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but gradually the results began to count. Success begat success. Patients came from 

 afar, and the practice of osteopathy became known throughout the land. 



Could he impart his knowledge, his power to others, was the question asked by all. 

 The answer was the opening of the " American School of Osteopathy " in the autumn 

 of 1892. There are now over five thousand graduate practitioners of osteopathy, 

 located in the United States, Canada, British Isles, France, Germany, Mexico, Japan, 

 India, Italy, Sweden, Argentina, South Africa, Cuba, Porto Rico and Hawaii. The 

 following eight colleges in the United States are devoted to the teaching of its princi- 

 ples: The American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Mo.; The Philadelphia College 

 of Osteopathy, Philadelphia; The Still College of Osteopathy, Des Moines, la.; The 

 Pacific College of Osteopathy, and The Los Angeles College of Osteopathy, Los Angeles, 

 Cal.; The Littlejohn College of Osteopathy, Chicago, 111.; The Central College of 

 Osteopathy, Kansas City, Mo. ; and The Massachusetts College of Osteopathy, 

 Boston. All these colleges are recognised by the American Osteopathic Association. 

 The student enrolment is second only to that of the allopathic colleges. The cur- 

 ricula of the osteopathic colleges embrace all the subjects taught in the other medical 

 schools except materia medica. Osteopathy is recognised and regulated by law in 

 forty states of the United States. The other states, through court decisions or ex- 

 emptions in the laws, make its practice legal. There is an Osteopathic Association 

 in every state of the Union, a national organisation, the American Osteopathic Associ- 

 ation, associations in the provinces of Canada, and also a British Osteopathic Associ- 

 ation. Ten or twelve magazines and periodicals are published by the profession, 

 notably the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, Journal of Osteopathy, 

 Osteopathic Physician, Osteopathic Health, Osteopathic Herald, Osteopath, Western 

 Osteopath, and Bulletin. 



Much excellent experimental research is being done by members of the profession 

 under the direction of the A. T. Still Research Institute located at Chicago. The work 

 is chiefly along the line of osteopathic fundamentals and similar subjects, such as 

 the production of lesions; the study of perverted function and pathological conditions 

 resulting therefrom; the correction of the produced lesions; and the study of the results 

 following that. These experiments, through clinical observations and post-mortem 

 dissections on various animals, have demonstrated, among other things, that when a 

 spinal lesion is produced, pathological changes in the tissues of the various viscera 

 involved result, for example in that of the stomach, kidney, liver, intestines, pan- 

 creas; and that abnormal functioning of these viscera also results, such as diarrhea, 

 constipation, glycosuria, increased susceptibility to infection, etc. Further, the 

 experiments have demonstrated that the correction of the produced lesion is followed by 

 a return to normal functioning. The produced lesions also show profound pathological 

 changes in the vascular mechanism of the posterior ganglion, the cells of the grey 

 matter of the cord, and the sympathetic ganglia, all of which affected their functioning. 



Experiments have also been made to determine the effect of osteopathic treatment 

 upon the opsonic index, showing that the increase varied from 6.6 to 21.7 percent, and 

 that this increase began at once and continued from three to five hours. The experi- 

 ments were followed by no untoward results. 



The clinical use of radiography in practice has demonstrated the existence of bony 

 lesions prior to osteopathic treatment for their correction, and then their non-existence 

 following such correction. 



Bibliography. Booth, History of Osteopathy; Burns, Studies in the Osteopath'ic Sciences; 

 Clark, Applied Anatomy; Diseases of Women; Hazzard, Practice of Osteopathy; Hulett, Prin- 

 ciples and Practice of Osteopathy; McCpnnell and Teall, Practice of Osteopathy; Still, Auto- 

 biography; The Philosophy and Mechanical Principles of Osteopathy, Osteopathy, Research and 

 Practice; Tasker, Principles and Practice of Osteopathy; Woodall, Osteopathic Gynecology; 

 Young, Surgery. (G. W. RILEY, Pn.B., D.O.) 



