Home study course in osteopathy, massage and manual therapeutics.

Date:
[between 1900 and 1909?]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Home study course in osteopathy, massage and manual therapeutics. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LESSON I THE, THEORY OF OSTEOPATHY Osteopathy is a system, method or science of healing dis- ease without the use of drugs or medicines of any kind. It is based upon the proven laws of Anatomy and Physiology, and comprises a scientific and thorough knowledge of the structure and functions of the human mechanism. Our students are taught to understand and apply certain organic laws and nat- ural remedial resources, within the human organism itself, and by means of scientific manipulation and adjustment assist Nature, in harmonious accord with its own mechanical prin- ciples, activities and processes, to recover from displacements, derangements, obstructions and pressures, and to regain its normal equilibrium of form, action and function, thus restor- ing to the patient normal Health and Strength. Osteopathy holds to the theory that the body is a delicate mechanism, subject to the same laws of mechanics as those which regulate all mechanical structures in their construction, arrangement, position and operation. That to have perfect action in any machine, each and every part of it must be ex- actly in place and entirely free from obstruction. That any mSachine subject to great strains or shocks, such as the human body sustains from accidents, overwork, sudden atmospheric changes, bad surroundings, etc., can be so racked by these agents that some of its parts will be misplaced or dislocated and its normal action perverted or entirely destroyed. That the condition of the human body which we term Disease is due entirely to obstruction of or pressure on some of the arteries, veins, nerves or ducts of the body, from the action of which we obtain motion, sensation, digestion, assimilation, nutrition and egestion. That a removal of this obstruction or pressure will restore the circulation of the blood and other fluids of the body and bring about a condition of Ease, Strength and Health. The aim of our students is to restore to normal action and function the organs and different parts of the body that have been manifesting along abnormal lines. The nerves, which have been likened to a great telegraphic system, passing