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Excerpt from Food Fundamentals: A View of Ill-Health as Caused by Wrong Habits of Living and a Discussion of Food Based on Experience From the Viewpoint of an Osteopathic Physician
Only those who have freed themselves from think ing in the ordinary and much worn channels turn to osteopathy as their profession. And this applied with greater force to those who championed osteopathy in its earlier days than it does now. I spent three and one-half years in Kirksville, Mo., the first half year to regain sufficient health to enter the school and the remainder of the time to take the course in osteopathy. During this time I greatly profited by the privilege of close association with Dr. A. T. Still, the Founder of Osteopathy, as he chose to make use of my services in getting out his latest book, Osteopathy, Research and Practice. Whatever was left in me of narrowness of mind, of biased opinion, of prejudice in thinking, of following in the customary paths of mental activity, received a forceful and lasting shock as I gathered a close glimpse of an invincible mind expanded by orig inal thinking; a mind which finds it easy to soar into the clouds above ordinary thought that master mind of Dr. Still. His words are still ringing in my ears: Keep your mud valves open and your engine in such condition that you can move out of the hearing of theories, and halt for all coming days by the side of the river of the pure waters of reason and be able to demonstrate that which you assert.
Having been educated as a teacher and having followed that profession for ten years it was only natural that the author would try to answer the ques tions directed to him in practice in such a manner that the inquirer would be able to get his point of view accurately. To constantly keep doing this lead to extensive investigation, observation and an endless amount of reading.
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