The Science of Osteopathy: Its Value in Preventing and in Curing Disease (Classic Reprint)

ThK Scik NcB Of Osxkopathy I ts Value in Preventing and in Curing Disease. By J. MARTIN LITTLEJOHN, Ph.D., LL. D., F. S. Sct and F. R. S. L. (L ondon), ,. DI p Iomate in Osteopathy. v ty T he following address, delivered in London before the Royal Society, is reproduced, by kind permission of the author, from The Journal of the Science of Osteopathy S cientific) of February, 1900. It is unabridged; but the present editor is responsible for the wording of the title and for the insertion of most of the sub-heads. C. E. A. LOR the first time in Europe and in this metropolis of the world I desire to present the claims of this new science. I appear as the apologist of the new science, because, having examined its claims, I find that they are based on scientific principles which are the common property of the medical profession. It is not unfitting that to this ancient scientific corporation the first exposition and defence of Osteopathy should be offered. Your charter rights as a Royal Society give you the privilege and honor of branding any scientific truth as genuine, and to you belongs the right of disseminating it among the common people. I am encouraged by the lines of Hamlet addressed to Horatio, There are more things in heaven and earth Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. It is something to have the privilege in these closing years of the nineteenth century to live and take part in scientific eflfbrts and movements that promise to crown civilization with its highest glory. In the field of medicine, changes are taking place unheard of in bygone generations. In other fields of literature and science, artificiality is giving place to naturality. Accumulations that have been added to science are being unloaded and we are being led back to the simpler and more: sure methods of nature. An ancient scholar has this exalted praise of the healing art: Man in noth
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