Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XL Working Alone--Success--The Pile Doctor and LightningRod Peddler--Dr. William Smith Comes to Investigate-- The Lesson in Electricity--Motor and Sensory--What is Fever?--Dr. Smith a Convert--The Success of Lady Osteopaths--Especially Excellent in Obstetrics--Diseases of the Season--The Allegory of Joshua--Basic Principles--The Too-much-talk Man--Charter of the American School of Osteopathy. I Worked alone with my investigation until about 1892, with such help as my four sons could give, treating many kinds of diseases, and heard much talk, good and bad, for and against the new method of curing the afflicted. Paying no attention to comments, I did the work, which was all I tried to do or thought of doing. The results were far better than I had ever dreamed or reasoned I could obtain. People came in great numbers to me to be treated, and my practice yielded me quite a little sum of money. I made appointments for a week or longer in small towns. While in Nevada, Missouri, a man asked if his son could go with me and "ketch on," as he termed it. I told him it would cost him one hundred dollars to get me to be bored with him or any other person. He said his son was wild to learn something of this method of curing disease. The young man had been traveling from place to place, treating piles with some kind of ointment he had purchased. His education was very limited, and in fact he was ignorant of the human body. I told him he must get Gray's anatomy, begin with the bones, and complete a knowledge of anatomy before he could be of any help to me. He said he thought it was a gift I had, and believed he had the same powers to heal. I told him it was a gift of hard study, of all my life, and the result of brain-work put in on standard...
