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Show OSTEOPATHY AS DEFINED IN APPLETION'S UNIVERSAL UNIVER-SAL CYCLOPAEDIA "Osteopathy is a method of treating diseases of the human boay without .the use of drugs, by means of manipulations applied to various nerve centers, chiefly those along the spine, with a view to inducing free circulation of the blood and lymph, nnd an equal distribution of the nerve forces. "Special attention is given to the readjustment of any bones, muscles, or ligaments not in the normal position. "Thevsystem was formulated by Dr. A. T. Still,. He reasoned that a body so perfectly constructed construc-ted meohnnicnlly should be able to protect itself against the inroads in-roads or disease without the arti-fical arti-fical aid of external substances, except those employed as food. "His next conclusion was that ns a natural flow of blood is health, and disease is the effect of local or general disturbance of blood. With this as a working hypothesis, he made a series of experiments, the results of which convinced him that the various organs of the body were controlled controll-ed by nerve centers located chiefly chief-ly along the spine, and that these could be operated upon and controlled con-trolled by pressure or stimulation of the fingers. Ho holds nlso that if the bones, muscles, arteries, veins, lymphatics, glands, organs, and tissues of the body are in their the-ir correct anatomical positions,dis ease cannot exist, Displacement mny arise from n variety of onuses, onus-es, such ns n fall; n blow, n strain, or atmospheric change. Pressure upon the blood vessels or nerves in the immediate vicinity of the pnrt so nffoctcd will follow, nnd a consequent shutting oft of the nerve or blood supply to some organ, or-gan, which will then become diseased. dis-eased. With n readjustment of the displaced part will come 'perfect 'per-fect freedom of motion of all the fluids, forces, and substances per |