Excerpt from Clinical Osteopathy
The present period of medical history is characterized by definite development of the medical sciences. There is probably not a field that has not contributed distinct and exact data toward the evolvement of the practice of the healing art. The prosecution of sanitary knowledge has been noteworthy. The far better understanding of infective processes and the significance of immunology has fairly revolutionized certain practices. The appreciation of the importance of the endocrine organs in their relationship to the entire bodily economy has changed the viewpoint of many disorders. The far better understanding of the functions of the digestive tract due to more definite diagnostic methods has been of great value. These are a few of the present landmarks that have virtually changed the conception of certain physiological processes and contributed precise methods to the treatment of many disorders.
Medical history shows that it is vouchsafed to but very few individuals to discover and contribute such far-reaching discoveries as Dr. Still has made. As time reveals the many brilliant workers in the scientific field the importance of Dr. Still"s great work is enhanced. A clearer understanding of anatomical completeness and intactness, and the consequent significance of adjustment in order that physiological unity may be asserted through the inherent properties of the organism, is apparently foreshadowed by the many converging lines of medical development.
It is fitting that at this time these coworkers, in Clinical Osteopathy, should compile, evaluate and rewrite the present understanding of the medical sciences as they apply to therapeutics. The osteopathic profession is very much in need of such a work; it fills a distinct requirement.
We believe that the profession will take sufficient interest in this work so that it will be constructively criticised and much valuable data supplied by both teachers and practitioners of osteopathy in order that future editions will still better reflect the combined experience of the profession.
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