease. Often the lining membranes of the mouth,
+throat and tonsils slough and bleed. Also pus is often formed just under
+the skin in front of the throat. Such cases usually die.<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a></p>
+
+<p class="author">
+<span class="smcap">Allopathy.</span>"
+</p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[Pg 191]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>SCARLET FEVER AS DEFINED BY OSTEOPATHY.</h4>
+
+<p>Is a disease generally of the early spring and late fall seasons.
+Generally comes with cold and damp weathers during east winds. It begins
+with sore throat, chilly and tired feelings, followed with headache and
+vomiting. In a few hours chilly feeling leaves and fever sets in very
+high, burns your hands. The patient is rounded in chest, abdomen, face
+and limbs by congestion of the fascia and all of the lymphatic glands.
+This stagnation will soon begin its work of fermentation of the fluids
+of fascia, then you see the rash. If you do not want to see the rash and
+sloughing of throat, with a dead patient, I would advise you to train
+your guns on the blood, nerves, and lymphatics of the fascia and stop
+the cause at once, or quit.</p>
+
+<p class="author">
+<span class="smcap">Osteopathy.</span>
+</p>
+
+
+<h4>SMALLPOX.</h4>
+
+<p>If we give a thought to the action of the electro-motor force, we would
+be constrained to believe that a power that could drive gas through a
+body of great density, would be much less than one that could force
+lymph through the same density. The same of albumen.</p>
+
+
+<h4>POWER TO DRIVE GREATER THAN IN MEASLES.</h4>
+
+<p>Thus in smallpox the motor energy must be equal to the force that would
+convey al<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[Pg 192]</a></span>bumen through all tissues. Measles would be less, and so on
+according to the thickness of the fluids present. Thus you see the power
+to drive dead fluids from fascia must be much greater in smallpox than
+in cases of measles. Then we must see why the pulse of smallpox is so
+powerful during development of the pox. After killing the fluids by
+retention in the fascia of the skin, a greater force yet is created by
+hurting nerve fibers of fascia; then the motor energy appears and all
+the powers of life go to help the arteries force fluids through the skin
+and push to and leave them in the fascia of the skin to be eliminated as
+best it can. In some parts elimination fails, such places are called
+pox. They supurate and drop out leaving a pit (the pox mark). Now had
+the nerves of the skin and fascia not been irritated to contract the
+skin against the fascia passing its dead fluids through the excretory
+ducts of the skin, we probably would have no eruption. It is not quite
+reasonable to conclude that after the heart overloads the fascia and the
+nerves lose their control by pressure of fluids, that all that is left
+is chemical action to the production of pus, which throws it out of
+fascia in intervening spaces? Then should the fascia have greater death
+of its substances, we have one spot to run into others, and we have
+"confluent smallpox."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XIII" id="CHAPTER_XIII"></a>CHAPTER XIII.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">A Chapter of Wonders and Some Valuable Questions.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Wonders on the Increase&mdash;What Is Life?&mdash;How Is Action
+Produced&mdash;Acquaint Yourself With the Machinery&mdash;Duty of the
+Osteopath&mdash;Formation of Sacrum&mdash;The Pelvis&mdash;Appearance of
+&OElig;dema&mdash;Do All Diseases Have Appearance in &OElig;dema. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>WONDERS ON THE INCREASE.</h4>
+
+<p>Wonders are daily callers, and seem greatly on the increase during the
+Eighteenth century. As we read history we learn that no one hundred
+years of the past has produced wonders in such number and variety.
+Stupid systems of government have given place to better and wiser.
+Voyages of the ocean have had months by sail reduced to days by steam.
+Journeys over land that would require six months by horse and ox, are
+now accomplished in six days by rail. Our law, medical and other schools
+of five and seven years, are now but two or three; and the graduates of
+such schools are far superior in useful knowledge to those of the five
+and seven. And no wonder at that, for the facilities for giving the
+pupil an education are so far superior that the knowledge sought, can be
+obtained in less time.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</a></span> Our schools are not intended to use the greatest
+number of days that are allotted to man. But at this day schooling and
+learning mean, to obtain useful knowledge in the quickest way that a
+thoroughness can be obtained. If there is any method by which arithmetic
+can be taught so as to master it in thirty days instead of thirty months
+let us have it. We want knowledge, we are willing to pay for it, we want
+all we pay for, and we want our heads kept out of the sausage-mill of
+time wasting.</p>
+
+<p>A great question now stands before us: What are the possibilities of
+mind to improve our methods of gaining knowledge, shorten time, and
+getting greater and better results? I am free to say the question is too
+momentous to form an answer, as each day brings a new wonder, to the man
+or woman who reasons on cause, and gives demonstrations by effects.</p>
+
+
+<h4>WHAT IS LIFE?</h4>
+
+<p>The philosopher who first asked that question no one knows. But all
+intelligent persons are interested in the solution of this problem, at
+least to know some tangible reason why it is called life; whether life
+is personal or so arranged that it might be called an individualized
+principle of nature.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>I wish to think for a time on this line, because we should make a wise
+handling of the machinery of the body.</p>
+
+<p>If life in man has been formed to suit the size and duties of the being;
+if life has a living and separate personage, then we should be governed
+by such reasons as would give it the greatest chance to go on with its
+labors in the bodies of man and beast.</p>
+
+<p>We know by experience that a spark of fire will start the principles of
+powder into motion, which, were it not stimulated by the positive
+principle of father nature, which finds this germ lying quietly in the
+womb of space, would be silently inactive for all ages, without being
+able to move or help itself, save for the motor principle of life given
+by the father of all motion.</p>
+
+
+<h4>HOW IS ACTION PRODUCED.</h4>
+
+<p>Right here we could and should ask the question: Is this action produced
+by electricity put in motion, or is it the active principle that comes
+as a spiritual man? If so, it is useless to try, or hope to know what
+life is in its minutia. But we do know that life can only display its
+natural forces by the visible action of the forms it produces.</p>
+
+<p>If we inspect man as a machine, we find a complete building, a machine
+that courts inspection<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span> and criticism. It demands a full exploration of
+all its parts with their uses. Then the mind is asked to see or find the
+connection between the physical, and the spiritual. By nature you can
+reason on the roads that the powers of life are arranged to suit its
+system of motion.</p>
+
+<p>If life is an individualized personage, as we might express that
+mysterious something, and it must have definite arrangements by which it
+can be united and act with matter; then we are admonished to acquaint
+ourselves with the arrangements of those natural connections, the one or
+many, as they are connected to all parts of the completed being.</p>
+
+<p>As motion is the first and only evidence of life, by this thought we are
+conducted to the machinery through which life works to accomplish these
+results.</p>
+
+
+<h4>ACQUAINT YOURSELF WITH THE MACHINERY.</h4>
+
+<p>If the brain be that division in which force is generated or stored, you
+must at all hazards acquaint yourself with that structure of this
+machine; trace the connection from brain to heart, from heart to lungs,
+and other organs that can be acted upon by the brain, whose duty may be
+to construct the fleshy and bony parts of the body. Trace from the brain
+to the chemical laboratories, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span> note their action as they unite and
+prepare blood and other fluids, that are used in the economy of this
+vital, self-constructing and self-moving wonder, commonly known as man;
+wherein life and matter do unite, and express their friendly relation
+one with the other; and while this relation exists we have the living
+man only, expressing and proving the relation that can exist between
+life and matter, from the lowest living atom, to the greatest worlds.
+They can only express form and action by this law. Harmony only dwells
+where obstructions do not exist.</p>
+
+
+<h4>DUTY OF THE OSTEOPATH.</h4>
+
+<p>The Osteopath finds here the field in which he can dwell forever. His
+duties as a philosopher admonish him, that life and matter can be
+united, and that union cannot continue with any hindrance to the free
+and absolute motion. Therefore his duty is to keep away from the track
+all that will hinder the complete passage of the forces of the nervous
+system, that by that power the blood may be delivered and adjusted, to
+keep the system in normal condition. Here is your duty; do it well, if
+you wish to succeed.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FORMATION OF SACRUM.</h4>
+
+<p>We believe only when we do not know. Belief and doubt are equal terms.
+If we believe the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</a></span> sacrum is formed by a local system, then we can or
+will have cause to believe that the rectum and colon appear after the
+outer skin is in process of forming. For want of the truths we are left
+in speculative doubt. I believe the lower bowels are formed by local
+machinery that receives and appropriates to the purpose of construction
+of such parts or organs as nature designs to be used there. If we
+dissect a chicken as soon as hatched we will find the colon beginning at
+rectum and complete in form, but not connected to the small intestines.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE PELVIS.</h4>
+
+<p>To get more directly at the point I want to make I will say I have some
+reasons to believe that the lower bowels are builded from rectum to the
+vermiform appendix, by acts of pelvis. It may be well to state that I
+have seen formation of rectum and colon in the chicken, before the small
+intestines were visible at all. Then in same chicken I saw, liver, lung,
+crop and gizzard, and only one artery in the region of the small
+intestines. From this I was led to believe that the pelvis did much of
+the forming of the viscera. If so, then we could look for much relief
+through the system of the pelvis.</p>
+
+
+<h4>APPEARANCE OF &OElig;DEMA.</h4>
+
+<p>&OElig;dema is the one word that appears to be at the first showing of life
+and death in animal forms.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span> Previous to death by general swelling of
+system, a watery swelling of fascia and lymphatics, even to those of
+nerve fibers. If a disease should destroy life by withholding all
+fluids, we can trace such cause in the beginning to a time when there
+was watery swelling of the centers of nerves of nutrition, to such
+amount as to cut off nerve supply until sensation ceased to renovate and
+keep off accumulating fluids so long that fermentation did the work of
+heating till all fluids had dried up, and the channels of supply closed
+by adhesive inflammation, and death follows by the law of general
+atrophy.</p>
+
+
+<h4>DO ALL DISEASES HAVE BEGINNING IN &OElig;DEMA?</h4>
+
+<p>To assert that all diseases have their beginning in &oelig;dema may be wide
+in range, but we often find one principle to rule over much territory.
+"Instance:" Mind is the supreme ruler of all beings, from the mites of
+life to the monsters of the land and sea. Thus we see a ruling principle
+is without limit. The same of numbers. By heat all metals melt to
+fluidity; acids must have oxygen to begin as solvents in most metals. We
+only speak imperfectly of some common laws to prepare the student to
+think on the line of probabilities as I hold them out for consideration.
+Suppose we begin at the atoms of fluids such as enter to construct
+animal or vegetable forms, and pen up till decomposition be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</a></span>gins. By
+such delay does not nature call a halt and refuse to obey the laws of
+construction and let all other supplies pile up even to death? Is not
+all this the result of &oelig;dema? &OElig;dema surely begins with the first
+tardy atom of matter.</p>
+
+<p>Pneumonia begins by its &oelig;dematous accumulations of dead atoms, even
+to the death of the whole body, all having found a start in atoms only.</p>
+
+
+<h4>QUESTIONS FOR THE OSTEOPATH.</h4>
+
+<p>We will close this chapter by propounding a few questions which the
+Osteopath should keep in mind.</p>
+
+<blockquote><p>Are the human and animal forms complete as working machines?</p>
+
+<p>Has nature furnished man with powers to make his bones; give them the
+needed shapes of durable material, strong in kind?</p>
+
+<p>Does a section in nature's law provide fastenings to hold these to one
+another?</p>
+
+<p>Then another question arises: How will this body move, and where and how
+is the force applied?</p>
+
+<p>Where and how is this force obtained?</p>
+
+<p>How is it generated and supplied to these parts of motion?</p>
+
+<p>What makes these muscles, ligaments, nerves, veins, arteries?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Are they self-forming, or has nature prepared machinery to make them?</p>
+
+<p>Does animal life contain knowledge and force to construct all of the
+parts of man?</p>
+
+<p>Can it run the machine after it has finished it?</p>
+
+<p>By what power does it move?</p>
+
+<p>Is there a blood vessel running to all parts of this body to supply all
+these demands?</p>
+
+<p>If it has a battery of force, where is it?</p>
+
+<p>What does it use for force?</p>
+
+<p>Is it electricity? If so how does it collect and use this substance?</p>
+
+<p>How does it convey its powers to any or all places?</p>
+
+<p>How does the man keep warm without fire?</p>
+
+<p>How does he build and lose flesh all the time?</p>
+
+<p>Where and how is the supply made and delivered to proper places?</p>
+
+<p>How is it applied and what holds it to its place when adjusted?</p>
+
+<p>What makes it build the house of life?</p>
+
+<p>Do demand and supply govern the work? If not, what does?</p>
+
+<p>Are the laws of animal life sufficient to do all this work of building
+and repairing wastes and keep it in running condition?</p>
+
+<p>If it does, what can man do or suggest to help it?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Is this machine capable of being run fast or slow if need be?</p>
+
+<p>Does man have in him some kind of chemical laboratory that can turn out
+such products as he needs to fill all his physical demands?</p>
+
+<p>If by heat, exercise, or any other cause he gets warm, can that
+chemistry cool him to normal?</p>
+
+<p>If too cold can it warm him? Can it adjust him to heat and cold?</p>
+
+<p>If so, how is it done? Is the law of life and longevity fully vindicated
+in man's make up?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</a></span></p>
+</blockquote>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XIV" id="CHAPTER_XIV"></a>CHAPTER XIV.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Has Man Degenerated?</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>The Advent of Man&mdash;Care of the Stock Raiser&mdash;Mental Degeneration
+Makes It Unpleasant for an Original Thinker&mdash;Original Thinkers of
+the Ancients&mdash;Methods of Healing&mdash;Failure of Allopathy&mdash;Primitive
+Man&mdash;Evidences of Prehistoric Man&mdash;Mental Dwarfage. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>THE ADVENT OF MAN.</h4>
+
+<p>The exact time when man's foot appeared on the earth, no record shows. A
+knowledge of his advent might be profitable. The unwritten history of
+the human races with the genius or lack of genius, might to us be an
+open book of knowledge. As it is not supposable that the mind of man has
+just become observingly active in the last few centuries, absolute
+evidence of purer and deeper reason than we have been able to present,
+stand recorded on the faces of many valuable "lost arts" which we have
+never been able to equal. Is it not very reasonable to suppose that the
+powers of mind have wonderfully degenerated from some cause?</p>
+
+
+<h4>CARE OF THE STOCK RAISER.</h4>
+
+<p>The stock raiser carefully preserves the best and most healthy of the
+males and females of his flocks and herds for breeding purposes, that
+their<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span> offspring might be healthy and well developed, for the purposes
+for which he raises them. As a result he raises stock from the poultry
+house up, with marked improvement in form, strength and usefulness.
+Should he be foolish enough to kill off all the healthy and well
+developed males as they appear in his herds of cattle and other stock,
+for one or two centuries, would any one with average intelligence
+suppose that the standard of animals would or could be kept up, by
+breeding from the unfortunate stock, that had been pierced through the
+lungs while fighting with more powerful animals. If for breeding
+purposes he would save calves, colts, lambs, pigs, goats or any other
+young males to breed from, that had had a leg frozen off, one or both
+eyes plucked out, necks and ears torn by panthers, what would you think
+of the man's sanity?</p>
+
+<p>On this line we would ask what has been the procedure of all nations?
+Has it not been to select the strong and healthy males, drive them out
+to the field of battle, destroy a million or more of the strongest men,
+as our war of the sixties shows. Since that war closed the fathers of
+our children are mainly the crippled, worn out, and degenerated physical
+wrecks, with the assistance of the refused, who for lack of physical
+ability were barred from entering the United States'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span> service. Such
+physical and mental wrecks are the fathers of the children born during
+the last thirty years. Every healthy young lady who married and became a
+mother after the early sixties, had to select a husband from a war or
+hereditary wreck. From that degenerated stock of human beings our
+asylums are filled, and the beams of the gallows pulled down by the
+weight of the bodies of those mental dwarfs. Run this train of reason
+back for a few hundred or thousand of years,&mdash;this degenerating force,
+bearing upon the offspring, and is it a wonder that we have physical and
+mental wrecks all over the country?</p>
+
+
+<h4>MENTAL DEGENERATION MAKES IT UNPLEASANT FOR THE ORIGINAL THINKER.</h4>
+
+<p>Now if we have been mentally degenerating, killing our best men back for
+a few thousand years time, and still have a few left who are fairly good
+reasoners, what was their mental powers then, compared with now? They
+could think from native ability; we only through acquired ability by our
+methods of education. Should an original thinker occasionally appear
+from the crippled and maimed, he will have much that is unpleasant to
+contend with, unless he is generous enough to credit the cause to an
+effect produced by the lack of mental and physical forces in the sires
+just described. A<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span> man or woman who is able to reason, cannot afford to
+wear out his or her physical and mental forces by spending time in
+tiresome discussions with such blank masses, who are very fortunate to
+have intelligence enough to make a living under the methods that require
+the least mental action.</p>
+
+<p>It would not be manly nor lady like to allow a feeling of combattiveness
+to arise and spend your forces on such persons. Pre-natal causes have
+dropped them where they are, and a philosopher knows he must submit to
+the conditions, and he is sorrowful in place of vengeful and
+vindicative, and all that is left for him to do is to trim his lamps and
+let the lights defend themselves.</p>
+
+
+<h4>ORIGINAL THINKERS OF THE ANCIENTS.</h4>
+
+<p>On this line we have much to think of. Anciently they did think: Great
+minds existed then, as is evidenced by the architecture displayed in
+constructing temples and pyramids. As in philosophy, chemistry, and
+mathematics, they stand to-day as living facts of their intelligence. In
+some ways we are equal and even surpass the ancients. Before the
+establishment of religious and political governments, national and
+tribal creeds, to sustain which the powerful minds and bodies of
+thousands and millions have been slain and their wise councils
+prohibited by death. Reason says under the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span> circumstances we must kindly
+make and do the best we can in our day and time. No doubt their religion
+was better than ours, before they began to fight about their gods and
+governments.</p>
+
+
+<h4>METHODS OF HEALING.</h4>
+
+<p>Some evidence crops out now and then that their methods of healing were
+natural and wisely applied, and crowned with good results. As far as
+history speaks of the ancient healing arts they were logical,
+philosophical, good in results and harmless. It is true enough that we
+have great systems of chemistry that are useful in the mechanical arts,
+but very limited in their uses in the healing arts. In fact, a very
+great per cent of the gray-haired philosophers of all medical schools,
+unhesitatingly assert that the world would be better off without them.
+These conclusions are sent forth by competent and honest investigators,
+who have tested all known methods and medicines, and carefully observed
+the results from a quarter to a half a century. Let us call it "a
+trade," as the use of drugs is not a science.</p>
+
+<p>The author will now say, the health hunter in a majority of cases, when
+he administers drugs, gives one dose for health and nine for the dollar.</p>
+
+<p>As it becomes necessary to throw off oppressive governments, it becomes
+just as necessary to throw<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg 208]</a></span> off other useless customs, without which no
+substitute has ever been received.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FAILURE OF ALLOPATHY.</h4>
+
+<p>Allopathy, a school of medicine known and fostered by all nations, drove
+on with its exploring teams; gave up the search, went into camp and
+builded temples to the god who purged, puked, perspired, opiated, drank
+whiskey and other stimulants; destroyed its thousands, ruined nations,
+established whiskey saloons, opium dens, insane asylums, naked mothers
+and hungry babies, and still cries aloud, and says: "Come unto me and I
+will give you rest. I have opium, morphine, and whiskey by the barrel. I
+am the god of all healing knowledge, and want to be so recognized by
+people and statute. I do not wish to be annoyed by Eclecticism,
+Hom&oelig;opathy, Christian science, massage, Swedish movements, nor
+Osteopathy. I do not like Osteopathy any better than I do a tiger. It
+scratches me and tears away all my disciples. I cannot destroy it. It
+uses neither opium nor whiskey, and it is impossible to catch it asleep.
+It scratches us, and has scratched our power out of four states during
+the last twelve months, with no telling where it will scratch next time.
+We must prepare for more war, I have heard from my scouts that on its
+flag the inscription reads<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg 209]</a></span> thus: 'No quarters for allopathy in
+particular and none at all for any schools of medicine farther than
+surgery, and war to the hilt on three-fourths of that as practiced in
+the present day. The use of the knife in everything and for everything
+must be stopped; not by statute law, but through a higher education of
+the masses, which will give them more confidence in nature's ability to
+heal.'"</p>
+
+
+<h4>PRIMITIVE MAN.</h4>
+
+<p>It is reasonable to suppose that the mind that constructed man was fully
+competent to undertake and complete the being to suit the purpose for
+which he was designed. After giving him physical perfection in every
+limb, organ, or part of his body, it is reasonable to suppose, that at
+that time, he gave him all the mental powers needed for all purposes
+during the life of his race, and with that perfection in the physical,
+it is supposable he approached very nearly to intellectual perfection.
+He was a mathematician, not by collegiate process, but by native
+ability. He did not have to take a course in a university to study
+chemistry, because of the fact that he was a chemist when he was born.
+Possibly he could speak or understand all languages spoken by the human
+tongue, from the powers of his mind, which occupied a pure and healthy
+physique. In a word he was well made and fully endowed with all the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[Pg 210]</a></span>
+physical and mental forces necessary to the whole journey of his life.
+Now a question arises: "When did he begin to degenerate physically and
+mentally?" Let us reason some on this line, which seems to be a rather
+solid foundation, and as history is young itself, and has imperfectly
+recorded only such events as have transpired during a few centuries,
+with records imperfectly preserved.</p>
+
+
+<h4>EVIDENCES OF PREHISTORIC MAN.</h4>
+
+<p>We see evidences all along the journey of prehistoric man's life, though
+the being and his bones have been mostly obliterated; we see close to
+his bony remains the stone axe, the flint-dart. We find acres of ground
+in many places close to mounds and caves, with countless millions of
+slivers that have been scaled from flints and formed to suit war
+purposes; while the many bones that are found in caves, heaps and piles,
+indicate that many thousands fell in mortal combat then and there.
+Possibly they were old in the skilled arts of war at that day. Their
+great and powerful men, who should have been parents of the coming
+generations, were slain and destroyed and the conquered became the
+captives and slaves of the more powerful, with all opportunities for
+mental development suppressed. Other nations and tribes willingly
+entered the bloody fields of battle, with nothing to report but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[Pg 211]</a></span> the
+death of the best physically formed men, and leaving the propagation of
+the race or races to be kept up by those who were left behind as
+unqualified to go into battle, for lack of strength of either body or
+mind.</p>
+
+<p>This process of destroying the mentally and physically great has been
+kept up to the limits of our history's record. We have to go to schools
+about one-half of our time in order to cultivate and stimulate our
+mental energies sufficiently well, that we may follow the ordinary
+business pursuits of life.</p>
+
+
+<h4>MENTAL DWARFAGE.</h4>
+
+<p>Without worrying the patience of the reader any further, we will ask him
+if it is not reasonable that during all the past thousands of years,
+that men have fought over their gods and governments, has it not
+produced the mental dwarfage from the causes he has had to face? Our
+professional men are only imitators of one another. They must spend
+years in school because of a lack of native ability. This is our
+condition, and we must make the best we can of it. Most of our learned
+men, so-called, at the present day, stand upon heaps of mental rubbish.
+You seldom see in an editor's columns any evidence of mental greatness.
+He clips, quotes and sells his wisdom.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg 212]</a></span> He takes up some hobby,
+religious or scientific. He lauds his own religious views; his
+scientific ideas he wishes embalmed for the use of future generations.
+His law is <i>the</i> law. His medicine is God's pills, notwithstanding he is
+the laughing stock of all who know him. I want to be good to them. I
+expect to be good to them, as they are suffering from the effects of
+pre-natal causes, thrown upon them by their ancestors for thousands of
+years. By those causes they have been possibly wounded worse than I
+have, and I do not expect to spend any time in combats with mental
+dwarfs; political, religious, or scientific bigots. If I can
+successfully run my boat over the riffles of time, I shall credit it to
+good luck, not native ability, for I, too, feel what they should,&mdash;the
+deep plowings of mental dwarfage, that is the result of killing all the
+great and good men for ages.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[Pg 213]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XV" id="CHAPTER_XV"></a>CHAPTER XV.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Osteopathic Treatment.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Five Points&mdash;Visceral List&mdash;Care in Treating the Spinal
+Column&mdash;Most Important Chapter&mdash;Perfect Drainage&mdash;A Natural Cure. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>FIVE POINTS.</h4>
+
+<p>The five points of observation will cover easily the whole body, and we
+cannot omit any one of them, and successfully examine any disease of the
+system. Local injuries are, however, an exception to this rule, and even
+a local hurt often causes general effect. Suppose a fall should jar the
+lumbar vertebra, and push it at some articulation, front, back, or
+laterally; say the lumbar, with one or two short ribs turned down
+against the lumbar nerves with a prolapsed and loosened diaphragm,
+pressing heavily on the abdominal aorta, vena cava, and thoracic duct;
+have you not found cause to stop or derange the circulation of blood in
+arteries, veins, lymphatics and all other organs below diaphragm? Then
+heart trouble would be the natural result. Fibroid tumors, painful
+monthlies, constipation, diabetis, dyspepsia or any trouble of the
+system that could come from bad blood would be natural results, because
+lymph is too old to be pure when it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[Pg 214]</a></span> enters the lungs for purifying. If
+blood or chyle is kept too long below the diaphragm, it becomes diseased
+before it reaches the lungs, and after renovation, but little good blood
+is left. Then the dead matter is separated from blood and blown out at
+the lungs while in vapor. Thus nutriment is not great enough to keep up
+normal supply. In this stage the patient is low in flesh and feeble
+generally, because of trouble with blood and chyle to pass normally
+through the diaphragm.</p>
+
+
+<h4>VISCERAL LIST.</h4>
+
+<p>The failure of free action of blood produces general debility,
+congestion, low types of fever, dropsy, constipation, tumefaction and on
+to the whole list of visceral of diseases.</p>
+
+<p>From this we are called to the pelvis. If the innominate bones are
+twisted on sacrum or are driven too high or too low, an injury to the
+sacral system of blood and nerves would be cause equal to congestion,
+inflammation of womb or bladder-diseases, with a crippled condition of
+all the spinal nerves. This would be cause enough to produce hysteria,
+and on to the whole list of diseases to spinal injuries. The Osteopath
+has great demands for his powers of reason when he considers the
+relation of diseases generally to the pelvis; and this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[Pg 215]</a></span> knowledge he
+must have before his work can be attended with success.</p>
+
+<p>As I said, five points comprise the fields in which the Osteopath must
+search. I have given you quite pointedly and at length, hints on spine
+and sacrum which cover the territory below the diaphragm. In conclusion
+I will simply refer you to the chest, neck and brain, and say, "let your
+search light ever shine bright on the brain." On it we must depend for
+power. About all nerves do run through the neck and branch off to supply
+both above and below, to do their parts in animal life, to the heart,
+brain and sum total of man and beast. Search faithfully for cause of
+diseases in head, neck, chest, spine and pelvis; for all organs, limbs
+and parts are directly related to and depend on these five localities to
+which I have just called your attention.</p>
+
+<p>With your knowledge of anatomy, I am sure you can practice and be
+successful, and should be in all cases over which Osteopathy is supposed
+to preside.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CARE IN TREATING THE SPINAL CORD.</h4>
+
+<p>I want to offer you the facts, not advice, but pure and well sustained
+facts, the only witnesses that ever enter the courts of truth. A spinal
+cord is a fact; you see it&mdash;thus a fact. That which you<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg 216]</a></span> can see, feel,
+hear, smell or taste is a fact, and the knowledge of the ability of any
+one fact to accomplish any one thing, how it accomplishes it and for
+what purpose, is a truth sought for in philosophy. The spinal cord is
+the present fact for consideration. You see it, you feel it, thus you
+have two facts with which you can start to obtain a knowledge of the use
+of this spinal cord. In it you have one common straight cylinder which
+is filled with an unknown substance, and by an unknown power wisely
+directed. It is wisely formed, located, and protected. It throws off
+branches which are wisely located. They have bundles, many and few; they
+are connected to their support, which is the brain, by a continuous cord
+in length and form to suit. After it has concluded throwing off branches
+at local places for special purposes, then like a flashlight, it throws
+off a bundle of branches called horse-tail plexus, <i>caudae equinae</i>,
+which simply signifies the many branches that convey fluids and
+influences to the extremities, to execute the vital work for which they
+are formed and located. While the laws of life and their procedure to
+execute and accomplish the work designed by nature for them to do, is
+mysterious and to the finite mind incomprehensible, you can only see
+what they do or perform, after the work is done and ready for your
+inspection.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[Pg 217]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>HOW TO TREAT THE SPINAL COLUMN.</h4>
+
+<p>Now as we are dealing with the omnipresent nerve principle of animal
+life, I will tell you this one serious truth, and support it by the fact
+of observation. To treat the spine, and thereby irritate the spinal cord
+oftener than once or twice a week will cause the vital assimilation to
+be perverted, and become the death-producing excretor, by producing the
+abortion of the living molecules of life, before fully matured, while in
+the cellular system, which lies immediately under the lymphatics.</p>
+
+<p>Your patients will linger long from the change of the nutrient ducts to
+throw off their dead matter into the excretories, which death was caused
+by the undue, or too many treatments of the spinal cord. If you will
+allow yourself to think for a moment, or think at all of the spinal cord
+being irritated, and what effect it will have on the uterus you will
+realize that I have told you a truth, and produced an array of facts to
+stand by that truth. Many of your patients are well six months before
+they are discharged. They are kept on hands because they are weak, and
+they are weak, because you keep them so from irritating the spinal cord.
+Throw off your goggles and receive the rays of the sunlight which
+forever stand in the bosom of reason.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[Pg 218]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTER OF ALL.</h4>
+
+<p>This is the most important chapter of this book, because at this point
+the engine of life is turned over to you as an engineer and by you it is
+expected to be wisely conducted on its journey.</p>
+
+<p>Your responsibility here is doubled. Your first position is that of a
+master mechanic, who is capable of drawing plans and writing minutely a
+specification whereby the engineer may know what a well constructed
+machine is in every particular. He knows the parts and relations of both
+as constructor and operator, and you are supposed to be the foreman in
+the shop of repairs. The living person is the engine, nature the
+engineer, and you the master mechanic.</p>
+
+<p>This being your position it is expected that you will carefully inspect
+all parts of the engines run into your repair shop, note all variations
+from the truly normal, and adjust from those variations as nearly as
+possible to the conditions of the true specimen that stands in the shop.</p>
+
+
+<h4>PERFECT DRAINAGE.</h4>
+
+<p>At this point it will be proper to suppose a case by way of
+illustration. Suppose by some accident the bones of the neck should be
+thrown at variance from the normal to a bend or twist. We may then
+expect inharmony in the circulation of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[Pg 219]</a></span> blood to the head and face
+with all the organs and glands above the neck. We will find imperfect
+supply of blood and other fluids to the head. We may expect swelling of
+head and face with local or general misery. Thus you have a cause for
+headache, dizziness, blindness, enlarged tonsils, sore tongue, loss of
+sight, hearing, memory, and on through the list of head diseases, all
+because of perverted circulation of the fluids of the brain proper of
+any local division. It is important to have perfect drainage, for
+without it, the good results from a treatment cannot be expected to
+follow your efforts to relieve diseases above the neck.</p>
+
+
+<h4>WHAT TREATING MEANS.</h4>
+
+<p>Here I want to emphasize that the word treat has but one meaning, that
+is to know you are right, and do your work accordingly. I will only
+hint, and would feel embarrassed to go any farther than to hint to you,
+the importance of an undisturbed condition of the five known kinds of
+nerves, namely: sensation, motion, nutrition, voluntary and involuntary,
+all of which you must labor to keep in perpetual harmony while treating
+any disease of the head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, spine and limbs.</p>
+
+<p>If you would allow yourself to reason at all, you must know that
+sensation must be normal and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[Pg 220]</a></span> always on guard to give notice by local or
+general misery, of unnatural accumulation of the circulating fluids.
+Each set of nerves must be free to act and do their part. Your duty as a
+master mechanic is to know that the engine kept is in so perfect a
+condition that there will be no functional disturbance to any nerve,
+vein, or artery that supplies and governs the skin, the fascia, the
+muscle, the blood or any fluid that should freely circulate to sustain
+life and renovate the system from deposits that would cause what we call
+disease.</p>
+
+
+<h4>A NATURAL CURE.</h4>
+
+<p>Your Osteopathic knowledge has surely taught you, that with an intimate
+acquaintance with the nerve and blood supply, you can arrive at a
+knowledge of the hidden cause of disease, and conduct your treatment to
+a successful termination. This is not by your knowledge of chemistry,
+but by the absolute knowledge of what is in man. What is normal, and
+what abnormal, what is effect and how to find the cause. Do you ever
+suspect renal or bladder trouble without first receiving knowledge from
+your patient, that there is soreness and tenderness in the region of the
+kidneys at some point along the spine. By this knowledge you are invited
+to explore the spine for the purpose of ascertaining whether it is
+normal or not. If by your in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg 221]</a></span>timate acquaintance and observance of a
+normal spine you should detect an abnormal form although it be small,
+you are then admonished to look out for disease of kidneys, bladder or
+both, from the discovered cause for disturbance of the renal nerves by
+such displacement, or some slight variation from the normal in the
+articulation of the spine. If this is not worthy of your attention, your
+mind is surely too crude to observe those fine beginnings that lead to
+death. Your skill would be of little use in incipient cases of Bright's
+disease of the kidneys. Has not your acquaintance with the human body
+opened your mind's eye to observe that in the laboratory of the human
+body, the most wonderful chemical results are being accomplished every
+day, minute and hour of your life? Can that laboratory be running in
+good order and tolerate the forming of a gall or bladder stone? Does not
+the body generate acids, alkalies, substances and fluids necessary to
+wash out all impurities? If you think an unerring God has made all those
+necessary preparations, why not so assert, and stand upon that stone?</p>
+
+<p>You cannot do otherwise, and not betray your ignorance to the thinking
+world. If in the human body you can find the most wonderful chemical
+laboratory mind can conceive of, why not give more of your time to that
+subject, that you may<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[Pg 222]</a></span> obtain a better understanding of its workings?
+Can you afford to treat your patients without such qualification? Is it
+not ignorance of the workings of this Divine law that has given birth to
+the foundationless nightmare that now prevails to such an alarming
+extent all over civilization, that a deadly drug will prove its efficacy
+in warding off disease in a better way than has been prescribed by the
+intelligent God, who has formulated and combined life, mind and matter
+in such a manner that it becomes the connecting link between a world of
+mind, and that element known as matter? Can a deep philosopher do
+otherwise than conclude that nature has placed in man all the qualities
+for his comfort and longevity? Or will he drink that which is deadly,
+and cast his vote for the crucifixion of knowledge?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[Pg 223]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XVI" id="CHAPTER_XVI"></a>CHAPTER XVI.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Reasoning Tests.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>The Vermiform Appendix&mdash;Operating for Appendicitis&mdash;Expelling Power
+of the Vermiform Appendix&mdash;Care Exercised in Making
+Assertions&mdash;Reasoning Tests&mdash;A List of Unexplained
+Diseases&mdash;Concluding Remarks. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>THE VERMIFORM APPENDIX.</h4>
+
+<p>At the present time more than at any other period since the birth of
+Christ, the medical and surgical world have centralized their minds for
+the purpose of relieving locally inside, below the kidney of the male or
+female, excruciating pain, which appears in both sexes in the region
+above described.</p>
+
+<p>From some cause, possibly justifiable, it has been decided to open the
+human body and explore the region just below the right kidney in search
+of the cause of this trouble. Such explorations have been made upon the
+dead first. Small seeds and other substances have been found in the
+vermiform appendix, which is a hollow tube over an inch in length. These
+discoveries, as found in the dead subject, have led to explorations in
+the same location in the living. In some of the cases, though very few,
+seeds and other substances have been<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[Pg 224]</a></span> found in the vermiform appendix,
+supposed to be the cause of local or general inflammation of the
+appendix. Some have been successfully removed, and permanent relief
+followed the operation. These explorations and successes in finding
+substances in the vermiform appendix, their removal, and successful
+recovery in some cases, have led to what may properly be termed a hasty
+system of diagnosis, and it has become very prevalent, and resorted to
+by the physicians of many schools, under the impression that the
+vermiform appendix is of no known use, and that the human being is just
+as well off without it.</p>
+
+
+<h4>OPERATING FOR APPENDICITIS.</h4>
+
+<p>Therefore it is resolved, that as nothing positive is known of the
+trouble in the location above described, it is guessed that it is a
+disease of the vermiform appendix. Therefore they etherize and dissect
+down for the purpose of exploring, to ascertain if the guess is right or
+wrong. In the diagnosis this is a well-defined case of appendicitis; the
+surgeon's knife is driven through the quivering flesh in great eagerness
+in search of the vermiform appendix. The bowels are rolled over and
+around in search of the appendix. Sometimes some substances are found in
+it; but often to the chargrin of the exploring physician, it is found to
+be in a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[Pg 225]</a></span> perfectly healthy and natural condition, and so seldom is it
+found impact with seeds or any substance whatever, that as a general
+rule it is a useless and dangerous experiment. The per cent of deaths
+caused by the knife and ether, and the permanently crippled, will
+justify the assertion that it would be far better for the human race if
+they lived and died in ignorance of appendicitis. A few genuine cases
+might die from that cause; but if the knife were the only known remedy,
+it were better that one should occasionally die than to continue this
+system, at least until the world recognizes a relief which is absolutely
+safe, without the loss of a drop of blood, that has for its foundation
+and philosophy a fact based upon the longitudinal contractile ability of
+the appendix itself, which is able to eject by its natural forces any
+substances that may by an unnatural move be forced into the appendix.<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a></p>
+
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>EXPELLING POWER OF THE VERMIFORM APPENDIX.</h4>
+
+<p>To a philosopher such questions as this must arise: Has the appendix at
+its entrance a sphincter muscle similar in action to that of the rectum
+and &oelig;sophagus? Has it the power to contract and dilate?&mdash;contract and
+shorten in its length and eject all substances when the nerves are in a
+normal condition? And where is the nerve that failed to execute the
+expulsion of any substance that may enter the cavity of the appendix?
+Has God been so forgetful as to leave the appendix in such condition as
+to receive foreign bodies without preparing it by contraction or
+otherwise to throw out such substances? If He has He surely forgot part
+of His work. So reason has concluded for me, and on that line I have
+proceeded to operate for twenty-five years without pain or misery to the
+patient, and given permanent relief in all cases that have come to me.
+With the former diagnosis of doctors and surgeons that appendicitis was
+the malady, and the choice of relief was the knife or death, or possibly
+both, many such cases have come for Osteopathic treatment, and
+examination has revealed that in every case there has been previous
+injury to some<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[Pg 227]</a></span> set of spinal nerves, caused by jars, strains or falls.
+Every case of appendicitis, gall or renal stones can be traced to some
+such cause. These principles I have proclaimed and thought for
+twenty-five years.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CARE EXERCISED IN MAKING ASSERTIONS.</h4>
+
+<p>We should use much caution in our assertions that nature had made its
+work so complete in animal forms and furnished them with such wisely
+prepared principles that they could produce and administer remedies to
+suit, and not leave the body to find them. Should we so conclude and
+find by experiment that man is so arranged, and wisely furnished by
+deity as to ferret out disease, purify and keep the temple of life in
+ease and health; we must use great care when we assert such is not
+undeniably true up to the present. The opposite opinion has had full
+sway for twenty centuries at least, and man has by habit, long usage,
+and ignorance so adjusted his mind to submit to customs of the great
+past that should he try, without previous training, to reason and bring
+his mind to such altitude of thought of the greatness and wisdom of the
+infinite, he might become insane or fall back in a stupor, and exist
+only as a living mental blank in the great ocean of life, where beings
+dwell without minds to govern their actions. It would be a great
+calamity to have all the untrained minds shocked so seriously as to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[Pg 228]</a></span>
+cause them to lose the mite of reason they now have, and be sent back
+once more to dwell in Darwin's protoplasm. I tell you there is danger,
+and we must be careful and show the people small stars, and but one at a
+time, till they can begin to reason and realize that God has done all
+that the wisest can attribute to Him.</p>
+
+
+<h4>REASONING TESTS.</h4>
+
+<p>There is but one method of reasoning. That method is by the laws
+governing the subject to be reasoned upon.</p>
+
+<p>Reasoning is the action of the mind while hunting for truths.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE ABDOMEN.</h4>
+
+<p>As we are about to camp close to the abdomen for a season of
+explorations and a more reasonable knowledge of its organs and their
+functions, we will search its geography first, and find its location on
+the body or globe of life. We find a boundary line established by the
+general surveyor, about the middle of the body, called the diaphragm.
+This line has a very strong wall or striated muscle that can and does
+dilate and contract to suit for breathing, and quantities of food that
+may be stored for a time in stomach and bowels for use. The abdomen is
+much longer than wide. In short, it is a house or shop builded for
+manufacturing purposes. In it we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span> find the machinery that produces rough
+blood or chyle, and sends it to heart and lungs to be finished to
+perfect living blood, to supply and sustain all the organs of this
+division. This diaphragm or wall has several openings through which
+blood and nutriment pass to and from abdomen to heart, lungs and brain.
+I want to draw your special attention to the fact that this diaphragm
+must be truly normal. It must be anchored and held in its true position
+without any variation, and in order that you shall fully understand what
+I mean, I will ask you to go with me mentally to all the ribs, beginning
+with the sternum, see attachments, follow across with a downward course
+to the attachments of this great muscular septum to the lower lumbar
+region, where the right crus receives a branch or strong muscle from the
+left side, and the left crus receives a muscle from the right which
+becomes one common muscle known as the left crus, the same of the right
+crus receiving a muscle or tendon from the left, which you will easily
+comprehend from examining descriptive cuts in Gray, Morris, Gerrish, or
+any well illustrated work of anatomy. You see at once a chance for
+constriction of the aorta by the muscles under which it passes, causing
+without doubt much of the disease known as palpitation of the heart,
+which is only a bouncing back of the blood that has been stopped at the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg 230]</a></span>
+crura. Farther away from the spine near the center of the diaphragm we
+find the return opening through this wall, provided to accommodate the
+vena cava. To the left a few inches below the vena cava we find another
+opening provided for the &oelig;sophagus and its nerves; like the aorta, it
+has two muscles of the diaphragm crossing directly between &oelig;sophagus
+and the aorta, in such shape as to be able to produce powerful
+prohibitory constriction to normal swallowing.</p>
+
+
+<h4>A LIST OF UNEXPLAINED DISEASES.</h4>
+
+<p>At this point I will draw your attention to what I consider is the cause
+of a whole list of hitherto unexplained diseases, which I think are only
+effects, caused by the blood and other fluids being prohibited from
+doing normal service by constrictions at the various openings of the
+diaphragm. Thus prohibition of free action of the thoracic duct would
+produce congestion of receptaculum chyli, because of not being able to
+discharge its contents as fast as received. Is it not reasonable to
+suppose a ligation of the thoracic duct at the diaphragm would retain
+this chyle until it would be diseased by age and fermentation, and be
+thrown off into the substances of other organs of the abdomen and set up
+new growths, such as enlargement of the uterus, ovaries, kidneys, liver,
+spleen, pancreas, omentum,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[Pg 231]</a></span> lymphatics, cellular membranes, and all that
+is known as flesh and blood below the diaphragm? Have you not reason to
+explore and demand a deeper and more thorough anatomical knowledge of
+the diaphragm and its power to produce disease while in an abnormal
+condition, which can be caused by irritations, wounds or hurts, from the
+base of the brain to the coccyx? Remember this is an anatomical and
+philosophical question that will demand your attention to the mechanical
+formation, physiological action and the unobstructed privileges of
+fluids when prepared in the laboratory of nature, to be sent at once to
+their ordained destination, before such substances are diseased or dead
+with age. You must remember that you have been well drilled, or talked
+out of patience in the room of symptomatology and all you have learned
+is, something ails the kidneys, and are told their contents when
+analyzed are not normally pure urine. In urinalisis you are told "here
+is sugar," "here is fat," "here is iron," "here is pus," "here is
+albumen," and this is diabetis, this is Bright's disease, but no
+suggestion is handed to the student's mind to make him know that these
+numerous variations from normal urine are simply effects, and the
+diaphragm has caused all the trouble, by first being irritated from
+hurts, by ribs falling, spinal strains, wounds and on from the coccyx to
+the base of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[Pg 232]</a></span> brain. Symptomatology is very wide and wise in putting
+this and that together and giving it names, but fails to give the cause
+of all these abdominal lesions. Never for once has it said or intimated
+that the diaphragm is prolapsed by misplaced ribs to which it is
+attached, or that it is diseased by hurts of spine and nerves above its
+own location. Allow yourself to think of the universality of the
+distribution of the superior cervical ganglion and other nerves which
+are of such great importance that I will by permission insert in the
+last chapter of this book a description of that great system of the
+sympathetic nerves by Dr. Wm. Smith, whose superior knowledge of anatomy
+makes him eminently qualified to describe the location and uses of this
+great sympathetic system of the nerves of life.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CONCLUDING REMARKS.</h4>
+
+<p>As you read his able essay remember there are four other sets of nerves
+equal to, and just as important in their divisions of life, which are
+the motor, nutrient, voluntary and involuntary. All of which you as an
+engineer must know, and by proper adjustment of the body give them
+unlimited power to perform their separate and united parts in sustaining
+life and health. Now as I have tried to place into your hands a compass,
+flag and chain that will lead you from effect to cause of disease in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[Pg 233]</a></span>
+any part or organ of the whole abdomen I hope that many mysteries which
+have hung over your mental horizon will pass away, and give you abiding
+truths, placed upon the everlasting rock of cause and effect. You have
+as little use for old symptomatology as an Irishman has for a cork when
+the bottle is empty. Osteopathy is knowledge, or it is nothing.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[Pg 234]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XVII" id="CHAPTER_XVII"></a>CHAPTER XVII.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Obstetrics.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Overloading&mdash;Similarity of Stomach and Womb&mdash;Births&mdash;Preparation
+for Delivery&mdash;Caution&mdash;Lasceration Need Not Occur&mdash;Care of
+Cord&mdash;Severing Cord&mdash;Putting on Belly Band&mdash;Delivery of
+Afterbirth&mdash;Preparing for Mother's Comfort&mdash;Post-Delivery
+Hemorrhage&mdash;Treatment for&mdash;Food for Mother&mdash;Treatment for Sore
+Breast. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>OVERLOADING.</h4>
+
+<p>When in the course of human events and actions of life, a woman
+disregards the laws of nature to such an extent as to overload the
+stomach beyond its powers and limits; or another way to present the
+thought, we will say, if you fill the stomach so full as to occupy all
+space, or so much of the space as to cripple the laws of digestion and
+retain the food, the decomposition sets up an irritation of the nerves
+of mucous membrane to such a degree as to cause sickness and vomiting,
+or any other method of disgorging the stomach, which is the natural
+process to unload an overloaded vessel. When the nerves cannot take up
+nutrition, they will then take up destruction and other elements which
+are detrimental to the process of nutrition, and there is no other
+process for relief but to unload. The load<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[Pg 235]</a></span>ing that has been deposited
+in the stomach was for the purpose of sustaining a being. The stomach
+itself is a sack. When filled to its greatest capacity, it irritates all
+the surroundings, and in return they irritate the stomach. Thus it
+unloads naturally for relief. Now we wish to treat of another vessel
+similar in size, similar in all its actions, which receives nourishment
+for a being, which nourishment is contained in the blood, and conveyed
+from the channels commonly known as uterine arteries. To all intents and
+purposes this nourishment is taken there to sustain animal life, after
+having constructed the machinery then it appropriates the blood to the
+growth and existence of a human being. One is the womb, the other the
+stomach. The placenta in the womb is provided with all the machinery
+necessary to the preparation of blood, such as is used for all purposes
+in forming and developing a child. Which is the stomach? Which is the
+womb? and what is the difference? Both receive and distribute
+nourishment to sustain animal life. Both get sick, both vomit when
+irritated and discharge their loading by the natural law of "throw up"
+and "throw down." Now note the difference and govern yourselves
+accordingly. One is mid-wifery, or treatment of the lower stomach during
+gestation and delivery. The other is the upper stomach that takes
+coarser material and re<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[Pg 236]</a></span>fines the unrefined substances, keeps the outer
+man in form and being; the other contains the inner man or child, and by
+the law of ejection, when it becomes an irritant, it is thrown out by
+the nerves that govern the muscles of ejection.</p>
+
+
+<h4>BIRTHS.</h4>
+
+<p>To illustrate: I will say, just as long as digestion and assimilation
+keep in harmony and the mother generates good blood in abundance, the
+child grows, and by nature the womb is willing to let the work of
+building the body of the child go on indefinitely; but nature has placed
+all the functions of animal life under laws that are absolute and must
+be obeyed. We by reason are asked to note the similarity of the stomach
+and the womb, as both receive and pass nutriment to a body for
+assimilation and growth. When a stomach gets overloaded, sickness
+begins, as digestion and assimilation has stopped, then the decaying
+matter is taken up by the terminal nerves, and conveyed to the solar
+plexus, and causes the nerves of ejection, to throw the dying matter out
+of the stomach which is above. Try your reason and see the stomach below
+sicken and unload its burden. Is this sickness natural and wisely
+caused? If this is not the philosophy of mid-wifery what is? As soon as
+a being takes possession of its room, the commissary of supplies begins<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[Pg 237]</a></span>
+to furnish rations for that being, who has to build for itself a
+dwelling place. The house must be built strictly to the letter of the
+specifiction. Much bone and flesh must be put into the house of life,
+and some of all elements known to the chemist, must be used and wisely
+blended to give strength; also all material to be used in the house must
+be exact in form and given strength equal to all forces, that may be
+necessary to execute the hard and continued labors of the machinery that
+may be used in all transactions and motions of mind and body. Now we
+must go to the manufacturing chief, and have him through the
+quartermaster deliver and keep a full supply of all kinds of material
+for the work, and when the engine is done, put it on an inclined plane
+and cut the stay-chains and let it run out of the shop. Be careful and
+not let the engine deface nor tear the door as it comes out. A question
+is asked: On what road does the quarter-master send the supplies? As
+there is but one system over which an engine can bring supplies, we will
+call that road the uterine system of arteries. The mechanic reports that
+he will open the door of this great shop of manufacturing, and let it
+roll out the engine by the power and methods prepared to run out
+finished work. First you see a door open because the lock is taken off
+by a key that opens all mysteries; and the great<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[Pg 238]</a></span> ropes that have been
+far inferior to the force of resistance, that has held the door shut,
+are all sufficient in power. By getting sick, muscles become convulsed
+to rigidity of great strength with force enough to push the new engine
+of life out into open space easily, by nature's team that never fails to
+obey orders to deliver all goods intrusted to its care.</p>
+
+
+<h4>PREPARATION FOR DELIVERY.</h4>
+
+<p>A student of mid-wifery can only learn a few general principles, before
+he gets into the field of experience. Actual contact with labor teaches
+him that much that he has read and had told to him by professors of
+mid-wifery in the lectures, is of but little use to him at the bedside.
+What he needs to know is, what he will have to do after he gets there.
+He must know the form and size of the bones of a woman, how large a hole
+the three bones of the pelvis make, for the reason that the child's head
+will soon come through that hole. He must know a normal head cannot come
+through a pelvis that has been crushed in so much as to bring the pubis
+within one and one-half to two and one-half inches of the sacrum. He
+must examine and know, and do this soon after he is called, for the
+reason, that he will have to use instruments in such deformities, and
+may wish the counsel of an older and more<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[Pg 239]</a></span> experienced doctor. And this
+precaution will give him time to be ready for any emergency.</p>
+
+<p>But more than ninety per cent of all cases are of a very simple nature.
+The mother is warned by pains in back and womb, coming and repeating at
+intervals of one-half hour to less time. When by the finger the doctor
+can tell the mouth of the womb has opened to the size of a quarter or
+half dollar, he then may know that labor will soon start in good
+earnest, and at this time it is well to call for a twine, cut two
+strings about a foot long, to tie around the navel cord.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CAUTION.</h4>
+
+<p>The first duty of the obstetrician is to carefully examine the bones of
+the pelvis and spine of the mother, to ascertain if they are normal in
+shape and position. If there is any doubt about the spine and pelvis
+being in good condition for the passage of the head, through the bones,
+and you find pelvic deformity enough to prohibit the passage of the
+head, notify the parties of the danger in the case at once, and that you
+do not wish to take the responsibility alone, as it may require
+instruments to deliver the child, as there is danger of death to the
+child and mother also, but less danger to the mother than to the child.
+Now you have done that which<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[Pg 240]</a></span> is a safeguard against all trouble
+following criminal ignorance.</p>
+
+<p>I will give you a condensed rule of procedure in all normal cases of
+obstetrics. With index finger, examine os uteri; if closed and only
+backache, have patient turn on right side, and press hand on abdomen
+above pelvis, and gently press or lift belly up just enough to allow
+blood to pass down and up pelvis and limbs. Relax all nerves of the
+pelvis at pubes.</p>
+
+
+<h4>SECOND EXAMINATION.</h4>
+
+<p>Caution: Wait a few hours; examine os again. If still closed and no
+periodical pains are present, you are safe to leave case in the hands of
+the nurse, instructed to send for you if regular pains return at
+intervals. On your return, explore os again, if found to open as large
+as a dime, you are by this notified that labor has begun its work of
+delivery. You now place patient on her back, propped to an easy angle of
+near thirty degrees, with rubber blanket in place. After you find os,
+dilated to nearly the size of a dollar, then relax nerves at pubes. Soon
+you will find in mouth of womb an egg-shaped pouch of water, which you
+must not press with fingers till very late in labor, for fear of
+stopping labor for perhaps many hours. Remember<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[Pg 241]</a></span> the head can and does
+turn in pelvis to suit the easiest passage through the bones, while in
+the fluids of the amniotic sack. Now, as you know why not to rupture
+sack and spill fluids, you are prepared to proceed to other duties,
+which are to prevent rupture of perineum. Place the left hand on the
+belly, about two inches above symphesis and push the soft parts down
+with the left hand; support the perineum with the right hand until head
+passes over. This is necessary to prevent rupture of perineum.</p>
+
+
+<h4>LASCERATION NEED NOT OCCUR.</h4>
+
+<p>If you follow this law of nature, lasceration may occur in one out of a
+thousand cases, and you will be to blame for that one, and may be
+censured for criminal ignorance. Now you have conducted head safely
+through pelvis and vagina to the world. You will find pains stop right
+short off for about a minute, which is the time to learn whether the
+navel cord is wrapped around the child's neck.</p>
+
+
+<h4>CARE OF CORD.</h4>
+
+<p>If it is found all around the neck once or more, you must slip finger
+down neck and loosen cord to let blood pass through the cord till next
+pain comes,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[Pg 242]</a></span> in order to ward off asphyxia of child.</p>
+
+<p>When pain comes, gently pull child's head down toward the bed. There is
+no danger of hurting the perineum now since the head has passed the soft
+parts. At this time the danger is suffocation of child. Never draw child
+too far away from mother's birth place by force, as you may tear navel
+string from the child and cause it to bleed to death. If you value the
+life of the child, then you must be careful not to place the navel end
+of the string in any danger of being torn off. Now you have made a good
+job for both mother and child so far. The child is in the world; and you
+want to show the mother a living baby for her labor and suffering of the
+past nine months. The baby is born and the mother is not torn, but the
+baby has not yet cried. Turn it on its side, face down, run your finger
+in its mouth and draw out all fluids, thick or thin, to let the breath
+pass to the lungs. Then blow cold breath on its face and breast to cause
+its lungs to act.</p>
+
+
+<h4>SEVERING CORD.</h4>
+
+<p>Baby cries, all is safe now. Baby is born safely and cries nicely, but
+still has cord fastened to afterbirth. It has no further use for cord,
+as life does not depend upon blood from the afterbirth<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[Pg 243]</a></span> any longer. Take
+the cord about three inches from the child's belly, between thumb and
+finger, and strip towards child to push bowels out of the cord if there
+should be any in it, as a safeguard for bowels, then tie a strong string
+around cord, first three inches from child's belly, second, four inches;
+take the cord in your hand and look what you are doing. If baby's hand
+should fall back to cord, you might cut off one or two fingers, or wound
+the hand or arm very seriously. Cut cord between the two ties just made
+on navel string. Look out for your scissors; pass the child over to the
+nurse to be washed and dressed, while you deliver the afterbirth from
+pelvis or womb.</p>
+
+
+<h4>PUTTING ON BELLY BAND.</h4>
+
+<p>When the child's shirt is on, cut a hole the size of your thumb in a
+doubled piece of cloth, five inches long by four wide, put the hole two
+inches from one end, and run the cord through the hole. Lay the cloth
+across the child's belly, then fold the cloth lengthwise over the cord,
+which must lie across the child so it will not stretch cord by handling
+or straightening child out. Now you are ready to finish the delivery of
+the afterbirth. You have a plug of soft and tender flesh to get out of
+the womb and vagina.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[Pg 244]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>DELIVERY OF AFTERBIRTH.</h4>
+
+<p>As the afterbirth has been grown tight to the womb during all the days
+of mother's pregnancy, and furnished all the blood to build and keep the
+child alive in the womb for nine months, it has done all it can do for
+the child, and is now ready to leave the womb.</p>
+
+<p>You are there to assist it to get out of the place it has occupied so
+long. You must begin first to rotate or roll the placenta first one way
+and then another, up, down and across the vagina, by gently pulling the
+cord. Look out or you will pull the cord loose from the placenta; then
+you will have made your first blunder,&mdash;no cord to pull placenta with,
+and the mother bleeding and faint from loss of blood. Now is the time
+and place to save life. Pass your hand forward into the soft parts to
+get your fingers behind the placenta; now give a rolling pull and bring
+it out with the hand. You will find it an easy matter to get your hand
+into the vagina and womb after the birth of the child. Get all the
+placenta out, then take a wad of cloth or rags as large as the child's
+head, and press it under the cross bone of the pelvis; push the cloth
+under and up, so as to completely plug the pelvis. Now pull the hair
+gently over the symphesis, which will cause the womb to contract by
+irritation.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[Pg 245]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>PREPARING FOR MOTHER'S COMFORT.</h4>
+
+<p>All is now done but to provide for the mother's comfort, which is your
+next duty. Draw her chemise down her back and legs until it is straight,
+then with safety pins, pin the chemise on inner side of thighs so that
+the chemise will go around both thighs separately. Now you have the
+shirt fast to keep it from sliding upwards, and you are ready to make a
+band of the chemise to support the womb and abdomen. Bring the chemise
+tightly together for two or three inches above the pelvis to form a
+band. Previous to pinning, draw the lump (womb) you feel above
+symphesis, up, then pin, and the belt you have made of the chemise will
+support the womb. All is safe now, but you must not leave for two hours.
+You may have delivered a feeble woman, who may flood to death after
+delivery of the child, if you do not leave her safe. I have in mind one
+case who flooded all of two quarts at a single dash. The first symptom
+was a pain in the head.</p>
+
+
+<h4>POST-DELIVERY HEMORRHAGE.</h4>
+
+<p>I know of only two causes that would produce hemorrhage or bleeding
+after the child is delivered. One is when the afterbirth (placenta), is
+separated from its attachment to the womb and still<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[Pg 246]</a></span> retained in the
+womb or vagina, or when a part is separated and still lies in the womb,
+that retention of placenta prevents the natural circular contraction of
+the womb, to close on itself and retain it, with force enough to prevent
+the further discharge of blood, would give a chance for a continued
+stream. Then should the patient bleed profusely after the placenta has
+been removed, another cause would be in pulling away the afterbirth, as
+part of the upper portion of the womb may be pulled to an inverted
+position, which would be like a hat if you press the top down with the
+hand. Then there is a chance for leakage because of this unnatural fold
+made in the womb.</p>
+
+
+<h4>TREATMENT FOR.</h4>
+
+<p>My method of relief is to insert the hand, and with back of fingers
+smooth out all folds. Before you draw the right hand from the womb place
+left hand on abdomen, catch the womb between the thumb and finger and
+withdraw hand. With the left hand pull the hair above symphesis or
+scratch the flesh just above across the region of the symphesis, just
+enough to make an irritation. After the hand is out of vagina pass a
+small bundle of cloths as far under the symphesis as would be necessary
+to hold everything up, then fasten chemise; beginning at symphesis draw
+it tight<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</a></span> for about two inches above symphesis and with strong pins
+fasten it. Be sure you keep garment tight by pulling down between limbs.
+The coarser the chemise the better, as you want to make a strong bandage
+at that point so as not to push the womb down into the pelvis. If the
+patient's general health is fairly good let her tell you what she wants
+to eat, and go and get it. Let her diet be after her usual custom. You
+must remember she has just left the condition of a full abdomen. Lace
+her up, fill her up and make her comfortable for six hours; then change
+her bedding.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FOOD FOR MOTHER.</h4>
+
+<p>Remember this, if you stop digestion on her for some hours with teas,
+soups and shadows to eat, you carry her to the condition where it would
+be dangerous to give her a hearty meal. My experience and custom for
+forty years has been crowned with good success. I never lost a case in
+confinement. I have universally told the cook to give her plenty to eat.</p>
+
+
+<h4>TREATMENT FOR SORE BREAST.</h4>
+
+<p>If she begins to have fever followed by chilly sensations, with swelling
+of one or both breasts, I relieve that by laying her arm ranging with
+her body. Let some one hold the arm down to the bed, then I place both
+of my hands under the arm,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[Pg 248]</a></span> pull it up with considerable force till I
+get it as high or higher than normal position of the shoulder. Then pull
+her shoulder straight out from the body a fairly good pull, then pull
+the arm up on a straight line with the face, and be sure that you have
+let loose the axillary and mammary veins, nerve and artery, which have
+been cramped by pulling the arm down during delivery. No breast should
+become caked in the hands of an Osteopath. Do not bother about the
+bowels for two or three days. It may be necessary to use the catheter if
+the water should fail to pass off after inhibiting the pubic system.
+This is straight mid-wifery and will guide you through at least in
+ninety per cent of the cases you will meet in normally formed women.</p>
+
+<p>Right here I wish to say one word: I think it is very wrong to teach,
+talk and spend so much time with pictures, cuts, talks and lectures, and
+hold up constantly to the view of the student, births coming from the
+worst imaginable deformities and call that a knowledge of mid-wifery. It
+is normal mid-wifery you want to know and be well-skilled in. The
+abnormal formations are few and far between, and when a case of that
+kind does appear, it is your knowledge of the normal that guides you
+through the variations. You will very likely never find two abnormals
+presenting the same form of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[Pg 249]</a></span> bone. As this is intended to only present
+to the student natural delivery I will let the subject drop with one
+word about the sore tongue of the mother. Adjust her neck, relieve
+constrictor and all other muscles that would impede any blood vessel
+that should drain the mouth and tongue. Remember this, that a horse that
+is always hunting bugars never finds a smooth road.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[Pg 250]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XVIII" id="CHAPTER_XVIII"></a>CHAPTER XVIII.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Convulsions.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Old Phrases&mdash;Results of Stoppage of Fluids&mdash;Old Theory of
+Fits&mdash;What the Real Cause may be&mdash;Listen for the Cause&mdash;What is a
+Fit&mdash;Sensory System Demanding Nourishment&mdash;The Causes&mdash;The
+Remedy&mdash;Dislocation of Atlas and of Four Upper Ribs. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>OLD PHRASES.</h4>
+
+<p>As old phrases that have long been in use as names for the various
+diseases have almost grown to the degree of disgust, I laid them aside
+and have been trying and have succeeded in unfolding natural laws to a
+better understanding, which do and should be our guide and action in
+treating all diseases that mar the peace and happiness of the human race
+by misery and death. By such old systems with their foolish and
+unreliable suggestions, of how to guide the doctor in treating diseases
+which have proven unworthy of respect, if merit is to be our rule of the
+weights and measures of intelligence. I have become so disgusted with
+such verbiage with the sense that follows the pens that have written
+treatise on disease, that I have concluded to do like Adam of old, give
+names that may appear novel to the reader when I wish to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[Pg 251]</a></span> draw the
+attention of the student who is trying to obtain a knowledge of the
+mysteries hitherto unsolved and unexplained. We have panned and washed
+by their suggestions and have obtained no gold. There are two very large
+and powerful rivers passing their fluids in opposite directions over a
+territory that I will call the Klondike of life. This territory is
+bounded on the east by a great wall, which according to the old books
+has been called the diaphragm, through which comes forth a great river
+of life that spreads all over the plains of the anterior lumbar region.
+On that plain we find a great system of perfect irrigation of cities,
+villages, and fertile soils of life.</p>
+
+
+<h4>RESULT OF STOPPAGE OF FLUIDS.</h4>
+
+<p>This region of country covers one of the greatest and most fertile
+fields of life producing elements, and places them on the thoroughfares,
+and sends them back over the great central railroad, the thoracic duct,
+from lymphatics of the whole abdomen, to the heart and lungs to be
+converted into a higher order of living matter. When finished it is
+called blood, to sustain its own machinery, and all other machines of
+the body, giving rise to the mental question: "What would be the effect
+produced to life and health, if we should cut off, dam up or suspend the
+flowing of the aorta as it descends close<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[Pg 252]</a></span> by the vena cava and thoracic
+duct as they return with contents through the diaphragm on their journey
+to the heart and lungs for manufacture and finish. And after having
+supplied the plain, what would be the effect if the vena cava and its
+system of drainage, and the thoracic duct should be dammed up so that
+chyle and blood could not be carried to the heart and lungs for renewal,
+purification, and finish. How much thought would be required to see that
+by stopping the arterial flow or that of the vena cava an irritating and
+famishing condition would ensue, with congested veins, lymphatics and
+all organs of the abdomen, to that condition called fermentation,
+congestion and inflammation, which in time is thrown off by sloughing
+away the substances of the lymphatics of the whole abdominal system of
+glands that belong to a liver, a kidney, the uterus and the bowels, to
+the condition that has long since been a mystery, and called typhoid
+fever, dysentery, bilious fever, periodical spasms, and on through the
+whole list of general and special diseases of winter and summer. I would
+advise the practicing Osteopath to do some very careful panning up and
+down the rivers of this Klondike, for if you fail to find gold, and much
+of it, you had better spend the remainder of your life where reason
+dwelleth not. Ever remember<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[Pg 253]</a></span>ing that ignorance of the geography and
+customs of this country is the wet powder of success."</p>
+
+
+<h4>OLD THEORY OF FITS.</h4>
+
+<p>We often see a woman or man afflicted with fits or falling sickness
+which the doctor has failed to cure. What is a fit? For want of a better
+knowledge we have an established theory that "hysteria" is purely her
+imagination and as we must respect old theories, we will call it a fit
+of meanness. This is what we have had for breakfast, dinner and supper
+and we are asked to respect such trash because of the "established
+theories."</p>
+
+<p>We are instructed by the universal "all" of the graduates of various
+medical schools to call her a criminal and proceed to punish her with a
+wet towel, well twisted, and administered freely&mdash;more comprehensively
+expressed by the term "spanker" and "spank her" very much&mdash;late from
+Scotland with all Europe, and schools in America, except the American
+School of Osteopathy, which recommends to "wallop" and "wallop" very
+freely the empty headed schools and theories that have no more sense
+than to torture a sick person and do so to disguise their ignorance of
+the cause of her disease, which is shown by the spasmodic effect that
+has been named by a little book of guess work, gener<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[Pg 254]</a></span>ally called and
+universally known as symptomatology.</p>
+
+
+<h4>WHAT THE REAL CAUSE MAY BE.</h4>
+
+<p>Not a single author has hinted or in any way intimated that the cause of
+her disease is a failure of the passing of the blood, chyle and other
+substances to and from the abdomen to nourish and renovate the abdominal
+viscera caused by a prolapsed diaphragm, which would cause resistance to
+the passing of the aorta, through which passes the arterial blood
+through the crura, and the vena cava that returns the venous blood, and
+through which crura the chyle is conducted from the receptaculum chyli
+before decomposition by fermentation sets up.</p>
+
+
+<h4>LISTEN FOR THE CAUSE.</h4>
+
+<p>The afflicted is intoxicated. Here is where she gets a poisonous alcohol
+and will never be relieved permanently until the "wet towel" of reason
+has slapped on both sides of the attending physician's head, so he can
+hear the squeezing and rattling of regurgitation, and straining and
+creaking of the fluids in their effort to pass through that great and
+strong towel called the diaphragm. Until he learns this I would apply
+the wet towel of reason to the doctor, for fear he becomes lukewarm in
+his studies and gives his patient a hypodermic injection of morphine,
+which is the advice as given at the last<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[Pg 255]</a></span> council of medical men who
+practice "old established" theories rather than be honest enough to say:
+"The woman is sick and I know it, but I do not know the cause of her
+trouble."</p>
+
+
+<h4>WHAT IS A FIT?</h4>
+
+<p>What is a fit? If God's judgment is to be respected a fit is the
+life-saving step and move, perfectly natural, perfectly reasonable, and
+should be so respected and received as divinely wise, because on that
+natural action which is produced on the constrictor nerves first, then
+the muscles, nerves, veins and arteries with all their centers. It
+appears at this time that the vital fluids have all been used up, or
+consumed, by the sensory system, and in order to be temporarily
+replenished, this convulsion shows its natural use by squeezing vital
+fluids from all parts of the body to nourish and sustain the sensory,
+which has been emptied by mental and vital action, until death is
+inevitable without this convulsing element to supply the sensory system,
+though it may be but a short time.</p>
+
+
+<h4>SENSORY SYSTEM DEMANDING NOURISHMENT.</h4>
+
+<p>The oftener the fits come, the oftener the nutrient system of the
+sensory cries aloud in its own, though unmistakable language, that it
+must have nourishment, that it may run the machinery of life, or it must
+give up the ghost and die. In this dire<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[Pg 256]</a></span> extremity and struggle for
+life, it has asked the motor system to suspend its action, use its power
+and squeeze out of any part of the whole body though it be the brain
+itself, a few drops of cerebro-spinal fluid, or anything higher or
+lower, so it may live.</p>
+
+<p>Those of you acquainted with the fertile fields of the Klondike referred
+to, will be enabled to furnish the sensory system with such nutriment,
+as will not make it necessary to appeal to you through the language used
+by the unconscious convulsions with all their horrible contortions.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE CAUSES.</h4>
+
+<p>Thus you surely see with the microscope of reason that the sensory
+nerves must be constantly nourished, and that all nutriment for the
+nerves must be obtained from the abdomen, though its propelling force
+should come directly from the brain.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE REMEDY.</h4>
+
+<p>The nerve courses from the brain must be unobstructed from the cerebrum,
+cerebellum, the medulla oblongata, and on through the whole spinal cord;
+with a normal neck, a normal back, and normal ribs, which to an
+Osteopath means careful work, with power to know, and mind to reason
+that the work is done wisely to a finish. I hope that with these
+suggestions you will go on with the investigation to a satisfactory
+degree of success.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[Pg 257]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<h4>DISLOCATION OF THE FOUR UPPER RIBS.</h4>
+
+<p>I wish to insert a short paragraph on a few effects following a down,
+front, and outer dislocation of the four upper ribs of either side. We
+have been familiar with asthma, goitre, pen-paralysis, shaking palsy,
+spasms, and heart diseases of various kinds. We have been as familiar
+with the existence of those abnormal variations as we are of the rising
+and the setting of the sun. Our best philosophers on diseases and causes
+have elaborately written and published their conclusions, and the world
+has carefully perused with deep interest, what they have said of all the
+diseases above named, also diseases of the lung, and to-day we are by
+them left in total darkness as to the cause of the above named diseases,
+also fits, insanity, loss of voice, brachial agitans, and many other
+diseases of the chest, neck and head. As the field is open and clear for
+any philosopher to establish his point of observation, note and report
+what he observes, I will avail myself of this opportunity, and say in a
+very few words, I have found no one of the diseases above indicated to
+have an existence without some variation of the first few of the upper
+ribs of the chest. With this I will leave farther exploration in the
+hands of other persons; and await the report of their observations pro
+and con.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[Pg 258]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XIX" id="CHAPTER_XIX"></a>CHAPTER XIX.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Concluding Remarks.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Thoughts for Consideration&mdash;Offering a New Philosophy&mdash;Lymphatics
+and Fascia&mdash;A Satisfactory Experiment&mdash;Natural Washing Out. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>THOUGHTS FOR CONSIDERATION.</h4>
+
+<p>"Let us not forget the assembling of ourselves together." Whether this
+quotation applies to us or not, as an Osteopath I will venture to say
+that the honored dead, and the honest living intelligent healers of all
+schools, and all systems of trying to relieve our race from disease and
+suffering, so far as I have been able to ascertain, have been forced to
+guess how to proceed when they enter the "sick room" for want of a
+philosophical system of procedure. We have collected together many or
+few symptoms, named the disease, opened the battle, and on our side have
+met the enemy and fought bravely all battles very much the same way. I
+have spent one-half of a century in the field trying the many methods of
+attacks; and used the best arms and ammunition to date, and designed to
+do the greatest good. For twenty years or more I was content to be
+governed by the opinions and customs<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[Pg 259]</a></span> of older and more experienced
+physicians. I gave the disease its proper name. I gave the medicine as
+taught and practiced, but was not satisfied that the line of procedure
+was philosophically correct.</p>
+
+
+<h4>OFFERING A NEW PHILOSOPHY.</h4>
+
+<p>I believe at the present time I am fully prepared to say I can offer you
+a more rational philosophy of what should be the physician's first
+object, when called to repair a vessel that has become unseaworthy by
+accumulated barnacles, and is placed upon the dry dock for restoration
+to that condition called seaworthy, again. I believe this philosophy
+will sustain the strongest minds in the conclusion that our first and
+wisest step to successfully combat all diseases would be to inhibit
+first the nerves of the lymphatics, then produce muscular constricture
+and cause them to unload their diseased contents, and keep them
+unloading until renovation is absolutely complete; leaving the
+lymphatics in a purely healthy state, and keep them in this condition at
+any period of the disease. I have long since been of the opinion that if
+we could keep all impurities from accumulating in the lymphatics, and
+never allow them to become overloaded, we would have no such diseases as
+bilious fever, typhoid, mountain fever, malaria, pneumonia, flux, heart
+disease,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[Pg 260]</a></span> brain disease, fits, insanity and on to the whole list of
+climatic troubles, and the troubles with the changes of winter and
+summer.</p>
+
+
+<h4>LYMPHATICS AND FASCIA.</h4>
+
+<p>I have thought for many years that the lymphatics and cellular system of
+the fascia, of the brain, the lungs, and the heart throughout the whole
+system of blood supply, do get filled up with impure and unhealthy
+fluids, long before any disease makes its appearance, and that the
+procedure of changes known as fermentation, with its electromagnetic
+disturbances, were the cause of at least ninety per cent of the diseases
+that we labor to relieve by some chemical preparation called drugs. When
+I was fully satisfied that we were liable to do more harm than good with
+such remedies, I began to hunt for more reasonable methods to relieve
+the system of its poisonous gases and fluids, through the excretory
+system of the lymphatics and other channels, through which we had hoped
+to renovate and purify the system.</p>
+
+
+<h4>A SATISFACTORY EXPERIMENT.</h4>
+
+<p>For twenty-five years I have tried to balance myself, divert my mind
+from all previous methods and see if I could not get more directly to
+the lymphatic system of nerves, and cause the millions of vessels known
+to exist in the body to begin to un<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[Pg 261]</a></span>load their contents and continue
+that action until all impurities were discharged by way of the bowels,
+lungs, kidneys and porous system.</p>
+
+
+<h4>NATURAL WASHING OUT.</h4>
+
+<p>At the conclusion of this philosophy I will endeavor to explain just how
+nature has provided to ward off diseases, by washing out before
+fermentation should set up in the lymphatics, from being received and
+retained the length of time, that destructive chemical changes would
+begin its work of converting elements into gas and discharging them from
+the system as unsuitable for nutriment. In order to avoid this calamity
+we are met with two important thoughts, one of the power of the nerves
+of the lymphatics to dilate and contract, also that of fascia and
+muscle, to dilate or constrict with great force when necessary to eject
+substances from gland, cell, muscle and fascia. Thus we see a cell
+loaded to fullness by secretion which it cannot do without; open-mouthed
+vessels through which it receives this fluid. Then again the system of
+cellular sphincters must dilate and contract in order to retain the
+fluids in those cell-like parts of the body. Now we are at the point
+when ready for use in other parts of the system, those sphincters must
+temporarily give away, that the gland may relax and dilate. Then the
+universal principle<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[Pg 262]</a></span> of constriction throughout the whole body can
+discharge the contents of the lymphatics of all divisions of the body,
+which is surely the normal condition. Let the lymphatics always receive
+and discharge naturally. If so we have no substance detained long enough
+to produce fermentation, fever, sickness and death.</p>
+
+<p>I think this thought has been presented plainly enough to be fully
+understood and practiced by the reader, if an Osteopath.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[Pg 263]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="CHAPTER_XX" id="CHAPTER_XX"></a>CHAPTER XX.</h2>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">The Superior Cervical Ganglion.</span></h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>With what it has Communication&mdash;Its Position&mdash;One of its
+Functions&mdash;Stimulation or Inhibition&mdash;Results Produced. </p></div>
+
+
+<h4>WITH WHAT IT HAS COMMUNICATION.</h4>
+
+<p>Every ganglion on the great chain of the sympathetic nerve has special
+and important functions, but upon the superior cervical falls the
+greatest burden of responsibility. This ganglion has communication with
+a greater number of nerves and organs than any other; is in direct
+communication with three cranial and four cervical nerves, indirectly
+with four more cranial nerves, and enters, by its branches into the
+formation of a large number of plexuses. Through this ganglion it is
+that much Osteopathic work is done, and the purpose of this brief paper
+is to point out some of the many effects which may be produced by its
+stimulation or inhibition.</p>
+
+
+<h4>ITS POSITION.</h4>
+
+<p>Anatomically we know that the superior cervical ganglion is situated in
+relation to the transverse processes of the upper three cervical
+vertebrae. It gives off branches which communicate directly with the
+vagus, glosso-pharyngeal and hypoglossal<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[Pg 264]</a></span> nerves; another branch, the
+ascending, passes into the carotid canal and enters into the formation
+of the carotid and cavernous plexuses; other branches pass to the
+pharynx, and a branch enters the formation of the cardiac plexuses. From
+the carotid and cavernous plexuses pass many nerves, only a few of which
+need special mention; one unites with the great superficial petrosal to
+form the Vidian nerve which goes to <i>Meckel's</i> ganglion, branches pass
+to the Gasserian ganglion, while we have others passing to the third,
+fourth, the ophthalmic division of the fifth and the sixth nerve, also
+we have derived from the nerve the sympathetic root of the lenticular
+ganglion.</p>
+
+
+<h4>ONE OF ITS FUNCTIONS.</h4>
+
+<p>Physiologically we know that one of the special functions of the
+sympathetic nervous system is to control the tone of non-striate
+muscular tissue, and that we have filaments distributed from the
+sympathetic system in the muscular wall of every blood vessel, duct and
+organ throughout the body. We also know that the sympathetic is the
+accelerator nerve of the heart, being opposed in its action by the vagus
+which, is inhibitory; further, that the vagus is constant in its
+brake-like action, while the sympathetic only acts when stimulated
+either directly or reflexly. While the vagus is inhibitory to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[Pg 265]</a></span> the heart
+it is motor to the lungs. Nerve force is not generated in the
+sympathetic system; the cerebro-spinal nerve force is conveyed to the
+ganglia by the rami communicantes and in the ganglia is transformed into
+sympathetic nerve force. We might compare the ganglia to electrical
+transformers. Such being the case it is not difficult to see that if the
+superior cervical ganglion receives the nerve-force for transformation
+from the upper four cervical nerves and we can prevent, or lessen, the
+passage of nerve-force from the spinal cord through those nerves to the
+ganglion, that we will, to a corresponding degree, lessen the amount of
+sympathetic nerve-force transformed in the ganglion and transmitted from
+it by its branches.</p>
+
+
+<h4>STIMULATION OR INHIBITION.</h4>
+
+<p>We can produce stimulation or inhibition of a nerve at will; press
+suddenly and with a little violence upon the ulnar nerve where it lies
+in relation with the internal condyle of the humerus and we will find a
+manifestation of its physiological action, evidenced by a sense of pain
+in the ulnar and radial sides of the fifth finger and the ulnar side of
+the fourth, together with contraction of the muscles supplied by that
+nerve. But if our pressure be less intense and more prolonged we will
+inhibit the nerve and produce a sense of numbness in the same area
+together with temporary loss of muscular control.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[Pg 266]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Osteopaths well understand how to produce either stimulation or
+inhibition of the ganglia by way of the nerves passing to them from the
+spinal cord, and the results of such inhibition or stimulation in any
+sympathetic area can be prophesied readily by anyone who has read with
+attention what I have written; for instance, in the case of inhibition
+in the region of the nerves supplying the superior cervical ganglion
+with nerve force, we will find, first, throughout the area of
+distribution of the branches of this ganglion a relaxation of the
+vascular walls. This will be marked by two indications, first, the skin
+will become flushed and moist; second salivary secretion and lachrymal
+secretion will be increased. Second, the vagus is now allowed full sway,
+and we will find slowing of the heartbeat. It is well known that
+pressure over the seat of the first spinal nerve for a very brief period
+of time will control a congestive headache; the pressure in such case is
+made only for so long time as to produce stimulation of the sympathetic
+to greater activity, when we will attain a vaso-constrictor action,
+lessen the volume of blood in the cranial cavity and so abolish the
+headache. The arteries of the body may be divided into three groups, the
+large, the medium-sized and the small; in the first<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[Pg 267]</a></span> of these we find
+little muscular tissue and much elastic; in the second they exist in
+about equal proportions, while in the small arteries we find much
+muscular tissue and little elastic. As a consequence it is upon the
+smaller arteries that the sympathetic system has its greatest effect. As
+we dilate the smaller arteries and slow the heart action, it follows
+that we reduce the blood pressure, as we reduce blood pressure we reduce
+temperature, and within a very few minutes after the commencement of
+this inhibitory pressure on the upper four cervical nerves we will find
+in the large majority of cases, the capillaries over the entire surface
+of the body flushed, this being accompanied by a fall in the pulse rate
+and a marked diminution of the temperature. Indirectly at the same time
+we produce an effect upon the lungs; as we lessen blood pressure and the
+frequency of the heart action we find in accordance with the
+physiological rule an alteration in the respiration, it becomes slower
+and deeper. Arguing along these lines, and applying similar reasoning to
+each of the branches of this ganglion, anyone can trace out the many
+subsidiary results which may be expected from either stimulation of the
+rami communicantes nerves distributed to it, or their inhibition.
+Exactly similar rulings will find their prompt proof with regard to any
+other of the ganglia of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[Pg 268]</a></span> sympathetic system. We will find
+corresponding results in the cases of the thoracic ganglia which form by
+their branches the pulmonic plexuses; we get the same results from the
+splanchnic ganglia; while in the lumbar region we find that we have a
+ready means of control of the vascular system in the lower abdomen and
+pelvis. Much, very much, is still to be learned concerning the
+sympathetic nervous system, and all such increase in knowledge can come
+in one way only, clinical observation of Osteopathic treatment.</p>
+
+<p class="author">
+<span class="smcap">William Smith</span>,<br />
+L. R. C. P. and S., (<span class="smcap">Edin.</span>), D. O.
+</p>
+
+<h4>THE END.</h4>
+
+<div class="footnotes">
+
+<h3>FOOTNOTES</h3>
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Explore: (1) To seek for or after: to strive to attain by
+search; to look wisely and carefully for; to search through or into; to
+penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to
+explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science; "hidden
+frauds (to) explore."&mdash;<span class="smcap">Webster.</span></p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Chambers.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> "The secretion of the external auditory meatus, mixed with
+the secretion of the neighboring glands or ceruminous glands, forms the
+well known ear-wax or cerumen. The secretion in this place contains a
+reddish pigment of a bitterish sweet taste, the composition of which has
+not been investigated." American Text-Book of Physiology.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> Chambers.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> <span class="smcap">Disease.</span> 1. "Lack of ease. 2. An alteration in the state of
+the body, or some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the
+performance of the vital functions and causing or threatening pain and
+weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disease;
+disorder."&mdash;Webster's International Dictionary.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> What has the student gained by reading the above definition
+of this standard author and representative of present medical attainment
+but a labored effort to explain what he does not know.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label">[7]</span></a> Very true, if treated by the medicine man.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> My first Osteopathic treatment for appendicitis was in
+1877, at which time I operated on a Mr. Surratt and gave permanent
+relief. During the early eighties I treated and permanently cured Mrs
+Emily Pickler of Kirksville, mother of our representative, S. M.
+Pickler, and mother of ex-congressman John A. Pickler of South Dakota.
+The infirmary has had bad cases of appendicitis probably running up into
+hundreds without failing to relieve and cure a single case. The ability
+of the appendix to receive and discharge foreign substances is taught in
+the American School of Osteopathy and is successfully practiced by its
+diplomates. In the case of Mr. Surratt I found lateral twist of lumbar
+bones; I adjusted spine, lifted bowels, and he got well. When I was
+called to Mrs. Pickler she had been put on light diet, by the surgeon,
+preparatory to the knife. She soon recovered under my treatment without
+any surgical operation and is alive and well to this date.</p></div></div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<blockquote><h2><a name="A_T_Stills_Table_or_Device" id="A_T_Stills_Table_or_Device"></a>A. T. Still's Table or Device,</h2>
+
+<h3>That He Has Constructed For</h3>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">The Use of The Operator, The Ease And Comfort of The Patient.</span></h3>
+
+
+<p>It is a welcome success and does away with the lubberly old tables. It
+gives ease and support to all classes of patients. By its use the
+patient can sit in a chair or on a stool and feel at perfect ease during
+all treatments, then the operator gets results and is not tired to death
+when he has treated a patient; knows and feels that there has been some
+good done.</p>
+
+<p>The asthmatic knows he has gotten help because pain has left his chest
+and he breathes as with new lungs; he knows he is helped more by one
+treatment while sitting on a chair with his body easy and at rest in the
+cushioned swinging device than he would or has received by the best
+skill on any table. Then the operator says, "Thank fortune, I am not
+worn out, and know I have gotten every bone to the place it belongs, and
+I know I have given satisfactory relief because my patients say so."</p>
+
+<p>I think to an operator this device is his best friend. With it well
+understood he can do as much work as three good operators can do on the
+old tables. Remember this device does no part of the treatment but
+places the patient to your convenience while you do the work.</p>
+
+<p>I feel as I am the discoverer of the device, that I know its needs and
+feel free to advise pupils.</p>
+
+<p>The device will cost you $25 only.</p>
+
+<p class="author">
+A. T. STILL,<br />
+Founder.
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_American_School_of_Osteopathy" id="The_American_School_of_Osteopathy"></a>The American School of Osteopathy,</h2>
+
+<h3>KIRKSVILLE, MO.</h3>
+
+
+<p>The course of study in The American School of Osteopathy is a carefully
+graded one, and is divided into four terms, of five months each. The
+terms beginning September and February of each year. The course thus
+requires two years for completion.</p>
+
+
+<h4>COURSE OF STUDY.</h4>
+
+<p>The course of study extends over two years, and is divided into four
+terms of five months each.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FIRST TERM.</h4>
+
+<p>The first term is devoted to Descriptive Anatomy including Osteology,
+Syndesmology and Myology; lectures on Histology illustrated by
+micro-stereopticon; the principles of General Chemistry and Physics.</p>
+
+
+<h4>SECOND TERM.</h4>
+
+<p>The second term includes Descriptive and Regional Anatomy; didactic and
+laboratory work in Histology; Physiology; Physiological Chemistry and
+Urinalysis; Principles of Osteopathy; Clinical Demonstrations in
+Osteopathy.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THIRD TERM.</h4>
+
+<p>The third term includes Demonstrations in Regional Anatomy; Physiology;
+lectures in Pathology illustrated by micro-stereopticon; Symptomatology;
+Physiological Psychology; Clinical Demonstrations in Osteopathy.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FOURTH TERM.</h4>
+
+<p>The fourth term includes Symptomatology; Minor Surgery; didactic and
+laboratory work in Pathology; Psycho-Pathology; Gyn&aelig;ocology; Obstetrics;
+Sanitation and Public Health; Venereal Diseases; Medical Jurisprudence;
+Clinical Demonstrations; Clinical Practice.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The school is open to students of both sexes without distinction, and
+all have equal opportunities and privileges, and are held to the same
+requirements.</p>
+
+<p>The methods of instruction are such as obtain in the best academic and
+collegiate institutions, and include recitations from standard
+text-books, lectures, quizzes, practical laboratory work, and practical
+clinical work.</p>
+
+<p>The equipment of the school is complete in every respect. The recitation
+and lecture rooms are amply provided with all necessary means of
+illustration, such as specimens fresh and preserved, skeletons, models,
+charts, manikins and diagrams.</p>
+
+<p>The respective laboratories are fitted up with all the necessary
+apparatus for practical work in the Anatomical, Histological,
+Microscopical, Chemical and Physiological departments.</p>
+
+<p>The clinical facilities and opportunities enjoyed by students in this
+school are exceptional. An abundance of material is always available for
+clinic demonstrations, which are continued daily through two terms, with
+practical work in the clinic operating rooms by each student, under the
+direction of the regular operators, daily during the whole of the last
+term.</p>
+
+<p>In addition to the regular clinical department, the A. T. Still
+Infirmary has constantly under treatment from three hundred to five
+hundred patients, and although the students do not see these patients,
+the many cases of diseases of all kinds under the care of the regular
+operators in the Infirmary give them constantly fresh and varied
+illustrations for use in their lectures. Sometimes, too, patients whose
+cases may be of special interest offer the use of their cases for the
+purpose of demonstration before the students.</p>
+
+<p>Opportunities are thus furnished to students for such practice and drill
+in the actual work of treating diseases as we believe is not equaled by
+any similar institution anywhere. The course of study is progressively
+graded with a view to giving students a thorough and comprehensive
+knowledge of the facts and principles upon which their future work is to
+be based. These clinic exercises in connection and immediately following
+give them facility and readiness in the art of applying the facts and
+principles which they have acquired in recognizing and treating diseased
+conditions.</p>
+
+<p>Catalogue mailed upon application. For information as to terms, etc.,
+apply to</p>
+
+<p class="author">
+A. T. STILL,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="smcap">President.</span><br />
+ AMERICAN SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHY.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;KIRKSVILLE, MO.<br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_A_T_Still_Infirmary" id="The_A_T_Still_Infirmary"></a>The A. T. Still Infirmary</h2>
+
+<h3>Cures by the Science of Osteopathy all Diseases Which are Known as
+Curable.</h3>
+
+
+<p>Dr. <span class="smcap">A. T. Still</span>, founder of the Science of Osteopathy, has associated
+with him, in his infirmary organization, the oldest and most successful
+practitioners and exponents of the science, selected with special
+reference to their fitness for the work of practically demonstrating the
+principles of Osteopathy and occupying positions as teachers and
+lecturers in the American School of Osteopathy. All are regular
+graduates of this school.</p>
+
+<p>The students in the school are not permitted to even assist in treating
+the Infirmary patients. All the work is done by regular operators.</p>
+
+<p>The examination previous to treatment is conducted by Dr. Still's three
+sons assisted by the operators. After examination the patient is
+assigned to the room in which he or she will receive treatment, and
+placed under the care of an Osteopath best suited to the case.</p>
+
+<p>The fees for treatment at the Infirmary are $25 per month. Where
+patients are unable to come to the Infirmary for treatment, an extra
+charge of $1 to $2 per visit is added.</p>
+
+<p>The Infirmary maintains a complete bathing department in charge of
+competent attendants. As good baths are therefore obtainable in
+Kirksville as in any city. The charges are very moderate&mdash;twenty-five
+cents for a single bath, or $2.00 for a commutation ticket for ten
+baths. When bath tickets are procured no other fees to attendants are
+necessary.</p>
+
+<p>A representative of the Infirmary meets all trains, day and night, to
+help all patients who may need assistance and see that they are properly
+cared for.</p>
+
+
+<h4>OPERATIVE SURGERY.</h4>
+
+<p>To correct a misapprehension on the part of many, it should be
+understood that the <span class="smcap">A. T. Still Infirmary</span> is fully prepared to receive
+and handle the most difficult cases requiring the highest order of
+skilled surgery, and it is not necessary to send such cases to the great
+city hospitals in the east for even the most difficult and delicate
+operations.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. J. B. Littlejohn, of the faculty, is a graduate in surgery from the
+University of Glasgow, Scotland, and held for three years the position
+of Surgeon under the Government Board of England, besides other
+important and responsible positions in Europe and America.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. Wm. Smith holds evidences of qualifications as follows: Licentiate
+of the Royal College of Surgery, Edinburg; Licentiate of the Royal
+College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; Licentiate in Midwifery,
+Edinburg and Glasgow; etc.</p>
+
+<p>Cases requiring careful and delicate Surgery, the removal of fibroid
+tumors, and in fact any operation of whatever nature will receive the
+best and most scientific treatment and care in this institution.</p>
+
+<p>The management has now secured a powerful and perfect Roentgen or X-Ray
+apparatus which will be used in connection with this department, in the
+examination of difficult cases.</p>
+
+<p>Patients coming to the A. T. Still Infirmary may rely upon the fact that
+they will in no case be subjected to unnecessary surgical operations, as
+the knife is never used unless absolutely necessary.</p>
+
+<p>Address all letters of inquiry to</p>
+
+<p class="author">
+A. T. STILL,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; INFIRMARY,<br />
+KIRKSVILLE, MO
+</p>
+</blockquote>
+<div class="trans-note">
+<p class="center">Transcriber's note:</p>
+
+<p>Corrections have been made to everyday words printed incorrectly, but
+all technical terms are as in the original.</p></div>
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Philosophy of Osteopathy, by Andrew T. Still
+
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+Title: Philosophy of Osteopathy
+
+Author: Andrew T. Still
+
+Release Date: June 22, 2008 [EBook #25864]
+
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PHILOSOPHY OF OSTEOPATHY ***
+
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+Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Janet Blenkinship and the
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+
+   [Illustration: A. T. Still.]
+
+   Philosophy of Osteopathy;
+
+   BY
+
+   ANDREW T. STILL,
+
+
+   DISCOVERER OF THE SCIENCE OF OSTEOPATHY AND
+   PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL
+   OF OSTEOPATHY.
+
+
+   PUBLISHED BY
+   A. T. STILL, KIRKSVILLE, MO
+   1899.
+
+   Copyrighted, 1899, by
+   A. T. STILL.
+
+
+   Lithoprinted by
+   EDWARD BROTHERS, INC.
+   Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
+
+
+
+
+Preface.
+
+
+Many of my friends have been anxious ever since Osteopathy became an
+established fact, that I should write a treatise on the science. But I
+was never convinced that the time was ripe for such a production, nor am
+I even now convinced that this is not a little premature. Osteopathy is
+only in its infancy, it is a great unknown sea just discovered, and as
+yet we are only acquainted with its shore-tide.
+
+When I saw others who had not more than skimmed the surface of the
+science, taking up the pen to write books on Osteopathy, and after
+having carefully examined their productions, found they were drinking
+from the fountains of old schools of drugs, dragging back the science to
+the very systems from which I divorced myself so many years ago, and
+realized that hungry students were ready to swallow such mental poison,
+dangerous as it was, I became fully awakened to the necessity of some
+sort of Osteopathic literature for those wishing to be informed.
+
+This book is free from quotations from medical authors, and differs
+from them in opinion on almost every important question. I do not expect
+it to meet their approval; such a thing would be unnatural and
+impossible.
+
+It is my object in this work to teach principles as I understand them,
+and not rules. I do not instruct the student to punch or pull a certain
+bone, nerve or muscle for a certain disease, but by a knowledge of the
+normal and abnormal, I hope to give a specific knowledge for all
+diseases.
+
+This work has been written a little at a time for several years, just as
+I could snatch a moment from other cares to devote to it. I have
+carefully compiled these thoughts into a treatise. Every principle
+herein laid down has been fairly well tested by myself, and proven true.
+
+The book has been written by myself in my own way, without any ambition
+to fine writing, but to give to the world a start in a philosophy that
+may be a guide in the future.
+
+Owing to the great haste with which the book has been rushed through the
+press to meet the urgent demand, we will ask the indulgence of the
+public for any imperfection that may appear. Hoping the world may profit
+by these thoughts, I am,
+
+   Respectfully,
+   A. T. STILL.
+
+   Kirksville, Mo., Sept. 1, 1899.
+
+
+
+
+TABLE OF CONTENTS.
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+SOME INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
+
+Not a Work of Compilation--Authors Quoted--Method of Reasoning--The
+Osteopath an Artist--When I Became an Osteopath--Dr. Neal's Opinion--The
+Opinions of Others--What Studies Necessary--What I Mean by
+Anatomy--Principles--The Practicing Osteopath's Guide--The Fascia--Not a
+pleasing Task--Without Accepted Theories--Truths of Nature--Body, Motion
+and Mind--Osteopathy to Cure Disease--The Osteopath Should Find
+Health.                                                           Page 11
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+OSTEOPATHIC EXPLORATIONS.
+
+Divisions of the Body--Searching for the Cause--Duty of the Osteopathic
+Explorer--Classification and Division--The Abnormal--Nerve
+Powers--Witnesses to Examine--Abnormal Growths--Cerebro Spinal
+Fluid--Body in Perfect Health--Chemistry--Nature's Chemistry.     Page 29
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+THE HEAD.
+
+A Free Circulation--Death Blows--Something of the Neck--Order of
+Treatment--The Pelvis--Brains of Animals--Arterial Motion--Mental
+Vibrations--Overburdening the Mind--Hemiplegia.                   Page 43
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+EAR WAX AND ITS USES.
+
+Nature Makes Nothing in Vain--A Successful Experiment--A Question for
+Ages--The Position--Meaning of Life--Some Questions Asked--Condition in
+Certain Diseases Caused by Cold--Cerumen in Fluid State--Winter Kills
+Babies--Some Advice to Mothers--A Case in Point--Connection of the brain
+and Other Nerves in Digestion--Unaided Investigation.             Page 53
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+DISEASES OF THE CHEST.
+
+Where Confined--Consumption--Can Consumption Be Cured--Consumption
+Described--No Time for Surrender--Cerebral Spinal Fluid--How to Destroy
+Deadly Bombs of Decay--Battle of Blood for Life--Miliary
+Tuberculosis--Conversion of Bodies Into Gas--Forming a
+Tubercle--Breeding Contagion--The Seeds of Disease--Generating
+Fever--Whooping Cough--Clouds and Lungs Are Much Alike--The Wisdom of
+Nature--Water Formed in Lungs--The Law of Fives--Feeble Action of
+Heart--The Heart--From Neck to Heart--Dyspersia or Imperfect
+Digestion.                                                        Page 68
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+THE LYMPHATICS.
+
+Importance of the Subject--Demands of Nature on the
+Lymphatics--Dunglinson's Definition--Dangers of Dead Substances--Lymph
+Continued--Solvent in Nature--Where Are the Lymphatics Situated?--The
+Fat and Lean.                                                    Page 104
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+THE DIAPHRAGM.
+
+Investigation--A Struggle With Nature--Lesson of Cause and
+Effect--Something of Medical Etiquette--The Medical Doctor--An Explorer
+for Truth Must Be Independent--The Diaphragm Introduced--A Useful
+Study--Combatting Effect--Is Least Understood--A Case of Bilious
+Fever--A Demand on the Nerves--Danger of Compression--A Cause for
+Disease--Was a Mistake Made in the Creation--An Exploration--Result of
+Removal of Diaphragm--Sustaining Life in Principles--Law Applicable to
+Other Organs--Power of Diaphragm--Omentum.                       Page 114
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+LIVER, BOWELS AND KIDNEYS.
+
+Gender of the Liver--Productions of the Liver--A Hope for the
+Afflicted--Evidences of Truth--Loaded With Ignorance--Lack of Knowledge
+of the Kidney--How a Purgative Acts--Flux--Bloody Dysentery--Flux More
+Fully Described--Osteopathic Remedies--Medical Remedies--More of the
+Osteopathic Remedy.                                              Page 138
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+THE BLOOD.
+
+Uses for Fluids--Blood an Unknown Fluid--Harvey Only Reached the Banks
+of the River of Life--Blood Is Systematically Furnished--Fatality of
+Ignorance--To Find the Cause Must Be Honest--Following Arteries and
+Nerves--Feeding the Nerves--The Blood on Its Journey--Powers Necessary
+to Move Blood--Venous Blood Suspended.                           Page 149
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+THE FASCIA.
+
+Where Is Disease Sown?--An Illustration of Conception--The Greatest
+Problem--A Fountain of Supply--Fascia Omnipresent--Connection with
+Spinal Cord--Goes With and Covers All Muscles--Proofs in
+Contagion--Study of Nerves and Fascia--Tumefy--Tumefaction.      Page 161
+
+
+CHAPTER XI.
+
+FEVERS.
+
+Be Armed With Facts--Union of Human Gases With Oxygen--Fever and
+Nettle-rash. Nature Constructs for a Wise Purpose--Processes of Life
+Must be Kept in Motion--No Satisfaction from Authors--Animal
+Heat--Semeiology--Symptomatology--Definition of Fever--Fevers only
+Effects--Result of Stoppages of Vein or Artery--Aneurisms.       Page 175
+
+
+CHAPTER XII.
+
+SCARLET FEVER AND SMALLPOX.
+
+As defined by Allopathy--Scarlet Fever as Defined by
+Osteopathy--Smallpox--Power to Drive Greater Than in Measles.    Page 190
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII.
+
+A CHAPTER OF WONDERS AND SOME VALUABLE QUESTIONS.
+
+Wonders on the Increase--What Is Life?--How Is Action Produced--Acquaint
+Yourself With the Machinery--Duty of the Osteopath--Formation of
+Sacrum--The Pelvis--Appearance of OEdema--Do All Diseases Have
+Appearance in OEdema.                                            Page 193
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV.
+
+HAS MAN DEGENERATED?
+
+The Advent of Man--Care of the Stock Raiser--Mental Degeneration Makes
+It Unpleasant for an Original Thinker--Original Thinkers of the
+Ancients--Methods of Healing--Failure of Allopathy--Primitive
+Man--Evidences of Prehistoric Man--Mental Dwarfage.              Page 203
+
+
+CHAPTER XV.
+
+OSTEOPATHIC TREATMENT.
+
+Five Points--Visceral List--Care in Treating the Spinal Column--Most
+Important Chapter--Perfect Drainage--A Natural Cure.             Page 213
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI.
+
+REASONING TESTS.
+
+The Vermiform Appendix--Operating for Appendicitis--Expelling Power of
+the Vermiform Appendix--Care Exercised in Making Assertions--Reasoning
+Tests--A List of Unexplained Diseases--Concluding Remarks.       Page 223
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII.
+
+OBSTETRICS.
+
+Overloading--Similarity of Stomach and Womb--Births--Preparation for
+Delivery--Caution--Lasceration Need Not Occur--Care of Cord--Severing
+Cord--Putting on Belly Band--Delivery of Afterbirth--Preparing for
+Mother's Comfort--Post-Delivery Hemorrhage--Treatment for--Food for
+Mother--Treatment for Sore Breast.                               Page 234
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII.
+
+CONVULSIONS.
+
+Old Phrases--Results of Stoppage of Fluids--Old Theory of Fits--What the
+Real Cause may be--Listen for the Cause--What is a Fit--Sensory System
+Demanding Nourishment--The Causes--The Remedy--Dislocation of Atlas and
+of the Four Upper Ribs.                                          Page 250
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX.
+
+CONCLUDING REMARKS.
+
+Thoughts for Consideration--Offering a New Philosophy--Lymphatics and
+Fascia--A Satisfactory Experiment--Natural Washing Out.          Page 258
+
+
+CHAPTER XX.
+
+THE SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION.
+
+With What It Has Communication--Its Course--One of its
+Functions--Stimulation or Inhibition--Result Produced.           Page 263
+
+
+
+
+Philosophy of Osteopathy.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+SOME INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
+
+     Not a Work of Compilation--Authors Quoted--Method of Reasoning--The
+     Osteopath an Artist--When I Became an Osteopath--Dr. Neal's
+     Opinion--The Opinions of Others--What Studies Necessary--What I
+     Mean by Anatomy--Principles--The Practicing Osteopath's Guide--The
+     Fascia--Not a Pleasing Task--Without Accepted Theories--Truths of
+     Nature--Body, Motion and Mind--Osteopathy to Cure Disease--The
+     Osteopath Should Find Health.
+
+
+NOT A WORK OF COMPILATION.
+
+To readers of my book on the Philosophy of Osteopathy, I wish to say
+that I will not tire you with a book of compilations just to sell to the
+anxious reader. As I have spent thirty years of my life reading and
+following rules and remedies used for curing, and learned in sorrow it
+was useless to listen to their claims, for instead of getting good, I
+obtained much harm therefrom, I asked for, and obtained a mental divorce
+from them, and I want it to be understood that drugs and I are as far
+apart as the East is from the West; now, and forever. Henceforth I will
+follow the dictates of nature in all I say or write.
+
+
+AUTHORS QUOTED.
+
+I quote no authors but God and experience when I write, or lecture to
+the classes or the masses, because no book written by medical writers
+can be of much use to us, and it would be very foolish to look to them
+for advice and instruction on a science they know nothing of. They are
+illy able to advise for themselves, they have never been asked to advise
+us, and I am free to say but few persons who have been pupils of my
+school have tried to get wisdom from medical writers and apply it as
+worthy to be taught as any part of Osteopathy, philosophy or practice.
+Several books have been compiled, called "Principles of Osteopathy."
+They may sell but will fail to give the knowledge the student desires.
+
+
+METHOD OF REASONING.
+
+The student of any philosophy succeeds best by the more simple methods
+of reasoning. We reason for needed knowledge only, and should try and
+start out with as many known facts as possible. If we would reason on
+diseases of the organs of the head, neck, abdomen or pelvis, we must
+first know where these organs are, how and from what arteries the eye,
+ear, or tongue is fed.
+
+
+THE OSTEOPATH AN ARTIST.
+
+I believe you are taught anatomy in our school more thoroughly than any
+other school to date, because we want you to carry a living picture of
+all or any part of the body in your mind as a ready painter carries the
+picture of the face, scenery, beast or any thing he wishes to represent
+by his brush. He would only be a waster of time and paint and make a
+daub that would disgust any one who would employ him. We teach you
+anatomy in all its branches, that you may be able to have and keep a
+living picture before your mind all the time, so you can see all joints,
+ligaments, muscles, glands, arteries, veins, lymphatics, fascia
+superficial and deep, all organs, how they are fed, what they must do,
+and why they are expected to do a part, and what would follow in case
+that part was not done well and on time. I feel free to say to my
+students, keep your minds full of pictures of the normal body all the
+time, while treating the afflicted.
+
+
+WHEN I BECAME AN OSTEOPATH.
+
+In answer to the questions of how long have you been teaching this
+discovery, and what books are essential to the study? I will say I began
+to give reasons for my faith in the laws of life as given to men, worlds
+and beings by the God of nature, June, 1874, when I began to talk and
+propound questions to men of learning. I thought the sword and cannons
+of nature were pointed and trained upon our systems of drug doctoring.
+
+
+DR. NEAL'S OPINION.
+
+I asked Dr. J. M. Neal, of Edinburg, Scotland, for some information that
+I needed badly. He was a medical doctor of five years training, a man of
+much mental ability, who would give his opinions freely and to the
+point. I have been told by one or more Scotch M. D.'s that a Dr. John M.
+Neal, of Edinburg, was hung for murder. He was not hung while with me.
+The only thing made me doubt him being a Scotchman was he loved whiskey,
+and I had been told that the Scotch were a sensible people. John M. Neal
+said that "drugs was the bait of fools"; it was no science, and the
+system of drugs was only a trade, followed by the doctor for the money
+that could be obtained by it from the ignorant sick. He believed that
+nature was a law capable of vindicating its power all over the world.
+
+
+THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS.
+
+As this writing is for the information of the student I will continue
+the history by saying, that in the early days of Osteopathy I sought the
+opinions of the most learned, such as Dr. Schnebly, Professor of
+Language and History in the Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas; Dr.
+Dallas, a very learned M. D. of the Alopathic faith; Dr. F. A. Grove,
+well-known in Kirksville; J. B. Abbott, Indian agent, and many others of
+renown. Then back to the tombs of the dead, to better acquaint myself
+with the systems of medicine and the foundations of truth upon which
+they stood, if any. I will not worry your patience with a list of the
+names of authors that have written upon the subject of medicine, as
+remedial agents. I will use the word that the theologian often uses when
+asked whom Christ died for, the answer universally is, ALL. All
+intelligent medical writers say by word or inference that drugs or
+drugging is a system of blind guess work, and if we should let our
+opinions be governed by the marble lambs and other emblems of dead
+babies found in the cemeteries of the world, we would say that John M.
+Neal was possibly hung for murder, not through design, but through
+traditional ignorance of the power of nature to cure both old and young,
+by skillfully adjusting the engines of life so as to bring forth pure
+and healthy blood, the greatest known germicide, to one capable to
+reason who has the skill to conduct the vitalizing and protecting fluids
+to throat, lungs and all parts of the system, and ward off diseases as
+nature's God has indicated. With this faith and method of reasoning, I
+began to treat diseases by Osteopathy as an experimenter, and
+notwithstanding I obtained good results in all cases in diseases of
+climate and contagions, I hesitated for years to proclaim to the world
+that there was but little excuse for a master engineer to lose a child
+in cases of diphtheria, croup, measles, mumps, whooping cough, flux and
+other forms of summer diseases, peculiar to children. Neither was it
+necessary for the adult to die with diseases of summer, fall and winter.
+But at last I took my stand on this rock and my confidence in nature,
+where I have stood and fought the battles, and taken the enemy's flag in
+every engagement for the last twenty-five years.
+
+
+WHAT STUDIES NECESSARY.
+
+As you contemplate studying this science and have asked to know the
+necessary studies, I wish to impress it upon your minds that you begin
+with anatomy, and you end with anatomy, a knowledge of anatomy is all
+you want or need, as it is all you can use or ever will use in your
+practice, although you may live one hundred years. You have asked for my
+opinion as the founder of the science. Yours is an honest question, and
+God being my judge I will give you just as honest an answer. As I have
+said, a knowledge of anatomy with its application covers every inch of
+ground that is necessary to qualify you to become a skillful and
+successful Osteopath, when you go forth into the world to combat
+diseases.
+
+
+WHAT I MEAN BY ANATOMY.
+
+I will now define what I mean by anatomy. I speak by comparison and
+tell you what belongs to the study of anatomy. I will take a chicken
+whose parts and habits all persons are familiar with to illustrate. The
+chicken has a head, a neck, a breast, a tail, two legs, two wings, two
+eyes, two ears, two feet, one gizzard, one crop, one set of bowels, one
+liver, and one heart. This chicken has a nervous system, a glandular
+system, a muscular system, a system of lungs and other parts and
+principles not necessary to speak of in detail. But I want to emphasize,
+they belong to the chicken, and it would not be a chicken without every
+part or principle. These must all be present and answer roll call or we
+do not have a complete chicken. Now I will try and give you the parts of
+anatomy and the books that pertain to the same. You want some standard
+author on descriptive anatomy in which you learn the form and places of
+all bones, the place and uses of ligaments, muscles and all that belong
+to the soft parts. Then from the descriptive anatomy you are conducted
+into the dissecting room, in which you receive demonstrations, and are
+shown all parts through which blood and other fluids are conducted. So
+far you see you are in anatomy. From the demonstrator you are conducted
+to another room or branch of anatomy called physiology, a knowledge of
+which no Osteopath can do without and be a success. In that room you are
+taught how the blood and other fluids of life are produced, and the
+channels through which this fluid is conducted to the heart and lungs
+for purity and other qualifying processes, previous to entering the
+heart for general circulation to nourish and sustain the whole human
+body. I want to insist and impress it upon your minds that this is as
+much a part of anatomy as a wing is a part of a chicken. From this room
+of anatomy you are conducted to the room of histology, in which the eye
+is aided by powerful microscopes and made acquainted with the smallest
+arteries of the human body, which in life are of the greatest known
+importance, remembering that in the room of histology you are still
+studying anatomy, and what that machinery can and does execute every
+day, hour, and minute of life. From the histological room you are
+conducted to the room of elementary chemistry, in which you learn
+something of the laws of association of substances, that you can the
+better understand what has been told you in the physiological room,
+which is only a branch of anatomy, and intended to show you that nature
+can and does successfully compound and combine elements for muscles,
+blood, teeth and bone. From there you are taken to the room of the
+clinics, where you are first made acquainted with both the normal and
+abnormal human body, which is only a continuation of the study of
+anatomy. From there you are taken to the engineer's room (or operator's
+room) in which you are taught how to observe and detect abnormalities
+and the effect or effects they may and do produce, and how they effect
+health and cause that condition known as disease.
+
+
+PRINCIPLES.
+
+Principles to an Osteopath means a perfect plan and specification to
+build in form a house, an engine, a man, a world, or anything for an
+object or purpose. To comprehend this engine of life or man which is so
+constructed with all conveniences for which it was made, it is necessary
+to constantly keep the plan and specification before the mind, and in
+the mind, to such a degree that there is no lack of knowledge of the
+bearings and uses of all parts. After a complete knowledge of all parts
+with their forms, sizes and places of attachment which should be so
+thoroughly grounded in the memory that there would be no doubt of the
+intent of the builder for the use or purpose of the great and small
+parts, and why they have a part to perform in the workings of the
+engine. When this part of the specification is thoroughly learned from
+anatomy or the engineer's guide book, he will then take up the chapter
+on the division of forces, by which this engine moves and performs the
+duties for which it was created. In this chapter the mind will be
+referred to the brain to obtain a knowledge of that organ, where the
+force starts, how it is conducted to any belt, pully, journal, or
+division of the whole building. After learning where the force is
+obtained, and how conveyed from place to place throughout the whole
+body, he becomes interested and wisely instructed. He sees the various
+parts of this great system of life when preparing fluids commonly known
+as blood, passing through a set of tubes both great and small--some so
+vastly small, as to require the aid of powerful microscopes to see their
+infinitely small forms, through which the blood and other fluids are
+conducted by the heart and force of the brain, to construct organs,
+muscles, membranes and all the things necessary to life and motion, to
+the parts separately and combined. By this minute acquaintance with the
+normal body which has been learned in the specification as written in
+standard authors of anatomy and the dissecting rooms, he is well
+prepared to be invited into the inspection room to receive comparisons
+between the normal and abnormal engines, built according to nature's
+plan and specification, and absolutely perfect. He is called into this
+room for the purpose of comparing engines that have been strained from
+being thrown off the track, or run against other bodies with such force
+as to bend journals, pipes, break or loosen bolts; or otherwise
+deranged, so as to render it useless until repaired. To repair signifies
+to readjust from the abnormal condition in which the machinist finds it,
+to the condition of the normal engines which stand in the shop of
+repairs. His inspection would commence by first lining up the wheels
+with straight journals; then he would naturally be conducted to the
+boiler, steam chest, shafts, and every part that belongs to a completed
+engine. To know that they are straight and in place as shown upon the
+plan and described by the specification, he has done all that is
+required of a master mechanic. Then it goes into the hands of the
+engineer, who waters, fires and conducts this artificial being on its
+journey. You as Osteopathic machinists can go no farther than to adjust
+the abnormal condition, in which you find the afflicted. Nature will do
+the rest.
+
+
+THE PRACTICING OSTEOPATH'S GUIDE.
+
+The Osteopath reasons if he reasons at all, that order and health are
+inseparable, and that when order in all parts is found, disease cannot
+prevail, and if order is complete and disease should be found, there is
+no use for order. And if order and health are universally one in union,
+then the doctor cannot usefully, physiologically, or philosophically be
+guided by any scale of reason, otherwise. Does a chemist get results
+desired by accident? Are your accidents more likely to get good results
+than his? Does order and success demand thought and cool headed reason?
+If we wish to be governed by reason, we must take a position that is
+founded on truth and capable of presenting facts, to prove the validity
+of all truths we present. A truth is only a hopeful supposition if it is
+not supported by results. Thus all nature is kind enough to willingly
+exhibit specimens of its work as vindicating witnesses of its ability to
+prove its assertions by its work. Without that tangible proof, nature
+would belong to the gods of chance. The laws of mother, conception,
+growth and birth, from atoms to worlds would be a failure, a universe
+without a head to direct. But as the beautiful works of nature stand
+to-day, and in all time past, fully able by the evidence it holds before
+the eye and mind of reason, that all beings great and small came by the
+law of cause and effect, are we not bound to work by the laws of cause,
+if we wish an effect? If the heavens do move by cause when was its
+beings divorced from that great common law? Are we not bound to trust
+and work by the old and reliable self-evident laws, until something
+later has proven its superior ability to ward off disease and cure the
+sick.
+
+
+THE FASCIA.
+
+I know of no part of the body that equals the fascia as a hunting
+ground. I believe that more rich golden thought will appear to the
+mind's eye as the study of the fascia is pursued than any division of
+the body. Still one part is just as great and useful as any other in its
+place. No part can be dispensed with. But the fascia is the ground in
+which all causes of death do the destruction of life. Every view we
+take, a wonder appears. Here we find a place for the white corpuscles
+building anew and giving strength to throw impurities from the body by
+tubes that run from the skin to tanks of useful fluids, that would heap
+up and are no longer of use in the body. No doubt nerves exist in the
+fascia, that change the fluid to gas, and force it through the spongy
+and porous system as a delivery by the vital chain of wonders, that go
+on all the time to keep nerves wholly pure.
+
+
+NOT A PLEASANT TASK.
+
+I dislike to write, and only do so, when I think my productions will go
+into the hands of kind-hearted geniuses who read, not to find a book of
+quotations, but to go with the soul of the subject that is being
+explored for its merits,--weigh all truths and help bring its uses front
+for the good of man.
+
+Osteopathy has not asked a place in written literature prior to this
+date, and does not hope to appear on written pages even to suit the
+author of this imperfectly written book.
+
+
+WITHOUT ACCEPTED THEORIES.
+
+Columbus had to launch and navigate much and long, and meet many storms,
+because he had not the written experience of other travelers to guide
+him. He had only a few bits of drift-wood not common to his home growth,
+to cause him to move as he did. But there was a fact, a bit of wood that
+did not grow on his home soil.
+
+He reasoned that it must be from some land amid the sea whose shores had
+not before been known to his race. With these facts and his powerful
+mind of reason, he met all opposition, and moved alone; just as all men
+do who have no use for theories as their compass to guide them through
+the storms. This opposition a mental explorer must meet.
+
+I felt that I must anchor my boat to living truths and follow them
+wheresoever they might drift. Thus I launched my boat many years ago on
+the open seas, fearlessly, and have never found a wave of scorn nor
+abuse that truth could not eat, and do well on.
+
+
+TRUTHS OF NATURE.
+
+We often speak of truth. We say great truths, and use many other
+qualifying expressions. But no one truth is greater than any other
+truth. Each has a sphere of usefulness peculiar to itself. Thus we
+should treat with respect and reverence all truths, great and small. A
+truth is the complete work of nature, which can only be demonstrated by
+the vital principle belonging to that class of truths. Each truth or
+division as we see it, can only be made known to us by the self evident
+fact, which this truth is able to demonstrate by its action.
+
+If we take man as our object to base the beginning of our reason, we
+find the association of many elements, which differ in kind to suit the
+purpose for which they were designed. To us they act, to us they are
+wisely formed and located for the purpose for which they were designed.
+Through our five senses we deal with the material body. It has action.
+That we observe by vision which connects the mind to reason. High above
+the five senses on the subject of cause or causes of this, is motion. By
+the testimony of the witness the mind is connected in a manner by which
+it can reason on solidity and size. By smell, taste and sound, we make
+other connections between the chambers of reason and the object we
+desire to reason upon; and thus our foundation on which all five
+witnesses are arrayed to the superior principle which is mind.
+
+After seeing a human being complete in form, self moving, with power to
+stop or go on at will, to us he seems to obey some commander. He seems
+to go so far and stop; he lies down and gets up; he turns round and
+faces the objects that are traveling in the same direction he does.
+Possibly he faces the object by his own action. Then by about facing, he
+sees one coming with greater velocity, sees he can not escape by his own
+speed, so he steps aside and lets that body pass on, as though he moved
+in obedience to some order. The bystander would ask the question, "How
+did he know such a dangerous body was approaching?" He finds on the most
+crucial examination, that the sense of hearing is wholly without reason.
+The same is true with all the five senses pertaining to man, beast, or
+bird. This being the condition of the five physical senses, we are
+forced by reason to conclude there is a superior being who conducts the
+material man, sustains, supports and guards against danger; and after
+all our explorations, we have to decide that man is triune when
+complete.
+
+
+BODY, MOTION AND MIND.
+
+First the material body, second the spiritual being, third a being of
+mind which is far superior to all vital motions and material forms,
+whose duty is to wisely manage this great engine of life. This great
+principle known as mind, must depend for all evidences on the five
+senses, and on this testimony, all mental conclusions are bad, and all
+orders from this mental court are issued to move to any point or stop at
+any place. Thus to obtain good results, we must blend ourselves with,
+and travel in harmony with nature's truths. When this great machine man,
+ceases to move in all its parts, which we call death, the explorers
+knife discovers no mind, no motion. He simply finds formulated matter
+with no motor to move it, with no mind to direct it. He can trace the
+channels through which the fluids have circulated, he can find the
+relation of parts to other parts; in fact by the knife, he can expose to
+view the whole machinery that once was wisely active. Suppose the
+explorer is able to add the one principle motion, at once we would see
+an action, but it would be a confused action. Still he is not the man
+desired to be produced. There is one addition that is indispensable to
+control this active body, or machine, and that is mind. With that added
+the whole machinery then works as man. The three when united in full
+action are able to exhibit the thing desired--complete.
+
+
+OSTEOPATHY TO CURE DISEASE.
+
+The Osteopath seeks first physiological perfection of form, by normally
+adjusting the osseous frame work, so that all arteries may deliver blood
+to nourish and construct all parts. Also that the veins may carry away
+all impurities dependent upon them for renovation. Also that the nerves
+of all classes may be free and unobstructed while applying the powers of
+life and motion to all divisions, and the whole system of nature's
+laboratory.
+
+A full and complete supply of arterial blood must be generated and
+delivered to all parts, organs and glands, by the channels called the
+arteries. And when it has done its work, then without delay the veins
+must return all to heart and lungs for renewal. We must know some delay
+of fluids has been established on which nature begins the work of
+renewal by increased action of electricity, even to the solvent action
+of fever heat, by which watery substances evaporate and relieve the
+lymphatic system of stagnant, watery secretions. Thus fever is a natural
+and powerful remedy.
+
+
+THE OSTEOPATH SHOULD FIND HEALTH.
+
+To find health should be the object of the doctor. Anyone can find
+disease. He should make the grand round among the sentinels and
+ascertain if they are asleep, dead or have deserted their posts, and
+have allowed the enemy to get into camps. He should visit all posts.
+Before he goes out to make the rounds, he should know where all posts
+are, and the value of the supply he has charge of, whether it be shot,
+shell, grub, clothing, arms or anything of value to the Company or
+Division.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+OSTEOPATHIC EXPLORATIONS.
+
+     Divisions of the Body--Searching for the Cause--Duty of the
+     Osteopathic Explorer--Classification and Division--The
+     Abnormal--Nerve Powers--Witnesses to Examine--Abnormal
+     Growths--Cerebro Spinal Fluid--Body in Perfect
+     Health--Chemistry--Nature's Chemistry.
+
+
+DIVISIONS OF THE BODY.
+
+After many long years, treating and trying to teach the student of
+Osteopathy how to hunt for and find the local causes of diseases, not
+contagious, or infectious, I have succeeded in planning and suggesting a
+method, which I am sure the doctor can easily follow, and find any
+diversion from the normal, that would interfere with the nerves, veins,
+and arteries, of any organ or limb of the body. I have formulated a
+simple mental diagram that divides the body into three parts, chest,
+upper and lower limbs. The first division takes in head, neck, chest,
+abdomen and pelvis. The second division takes in head, neck, lower and
+upper arm and hand. The third division takes in foot, leg, thigh, pelvis
+and lumbar vertebra. I make this division for the purpose of holding the
+explorer to the limits of all supplies. In the ellipse of the chest is
+found all vital supplies; then from that center of life we have two
+branches only, one of the arm, and one of the lower limb. In each
+division we have five points of exploration.[1]
+
+[Footnote 1: Explore: (1) To seek for or after: to strive to attain by
+search; to look wisely and carefully for; to search through or into; to
+penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to
+explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science; "hidden
+frauds (to) explore."--WEBSTER.]
+
+
+SEARCHING FOR THE CAUSE.
+
+To illustrate, we will take the lower limb, whether there is lameness,
+soreness, gouty, rheumatic, neuralgic, swollen, shrunken, feverish,
+cold, smooth and glassy, sores, ulcers, erysipelas, milkleg, varicose
+veins, or any defect that the patient may complain of, who is the only
+reliable book or being of symptomatology. For convenience we will divide
+that lower limb into five parts, the foot, leg, thigh, pelvis and lumbar
+region. The patient (symptomatologist) tells us he has a pain in front,
+center and under part of foot. Now the doctor or bird dog, can find
+quails of reason in but one field that would lead him to the cause. As
+this field is divided into five parts and the hunter has carefully
+searched four divisions, he will find the cause or causes in the fifth
+and none other. If a dislocated bone is not found in the foot after
+ascertaining that there has been no crushing by falling bodies, horses
+feet, stepping on glass, nails and other things that would penetrate the
+foot, and irritate by being broken off, closed and remaining in the
+flesh; we will explore the leg for the quail, ascertain if the
+articulation is normal at ankle and knee. If we find the bone is not
+broken, the leg has no splinters of wood, nor injured flesh by bites
+from dogs or other animals, nor any other substance that would injure
+the leg, we are prepared to pass on and explore another place for pain
+in the foot. We go on to division No. 3 or the thigh division, and
+ascertain if the thigh is normal in all conditions, properly in socket,
+with all muscles, ligaments and nerves unoppressed. There are but two
+more divisions left for exploration, and they are the most important and
+interesting of the five, the pelvis and lumbar, through which all the
+nerves of the limb pass. We must stop at pelvis and observe carefully
+that there is no twist of ligaments before going to lumbar, which is the
+last of the five divisions. If we have found nothing in the previous
+four, and have explored them as carefully as we should, we have but one
+brush heap left, and that one contains the quail that we have been
+hunting for. As the lumbar contains and conveys all nerve forces to the
+pelvis from the brain and all divisions of the lower limbs, we will now
+examine the articulations of that part of the spine, and in that we are
+very certain to find the cause if we have made no mistake in our
+examination in the preceding divisions of the limb. As we enter the
+exploration of this part of the spine we must remember that we are about
+to deal with the many divisions of the nerves of the _cauda equina_. The
+great question before us, comes after this form. What would wound or
+bruise any division of nerves that would lead by the way of the great or
+lesser sciatic, to a bone in the front and under side of the foot? Jars,
+strains, twists, and dislocations, must be carefully searched for. A
+partial dislocation of one side of the spine would produce a twist which
+would throw one muscle on to another and another, straining ligaments,
+producing conjestion and inflammation, or some irritation that would
+lead to a suspension of the fluids necessary to the harmonious vitality
+of the foot, which is the great and only cause by which the suffering is
+produced in a foreign land, which we call a famine in the foot.
+
+
+DUTY OF THE OSTEOPATHIC EXPLORER.
+
+This method of exploration is not directed by the sound of the fog-horns
+of unreliable and unsatisfactory symptomatology. Osteopathy has a method
+of its own, which is correct or it has no method at all, and is guided
+by the surveyor's compass that will find all corners as established by
+the orders of the government and surveyor's general. Thus an Osteopath
+must find the true corners as set by the Divine Surveyor. The general
+surveyor hands our plats and specifications to the division general,
+with instructions to establish all lines and divisions, state, county,
+township and sections, and mark each one by stones or otherwise, so they
+cannot be lost; but are findable by any competent surveyor who follows
+the field notes displayed in anatomy. Thus you would see a successful
+Osteopath is guided by the field notes of nature to all corners, his
+business is to know that every corner stone is in its place, standing
+erect as nature designed and established it. If he tolerates any
+variation of this stone or stones from the place or places that God the
+grand surveyor of the universe has placed them, he will observe there is
+an infringement and cause for inharmony and discord of the possessors of
+the four quarter sections of land, for which this cornerstone was
+placed; and his sworn duty is to bring this stone from any variation
+from the field notes and establish it where it was first placed. Thus
+his ability to find the true corners and adjust all stones will mark him
+as a successful Osteopath.
+
+
+CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION.
+
+I will classify or divide man's body for convenience of exploration for
+diseases into head and neck first; then head, neck and chest, third,
+head, neck, chest and abdomen; then unite head, neck, chest, abdomen and
+sacrum. I will take up a few diseases under each division as they are
+located. By this method I think I can better show what nerves should be
+more or less active.
+
+
+THE ABNORMAL.
+
+A lesion may and does appear on a part or all of the person which may
+appear as a growth or withering away of a limb in all its muscles,
+nerves and blood supply. As in case of tumors on scalp, loss of hair,
+eruptions of face, growth of tonsils, ulcers of one or both ears,
+growths on outside and inside of eyes, a cause must precede an effect in
+all cases. A pain in head is an effect; cause is older than the effect
+and is absolute in all variations from normal conditions. A tumor on the
+head and under the skin is an effect only. It took matter to give it
+size, it took power to deliver that substance, the fact that a tumor was
+formed, shows that the power to build was present and did the work of
+construction. Another power should have been there to complete the work
+at that location; that power is the offbearing of the dead matter after
+the work of construction was complete.
+
+
+NERVE POWERS.
+
+If we think as men of reason should, we will count five nerve powers.
+They must all be present to build a part, and must answer promptly at
+roll call and work all the time. The names of these master workmen are
+sensation, motion, nutrition, voluntary and involuntary. All must answer
+at every roll call during life; none can be granted a leave of absence
+for a moment. Suppose sensation should leave a limb for a time, have we
+not a giving away of all cells and glands? An undue filling up follows
+quickly because sensation limits and tells when the supply is too great
+for the use of the builder's purpose. Suppose the nerve power known as
+motion should fail for a time, starvation would soon begin its deadly
+work for want of food. Suppose again the nerves of nutrition should fail
+to apply the nourishing showers we would surely die in sight of food.
+With the voluntary nerves we move or stay at the will of he or she who
+wishes to give direction to the motor powers, at any time a change by
+action is required. At this time I will stop defining the several and
+varied uses of the five kinds of nerves, and begin to account for
+growths and other variations, from the healthy to the unhealthy
+conditions of man. The above named are the five known powers of animal
+life, and to direct them wisely is the work of the doctor of
+Osteopathy.
+
+
+WITNESSES TO EXAMINE.
+
+He has five witnesses to examine in all cases he has under his care. He
+must give close attention to the source and supply of healthy blood. If
+blood is too scant he must look to the motor systems of blood making,
+that would surely invite his most careful attention and study of the
+abdomen. He cannot expect blood to quietly pass through the diaphragm if
+impeded by muscular constriction around aorta, vena cava or thoracic
+duct. The diaphragm can and is often pulled down on both vena cava and
+thoracic duct, obstructing blood and chyle from returning to heart so
+much as to limit the chyle below the requirement of healthy blood, or
+even suppress the nerve action of lymphatics to such degree as to cause
+dropsy of the abdomen, or a stoppage of venous blood by pressure on vena
+cava so long that venous blood would be in stages of ferment when it
+enters the heart for renovation, and when purified and returned the
+supply is too small to sustain life to a normal standard.
+
+
+ABNORMAL GROWTHS.
+
+Thus the importance of a careful attention to the normal certainty of
+all the ribs to which the diaphragm is attached is essential. The
+eleventh and twelfth ribs may, and do often get pushed so far from their
+normal bearings, that they are often found turned in a line with the
+spine, with cartilaginous ends down near ilio-lumbar articulation. When
+in such position they draw the diaphragm down heavily on vena cava at
+about the fourth lumbar. Then you have cause for intermittent pulse, as
+the heart finds no passage of blood through the prolapsed diaphragm
+which is also stopping the vena cava and producing universal stagnation
+of blood and other fluids in all organs and glands below the diaphragm.
+Thus you have a beginning for abnormal growths of womb, kidneys and all
+lymphatics of liver, kidneys, spleen, pancreas, and all tumors of
+abdomen.
+
+
+CEREBRO SPINAL FLUID.
+
+To satisfy the mind of a philosopher who is mentally capable of asking
+for and knowing truth, when presented by nature, you must come at him
+outside of the limits of conjecture, and address him with self-evident
+truths only. When he takes up the philosophy of the great subject of
+life, to him who does know truth, no substitute can to any degree
+satisfy his mental demands. To the one who would deal in conjectures or
+suppose so's, he will at once be placed in the proper category to which
+he belongs, which is the drift-wood that floats down the dark river that
+is overshadowed by the nightmare of ignorance and superstition. A
+seeker after truth, is a man of few words, and they are used by him only
+by the truths or facts discovered. He has no patience with the unmeaning
+records offered only to please the credulous, and by those of little or
+no truth that appears during a long recitation of ungrounded statements.
+From the above it is wisely seen that the object of these remarks is to
+present a few truths for the purpose of stimulating the attention of the
+listener. We will take man when formed. When we use the word formed, we
+mean the whole building being complete. The brain with all organs,
+nerves, vessels, and every minutia in form with all materials found or
+used in life.
+
+
+BODY IN PERFECT HEALTH.
+
+We look at it in perfect health which means perfection and harmony not
+in part, but of the whole body. So far we are only filled with love,
+wonder and admiration. Another period of observation appears to the
+philosopher. We find partial or universal discord from the lowest
+observable to the highest in action and death. Then the book of whys is
+opened and displays its leaves which calls out mental labor even to the
+degree of agony, to know the cause or causes that produce a failure of a
+limb in sensation, motion, nutrition, voluntary and involuntary
+functional exhibits. His mind will explore the bone, the ligament, the
+muscle, the fascia, the channels through which the blood travels from
+heart to local destiny, with lymphatics and their contents,--the nerves,
+the blood vessels and every channel through or over which all substances
+are transmitted all over the body, particularly the disabled limb in
+question. It proceeds too and does obtain blood abundantly to and from
+the heart, but the results obtained are not satisfactory, and another
+leaf is opened of why no good results are obtained and where is the
+mystery, what quality and element of force and vitality has been
+withheld? A thought strikes him that the cerebro spinal fluid is the
+highest known element that is contained in the human body, and unless
+the brain furnishes this fluid in abundance a disabled condition of the
+body will remain. He who is able to reason will see that this great
+river of life must be tapped and the withering field irrigated at once,
+or the harvest of health be forever lost.
+
+
+CHEMISTRY.
+
+As chemical compounds are not known to Osteopathy to be used as
+remedies, then its use as a study for the student is only to teach that
+elements in nature do combine and form other substances, and without
+changes and unions, no teeth, bone, hair, or muscle could appear in the
+body from the food eaten. Then chemistry is of great use as a part of a
+thorough Osteopathic education. It gives us the reasons why food is
+found in the body as bone, muscle and so on, to all kinds of flesh,
+teeth and bones found in animal forms. Unless we know chemistry
+reasonably well, we can not do away with much mental worry of what
+becomes of food after eating. By chemistry the truths of physiology are
+firmly established in the mind of the student of nature, that in man a
+chemistry of wonderful powers does all the work of animal forms, and
+that in the laboratory of nature's chemistry is the ruling power. By
+elementary chemistry we are led to see the beauties of physiology only.
+Thus chemistry of the elementary is one, and physiology is the witness
+that it is law in man as in all nature. Thus in chemistry we comprehend
+some of the laws of union in nature which we can use mentally with
+knowing confidence. In chemistry we become acquainted with the law of
+cause and change in union, which is a standard law sought by the student
+of Osteopathy.
+
+
+NATURE'S CHEMISTRY.
+
+Osteopathy believes that all parts of the human body do work on chemical
+compounds, and from the general supply manufacture for local wants; thus
+the liver builds for itself of the material that is prepared in its own
+division laboratory. The same of heart and brain. No disturbing or
+hindering causes will be tolerated to stay if an Osteopath can find and
+remove it. We must reason that to withhold the supply from a limb, to
+wither away would be natural. We suffer from two causes. First, want of
+supply (hunger), and the burdens of dead deposits along nerve centers,
+which five nerves by chemical changes while in fermentation should
+regulate local or general divisions.
+
+
+CORRECT METHOD OF REASONING.
+
+In concluding this chapter we will confine our labor to an effort to
+direct the beginner to a correct method of reasoning. When he is brought
+face to face with the stern realities of the "sick room," the Osteopath
+begins his inquiries and follows with his questions just far enough to
+know what division of the body is in trouble. If he finds an arm has
+lost motion, he goes to arm to explore for cause. He can begin his hunt
+for cause at hand, explore it carefully for wounds, strains or any
+lesion that could injure nerves of the arm. If he finds no probable
+cause there, he should explore bones for dislocations or strains of
+ligaments at elbow; if he finds no defect there sufficient to locate
+cause in lower arm or hand; he has only two more places left to inspect,
+the shoulder and neck with their articulations of bone and muscles. If
+found normal at shoulder, then go to neck, out of which go all or most
+of the nerves of the arm; if he finds no lesion or cause equal to the
+trouble so far, then he has been careless in his search and should go
+over and over from marrow to periostium of all bones of the neck and
+head, because there are only five divisions in which a lesion can exist.
+Carefully look, think, feel and know that the head of the humerus is
+true in the glenoid cavity, clavicle true at both ends of its
+articulation, with sternum and acromion processes. See that the biceps
+are in their grooves, and ribs on spine are true at manubrium and spine,
+and that neck is true on first dorsal. True in all joints of the neck,
+as the nerves of the arm come from the neck, there must be no variation
+from normal, or trouble will appear from that cause. As the neck has
+much to do with the arm, we should keep a living picture of the forms of
+each bone, how and where it articulates with others, how it is joined by
+ligaments, what blood vessels, nerves and muscles cross or range with it
+lengthwise, because to overlook a small nerve and blood vessel you may
+fail to remove a goitre, and all diseases of the head, face and neck.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+THE HEAD.
+
+     A Free Circulation--Death Blows--Something of the Neck--Order of
+     Treatment--The Pelvis--Brains of Animals--Arterial Motion--Mental
+     Vibrations--Overburdening the Mind--Hemiplegia.
+
+
+A FREE CIRCULATION.
+
+Before we treat of the head, we must follow blood from the heart to all
+organs of the head. Not only look at the pictures in Gray, Morris,
+Gerrish, or some finely illustrated work on anatomy, but we must apply a
+searching hand and know to a certainty that the constrictors of neck, or
+other muscles or ligaments do not pull cervical and hyoid bones so close
+as to bruise pneumogastric or any other nerves or fibres that would
+cause spasmodic contraction of digastric, stylo-hyoid or the whole
+remaining group of neck muscles and ligaments, with which you are or
+should be very familiar. Ever remember that the venous drainage must be
+kept normally active or congestion, and tumefaction, with inflammation
+of the glands of the head, face and neck will appear, and mark for you
+this oversight; because the perpetual health, ease and comfort of the
+head beginning with the scalp and hair, with their nerves, glands and
+purity of blood supply, a healthy eye, good hearing, healthy action of
+brain with its magnetic and electric forces to the vital parts which
+sustain life, memory and reason, depend directly and wholly upon
+unlimited freedom of the circulatory system of nerves, blood and
+cerebral fluid. They must be normal in action and quantity
+unembarrassed, otherwise bad hearing, ulcers of the ears, cross eyes,
+pterygium, cataract, granulated lids, staphyloma, lachrymosis and up to
+full list of diseases of the eye, with tonsilitis, injured voice, tumors
+and cancers of face, head, tongue, mouth and throat, along with
+erysipelas, blotches and pimples, and all diseases of the glandular
+system of the head and neck. Undoubtedly all these afflictions have
+their origin in obstructed normal action between the heart and the
+termination of all above it, for want of nerve and blood harmony.
+
+
+DEATH BLOWS.
+
+Remember that death blows are dealt out freely above the sternum by
+irritation and constriction of the parts above described. We should
+often refresh our minds, beginning with the muscles that connect the
+head and neck, and know to a certainty as we explore that junction that
+the capitas minor, major and lateralis, long and short of both anticus
+and posticus regions are indisputably normal to your hand and judgment.
+It is almost useless to say to the anatomist who has had the drilling in
+all branches of that science, previous to obtaining his diploma, to
+commence and detail the venous and excretory system, through which all
+those glands are drained, and kept in a healthy condition, but we say
+this much; let your morning, noon and evening prayer be this, Oh Lord!
+give me more anatomy each day I live, because experience has taught me
+the unavoidable demands when in the "sick room."
+
+
+SOMETHING OF THE NECK.
+
+Before you leave that wisely constructed neck, I want to press and
+imprint on your minds in the strongest terms that the wisest anatomist,
+and physiologist, the oldest and most successful Osteopath knows only
+enough of the neck, and its wondrous system of nerves, blood and muscles
+and its relation to all above and below it, to say, "From everlasting to
+everlasting thou art great, O Lord God Almighty!" Thy wisdom is surely
+boundless, for I see that man must be wise to know all about the neck,
+for we find by a twist of neck, we may become blind, deaf, spasmodic,
+lose speech and memory, and all that is known as the joys of man. On
+that division of the body all action of arms, legs, chest and all
+muscles get their life--power and motion. Think for a moment of the
+thousands and tens of thousands of large and small fluid vessels that
+pass to and from heart and brain, to every organ, bone, fibre, muscle
+and gland, both large and small, receiving and appropriating the
+substances as prepared in the chemical laboratory; so wisely situated,
+and so exact in all its works in the production and application of all
+substances in the body.
+
+
+ORDER OF TREATMENT.
+
+The reader will begin with the brain or head because I want to start
+with the head; first give such diseases as belong to that division of
+the body. Then the neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis. Thus we have five
+divisions in regular order, beginning with the head and finishing with
+the sacrum. The reader will find diseases of eye, ear, tongue, nose,
+face, scalp and hair under the chapter treating of the head. Next in
+regular order will be the division of the neck, with diseases of tonsils
+and glands of neck, swallow, trachae, nerves, blood vessels and muscles,
+fascia and lymphatics, superior cervical ganglion and other nerves of
+the neck, as they affect vitality in diseases. Then we pass on to third
+division, with diseases of lung, heart, pericardium, and pleura, with
+all parts of chest. Then abdomen, liver, stomach and bowels, and all
+organs with resisting power of diaphragm. Fifth, pelvis, with its great
+supply of nerves, blood and other fluids. These give us cause to halt
+and seat the mind for a long season of observation. A great field opens
+at this point for the observing thinker.
+
+
+THE PELVIS.
+
+In the pelvis we find a system of nerves and arteries with blood for
+local supply, besides blood to construct womb, bladder, rectum, colon,
+cellular system and all the muscles of that cavity (the pelvis) all of
+which comes from arteries and branches above. We think it is not
+necessary to name them only in bulk, to a student versed in anatomy.
+Perhaps less is known of the pelvic system and its functions than any
+division of the body, and for that reason I have felt that we should
+know all that is possible to be learned. I believe more ignorance
+prevails to-day of internal causes of diseases than would if we reasoned
+that the pelvic nerves and vessels had much to do in forming the
+abdominal viscera.
+
+
+THE BRAIN OF ANIMALS.
+
+Of all parts of the body of man to be well studied, the brain should be
+the most attractive. It is the place where all force centers, where all
+nerves connect to one common battery. By its orders the laboratory of
+life begins to move on crude material and labors until blood is formed
+and becomes food for all nerves first; then arteries and veins by nerve
+action and forces, to suit each class of work to be done by that set of
+nerves which is to construct forms; keep blood constantly in motion by
+the arteries and from all parts back to the heart, through the veins,
+that the blood may be purified, renewed and re-enter the arteries to be
+taken to all places of need.
+
+
+ARTERIAL MOTION.
+
+Arterial motion is normal during all ages, from the quick pulse of the
+babe's arm, to the ages of each year to one hundred or more. At this
+great age the pulse is so slow that the heat is not generated by the
+nerves, whose motor velocity is not great enough to bring electricity to
+the stage of heat. All heat, high and low, surely is the effect of
+active electricity--plus to fever; minus to coldness. When an irritant
+enters the body by lung, skin or any other way, a change appears in the
+heart's action from its effects on the brain, to the high electric
+action and that burning heat called fever. If plus violent type (yellow
+fever), if minus, low grades (typhus, typhoid, plagues), and so on
+through the list.
+
+
+MENTAL VIBRATIONS.
+
+To think implies action of the brain. We can grade thought although we
+cannot measure its speed.
+
+Suppose a person of one kind of business thinks just fast enough to suit
+that profession. A man is engaged in raising hogs and that alone. He
+must reason on and of the nature of hogs. He begins about so: a hog
+eats, drinks, bathes, roots and sleeps. He knows the hog eats grain, so
+he feeds it corn, or some other suitable cereal, with plenty of water
+and good bedding. The swine is on his mind night and day.
+
+
+THE WHEELS OF THOUGHT.
+
+Now the question is, how fast does he think? How many revolutions do the
+wheels of his head make per minute to do all the necessary thinking
+connected with the hog business? Say his mental wheels revolve 100 times
+each minute. Then he adds sheep to his business, and if that should
+require 100 more revolutions and he takes charge of raising draft horses
+with 175 revolutions added, you see the wheels of his head whizzing off
+375 vibrations per minute. And at this time he adds the duties of the
+carpenter with 300 more revolutions, add them together and you see 675.
+To this number he adds the duties and thoughts of a sheriff, which are
+numerous enough to buzz his wheels at 1500 more, you find 2175 to be
+his mental revolutions so far. Now you have the great physical demands
+added to the mental motion which his brain has to support, yet he can do
+all so far, fairly well.
+
+
+OVERBURDENING THE MIND.
+
+He now adds to his labors the manufacturing of leather, from all kinds
+of hides, with the chemistry of fine tanning, which is equal to all
+previous mental motions. Add and you find 4250 revolutions all drawing
+on his brain each minute of the day. Add to this mental strain the
+increased action of his body which has to perform these duties and you
+see the beginning of a worry of both mind and body, to which you add
+manufacturing of engines, iron puddling, rolling, etc.; a delegate to a
+national convention, thoughts of the death of a near relative; add to
+this a security debt to meet during a money panic. By this time the mind
+begins to fag below the power of resistance.
+
+
+HEMIPLEGIA.
+
+Duration of such great mental vibrations for so long stops nutrition of
+all or one-half of the brain, and we have a case of "Hemiplegia," or the
+wheels of one-half of the brain run so fast as to overcome some fountain
+of nerve force and explode some cerebral artery in the brain and deposit
+a clot of blood at some motor supply or plexus.
+
+Thus we see men from over mental action fall in our National councils,
+courts, manufactories, churches, and almost all places of great mental
+activity. Slaves and savages seldom fall victims to paralysis of any
+kind, but escape all such, for they know nothing of the strains of mind
+and hurried nutrition. They eat and rest, live long and happy. The idea
+of riches never bothers their slumbers. Physical injuries may and often
+do wound motor, sensory and nutrient centers of brain; but the effect is
+just the same, partial or complete suspension of the motor and sensory
+systems.
+
+If you burst a boiler by high pressure or otherwise, your engine ceases
+to move. And just the same of an over-worked brain or body.
+
+Hemiplegia. "The half" and "I strike." Paralysis of one half of the
+body.[2]
+
+[Footnote 2: Chambers.]
+
+Hemiplegia is usually the result of a cerebral hemorrhage or embolism.
+It sometimes occurs suddenly without other marked symptoms, but commonly
+it is ushered in by an apoplectic attack and on return of consciousness
+it is observed that one side of the body is paralyzed, the paralysis
+being often profound in the beginning, and disappearing to a greater or
+less extent at a later period.
+
+Hemiplegia is much more rarely produced by a tumor. It then generally
+comes on slowly, the paralysis gradually increasing as the neoplasm
+encroaches more and more upon the motor tracks, though the tumor may be
+complicated by the occurrence of a hemorrhage and a sudden hemiplegia.
+
+A gradual hemiplegia may also be produced by an abcess or chronic
+softening of the brain substance. Other conditions or symptoms
+presented, will in such case, assist us to diagnose the nature of the
+lesion.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+EAR WAX AND ITS USES.
+
+     Nature Makes Nothing in Vain--A Successful Experiment--A Question
+     for Ages--The Position--Meaning of Life--Some Questions
+     Asked--Condition in Certain Diseases Caused by Cold--Cerumen in
+     Fluid State--Winter Kills Babies--Some Advice to Mothers--A Case in
+     Point--Connection of the brain and Other Nerves in
+     Digestion--Unaided Investigation.
+
+
+NATURE MAKES NOTHING IN VAIN.
+
+That nature makes nothing in vain is an established truth in the minds
+of all persons whose observation has created in such persons a desire to
+reason, and that being my faith for many years I asked myself to try and
+get a reason of why nature had made and placed in a person's head so
+much fine machinery just to make a little ear-wax. If nothing is made in
+vain, what is that bitter stuff made for? It is always there, and more
+being made all the time. I have read many authors or say so's about
+ear-wax, and about the best the wise or the unwise have said is that it
+would keep bugs and other insects out of our heads. I thought if that
+was all that it was made for nature had done a great deal to shoo off
+the bugs. The idea that it was made bitter and bad to eat just to make
+bugs sick was weak philosophy, if nature never did any useless work or
+made anything in vain. At this time I saw the doors all open and a good
+chance for the loaded mind to unload and give us other uses for ear-wax
+than bug food, and to lubricate the auditory nerves with dry wax. At
+this time of my desire to know some positive use or object that nature
+had in forming so much fine machinery and no use for its products when
+made, but to pull out of the head with a hairpin, I reasoned about so,
+that this dry hard wax was once in the gaseous or fluid state.
+
+
+A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT.
+
+When I had about concluded to sit down with the common herd of doctors
+and say that wax was wax, a fat boy of two summers was reported to me to
+be dying with croup. I began to think more about the dry wax that is
+always found in cases of croup, sore throat, tonsilitis, pneumonia, and
+all diseases of the lungs, nose and head. On examination I found the
+ear-wax dried up. So I put a few drops of glycerine, and after a
+minute's time a few drops of warm water in the child's head, and kept a
+wet rag corked into its ear frequently for twelve hours, and gave it
+Osteopathic treatment, at the end of which time all signs of croup had
+disappeared. I used the glycerine to soften the wax, which combining
+with water formed a harmless soap better qualified for washing the ear,
+and retaining the wax in solution than anything I have tried, for it is
+my opinion that the ear wax should be kept in a fluid state. When in
+that state the absorbent can more readily take it up and use it in the
+economy of life in this condition. The same day two ladies came to my
+house, sore in lungs, necks tied up, sore throats, fever and headache.
+As an experiment, in addition to Osteopathic treatment, I put a few
+drops of glycerine in their ears, followed with water to wet and soften
+the wax which was dry and hard, to get it back to a fluid state. Both
+got better of their sore lungs and throats in a short time, and in
+twenty-four hours they were about well, and lungs coughing out phlegm,
+easily. From this I think that the cause of croup is simply the result
+of abnormality of the cerumen system.
+
+
+A QUESTION FOR AGES.
+
+As a question of the uses of ear-wax has been before man for ages
+without an answer being given that passes the line of conjecture, I
+think there could be no reason why a few looks through the field glass
+of inquiry should not be given in a limited way on that great plane of
+fertility, for the minds of our most profound thinkers. As far as the
+writer can learn from reading and other methods of inquiry, the power
+and use of ear-wax has never been known, looked on, or thought of as one
+of life's agents for good or bad health. One asks this question: "Why
+are you talking about ear-wax, the filthy stuff?" In answer I asked,
+"What do you know about ear-wax?" The answer, "I don't know or care
+anything about the dirty stuff."
+
+
+THE POSITION.
+
+As my spleen is my organ of mirth, I let it bounce against my side a few
+times at such ignorance and gave the wax subject more study than ever--I
+began to read all the books I could find on Anatomy, Physiology, and
+Histology to get some knowledge of the machinery that the wise architect
+of that greatest of all temples had made to generate wax. At this time a
+conviction came to me to be sure of its uses before I gave an opinion. I
+find the center of nerve supply of the ears located at the base of the
+brain and side of the head, in front of the cerebellum, just below and
+near the center of the brain, a little above the foramen magnum, close
+to and behind the carotid arteries, deep and superficial, just above the
+entry of the spinal cord to the brain. Thus it is situated directly in
+communication with all nerves to and from the brain to every part of the
+body. Another question, and another came only to come and go without an
+answer--such as how and where is this wax made? Of what use is it? Why
+so awful bitter? Has it any living principle above dry earth? Is it
+produced in the brain, lymphatics, fascia, heart, lungs, nerves or
+where? How much of it would kill a man? Would it kill at all? What is it
+made for? Is it used by nerves as food, or used by lungs, heart, or any
+organ as an active principle in the magnetic or electric forces? So far
+all authors are silent even to offer a speculative opinion about how it
+is made and its uses. So far we get nothing from the ancient or modern
+writers, as to its uses or anything that would cause a man to think that
+the Creator had any great design, when he made so wisely constructed and
+so much machinery and gave it such prominent place in the center of the
+brain. By this time the reader begins to mentally ask what does this wax
+evangelist know about the wax and its uses? The writer wishes to observe
+and respect all nature and never be too hasty. To carefully explore all,
+and never leave until he finds the cause and use that nature's hand has
+placed in its works, never overlooking small packages as they often
+contain precious gems. I am sure no man of brilliant mind can pass this
+milepost and not hitch his team and do some precious loading. At this
+point my pen will give notice to all anatomists, histologists, chemists
+and physiologists that I will give "no sleep nor slumber to their
+eyes," until I hear from them an answer, yes or no to these questions:
+For what purpose did God make ear-wax? Is it food or refuse? If food,
+what is nourished by it? and how do you know your position is true and
+undebatable?
+
+
+MEANING OF LIFE.
+
+Life means existence; existence means subsistence; subsistence means
+something to subsist on, and of the degree of refinement to suit the
+being or principle whose function is to do the skilled work which is
+found marked on the tressle-board of the wisest of all builders, whose
+work is absolutely correct in form and action, and beautiful to behold.
+It calls out the admiration of man and God himself, who did say of man,
+"Not only good, but very good."
+
+
+SOME QUESTIONS ASKED.
+
+I consider ear-wax one of the most important questions before the minds
+of our physiologists. The first and only knowledge of which substance
+begins with the observer's eye when he beholds the dry wax as it is
+excreted and dropped into the cavities of the ears. A question
+arises--and stands without an answer--is this substance which is
+commonly called ear-wax, technically called cerumen, is it dead or is it
+alive while in this form and visible? If dead, why, and how did it lose
+its life? Why has it not been consumed if once a living substance? When
+alive, is it in the gaseous or fluid state? and when alive, and consumed
+as nutriment by the system what does it nourish? is the question for the
+philosopher's attention, not superficial, but his deepest thought? Why
+is it deposited in the center of the brain if not to impart its vital
+principle to all nerves interested in life and nutrition--both physical
+and spiritual. Its location, itself, would indicate its importance.
+Another thought is that no better place could be selected to establish
+and locate a universal supply office for the laborers of all parts of
+the whole superstructure. Another question arises: When we examine a
+person paralyzed on one side, why do we find this bread of life in such
+great quantities on the table and not consumed? Has not one-half of the
+brain and the nerves of that whole side, limbs and all, lost their power
+of digestion? Is hemiplegia a dyspepsia of the nerves of nutriment of
+the brain and organs of that side? If so we have some foundation on
+which to build an answer why this wax is not consumed and is dried up in
+the ears of the parylytic. The answer would be that nutrition is
+suspended.
+
+
+CONDITIONS IN CERTAIN DISEASES, CAUSED BY COLDS.
+
+Let us take croup, diphtheria, scarlet fever, la grippe, and all classes
+of colds--on to pneumonia. They present about the same symptoms,
+differing more in degrees of severity than of place. All affect the
+tonsils, nostrils, membraneous air-passages, and lungs about the same
+way. Croup exceeds by contracting the trachea enough to impede the
+passing of air to the lungs; diphtheria has more swelling of the
+tonsils, throat and glands of the neck, but all depend upon the same
+blood and nerve supply, or a general law of blood beginning with
+arteries to and from veins, lymphatics, glands and ducts to supply and
+take away all fluids that are of no farther use to the vital and
+material support. As all authors have agreed that the brain furnishes
+the propelling forces to the nerves, it would be proper to inquire how
+the brain is nourished. If so, we will begin and say the great cerebral
+system of arteries supply the brain of which it gives quality of all
+fluids and electric and magnetic forces, which must be generated in the
+brain. Then a question arises, if the heart, lungs, liver, pancreas,
+lymphatics, kidneys and all parts of the body depend upon the brain for
+power, what do they give in return? If they give back anything it must
+be of the kind of the organ from whence it comes; thus a kidney cannot
+give liver nor spleen. Each must help to keep up the universal harmony
+by furnishing its mite of its own kind. Suppose lung fever is the effect
+of lack of renal salts, where would be a better place to dispatch from
+to renal organs than the ears to reach the brain and touch the nerve
+that connects with the sympathetic ganglion.
+
+
+CERUMEN IN FLUID STATE.
+
+Suppose we take the cerumen in its fluid state, by the secretions to the
+lungs from the ears and see the action of air and other substances on
+it, and it on them. We may safely look for a general action of some
+kind. If it be magnetic food, we will see the magnetic power shown in
+the lungs, and through the whole system, vitalizing all organs and
+functions of life. Thus the lymphatics will move to wash out impurities,
+and the nutritive nerves will rebuild lost energy. As but little is
+known or said of how or where the cerumen is formed, we will guess it is
+formed under the skin in the glands of the fascia and conveyed to the
+ears by the secretory ducts. Its place and how it is manufactured is not
+the question of the greatest importance, but its uses in disease and
+health.
+
+
+WINTER KILLS BABIES.
+
+The writer has much reason to believe he has found a reliable pointer
+for the cause of croup, diphtheria, and pneumonia; also a rational and
+easy cure that any mother can administer and save the babe from choking
+to death in her arms. Having witnessed croup in all its deadly work for
+fifty years, and seen the best skill of each year and generation fail to
+save, or even give relief, I lost all hope and grew to believe there was
+no help and the doctor was only one more witness to the scene of death
+and carnage found along the mysterious road that croup travels to slay
+the babes of the whole earth. Of later days we have new and different
+names for the disease, but alas, it kills the babe just as it did before
+it was called diphtheria, la grippe and so on.
+
+
+SOME ADVICE TO MOTHERS.
+
+I write this more for the mothers than for the critics. We say to
+mothers, as you are not Osteopaths, you are perfectly safe in putting
+glycerine in a child's ears. It is made from oils and fats. I believe
+when the wax is not consumed it clogs up the excretories with dead
+matter, thus the irritation of the nerves of throat, neck, lungs and
+lymphatics which give cause for the swelling of the tonsils and glands
+of the neck. In this book can be found why I see wisdom in treating for
+croup from the nerve centers of the brain. So far the uses and
+importance of healthy ear-wax as a cure for disease has had no attention
+that I can find by any author on disease or physiology. I hope time and
+attention may lead us to a better knowledge of the cure of diphtheria,
+croup, scarlet fever and all diseases of the throat and lungs of
+children, and how to cure a greater per cent than has been up to this
+writing. My experience up to date with such diseases, when treated as
+indicated, has been very encouraging. Though it is but a short time
+since I began to treat by this method, it has proven good with the young
+and old.
+
+As all authors so far seem silent even as to how or when the wax is
+formed, we must resort to much careful dissection to find the relation
+of the cerumen system to health. To intelligently acquaint the mother
+with this treatment who does not understand anatomy so as to give
+Osteopathic treatment for croup, diphtheria, and so on, I will say; take
+a soft wet cloth and wash the child's neck and rub gently down from ears
+to breast and shoulders; keep ears wet, often dropping in the glycerine.
+Use glycerine because it will mix with the water and dissolve the wax,
+while sweet oil and other oils will not do so.
+
+
+A CASE IN POINT.
+
+At 2 o'clock p. m. I called to see a babe having malignant croup in its
+worst form, and examined its ears to see condition of wax. I had noticed
+in consumptives that some cases had great quantities of dry wax in one
+or both ears, but to this time had not thought of such deposits being an
+evidence of lost or suspended action of the nerves that manufactured
+cerumen. In this case I found wax dry and very hard, with much swelling
+and hardness in region of ears, eustachian tubes and tonsils. I reasoned
+that the excretory duct had become clogged, and that by the wax being
+retained in ducts and glands an irritation of the nerves of the cervical
+lymphatics had caused contraction near head, and produced congestion of
+the lymphatics, of the pneumogastric, and cutting off nerves supply from
+lungs. Believing this to be very likely I concluded to act on the above
+line of reasoning and see if I could give some relief. I did not stop to
+debate why the wax was hard and dry, but how to soften the wax, was the
+question of interest to me then. So I proceeded. I reasoned that soap
+and water would be the best treatment to clean the ears, and soften the
+wax. At this point to select the best make of soap in the ears was to be
+desired, so I took pure glycerine and water, dropped in a few drops and
+took a small roll of cloth, made it wet in warm water and pushed it in
+ears to keep them wet. In a few minutes I wet and inserted a soft cloth
+cork in the child's ears. I twisted the corks around in the ears, each
+time to mix the water and the wax to a softened condition, for to keep
+the wax wet was the object. In a few minutes I got the wax wet and the
+child coughed up phlegm easily, and when the dreaded hour, ten o'clock
+at night came, all danger had passed.
+
+
+CONNECTION OF BRAIN AND OTHER NERVES IN DIGESTION.
+
+If digestion is the effect of organs, fluids and forces, then the
+student of nature's law must be governed by well known truths, such as
+the location of the brain, connection of the nerves to other organs,
+bringing all parts interested in digestion in mental view. Thus you have
+a chance to know if one organ has an assisting relation to any other
+organ or system or if its products are of general or of special use. A
+few questions at this point of inquiry would be in place. Does the brain
+give assistance in digestion, and why may we reasonably suppose so, when
+digestion does its work normally and has a full, rich supply of blood?
+Yet disease enters the system, and begins its work with general
+weakness, swelling, wastings, and pain with some, or all the glands
+congested and sore, and a plenty of rich blood all the time. Then are we
+justified to go to the brain and examine the electric and magnetic
+batteries? We know such forces exist but as their location in the brain
+is not known farther than the fact of their existence, we do not know
+how they are fed, nor from where, so we are fully warranted in seeking a
+use for both powers--magnetic and electric. One says the power of
+electricity belongs more to the motor nerves and the magnetic to the
+nutrient system; if not they are happily blended and give the results.
+Without such forces life and motion could not be sustained. As it is not
+my object to write a treatise on general physiology, I will turn at once
+to the subject of the relation of life and health as affected by the
+abnormal supply and action of ear-wax.[3]
+
+[Footnote 3: "The secretion of the external auditory meatus, mixed with
+the secretion of the neighboring glands or ceruminous glands, forms the
+well known ear-wax or cerumen. The secretion in this place contains a
+reddish pigment of a bitterish sweet taste, the composition of which has
+not been investigated." American Text-Book of Physiology.]
+
+
+UNAIDED INVESTIGATION.
+
+As our investigations are without the assistance of ancient or modern
+writers we will have to reason that man is a machine of form and power,
+forming its own parts and generating its own powers as it has use for
+them. At this time we begin to reason thus, that all powers are
+invisible and we see effect only. We know such forces to be abundant in
+nature, and life is sustained by them. To find the substances in the
+body that causes them to act and how to act, has been the object of my
+journey as an explorer. If they give us health when normal action
+prevails and disease only when abnormal, then we are admonished to form
+a more intimate acquaintance with the qualities, and with all the
+products, when formed in this great laboratory which compounds and
+qualifies each substance to fill its mission of force, construction,
+purity and action.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+DISEASES OF THE CHEST.
+
+     Where Confined--Consumption--Can Consumption Be Cured--Consumption
+     Described--No Time for Surrender--Cerebral Spinal Fluid--How to
+     Destroy Deadly Bombs of Decay--Battle of Blood for Life--Militis
+     Tuberculosis--Conversion of Bodies Into Gas--Forming a
+     Tubercle--Breeding Contagion--The Seeds of Disease--Generating
+     Fever--Whooping Cough--Clouds and Lungs Are Much Alike--The Wisdom
+     of Nature--Water Formed in Lungs--The Law of Fives--Feeble Action
+     of Heart--The Heart--From Neck to Heart--Dyspepsia or Imperfect
+     Digestion.
+
+
+WHERE CONFINED.
+
+Diseases of the chest are generally confined to heart, lungs, pleura,
+the pericardium, mediastium, blood vessels, with nerves and lymphatics.
+As we open the breast we behold the heart, a very large machine or
+engine, situated conveniently to throw blood to all parts of the body.
+To it we see hose or pipes that go to each organ, all muscles, the
+stomach, bowels, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder and womb, all bones,
+fibers, ligaments, membranes, and its body, lungs and brain. When we
+follow this blood through its whole journey to feed the dependent parts,
+be they organ or muscle, we find just enough unloaded at each station to
+supply the demand as fast as consumed. Thus life is supplied at each
+stroke of the heart, which gives blood to keep digestion in full motion
+while other supplies of blood are being made and put in channels to
+carry to the heart, blood is freely given to keep those channels strong,
+clean and active. Thus much depends on the heart, and great care should
+be given to that study, because a healthy system depends almost wholly
+on a normal heart and lung. Thus to study well the frame work of the
+chest should be with the greatest care. Every joint of the neck and
+spine has much to do with a healthy heart and lung, because all vital
+fluids from crown to sacrum do or have passed through heart and lungs,
+and any slip of bone, strain or bruise will affect to some degree the
+usefulness of that fluid in its vitality, when appropriated in the place
+or organ it should sustain in a good healthy state. To the Osteopath,
+his first and last duty is to look well to a healthy blood and nerve
+supply. He should let his eye camp day and night on the spinal column;
+to know if the bones articulate truly in all facets and other bearings,
+and never rest day or night until he knows the spine is true and in line
+from atlas to sacrum, with all ribs known to be in perfect union with
+processes of spine. In reasoning for probable causes of diseases of
+chest, we are met with the fact that the heart and lungs are housed up,
+and out of reach of the hand and eye. We hear a cough, see blood and
+other substances after they pass out of the lungs; we learn of general
+and local pain and misery, feel heat and cold on skin, note abnormal
+breathing, but here we are at a stop, for want of facts. We know
+something is wrong, but cannot say what, until after death has done the
+work, then we open the chest and find tubercles, cancers, ulcers and
+abcesses. How came they there? is the unanswered question. The servant
+of that breast who failed to keep his room clean, is the one to find and
+punish.
+
+
+CONSUMPTION.
+
+I believe so much death by consumption will soon be with the things of
+the past, if the cases are taken early and handled by a skilled
+mind,--one trained for that responsible place. He or she must be taught
+this as a special branch. It is too deep for superficial knowledge or
+imperfect work. Life is in danger, and can be saved by skill, not by
+force and ignorance. He who sees only the dollar in the lung, is not the
+man to trust with your case.
+
+It is such men as have the ability to think, and the skill to comprehend
+and execute the application of nature's unerring laws, that obtain the
+results required. We believe the day has come, and long before noon, the
+fear of consumption will greatly pass from the minds of people. We have
+long since known and proven that a cough is only an effect. If an effect
+then a wise man will set his mental dogs on the track, which is (effect)
+to hunt the skunk, (cause). He has all the evidence by the cough,
+location of pain, tenderness of spine, neck, and quality of the
+substances coughed up to locate the cause, and to know, when he has
+found it, how to remove the cause, and give relief; will grow more
+simple as he reasons and notes effect. We do not think this result will
+be obtained every time by even an average mind, unless he has a special
+training for that purpose. He must not only know that the lungs are in
+the upper part of the chest close to the heart, liver and stomach, but
+he must know the relation all sustain to each other, that the blood must
+be abundantly supplied, support and nourish three sets of nerves, namely
+sensory, motor and nutrient; also voluntary and involuntary. If the
+supply should be diminished on the nutrient nerves, weakness would
+follow; reduce the supply from the motor and it will have the same
+effect. Motion becomes too feeble to carry blood to and from lungs
+normally, and the blood becomes diseased and congested, because it is
+not passed on to other parts with the force necessary for health of
+lungs.
+
+At this time the nerves of sensation become irritated by pressure and
+lack of nutriment, and we cough, which is an effort of nature to unload
+the burden of oppression that congestion causes with sensory nerves. If
+this be effect, then we must suffer and die, or remove the cause, put
+out the fire and stop waste of life, without which all is lost. Nature
+will do its work of repairing in due time. Let us reason by comparison.
+If we dislocate a shoulder, fever and heat will follow. The same is true
+of all limbs and joints of the body. If any obstructing blood or other
+fluid should be deposited in quantities great enough to stop other
+fluids from passing on their way, Nature will fire up its engine to
+remove such deposits by converting fluids into gas. As heat and motion
+have much to do as remedies, we may expect fever and pain until nature's
+furnace produces heat, forms and converts its fluids into gas and other
+deposits, and passes them through the excretories to space, and allows
+the body to work normally again.
+
+
+HOW CONSUMPTION USUALLY BEGINS.
+
+We believe consumption causes the death of thousands annually who might
+be saved. We must not let stupidity veil our reason, and we are to blame
+if we let so many run into "Consumption" from a simple hard cough. The
+remedy is natural, and we believe from results already obtained 75 per
+cent can be cured if taken in time. What we generally call
+"Consumption" begins with a cough, chilly sensations, and lasts a day or
+two. Sometimes fever accompanies with cough, either high or low. The
+cold generally relaxes in a few days, lungs get "loose," and much is
+raised and continues for a period, but the cough appears again and again
+with all changes of weather, and lasts longer each time, until it
+becomes permanent, then it is called "Consumption," because of this
+continuance. Medicines are administered freely and often, but the lungs
+grow worse, cough more continued and much harder, till finally blood
+begins to come from lungs with wasting of strength. Change of climate is
+suggested and taken, but with no change for the better; another and
+another travels to death on the same line. Then the doctor in council
+reports "hereditary consumption" and with his decision all are
+satisfied, and each member of the family feels that a cold and cough
+means a coffin, because the doctor says the family has "hereditary
+consumption." This shade tree has given comfort and contentment to the
+doctors of the whole past.
+
+
+CAN CONSUMPTION BE CURED?
+
+If you have a tiresome and weakening cough at the close of the winter,
+and wish to be cured, we would advise you to begin Osteopathic treatment
+at once, so the lungs can heal and harden against next winter's attack.
+
+This is the first I have written on "Consumption" because I wanted to
+test my conclusions by long and careful observations on cases that I
+have taken and successfully treated. I kept the results from public
+print until I could obtain positive proof that "Consumption" could be
+cured. So far the discovered causes give me little doubt, and the cures
+are a certainty in very many cases. An early beginning is one of the
+great considerations in incipient consumption.
+
+
+CONSUMPTION DESCRIBED.
+
+For fear you do not understand what I mean by "Consumption" I will write
+on a descriptive line quite pointedly. I will give start and progress to
+fully developed consumption. We often meet with cases of permanent
+cough, with expectorations of long duration, dating back two, five, ten,
+even thirty years, to the time they had measles. The severity of the
+cough and strain had congested even the lung substances, and a chronic
+inflammation was the result. If we analyze the sputa we find fibrin and
+even lung muscle. Does all this array of dangerous symptoms cause an
+Osteopath to give up in despair? It should not, on the other hand he
+should go deeper on the hunt of cause. He may find trouble in nerve
+fiber of pneumogastric nerve, atlas or hyoid, vertebra, rib, or
+clavicle, may be by pressing on some nerve that supplies mucous
+membrane of air cells or passages. A cut foot will often produce
+lockjaw, why not a pressure on some center branch or nerve fiber cause
+some division--nerve of the lungs that governs venous circulation which
+would contract and hold blood indefinitely as an irritant, equal to
+cause, perpetual coughing?
+
+
+NO TIME FOR SURRENDER.
+
+This is not the time for the brainy Osteopath to run up the white flag
+of defeat and surrender. Open the doors of your purest reason, put on
+the belt of energy and unload the sinking vessel of life. Throw
+overboard all dead weights from fascia and wake up the forces of the
+excretories. Let the nerves all show their powers to throw out every
+weight that would sink or reduce the vital energies of nature. Give them
+a chance to work, give them the full nourishment and the victory will be
+on the side of the intelligent engineer. Never surrender but die in the
+last ditch.
+
+Let us enter the field of active exploration and note the causes that
+would lead us to conclude we have the cause that produces "consumption"
+as it has ever been called.
+
+Begin at the brain, go down the ladder of observation, stop and whet
+your knives of mental steel sharp, get your nerves quiet by the opium
+of patience. Begin with the atlas, follow with the search-light of
+quickened reason, comb back your hair of mental strength, and never
+leave that bone till you have learned how many nerves pass through and
+around that wisely formed first part of the neck. Remember it was
+planned and builded by the mind and hand of the infinite. See what nerve
+fibers passes through and on to the base center, and each minute cell,
+fascia, gland and blood vessel of the lungs. Do you not know that each
+nerve fiber to its place is king and lord of all?
+
+
+CEREBRAL SPINAL FLUID.
+
+I think consumption begins by closing the channels of cerebro-spinal
+fluid in neck, which fluid stands as one of, if not the most highly
+refined elements in animal bodies. Its fineness would indicate that it
+is a substance that must be delivered in full supply continually to keep
+health normal; if so, we will for experimental reasons look at the neck
+ligated, as found in measles, croup, colds and eruptive fevers. Supply
+is stopped from passing below atlas for three days. During such diseases
+fever runs high at this time and dries up the albumen, giving cause for
+tubercles to begin, as fever has dried out the water and left the
+albumen in small deposits in the lungs, liver, kidneys and bowels. If
+this view of the great uses of brain fluid is true as cause of
+glandular growths and other dead deposits; have we not a cause for
+militis tuberculosis? Have we not encouragement to prosecute with
+interest, in the hope of an answer to the question, "What is
+tuberculosis?" Our writers are just as much at sea to-day as a thousand
+years ago. I will give the reader some of the reasons why I think the
+mischief was started while fluid was cut off by congestion of neck. How
+can the fluid be cut off at neck is a very natural question. By the
+crudest method of reasoning we would conclude that from the form of the
+neck, many objects are indicated, and the material of which it is
+composed would give reason to turn all its powers of thought, to ask why
+it is so formed, as to twist, bend, straighten, stiffen and relax at
+will, to suit so many purposes? A very tough skin--a sheathe--surrounds
+the neck with blood vessels, nerves, muscles, bones, ligaments, fascia,
+glands great and small, throat and trachea. In bones we find a great
+canal for spinal cord. It is well and powerfully protected by a strong
+wall of bone, so no outer pressure can obstruct the flow of passing
+fluids, to keep vitality supplied by brain forces, but with all the
+guards given to protect the cord, we find that it can be overcome by
+impact fluids to such degree as to stop blood and other fluids from
+supplying lungs and all below.
+
+The fluid we speak of comes from the skull, and when in process of
+formation must not be disturbed until it has passed through all chances
+of being injured by force, air or light. Thus the great need of walls to
+hold the enemy outside the safety line. Such truths surely should
+attract our attention when we explore for causes. We can analyze
+material bodies but we have to stop at the life line for more knowledge.
+Our boats have been in port over 6000 years, waiting for knowledge about
+the whats and whys of life, until barnacles of ignorance have
+accumulated to such thickness that the conchologist has called that cake
+of shells "allopathy" which weighed anchor and turned to the great sea
+of human credulity to expound, with nothing but conjectures to offer. He
+toots his fog-horn in all lands and on all seas, and says, "age before
+reason." Thus one generation blindly follows another.
+
+
+HOW TO DESTROY DEADLY BOMBS OF DECAY.
+
+I think by this time the reader has gotten his mind in line with his
+exploring needle of thought to get some light or knowledge of why a
+growth and how a body that has never failed for few or many years,
+begins and continues to form and plant deadly bombs of decay in that
+once powerful engine of perfect health, to produce suicide. We see and
+know this to be the case in thousands of beings annually, and this same
+question is just as applicable to the herds of animals as to man. Thus
+we cry piteously for help, but no answer has come in past days; we go on
+and give place in lungs and other parts of the deadly tubercle. But one
+answer can be given in "Holy Writ" to suit these questions, "Cleanliness
+is next to Godliness." Turn the waters of life loose at the brain,
+remove all hindrances and the work will be done, and give us the eternal
+legacy, LONGEVITY.
+
+
+BATTLE OF BLOOD FOR LIFE.
+
+In America from the day of Washington and all centuries before his time,
+man has dreaded diseases of the lungs more universally than any other
+one disease. If we compare pulmonary diseases with other maladies we
+find more persons die of consumption, pneumonia, bronchitis and nervous
+coughs than from smallpox, typhus and bilious fever and all other fevers
+combined. Many diseases of contagious natures do not stay in city, town,
+country nor an army, but a short time; kills a few and disappears and
+may not return for many years. The same is the history of yellow fever,
+cholera and other epidemics. They slay their hundreds and stop as
+unceremoniously as they began. But when we think of diseases that begin
+to show their effects in tonsils, trachea and lining membranes of the
+air passages, we find we are in a boundless ocean; because we find all
+seasons of the year, which afford changes of weather: Wet, dry, windy,
+hot and cold, which mark 30 deg. to 60 deg. in twenty-four hours, chills
+the lungs and whole system, closes the excretory system against renovating
+equal to deposits, with all other chances to throw out dead matter and
+gases that destroy blood and life in proportion to the amount and time
+of abnormal retention.
+
+It takes no great mind to know from past observation that a common cold
+often holds on and settles down to chronic inflammation of the lungs,
+and the patient dies of consumption, croup, diphtheria, tonsilitis, and
+as catarrhal trouble stays and begins to waste vitality by failing to
+oxygenize blood while in the lungs, diphtheria paves the way for the
+young and old to die of consumption. Dance halls, opera houses,
+churches, school houses, and all crowded assemblies never fail to
+inspect and deposit the seeds of consumption in weak lungs.
+
+As one delves deeper and deeper into the machinery and exacting laws of
+life, he beholds works and workings of contented laborers of all parts
+of the one common whole--the great shafts and pillars of an engine
+working to the fullness of the meaning of perfection. He sees that great
+quarter-master the heart, pouring in and loading train after train and
+giving orders to the wagon-master to line his teams and march on quick
+time to all divisions, supply all companies, squads and sections with
+rations, clothing, ammunition, surgeons, splints and bandages, and put
+all the dead and wounded into the ambulances to be repaired or buried
+with military honors by Captain "VEIN," who fearlessly penetrates the
+densest bones, muscles and glands, with the living waters to quench the
+thirst of the blue corpuscles, who are worn out by doing fatigue duty in
+the great combat between life and death. He often has to run his trains
+on forced marches to get supplies to sustain his men of life when they
+have had to contend with long sieges of heat and cold. Of all officers
+of life, none have greater duties to perform than the quarter-master of
+blood supply, who borrows the force with which he runs his deliveries
+from the brain which give motion to all parts of active life.
+
+
+MILITIS TUBERCULOSIS.
+
+A tubercle is a separate body being enveloped.[4]
+
+[Footnote 4: Chambers.]
+
+As all descriptions of a tubercle in books amount to about this, that
+the tubercle is an amount of fleshy substance which may be albumen,
+fibrin, or any other substance collected and deposited at one place in
+the human body, and covered with a film composed generally of fibrinous
+substances, and deposited in its spherical form, and separated from all
+similarly formed spheres by fascia. They may be very numerous, for many
+hundreds may occupy one cubic inch and yet one is distinct from all
+others. They seem to develop only where fascia is abundant; in the
+lungs, liver, bowels and skin. After formation they may exist and show
+nothing but roughened surfaces, and when the period of dissolution and
+the solvent powers of the chemical laboratory take possession to banish
+them from the system, it generally begins its labors at such time as
+some catarrhal disease is preying upon the human system. Nature seems to
+make its first effort for the purpose of disposing of such substances as
+have accumulated at the catarrhal period. At which time it brings
+forward all the solvent qualities and applies them with the assistance
+of the motor force to drive out through the bowels, lungs, porous and
+excretory system all irritable substances. Electricity is called in as
+the motor force to be used in expelling all unkindly substances. By this
+effort of nature, which is an increased action of the motor nerves,
+electricity is brought to the degree of heat usually called fever, which
+if better understood we would possibly find to be the necessary heat of
+the furnace of the body being used to convert dead substances into gas
+which can travel through the excretory system and be thrown from the
+body much easier than water, lymph, albumen or fibrin.
+
+
+CONVERSION OF BODIES INTO GAS.
+
+During this process of gas burning, a very high temperature is obtained
+by the increased action of the arterial system through the motor nerves,
+permeating those tubercles and causing an inflammation of them by the
+gaseous disturbance so produced; another effort of nature to convert
+those tubercles into gas and relieve the body of their presence and
+irritable occupancy.
+
+As an illustration we will ask the reader if it would be reasonable to
+expect to pass a common towel through a pipe stem. Nevertheless nature
+can easily do it. Confine the towel in a cylinder and apply fire, which
+in time will convert the towel into gas or smoke, and enable it to pass
+through the stem. Is it not just as reasonable to suppose those high
+temperatures of the body are nature's furnaces, making fires out of
+those dead bodies, while passing them through the skin in order to get
+rid of these great and small towels which are packed all through the
+human fascia, and can only be passed from the body in a gaseous form;
+the gas generated by heat.
+
+The blackened eye of the pugilist soon fires up its furnaces and
+proceeds to generate gas from the dead blood that surrounds the eye.
+Though it may be considerable quantities under the skin, the blood soon
+disappears leaving the face and eye normal to all appearances. No pus
+has formed, nor deposit left, fever disappears, the eye is well. What
+better effort could nature offer than through its gas generating
+furnace. I will leave any other method for you to discover. I know of
+none that my reason can grasp.
+
+
+FORMING A TUBERCLE.
+
+When reason sees a white corpuscle in the fascia not taken up as a
+nutrient, it attaches itself to the fascia with all its uterine powers
+during the time of measles or other eruptive diseases, and soon takes
+form and is a vital and durable being whose name is tubercle; in form a
+sphere, and place of foetal life is a cell in the fascia of life
+giving power to all forms of flesh. Thus all tubercles are
+unappropriated substances whom mother fascia has clothed and ordered in
+camp for treatment and repairs, and placed them on the list of enrolled
+pensioners, to draw on the treasury of the fascia, until death shall
+discharge them.
+
+
+BREEDING CONTAGION.
+
+The mothers of the human race give birth to children from puberty to
+sterility. She may give birth a dozen times, but nature finally calls a
+halt, and the whole system of life sustaining nerves of the womb which
+are in the fascia, with blood in great abundance to supply foetal
+life, ceases to go farther with the processes of building beings.
+Vitality for that purpose stops, never to return. Nature has no longer a
+demand for her system to act as a constructing cause for other beings,
+of her kind, and she is free the remainder of her days.
+
+A question arises. Are children all she can develop in her system and
+give birth to? No, she can go through other processes of breeding. In
+her fascia there is one seed, if vitalized will develop a being called
+measles. She never has but one confinement. That set of nerves that gave
+support and growth to measles died in the delivery of the child, and
+never can conceive and produce any more measles. Another seed lives in
+her fascia waiting to be vitalized by the male principle of smallpox,
+and when it is born it always kills the nerves that gave it life and
+form. And the person never can have but one such child or being during
+life.
+
+Still another seed awaits the coming of the commissary to nourish while
+it consumes that vitality in the fascia of the glands to develop the
+portly child we call mumps. Both male and female conceive and give birth
+to such beings, then tear up the tracks and roads behind them, by
+killing the demand for such drink.
+
+I want to draw the mind of the reader to the fact that no being can be
+formed without material. A place in which to be developed, and all
+forces necessary to do the needed work. And as all excressences and
+abnormal growths, diseases and conditions, must have the friendly
+assistance of the fascia before development; the fascia is the place to
+look for cause of disease and the place to consult and begin the action
+of remedies in all diseases, even though it be the birth of a child.
+
+
+THE SEEDS OF DISEASE.
+
+We can arrive at truth only by the powerful rules of reason, so the
+philosopher has shouted from the house tops of all ages. He adjusts his
+many supposable causes, adds to and subtracts until he arrives at a
+conclusion based upon the facts of his observations. Knowing the
+principles that exist in substances and seeds, by which when associated
+with proper conditions that powerful engine known as animal life gives
+the truth with fact and motion as its voucher. We reason, if corn be
+planted in moist and warm earth, that action and growth will present the
+form of a living stalk of corn, which has existed in embryo, and still
+continues its vital actions as long as the proper conditions prevail, i.
+e., until the growth and development is completed. If you take a seed
+in your fingers, push it in the ground and cover it up, incubation,
+growth and development is expected in obedience to the law under which
+it serves. Thus we see to succeed we must deposit and cover up the seed
+in order that the laws of gestation may have an opportunity by which
+they get the results desired. As nature always presents itself to our
+minds as seeds deposited in soil and season to suit, and it is loyal to
+its own laws only, we are constrained by this method of reasoning to
+conclude that disease must have a soil in which to plant its seeds
+before gestation and development. It must have seasonable conditions,
+the rains of nourishment, also the necessary time required for such
+processes. All these laws must be fulfilled to the letter, otherwise a
+failure is absolute. As the great laboratory of nature is always at work
+in the human body, the chilling winds and poisonous breaths, with
+extremes of heat and cold at different seasons of the year by day and
+night, and the lungs and skin are continually secreting and excreting
+every minute, hour and day of our lives, is it not reasonable to suppose
+that we inhale many elements that are floating in the common winds that
+contain the seeds of some destructive element, to the harmony of fluids
+that are necessary to sustain the healthy animal forms.
+
+
+GENERATING FEVER.
+
+Suppose it should start the yeast, or kind of substance that lives
+greatly upon lime. If this yeast in its action and thirst for food to
+suit its life and appetite should call in from the earth, water and
+atmosphere for its daily food lime substances only, and by its power
+destroy all other principles taken as nourishment, is it not reasonable
+to suppose it would deposit such elements in over powering quantities in
+the fascia of the mucous membrane of the lungs in such quantities, as to
+overcome the renovating powers of the lungs and excretory system, by its
+paralyzing quantities of diseased fluids, all through the universal
+fascia of animal life. This deposit acts as an irritant to the sensory
+nerves to such an extent that the electricity of the motor nerves is
+forced to take charge of, and run the machinery of the human body, with
+such velocity as to raise the temperature of the body, by putting the
+electricity above the normal action of animal life, and thereby generate
+that temperature known as fever?
+
+The two extremes, heat and cold, may be the causes of retention and
+detention. One is detained by the contraction of cold until the blood
+and other fluids die by asphyxia. The warm temperature produces
+relaxation of the nerves, blood, and all other vessels of the fascia,
+during which time the arteries are injecting too great quantities of
+fluids to be renovated by the excretory systems. Thus you have a cause
+for decomposition of the blood and other substances, to be conveyed to
+the lungs for purification and renewal. You have a logical foundation
+and a cause for all diseases, catarrhal, climatic, contagions,
+infections, and epidemics. The fascia proves itself to be the probable
+matrix of life and death. Beginning with the mucous membrane penetrating
+all parts to supply and renovate the fluids of life, and nourishing all
+the nerves of nutrition and assimilation. When harmonious in normal
+action, health is good; when perverted, disease is destructive unto
+death.
+
+
+WHOOPING COUGH.
+
+I have perused all the authority obtainable, advised with and counciled
+for information in reference to the cause of whooping cough until I am
+constrained to think, whether I say so or not, that I have had many
+additions of words during the conversation, and to use a homely phrase,
+less sense than I started out with. My tongue is tired, my brain
+exhausted, my hopes disappointed and my mind disgusted, that after so
+much effort to obtain some positive knowledge of the disease in
+question, which is whooping cough, that I have received nothing that
+would give me any light whatever pertaining to the subject. It winds up
+thus, that it may be a germ that irritates the pneumogastric nerve. I go
+off as blank and empty as the fish lakes on the moon. I supposed writers
+would say something in reference to the irritating influence of this
+disease on the nerves and muscles that would contract or convulsively
+shorten the muscles that attach at the one end to the os hyoid, and at
+the other end at various points along the neck, and force the hyoid back
+against the pneumogastric nerve, hypoglossal, cervical, or some other
+nerve that would be irritated by such pressure on nerves by the os
+hyoid, when pulled back and held against such nerves. The above picture
+will give the reader some idea why I became so thoroughly disgusted with
+the heaps of compiled trash. I say trash because there was not a single
+truth, great or small, to guide me in search of the desired knowledge.
+And at this point I will say on my first exploration I found all of the
+nerves and muscles that attach to the os hyoid at any point contracted,
+shortened and pulling the hyoid back to and pressing against the
+pneumogastric nerve, and all the nerves in that vicinity. Also each and
+every muscle was in a hard and contracted condition in the region of
+this portion of the trachea, and extended up and into the back part of
+the tongue. Then I satisfied myself that this irritable condition of the
+muscles was possibly the cause of the spasms of the trachea during the
+convulsive cough. I proceeded at once with my hand guided by my judgment
+to suspend or stop for awhile the action of the nerves of sensation that
+go with and control the muscles of the machinery which conducts air to
+and from the lungs. That my first effort while acting upon this
+philosophy was a complete relaxation of all muscles and fibers of that
+part of the neck, and when they relaxed their hold upon the respiratory
+machinery the breathing became normal. I have been asked what bone I
+would pull when treating whooping cough? My answer would be, the bones
+that held by attachment the muscles of the hyoid system in such
+irritable condition that begin with the atlas and terminate with the
+sacrum. To him who has been a willing student of the American School of
+Osteopathy the successful management of whooping cough should be
+absolute, reliable and successful in all cases, when taken for treatment
+in anything like, a reasonable time.
+
+
+CLOUDS AND LUNGS ARE MUCH ALIKE.
+
+One is always the same in form and stays in the body of animals, while
+the clouds, the lungs of the sky, are never the same in form. They are
+sometimes very dense and separated from all others. Such are more
+furious in display. Then we see the softer clouds which cover all
+visible space above; they too give us rain but in a more quiet way and
+are more extended in space; they shade the sun, and form water by
+uniting oxygen and hydrogen, and supply vegetation and all demands for
+water. Now we see and know the uses for the clouds or lungs of the sky,
+and we are led to hunt and locate the water forming clouds of the animal
+beings. As we behold above us the forming clouds we see great activity,
+with darkness and attending shadows, without such shadows or darkness no
+rain can form.
+
+The lung of man, too, is in the shade, and surely like the clouds have
+much to do with the air which contains both gases, which compose water
+and other elements of life. With my power of reasoning, if the lungs do
+not generate water and supply the human system through the secretions to
+sustain life, and keep the body clean and healthy by the excretories, I
+am at a loss to know why so much wind is taken into the body just to
+blow out. One would say we live by the wind, and to cut it off we die.
+At this point I will ask the question, Where and how do fishes get their
+wind? If they can live on oxygen and hydrogen when united in the form of
+water, is not this the strongest conclusion we can come to that the
+lungs generate water of a purer quality than is found in the running
+brooks or ocean?
+
+Is it not reasonable to suppose that in the lungs can be found the
+fountain from which water is conveyed to the lymphatics and other parts
+of the body, to mix with the blood and keep it in proper condition while
+in construction and processes of renovation? Then if this be true, have
+we not established and located the fountain head and supply of the
+nutrient waters of life? If so are we not justified in going to that
+fountain for water to extinguish a fire that is consuming the body,
+which we call fever? This heat never appears until the water supplying
+the lymphatics is very much exhausted, previous to this exhibition of
+heat; which the chemist would conclude was the result of the action of
+phosphorous uniting with oxygen without hydrogen.
+
+We as philosophical machinists, to extinguish this fire by every method
+of reason, would be forced to go to the lungs, and place them in a
+condition that they can generate water at once and supply the excretory
+ducts, which will at the first pulsation of the heart throw water upon
+the consuming fire, and extinguish it by uniting oxygen with hydrogen,
+and cover the burning building with water by disabling the power of
+phosphorous and oxygen from uniting and keeping up the flames of
+destruction.
+
+
+THE WISDOM OF NATURE.
+
+For all my life previous to the day I spoke out with my conclusions of
+the wisdom of nature as a very wise and careful mechanic, I had been
+told that "God" was wise to a finish,--from my birth until I was
+thirty-five years old,--when I saw that all work done by that law of
+power and wisdom was absolutely perfect in all its requirements. In
+vegetable life no power of human can detect a flaw or even suggest an
+additional leaf, limb or fruit. I had made a long study of minerology in
+which I found each stone or mettle was in a division of life that was
+its own, and no other stone could appear dressed in its garb, from the
+black silurian to the purely transparent crystal. I saw that a diamond
+could not be a ruby, neither could it be an oak, a goose nor a goat.
+With all the teaching which had given God credit for his perfect
+construction, wisdom and ability in all nature, I reasoned that in
+parching seasons that the sun's fires were put out, and a feverish earth
+cooled by the falling dews of the clouds. I asked of my own reason if
+there was not a cloud of water in the human body that could be caused to
+drop its dews, put out the fires of fever, and save the forests of life
+that were being burned every fall season.
+
+
+WATER FORMED IN LUNGS.
+
+I reasoned that water was made by the union of two gases, hydrogen and
+oxygen,--then a question arose, Is it not fully in line with reason that
+union of the two gases can and does occur in the lungs and form water,
+that is taken up by the secretions carried to the lymphatics, and by
+them to all of the system and stored away for use? Thus I reasoned, and
+proceeded to seek nerve centers to cause the lymphatics to discharge
+this water on such places and in quantities sufficient to reduce the
+heat called fever. I succeeded, fevers vanished as with a magic touch,
+and left the persons, both old and young, in their normal temperatures
+without any difference as to kinds of fever to the complete list.
+
+Our lungs are surely the half-way place between life and death. We are
+told by chemistry that two gases make water for the uses of the body. Is
+it not true that nature makes water in great quantities often for
+special cases or conditions, for relief purposes, such as in asiatic
+cholera, cholera morbus, chills and fever; when the contents of stomach,
+bowels and skin run off many gallons of water, running through sheet and
+mattress and on floor, not from kidneys but skin. Is it not plain to the
+man of reason that the two gases, oxygen and hydrogen, do unite in the
+lungs, form water and give supply to this great river of water that
+washes life out in but a few hours in cases of cholera and other
+diseases. The person is very cold at such times, breath and lung far
+below the normal, and fully enough to condense gases to water.
+
+
+THE LAW OF FIVES.
+
+Lungs have five lobes, three on right lung, and two on left. Liver has
+five lobes, three on right lobe, and two on left lobe. Nerves have five
+qualities, nutrition, sensation, motion, voluntary and involuntary.
+Nerves have five senses, seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting.
+Since all principles differ in qualities or kinds of service, would it
+be amiss for us to inquire a little farther why the lungs and liver are
+provided with five divisions each, if not to do five kinds of work, and
+different from all other kinds in many ways?
+
+
+FEEBLE ACTION OF HEART.
+
+I want to draw your attention to the facts that there is no method known
+by which electricity or magnetic forces can be weighed. When we find the
+nerves that connect the heart and lungs to brain limited by pressure
+from twist or slip of neck, do we not see cause for croup? How would we
+reason to convey electricity without a connected wire? Not at all, we
+would know no electric force could reach to any point unless a continued
+connection was made. Now to the point; suppose the vagus nerve should be
+oppressed to a condition to cut off part of the electricity, would we be
+surprised if the heart should be feeble in action. I think much of the
+diseases of the "_heart_" are not of the organ but from a feeble supply
+of electricity that is cut off in medulla or heart nerves, between heart
+and brain. Why singing and roaring of ears in heart diseases, if there
+is no waste of pectoral electricity?
+
+
+THE HEART.
+
+With the knife of reason in hand and the microscope of mind of the
+greatest known power properly adjusted, we cut and lay open the breast
+of man. Here we dwell indefinitely. This is the engine of life, the
+self-propelling machine which has constructed all that is necessary to
+its own convenience and comfort. It has brought and deposited its own
+nourishment in the coronary arteries, whose duty is to construct and
+enlarge the heart from time to time as its demands increase. We see its
+main trunk of supply placed lengthways with the spinal column for the
+purpose of constructing a manufactory of nutriment. We pass from the
+heart upward about one foot, here we find it has constructed a battery
+of force and sensation, and contains all power necessary to carry on
+construction to the completed man.
+
+In that brain or battery is found all the motor and sensory elements of
+life, with nerves to transmit all nerve powers and principles found in
+the human body. There is not a known atom in the whole human make-up
+that has not been propelled by the heart through the channels by which
+it has provided for such purpose. Every muscle, bone, hair, and all
+other parts without an exception have traveled through this system of
+arteries to their separate destinations. All are indebted to the heart
+for their material size, and all qualities of motion and life sustaining
+principles of the human body.
+
+If the carotid artery should tire out and not be able to perform its
+duty the brain would tire out also, and cease to operate. Should the
+descending aorta come to a halt from any cause, all parts of the body
+depending upon that vessel would suffer a total loss of blood supply.
+Equally so with any other principal artery of limb or body, all mark a
+failure equal to the suspended supply. The parts and principles of the
+human body depending upon the heart are numerous beyond computation.
+Every expulsive stroke of the heart throws into line armed and equipped
+for duty thousands and millions of operators, whose duties are to
+inspect, repair injuries and construct anew if need be from the crown of
+the head to the sole of the foot. With the best eye of reason we see but
+dimly into the breast of man which contains the heart, the wonder of man
+and the secret of life.
+
+I have given these bulky descriptions of the forest and ocean to
+prepare the mind of man to begin the inspection of the machinery that
+has constructed the body of which he is the indweller. If we cannot
+swallow all, we can taste.
+
+
+FROM NECK TO HEART.
+
+The hearts of all animals should call the most careful attention of the
+student of nature. He finds in it the first act of life; from it go all
+parts or by it all parts of the body are made, and the student of nature
+soon learns that at the heart he finds the first evidence of the power
+of life to continue and give useful shape to matter. Its first work is
+to complete itself in material form with necessary chambers to hold
+blood and with tubes to convey to all places of need. He sees vessels
+leaving the heart to form brain, lungs, liver, trunk and limbs, and with
+each and all he can see the nerves of motion, sensation, nutrition, the
+voluntary and involuntary--all working in perfect harmony and content to
+do their part in the economy of life. Without that union in action a
+confusion will show in form of abnormality which is known as disease. On
+its work all nerves do depend for force and strength to build and
+renovate the body in all its bones, muscles and nerves--thus all
+channels to and from the heart must be cleared from all hindrance. No
+nerve can do its part unless it be well nourished. If not it will fail
+to execute its part for want of power--for by it all blood must move.
+These nerves are found in plexuses in all parts of the body; they are
+abundant in the skin, fascia, muscle, lymphatics and all organs great
+and small. The Osteopath must know or learn that no infringement can be
+tolerated in any part. Nature's demands are surely absolute, and require
+that the last farthing shall be paid in full. Now for a start--we will
+explore the neck; here we have the great and small occipital and the
+cervical group all receiving from the brain and feeding parts below.
+Thus we must stop at the neck and read the lessons that can be found
+there, and learn them well; or we will find that we will not be able to
+meet diseases only to be defeated. We must have the fight during the
+four seasons of the year. In the cold seasons we will find lung and
+other diseases--croup, pneumonia, diphtheria, sore throat. All these do
+their mischief through the nerves of the neck.
+
+Where is or who is the great thinker who knows and can tell all of the
+duties and actions of the nerves of the neck, or what nerve failed and
+slept while a tubercle was formed in the lungs? Which nerve slept while
+fat is heaped up in useless piles in the body? Let us wake up!
+Consumption does not come without a cause. What plexus is overcome and
+allows the lungs to waste away? To what ganglion of the spine would the
+finger of reason point, and say, "that is the cause of _phthisis
+pulmonalis_?" In our search we find a division of nerves run from the
+brain through the regions of the neck, and find a point at which a
+branch leaves a greater nerve on a line that leads to the lungs. We will
+likely find a ganglion at which place all or much of one or both lungs
+are supplied. Then we, by reason, would see that freedom of action
+cannot be. If some substance should intrude by pressure on any nerve in
+that region, we must judge by conditions if that pressure has cut off
+nutrition equal to feeble condition of the lungs.
+
+
+DYSPEPSIA OR IMPERFECT DIGESTION.
+
+In our physiologies we read much about digestion. We will start in where
+they stop. They bring us to the lungs with chyle fresh as made and
+placed in thoracic duct, previous to flowing into the heart to be
+transferred to lungs to be purified, charged with oxygen and otherwise
+qualified, and sent off for duty, through the arteries great and small,
+to the various parts of the system. But there is nothing said of the
+time when all blood is gas (if ever) before it is taken up by the
+secretions, after refinement, and driven to the lungs to be mixed with
+the old blood from the venous system. A few questions about the blood
+seem to hang around my mental crib for food. Reason says we cannot use
+blood before it has all passed through the gaseous stage of refinement,
+which reduces all material to the lowest forms of atoms, before
+constructing any material body. I think it safe to assume that all
+muscles and bones of our body have been in the gas state while in the
+process of preparing substances for blood. A world of questions arise at
+this point.
+
+
+QUESTIONS OF GAS.
+
+The first is, Where and how is food made into gas while in the body? If
+you will listen to a dyspeptic after eating you will wonder where he
+gets all the wind that he rifts from his stomach, and continues for one
+or two hours after each meal. That gas is generated in the stomach and
+intestines, and we are led to believe so because we know of no other
+place in which it can be made and thrown into the stomach by any tubes
+or other methods of entry. Thus by the evidence so far the stomach and
+bowels are the one place in which this gas is generated. Now comes
+question two: As I have spoken of the stomach that generates and ejects
+great quantities of gas for a longer or shorter time after meals, this
+class of people have always been called dyspeptics. Another class of the
+same race of beings stand side by side with him, without this gas
+generating. He, too, eats and drinks of the same kind of food, without
+any of the manifestations that have been described in the first class.
+Why does one stomach blow off gas continually, while the other does not?
+is a very deep, serious and interesting question. As number two throws
+off no gas from the stomach after eating, is this conclusive evidence
+that his stomach generates no gas? Or does his stomach and bowels form
+gas just as fast as No. 1? and the secretions of the stomach and bowels
+take up and retain the nutritious matter and pass the remainder of the
+gas by way of the excretory ducts through the skin? If the excretory
+ducts take up and carry this gas out of the body by way of the skin, and
+he is a healthy man, why not account for No. one's stomach ejecting this
+gas by way of the mouth, because of the fact that the secretions of the
+stomach are either clogged up or inactive, for want of vital motion of
+the nerve terminals of the stomach. Another question in connection with
+this subject: Why is the man whose stomach belches forth gas in such
+abundance also suffering with cold feet, hands and all over the body,
+while No. 2 is quite warm and comfortable, with a glow of warmth passing
+from his body all the time? With these hints I will ask the question:
+What is digestion?
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+THE LYMPHATICS.
+
+     Importance of the Subject--Demands of Nature on the
+     Lymphatics--Dunglinson's Definition--Dangers of Dead
+     Substances--Lymph Continued--Solvent in Nature--Where Are the
+     Lymphatics Situated?--The Fat and Lean.
+
+
+IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT.
+
+Possibly less is known of the lymphatics than any other division of the
+life-sustaining machinery of man. Thus ignorance of that division is
+equal to a total blank with the operator. Finer nerves dwell with the
+lymphatics than even with the eye. The eye is an organized effect, the
+lymphatics the cause; in them the spirit of life more abundantly dwells.
+No atom can leave the lymphatics in an imperfect state and get a union
+with any part of the body. There the atom obtains form and knowledge of
+how and what to do. The lymphatics consume more of the finer fluids of
+the brain than the whole viscera combined. By nature, coarser substances
+are necessary to construct the organs that run the blast, and rough
+forging divisions. The lymphatics form, finish, temper and send the
+bricks to the builder with intelligence, that he may construct by
+adjusting all according to nature's plans and specifications. Nature
+makes machinery that can produce just what is necessary, and when
+united, produces what the most capable minds could exact.
+
+The lymphatics are closely and universally connected with the spinal
+cord and all other nerves, long or short, universal or separate, and all
+drink from the waters of the brain. By an action of the nerves of the
+lymphatics, a union of qualities necessary to produce gall, sugar,
+acids, alkalies, bone, muscle and softer parts, with the thought that
+elements can be changed, suspended, collected and associated and produce
+any chemical compound necessary to sustain animal life, wash out, salt,
+sweeten and preserve the being from decay and death by chemical,
+electric, atmospheric or climatic conditions. By this we are admonished
+in all our treatment not to wound the lymphatics, as they are
+undoubtedly the life giving centers and organs. Thus it behooves us to
+handle them with wisdom and tenderness, for by and from them a withered
+limb, organ or any division of the body receives what we call
+reconstruction, or is builded anew, and without this cautious procedure
+your patient had better save his life and money by passing you by as a
+failure, until you are by knowledge qualified to deal with the
+lymphatics.
+
+
+DEMANDS OF NATURE ON THE LYMPHATICS.
+
+Why not reason on the broad plain of known facts, and give the why he or
+she has complete prostration. When all systems are cut off from a chance
+to move and execute such duties as nature has allotted to them, motor
+nerves must drive all substances to and sensation must judge the supply
+and demand. Nutrition must be in action the time and keep all parts well
+supplied with power to labor or a failure is sure to appear. We must
+ever remember the demands of nature on the lymphatics, liver and
+kidneys. They must work all the time or a confusion for lack in their
+duties will mark a cripple in some function of life over which they
+preside.
+
+
+DUNGLINSON'S DEFINITION.
+
+Dunglinson's scientific definition of the lymphatics is very extensive,
+comprehensive and right to the point for our use as doctors of
+Osteopathy. He describes the lymphatic glands as countless in number,
+universally distributed all through the human body, containing vitalized
+water and other fluids necessary to the support of animal life, running
+parallel with the venous system, and more abundantly there than in other
+locations of the body, at the same time discharging their contents into
+the veins while conveying the blood back to the heart from the whole
+system. Is it not reasonable to suppose that besides being nutrient
+centers, that they accumulate and pass water through the whole secretory
+and excretory systems of the body, in order to reduce nourishment to
+that degree from thick to thin, that it may easily pass through all
+tubes, ducts and vessels interested in distribution, as nourishment
+first, and renovation second, through the excretory ducts. The question
+arises whence cometh this water?
+
+
+DANGERS OF DEAD SUBSTANCES.
+
+This leads us back to the lungs as one of the great sources of which you
+have been informed under the head of "Lungs, Gases and Water." With this
+fountain of life saving water provided by nature to wash away impurities
+as they accumulate in our bodies, would it not be great stupidity in us
+to see a human being burn to death by the fires of fever, or die from
+asphyxia by allowing bad or dead lymph, albumen, or any substance to
+load down the powers of nature and keep the blood from being washed to
+normal purity? If so, let us go deeper into the study of the life-saving
+powers of the lymphatics. Do we not find in death that the lymphatics
+are dark, and in life they are healthy and red?
+
+
+LYMPH CONTINUED.
+
+What we meet with in all diseases is dead blood, stagnant lymph, and
+albumen in a semi-vital or dead and decomposing condition all through
+the lymphatics and other parts of the body, brain, lungs, kidneys, liver
+and fascia. The whole system is loaded with a confused mass of blood,
+that is mixed with much or little unhealthy substances, that should have
+been kept washed out by lymph. Stop and view the frog's superficial
+lymphatic glands; you see all parts move just as regular as the heart
+does; they are all in motion during life. For what purpose do they move?
+if not to carry the fluids to sustain by building up, while the
+excretory channels receive and pass out all that is of no further use to
+the body. Now we see this great system of supply is the source of
+construction and purity. If this be true we must keep them normal all
+the time or see confused nature in the form of disease, the list
+through. Thus we strike at the source of life and death when we go to
+the lymphatics.
+
+With this fountain of life-saving water, provided by nature to wash away
+impurities as they accumulate in our bodies, would it not be great
+stupidity in us to see a human being burn to death by the fires of
+fever, or die from asphyxia, by allowing bad or dead lymph, albumen or
+any substance to load down the powers of nature to keep the blood washed
+to normal purity? If so let us go deeper in the study of the
+life-sustaining powers of the lymphatics.
+
+
+NATURE'S SOLVENTS.
+
+The brain flushes the nerves of the lymphatics first, and more than any
+other system of the body. No part is so small or remote that it is not
+in direct connection with some part or chain of the lymphatics. The
+doctor of Osteopathy has much to think about when he consults natural
+remedies, and how they are supplied and administered, and as disease is
+the effect of tardy deposits in some or all parts of the body, reason
+would bring us to hunt a solvent of such deposits, which hinder the
+natural motion of blood and other fluids in functional works, which are
+to keep the body pure from any substance that would check vital action.
+When we have searched and found that the lymphatics are almost the sole
+requisite of the body we then must admit that their use is equal to the
+abundant and universal supply of such glands. If we think and use a
+homely word and say that disease is only too much dirt in the wheels of
+life, then we will see that nature takes this method to wash out the
+dirt. As an application, pneumonia is too much dirt in the wheels of the
+lungs, if so we must wash out; no where can we go to a better place for
+water than to the lymphatics. Are they not like a fire company with
+nozzles in all windows ready to flush the burning house?
+
+
+WHERE ARE THE LYMPHATICS SITUATED?
+
+A student of life must take in all parts, and study their uses and
+relations to other parts and systems. We lay much stress on the uses of
+blood and the powers of the nerves, but have we any evidence that they
+are of more vital importance than the lymphatics? If not let us halt at
+this universal system of irrigation and study its great uses in
+sustaining animal life. Where are they situated in the body? Answer by,
+where are they not? No space is so small as to be out of connection with
+the lymphatics, with their nerves, secretory and excretory ducts. Thus
+the system of lymphatics is complete and universal in the whole body.
+After beholding the lymphatics distributed along all nerves, blood
+channels, muscles, glands and all organs of the body, from the brain to
+the soles of the feet, all loaded to fullness with watery liquids, we
+certainly can make but one conclusion as to their use, which would be to
+mingle with and carry out all impurities of the body, by first mixing
+with such substances and reducing them to that degree of fluids in
+fineness, that could pass through the smallest tubes of the excretory
+system, and by that method free the body from all deposits of either
+solids or fluids, and leave nourishment.
+
+
+THE FAT AND LEAN.
+
+A question: Why is he too fat and she only skin and bone, while a third
+is just right? If one is just right, why not all? If we get fat by a
+natural process why not reverse the process and stop at any desirable
+point in flesh size? I believe the law of life is simple and natural in
+both respects if wisely understood. Have we nerves of motion to carry
+food to all parts, organs, glands and muscles? Have we channels to
+convey to all? Have we fluids to suit all demands? Have we brain power
+equal to all force needed? Is blood formed sufficiently to fill all
+demands? Does that blood contain fat, water, muscle, skin, hair and all
+kinds to suit each division, organ, and nerve? If so and blood has
+builded too much flesh, can it not take that bulk away by returning
+blood to gas and other fluids? Can that which has been done be done
+again? If yes be the correct answer, then we should hope to return
+blood, fat, flesh and bone to gas and pass them away while in gaseous
+condition, and do away with all unnatural size or lack of size. I
+believe that it is natural to build and destroy all material form from
+the lowest animated being to the greatest rolling world. I believe no
+world could be constructed without strict obedience to a governing law,
+which gives size by addition and reduces that size by subtraction. Thus
+a fat man is builded by great addition, and if desired can be reduced
+by much subtraction, which is simply a rule of numbers. We multiply to
+enlarge, also subtract when we wish a reduction. Turn your eye for a
+time to the supply trains of nature. When the crop is abundant, the
+lading would be great, and when the seasons do not suit, the crops are
+short or shorter to no lading at all. Thus we have the fat man and the
+lean man. Is it not reasonable as a conclusion of the most exacting
+philosophy that the train of cars that can bring loads of stone, brick
+and mortar until a great bulk is formed, can also carry away until this
+bulk disappears in part or all? This being my conclusion I will say by
+many years of careful observation of the work of creating bodies and
+destroying the same, that to add to is the law of giving size, and to
+subtract from is the law of reduction. Both are natural, and both can be
+made practical in the reduction or addition of flesh, when found too
+great in quantity, or we can add to and give size to the starving muscle
+through the action of the motor and nutrient system conveyed to, and
+appropriated from the laboratory in which all bodily substances are
+formed. Thus the philosophy is absolute, and the sky is clear to proceed
+with addition and subtraction of flesh. I believe I am prepared to say
+at this time that I understand the nervous system well enough to direct
+the laboratory of nature and cause it through its skilled arts to
+unload, or reduce, he who is over-burdened with a super-abundance of
+flesh, and add to the scanty muscle a sufficiency to give power of
+comfortable locomotion and other forces, by opening the gate of the
+supply trains of nutrition.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+THE DIAPHRAGM.
+
+     Investigation--A Struggle With Nature--Lesson of Cause and
+     Effect--Something of Medical Etiquette--The Medical Doctor--An
+     Explorer for Truth Must Be Independent--The Diaphragm Introduced--A
+     Useful Study--Combatting Effect--Is Least Understood--A Case of
+     Bilious Fever--A Demand on the Nerves--Danger of Compression--A
+     Cause for Disease--Was a Mistake Made in the Creation--An
+     Exploration--Result of Removal of Diaphragm--Sustaining Life in
+     Principles--Law Applicable to Other Organs--Power of
+     Diaphragm--Omentum.
+
+
+INVESTIGATION.
+
+Let us halt at the origin of the splanchnic and take a look. At this
+point we see the lower branches; sensation, motion, and nutrition, all
+slant above the diaphragm pointing to the solar plexus which sends off
+branches to pudic and sacral plexus of sensory system of nerves; just at
+the place to join the life giving ganglion of sacrum with orders from
+the brain to keep the process of blood forming in full motion all the
+time. A question arises, how is this motion supplied and from where? The
+answer is by the brain as nerve supply, heart as blood supply, all of
+which comes from above the diaphragm, to keep machinery in form and
+supplied with motion, that it may be able to generate chyle to send back
+to heart, to be formed into blood and thrown into arteries to build all
+parts as needed, and keep brain fed up to its normal supply of power
+generating needs. We see above the diaphragm, the lungs, heart and
+brain, the three sources of blood and nerve supply. All three are
+guarded by strong walls, that they may do their part in keeping up the
+life supply as far as blood and nerve force is required. But as they
+generate no blood nor nerve material, they must take the place of
+manufactories and purchase material from a foreign land, to be able to
+have an abundance all the time. We see nature has placed its
+manufacturies above a given line in the breast, and grows the crude
+material below said line. Now as growth means motion and supply, we must
+combine in a friendly way, and conduct the force from above to the
+region below the septum or diaphragm, that we may use the powers as
+needed. This wall must and does have openings to let blood and nerves
+penetrate with supply and force to do the work of manufacturing.
+
+
+A STRUGGLE WITH NATURE.
+
+After all this has been done and a twist, pressure or obstructing fold
+should appear from any cause, would we not have a cut off of motion to
+return chyle, sensation to supply vitality, and venous motion to carry
+off arterial supply that has been driven from heart above? Have we not
+found the cause to stop all processes of life below diaphragm? In short,
+are we not in a condition to soon be in a complete state of stagnation?
+As soon as the arteries have filled the venous system, which is without
+sensation to return blood to the heart, then the heart can do nothing
+but wear out its energies trying to drive blood into a dead being below
+the diaphragm known as the venous system. It is dead until sensation
+reaches the vein from the sacral and pudic plexus.
+
+
+LESSON OF CAUSE AND EFFECT.
+
+Previous to all discoveries that have been made a demand for the
+usefulness of such discovery, is felt and talked of for years, centuries
+and cycles of time. Its discovery is an open question and free to all,
+because in this fact all are interested. That lack may be felt and
+spoken of by all agriculturists, and the inquiry directed to a better
+plow, a better sickle or mowing machine with which to reap standing
+grain. The thinker reduces his thoughts to practice, and cuts the grain,
+leaving it in such condition that a raker is needed to bunch it previous
+to binding.
+
+His victory is heralded to the world as king of the harvest, and so
+accepted. The discoverer says, "I wish I could bunch that grain." He
+begins to reason from the great principle of cause and effect, and
+sleeps not until he has added to his already made discovery, an addition
+so ingeniously constructed that it will drop the grain in bunches ready
+for the binder. The discoverer stands by and sees in the form of a human
+being hands, arms and a band; he watches the motion then starts in to
+rustle with cause and effect again. He thinks and sweats day and night,
+and by the genius of thought produces a machine to bind the grain. By
+this time another suggestion arises, how to separate the wheat as the
+machine journeys in its cutting process. To his convictions nothing will
+solve this problem but mental action. He thinks and dreams of cause and
+effect. His mind seems to forget all the words of his mother tongue but
+cause and effect. He talks and preaches cause and effect in so many
+places that his associates begin to think he is mentally failing, and
+will soon be a subject for the asylum. He becomes disgusted with their
+lack of appreciation, seeks seclusion and formulates the desired
+addition and threshes the grain ready for the bag. He has solved the
+question and proved to his neighbors that the asylum was built for them,
+not for him. With cause and effect which is ever before the
+philosopher's eye, he ploughs the ocean regardless of the furious
+waves, he dreads not the storms on the seas, because he has so
+constructed a vessel with a resistance superior to the force of the
+lashing waves of the ocean, and the world scores him another victory. He
+opens his mouth and says by the law of cause and effect I will talk to
+my mother who is hundreds of miles away. He disturbs her rest by the
+rattling of a little electric bell in her room. Tremblingly the aged
+mother approaches the telephone and asks "Who is there?" And is
+answered, "It is me, Jimmie," and asks, "To whom am I talking?" She says
+"Mrs. Sarah Murphy." He says, "God bless you, mother; I am at Galveston,
+Texas, and you are in Boston, Mass." She laughs and cries with joy; he
+hears every emotion of her trembling voice. She says to him, "You have
+succeeded at last. I have never doubted your final success,
+notwithstanding the neighbors have annoyed me almost to death, telling
+me you would land in the asylum, because no man could talk so as to be
+heard 1000 miles away; his lungs, were too weak, and his tongue too
+short."
+
+Now, friends, I have given you a long introductory foundation previous
+to giving you the cause of disease, with the philosophy that I have
+given upon cause and effect. I think it absolutely clear and the effect
+so unerring in its results, that with Pythagoras I can say "Eureka."
+
+
+SOMETHING OF MEDICAL ETIQUETTE.
+
+To know we have found a general cause for disease, one that will stand
+the heights and depths of direct and cross examinations, as given by the
+high courts of cool headed reason, has been the mental effort of all
+doctors and healers, since time began its record. They have had to treat
+disease as best they could, by such methods as customs had established
+as the best known for such diseases; notwithstanding their failures and
+the great mortality under such a system of treatment. They have not felt
+justified to go beyond the rules of symptomatology as adopted by their
+schools, with diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Should they digress
+from the rules of the etiquette of their alma maters they would lose the
+brotherly love and support of the medical association to which they
+belong, under the belief that, "A bad name is as bad as death to a dog."
+
+
+THE MEDICAL DOCTOR.
+
+He says that in union there is safety, and resolves to stick to, live
+and do as his school has disciplined all its pupils, with this command,
+"The day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Stick to the
+brotherhood."
+
+
+AN EXPLORER FOR TRUTH MUST BE INDEPENDENT.
+
+The explorer for truth must first declare his independence of all
+obligations or brotherhoods of any kind whatsoever. He must be free to
+think and reason. He must establish his observatory upon hills of his
+own; he must establish them above the imaginary high planes of rulers,
+kings, professors of schools of all kinds and denominations. He must be
+the Czar of his own mental empire, unencumbered with anything that will
+annoy while he makes his observations. I believe the reasons are so
+plain, so easily comprehended, the facts in its support so brilliant,
+that I will offer the same, though I be slaughtered on the altar of
+bigotry and intolerance. This philosophy is not intended for minds not
+thoroughly well posted by dissection and otherwise of the whole human
+anatomy. You must know its physiological laboratories and workings with
+the brain as the battery, the lungs as the source or machine that
+renovates the blood from all impurities, and the heart as the living
+engine or quarter-master, whose duty is to supply the commissaries with
+blood and other fluids to all divisions and sub-divisions of the human
+body, which is busily engaged producing material suited to the
+production of bone and muscle, and all other substances necessary to
+keep the machinery of life in full force and action.
+
+Without this knowledge on the part of the reader, the words of this
+philosophy will fall as blanks before reaching his magazine of reason.
+Thus this is addressed to the independent man or woman that can, will
+and does reason.
+
+
+THE DIAPHRAGM INTRODUCED.
+
+At this point we will introduce the diaphragm, which separates the
+heart, lungs and brain from the organs of life that are limited to the
+abdomen and pelvis. A question arises at this point; what has the
+diaphragm to do with good or bad health? At this time we will analyze
+the diaphragm; we will examine its construction, and its uses; we will
+examine its openings through which blood passes both above and below. We
+will examine the opening through which food passes to stomach. We will
+carefully examine the passage or opening for nerve supply to the abdomen
+below, to run this great system of chemistry, which is producing the
+various kinds of substances necessary to the hard and soft parts of the
+body. We must know the nerve supply of the lymphatics, womb, liver,
+kidneys, pancreas, the generative organs, what they are, what they do,
+and what are demanded of them, before we are able to feed our own minds
+from the cup that contains the essence of reason as expressed from the
+tree of life.
+
+
+A USEFUL STUDY.
+
+The diaphragm surely gives much food to the one who would search for the
+great whys of disease as reported causes seem to be far back in the fogs
+of mystery. It may help us to arrive at some facts if we take each organ
+and division and make a full acquaintance of all its parts and uses
+before we combine it with others.
+
+
+COMBATTING EFFECTS.
+
+In all ages, the Doctor has for lack of knowledge of the true cause of
+diseases, combatted effects with his remedies. He treats pain with
+remedies to deaden pain; congestion to wash out overplus of blood that
+has been carried to parts or organs of the body by arteries of blood and
+channels of secretions and not taken up and passed out and off by the
+excretories. He sees the abnormal size and leaves the hunting of the
+cause that has given growth to such proportions and begins to seek rest
+and ease for his patient. Then he treats to reduce by medicine to carry
+the waste fluids to bowels, bladder and skin, with tonics to give
+strength and stimulants to increase the action of the heart in order to
+force local deposits to the general excretory system. At this time let
+the Osteopathic Doctor take a close hunt for any fold in muscles of the
+system that would cause a cut-off of the normal supply of blood or
+suspend the action of nerves whose office is to give power and action to
+the excretory system sufficient to keep the dead matter carried off as
+fast as it accumulates. Let us stop and acquaint ourselves with the true
+condition of the diaphragm. It must be normal in place, as it is so
+situated that it will admit of no abnormality. It must be kept
+stretched, just as Nature arranged that it should, like a drum-head. It
+is attached all around to the chest, though it crosses five or six ribs
+on its descent from the seventh rib to the sternum at the lower point
+and down to fourth lumbar vertebra. It is a continuous slanting floor,
+above bowels and abdominal organs, and below heart and lungs. It must,
+by all reason, be kept normal in tightness at all places, without a fold
+or wrinkle, that could press the aorta, nerves, oesophagus, or
+anything that contributes to the supply or circulation of any vital
+substance. Now can there be any move in spine or ribs that would or
+could change the normal shape of the diaphragm? If so, where and why?
+
+
+IS LEAST UNDERSTOOD.
+
+The diaphragm is possibly the least understood as being the cause of
+more diseases, when its supports are not all in line and normal
+position, than any other part of the body. It has many openings through
+which nerves, blood and food pass while going from chest to all parts
+below. It begins at the lower end of the breast-bone and crosses to ribs
+back and down, in a slanting direction to the third or fourth lumbar
+vertebra. Like an apron, it holds all that is above it up, such as heart
+and lungs, and is the fence that divides the organs of the abdomen from
+the chest. Below it are the stomach, bowels, liver, spleen, kidneys,
+pancreas, womb, bladder; also the great system of lymphatics of the
+whole blood and nerve supply of the organs and systems of nutrition and
+life supply. All parts of the body have a direct or indirect connection
+with this great separating muscle. It assists in breathing, in all
+animals, when normal, and when prolapsed by the falling in and down of
+any of the five or six ribs by which it is supported in place, then we
+suffer from the effects of suspended normal arterial supply, and venous
+stagnation below diaphragm. The aorta meets resistance as it goes down
+with blood to nourish, and the vein as it goes back with impurities
+contained in venous blood, also meets an obstruction at the diaphragm,
+as it returns to the heart through the vena cava, because of the packing
+of a fallen diaphragm on and about the blood vessels that must not be
+obstructed. Thus heart trouble, lung disease, brain, liver, womb, tumors
+of the abdomen and through the list of effects can be traced to the
+diaphragm as the cause.
+
+I am strongly impressed that the diaphragm has much to do in keeping all
+the machinery and organs of life in a healthy condition, and will try
+and give some of the reasons why, as I now understand them. First, it is
+found to be wisely located just below the heart and lungs; one being the
+engine of the blood, and the other is the engine of the air. This strong
+wall holds all substances or other bodies away from any chance to press
+on either engine, while performing their parts in the economy of life.
+Each engine has a sacred duty to perform under the penal law of death to
+itself and all other divisions of the whole being, man. If it should
+neglect its work of which it is a vital part, should we take down this
+wall and allow the liver, stomach and spleen to occupy any of the places
+allotted to these engines of life, a confusion would surely be the
+result; ability of the heart to force blood to the lungs would be
+overcome and cause trouble.
+
+
+A CASE OF BILIOUS FEVER.
+
+Suppose we take a few diseases and submit them to the crucial ordeal of
+reason, and see if we do, or can find any one of the climatic fevers
+that appear with its full list of symptoms and have no assistance from
+an irritated diaphragm. For example take a case of common bilious fever
+of North America. It generally begins with a tired and sore feeling of
+limbs and muscles, pain in spine, head, and lumbar region. At this point
+of our inquiry we are left in an open sea of mystery and conjecture as
+to cause. One says, "malaria," and goes no farther, gives a name and
+stops. If you ask for the cause of such torturous pain in head and back,
+with fever and vomiting, he will tell you that the very best authorities
+agree that the cause is malaria, with its peculiar diagnostic tendency
+to affect the brain, spine and stomach, and administers quinine and
+leaves, thinking he has said and done all.
+
+Reason would lead seekers for cause of the pain above located to
+remember that all blood passes first as chyme up to heart and lungs,
+directly through the diaphragm, conducted through the thoracic duct,
+first to heart, thence to lungs, at the same time rivers of blood are
+pouring into the heart from all of the system. Much of it very impure,
+from diseased or stale blood. Much of the chyle is dead before it enters
+the great thoracic duct and goes to the lungs without enough pure blood
+to sustain life. Then disease appears.
+
+As a cut-off the diaphragm, when dropped front and down, and across the
+aorta and vena cava by a lowering of the ribs, on both sides of the
+spine; it would be a complete pressure over coelic axis, with liver
+supply, renal, pelvic, to a complete abdominal stoppage. Then we have
+over-due blood for other parts to send off dead corpuscles by asphyxia,
+with no hope that it can sustain life and health of the parts for which
+it was designed. Thus we know that nature would not be true to its own
+laws, if it would do good work with bad material.
+
+
+A DEMAND ON THE NERVES.
+
+Why not reason on the broad scale of known fact, and give the "why" he
+or she has complete prostration when all systems are wholly cut off from
+a chance to move and execute such duties as nature has allotted to them.
+Motor nerves must drive all substances to, and sensation must judge the
+supply and demand. Nutrition must be in action all the time and keep all
+parts well supplied or a failure is sure to appear. We must ever
+remember the demands of nature on the lymphatics, liver and kidneys,
+that nerves work all the time or a confusion for lack in their duties
+will mark a cripple in some function of life over which they preside.
+
+
+DANGER OF COMPRESSION.
+
+At this time we see by all systems of reason that no delay in passage of
+food or blood, can be tolerated at the diaphragm, because any
+irritation is bound to cause muscular contraction and impede the
+natural flow of blood, first through the abdominal aorta, and even to a
+temporary, partial or complete stoppage of arterial supply to the
+abdomen. Or the vena cava may be so pressed as to completely stop the
+return of venous blood from the stomach, kidneys, bowels and all other
+organs, such as the lymphatics, pancreas, fascia, cellular membranes,
+nerve centers, ganglionic and all systems of supply of organs of life
+found in the abdomen. Thus by pressure, stricture or contraction to the
+passage of blood can be stopped, either above or below the diaphragm,
+and be the cause of blood being detained long enough to die from
+asphyxia, and be left in the body of all organs below the diaphragm.
+
+
+A CAUSE FOR DISEASE.
+
+Thus you see a cause for Bright's disease of kidneys, disease of womb,
+ovaries, jaundice, dysentery, leucorrhoea, painful monthlies, spasms,
+dyspepsia, and on through the whole list of diseases now booked as
+"causes unknown," and treated by the rule of "cut and try." We do know
+that all blood for use of the whole system below the twelfth dorsal
+vertebra does pass through the diaphragm, and all nerve supply, also
+passes through the diaphragm and spinal column for limb and life. This
+being a known fact, we have only to use reason to know that an
+unhealthy condition of the diaphragm is bound to be followed by many
+diseases. A list of questions arise at this point with the inquirers
+that must and can be answered every time by reason only. The diaphragm
+is a musculo-fibrinous organ and depends for blood and nerve supply
+above its own location, and that supply must be given freely and pure
+for nerve and blood or we will have a diseased organ to start with; then
+we may find a universal atrophy or oedema, which would, besides its
+own deformity not be able to rise and fall, to assist the lungs to mix
+air with blood to purify venous blood, as it is carried to the lungs to
+throw off impurities and take on oxygen previous to returning to the
+heart, to be sent off as nourishment for the system. It is only in
+keeping with reason that without a healthy diaphragm both in its form
+and action, disease is bound to be the result. A question from our side
+of the argument is: How can a carpenter build a good house out of
+rotten, twisted or warped wood? If he can, then we can hope to be
+healthy with diseased blood, but if we must have good material in
+building, then we should form our thoughts to suit the heads of
+inspectors, and inspect the passage of blood through the diaphragm,
+pleury, pericardium and the fascia, superficial, deep and universal.
+Disease is just as liable to begin its work in the fascia and
+epithelium as any other place. Thus the necessity of pure blood and
+healthy fascia, because all functions are equally responsible for good
+and bad results.
+
+
+WAS A MISTAKE MADE IN THE CREATION?
+
+At a given period of time the Lord said, "Let us make man." After He had
+made him He examined him, and pronounced him good, and not only good,
+but very good. Did He know what good was? Had He the skill to be a
+competent judge? If He was perfectly competent to judge skilled arts His
+approval of the work when done was the fiat of mental competency backed
+by perfection. Since that architect and skilled mechanic has finished
+man and given him dominion over the fowls of the air, the beast of the
+field and fishes of the sea, hasn't that person, being or superstructure
+proven to us that God, the creator of all things, has armed him with
+strength, with the mind and machinery to direct and execute? This being
+demonstrated and leaving us without a doubt as to its perfection, are we
+not admonished by all that is good and great to enter upon a minute
+examination of all the parts belonging to this being; acquaint ourselves
+with their uses and all the designs for which the whole being was
+created. If we are honestly interested with the acquaintance of the
+forms and uses of the parts in detail by close and thorough examination
+of the material, its form and object of its form, from whence this
+substance is obtained; how it is produced and sustained through life in
+kind and form. How it is moved, where it gets its power, and for what
+object does it move? A demand for a crucial examination of the skull,
+the heart, lungs, of the chest, the stomach, liver and other organs of
+the abdomen is made. The septum of the brain, the pericardium of the
+chest--the diaphragm of the abdomen which is a dividing septum between
+the abdomen and chest. In this examination we must know the reasons why
+any organs, vessel or any other substance is located at a given place.
+We must run with all the rivers of blood that travel through the system.
+
+
+AN EXPLORATION.
+
+We must start our exploring boat with the aorta, and float with this
+vital current; see the captain as he unloads supplies for the diaphragm
+and all that is under it. We must follow him and see what branch of this
+river will lead to a little or great toe, or to the terminals of the
+whole foot. We must pass through the waters of the dead sea by the way
+of the vena cava, and observe the boats loaded with exhausted and worn
+out blood, as it is poured in and channeled back to the heart, with all
+below the diaphragm. Carefully watch the emptying of the vena azygos
+major and minor, with the veins of the arms and head all being poured in
+from little or great rivers to the vena innominate on their way to the
+great hospital of life and nourishment; whose quarter-master is the
+heart; whose finishing mechanic is the lung. Having acquainted ourselves
+with the forms and locations of this great personality we are ready at
+this time after examination, and found worthy and well qualified to
+enter into a higher class in which we can obtain an acquaintance with
+the physiological workings separately and conjoined of the whole being.
+At this place we become acquainted with the hows and whys of the
+production of blood, bone and all elements found in them, necessary to
+sustain sensation, motion, nutrition, voluntary and involuntary action
+of the nerve system. The hows and whys of the lymphatics, the life
+sustaining powers of the brain, heart, lungs, and all the abdominal
+system, with their various actions and uses, from the lowest cellular
+membrane to the highest organ of the body.
+
+
+RESULT OF REMOVAL OF DIAPHRAGM.
+
+When we consult the form of the cross-bar that divides the body in two
+conjoined divisions and reason on its use, we arrive at the fact that
+the heart and lungs must have ample space or room to suit their actions
+while performing their functions. At this time a question comes up: What
+effect would follow the removal of the fence between heart, lungs and
+brain, above that dividing muscle, and the machinery that is situated
+below said cross-bar? We see at a glance that we would meet failure to
+the extent of the infringement on demanded room for normal work of heart
+to deliver below lungs to prepare blood, and the brain to pass nerve
+power to either engine above, and all organs below the diaphragm.
+
+
+SUSTAINING LIFE PRINCIPLES.
+
+The life of the living tree is with the bark and superficial fascia
+which lies between the bark of the body of the tree, its periostium. The
+remainder of the tree takes the position or place of secreting. Its
+excretory system is first upwards from the surface of the ground, and
+washes out frozen impurities in the spring, after which it secretes and
+conveys to the ground through the trunk of the tree to the roots which
+is like unto the placenta attached to mother earth, qualifying all
+substances of constructing fiber and leaf, of that part of the tree
+above the ground. Each year produces a new tree which is seen and known
+by circular rings called annular growths. That growth which was
+completed last year is now a stale being of the past and has no vital
+action of itself. But like all stale beings its process is a life of
+another order, and dependent upon the fascia for its life and cellular
+action which lies under the bark, for its own existence as a living
+tree. It can only act as a chemical laboratory and furnish crude
+material which is taken up by the superficial fascia and conveyed up to
+the lungs, and exchanges dead for living matter, to receive and return
+to all parts of the tree, keeping up vital formation. With frost its
+vital process ceases through the winter season until mother earth
+stimulates the placenta, and starts the growth of a new being, which is
+developed and placed in form on the old trunk. Thus you see everything
+of animal growth as we would call them, is a new being, and becomes a
+part of the next being or growth formed.
+
+
+STALE LIFE.
+
+Should this form of vitality cease with the tree another principle which
+we call stale life takes possession and constructs another tree which is
+just the reverse of the living tree, and builds a tree after its own
+power of formulation from the dead matter, to which it imparts a
+principle of stale life, which life produces mushrooms, frogstools and
+other peculiar forms of stale beings, from this form of growth.
+
+Thus we are prepared to reason that blood when ligated and retained in
+that condition of dead corpuscles, and no longer able to support animal
+life, can form a zoophyte and all the forms peculiar to the great law of
+association, as tumefactions of the lymphatics, pancreas, liver,
+kidneys, uterus, with all the glandular system, be they lymphatics,
+cellular, ganglia or any other parts of the body susceptible of such
+growths, below the diaphragm. Thus we can account for tubercles of the
+abdomen and all organs therein found.
+
+
+LAW APPLICABLE TO OTHER ORGANS.
+
+This same law is equally applicable to the heart, lungs, the brain,
+tissues, glands, fascia and all substances capable of receiving without
+the ability to excrete stale substances.
+
+As oedema marks the first tardiness of fluids we have the beginning
+step which will lead from miliary tuberculosis to the largest known
+forms of tubercles, which is the effect of the active principles of
+stale life or the life of dead matter.
+
+
+POWER OF DIAPHRAGM.
+
+At this point we will draw the attention of the reader to the fact that
+the diaphragm can contract and suspend the passage of blood and produce
+all the stagnant changes from start to completed deadly tubercle. Also
+the cancer, the wen, glandular thickening of neck, face, scalp, fascia
+and all substances found above the diaphragm. In this stale life we have
+a compass that will lead us as explorers from the North star, to the
+South pole, the rising sun of reason, and the evening dews of eternity.
+This diaphragm says: "By me you live and by me you die. I hold in my
+hand the powers of life and death, acquaint now thyself with me and be
+at ease."
+
+
+OMENTUM.
+
+The truth of the presentation of facts should be the principle object of
+every person who takes his pen with a view to give the reasons why
+certain witnesses' testimony are indispensable to establish supposable
+or known truths. This being the case I have summoned before this court
+of inquiry an important witness. He has now taken the oath to tell the
+truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, of the case before
+this court. His name is the Great Omentum. Mr. Omentum, state if you
+know of any reason why or how by irritation from a misplacement of your
+body or any of its attachments to or about the diaphragm, the spine,
+stomach or other places that could cause irritation and thickening by
+congestion of your own body to such degree as to impede the flow of
+arterial or venous blood, over whose position you occupy much space from
+the diaphragm downward? State what effect a falling down of the eleventh
+and twelfth ribs on both sides of the spine with their cartilaginous
+points turned inward and down; if they should draw the diaphragm down
+and across your body? What would be the effect on circulation of the
+blood, and other fluids on the kidneys and other organs of the abdomen
+and pelvis? Would it not be the foundation for destructive congestion,
+and abnormal growth? State if you know if any such ligation would cause
+swelling by retention of blood in the spleen, liver, kidneys or other
+organs of the abdomen and pelvis? Would it be reasonable to suppose that
+you could perform your functions in office with any irritating condition
+caused by prolapses of diaphragm? Would not an irritation of your
+attachment to the diaphragm, spine or stomach be great enough to impede
+the blood on its passage through the aorta to the abdomen, or impede the
+flow of blood back and through the diaphragm? If so state how and why?
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+LIVER, BOWELS AND KIDNEYS.
+
+     Gender of the Liver--Productions of the Liver--A Hope for the
+     Afflicted--Evidences of Truth--Loaded With Ignorance--Lack of
+     Knowledge of the Kidney--How a Purgative Acts--Flux--Bloody
+     Dysentery--Flux More Fully Described--Osteopathic Remedies--Medical
+     Remedies--More of the Osteopathic Remedy.
+
+
+GENDER OF THE LIVER.
+
+Let us abruptly assume that the liver is the abiding placenta of all
+animated beings. If this position be true we are warranted and justified
+in the conclusion that the germs necessary to form blood vessels and
+other parts of the body must look to the liver for the fluids in which
+they would expect to construct in form and size. It seems to be nature's
+chemical laboratory, in which are prepared by receiving chemical
+qualities and quantities to suit the formation of hard and soft
+substances, which are to become the parts and the whole of any organ,
+gland, muscle, nerve, cell, veins and arteries. In evidence of the
+probability of the truth of this position, we will draw your attention,
+first to its central location between the sacral and cerebral nerve
+centers. There it lies between the "stomach" the vessel which receives
+all material previous to being manipulated for all nutrient purposes,
+and the heart, the great receiving and distributing quarter-master of
+all animal life. It supplies squads, sections, companies, regiments,
+battalions, brigades and divisions--to the whole army, and all parts
+that are dependent upon the nutrient system.
+
+
+PRODUCTIONS OF THE LIVER.
+
+The liver seems to be able to qualify by calling to itself all
+substances necessary to produce gall. Its communications with all parts
+of the body is direct, circuitous, universal and absolute. If pure it
+produces healthy gall and other substances, and in fact when healthy
+itself all other fluids are considered to be pure, at which time we are
+supposed to enjoy good health and universal bodily comfort. With a
+diseased liver we have perverted action which possibly accounts for
+impure and unhealthy deposits in the nasal passage and other parts of
+the body in their own peculiar form. Polypus of the nose, tumefaction of
+lungs, lymphatics, liver, kidneys, uterus, and even the brain itself.
+Suppose such deposits, composed of albumen and fibrin, prepared in the
+liver should be deposited in the lining membranes of veins leading to
+the heart, and by some other chemical action this accumulated mass
+should come loose from the veins, would we not expect what is commonly
+called clots enter the heart, and shut off the arteries, supplying the
+lungs, stop the further circulation of blood and cause instantaneous
+death called heart failure, apoplexy and so on? Is it not reasonable to
+suppose that under those deposits that softening of arteries has its
+beginning, which results in aneurisms and death by rupture of such
+abnormally formed arteries? Are the lungs not liable to receive such
+deposits and form tubercles to such proportions as to become living
+zoophytes capable of covering all of the mucous membrane of the lungs,
+air passages and cells, and establish a perpetual dwelling of zoophytes
+and absorb to themselves for their own maintenance and existence, blood
+and nourishment of the whole body unto death? This being the result of
+one chemical action of the body and all by and from nature, is it not
+reasonable to suppose that the provision by nature is ready to produce
+of itself the chemicals of kind, quality and quantity equal to the
+destruction of this enemy of life?
+
+
+A HOPE FOR THE AFFLICTED.
+
+I think before all diseases pass the zenith, after which the decline is
+beyond the vital rally, they are curable by the genius of nature's own
+remedies, and believe the truths of this conclusion have been supported
+abundantly by daily demonstrations. I believe there is hope for the
+consumptive equal to one-half if not greater when taken in proper time,
+which is at any period of the disease, previous to breaking down by
+ulceration or otherwise, lung tissue, and even after this period, hope
+is not altogether lost.
+
+
+EVIDENCES OF TRUTH.
+
+Nature and good sense are terms that mean much to persons who are used
+to set aside all else for facts. A fact may and often does stay before
+our eyes for all time powerful in truth, but we heed not its lessons.
+Instances, at least a few, would not be amiss at this time. Electricity,
+the most powerful force known, was never able with all its works to get
+the attention of man's thoughts, more than to call it thunder and
+lightning, and let it pass from his mind from time to time, till
+brighter ages woke up a Franklin, Edison, Morse and others who heeded
+its useful lessons enough to make application of its powers for its
+force and speed. By the results obtained, they and others have used its
+powers and gotten truths as rewards, that they did not know even existed
+in or out of electricity or in any of the store-houses of all nature.
+But as the winds of time have blown open a few leaves of nature's book,
+and their brilliant pages and useful lessons have found a lodging place
+in such persons as were endowed with wisdom to see, and patience to
+persevere, by their energy and wisdom to-day we have many pages to add
+to our books of useful knowledge. We can now talk around and all over
+the earth by the power of the dreaded thunder and lightning. By it we
+travel, by it we see at night, by it we search on land and sea for
+friend or foe; in fact, it is dreaded no more but sought, used and loved
+by all who know of its uses in civil life. Thus our enemy has become our
+footstool. By the speed of man's ability we know and use the comforts
+that nature holds in store for us until we call for and use them.
+
+Other and just as useful questions as electricity await our attention.
+Parts and uses of the human body, to-day are to us as little understood
+as electricity was at any time. The lung to-day is an unknown mystery,
+as to what its power and uses are; we only know that air goes in and out
+of the lungs; farther than that we are at sea. We have just as little
+knowledge of the heart as the lungs, we find a hollow fibrinous tank
+receiving and discharging blood; we are not prepared to say whether the
+corpuscle is formed in the heart or not; all else is conjectural and
+speculative on the subject the corpuscle. We see channels leading to and
+from it, to and from all parts of the body, muscles and glands. We know
+it moves when we are alive, we know it is silent in death.
+
+
+LOADED WITH IGNORANCE.
+
+We pass from there to the liver loaded down with ignorance, from what we
+know, cannot tell whether it is male or female, we simply know its size,
+location and something of its form and action, but nothing beyond
+conjecture. It stands to-day one of the wonders to him that tries to
+reason.
+
+
+LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE KIDNEY.
+
+We will leave this organ of many pounds with an open confession of our
+ignorance and take up the kidney. At what time was the man and woman
+born that knew and left on record a true and reliable knowledge of the
+renal capsule. We do not know whether that is the organ that makes our
+teeth, our hair or generates a powerful acid by which lime is kept in
+solution, so as not to form stones and such deposits.
+
+
+HOW A PURGATIVE ACTS.
+
+Nature's method is simple and easily comprehended in delivering
+purgative medicines, with their softening powers to dry constipated
+fecal matter. For instance: We would give a purgative in the shape of
+salts, rhubarb, calomel and other substances of choice. The first
+question of the physician is how is this to pass through so densely
+packed substance or fecal matter which is in the bowels? At this time we
+will be short in the statement. The purgative poisons are taken up by
+the the secretions conveyed to the lymphatics. To soften and wash out is
+the object of nature. The lymphatics begin the work of washing out by
+starting action of the excretories and furnishes the water to soften,
+which is injected into the bowels from the mouth to the extremities by a
+system of salivation.
+
+
+FLUX (BLOODY DYSENTERY.)
+
+Flux is common in all temperate climates. It generally shows its true
+nature as dysentery after a few hours of tiresome feeling, aching in
+head, back and bowels. At first nothing is felt or thought of more than
+a few movements of the bowels than is common for each day. Some pain and
+griping are felt with increase at each stool, until a chilly feeling is
+felt all over the body, with violent pains in lower bowels, with
+pressing desire to go to stool, and during and after passage of stool a
+feeling that there is still something in the bowels that must pass. Soon
+that down pressure partially subsides, and on examination of passage a
+quantity of blood is seen which shows the case is bloody flux, as the
+disease is called and known in the southern states of North America, or
+bloody dysentery in the more northern states. It generally subsides by
+the use of family remedies, such as sedatives, astringents, and
+palliative diets. But the severity in other cases increases and the
+discharges have more blood, greater pain, mixed with gelatinous
+substance even to mucous membrane of bowels, high fever all over except
+abdomen, which is quite cold to the hand. Back, head and limbs suffer
+much with heat and pain, and much nausea is felt at all motions of
+bowels. Bowels change from cold to hot, even to 104, at which time all
+symptoms point to inflammation of the bowels. The colon in particular,
+at which time discharge grows black, frothy and very offensive from
+decomposition of blood. Soon collapse and death close out the case,
+notwithstanding the very best skill has been employed to save the life
+of the patient. The doctor has tried to stop pain by opiates and other
+sedatives, tried to check bowels with astringents, used tonics and
+stimulants, but all have failed, the patient is dead.
+
+
+HOW DOES THE OSTEOPATH CURE?
+
+But the question for the Osteopath is: At what point would you work to
+suppress the sensation of the colon and permit veins to open and allow
+blood to return to heart? Does irritation of a sensory nerve cause vein
+to contract and refuse blood to complete circuit from and to the heart?
+Does flux begin with the sensory nerves of bowels? If so, reduce
+sensation at all points connecting with bowels, stop all overplus, keep
+veins free and open from cutaneous to deep sensory ganglion of whole
+spine and abdomen. Remember the fascia is what suffers and dies in all
+cases of death by bowels and lungs. Thus the nerves of all the fascia of
+bowels and abdomen must work or you may lose all cases of flux, for in
+the fascia exists much of the soothing and vital qualities of nature.
+Guard it well, so it can work to repair all losses or death will begin
+in fascia and through pass it to the whole system.
+
+
+FLUX MORE FULLY DESCRIBED.
+
+"Bloody flux" is a flow of blood with other fluids from the mucous
+membrane of the bowels. A disease generally of the summer and fall
+seasons, and is more abundant south than north of latitude 40 deg. of
+North America. It is so well known in this country by its ravages that to
+describe it is almost useless, as bloody fluids pass from bowels in all
+cases.
+
+We reason that the veins have contracted by nerve irritation and fail to
+convey blood to heart on normal time. By which delay decomposition does
+its work. Thus a cause is seen for excreting fluids by motor action of
+bowels, when supplied by the excretory system.
+
+
+OSTEOPATHIC REMEDIES.
+
+An Osteopath to successfully treat flux or bloody dysentery must reason
+and address his attention first to the soreness and irritation of
+bowels, which he finds suffering with oedema of mucous membrane of all
+the glands and blood vessels belonging to the lower bowels. As quiet is
+the first thing desired, he will direct his attention to the sensory
+nerves of the colon and small intestines, in order to reduce the
+resistance of the veins and diminish the arterial action. When he has
+diminished sensation of the veins of the bowels, the arterial force
+completes its circuit through the veins back to the heart, with much
+less arterial action, because venous resistance has ceased and the
+circuit is normal, and healthy action is the result.
+
+
+MEDICAL REMEDIES.
+
+The medicine man addresses his remedies first to the misery, with the
+desire to relax the nerves and overcome pain, and obtains this result
+through some class of opiates. After a short rest he addresses his
+attention to the motor action of the heart, with the view of giving
+arteries greater power to force arterial blood through all obstructions,
+and tries to stop all excretory wastings by the use of astringents
+combined with sedatives and soothing fluids.
+
+
+MORE OF THE OSTEOPATHIC REMEDY.
+
+The Osteopath will govern sensory and motor nerves by digital
+suspension of the abnormal irritability of the sensory nerves on the
+various parts of the spine as indicated by the disease.
+
+He uses no injections for the bowels for the reason that the necessary
+fluids naturally flow into the bowels to lubricate and quiet, and
+proceed at once to repair all irritated surfaces, which is abundantly
+supplied by nature from the mouth of the sphincter ani, without which
+forethought and preparation, nature's God will prove his incompetency
+for the great battle of life.
+
+You administer medicines from the chemistry of the arts by mouth,
+injection and otherwise. We adjust the machinery and depend upon
+nature's chemical laboratory for all elements necessary to repair, give
+ease and comfort, while nature's corpuscles do all the work necessary.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+THE BLOOD.
+
+     Uses for Fluids--Blood an Unknown Fluid--Harvey Only Reached the
+     Banks of the River of Life--Blood Is Systematically
+     Furnished--Fatality of Ignorance--To Find the Cause Must Be
+     Honest--Following Arteries and Nerves--Feeding the Nerves--The
+     Blood on Its Journey--Powers Necessary to Move Blood--Venous Blood
+     Suspended.
+
+
+USES FOR FLUIDS.
+
+If a thousand kinds of fluids exist in our bodies a thousand uses
+require their help, or they would not appear. Thus to know how and why
+they help in the economy of life is the study of he who acts only when
+he knows at what places each must appear, and fill the part and use for
+which it is designed. If the demand for a substance is absolute its
+chance to act and answer that call and obey such command must not be
+hindered while in preparation, nor on its journey to local destination,
+for by its power all action may depend. Thus blood, albumen, gall,
+acids, alkalies, oils, brain fluid and other substances formed by
+associations while in physiological processes of formation must be on
+time in place and measured abundantly, that the biogenic laws of nature
+can have full power with time to act, and material in abundance and of
+kinds to suit. Thus all things else may be in place in ample quantities
+and fail because the power is withheld and no action for want of brain
+fluids with its power to vivify all animated nature which have followed
+any fluid found in the body, and followed it from formation to use and
+exhaustion step by step until he knows what form a union with one or
+many kinds. Thus we can do no more than feed and trust the laws of life
+as nature gives them to man. We must arrange our bodies in such true
+lines that ample nature can select and associate by its definite
+measures, weights and choices of kinds, that which can make all fluids
+needed for our bodily uses, from the crude blood to the active flames of
+life, as seen when marshalled for the duties of that stands and obey the
+edicts of the mind of the infinite.
+
+
+BLOOD AN UNKNOWN FLUID.
+
+Blood is an unknown red or black fluid, found inside of the human body,
+in tubes, channels or tunnels. What it is, how it is made, and what it
+does after it leaves the heart in the arteries, before it returns to the
+heart through the veins, is one of the mysteries of animal life. It has
+been tried to be analyzed to know of what it is composed, and when done,
+we know but little more of what it really is, than we know what sulphur
+is made of. We know it is a colored fluid, and it is in all parts of the
+flesh and bone. We know it builds up heaps of flesh, but how, is the
+question that leads us to honor the unknowable law of life, by which it
+does the work of its mysterious construction of all forms found in the
+parts of man. In all our efforts to learn what it is, what it is made
+of, and what enters it as life and gives it the building powers with
+that intelligence it displays in building, that we see in daily
+observation, is to us such an incomprehensible wonder, that with the
+"sacred writers" we are constrained to say, Great is the mystery of
+"Godliness." I dislike to say we know but very little about the blood,
+"in fact, nothing at all," but such is the truth under oath. We cannot
+make one drop of blood because of our ignorance of the laws of its
+production. If we knew what its components were, we would soon build
+large machinery, make and have blood for sale in quantities to suit the
+purchaser. But alas! we cannot with all the combined intelligence of
+man, make one drop of blood, because we do not know what it is. Then, as
+its production is by the skill of a foreigner whose education has grown
+to suit the work, we must silently sit by and willingly receive the work
+when handed out for use by the producer. At this point I will say that
+an intelligent Osteopath is willing to be governed by the immutable
+laws of nature, and feel that he is justified to pass the fluid on from
+place to place and trust results.
+
+
+HARVEY ONLY REACHED THE BANKS OF THE RIVER OF LIFE.
+
+When Harvey solved by his powers of reason a knowledge of the
+circulation of the blood, he only reached the banks of the river of
+life. He saw that the heads and mouths of the rivers of blood begin and
+end in the heart, to do the mysterious works of constructing man. Then
+he went into camp and left this compound for other minds to speculate
+on, of the how it was made, of what composed, and how it became a medium
+of life which sustains all beings. He saw the genius of nature had
+written its wisdom and will of life, by the red ink of all truth.
+
+
+BLOOD IS SYSTEMATICALLY FURNISHED.
+
+Blood is systematically furnished from the heart to all divisions of our
+bodies. When we go any course from the heart we will find one or more
+arteries leaving heart. If we go toward the head, we find caroted,
+cervical and vertebral arteries in pairs, large enough to supply blood
+abundantly for bone, brain, and muscle. That blood builds all the brain,
+all the bone, nerves, muscles, glands, membranes, fascia and skin. Then
+we see wisdom just as much in the venous system, as in the arterial.
+Thus the arteries supply all demands, and the veins carry away all
+waste material, with returning blood of veins. We find building and
+healthy renovation are united in a perpetual effort to construct and
+sustain purity. In these two are the facts and truths of life and
+health. If we go to any other part or organ of the body, we find just
+the same law of supply, arteries first, then renovation, beginning with
+the veins. The rule of artery and vein is universal in all living
+beings, and the Osteopath must know that, and abide by its rulings, or
+he will not succeed as a healer. Place him in open combat with fevers of
+winter or summer and he saves, or loses, his patients, just in
+proportion to his ability to sustain the artery to feed, and the veins
+to purify by taking away the dead substances before they ferment, in the
+lymphatics and cellular system. He shows just the same stupidity and
+ignorance of support from arteries and purity by the veins when he fails
+to cure erysipelas, flux, pneumonia, croup, scarlet fever, diphtheria,
+measles, mumps, rheumatism, and on to all diseases of climate and
+seasons.
+
+
+FATALITY OF IGNORANCE.
+
+It is ignorance and inattention to the arteries to supply and the veins
+to carry away all deposits before they form tumors in lungs, abdomen or
+any part of the system. Thus man's ignorance of how and why the blood
+renovates and why tumors are formed, has allowed the knife to be found
+in the belts of so many doctors to-day. On this law Osteopathy has
+successfully stood and cured more than any school of cures, and has
+sustained all its diplomates financially and otherwise. I write this
+article on blood for the student of Osteopathy. I want him to put nature
+to a test of its merit, and know if it is a law equal to all demands. If
+not, he is very much and seriously limited when he goes into war with
+diseases. What is to be understood by "Disease?"[5]
+
+[Footnote 5: DISEASE. 1. "Lack of ease. 2. An alteration in the state of
+the body, or some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the
+performance of the vital functions and causing or threatening pain and
+weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disease;
+disorder."--Webster's International Dictionary.]
+
+When we use the word "disease," we mean anything that makes an unnatural
+showing in the body by pain, overgrowth of muscle; gland; organ;
+physical pain; numbness; heat; cold; or anything that we find not
+necessary to life and comfort. I have no wish to rob surgery of its
+useful claims, and its scientific merits to suffering man and beast.
+Such is not my object, but to place the Osteopath's eye of reason on the
+hunt of the great whys that the knife is useful at all, I am sure it
+comes often to remove growths and diseased flesh and bone that have
+gotten so by man's ignorance of a few great truths. 1st, If blood is
+allowed to be taken to a gland or organ, and not taken away in due time
+the accumulation will become bulky enough to stop the excretory nerves
+and cause local paralysis; then the nutrient nerves proceed to construct
+tumors, and on and on until there is no relief but the knife or death.
+Had this blood not been conveyed there, it would not be there at all,
+either in bulk or less quantities. Had it simply done its work and
+passed on we could have no material to grow such abnormal beings. If a
+tumefaction appears in one side, and not in the other, why so? and why
+is there no growth in one side the same as the other? It takes no great
+effort of mind to see that the veins did not receive and carry off the
+blood, and a growth was natural, as the condition could not do otherwise
+and be true to nature. Thus man's ignorance has made a condition for the
+knife. Had he taken the hint and let the blood pass on when its work was
+done, he would not have to witness the guillotine of death to his
+patients, whose early pains told him a renal vein or some vessel below
+the diaphragm was ligated by an impacted colon, or a few ribs pulling
+and bringing diaphragm down across vena cava and thoracic duct and
+causing excitement or paralysis of solar plexus, or any other nerves
+that pass through diaphragm with blood to and from heart and lungs.
+
+
+TO FIND THE CAUSE.
+
+How to find causes of diseases or where a hindrance is located that
+stops blood is a great mental worry to the Osteopath when he is called
+to treat a patient. The patient tells him "where he hurts," how much "he
+hurts," how long "he has hurt," how hot or cold he is. The doctor puts
+this symptom and that symptom in a column, adds them up according to the
+latest books on symptomatology, finally he is able to guess at some name
+to call the disease. Then he proceeds and treats as his pap's father
+heard his granny say their old family doctor treated "them sort of
+diseases in North Carolina." An Osteopath feels bad to have to hunt
+cause for diseases, and not know how to start out to find the mechanical
+cause. He feels that the people expect more than guessing of an
+Osteopath. He feels that he must put his hand on the cause and prove
+what he says by what he does, that he will not get off by the feeble
+minded trash of stale habits that go with doctors of medicine, and by
+his knowledge he must show his ability to go beyond the musty bread of
+symptomatology and water his patients made, from the cider of the ripe
+apples from the tree of knowledge.
+
+
+MUST BE HONEST.
+
+An Osteopath should be a clear-headed, conscientious, truth loving man,
+and never speak until he knows he has found and can demonstrate the
+truth he claims to know.
+
+
+FOLLOWING ARTERIES AND NERVES.
+
+I understand anatomy and physiology after fifty years casual and close
+attention, the last twenty years being very continued and close
+attention to what has been said, by all the best writers whom I have
+perused, many of whom are considered standard guides for the student and
+practitioner to be governed by. I have dissected and witnessed the very
+best anatomists that the world affords dissect. I have followed the
+knife after arteries through the whole distribution of blood of arterial
+systems, to the great and small vessels, until the lenses of the most
+powerful microscopes seemed to exhaust their ability to perceive the
+termination of the artery; with the same care following the knife and
+microscope from nerve center to terminals of the large to the infinitely
+small fibers around which those fine nerve vines entwine. First like a
+bean entwining by way of the right around and up continuing to the
+right, and then turn my microscope to the entwining of another set of
+nerves which is to the left universally as the hop. Those nerves are
+solid, cylindrical and stratified in form, with many leading from the
+lymphatics to the artery, and to the red and white muscles, fascia,
+cellular-membrane, striated and unstriated organs, all connecting to and
+traveling with the artery, and continuing with it through its whole
+circuit from start to terminals.
+
+
+FEEDING THE NERVES.
+
+Like a thirsty herd of camels, the whole nerve system, sensory, motor,
+nutrient, voluntary and involuntary; this herd of sappers or hungry
+nerves seems to be in sufficient quantities and numbers to consume all
+blood and cause the philosopher to ask the question: "Is not the labor
+of the artery complete when it has fed the hungry nerves?" Is he not
+justified in the conclusion that the nerves do gestate and send forth
+all substances that are applied by nature in the construction of man? If
+this philosophy be true, then he who arms himself for the battles of
+Osteopathy when combating diseases, has a guide and a light whereby he
+can land safely in port from every voyage.
+
+
+THE BLOOD ON ITS JOURNEY.
+
+Turn the eye of reason to the heart and observe the blood start on its
+journey. It leaves in great haste and never stops even in the smaller
+arteries. It is all in motion and very quick and powerful at all
+places. Its motion indicates no evidence of construction even supposable
+during such time, but we can find in the lymphatics, cells or pockets,
+motion slow enough to suppose that in such cells, living beings can be
+formed and carried to their places by the lymphatics for the purposes
+they must fill, as bone, or muscle. Let us reason that blood has a great
+and universal duty to perform, if it constructs, nourishes, and keeps
+the whole nerve system normal in form and function.
+
+
+POWERS NECESSARY TO MOVE BLOOD.
+
+As blood and other fluids of life are ponderable bodies of different
+consistences, and are moved through the system to construct, purify,
+vitalize and furnish power necessary to keep the machinery in action, we
+must reason on the different powers necessary to move those bodies
+through arteries, veins, ducts, over nerves, spongy membranes, fascia,
+muscles, ligaments, glands and skin; and judge from their unequal
+density, and adjust force to meet the demand according to kinds, to be
+sent to and from all parts.
+
+
+VENOUS BLOOD SUSPENDED.
+
+Suppose venous blood to be suspended by cold or other causes in the
+lungs to the amount of oedema of the fascia, another mental look would
+see the nerves of the fascia of the lungs in a high state of
+excitement, cramping fascia on veins which is bound to stop flow of
+blood to heart. No blood can pass through a vein that is closed by
+resistance, nor can it ever do it until resistance is suspended. Thus
+the cause of nerve irritation must be found and removed before the
+channels can relax and open sufficiently to admit the passage of the
+fluids being obstructed. And in order to remove this obstructing cause,
+we must go to the nerve supply of the lungs, or any other part of the
+body, and direct our attention to the cause of the nerve excitement, and
+that only; and prosecute the investigation to a finish. If the breathing
+be too fast and hurried, address your attention to the motor nerves,
+then to the sensory, for through them you regulate and reduce the
+excitement of the motor nerves of the arteries. As soon as sensation is
+reduced the motor and sensory circuit is completed and the labor of the
+artery is less, because of venous resistance having been removed. The
+circuit of electricity is complete as proven by the completed arterial
+and venous circuit for the reduction of motor irritation. The high
+temperature disappears because distress gives place to the normal, and
+recovery is the result.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+THE FASCIA.
+
+     Where Is Disease Sown?--An Illustration of Conception--The Greatest
+     Problem--A Fountain of Supply--Fascia Omnipresent--Connection with
+     Spinal Cord--Goes With and Covers All Muscles--Proofs in
+     Contagion--Study of Nerves and Fascia--Tumefy--Tumefaction.
+
+
+WHERE DISEASE IS SOWN.
+
+Disease is evidently sown as atoms of gas fluids, or solids. A suitable
+place is necessary first to deposit the active principle of life, be
+that what it may. Then a responsive kind of nourishment must be obtained
+by the being to be developed. Thus we must find in animals that part of
+the body that can assist by action and by qualified food to develop the
+being in foetal life. Reason calls the mind to the rule of man's
+gestative life first, and as a basis of thought, we look at the
+quickening atom, the coming being, when only by the aid of a powerful
+microscope can we see the vital germ. It looks like an atom of white
+fibrin or detached particle of fascia. It leaves one parent as an atom
+of fascia, and to live and grow, must dwell among friendly surroundings,
+and be fed by such food as contains albumen, fibrin and lymph; also the
+nerve generating power and qualities, as it then and there begins to
+construct a suitable form in which to live and flourish. And as the
+fascia is the best suited with nerves, blood, and white corpuscles, it
+is but reasonable to look for the part that is composed of the greatest
+per cent of fascia, and expect it, the germ, to dwell there for support
+and growth.
+
+
+AN ILLUSTRATION OF CONCEPTION.
+
+When you follow the germ from father until it has left his system of
+fascia, we find it flourishing in the womb, which organ is almost a
+complete being of itself. The center, origin, and mother of all fascias.
+It there dwells and grows to birth, and appears as a completed being, a
+product of the life giving powers of the fascia.
+
+With this foundation established we think we prove conception, growth,
+and cause of all diseases to be in the fascia.
+
+As this philosophy has chosen the fascia as a foundation on which to
+stand, we hope the reader will chain his patience for a few minutes on
+the subject of the fascia, and its relation to vitality. It stands
+before the philosopher as one of, if not the deepest living problems
+ever brought before the mind of man.
+
+We will ask your attention in the attached effort to describe the fascia
+at greater length: It being that principle that sheathes, permeates,
+divides and sub-divides every portion of all animal bodies; surrounding
+and penetrating every muscle and all its fibers--every artery, and every
+fiber and principle thereunto belonging, and grows more wonderful as
+your eye is turned upon the venous system with its great company of
+lymphatics, which supplies the water of life, used to reduce too heavily
+thickened blood of the veins, as it approaches the heart on its journey,
+to be renewed after purification and thrown back into the arteries to
+patrol, nourish and supply from headquarters to the videts of this great
+moving army of life, the substance of which we are now speaking.
+
+
+THE GREATEST PROBLEM.
+
+The fascia is universal in man and equal in self to all other parts, and
+stands before the world to-day the greatest problem, the most pleasing
+thought. It carries to the mind of the philosopher the evidence,
+absolute, that it is the "material man," and the dwelling place his of
+spiritual being. It is the house of God, the dwelling place of the
+Infinite so far as man is concerned. It is the fort which the enemy of
+life takes by conquest through disease and winds up the combat and
+places thereon the black flag of "no quarters." That enemy is sure to
+capture all forts known as human beings at some time, although the
+engagement may last for many years. Procrastination of surrender can
+only be obtained by giving timely support to the supply of nourishment,
+with an unobstructed condition, kept up in favor of the nerves
+interested in the renewal of the human system, that powerful life force
+that is bequeathed to man and all other beings, and acts through the
+fascia of man and beast.
+
+
+A FOUNTAIN OF SUPPLY.
+
+The fascia gives one of, if not the greatest problems to solve as to the
+part it takes in life and death. It belts each muscle, vein, nerve, and
+all organs of the body. It is almost a network of nerves, cells and
+tubes, running to and from it; it is crossed and filled with, no doubt,
+millions of nerve centers and fibers to carry on the work of secreting
+and excreting fluid vital and destructive. By its action we live, and by
+its failure we shrink, or swell, and die. Each muscle plays its part in
+active life. Each fiber of all muscles owes its pliability to that
+yielding septum-washer, that gives all muscles help to glide over and
+around all adjacent muscles and ligaments, without friction or jar. It
+not only lubricates the fibers but gives nourishment to all parts of
+the body. Its nerves are so abundant that no atom of flesh fails to get
+nerve and fluid supply therefrom.
+
+
+FASCIA OMNIPRESENT.
+
+This life is surely too short to solve the uses of the fascia in animal
+forms. It penetrates even its own finest fibers to supply and assist its
+gliding elasticity. Just a thought of the completeness and universality
+in all parts, even though you turn the visions of your mind to follow
+the infinitely fine nerves. There you see the fascia, and in your wonder
+and surprise, you exclaim, "Omnipresent in man and all other living
+beings of the land and sea."
+
+Other great questions come to haunt the mind with joy and admiration,
+and we can see all the beauties of life on exhibition by that great
+power with which the fascia is endowed. The soul of man with all the
+streams of pure living water seems to dwell in the fascia of his body.
+
+Does it not throw hot shot and shells of thought into man's famishing
+chamber of reason; to feel that he has seen by thought the frame work of
+life the dwelling place on which life sojourns? He feels that he can
+find all disturbing causes of life, the place that diseases germinate
+and grow, the seeds of disease and death.
+
+
+CONNECTION WITH THE SPINAL CORD.
+
+As life finds its general nutrient law in the fascia and its nerves, we
+must connect them to the great source of supply by a cord running the
+length of the spine, by which all nerves are supplied by the brain. The
+cord throws out and supplies millions of nerves by which all organs and
+parts are supplied with the elements of motion, all go to and terminate
+in that great system, the fascia.
+
+As we dip our cups deeper and deeper into the ocean of thought we feel
+that the solution of life and health is close to the field of the
+telescope of our mental search lights, and soon we will find the road to
+health so plainly written that the wayfaring man cannot err though he be
+a fool.
+
+
+GOES WITH AND COVERS ALL MUSCLES.
+
+As the student of anatomy explores the subject under his knife and
+microscope he easily finds this membrane goes with and covers all
+muscles, tendons and fibers, and separates them even to the least fiber.
+All organs have a covering of this substance, though they may have names
+to suit the organs, surfaces or parts spoken of.
+
+We write much of the universality of the fascia to impress the reader
+with the idea that this connecting substance must be free at all parts
+to receive and discharge all fluids, if healthy to appropriate and use
+in sustaining animal life, and eject all impurities that health may not
+be impaired by the dead and poisoning fluids. Thus a knowledge of the
+universal extent of the fascia is almost imperative, and is one of the
+greatest aids to the person who seeks cause of disease. He of all men
+should know more of the fascia, and when disease is local or general.
+That the fascia and its nerves demand his attention first, and on his
+knowledge of the same, much of his success, and the life of his patients
+do depend.
+
+Will the student of Osteopathy stop just a moment and see his medical
+cotemporary plow the skin with the needle of his hypodermic syringe. He
+drives it into and unloads his morphine and other poisonous drugs under
+the skin, and into the very center of the nerves of the superficial
+fascia. He produces paralysis of all nerves by this method, just as
+certainly as if he had put his poison in the cerebellum, but not so
+certain to produce instantaneous death as to unload in the brain. But if
+he is faithfully ignorant, he will kill just as certainly at one place
+as the other, because the poisonous effects can be easily taken to every
+fiber of the whole body by the nerves and fibers of the fascia.
+
+When you deal with the fascia you deal and do business with the branch
+offices of the brain, and under the general corporation law, the same as
+the brain itself, and why not treat it with the same degree of respect?
+
+The doctor of medicine does effectual work through the medium of the
+fascia. Why not you relax, contract, stimulate and clean the whole
+system of all diseases by that willing and sufficient power to renovate
+all parts of the system, from deadly compounds that generate through
+delay and stagnation of fluids while in the fascia.
+
+Our school is young, but the laws that govern life are as old as the
+hours of all ages. We may find much that has never been written nor
+practiced before, but all such discoveries are truths born with the
+birth of eternity, old as God and as true as life.
+
+The difference between a philosopher and a less powerful thinker is one
+observes alone, and depends on his own powers of mind to arrive at
+truth. Another lacks self confidence and mental energy.
+
+
+PROOFS IN CONTAGION.
+
+If disease is so highly attenuated, so etherial, and penetrable in
+quality, and multiple in atoms; and a breath of air two quarts or more
+taken into the lungs fully charged with contagion, how many thousand air
+cells could be impregnated by one single breath? Say we take a case of
+measles into a schoolroom of sixty pupils, in a warm and poorly
+oxygenized atmosphere all day, would not the living gas thrown off from
+active measles enter and irritate the air cells and close the most
+irritable cells with the poisonous gas retained for active development
+in those womb-like departments in the lungs.
+
+Now you have the seeds in thousands of cells, which are as vital and
+well supplied by nerves and blood as the womb itself. Would not reason
+see the development of millions more of the vital beings who get their
+nourishment from the vitality found in the human fascia, which comes
+nearer to the surface in the lungs than in any part of the system,
+except it be the womb.
+
+In proof of the certainty of measles being taken up by the lungs at one
+breath and caught by the secretions and conveyed to the universal system
+of fascia to develop the contagion, I will give the case of one of my
+boys who was sick with cold as I supposed; watering of eyes, cough,
+fever and headache. He was in the country about eight miles from home,
+and on our return stopped to get his books at a small school house. He
+ran in, picked up his books that were lying upon the desk, walked the
+length of the room which was about forty feet, was not there over
+one-half minute and in just nine days forty-two children broke out with
+measles. So certain is contagion to be taken up by the nerves and
+vitalizing fluids of the fascia.
+
+It seems that all the fascia needs to develop anything is to have the
+seed planted in its arms for construction, the work will be done,
+labeled, and handed out for inspection by the inspectors of all works.
+
+
+STUDY OF NERVES AND FASCIA.
+
+We must remember as we reason on the power of life which is located in
+the fascia, that it occupies the whole body, and should we find a local
+region that is disordered and wish to, we can relieve that part through
+that local plexus of nerves which controls that organ and division. Thus
+your attention should be directed to all nerves of that part. Sensory,
+to modify sensation, blood must not be let run to the part by wild
+motion, its flow must be gentle to suit the demands of nutrition,
+otherwise weakness takes the place of strength, then we lose the
+benefits of the nerves of nutrition, by which strength of all systems of
+force are kept in action during life.
+
+Suppose the nerves that supply the lungs with motion should stop, the
+lungs would stop also; suppose they should half stop, the lungs would
+surely half stop. Now we must reason, if we succeed in relieving lungs,
+that all kinds of nerves are found in them. The lungs move, thus you
+find motor; they have feeling, thus the sensory; they grow by nutrition,
+(thus the nutrient nerves;) they move by will, or without it; they have
+a voluntary and involuntary system; they move in sleep by the
+involuntary system.
+
+The blood supply comes under the motor system of nerves, and delivers at
+proper places for the convenience of the nerves of nutrition. The
+sensory nerves limit the supply of arterial blood to the quantity
+necessary, as the construction is going on by each successive stroke of
+the heart. They limit the action of the lungs, receive and expel air in
+quantities sufficient to keep up purity of the blood, etc. With this
+foundation we observe if too great action of the motor nerves, shows by
+breathing too often to be normal, we are admonished to reduce breathing
+by addressing attention to the sensory nerves of lungs, in order that
+the blood may pass through the veins, whose irritability has refused to
+receive the blood, farther than arterial terminals. So soon as sensation
+is reduced relaxation of nerve fibers of veins tolerates the passage of
+venous blood, which is deposited in the spongy portions of the lungs in
+such quantities as to overcome the activity of the nerves of renovation
+that accompanies the fascia in its process of ejection of all fluids
+that have been detained an abnormal time, first in the region of the
+fascia, then in the arterial and venous circulation. Thus you see what
+must be done. The veins as channels must carry away all blood as soon as
+it has deposited its nutrient supplies to the places for which it is
+constructed, otherwise, by delay vitality by asphyxia is lost to the
+blood which calls a greater force of the arterial pumps to drive the
+blood through the parts, ruptures its capillaries and deposits the blood
+in the mucous membrane; until nerves of the fascia becomes powerless by
+surrounding pressure, which causes through the sensory nerves an
+irritability at the heart, which puts in force all its powers of motion.
+
+
+TUMEFY, TUMEFACTION.
+
+Webster's definition of tumefaction is to swell by any fluids or solids
+being detained abnormally at any place in the body.
+
+The location may be in, or on any part of the system. No part is exempt;
+even the brain, heart, lungs, liver, stomach and bowels, bladder,
+kidneys, uterus, lymphatics, glands, nerves, veins, arteries, skin and
+all membranes are subject to swellings locally or generally, and with
+equal certainty they perish and shrink away. If either condition should
+exist death to the parts or all of the body will occur from want of
+nutrition. Instance, in lung fever which begins when swelling is
+established in lymphatics of lungs, trachea, nostrils, throat and face.
+At once you see the pressure on the nerve fibers compressed to such
+degree that they cannot operate excretories of lungs or any part of the
+pulmonary, system. Veins, suspended by irritation of the nerves,
+arteries are excited to fever heat in action with increase of
+tumefaction. A tumefying condition undoubtedly marks the beginning of
+all catarrhal diseases. Its ravages extend to the diseases of the fall
+and winter seasons. They are so marked on examination that the most
+skeptical cannot dispute or doubt the truth of this position. In fact he
+is already committed to a belief that there is something in the fluids
+that he must purify by the chemical process of drugs.
+
+
+MEDICAL DOCTOR'S TREATMENT.
+
+He looks on, and treats winter diseases with powerful purgatives,
+sweats, blisters, hot and cold applications with a view to remove
+congesting fluids. He is not very certain which team of medical power he
+can depend on. He hitches up many kinds of drugs hoping that a few of
+them may be able to carry the burden. He bridles his horses with opium,
+loads them down with purgative powders, and whips them through with
+castor oil, and for fear they will not travel fast enough he uses as a
+spur a delicately formed instrument known as the hypodermic syringe. He
+punches and prods until his horses fall exhausted. Disease and death
+should give him a large pension for the assistance he has rendered in
+their service. All is guess work whose father and mother are "Tradition
+and Ignorance." Ignorance of the kind that is wholly inexcusable to
+anyone but a medical doctor. An Osteopath who does not understand the
+general law of tumefaction of the whole system is not excusable from the
+fact that tumefaction, disease and death are so plainly written on the
+face of all diseases that the blind need not have eyes to see, nor the
+philosopher any brain to enable him to know this foundation is the
+highest known truth of all man's intellectual possessions. Thus by the
+law of tumefaction, death can and does succumb to its indomitable will.
+Observations without record will show any fair minded person that
+tumefaction does cause death in the majority of cases. But another power
+is equally as effective in destruction of life which is just the reverse
+of tumefaction. It destroys by withholding nutrition and all of the
+fluids; the effect is starvation, shrinkage and death. Thus you see it
+is equally certain in results. In the one case death ensues from an
+overplus of unappropriated fluids of nutrition, in the other there is no
+appropriation to sustain animal life and the patient dies from
+starvation. The same law holds good in the parts as well as in the whole
+body.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI.
+
+FEVERS.
+
+     Be Armed With Facts--Union of Human Gases With Oxygen--Fever and
+     Nettle-rash. Nature Constructs for a Wise Purpose--Processes of
+     Life Must be Kept in Motion--No Satisfaction from Authors--Animal
+     Heat--Semeiology--Symptomatology--Definition of Fever--Fevers only
+     Effects--Result of Stoppages of Vein or Artery--Aneurisms.
+
+
+BE ARMED WITH FACTS.
+
+When we reason for causes we must begin with facts, and hold them
+constantly in line for action, and use, all the time. It would be good
+advice never to enter a contest without your saber is of the purest
+steel of reason. By such only can you cut your way to the magazine of
+truth.
+
+As we line up to learn something of the cause of fever, we are met by
+heat, a living fact. Does that put the machinery of your mind in motion?
+If not, what will arouse your mental energy? You see that heat is not
+like cold. It is not a horse with eyes, head, neck, body, limbs and
+tail; but it is as much of a being as the horse; it is a being of heat.
+If cause made the horse, and cause made the heat, why not devote all
+energy in seeking for cause in all disturbances of life?
+
+
+UNION OF HUMAN GASES WITH OXYGEN.
+
+Who says heat is not a union of the human gases with oxygen and other
+substances as they pass out of the excretory system. By what force do
+parts of the engine of life move? If by the motor power of electricity,
+how fast must the heart or life current run to ignite the gasolene of
+the body and set a person on fire and burn to fever heat?
+
+If we know anything of the laws of electricity, we must know velocity
+modulates its temperature. Thus heat and cold are the effect.
+
+If we understand anatomy as we should, we know man is the greatest
+engine ever produced, complete in form, an electro-magnet, a motor, and
+would be incomplete if it could not burn its own gases.
+
+When man, is said to have fever, he is only on "fire," to burn out the
+deadly gases, which a perverted, dirty, abnormal, laboratory, has
+allowed to accumulate by friction of the journals of his body, or in the
+supply of vital fluids. We are only complete when normal in all
+parts,--a true compass points to the normal only.
+
+When reasoning on the fever subject would it not be strictly in line to
+suppose that the lowest perceptible grade of fever requires a less
+additional physical energy to remove some foreign body from the person,
+that at first would naturally show a very light effect upon the human
+system, which would be the effect of itchy sensation.
+
+
+FEVER AND NETTLE-RASH.
+
+Let us stop and reason. Might this effect (itching) not come from
+obstructed gases that flow through and from the skin? If gas should be
+detained in the system by the excretory ducts the substance closing the
+porous system would cause irritation of nerves, and increase the heart's
+action to such degree that the temperature is raised to fever heat, by
+the velocity with which electricity is brought into action. Electricity
+being the force that is naturally required to contract muscles and force
+gases from the body.
+
+Let us advance higher in the scale of foreign bodies until we arrive to
+the condition of steam, which is more dense than gas. Would it not take
+more force to discharge it? By the same rule of reasoning we find water
+to be much thicker as an element than either gas or steam.
+
+Then we have lymph as another element, albumen, fibrin, with all the
+elements found in arterial and venous blood, all of which forces
+required to circulate, pass through and out of the system, must be
+increased to suit. Therefore we are brought to this conclusion, that the
+different degrees of temperature do mark the density of the fluids with
+which the motor engine has to contend.
+
+If gas produces an itching sensation, would it not be reasonable to
+suppose that the consistence of lymph would cause elevations on the
+skin, such as nettle-rash.
+
+If this method of reasoning sustains us thus far, why not argue that
+albumen obstructed while in the system of the fascia would require a
+much greater force to put it through the skin. The excretions of the
+body would cause a much greater heat to even throw the albumen as far as
+the cuticle.
+
+If a greater, with a greater velocity, why not grant to this as cause of
+the disturbance of motor energy equal to measles. Let us add to this
+albumen a quantity of fibrin, have we not cause to expect the energy
+hereby required to be equal to that nerve and blood energy found in
+smallpox?
+
+If this be true, have we not a foundation in truth on which to base our
+conclusions? That the difference in forces manifested is the resistance
+offered by the difference in the consistence of devitalized fluids which
+the nerves and fibers of the fascia labor to excrete.
+
+
+NATURE CONSTRUCTS TO SUIT A WISE PURPOSE.
+
+By close observation the philosopher who is hunting to acquaint himself
+with the laws of cause and effect, finds upon his voyages as an
+explorer, that nature as cause does construct for wise purposes; and
+shows as much wisdom in the construction and preparation of all bodies,
+beings and worlds, as the workings of those beings show when in action.
+
+As life, the highest known principle sent forth by nature to vivify,
+construct and govern all beings, it is expected to be the indweller and
+operator, and one of the greatest perceivable and universal laws of
+nature. And when it becomes necessary to break the friendly relation
+between life and matter, nature closes up the channels of supply.
+
+It may begin its work near the heart, at the origin of the greatest
+blood vessels, or do its work at any point. It may begin its closing
+process at the extremities of the veins or anywhere where exhausted
+vital fluids may enter for return to the heart for renewal by union with
+new material.
+
+As nature is never satisfied with incompleteness in anything, all
+interferences from whatsoever cause are sufficient for nature to call a
+halt and begin the work of excavation by bringing the necessary fluids,
+already prepared in the chemical laboratory, to dissolve and wash away
+all obstructing deposits previous to beginning the work of
+reconstruction, which is to repair all injured parts of the machinery
+if disabled by atmospheric cause, poisons, or otherwise.
+
+When nature renovates it is never satisfied to leave any obstruction in
+any part of the body. All the powers of its battery force are brought in
+line to do duty, and never stop short of completeness which ends in
+perfection.
+
+All seasons of the year come and go, and we see year in and out the
+perpetual processes of construction of one class of bodies, and the
+passing away of others.
+
+Vegetation builds forests, and cold builds mountains of ice to be
+dissolved and sent into the ocean to purify the water, and keep the
+brines from drying to powder, as salt.
+
+
+PROCESSES OF LIFE MUST BE KEPT IN MOTION.
+
+All the processes of earth-life, must be kept in perpetual motion to
+cultivate and be kept in healthy condition, or the world would wither
+and die, and go to the tombs of space, to join the funeral procession of
+other dead worlds. Thus you see all nature comes and goes by the fiat of
+wisely adjusted laws.
+
+
+NO SATISFACTION FROM AUTHORS.
+
+Read all the authors from AEsculapius to this date, and all combined
+leave the inquirers without a single fact as to the cause or causes of
+fever.
+
+One says fever may come from too much carbon. Another says chemical
+defects may be the cause.
+
+I would like to agree with some of the good men of our date or the
+ancient theorists if I could, but they, both dead and alive, are a blank
+except the tons of paper they have covered all over with conjectures,
+and closed out by the words "Perhaps so's and howevers" spoken in all
+tongues and languages on earth.
+
+All have explored for centuries for the cause of fevers, and on return
+from their multiple voyages say, we hope some day to find the cause. We
+have killed many dogs experimenting, but have failed to find the cause
+of fever.
+
+
+ANIMAL HEAT.
+
+To think of fever, we think of animal heat. By habit we want to know how
+great the heat is. We measure by a yard stick till we find we have 100
+deg., 102 deg., 104 deg., to 106 deg., at this point we stop as we find
+too many yards of red calico to suit the size of the purse of life. Which
+we think cannot consume more than 106 yards of heat. We begin to ask for
+the substances that are more powerful than fire. We try all known fire
+compounds and fail. The fire department had done faithful work, and all
+it could bring to bear on the fire. It had put on hose and steam, knocked
+shingles off and windows out, but not until the fire had ruined the house
+with all its inside and outside usefulness and beauties. Another and
+another house gets on fire and burns just as the first did. All are
+content to see the ruins and say it is the will of the Lord; never
+thinking for a moment that it was with the aid of the heart that the
+brain burned up the body.
+
+Of what use is a knowledge of anatomy to man if he overlooks cause and
+effect in the results obtained by the machinery that anatomy should
+teach? He finds each part connected to all others with the wisdom that
+has given a set of plans and specifications that are without a flaw or
+omission. The body generates its own heat and modulates to suit climate
+and season. It can generate through its electro-motor system far beyond
+the kindly normal, to the highest known fever heat, and is capable of
+modulations far above or below normal. A knowledge of Osteopathy will
+prepare you to bring the system under the rulings of the physical laws
+of life. Fever is electric heat only.
+
+
+SEMEIOLOGY.
+
+(Med.) The science of the signs or symptoms of disease.
+
+
+SYMPTOMATOLOGY.
+
+The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which
+treats of the symptoms of disease. Semeiology.
+
+These definitions are from Webster's International Dictionary,
+considered by all English speaking people as a standard authority. Both
+words are chosen names to represent that system of guess work, which is
+now and has been used as a method of ascertaining what disease is or
+might be. It is supposed to be the best method known to date to classify
+or name diseases, after which guessing begins in earnest. What kinds of
+poisons, how much and how often to use them, and guess how much good or
+how much harm is being done to the sick person.
+
+To illustrate more forcibly, to the mind of the reader that such system
+though honored by age is only worthy the name of guess work, as shown by
+the following standard authority on fevers:
+
+
+POTTER'S DEFINITION OF FEVER.
+
+"Fever is a condition in which there are present the phenomena of rise
+of temperature, quickened circulation, marked tissue change, and
+disordered secretions.
+
+"The primary cause of the fever phenomena is still a mooted (discussed
+and debated) question, and is either a disorder of the sympathetic
+nervous system giving rise to disturbances of the vaso-motor filaments,
+or a derangement of the nerve centers located adjacent to the corpus
+striatum, which have been found, by experiment, to govern the processes
+of heat production, distribution, and dissipation.
+
+"Rise of temperature is the pre-eminent feature of all fevers, and can
+only be positively determined by the use of the clinical thermometer.
+The term feverishness is used when the temperature ranges from 99 deg. to
+100 deg. fahr.; slight fever if 100 deg. or 101 deg.; moderate, 102 deg.
+or 103 deg.; high if 104 deg. or 105 deg. and intense if it exceed the
+latter. The term hyperpyrexia is used when the temperature shows a
+tendency to remain at 106 deg. fahr. and above.
+
+"Quickened circulation is the rule in fevers, the frequency usually
+maintaining a fair ratio with the increase of the temperature. A rise of
+one degree fahr. is usually attended with an increase of eight to ten
+beats of the pulse per minute.
+
+"The following table gives a fair comparison between temperature and
+pulse:--
+
+   TABLE OF DEGREES.
+
+   A temperature of 98 deg. corresponds to a pulse of 60 deg.
+          "         99 deg.       "      "      "     70 deg.
+          "        100 deg.F      "      "      "     80 deg.
+          "        101 deg.F      "      "      "     90 deg.
+          "        102 deg.F      "      "      "    100 deg.
+          "        103 deg.F      "      "      "    110 deg.
+          "        104 deg.F      "      "      "    120 deg.
+          "        105 deg.F      "      "      "    130 deg.
+          "        106 deg.F      "      "      "    140 deg.
+
+"The tissue waste is marked in proportion to the severity and duration
+of the febrile phenomena, being slight or (nil) in febricula, and
+excessive in typhoid fever.
+
+"The disordered secretions are manifested by the deficiency in the
+salivary, gastric, intestinal, and nephritic secretions, the tongue
+being furred, the mouth clammy, and there occurring anorexia, thirst,
+constipation, and scanty, high-colored acid urine."[6]
+
+[Footnote 6: What has the student gained by reading the above definition
+of this standard author and representative of present medical attainment
+but a labored effort to explain what he does not know.]
+
+
+FEVERS ONLY EFFECTS.
+
+Fevers are effects only. The cause may be far from mental conclusions.
+If we have a house with one bell, and ten wires each fastened to a door
+running to the center, all having wire connection and so arranged that
+to pull any one wire will set the bell in motion, and without an
+indicator you cannot tell which wire is disturbed, producing the effect
+or ringing of the bell at the center. An electrician would know at once
+the cause, but to discriminate and locate the wire disturbed is the
+study.
+
+Before a bell can be heard from any door, the general battery must be
+charged. Thus you see but one source of supply. To better illustrate--we
+will take a house with eight rooms, and all supplied by one battery--one
+is a reception room, one a parlor, one a sitting room, one bed room,
+one cloak room, one dining room, one a kitchen, and one a basement room,
+all having wires and bells running to one bell in the clerk's office,
+which has an indicator for each room by numbers on its face. If the
+machinery is in good order he can call and answer correctly all the time
+and never make a mistake. But should he ring to call the cook and her
+bell keep on ringing and she and clerk could not stop it, and they
+summon an electrician, what would you think if he began at the parlor
+bell to adjust a trouble of the kitchen bell? Surely you would not have
+him treat the parlor bell first, because you know the cook could only
+answer by the effect, or rattling of the office bell. Hers is cause,
+sound at office, effect. Now to apply this illustration, we will say a
+system of bells and connecting wires run to all parts or rooms of the
+body, from the battery of power or the brain, conveyed by the strings of
+wires or nerves, that are put up and run to all active or vital parts of
+the body. Thus arranged we see how blood is driven to any part of the
+system, by the power that is sent over the nerves from the brain to the
+spinal cord, and from there to all nerves of each and all divisions of
+the body. Then your blood that has done its work in constructing parts
+or all of the system, entering veins to be returned to the heart for
+renewal. Each vein, great and small, has nerves with them as servants
+of power, to force blood back to heart through the different sets of
+tubes known as veins, and made to suit the duties they have to perform
+in the process of life. As it travels to the heart with blood too thick
+to suit the lungs, the great system of lymphatics pour in water to suit
+demands, preparatory to entering the lungs to be purified and renewed.
+Thus you see nature has amply prepared all the machinery and power to
+prepare material and construct all parts, and when in normal condition
+the mind and wisdom of God is satisfied that the machine will go on and
+build and run according to the plan and specification. If this be true
+as nature proves at every point and principle, what can man do farther
+than plumb, line up, and trust to nature to get results desired, "life
+and health?" Can we add or suggest any improvement? If not, what is left
+for us to do is to keep bells, batteries and wires in normal place and
+trust to normal law as given by nature.
+
+
+RESULT OF STOPPAGE OF VEIN OR ARTERY.
+
+But few questions remain to be asked by the philosophical navigator when
+he sets sail to go to the cause of flux. Would he go to blood supply?
+Certainly, there must be supply previous to deposit. Reason would cause
+us to combine the fact that blood must be in perpetual motion from and
+to the heart during life, and that law is the fiat of all nature which
+is indispensable and absolute. Blood must not stop its motion nor be
+allowed to unduly deposit, as the heart's action is perpetual in motion.
+The work is complete of the heart if it delivers blood into the
+exploring arteries. Each division must to do its part fully as a normal
+heart does, or can in the greatest measure of health; and a normally
+formed heart is just as much interested in the blood that is running
+constantly for repairs and additions, as the whole system is on the
+arteries for supply. Thus you must have perfection in shape first, and
+from it to all parts as far as an artery reaches. All hindrances must be
+kept away from the arteries great and small. Health permits of no
+stopping of blood in either the vein or artery. If an artery cannot
+unload its consents a strain follows, and as an artery must have room to
+deposit its supplies it proceeds to build other vessels adjacent to the
+points of obstruction.
+
+
+ANEURISMS.
+
+Some are builded to enormous sizes. We call them aneurisms or
+accommodation chambers, builded by nature's constructing ability of the
+arteries as deposits for blood. The artery should pass farther on, thus
+you by reason must know an obstruction has limited the flow of blood,
+and the tumor is only an effect, and obstruction is the cause of all
+abnormal deposits, either from vein or artery. Unobstructed blood cannot
+form a tumor, nor allow inharmony to dwell in any part of the system.
+Flux is an effect, blood supply and circulation both at variation from
+normal. An artery finds veins of bowels irritated and contracted to such
+degree that arterial blood cannot enter veins with cargo of blood at
+all, and deposits its blood at terminal points in mucous membrane of
+bowels, and when membrane fails to hold all blood so delivered, then the
+first blood which dies of asphyxia finds an outlet into the bowels to be
+carried off and out by peristaltic actions. Thus you have a continuous
+deposit and discharge for arterial blood until death stops the supply.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII.
+
+SCARLET FEVER AND SMALLPOX.
+
+     As defined by Allopathy--Scarlet Fever as Defined by
+     Osteopathy--Smallpox--Power to Drive Greater Than in Measles.
+
+
+AS DEFINED BY ALLOPATHY.
+
+"Scarlet fever begins with a short period of tired feeling. A short
+period of chilly sensation, fullness of eyes and sore throat. In a few
+hours fever begins with great heat of back of head. It soon extends all
+over the body, sick stomach and vomiting generally accompany the
+disease. Rash of a red color beginning on back, and extends to throat
+and limbs. About the second or third day, the fever is very high, from
+100 deg. to 104 deg. and generally lasts to fifth and seventh day, at
+which time fever begins to diminish, with itching over the body. The
+skin at this time throws off all of the dead scales that had been red
+rash in the fore-part of the disease. Often the lining membranes of the
+mouth, throat and tonsils slough and bleed. Also pus is often formed just
+under the skin in front of the throat. Such cases usually die.[7]
+
+   ALLOPATHY."
+
+[Footnote 7: Very true, if treated by the medicine man.]
+
+
+SCARLET FEVER AS DEFINED BY OSTEOPATHY.
+
+Is a disease generally of the early spring and late fall seasons.
+Generally comes with cold and damp weathers during east winds. It begins
+with sore throat, chilly and tired feelings, followed with headache and
+vomiting. In a few hours chilly feeling leaves and fever sets in very
+high, burns your hands. The patient is rounded in chest, abdomen, face
+and limbs by congestion of the fascia and all of the lymphatic glands.
+This stagnation will soon begin its work of fermentation of the fluids
+of fascia, then you see the rash. If you do not want to see the rash and
+sloughing of throat, with a dead patient, I would advise you to train
+your guns on the blood, nerves, and lymphatics of the fascia and stop
+the cause at once, or quit.
+
+   OSTEOPATHY.
+
+
+SMALLPOX.
+
+If we give a thought to the action of the electro-motor force, we would
+be constrained to believe that a power that could drive gas through a
+body of great density, would be much less than one that could force
+lymph through the same density. The same of albumen.
+
+
+POWER TO DRIVE GREATER THAN IN MEASLES.
+
+Thus in smallpox the motor energy must be equal to the force that would
+convey albumen through all tissues. Measles would be less, and so on
+according to the thickness of the fluids present. Thus you see the power
+to drive dead fluids from fascia must be much greater in smallpox than
+in cases of measles. Then we must see why the pulse of smallpox is so
+powerful during development of the pox. After killing the fluids by
+retention in the fascia of the skin, a greater force yet is created by
+hurting nerve fibers of fascia; then the motor energy appears and all
+the powers of life go to help the arteries force fluids through the skin
+and push to and leave them in the fascia of the skin to be eliminated as
+best it can. In some parts elimination fails, such places are called
+pox. They supurate and drop out leaving a pit (the pox mark). Now had
+the nerves of the skin and fascia not been irritated to contract the
+skin against the fascia passing its dead fluids through the excretory
+ducts of the skin, we probably would have no eruption. It is not quite
+reasonable to conclude that after the heart overloads the fascia and the
+nerves lose their control by pressure of fluids, that all that is left
+is chemical action to the production of pus, which throws it out of
+fascia in intervening spaces? Then should the fascia have greater death
+of its substances, we have one spot to run into others, and we have
+"confluent smallpox."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII.
+
+A CHAPTER OF WONDERS AND SOME VALUABLE QUESTIONS.
+
+     Wonders on the Increase--What Is Life?--How Is Action
+     Produced--Acquaint Yourself With the Machinery--Duty of the
+     Osteopath--Formation of Sacrum--The Pelvis--Appearance of
+     OEdema--Do All Diseases Have Appearance in OEdema.
+
+
+WONDERS ON THE INCREASE.
+
+Wonders are daily callers, and seem greatly on the increase during the
+Eighteenth century. As we read history we learn that no one hundred
+years of the past has produced wonders in such number and variety.
+Stupid systems of government have given place to better and wiser.
+Voyages of the ocean have had months by sail reduced to days by steam.
+Journeys over land that would require six months by horse and ox, are
+now accomplished in six days by rail. Our law, medical and other schools
+of five and seven years, are now but two or three; and the graduates of
+such schools are far superior in useful knowledge to those of the five
+and seven. And no wonder at that, for the facilities for giving the
+pupil an education are so far superior that the knowledge sought, can be
+obtained in less time. Our schools are not intended to use the greatest
+number of days that are allotted to man. But at this day schooling and
+learning mean, to obtain useful knowledge in the quickest way that a
+thoroughness can be obtained. If there is any method by which arithmetic
+can be taught so as to master it in thirty days instead of thirty months
+let us have it. We want knowledge, we are willing to pay for it, we want
+all we pay for, and we want our heads kept out of the sausage-mill of
+time wasting.
+
+A great question now stands before us: What are the possibilities of
+mind to improve our methods of gaining knowledge, shorten time, and
+getting greater and better results? I am free to say the question is too
+momentous to form an answer, as each day brings a new wonder, to the man
+or woman who reasons on cause, and gives demonstrations by effects.
+
+
+WHAT IS LIFE?
+
+The philosopher who first asked that question no one knows. But all
+intelligent persons are interested in the solution of this problem, at
+least to know some tangible reason why it is called life; whether life
+is personal or so arranged that it might be called an individualized
+principle of nature.
+
+I wish to think for a time on this line, because we should make a wise
+handling of the machinery of the body.
+
+If life in man has been formed to suit the size and duties of the being;
+if life has a living and separate personage, then we should be governed
+by such reasons as would give it the greatest chance to go on with its
+labors in the bodies of man and beast.
+
+We know by experience that a spark of fire will start the principles of
+powder into motion, which, were it not stimulated by the positive
+principle of father nature, which finds this germ lying quietly in the
+womb of space, would be silently inactive for all ages, without being
+able to move or help itself, save for the motor principle of life given
+by the father of all motion.
+
+
+HOW IS ACTION PRODUCED.
+
+Right here we could and should ask the question: Is this action produced
+by electricity put in motion, or is it the active principle that comes
+as a spiritual man? If so, it is useless to try, or hope to know what
+life is in its minutia. But we do know that life can only display its
+natural forces by the visible action of the forms it produces.
+
+If we inspect man as a machine, we find a complete building, a machine
+that courts inspection and criticism. It demands a full exploration of
+all its parts with their uses. Then the mind is asked to see or find the
+connection between the physical, and the spiritual. By nature you can
+reason on the roads that the powers of life are arranged to suit its
+system of motion.
+
+If life is an individualized personage, as we might express that
+mysterious something, and it must have definite arrangements by which it
+can be united and act with matter; then we are admonished to acquaint
+ourselves with the arrangements of those natural connections, the one or
+many, as they are connected to all parts of the completed being.
+
+As motion is the first and only evidence of life, by this thought we are
+conducted to the machinery through which life works to accomplish these
+results.
+
+
+ACQUAINT YOURSELF WITH THE MACHINERY.
+
+If the brain be that division in which force is generated or stored, you
+must at all hazards acquaint yourself with that structure of this
+machine; trace the connection from brain to heart, from heart to lungs,
+and other organs that can be acted upon by the brain, whose duty may be
+to construct the fleshy and bony parts of the body. Trace from the brain
+to the chemical laboratories, and note their action as they unite and
+prepare blood and other fluids, that are used in the economy of this
+vital, self-constructing and self-moving wonder, commonly known as man;
+wherein life and matter do unite, and express their friendly relation
+one with the other; and while this relation exists we have the living
+man only, expressing and proving the relation that can exist between
+life and matter, from the lowest living atom, to the greatest worlds.
+They can only express form and action by this law. Harmony only dwells
+where obstructions do not exist.
+
+
+DUTY OF THE OSTEOPATH.
+
+The Osteopath finds here the field in which he can dwell forever. His
+duties as a philosopher admonish him, that life and matter can be
+united, and that union cannot continue with any hindrance to the free
+and absolute motion. Therefore his duty is to keep away from the track
+all that will hinder the complete passage of the forces of the nervous
+system, that by that power the blood may be delivered and adjusted, to
+keep the system in normal condition. Here is your duty; do it well, if
+you wish to succeed.
+
+
+FORMATION OF SACRUM.
+
+We believe only when we do not know. Belief and doubt are equal terms.
+If we believe the sacrum is formed by a local system, then we can or
+will have cause to believe that the rectum and colon appear after the
+outer skin is in process of forming. For want of the truths we are left
+in speculative doubt. I believe the lower bowels are formed by local
+machinery that receives and appropriates to the purpose of construction
+of such parts or organs as nature designs to be used there. If we
+dissect a chicken as soon as hatched we will find the colon beginning at
+rectum and complete in form, but not connected to the small intestines.
+
+
+THE PELVIS.
+
+To get more directly at the point I want to make I will say I have some
+reasons to believe that the lower bowels are builded from rectum to the
+vermiform appendix, by acts of pelvis. It may be well to state that I
+have seen formation of rectum and colon in the chicken, before the small
+intestines were visible at all. Then in same chicken I saw, liver, lung,
+crop and gizzard, and only one artery in the region of the small
+intestines. From this I was led to believe that the pelvis did much of
+the forming of the viscera. If so, then we could look for much relief
+through the system of the pelvis.
+
+
+APPEARANCE OF OEDEMA.
+
+OEdema is the one word that appears to be at the first showing of life
+and death in animal forms. Previous to death by general swelling of
+system, a watery swelling of fascia and lymphatics, even to those of
+nerve fibers. If a disease should destroy life by withholding all
+fluids, we can trace such cause in the beginning to a time when there
+was watery swelling of the centers of nerves of nutrition, to such
+amount as to cut off nerve supply until sensation ceased to renovate and
+keep off accumulating fluids so long that fermentation did the work of
+heating till all fluids had dried up, and the channels of supply closed
+by adhesive inflammation, and death follows by the law of general
+atrophy.
+
+
+DO ALL DISEASES HAVE BEGINNING IN OEDEMA?
+
+To assert that all diseases have their beginning in oedema may be wide
+in range, but we often find one principle to rule over much territory.
+"Instance:" Mind is the supreme ruler of all beings, from the mites of
+life to the monsters of the land and sea. Thus we see a ruling principle
+is without limit. The same of numbers. By heat all metals melt to
+fluidity; acids must have oxygen to begin as solvents in most metals. We
+only speak imperfectly of some common laws to prepare the student to
+think on the line of probabilities as I hold them out for consideration.
+Suppose we begin at the atoms of fluids such as enter to construct
+animal or vegetable forms, and pen up till decomposition begins. By
+such delay does not nature call a halt and refuse to obey the laws of
+construction and let all other supplies pile up even to death? Is not
+all this the result of oedema? OEdema surely begins with the first
+tardy atom of matter.
+
+Pneumonia begins by its oedematous accumulations of dead atoms, even
+to the death of the whole body, all having found a start in atoms only.
+
+
+QUESTIONS FOR THE OSTEOPATH.
+
+We will close this chapter by propounding a few questions which the
+Osteopath should keep in mind.
+
+Are the human and animal forms complete as working machines?
+
+Has nature furnished man with powers to make his bones; give them the
+needed shapes of durable material, strong in kind?
+
+Does a section in nature's law provide fastenings to hold these to one
+another?
+
+Then another question arises: How will this body move, and where and how
+is the force applied?
+
+Where and how is this force obtained?
+
+How is it generated and supplied to these parts of motion?
+
+What makes these muscles, ligaments, nerves, veins, arteries?
+
+Are they self-forming, or has nature prepared machinery to make them?
+
+Does animal life contain knowledge and force to construct all of the
+parts of man?
+
+Can it run the machine after it has finished it?
+
+By what power does it move?
+
+Is there a blood vessel running to all parts of this body to supply all
+these demands?
+
+If it has a battery of force, where is it?
+
+What does it use for force?
+
+Is it electricity? If so how does it collect and use this substance?
+
+How does it convey its powers to any or all places?
+
+How does the man keep warm without fire?
+
+How does he build and lose flesh all the time?
+
+Where and how is the supply made and delivered to proper places?
+
+How is it applied and what holds it to its place when adjusted?
+
+What makes it build the house of life?
+
+Do demand and supply govern the work? If not, what does?
+
+Are the laws of animal life sufficient to do all this work of building
+and repairing wastes and keep it in running condition?
+
+If it does, what can man do or suggest to help it?
+
+Is this machine capable of being run fast or slow if need be?
+
+Does man have in him some kind of chemical laboratory that can turn out
+such products as he needs to fill all his physical demands?
+
+If by heat, exercise, or any other cause he gets warm, can that
+chemistry cool him to normal?
+
+If too cold can it warm him? Can it adjust him to heat and cold?
+
+If so, how is it done? Is the law of life and longevity fully vindicated
+in man's make up?
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV.
+
+HAS MAN DEGENERATED?
+
+     The Advent of Man--Care of the Stock Raiser--Mental Degeneration
+     Makes It Unpleasant for an Original Thinker--Original Thinkers of
+     the Ancients--Methods of Healing--Failure of Allopathy--Primitive
+     Man--Evidences of Prehistoric Man--Mental Dwarfage.
+
+
+THE ADVENT OF MAN.
+
+The exact time when man's foot appeared on the earth, no record shows. A
+knowledge of his advent might be profitable. The unwritten history of
+the human races with the genius or lack of genius, might to us be an
+open book of knowledge. As it is not supposable that the mind of man has
+just become observingly active in the last few centuries, absolute
+evidence of purer and deeper reason than we have been able to present,
+stand recorded on the faces of many valuable "lost arts" which we have
+never been able to equal. Is it not very reasonable to suppose that the
+powers of mind have wonderfully degenerated from some cause?
+
+
+CARE OF THE STOCK RAISER.
+
+The stock raiser carefully preserves the best and most healthy of the
+males and females of his flocks and herds for breeding purposes, that
+their offspring might be healthy and well developed, for the purposes
+for which he raises them. As a result he raises stock from the poultry
+house up, with marked improvement in form, strength and usefulness.
+Should he be foolish enough to kill off all the healthy and well
+developed males as they appear in his herds of cattle and other stock,
+for one or two centuries, would any one with average intelligence
+suppose that the standard of animals would or could be kept up, by
+breeding from the unfortunate stock, that had been pierced through the
+lungs while fighting with more powerful animals. If for breeding
+purposes he would save calves, colts, lambs, pigs, goats or any other
+young males to breed from, that had had a leg frozen off, one or both
+eyes plucked out, necks and ears torn by panthers, what would you think
+of the man's sanity?
+
+On this line we would ask what has been the procedure of all nations?
+Has it not been to select the strong and healthy males, drive them out
+to the field of battle, destroy a million or more of the strongest men,
+as our war of the sixties shows. Since that war closed the fathers of
+our children are mainly the crippled, worn out, and degenerated physical
+wrecks, with the assistance of the refused, who for lack of physical
+ability were barred from entering the United States' service. Such
+physical and mental wrecks are the fathers of the children born during
+the last thirty years. Every healthy young lady who married and became a
+mother after the early sixties, had to select a husband from a war or
+hereditary wreck. From that degenerated stock of human beings our
+asylums are filled, and the beams of the gallows pulled down by the
+weight of the bodies of those mental dwarfs. Run this train of reason
+back for a few hundred or thousand of years,--this degenerating force,
+bearing upon the offspring, and is it a wonder that we have physical and
+mental wrecks all over the country?
+
+
+MENTAL DEGENERATION MAKES IT UNPLEASANT FOR THE ORIGINAL THINKER.
+
+Now if we have been mentally degenerating, killing our best men back for
+a few thousand years time, and still have a few left who are fairly good
+reasoners, what was their mental powers then, compared with now? They
+could think from native ability; we only through acquired ability by our
+methods of education. Should an original thinker occasionally appear
+from the crippled and maimed, he will have much that is unpleasant to
+contend with, unless he is generous enough to credit the cause to an
+effect produced by the lack of mental and physical forces in the sires
+just described. A man or woman who is able to reason, cannot afford to
+wear out his or her physical and mental forces by spending time in
+tiresome discussions with such blank masses, who are very fortunate to
+have intelligence enough to make a living under the methods that require
+the least mental action.
+
+It would not be manly nor lady like to allow a feeling of combattiveness
+to arise and spend your forces on such persons. Pre-natal causes have
+dropped them where they are, and a philosopher knows he must submit to
+the conditions, and he is sorrowful in place of vengeful and
+vindicative, and all that is left for him to do is to trim his lamps and
+let the lights defend themselves.
+
+
+ORIGINAL THINKERS OF THE ANCIENTS.
+
+On this line we have much to think of. Anciently they did think: Great
+minds existed then, as is evidenced by the architecture displayed in
+constructing temples and pyramids. As in philosophy, chemistry, and
+mathematics, they stand to-day as living facts of their intelligence. In
+some ways we are equal and even surpass the ancients. Before the
+establishment of religious and political governments, national and
+tribal creeds, to sustain which the powerful minds and bodies of
+thousands and millions have been slain and their wise councils
+prohibited by death. Reason says under the circumstances we must kindly
+make and do the best we can in our day and time. No doubt their religion
+was better than ours, before they began to fight about their gods and
+governments.
+
+
+METHODS OF HEALING.
+
+Some evidence crops out now and then that their methods of healing were
+natural and wisely applied, and crowned with good results. As far as
+history speaks of the ancient healing arts they were logical,
+philosophical, good in results and harmless. It is true enough that we
+have great systems of chemistry that are useful in the mechanical arts,
+but very limited in their uses in the healing arts. In fact, a very
+great per cent of the gray-haired philosophers of all medical schools,
+unhesitatingly assert that the world would be better off without them.
+These conclusions are sent forth by competent and honest investigators,
+who have tested all known methods and medicines, and carefully observed
+the results from a quarter to a half a century. Let us call it "a
+trade," as the use of drugs is not a science.
+
+The author will now say, the health hunter in a majority of cases, when
+he administers drugs, gives one dose for health and nine for the dollar.
+
+As it becomes necessary to throw off oppressive governments, it becomes
+just as necessary to throw off other useless customs, without which no
+substitute has ever been received.
+
+
+FAILURE OF ALLOPATHY.
+
+Allopathy, a school of medicine known and fostered by all nations, drove
+on with its exploring teams; gave up the search, went into camp and
+builded temples to the god who purged, puked, perspired, opiated, drank
+whiskey and other stimulants; destroyed its thousands, ruined nations,
+established whiskey saloons, opium dens, insane asylums, naked mothers
+and hungry babies, and still cries aloud, and says: "Come unto me and I
+will give you rest. I have opium, morphine, and whiskey by the barrel. I
+am the god of all healing knowledge, and want to be so recognized by
+people and statute. I do not wish to be annoyed by Eclecticism,
+Homoeopathy, Christian science, massage, Swedish movements, nor
+Osteopathy. I do not like Osteopathy any better than I do a tiger. It
+scratches me and tears away all my disciples. I cannot destroy it. It
+uses neither opium nor whiskey, and it is impossible to catch it asleep.
+It scratches us, and has scratched our power out of four states during
+the last twelve months, with no telling where it will scratch next time.
+We must prepare for more war, I have heard from my scouts that on its
+flag the inscription reads thus: 'No quarters for allopathy in
+particular and none at all for any schools of medicine farther than
+surgery, and war to the hilt on three-fourths of that as practiced in
+the present day. The use of the knife in everything and for everything
+must be stopped; not by statute law, but through a higher education of
+the masses, which will give them more confidence in nature's ability to
+heal.'"
+
+
+PRIMITIVE MAN.
+
+It is reasonable to suppose that the mind that constructed man was fully
+competent to undertake and complete the being to suit the purpose for
+which he was designed. After giving him physical perfection in every
+limb, organ, or part of his body, it is reasonable to suppose, that at
+that time, he gave him all the mental powers needed for all purposes
+during the life of his race, and with that perfection in the physical,
+it is supposable he approached very nearly to intellectual perfection.
+He was a mathematician, not by collegiate process, but by native
+ability. He did not have to take a course in a university to study
+chemistry, because of the fact that he was a chemist when he was born.
+Possibly he could speak or understand all languages spoken by the human
+tongue, from the powers of his mind, which occupied a pure and healthy
+physique. In a word he was well made and fully endowed with all the
+physical and mental forces necessary to the whole journey of his life.
+Now a question arises: "When did he begin to degenerate physically and
+mentally?" Let us reason some on this line, which seems to be a rather
+solid foundation, and as history is young itself, and has imperfectly
+recorded only such events as have transpired during a few centuries,
+with records imperfectly preserved.
+
+
+EVIDENCES OF PREHISTORIC MAN.
+
+We see evidences all along the journey of prehistoric man's life, though
+the being and his bones have been mostly obliterated; we see close to
+his bony remains the stone axe, the flint-dart. We find acres of ground
+in many places close to mounds and caves, with countless millions of
+slivers that have been scaled from flints and formed to suit war
+purposes; while the many bones that are found in caves, heaps and piles,
+indicate that many thousands fell in mortal combat then and there.
+Possibly they were old in the skilled arts of war at that day. Their
+great and powerful men, who should have been parents of the coming
+generations, were slain and destroyed and the conquered became the
+captives and slaves of the more powerful, with all opportunities for
+mental development suppressed. Other nations and tribes willingly
+entered the bloody fields of battle, with nothing to report but the
+death of the best physically formed men, and leaving the propagation of
+the race or races to be kept up by those who were left behind as
+unqualified to go into battle, for lack of strength of either body or
+mind.
+
+This process of destroying the mentally and physically great has been
+kept up to the limits of our history's record. We have to go to schools
+about one-half of our time in order to cultivate and stimulate our
+mental energies sufficiently well, that we may follow the ordinary
+business pursuits of life.
+
+
+MENTAL DWARFAGE.
+
+Without worrying the patience of the reader any further, we will ask him
+if it is not reasonable that during all the past thousands of years,
+that men have fought over their gods and governments, has it not
+produced the mental dwarfage from the causes he has had to face? Our
+professional men are only imitators of one another. They must spend
+years in school because of a lack of native ability. This is our
+condition, and we must make the best we can of it. Most of our learned
+men, so-called, at the present day, stand upon heaps of mental rubbish.
+You seldom see in an editor's columns any evidence of mental greatness.
+He clips, quotes and sells his wisdom. He takes up some hobby,
+religious or scientific. He lauds his own religious views; his
+scientific ideas he wishes embalmed for the use of future generations.
+His law is _the_ law. His medicine is God's pills, notwithstanding he is
+the laughing stock of all who know him. I want to be good to them. I
+expect to be good to them, as they are suffering from the effects of
+pre-natal causes, thrown upon them by their ancestors for thousands of
+years. By those causes they have been possibly wounded worse than I
+have, and I do not expect to spend any time in combats with mental
+dwarfs; political, religious, or scientific bigots. If I can
+successfully run my boat over the riffles of time, I shall credit it to
+good luck, not native ability, for I, too, feel what they should,--the
+deep plowings of mental dwarfage, that is the result of killing all the
+great and good men for ages.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV.
+
+OSTEOPATHIC TREATMENT.
+
+     Five Points--Visceral List--Care in Treating the Spinal
+     Column--Most Important Chapter--Perfect Drainage--A Natural Cure.
+
+
+FIVE POINTS.
+
+The five points of observation will cover easily the whole body, and we
+cannot omit any one of them, and successfully examine any disease of the
+system. Local injuries are, however, an exception to this rule, and even
+a local hurt often causes general effect. Suppose a fall should jar the
+lumbar vertebra, and push it at some articulation, front, back, or
+laterally; say the lumbar, with one or two short ribs turned down
+against the lumbar nerves with a prolapsed and loosened diaphragm,
+pressing heavily on the abdominal aorta, vena cava, and thoracic duct;
+have you not found cause to stop or derange the circulation of blood in
+arteries, veins, lymphatics and all other organs below diaphragm? Then
+heart trouble would be the natural result. Fibroid tumors, painful
+monthlies, constipation, diabetis, dyspepsia or any trouble of the
+system that could come from bad blood would be natural results, because
+lymph is too old to be pure when it enters the lungs for purifying. If
+blood or chyle is kept too long below the diaphragm, it becomes diseased
+before it reaches the lungs, and after renovation, but little good blood
+is left. Then the dead matter is separated from blood and blown out at
+the lungs while in vapor. Thus nutriment is not great enough to keep up
+normal supply. In this stage the patient is low in flesh and feeble
+generally, because of trouble with blood and chyle to pass normally
+through the diaphragm.
+
+
+VISCERAL LIST.
+
+The failure of free action of blood produces general debility,
+congestion, low types of fever, dropsy, constipation, tumefaction and on
+to the whole list of visceral of diseases.
+
+From this we are called to the pelvis. If the innominate bones are
+twisted on sacrum or are driven too high or too low, an injury to the
+sacral system of blood and nerves would be cause equal to congestion,
+inflammation of womb or bladder-diseases, with a crippled condition of
+all the spinal nerves. This would be cause enough to produce hysteria,
+and on to the whole list of diseases to spinal injuries. The Osteopath
+has great demands for his powers of reason when he considers the
+relation of diseases generally to the pelvis; and this knowledge he
+must have before his work can be attended with success.
+
+As I said, five points comprise the fields in which the Osteopath must
+search. I have given you quite pointedly and at length, hints on spine
+and sacrum which cover the territory below the diaphragm. In conclusion
+I will simply refer you to the chest, neck and brain, and say, "let your
+search light ever shine bright on the brain." On it we must depend for
+power. About all nerves do run through the neck and branch off to supply
+both above and below, to do their parts in animal life, to the heart,
+brain and sum total of man and beast. Search faithfully for cause of
+diseases in head, neck, chest, spine and pelvis; for all organs, limbs
+and parts are directly related to and depend on these five localities to
+which I have just called your attention.
+
+With your knowledge of anatomy, I am sure you can practice and be
+successful, and should be in all cases over which Osteopathy is supposed
+to preside.
+
+
+CARE IN TREATING THE SPINAL CORD.
+
+I want to offer you the facts, not advice, but pure and well sustained
+facts, the only witnesses that ever enter the courts of truth. A spinal
+cord is a fact; you see it--thus a fact. That which you can see, feel,
+hear, smell or taste is a fact, and the knowledge of the ability of any
+one fact to accomplish any one thing, how it accomplishes it and for
+what purpose, is a truth sought for in philosophy. The spinal cord is
+the present fact for consideration. You see it, you feel it, thus you
+have two facts with which you can start to obtain a knowledge of the use
+of this spinal cord. In it you have one common straight cylinder which
+is filled with an unknown substance, and by an unknown power wisely
+directed. It is wisely formed, located, and protected. It throws off
+branches which are wisely located. They have bundles, many and few; they
+are connected to their support, which is the brain, by a continuous cord
+in length and form to suit. After it has concluded throwing off branches
+at local places for special purposes, then like a flashlight, it throws
+off a bundle of branches called horse-tail plexus, _caudae equinae_,
+which simply signifies the many branches that convey fluids and
+influences to the extremities, to execute the vital work for which they
+are formed and located. While the laws of life and their procedure to
+execute and accomplish the work designed by nature for them to do, is
+mysterious and to the finite mind incomprehensible, you can only see
+what they do or perform, after the work is done and ready for your
+inspection.
+
+
+HOW TO TREAT THE SPINAL COLUMN.
+
+Now as we are dealing with the omnipresent nerve principle of animal
+life, I will tell you this one serious truth, and support it by the fact
+of observation. To treat the spine, and thereby irritate the spinal cord
+oftener than once or twice a week will cause the vital assimilation to
+be perverted, and become the death-producing excretor, by producing the
+abortion of the living molecules of life, before fully matured, while in
+the cellular system, which lies immediately under the lymphatics.
+
+Your patients will linger long from the change of the nutrient ducts to
+throw off their dead matter into the excretories, which death was caused
+by the undue, or too many treatments of the spinal cord. If you will
+allow yourself to think for a moment, or think at all of the spinal cord
+being irritated, and what effect it will have on the uterus you will
+realize that I have told you a truth, and produced an array of facts to
+stand by that truth. Many of your patients are well six months before
+they are discharged. They are kept on hands because they are weak, and
+they are weak, because you keep them so from irritating the spinal cord.
+Throw off your goggles and receive the rays of the sunlight which
+forever stand in the bosom of reason.
+
+
+MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTER OF ALL.
+
+This is the most important chapter of this book, because at this point
+the engine of life is turned over to you as an engineer and by you it is
+expected to be wisely conducted on its journey.
+
+Your responsibility here is doubled. Your first position is that of a
+master mechanic, who is capable of drawing plans and writing minutely a
+specification whereby the engineer may know what a well constructed
+machine is in every particular. He knows the parts and relations of both
+as constructor and operator, and you are supposed to be the foreman in
+the shop of repairs. The living person is the engine, nature the
+engineer, and you the master mechanic.
+
+This being your position it is expected that you will carefully inspect
+all parts of the engines run into your repair shop, note all variations
+from the truly normal, and adjust from those variations as nearly as
+possible to the conditions of the true specimen that stands in the shop.
+
+
+PERFECT DRAINAGE.
+
+At this point it will be proper to suppose a case by way of
+illustration. Suppose by some accident the bones of the neck should be
+thrown at variance from the normal to a bend or twist. We may then
+expect inharmony in the circulation of the blood to the head and face
+with all the organs and glands above the neck. We will find imperfect
+supply of blood and other fluids to the head. We may expect swelling of
+head and face with local or general misery. Thus you have a cause for
+headache, dizziness, blindness, enlarged tonsils, sore tongue, loss of
+sight, hearing, memory, and on through the list of head diseases, all
+because of perverted circulation of the fluids of the brain proper of
+any local division. It is important to have perfect drainage, for
+without it, the good results from a treatment cannot be expected to
+follow your efforts to relieve diseases above the neck.
+
+
+WHAT TREATING MEANS.
+
+Here I want to emphasize that the word treat has but one meaning, that
+is to know you are right, and do your work accordingly. I will only
+hint, and would feel embarrassed to go any farther than to hint to you,
+the importance of an undisturbed condition of the five known kinds of
+nerves, namely: sensation, motion, nutrition, voluntary and involuntary,
+all of which you must labor to keep in perpetual harmony while treating
+any disease of the head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, spine and limbs.
+
+If you would allow yourself to reason at all, you must know that
+sensation must be normal and always on guard to give notice by local or
+general misery, of unnatural accumulation of the circulating fluids.
+Each set of nerves must be free to act and do their part. Your duty as a
+master mechanic is to know that the engine kept is in so perfect a
+condition that there will be no functional disturbance to any nerve,
+vein, or artery that supplies and governs the skin, the fascia, the
+muscle, the blood or any fluid that should freely circulate to sustain
+life and renovate the system from deposits that would cause what we call
+disease.
+
+
+A NATURAL CURE.
+
+Your Osteopathic knowledge has surely taught you, that with an intimate
+acquaintance with the nerve and blood supply, you can arrive at a
+knowledge of the hidden cause of disease, and conduct your treatment to
+a successful termination. This is not by your knowledge of chemistry,
+but by the absolute knowledge of what is in man. What is normal, and
+what abnormal, what is effect and how to find the cause. Do you ever
+suspect renal or bladder trouble without first receiving knowledge from
+your patient, that there is soreness and tenderness in the region of the
+kidneys at some point along the spine. By this knowledge you are invited
+to explore the spine for the purpose of ascertaining whether it is
+normal or not. If by your intimate acquaintance and observance of a
+normal spine you should detect an abnormal form although it be small,
+you are then admonished to look out for disease of kidneys, bladder or
+both, from the discovered cause for disturbance of the renal nerves by
+such displacement, or some slight variation from the normal in the
+articulation of the spine. If this is not worthy of your attention, your
+mind is surely too crude to observe those fine beginnings that lead to
+death. Your skill would be of little use in incipient cases of Bright's
+disease of the kidneys. Has not your acquaintance with the human body
+opened your mind's eye to observe that in the laboratory of the human
+body, the most wonderful chemical results are being accomplished every
+day, minute and hour of your life? Can that laboratory be running in
+good order and tolerate the forming of a gall or bladder stone? Does not
+the body generate acids, alkalies, substances and fluids necessary to
+wash out all impurities? If you think an unerring God has made all those
+necessary preparations, why not so assert, and stand upon that stone?
+
+You cannot do otherwise, and not betray your ignorance to the thinking
+world. If in the human body you can find the most wonderful chemical
+laboratory mind can conceive of, why not give more of your time to that
+subject, that you may obtain a better understanding of its workings?
+Can you afford to treat your patients without such qualification? Is it
+not ignorance of the workings of this Divine law that has given birth to
+the foundationless nightmare that now prevails to such an alarming
+extent all over civilization, that a deadly drug will prove its efficacy
+in warding off disease in a better way than has been prescribed by the
+intelligent God, who has formulated and combined life, mind and matter
+in such a manner that it becomes the connecting link between a world of
+mind, and that element known as matter? Can a deep philosopher do
+otherwise than conclude that nature has placed in man all the qualities
+for his comfort and longevity? Or will he drink that which is deadly,
+and cast his vote for the crucifixion of knowledge?
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI.
+
+REASONING TESTS.
+
+     The Vermiform Appendix--Operating for Appendicitis--Expelling Power
+     of the Vermiform Appendix--Care Exercised in Making
+     Assertions--Reasoning Tests--A List of Unexplained
+     Diseases--Concluding Remarks.
+
+
+THE VERMIFORM APPENDIX.
+
+At the present time more than at any other period since the birth of
+Christ, the medical and surgical world have centralized their minds for
+the purpose of relieving locally inside, below the kidney of the male or
+female, excruciating pain, which appears in both sexes in the region
+above described.
+
+From some cause, possibly justifiable, it has been decided to open the
+human body and explore the region just below the right kidney in search
+of the cause of this trouble. Such explorations have been made upon the
+dead first. Small seeds and other substances have been found in the
+vermiform appendix, which is a hollow tube over an inch in length. These
+discoveries, as found in the dead subject, have led to explorations in
+the same location in the living. In some of the cases, though very few,
+seeds and other substances have been found in the vermiform appendix,
+supposed to be the cause of local or general inflammation of the
+appendix. Some have been successfully removed, and permanent relief
+followed the operation. These explorations and successes in finding
+substances in the vermiform appendix, their removal, and successful
+recovery in some cases, have led to what may properly be termed a hasty
+system of diagnosis, and it has become very prevalent, and resorted to
+by the physicians of many schools, under the impression that the
+vermiform appendix is of no known use, and that the human being is just
+as well off without it.
+
+
+OPERATING FOR APPENDICITIS.
+
+Therefore it is resolved, that as nothing positive is known of the
+trouble in the location above described, it is guessed that it is a
+disease of the vermiform appendix. Therefore they etherize and dissect
+down for the purpose of exploring, to ascertain if the guess is right or
+wrong. In the diagnosis this is a well-defined case of appendicitis; the
+surgeon's knife is driven through the quivering flesh in great eagerness
+in search of the vermiform appendix. The bowels are rolled over and
+around in search of the appendix. Sometimes some substances are found in
+it; but often to the chargrin of the exploring physician, it is found to
+be in a perfectly healthy and natural condition, and so seldom is it
+found impact with seeds or any substance whatever, that as a general
+rule it is a useless and dangerous experiment. The per cent of deaths
+caused by the knife and ether, and the permanently crippled, will
+justify the assertion that it would be far better for the human race if
+they lived and died in ignorance of appendicitis. A few genuine cases
+might die from that cause; but if the knife were the only known remedy,
+it were better that one should occasionally die than to continue this
+system, at least until the world recognizes a relief which is absolutely
+safe, without the loss of a drop of blood, that has for its foundation
+and philosophy a fact based upon the longitudinal contractile ability of
+the appendix itself, which is able to eject by its natural forces any
+substances that may by an unnatural move be forced into the appendix.[8]
+
+[Footnote 8: My first Osteopathic treatment for appendicitis was in
+1877, at which time I operated on a Mr. Surratt and gave permanent
+relief. During the early eighties I treated and permanently cured Mrs
+Emily Pickler of Kirksville, mother of our representative, S. M.
+Pickler, and mother of ex-congressman John A. Pickler of South Dakota.
+The infirmary has had bad cases of appendicitis probably running up into
+hundreds without failing to relieve and cure a single case. The ability
+of the appendix to receive and discharge foreign substances is taught in
+the American School of Osteopathy and is successfully practiced by its
+diplomates. In the case of Mr. Surratt I found lateral twist of lumbar
+bones; I adjusted spine, lifted bowels, and he got well. When I was
+called to Mrs. Pickler she had been put on light diet, by the surgeon,
+preparatory to the knife. She soon recovered under my treatment without
+any surgical operation and is alive and well to this date.]
+
+
+EXPELLING POWER OF THE VERMIFORM APPENDIX.
+
+To a philosopher such questions as this must arise: Has the appendix at
+its entrance a sphincter muscle similar in action to that of the rectum
+and oesophagus? Has it the power to contract and dilate?--contract and
+shorten in its length and eject all substances when the nerves are in a
+normal condition? And where is the nerve that failed to execute the
+expulsion of any substance that may enter the cavity of the appendix?
+Has God been so forgetful as to leave the appendix in such condition as
+to receive foreign bodies without preparing it by contraction or
+otherwise to throw out such substances? If He has He surely forgot part
+of His work. So reason has concluded for me, and on that line I have
+proceeded to operate for twenty-five years without pain or misery to the
+patient, and given permanent relief in all cases that have come to me.
+With the former diagnosis of doctors and surgeons that appendicitis was
+the malady, and the choice of relief was the knife or death, or possibly
+both, many such cases have come for Osteopathic treatment, and
+examination has revealed that in every case there has been previous
+injury to some set of spinal nerves, caused by jars, strains or falls.
+Every case of appendicitis, gall or renal stones can be traced to some
+such cause. These principles I have proclaimed and thought for
+twenty-five years.
+
+
+CARE EXERCISED IN MAKING ASSERTIONS.
+
+We should use much caution in our assertions that nature had made its
+work so complete in animal forms and furnished them with such wisely
+prepared principles that they could produce and administer remedies to
+suit, and not leave the body to find them. Should we so conclude and
+find by experiment that man is so arranged, and wisely furnished by
+deity as to ferret out disease, purify and keep the temple of life in
+ease and health; we must use great care when we assert such is not
+undeniably true up to the present. The opposite opinion has had full
+sway for twenty centuries at least, and man has by habit, long usage,
+and ignorance so adjusted his mind to submit to customs of the great
+past that should he try, without previous training, to reason and bring
+his mind to such altitude of thought of the greatness and wisdom of the
+infinite, he might become insane or fall back in a stupor, and exist
+only as a living mental blank in the great ocean of life, where beings
+dwell without minds to govern their actions. It would be a great
+calamity to have all the untrained minds shocked so seriously as to
+cause them to lose the mite of reason they now have, and be sent back
+once more to dwell in Darwin's protoplasm. I tell you there is danger,
+and we must be careful and show the people small stars, and but one at a
+time, till they can begin to reason and realize that God has done all
+that the wisest can attribute to Him.
+
+
+REASONING TESTS.
+
+There is but one method of reasoning. That method is by the laws
+governing the subject to be reasoned upon.
+
+Reasoning is the action of the mind while hunting for truths.
+
+
+THE ABDOMEN.
+
+As we are about to camp close to the abdomen for a season of
+explorations and a more reasonable knowledge of its organs and their
+functions, we will search its geography first, and find its location on
+the body or globe of life. We find a boundary line established by the
+general surveyor, about the middle of the body, called the diaphragm.
+This line has a very strong wall or striated muscle that can and does
+dilate and contract to suit for breathing, and quantities of food that
+may be stored for a time in stomach and bowels for use. The abdomen is
+much longer than wide. In short, it is a house or shop builded for
+manufacturing purposes. In it we find the machinery that produces rough
+blood or chyle, and sends it to heart and lungs to be finished to
+perfect living blood, to supply and sustain all the organs of this
+division. This diaphragm or wall has several openings through which
+blood and nutriment pass to and from abdomen to heart, lungs and brain.
+I want to draw your special attention to the fact that this diaphragm
+must be truly normal. It must be anchored and held in its true position
+without any variation, and in order that you shall fully understand what
+I mean, I will ask you to go with me mentally to all the ribs, beginning
+with the sternum, see attachments, follow across with a downward course
+to the attachments of this great muscular septum to the lower lumbar
+region, where the right crus receives a branch or strong muscle from the
+left side, and the left crus receives a muscle from the right which
+becomes one common muscle known as the left crus, the same of the right
+crus receiving a muscle or tendon from the left, which you will easily
+comprehend from examining descriptive cuts in Gray, Morris, Gerrish, or
+any well illustrated work of anatomy. You see at once a chance for
+constriction of the aorta by the muscles under which it passes, causing
+without doubt much of the disease known as palpitation of the heart,
+which is only a bouncing back of the blood that has been stopped at the
+crura. Farther away from the spine near the center of the diaphragm we
+find the return opening through this wall, provided to accommodate the
+vena cava. To the left a few inches below the vena cava we find another
+opening provided for the oesophagus and its nerves; like the aorta, it
+has two muscles of the diaphragm crossing directly between oesophagus
+and the aorta, in such shape as to be able to produce powerful
+prohibitory constriction to normal swallowing.
+
+
+A LIST OF UNEXPLAINED DISEASES.
+
+At this point I will draw your attention to what I consider is the cause
+of a whole list of hitherto unexplained diseases, which I think are only
+effects, caused by the blood and other fluids being prohibited from
+doing normal service by constrictions at the various openings of the
+diaphragm. Thus prohibition of free action of the thoracic duct would
+produce congestion of receptaculum chyli, because of not being able to
+discharge its contents as fast as received. Is it not reasonable to
+suppose a ligation of the thoracic duct at the diaphragm would retain
+this chyle until it would be diseased by age and fermentation, and be
+thrown off into the substances of other organs of the abdomen and set up
+new growths, such as enlargement of the uterus, ovaries, kidneys, liver,
+spleen, pancreas, omentum, lymphatics, cellular membranes, and all that
+is known as flesh and blood below the diaphragm? Have you not reason to
+explore and demand a deeper and more thorough anatomical knowledge of
+the diaphragm and its power to produce disease while in an abnormal
+condition, which can be caused by irritations, wounds or hurts, from the
+base of the brain to the coccyx? Remember this is an anatomical and
+philosophical question that will demand your attention to the mechanical
+formation, physiological action and the unobstructed privileges of
+fluids when prepared in the laboratory of nature, to be sent at once to
+their ordained destination, before such substances are diseased or dead
+with age. You must remember that you have been well drilled, or talked
+out of patience in the room of symptomatology and all you have learned
+is, something ails the kidneys, and are told their contents when
+analyzed are not normally pure urine. In urinalisis you are told "here
+is sugar," "here is fat," "here is iron," "here is pus," "here is
+albumen," and this is diabetis, this is Bright's disease, but no
+suggestion is handed to the student's mind to make him know that these
+numerous variations from normal urine are simply effects, and the
+diaphragm has caused all the trouble, by first being irritated from
+hurts, by ribs falling, spinal strains, wounds and on from the coccyx to
+the base of the brain. Symptomatology is very wide and wise in putting
+this and that together and giving it names, but fails to give the cause
+of all these abdominal lesions. Never for once has it said or intimated
+that the diaphragm is prolapsed by misplaced ribs to which it is
+attached, or that it is diseased by hurts of spine and nerves above its
+own location. Allow yourself to think of the universality of the
+distribution of the superior cervical ganglion and other nerves which
+are of such great importance that I will by permission insert in the
+last chapter of this book a description of that great system of the
+sympathetic nerves by Dr. Wm. Smith, whose superior knowledge of anatomy
+makes him eminently qualified to describe the location and uses of this
+great sympathetic system of the nerves of life.
+
+
+CONCLUDING REMARKS.
+
+As you read his able essay remember there are four other sets of nerves
+equal to, and just as important in their divisions of life, which are
+the motor, nutrient, voluntary and involuntary. All of which you as an
+engineer must know, and by proper adjustment of the body give them
+unlimited power to perform their separate and united parts in sustaining
+life and health. Now as I have tried to place into your hands a compass,
+flag and chain that will lead you from effect to cause of disease in
+any part or organ of the whole abdomen I hope that many mysteries which
+have hung over your mental horizon will pass away, and give you abiding
+truths, placed upon the everlasting rock of cause and effect. You have
+as little use for old symptomatology as an Irishman has for a cork when
+the bottle is empty. Osteopathy is knowledge, or it is nothing.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII.
+
+OBSTETRICS.
+
+     Overloading--Similarity of Stomach and Womb--Births--Preparation
+     for Delivery--Caution--Lasceration Need Not Occur--Care of
+     Cord--Severing Cord--Putting on Belly Band--Delivery of
+     Afterbirth--Preparing for Mother's Comfort--Post-Delivery
+     Hemorrhage--Treatment for--Food for Mother--Treatment for Sore
+     Breast.
+
+
+OVERLOADING.
+
+When in the course of human events and actions of life, a woman
+disregards the laws of nature to such an extent as to overload the
+stomach beyond its powers and limits; or another way to present the
+thought, we will say, if you fill the stomach so full as to occupy all
+space, or so much of the space as to cripple the laws of digestion and
+retain the food, the decomposition sets up an irritation of the nerves
+of mucous membrane to such a degree as to cause sickness and vomiting,
+or any other method of disgorging the stomach, which is the natural
+process to unload an overloaded vessel. When the nerves cannot take up
+nutrition, they will then take up destruction and other elements which
+are detrimental to the process of nutrition, and there is no other
+process for relief but to unload. The loading that has been deposited
+in the stomach was for the purpose of sustaining a being. The stomach
+itself is a sack. When filled to its greatest capacity, it irritates all
+the surroundings, and in return they irritate the stomach. Thus it
+unloads naturally for relief. Now we wish to treat of another vessel
+similar in size, similar in all its actions, which receives nourishment
+for a being, which nourishment is contained in the blood, and conveyed
+from the channels commonly known as uterine arteries. To all intents and
+purposes this nourishment is taken there to sustain animal life, after
+having constructed the machinery then it appropriates the blood to the
+growth and existence of a human being. One is the womb, the other the
+stomach. The placenta in the womb is provided with all the machinery
+necessary to the preparation of blood, such as is used for all purposes
+in forming and developing a child. Which is the stomach? Which is the
+womb? and what is the difference? Both receive and distribute
+nourishment to sustain animal life. Both get sick, both vomit when
+irritated and discharge their loading by the natural law of "throw up"
+and "throw down." Now note the difference and govern yourselves
+accordingly. One is mid-wifery, or treatment of the lower stomach during
+gestation and delivery. The other is the upper stomach that takes
+coarser material and refines the unrefined substances, keeps the outer
+man in form and being; the other contains the inner man or child, and by
+the law of ejection, when it becomes an irritant, it is thrown out by
+the nerves that govern the muscles of ejection.
+
+
+BIRTHS.
+
+To illustrate: I will say, just as long as digestion and assimilation
+keep in harmony and the mother generates good blood in abundance, the
+child grows, and by nature the womb is willing to let the work of
+building the body of the child go on indefinitely; but nature has placed
+all the functions of animal life under laws that are absolute and must
+be obeyed. We by reason are asked to note the similarity of the stomach
+and the womb, as both receive and pass nutriment to a body for
+assimilation and growth. When a stomach gets overloaded, sickness
+begins, as digestion and assimilation has stopped, then the decaying
+matter is taken up by the terminal nerves, and conveyed to the solar
+plexus, and causes the nerves of ejection, to throw the dying matter out
+of the stomach which is above. Try your reason and see the stomach below
+sicken and unload its burden. Is this sickness natural and wisely
+caused? If this is not the philosophy of mid-wifery what is? As soon as
+a being takes possession of its room, the commissary of supplies begins
+to furnish rations for that being, who has to build for itself a
+dwelling place. The house must be built strictly to the letter of the
+specifiction. Much bone and flesh must be put into the house of life,
+and some of all elements known to the chemist, must be used and wisely
+blended to give strength; also all material to be used in the house must
+be exact in form and given strength equal to all forces, that may be
+necessary to execute the hard and continued labors of the machinery that
+may be used in all transactions and motions of mind and body. Now we
+must go to the manufacturing chief, and have him through the
+quartermaster deliver and keep a full supply of all kinds of material
+for the work, and when the engine is done, put it on an inclined plane
+and cut the stay-chains and let it run out of the shop. Be careful and
+not let the engine deface nor tear the door as it comes out. A question
+is asked: On what road does the quarter-master send the supplies? As
+there is but one system over which an engine can bring supplies, we will
+call that road the uterine system of arteries. The mechanic reports that
+he will open the door of this great shop of manufacturing, and let it
+roll out the engine by the power and methods prepared to run out
+finished work. First you see a door open because the lock is taken off
+by a key that opens all mysteries; and the great ropes that have been
+far inferior to the force of resistance, that has held the door shut,
+are all sufficient in power. By getting sick, muscles become convulsed
+to rigidity of great strength with force enough to push the new engine
+of life out into open space easily, by nature's team that never fails to
+obey orders to deliver all goods intrusted to its care.
+
+
+PREPARATION FOR DELIVERY.
+
+A student of mid-wifery can only learn a few general principles, before
+he gets into the field of experience. Actual contact with labor teaches
+him that much that he has read and had told to him by professors of
+mid-wifery in the lectures, is of but little use to him at the bedside.
+What he needs to know is, what he will have to do after he gets there.
+He must know the form and size of the bones of a woman, how large a hole
+the three bones of the pelvis make, for the reason that the child's head
+will soon come through that hole. He must know a normal head cannot come
+through a pelvis that has been crushed in so much as to bring the pubis
+within one and one-half to two and one-half inches of the sacrum. He
+must examine and know, and do this soon after he is called, for the
+reason, that he will have to use instruments in such deformities, and
+may wish the counsel of an older and more experienced doctor. And this
+precaution will give him time to be ready for any emergency.
+
+But more than ninety per cent of all cases are of a very simple nature.
+The mother is warned by pains in back and womb, coming and repeating at
+intervals of one-half hour to less time. When by the finger the doctor
+can tell the mouth of the womb has opened to the size of a quarter or
+half dollar, he then may know that labor will soon start in good
+earnest, and at this time it is well to call for a twine, cut two
+strings about a foot long, to tie around the navel cord.
+
+
+CAUTION.
+
+The first duty of the obstetrician is to carefully examine the bones of
+the pelvis and spine of the mother, to ascertain if they are normal in
+shape and position. If there is any doubt about the spine and pelvis
+being in good condition for the passage of the head, through the bones,
+and you find pelvic deformity enough to prohibit the passage of the
+head, notify the parties of the danger in the case at once, and that you
+do not wish to take the responsibility alone, as it may require
+instruments to deliver the child, as there is danger of death to the
+child and mother also, but less danger to the mother than to the child.
+Now you have done that which is a safeguard against all trouble
+following criminal ignorance.
+
+I will give you a condensed rule of procedure in all normal cases of
+obstetrics. With index finger, examine os uteri; if closed and only
+backache, have patient turn on right side, and press hand on abdomen
+above pelvis, and gently press or lift belly up just enough to allow
+blood to pass down and up pelvis and limbs. Relax all nerves of the
+pelvis at pubes.
+
+
+SECOND EXAMINATION.
+
+Caution: Wait a few hours; examine os again. If still closed and no
+periodical pains are present, you are safe to leave case in the hands of
+the nurse, instructed to send for you if regular pains return at
+intervals. On your return, explore os again, if found to open as large
+as a dime, you are by this notified that labor has begun its work of
+delivery. You now place patient on her back, propped to an easy angle of
+near thirty degrees, with rubber blanket in place. After you find os,
+dilated to nearly the size of a dollar, then relax nerves at pubes. Soon
+you will find in mouth of womb an egg-shaped pouch of water, which you
+must not press with fingers till very late in labor, for fear of
+stopping labor for perhaps many hours. Remember the head can and does
+turn in pelvis to suit the easiest passage through the bones, while in
+the fluids of the amniotic sack. Now, as you know why not to rupture
+sack and spill fluids, you are prepared to proceed to other duties,
+which are to prevent rupture of perineum. Place the left hand on the
+belly, about two inches above symphesis and push the soft parts down
+with the left hand; support the perineum with the right hand until head
+passes over. This is necessary to prevent rupture of perineum.
+
+
+LASCERATION NEED NOT OCCUR.
+
+If you follow this law of nature, lasceration may occur in one out of a
+thousand cases, and you will be to blame for that one, and may be
+censured for criminal ignorance. Now you have conducted head safely
+through pelvis and vagina to the world. You will find pains stop right
+short off for about a minute, which is the time to learn whether the
+navel cord is wrapped around the child's neck.
+
+
+CARE OF CORD.
+
+If it is found all around the neck once or more, you must slip finger
+down neck and loosen cord to let blood pass through the cord till next
+pain comes, in order to ward off asphyxia of child.
+
+When pain comes, gently pull child's head down toward the bed. There is
+no danger of hurting the perineum now since the head has passed the soft
+parts. At this time the danger is suffocation of child. Never draw child
+too far away from mother's birth place by force, as you may tear navel
+string from the child and cause it to bleed to death. If you value the
+life of the child, then you must be careful not to place the navel end
+of the string in any danger of being torn off. Now you have made a good
+job for both mother and child so far. The child is in the world; and you
+want to show the mother a living baby for her labor and suffering of the
+past nine months. The baby is born and the mother is not torn, but the
+baby has not yet cried. Turn it on its side, face down, run your finger
+in its mouth and draw out all fluids, thick or thin, to let the breath
+pass to the lungs. Then blow cold breath on its face and breast to cause
+its lungs to act.
+
+
+SEVERING CORD.
+
+Baby cries, all is safe now. Baby is born safely and cries nicely, but
+still has cord fastened to afterbirth. It has no further use for cord,
+as life does not depend upon blood from the afterbirth any longer. Take
+the cord about three inches from the child's belly, between thumb and
+finger, and strip towards child to push bowels out of the cord if there
+should be any in it, as a safeguard for bowels, then tie a strong string
+around cord, first three inches from child's belly, second, four inches;
+take the cord in your hand and look what you are doing. If baby's hand
+should fall back to cord, you might cut off one or two fingers, or wound
+the hand or arm very seriously. Cut cord between the two ties just made
+on navel string. Look out for your scissors; pass the child over to the
+nurse to be washed and dressed, while you deliver the afterbirth from
+pelvis or womb.
+
+
+PUTTING ON BELLY BAND.
+
+When the child's shirt is on, cut a hole the size of your thumb in a
+doubled piece of cloth, five inches long by four wide, put the hole two
+inches from one end, and run the cord through the hole. Lay the cloth
+across the child's belly, then fold the cloth lengthwise over the cord,
+which must lie across the child so it will not stretch cord by handling
+or straightening child out. Now you are ready to finish the delivery of
+the afterbirth. You have a plug of soft and tender flesh to get out of
+the womb and vagina.
+
+
+DELIVERY OF AFTERBIRTH.
+
+As the afterbirth has been grown tight to the womb during all the days
+of mother's pregnancy, and furnished all the blood to build and keep the
+child alive in the womb for nine months, it has done all it can do for
+the child, and is now ready to leave the womb.
+
+You are there to assist it to get out of the place it has occupied so
+long. You must begin first to rotate or roll the placenta first one way
+and then another, up, down and across the vagina, by gently pulling the
+cord. Look out or you will pull the cord loose from the placenta; then
+you will have made your first blunder,--no cord to pull placenta with,
+and the mother bleeding and faint from loss of blood. Now is the time
+and place to save life. Pass your hand forward into the soft parts to
+get your fingers behind the placenta; now give a rolling pull and bring
+it out with the hand. You will find it an easy matter to get your hand
+into the vagina and womb after the birth of the child. Get all the
+placenta out, then take a wad of cloth or rags as large as the child's
+head, and press it under the cross bone of the pelvis; push the cloth
+under and up, so as to completely plug the pelvis. Now pull the hair
+gently over the symphesis, which will cause the womb to contract by
+irritation.
+
+
+PREPARING FOR MOTHER'S COMFORT.
+
+All is now done but to provide for the mother's comfort, which is your
+next duty. Draw her chemise down her back and legs until it is straight,
+then with safety pins, pin the chemise on inner side of thighs so that
+the chemise will go around both thighs separately. Now you have the
+shirt fast to keep it from sliding upwards, and you are ready to make a
+band of the chemise to support the womb and abdomen. Bring the chemise
+tightly together for two or three inches above the pelvis to form a
+band. Previous to pinning, draw the lump (womb) you feel above
+symphesis, up, then pin, and the belt you have made of the chemise will
+support the womb. All is safe now, but you must not leave for two hours.
+You may have delivered a feeble woman, who may flood to death after
+delivery of the child, if you do not leave her safe. I have in mind one
+case who flooded all of two quarts at a single dash. The first symptom
+was a pain in the head.
+
+
+POST-DELIVERY HEMORRHAGE.
+
+I know of only two causes that would produce hemorrhage or bleeding
+after the child is delivered. One is when the afterbirth (placenta), is
+separated from its attachment to the womb and still retained in the
+womb or vagina, or when a part is separated and still lies in the womb,
+that retention of placenta prevents the natural circular contraction of
+the womb, to close on itself and retain it, with force enough to prevent
+the further discharge of blood, would give a chance for a continued
+stream. Then should the patient bleed profusely after the placenta has
+been removed, another cause would be in pulling away the afterbirth, as
+part of the upper portion of the womb may be pulled to an inverted
+position, which would be like a hat if you press the top down with the
+hand. Then there is a chance for leakage because of this unnatural fold
+made in the womb.
+
+
+TREATMENT FOR.
+
+My method of relief is to insert the hand, and with back of fingers
+smooth out all folds. Before you draw the right hand from the womb place
+left hand on abdomen, catch the womb between the thumb and finger and
+withdraw hand. With the left hand pull the hair above symphesis or
+scratch the flesh just above across the region of the symphesis, just
+enough to make an irritation. After the hand is out of vagina pass a
+small bundle of cloths as far under the symphesis as would be necessary
+to hold everything up, then fasten chemise; beginning at symphesis draw
+it tight for about two inches above symphesis and with strong pins
+fasten it. Be sure you keep garment tight by pulling down between limbs.
+The coarser the chemise the better, as you want to make a strong bandage
+at that point so as not to push the womb down into the pelvis. If the
+patient's general health is fairly good let her tell you what she wants
+to eat, and go and get it. Let her diet be after her usual custom. You
+must remember she has just left the condition of a full abdomen. Lace
+her up, fill her up and make her comfortable for six hours; then change
+her bedding.
+
+
+FOOD FOR MOTHER.
+
+Remember this, if you stop digestion on her for some hours with teas,
+soups and shadows to eat, you carry her to the condition where it would
+be dangerous to give her a hearty meal. My experience and custom for
+forty years has been crowned with good success. I never lost a case in
+confinement. I have universally told the cook to give her plenty to eat.
+
+
+TREATMENT FOR SORE BREAST.
+
+If she begins to have fever followed by chilly sensations, with swelling
+of one or both breasts, I relieve that by laying her arm ranging with
+her body. Let some one hold the arm down to the bed, then I place both
+of my hands under the arm, pull it up with considerable force till I
+get it as high or higher than normal position of the shoulder. Then pull
+her shoulder straight out from the body a fairly good pull, then pull
+the arm up on a straight line with the face, and be sure that you have
+let loose the axillary and mammary veins, nerve and artery, which have
+been cramped by pulling the arm down during delivery. No breast should
+become caked in the hands of an Osteopath. Do not bother about the
+bowels for two or three days. It may be necessary to use the catheter if
+the water should fail to pass off after inhibiting the pubic system.
+This is straight mid-wifery and will guide you through at least in
+ninety per cent of the cases you will meet in normally formed women.
+
+Right here I wish to say one word: I think it is very wrong to teach,
+talk and spend so much time with pictures, cuts, talks and lectures, and
+hold up constantly to the view of the student, births coming from the
+worst imaginable deformities and call that a knowledge of mid-wifery. It
+is normal mid-wifery you want to know and be well-skilled in. The
+abnormal formations are few and far between, and when a case of that
+kind does appear, it is your knowledge of the normal that guides you
+through the variations. You will very likely never find two abnormals
+presenting the same form of bone. As this is intended to only present
+to the student natural delivery I will let the subject drop with one
+word about the sore tongue of the mother. Adjust her neck, relieve
+constrictor and all other muscles that would impede any blood vessel
+that should drain the mouth and tongue. Remember this, that a horse that
+is always hunting bugars never finds a smooth road.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII.
+
+CONVULSIONS.
+
+     Old Phrases--Results of Stoppage of Fluids--Old Theory of
+     Fits--What the Real Cause may be--Listen for the Cause--What is a
+     Fit--Sensory System Demanding Nourishment--The Causes--The
+     Remedy--Dislocation of Atlas and of Four Upper Ribs.
+
+
+OLD PHRASES.
+
+As old phrases that have long been in use as names for the various
+diseases have almost grown to the degree of disgust, I laid them aside
+and have been trying and have succeeded in unfolding natural laws to a
+better understanding, which do and should be our guide and action in
+treating all diseases that mar the peace and happiness of the human race
+by misery and death. By such old systems with their foolish and
+unreliable suggestions, of how to guide the doctor in treating diseases
+which have proven unworthy of respect, if merit is to be our rule of the
+weights and measures of intelligence. I have become so disgusted with
+such verbiage with the sense that follows the pens that have written
+treatise on disease, that I have concluded to do like Adam of old, give
+names that may appear novel to the reader when I wish to draw the
+attention of the student who is trying to obtain a knowledge of the
+mysteries hitherto unsolved and unexplained. We have panned and washed
+by their suggestions and have obtained no gold. There are two very large
+and powerful rivers passing their fluids in opposite directions over a
+territory that I will call the Klondike of life. This territory is
+bounded on the east by a great wall, which according to the old books
+has been called the diaphragm, through which comes forth a great river
+of life that spreads all over the plains of the anterior lumbar region.
+On that plain we find a great system of perfect irrigation of cities,
+villages, and fertile soils of life.
+
+
+RESULT OF STOPPAGE OF FLUIDS.
+
+This region of country covers one of the greatest and most fertile
+fields of life producing elements, and places them on the thoroughfares,
+and sends them back over the great central railroad, the thoracic duct,
+from lymphatics of the whole abdomen, to the heart and lungs to be
+converted into a higher order of living matter. When finished it is
+called blood, to sustain its own machinery, and all other machines of
+the body, giving rise to the mental question: "What would be the effect
+produced to life and health, if we should cut off, dam up or suspend the
+flowing of the aorta as it descends close by the vena cava and thoracic
+duct as they return with contents through the diaphragm on their journey
+to the heart and lungs for manufacture and finish. And after having
+supplied the plain, what would be the effect if the vena cava and its
+system of drainage, and the thoracic duct should be dammed up so that
+chyle and blood could not be carried to the heart and lungs for renewal,
+purification, and finish. How much thought would be required to see that
+by stopping the arterial flow or that of the vena cava an irritating and
+famishing condition would ensue, with congested veins, lymphatics and
+all organs of the abdomen, to that condition called fermentation,
+congestion and inflammation, which in time is thrown off by sloughing
+away the substances of the lymphatics of the whole abdominal system of
+glands that belong to a liver, a kidney, the uterus and the bowels, to
+the condition that has long since been a mystery, and called typhoid
+fever, dysentery, bilious fever, periodical spasms, and on through the
+whole list of general and special diseases of winter and summer. I would
+advise the practicing Osteopath to do some very careful panning up and
+down the rivers of this Klondike, for if you fail to find gold, and much
+of it, you had better spend the remainder of your life where reason
+dwelleth not. Ever remembering that ignorance of the geography and
+customs of this country is the wet powder of success."
+
+
+OLD THEORY OF FITS.
+
+We often see a woman or man afflicted with fits or falling sickness
+which the doctor has failed to cure. What is a fit? For want of a better
+knowledge we have an established theory that "hysteria" is purely her
+imagination and as we must respect old theories, we will call it a fit
+of meanness. This is what we have had for breakfast, dinner and supper
+and we are asked to respect such trash because of the "established
+theories."
+
+We are instructed by the universal "all" of the graduates of various
+medical schools to call her a criminal and proceed to punish her with a
+wet towel, well twisted, and administered freely--more comprehensively
+expressed by the term "spanker" and "spank her" very much--late from
+Scotland with all Europe, and schools in America, except the American
+School of Osteopathy, which recommends to "wallop" and "wallop" very
+freely the empty headed schools and theories that have no more sense
+than to torture a sick person and do so to disguise their ignorance of
+the cause of her disease, which is shown by the spasmodic effect that
+has been named by a little book of guess work, generally called and
+universally known as symptomatology.
+
+
+WHAT THE REAL CAUSE MAY BE.
+
+Not a single author has hinted or in any way intimated that the cause of
+her disease is a failure of the passing of the blood, chyle and other
+substances to and from the abdomen to nourish and renovate the abdominal
+viscera caused by a prolapsed diaphragm, which would cause resistance to
+the passing of the aorta, through which passes the arterial blood
+through the crura, and the vena cava that returns the venous blood, and
+through which crura the chyle is conducted from the receptaculum chyli
+before decomposition by fermentation sets up.
+
+
+LISTEN FOR THE CAUSE.
+
+The afflicted is intoxicated. Here is where she gets a poisonous alcohol
+and will never be relieved permanently until the "wet towel" of reason
+has slapped on both sides of the attending physician's head, so he can
+hear the squeezing and rattling of regurgitation, and straining and
+creaking of the fluids in their effort to pass through that great and
+strong towel called the diaphragm. Until he learns this I would apply
+the wet towel of reason to the doctor, for fear he becomes lukewarm in
+his studies and gives his patient a hypodermic injection of morphine,
+which is the advice as given at the last council of medical men who
+practice "old established" theories rather than be honest enough to say:
+"The woman is sick and I know it, but I do not know the cause of her
+trouble."
+
+
+WHAT IS A FIT?
+
+What is a fit? If God's judgment is to be respected a fit is the
+life-saving step and move, perfectly natural, perfectly reasonable, and
+should be so respected and received as divinely wise, because on that
+natural action which is produced on the constrictor nerves first, then
+the muscles, nerves, veins and arteries with all their centers. It
+appears at this time that the vital fluids have all been used up, or
+consumed, by the sensory system, and in order to be temporarily
+replenished, this convulsion shows its natural use by squeezing vital
+fluids from all parts of the body to nourish and sustain the sensory,
+which has been emptied by mental and vital action, until death is
+inevitable without this convulsing element to supply the sensory system,
+though it may be but a short time.
+
+
+SENSORY SYSTEM DEMANDING NOURISHMENT.
+
+The oftener the fits come, the oftener the nutrient system of the
+sensory cries aloud in its own, though unmistakable language, that it
+must have nourishment, that it may run the machinery of life, or it must
+give up the ghost and die. In this dire extremity and struggle for
+life, it has asked the motor system to suspend its action, use its power
+and squeeze out of any part of the whole body though it be the brain
+itself, a few drops of cerebro-spinal fluid, or anything higher or
+lower, so it may live.
+
+Those of you acquainted with the fertile fields of the Klondike referred
+to, will be enabled to furnish the sensory system with such nutriment,
+as will not make it necessary to appeal to you through the language used
+by the unconscious convulsions with all their horrible contortions.
+
+
+THE CAUSES.
+
+Thus you surely see with the microscope of reason that the sensory
+nerves must be constantly nourished, and that all nutriment for the
+nerves must be obtained from the abdomen, though its propelling force
+should come directly from the brain.
+
+
+THE REMEDY.
+
+The nerve courses from the brain must be unobstructed from the cerebrum,
+cerebellum, the medulla oblongata, and on through the whole spinal cord;
+with a normal neck, a normal back, and normal ribs, which to an
+Osteopath means careful work, with power to know, and mind to reason
+that the work is done wisely to a finish. I hope that with these
+suggestions you will go on with the investigation to a satisfactory
+degree of success.
+
+
+DISLOCATION OF THE FOUR UPPER RIBS.
+
+I wish to insert a short paragraph on a few effects following a down,
+front, and outer dislocation of the four upper ribs of either side. We
+have been familiar with asthma, goitre, pen-paralysis, shaking palsy,
+spasms, and heart diseases of various kinds. We have been as familiar
+with the existence of those abnormal variations as we are of the rising
+and the setting of the sun. Our best philosophers on diseases and causes
+have elaborately written and published their conclusions, and the world
+has carefully perused with deep interest, what they have said of all the
+diseases above named, also diseases of the lung, and to-day we are by
+them left in total darkness as to the cause of the above named diseases,
+also fits, insanity, loss of voice, brachial agitans, and many other
+diseases of the chest, neck and head. As the field is open and clear for
+any philosopher to establish his point of observation, note and report
+what he observes, I will avail myself of this opportunity, and say in a
+very few words, I have found no one of the diseases above indicated to
+have an existence without some variation of the first few of the upper
+ribs of the chest. With this I will leave farther exploration in the
+hands of other persons; and await the report of their observations pro
+and con.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX.
+
+CONCLUDING REMARKS.
+
+     Thoughts for Consideration--Offering a New Philosophy--Lymphatics
+     and Fascia--A Satisfactory Experiment--Natural Washing Out.
+
+
+THOUGHTS FOR CONSIDERATION.
+
+"Let us not forget the assembling of ourselves together." Whether this
+quotation applies to us or not, as an Osteopath I will venture to say
+that the honored dead, and the honest living intelligent healers of all
+schools, and all systems of trying to relieve our race from disease and
+suffering, so far as I have been able to ascertain, have been forced to
+guess how to proceed when they enter the "sick room" for want of a
+philosophical system of procedure. We have collected together many or
+few symptoms, named the disease, opened the battle, and on our side have
+met the enemy and fought bravely all battles very much the same way. I
+have spent one-half of a century in the field trying the many methods of
+attacks; and used the best arms and ammunition to date, and designed to
+do the greatest good. For twenty years or more I was content to be
+governed by the opinions and customs of older and more experienced
+physicians. I gave the disease its proper name. I gave the medicine as
+taught and practiced, but was not satisfied that the line of procedure
+was philosophically correct.
+
+
+OFFERING A NEW PHILOSOPHY.
+
+I believe at the present time I am fully prepared to say I can offer you
+a more rational philosophy of what should be the physician's first
+object, when called to repair a vessel that has become unseaworthy by
+accumulated barnacles, and is placed upon the dry dock for restoration
+to that condition called seaworthy, again. I believe this philosophy
+will sustain the strongest minds in the conclusion that our first and
+wisest step to successfully combat all diseases would be to inhibit
+first the nerves of the lymphatics, then produce muscular constricture
+and cause them to unload their diseased contents, and keep them
+unloading until renovation is absolutely complete; leaving the
+lymphatics in a purely healthy state, and keep them in this condition at
+any period of the disease. I have long since been of the opinion that if
+we could keep all impurities from accumulating in the lymphatics, and
+never allow them to become overloaded, we would have no such diseases as
+bilious fever, typhoid, mountain fever, malaria, pneumonia, flux, heart
+disease, brain disease, fits, insanity and on to the whole list of
+climatic troubles, and the troubles with the changes of winter and
+summer.
+
+
+LYMPHATICS AND FASCIA.
+
+I have thought for many years that the lymphatics and cellular system of
+the fascia, of the brain, the lungs, and the heart throughout the whole
+system of blood supply, do get filled up with impure and unhealthy
+fluids, long before any disease makes its appearance, and that the
+procedure of changes known as fermentation, with its electromagnetic
+disturbances, were the cause of at least ninety per cent of the diseases
+that we labor to relieve by some chemical preparation called drugs. When
+I was fully satisfied that we were liable to do more harm than good with
+such remedies, I began to hunt for more reasonable methods to relieve
+the system of its poisonous gases and fluids, through the excretory
+system of the lymphatics and other channels, through which we had hoped
+to renovate and purify the system.
+
+
+A SATISFACTORY EXPERIMENT.
+
+For twenty-five years I have tried to balance myself, divert my mind
+from all previous methods and see if I could not get more directly to
+the lymphatic system of nerves, and cause the millions of vessels known
+to exist in the body to begin to unload their contents and continue
+that action until all impurities were discharged by way of the bowels,
+lungs, kidneys and porous system.
+
+
+NATURAL WASHING OUT.
+
+At the conclusion of this philosophy I will endeavor to explain just how
+nature has provided to ward off diseases, by washing out before
+fermentation should set up in the lymphatics, from being received and
+retained the length of time, that destructive chemical changes would
+begin its work of converting elements into gas and discharging them from
+the system as unsuitable for nutriment. In order to avoid this calamity
+we are met with two important thoughts, one of the power of the nerves
+of the lymphatics to dilate and contract, also that of fascia and
+muscle, to dilate or constrict with great force when necessary to eject
+substances from gland, cell, muscle and fascia. Thus we see a cell
+loaded to fullness by secretion which it cannot do without; open-mouthed
+vessels through which it receives this fluid. Then again the system of
+cellular sphincters must dilate and contract in order to retain the
+fluids in those cell-like parts of the body. Now we are at the point
+when ready for use in other parts of the system, those sphincters must
+temporarily give away, that the gland may relax and dilate. Then the
+universal principle of constriction throughout the whole body can
+discharge the contents of the lymphatics of all divisions of the body,
+which is surely the normal condition. Let the lymphatics always receive
+and discharge naturally. If so we have no substance detained long enough
+to produce fermentation, fever, sickness and death.
+
+I think this thought has been presented plainly enough to be fully
+understood and practiced by the reader, if an Osteopath.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XX.
+
+THE SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION.
+
+     With what it has Communication--Its Position--One of its
+     Functions--Stimulation or Inhibition--Results Produced.
+
+
+WITH WHAT IT HAS COMMUNICATION.
+
+Every ganglion on the great chain of the sympathetic nerve has special
+and important functions, but upon the superior cervical falls the
+greatest burden of responsibility. This ganglion has communication with
+a greater number of nerves and organs than any other; is in direct
+communication with three cranial and four cervical nerves, indirectly
+with four more cranial nerves, and enters, by its branches into the
+formation of a large number of plexuses. Through this ganglion it is
+that much Osteopathic work is done, and the purpose of this brief paper
+is to point out some of the many effects which may be produced by its
+stimulation or inhibition.
+
+
+ITS POSITION.
+
+Anatomically we know that the superior cervical ganglion is situated in
+relation to the transverse processes of the upper three cervical
+vertebrae. It gives off branches which communicate directly with the
+vagus, glosso-pharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves; another branch, the
+ascending, passes into the carotid canal and enters into the formation
+of the carotid and cavernous plexuses; other branches pass to the
+pharynx, and a branch enters the formation of the cardiac plexuses. From
+the carotid and cavernous plexuses pass many nerves, only a few of which
+need special mention; one unites with the great superficial petrosal to
+form the Vidian nerve which goes to _Meckel's_ ganglion, branches pass
+to the Gasserian ganglion, while we have others passing to the third,
+fourth, the ophthalmic division of the fifth and the sixth nerve, also
+we have derived from the nerve the sympathetic root of the lenticular
+ganglion.
+
+
+ONE OF ITS FUNCTIONS.
+
+Physiologically we know that one of the special functions of the
+sympathetic nervous system is to control the tone of non-striate
+muscular tissue, and that we have filaments distributed from the
+sympathetic system in the muscular wall of every blood vessel, duct and
+organ throughout the body. We also know that the sympathetic is the
+accelerator nerve of the heart, being opposed in its action by the vagus
+which, is inhibitory; further, that the vagus is constant in its
+brake-like action, while the sympathetic only acts when stimulated
+either directly or reflexly. While the vagus is inhibitory to the heart
+it is motor to the lungs. Nerve force is not generated in the
+sympathetic system; the cerebro-spinal nerve force is conveyed to the
+ganglia by the rami communicantes and in the ganglia is transformed into
+sympathetic nerve force. We might compare the ganglia to electrical
+transformers. Such being the case it is not difficult to see that if the
+superior cervical ganglion receives the nerve-force for transformation
+from the upper four cervical nerves and we can prevent, or lessen, the
+passage of nerve-force from the spinal cord through those nerves to the
+ganglion, that we will, to a corresponding degree, lessen the amount of
+sympathetic nerve-force transformed in the ganglion and transmitted from
+it by its branches.
+
+
+STIMULATION OR INHIBITION.
+
+We can produce stimulation or inhibition of a nerve at will; press
+suddenly and with a little violence upon the ulnar nerve where it lies
+in relation with the internal condyle of the humerus and we will find a
+manifestation of its physiological action, evidenced by a sense of pain
+in the ulnar and radial sides of the fifth finger and the ulnar side of
+the fourth, together with contraction of the muscles supplied by that
+nerve. But if our pressure be less intense and more prolonged we will
+inhibit the nerve and produce a sense of numbness in the same area
+together with temporary loss of muscular control.
+
+Osteopaths well understand how to produce either stimulation or
+inhibition of the ganglia by way of the nerves passing to them from the
+spinal cord, and the results of such inhibition or stimulation in any
+sympathetic area can be prophesied readily by anyone who has read with
+attention what I have written; for instance, in the case of inhibition
+in the region of the nerves supplying the superior cervical ganglion
+with nerve force, we will find, first, throughout the area of
+distribution of the branches of this ganglion a relaxation of the
+vascular walls. This will be marked by two indications, first, the skin
+will become flushed and moist; second salivary secretion and lachrymal
+secretion will be increased. Second, the vagus is now allowed full sway,
+and we will find slowing of the heartbeat. It is well known that
+pressure over the seat of the first spinal nerve for a very brief period
+of time will control a congestive headache; the pressure in such case is
+made only for so long time as to produce stimulation of the sympathetic
+to greater activity, when we will attain a vaso-constrictor action,
+lessen the volume of blood in the cranial cavity and so abolish the
+headache. The arteries of the body may be divided into three groups, the
+large, the medium-sized and the small; in the first of these we find
+little muscular tissue and much elastic; in the second they exist in
+about equal proportions, while in the small arteries we find much
+muscular tissue and little elastic. As a consequence it is upon the
+smaller arteries that the sympathetic system has its greatest effect. As
+we dilate the smaller arteries and slow the heart action, it follows
+that we reduce the blood pressure, as we reduce blood pressure we reduce
+temperature, and within a very few minutes after the commencement of
+this inhibitory pressure on the upper four cervical nerves we will find
+in the large majority of cases, the capillaries over the entire surface
+of the body flushed, this being accompanied by a fall in the pulse rate
+and a marked diminution of the temperature. Indirectly at the same time
+we produce an effect upon the lungs; as we lessen blood pressure and the
+frequency of the heart action we find in accordance with the
+physiological rule an alteration in the respiration, it becomes slower
+and deeper. Arguing along these lines, and applying similar reasoning to
+each of the branches of this ganglion, anyone can trace out the many
+subsidiary results which may be expected from either stimulation of the
+rami communicantes nerves distributed to it, or their inhibition.
+Exactly similar rulings will find their prompt proof with regard to any
+other of the ganglia of the sympathetic system. We will find
+corresponding results in the cases of the thoracic ganglia which form by
+their branches the pulmonic plexuses; we get the same results from the
+splanchnic ganglia; while in the lumbar region we find that we have a
+ready means of control of the vascular system in the lower abdomen and
+pelvis. Much, very much, is still to be learned concerning the
+sympathetic nervous system, and all such increase in knowledge can come
+in one way only, clinical observation of Osteopathic treatment.
+
+   WILLIAM SMITH,
+   L. R. C. P. and S., (EDIN.), D. O.
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A. T. Still's Table or Device,
+
+That He Has Constructed For
+
+THE USE OF THE OPERATOR, THE EASE AND COMFORT OF THE PATIENT.
+
+
+It is a welcome success and does away with the lubberly old tables. It
+gives ease and support to all classes of patients. By its use the
+patient can sit in a chair or on a stool and feel at perfect ease during
+all treatments, then the operator gets results and is not tired to death
+when he has treated a patient; knows and feels that there has been some
+good done.
+
+The asthmatic knows he has gotten help because pain has left his chest
+and he breathes as with new lungs; he knows he is helped more by one
+treatment while sitting on a chair with his body easy and at rest in the
+cushioned swinging device than he would or has received by the best
+skill on any table. Then the operator says, "Thank fortune, I am not
+worn out, and know I have gotten every bone to the place it belongs, and
+I know I have given satisfactory relief because my patients say so."
+
+I think to an operator this device is his best friend. With it well
+understood he can do as much work as three good operators can do on the
+old tables. Remember this device does no part of the treatment but
+places the patient to your convenience while you do the work.
+
+I feel as I am the discoverer of the device, that I know its needs and
+feel free to advise pupils.
+
+The device will cost you $25 only.
+
+   A. T. STILL,
+   Founder.
+
+
+
+
+The American School of Osteopathy,
+
+KIRKSVILLE, MO.
+
+
+The course of study in The American School of Osteopathy is a carefully
+graded one, and is divided into four terms, of five months each. The
+terms beginning September and February of each year. The course thus
+requires two years for completion.
+
+
+COURSE OF STUDY.
+
+The course of study extends over two years, and is divided into four
+terms of five months each.
+
+
+FIRST TERM.
+
+The first term is devoted to Descriptive Anatomy including Osteology,
+Syndesmology and Myology; lectures on Histology illustrated by
+micro-stereopticon; the principles of General Chemistry and Physics.
+
+
+SECOND TERM.
+
+The second term includes Descriptive and Regional Anatomy; didactic and
+laboratory work in Histology; Physiology; Physiological Chemistry and
+Urinalysis; Principles of Osteopathy; Clinical Demonstrations in
+Osteopathy.
+
+
+THIRD TERM.
+
+The third term includes Demonstrations in Regional Anatomy; Physiology;
+lectures in Pathology illustrated by micro-stereopticon; Symptomatology;
+Physiological Psychology; Clinical Demonstrations in Osteopathy.
+
+
+FOURTH TERM.
+
+The fourth term includes Symptomatology; Minor Surgery; didactic and
+laboratory work in Pathology; Psycho-Pathology; Gynaeocology; Obstetrics;
+Sanitation and Public Health; Venereal Diseases; Medical Jurisprudence;
+Clinical Demonstrations; Clinical Practice.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The school is open to students of both sexes without distinction, and
+all have equal opportunities and privileges, and are held to the same
+requirements.
+
+The methods of instruction are such as obtain in the best academic and
+collegiate institutions, and include recitations from standard
+text-books, lectures, quizzes, practical laboratory work, and practical
+clinical work.
+
+The equipment of the school is complete in every respect. The recitation
+and lecture rooms are amply provided with all necessary means of
+illustration, such as specimens fresh and preserved, skeletons, models,
+charts, manikins and diagrams.
+
+The respective laboratories are fitted up with all the necessary
+apparatus for practical work in the Anatomical, Histological,
+Microscopical, Chemical and Physiological departments.
+
+The clinical facilities and opportunities enjoyed by students in this
+school are exceptional. An abundance of material is always available for
+clinic demonstrations, which are continued daily through two terms, with
+practical work in the clinic operating rooms by each student, under the
+direction of the regular operators, daily during the whole of the last
+term.
+
+In addition to the regular clinical department, the A. T. Still
+Infirmary has constantly under treatment from three hundred to five
+hundred patients, and although the students do not see these patients,
+the many cases of diseases of all kinds under the care of the regular
+operators in the Infirmary give them constantly fresh and varied
+illustrations for use in their lectures. Sometimes, too, patients whose
+cases may be of special interest offer the use of their cases for the
+purpose of demonstration before the students.
+
+Opportunities are thus furnished to students for such practice and drill
+in the actual work of treating diseases as we believe is not equaled by
+any similar institution anywhere. The course of study is progressively
+graded with a view to giving students a thorough and comprehensive
+knowledge of the facts and principles upon which their future work is to
+be based. These clinic exercises in connection and immediately following
+give them facility and readiness in the art of applying the facts and
+principles which they have acquired in recognizing and treating diseased
+conditions.
+
+Catalogue mailed upon application. For information as to terms, etc.,
+apply to
+
+   A. T. STILL,        AMERICAN SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHY.
+   PRESIDENT.                   KIRKSVILLE, MO.
+
+
+
+
+The A. T. Still Infirmary
+
+Cures by the Science of Osteopathy all Diseases Which are Known as
+Curable.
+
+
+Dr. A. T. STILL, founder of the Science of Osteopathy, has associated
+with him, in his infirmary organization, the oldest and most successful
+practitioners and exponents of the science, selected with special
+reference to their fitness for the work of practically demonstrating the
+principles of Osteopathy and occupying positions as teachers and
+lecturers in the American School of Osteopathy. All are regular
+graduates of this school.
+
+The students in the school are not permitted to even assist in treating
+the Infirmary patients. All the work is done by regular operators.
+
+The examination previous to treatment is conducted by Dr. Still's three
+sons assisted by the operators. After examination the patient is
+assigned to the room in which he or she will receive treatment, and
+placed under the care of an Osteopath best suited to the case.
+
+The fees for treatment at the Infirmary are $25 per month. Where
+patients are unable to come to the Infirmary for treatment, an extra
+charge of $1 to $2 per visit is added.
+
+The Infirmary maintains a complete bathing department in charge of
+competent attendants. As good baths are therefore obtainable in
+Kirksville as in any city. The charges are very moderate--twenty-five
+cents for a single bath, or $2.00 for a commutation ticket for ten
+baths. When bath tickets are procured no other fees to attendants are
+necessary.
+
+A representative of the Infirmary meets all trains, day and night, to
+help all patients who may need assistance and see that they are properly
+cared for.
+
+
+OPERATIVE SURGERY.
+
+To correct a misapprehension on the part of many, it should be
+understood that the A. T. STILL INFIRMARY is fully prepared to receive
+and handle the most difficult cases requiring the highest order of
+skilled surgery, and it is not necessary to send such cases to the great
+city hospitals in the east for even the most difficult and delicate
+operations.
+
+Dr. J. B. Littlejohn, of the faculty, is a graduate in surgery from the
+University of Glasgow, Scotland, and held for three years the position
+of Surgeon under the Government Board of England, besides other
+important and responsible positions in Europe and America.
+
+Dr. Wm. Smith holds evidences of qualifications as follows: Licentiate
+of the Royal College of Surgery, Edinburg; Licentiate of the Royal
+College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; Licentiate in Midwifery,
+Edinburg and Glasgow; etc.
+
+Cases requiring careful and delicate Surgery, the removal of fibroid
+tumors, and in fact any operation of whatever nature will receive the
+best and most scientific treatment and care in this institution.
+
+The management has now secured a powerful and perfect Roentgen or X-Ray
+apparatus which will be used in connection with this department, in the
+examination of difficult cases.
+
+Patients coming to the A. T. Still Infirmary may rely upon the fact that
+they will in no case be subjected to unnecessary surgical operations, as
+the knife is never used unless absolutely necessary.
+
+Address all letters of inquiry to
+
+   A. T. STILL INFIRMARY,
+   KIRKSVILLE, MO
+
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+|Transcriber's note:                                                  |
+|                                                                     |
+|Corrections have been made to everyday words printed incorrectly, but|
+|all technical terms are as in the original.                          |
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