Chapter III: Part II: Osteopathy

CHAPTER VII--SOME DEFINITIONS AND HISTORIES 79

Romantic Story of Osteopathy's Origin--An Asthma
Cure--Headache Cured by Plowlines--Log Rolling to Relieve
Dysentery--Osteopathy is Drugless Healing--Osteopathy is
Manual Treatment--Liberty of Blood, Nerves and
Arteries--Perfect Skeletal Alignment and Tonic,
Ligamentous, Muscular and Facial Relaxation--Andrew T.
Still in 1874--Kirksville, Mo., as a Mecca--American
School of Osteopathy--The Promised Golden Stream of
Prosperity--The "Mossbacks"--"Who's Who in Osteopathy."

CHAPTER VIII--THE OSTEOPATHIC PROPAGANDA 88

Wonderful Growth Claimed to Prove Merit--Osteopathy is
Rational Physio-Therapy--Growth is in Exact Proportion to
Advertising Received--Booklets and Journals for Gratuitous
Distribution--Osteopathy Languishes or Flourishes by
Patent Medicine Devices--Circular Letter from Secretary of
American Osteopathic Association--Boosts by Governors and
Senators--The Especial Protege of Authors--Mark
Twain--Opie Reed--Emerson Hough--Sam Jones--The Orificial
Surgeon--The M.D. Seeking Job as "Professor"--The Lure of
"Honored Doctor" with "Big Income"--No Competition.

CHAPTER IX--THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF OSTEOPATHY 97

Infallible, Touch-the-Button System that Always
Cured--Indefinite Movements and Manipulations--Wealth of
Undeveloped Scientific Facts--Osteopaths Taking M.D.
Course--The Standpatter and the Drifter--The
"Lesionist"--"Bone Setting"--"Inhibiting a
Center"--Chiropractics--"Finest Anatomists in the
World"--How to Cure Torticollis, Goitre and Enteric
Troubles--A Successful Osteopath--Timid Old
Maids--Osteopathic Philanthropy.

CHAPTER X--OSTEOPATHY AS RELATED TO SOME NOTORIOUS FAKES 111

Sure Shot Rheumatism Cure--Regular Practitioner's
Discomfiture--Medicines Alone Failed to Cure
Rheumatism--Osteopathy Relieves Rheumatic and Neuralgic
Pains--"Move Things"--"Pop" Stray Cervical Vertebrae--Find
Something Wrong and Put it Right--Terrible Neck-Wrenching,
Bone-Twisting Ordeal.

CHAPTER XI--TAPEWORMS AND GALLSTONES 119

Plug-hatted Faker--Frequency of Tapeworms--Some Tricks
Exposed--How the Defunct Worm was Passed--Rubber
Near-Worm--New Gallstone Cure--Relation to
Osteopathy--Perfect, Self-Oiling, "Autotherapeutic"
Machine--Touch the Button--The Truth About the Consumption
and Insanity Cures.

THE MORAL TO THE TALE 125

Honesty--Plain Dealing--Education.