Osteopathy explained / J. Martin Littlejohn.

  • Littlejohn, J. M. (John Martin)
Date:
[1900?]
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Credit: Osteopathy explained / J. Martin Littlejohn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    almost every laboratory in our European universities, we find men delving deep into these physiological and biological processes, with the object of finding out, if possible, the secret of life in the cell and in the organism, and to account, if possible, for all of those vital processes that take place in the renewal of the cell and organism life. preparation for osteopathic principles. The old science of medicine represented by drugs began to fall long ago by the attacks of skepticism which always come before truth. In Moliere’s plays we find an inimitable picture of one who was by nature a semi-fool turned by art into a physician. His mind, as Goethe puts it, “ was well broken in and laced up in Spanish boots.” “ After many strokes of the hammer on the iron,” he got his diploma, his highest recommendation being that he followed blindly the opinions of his forefathers. To-day we live in the age of freedom. In i 566 the faculty of medicine in Paris started the movement, by a unanimous decree passing this resolution, “that antimony is deleterious and to be counted among the poisons. Nor can it be amended by any other preparation so as to be taken without injury.” In 1615 the same faculty unanimously interdicted drug vendors, and called on all judges to deal severely with those who prescribe, administer, or exhibit for sale the said medicines. Both of these acts were ratified by the French parliament, and were in force for one hundred years. function of osteopathy. It was reserved, however, for Osteopathy to treat the blood not only as the means of life, the thread that welds the diverse tissues of the body into one under the guidance and control of master nerve tissue, but to regard the blood and the nerve force as the medicine of nature. It was only yesterday that we began to look on the body as a great living mechanism. In order that its vital force may be unob¬ structed, the different parts of the machine must be adjusted to every motion of bone, ligament, and muscle; pure air must penetrate every minute cell of ari unimpeded lung and every minute recess of healthy tissue ; pure blood must circulate in every organ and tissue ; and a perfect nerve substance with an irrepressible organic force must ani¬ mate every tissue and pass through every region of the body. To see that this is the condition of the body is the function of Osteopathy. MEDICAL FORERUNNERS OF OSTEOPATHY. Osteopathy claims that to administer inorganic drugs internally is harmful to the system. In this, it is supported by some of the most