The philosophy and mechanical principles of osteopathy / by Andrew Taylor Still.

  • Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor), 1828-1917.
Date:
1902
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Credit: The philosophy and mechanical principles of osteopathy / by Andrew Taylor Still. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    the more advanced in their efforts to obtain good results by accommodating Nature to do its own mending and restoring. The doctor of osteopathy, as foreman, can only preside over a shop of repairs; and, in order that he may wisely proceed and make his investigations thoroughly, we think it best to divide the human body into a number of divisions, begin- ning with the head and neck and including such diseases as belong to that division, then the upper spine, chest, and its organs to the diaphragm, and from the diaphragm to the sacrum, and from the sacrum to the coccyx. All diseases common to the human race will be classified and presented in the plainest and most forcible words at my command, to enable the reader to fully comprehend the meaning of this philosophy, which is written to simplify a knowledge of the cause and cure of all curable diseases to which the human race is subject. Truth Is Truth. We often spealc 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 useful- ness 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 demon- strate by its action. If we take man as the object on which to base the be- ginning of our reason, we find the association of many ele- ments, 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 de-