TITLE PAGE AND PORTRAIT OF A. T. STILL

PREFACE

CHAPTER I: SOME INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

• Not a Work of Compilation
• Authors Quoted
• Method of Reasoning
• The Osteopath an Artist
• When I Became an Osteopath
• Dr. Neal's Opinion
• The Opinions of Others
• What Studies Necessary
• What I Mean by Anatomy
• Principles
• The Practicing Osteopath's Guide
• The Fascia
• Not a Pleasing Task
• Without Accepted Theories
• Truths of Nature
• Body, Motion and Mind
• Osteopathy to Cure Disease
• The Osteopath Should Find Health

• Divisions of the Body
• Searching for the Cause
• Duty of the Osteopathic Explorer
• Classification and Division
• The Abnormal
• Nerve Powers
• Witnesses to Examine
• Abnormal Growths
• Cerebro Spinal Fluid
• Body in Perfect Health
• Chemistry
• Nature's Chemistry
• Correct Method of Reasoning

• A Free Circulation
• Death Blows
• Something of the Neck
• Order of Treatment
• The Pelvis
• Brains of Animals
• Arterial Motion
• Mental Vibrations
• Overburdening the Mind
• Hemiplegia

• Nature Makes Nothing in Vain
• A Successful Experiment
• A Question for Ages
• The Position
• Meaning of Life
• Some Questions Asked
• Condition in Certain Diseases Caused by Cold
• Cerumen in Fluid State
• Winter Kills Babies
• Some Advice to Mothers
• A Case in Point
• Connection of the Brain and Other Nerves in Digestion
• Unaided Investigation

• Where Confined
• Consumption
• How Consumption Usually Begins
• Can Consumption Be Cured
• Consumption Described
• No Time for Surrender
• Cerebral Spinal Fluid
• How to Destroy Deadly Bombs of Decay
• Battle of Blood for Life
• Miliary Tuberculosis
• Conversion of Bodies Into Gas
• Forming a Tubercle
• Breeding Contagion
• The Seeds of Disease
• Generating Fever
• Whooping Cough
• Clouds and Lungs Are Much Alike
• The Wisdom of Nature
• Water Formed in Lungs
• The Law of Fives
• Feeble Action of Heart
• The Heart
• From Neck to Heart
• Dyspersia or Imperfect Digestion
• Questions of Gas

• Importance of the Subject
• Demands of Nature on the Lymphatics
• Dunglinson's Definition
• Dangers of Dead Substances
• Lymph Continued
• Nature's Solvents
• Where Are the Lymphatics Situated?
• The Fat and Lean

• Investigation
• A Struggle With Nature
• Lesson of Cause and Effect
• Something of Medical Etiquette
• The Medical Doctor
• An Explorer for Truth Must Be Independent
• The Diaphragm Introduced
• A Useful Study
• Combatting Effects
• Is Least Understood
• A Case of Bilious Fever
• A Demand on the Nerves
• Danger of Compression
• A Cause for Disease
• Was a Mistake Made in the Creation
• An Exploration
• Result of Removal of Diaphragm
• Sustaining Life in Principles
• Law Applicable to Other Organs
• Power of Diaphragrn
• Omentum

• Gender of the Liver
• Productions of the Liver
• A Hope for the Afflicted
• Evidences of Truth
• Loaded With Ignorance
• Lack of Knowledge of the Kidney
• How a Purgative Acts
• Flux (Bloody Dysentary)
• How Does the Osteopathy Cure?
• Flux More Fully Described
• Osteopathic Remedies
• Medical Remedies
• More of the Osteopathic Remedy

• Uses for Fluids
• Blood an Unknown Fluid
• Harvey Only Reached the Banks of the River of Life
• Blood Is Systematically Furnished
• Fatality of Ignorance
• To Find the Cause
• Following Arteries and Nerves
• Feeding the Nerves
• The Blood on Its Journey
• Powers Necessary to Move Blood
• Venous Blood Suspended

• Where Is Disease Sown?
• An Illustration of Conception
• The Greatest Problem
• A Fountain of Supply
• Fascia Omnipresent
• Connection with Spinal Cord
• Goes With and Covers All Muscles
• Proofs in Contagion
• Study of Nerves and Fascia
• Tumefy, Tumefaction
• Medical Doctor's Treatment

• Be Armed With Facts
• Union of Human Gases With Oxygen
• Fever and Nettle-rash
• Nature Constructs for a Wise Purpose
• Processes of Life Must be Kept in Motion
• No Satisfaction from Authors
• Animal Heat
• Semeiology
• Symptomatology
• Potter's Definition of Fever
• Fevers only Effects
• Result of Stoppages of Vein or Artery
• Aneurisms

• As Defined by Allopathy
• Scarlet Fever as Defined by Osteopathy
• Smallpox
• Power to Drive Greater Than in Measles

• Wonders on the Increase
• What Is Life?
• How Is Action Produced?
• Acquaint Yourself With the Machinery
• Duty of the Osteopath
• Formation of Sacrum
• The Pelvis
• Appearance of Oedema
• Do All Diseases Have Appearance in Oedema
• Questions for the Osteopathy

• The Advent of Man
• Care of the Stock Raiser
• Mental Degeneration Makes It Unpleasant for an Original Thinker
• Original Thinkers of the Ancients
• Methods of Healing
• Failure of Allopathy
• Primitive Man
• Evidences of Prehistoric Man
• Mental Dwarfage

• Five Points
• Visceral List
• Care in Treating the Spinal Column
• How to Treat the Spinal Column
• Most Important Chapter
• Perfect Drainage
• What Treating Means
• A Natural Cure

• The Vermiform Appendix
• Operating for Appendicitis
• Expelling Power of the Vermiform Appendix
• Care Exercised in Making Assertions
• Reasoning Tests
• A List of Unexplained Diseases
• Concluding Remarks

• Overloading
• Births
• Preparation for Delivery
• Caution
• Second Examination
• Lasceration Need Not Occur
• Care of Cord
• Severing Cord
• Putting on Belly Band
• Delivery of Afterbirth
• Preparing for Mother's Comfort
• Post-Delivery Hemorrhage
• Treatment for
• Food for Mother
• Treatment for Sore Breast

• Old Phrases
• Results of Stoppage of Fluids
• Old Theory of Fits
• What the Real Cause may be
• Listen for the Cause
• What is a Fit
• Sensory System Demanding Nourishment
• The Causes
• The Remedy
• Dislocation of Atlas and of the Four Upper Ribs

• Thoughts for Consideration
• Offering a New Philosophy
• Lymphatics and Fascia
• A Satisfactory Experiment
• Natural Washing Out

• With What It Has Communication
• Its Position
• One of its Functions
• Stimulation or Inhibition

• A. T. Still's Table or Device
• The American School of Osteopathy
• The A. T. Still Infirmary
• Operature Surgery