Excerpt from Osteopathy Complete
In presenting Osteopathy Complete to the student and practitioner we feel that we are entering a field comparatively new, and upon which very little has been written.
The word "osteopathy," signifying bone-disease, is a misnomer, and is in itself misleading. It was coined by the discoverer of a few of the fundamental principles of this new science of healing.
The human system is, to all intents and purposes, a wonderful machine, capable of running for an indefinite period of time, unless interfered with by accidents, dislocations, contraction of muscles, obstruction of the nerve-force, or the circulation of the nutritive fluids of the body.
The heart is compared to a double force-pump, driving the blood through the arteries, or irrigating channels, which pervade the most hidden recesses of the entire body; the veins collecting it from the capillaries and returning it to the heart.
The brain is compared to a dynamo which generates, and transmits by way of the nerves the forces which control and give vitality to every tissue and organ of the body.
Osteopathy is based upon a thorough knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and enables the skilled operator to reduce dislocations, or, by mechanical methods, to keep free the wonderful forces and nutritive fluids of the body so essential to true physiological conditions; and that its methods are efficacious in the treatment of many diseases which have baffled the skill of almost all other methods, which have been tried and proven to be of no avail, can be attested by thousands who have been restored to health and usefulness by an application of its principles.
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