Early Osteopathic Literature

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Osteopathic Health, Vol. XIX, No. 5: A Magazine in Health Science Simply Told

The Osteopathic Publishing Company

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Osteopathic Health: NOVEMBER, 1910: A Magazine of Health Science SIMPLY TOLD

SPECIAL EDITION FOR ARTHUR MINER LANE, D. O., BOSTON, 420 BOYLSTON STREET, BERKELEY BUILDING

REGISTERED OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN -IN- MASSACHUSETTS - CONNECTICUT - NEW YORK

TELEPHONE CONNECTION at OFFICE and RESIDENCE

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OSTEOPATHIC HEALTH: WITH WHICH IS CONSOLIDATED THE OSTEOPATHIC ADVOCATE AND THE RIGHT WAY

Copyright, 1910, by The Osteopathic Publishing Co. All rights reserved.

Vol. XIX NOVEMBER, 1910 No. 5

Articles:

How "Bad" Mechanism in Our "Joints" Makes Sickness; Let the Osteopath Define His Own System; Osteopaths Begin at the Foundations of Health; There are Many Different Sorts of Lesions; Cut Off Nourishment to Any Organ--It Soon Gets "Sick"; Lesions of the Spine Cause Pressures on Nerves; How the Two Nervous Systems Co-operate to Make Health; Any Form of Sickness May Come From "Lesions."
Osteopathy: A Brief Discussion of its Principles and Practice

R.H. Williams

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Osteopathy: A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF ITS PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE

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OSTEOPATHY: A Brief, General Discussion of the Principles and Practice of this Advanced Science of Healing, with an Explanation of the Mechanical Cause of Diseases and their Cure

COPYRIGHTED, 1910, BY WILLIAMS PUB. CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Osteopathy and Woman: "Who Ever Heard of a Man Wishing He Were a Woman?"

R.H. Williams

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Osteopathy and Woman: "WHO EVER HEARD OF A MAN WISHING HE WERE A WOMAN?"

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Osteopathy and Woman

COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY WILLIAMS PUB. CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Osteopathy: A Preventive of Disease

R.H. Williams

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Osteopathy: A PREVENTIVE OF DISEASE

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OSTEOPATHY: A PREVENTIVE OF DISEASE

COPYRIGHTED, 1910, BY WILLIAMS PUB. CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Osteopathy: A Rational Method of Treatment

R.H. Williams

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OSTEOPATHY: A RATIONAL METHOD OF TREATMENT

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OSTEOPATHY: A RATIONAL METHOD OF TREATMENT

COPYRIGHTED, 1910 BY WILLIAMS PUB CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
A Little Journey to the Home of Andrew Taylor Still

Elbert Hubbard

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A Little Journey to the Home of Andrew Taylor Still

By Elbert Hubbard

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Andrew Taylor Still: Being a Little Journey to the Home of the Founder of Osteopathy

By Elbert Hubbard

Done into a Book by the Roycrofters, at their Shop, which is in East Aurora, New York, mcmxii

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"THE OLD DOCTOR" AND ELBERT HUBBARD On the veranda at Kirksville

DR. C.E. STILL
Osteopathy: "The Question is Not Whether a Doctrine is Beautiful, But Whether it is True"

Walter Anson Merkley

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Osteopathy: "THE QUESTION IS NOT WHETHER A DOCTRINE IS BEAUTIFUL, BUT WHETHER IT IS TRUE"

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Osteopathy

COPYRIGHT 1912, WILLIAMS PUBLISHING CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Paper read by Walter Anson Merkley, A.B., D.O., before the Rainy Day Club of New York, at the Hotel Astor
Why Osteopathy: Mrs. Myra Progress Explains Osteopathy to Mrs. Dorothea Conservatism

R.H. Williams

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WHY OSTEOPATHY: Mrs. MYRA PROGRESS Explains Osteopathy To Mrs. DOROTHEA CONSERVATISM.

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Why Osteopathy?

COPYRIGHT 1912, WILLIAMS PUBLISHING CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The Spinal Origin of Disease

R.H. Williams

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The Spinal Origin of Disease

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The Spinal Origin of Disease, Part I: Reasons for Treating the Spine

COPYRIGHT 1913. WILLIAMS PUB. CO ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Osteopathic Health, Vol. XLVII, No. 2: Health at Par

Henry Stanhope Bunting, Howard T. Treleaven, and W.E. Farbstein

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HEALTH AT PAR: Osteopathy for the Business Man

BY HOWARD T. TRELEAVEN, D.O.

A Chart of Health and Efficiency

VOLUME XLVII, Waukegan, Ill., August, 1924, Number 2. Published Monthly. $1.00 Per Annum; 10 Cents Per Copy

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OSTEOPATHIC HEALTH

Copyright, 1924, by The Bunting Publications, Inc., Waukegan, Ill. VOL. XLVII Waukegan, Ill. Number 2

Articles:

Famous Men of Science: Carl Ludwig, 1816-1895; Health at Par: Osteopathy for the Business Man; The Lamp of Aladdin; Courses by Hours in Representative Osteopathic Schools as Compared with Medical Schools
Osteopathic Health, Vol. XLX, No. 3: Osteopathy the Haven for Suffering Women

Henry Stanhope Bunting

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OSTEOPATHY: THE HAVEN FOR SUFFERING WOMEN

VOLUME XLX, Waukegan, Ill., March, 1926, Number 3. Published Monthly; $1.00 Per Annum; 10 Cents Per Copy

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OSTEOPATHIC HEALTH

Copyright, 1926, by The Bunting Publications, Inc., Waukegan, Ill. VOL. XLX Waukegan, Ill. Number 3

Articles:

Osteopathy the Haven for Suffering Women; Constipation in Women; Backache in Women; Headache and Neuralgia; Ovarian Ills; Menstrual Suppression; Profuse Flow and Flooding; Painful Menstruation; The Cause and Cure of Leucorrhea; Curetting the Uterus; Uterine Displacements and Flexions; Prolapsus of Uterus; Bladder Trouble in Women; Piles or Hemorrhoids in Women; Nervousness, Neurasthenia and Brain Fag; Gowns Worn During Treatments; A Comparison of Subjects Taught by Standard Medical Colleges and Osteopathic Colleges; Compare It!
Osteopathic Health, Vol. LII, No. 6: That Machine You Call Your Body

American Osteopathic Association, Alexander Black, and R. Kendrick Smith

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That Machine You Call Your Body - How About Choosing Your Life Work? - Intestinal Indigestion

VOLUME LII, Chicago, Ill., June, 1927, Number 6. Published Monthly; $1.00 Per Annum; 10 Cents Per Copy

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OSTEOPATHIC HEALTH

Copyright 1927, by The American Osteopathic Assn., Chicago, Ill. VOL. LII Chicago, Ill. Number 6

Articles:

Take Time to Be Healthy; That Machine You Call Your Body; How About Choosing Your Life Work?; Intestinal Indigestion; Osteopathic and Medical Courses of Study Compared; The Osteopathic Physician's Training
Osteopathic Health, Vol. LII, No. 8: What Osteopathy Does for Human Health

American Osteopathic Association, Edgar S. Comstock, D.B. Mansfield, Harry W. Gamble, R. Kendrick Smith, Willis E. Lewis, and Jean Basford

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What Osteopathy Does for Human Health - Summer Complaint - Osteopathy Not A Faith Cure

VOLUME LII, Chicago, Ill., August, 1927, Number 8. Published Monthly; $1.00 Per Annum; 10 Cents Per Copy

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OSTEOPATHIC HEALTH

Copyright 1927, by The American Osteopathic Assn., Chicago, Ill. VOL. LII Chicago, Ill. Number 8

Articles:

Facts Are The Best Arguments; What Osteopathy Does for Human Health; A Letter to a Layman: Sent by Dr. Edgar S. Comstock to an Enquirer About Osteopathy; Summer Complaint; Prominent Executive Boosts Osteopathy; Enlarged Glands in the Neck; Pain at Base of the Brain; Sciatica: A Patient's Statement; Osteopathy Not a Faith Cure; From Complex Sickness to Simple Health: A Woman Journalist's Experience; Twelve Reasons for Osteopathy
Osteopathic Health, Vol. LII, No. 10: Save Your Feet

American Osteopathic Association, G.A. Pockett, Floyd L. Barr, R. Kendrick Smith, Sarah Murray, F.E. Jorris, and B.P. Mansfield

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Save Your Feet - The Mechanism of the Foot - Eminent Authority - Osteopathy and Bright's Disease

VOLUME LII, Chicago, Ill., October, 1927, Number 10. Published Monthly: $1.00 Per Annum; 10 Cents Per Copy

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OSTEOPATHIC HEALTH

Copyright 1927, by The American Osteopathic Assn., Chicago, Ill. VOL. LII Chicago, Ill. Number 10

Articles:

An Osteopathic City; Just Feet; The Mechanism of the Foot; Arches or Springs?; Save Your Feet; Strengthen Your Feet With These Exercises; Eminent Authority; Spinal Lesions; Ousting the Poisons; Osteopathy and Bright's Disease; Only Five Minutes
Osteopathic Health, Vol. LIII, No. 12: Osteopathy Helps Rejected Risks Get Life Insurance

American Osteopathic Association, Allan Anderson, Eugene F. Pellette, Beth Haberer, and Harvey Fuller

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Osteopathy Helps Rejected Risks Get Life Insurance

VOLUME LIII, Chicago, Ill., December, 1928, Number 12. Published Monthly; $1.00 Per Annum; 10 Cents Per Copy

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OSTEOPATHIC HEALTH

Copyright, 1928, by The American Osteopathic Assn., Chicago, Ill. VOL. LIII Chicago, Ill. Number 12

Articles:

A Friend Worth Having; Greetings and Good Wishes; When Christmas Time Comes Round; That Little Hour With Your Physician; Treatment Makes One Feel New--Why?; Have the Children Examined; Osteopathy Helps Rejected Risks Get Life Insurance; Shaw Feels Fit at Seventy-Two; Removing the Cause; Osteopathy--When and Why
Osteopathic Health, Vol. LIII, No. 5: The Advantages of Osteopathic Surgery

American Osteopathic Association, E.A. Cole, George V. Webster, A.T. Still, Asa Willard, Carl P. McConnell, John H. Styles Jr., R. Kendrick Smith, and Harvey Fuller

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The Advantages of Osteopathic Surgery - The Difference Between Osteopathy and Massage - Constipation

VOLUME LIII, Chicago, Ill., May, 1928, Number 5. Published Monthly: $1.00 Per Annum; 10 Cents Per Copy

Title page:

OSTEOPATHIC HEALTH

Copyright 1927, by The American Osteopathic Assn., Chicago, Ill. VOL. LIII Chicago, Ill. Number 5

Articles:

The Advantages of Osteopathic Surgery; Nerve Centers and Health; A Differentiation: Differences Between Osteopathy and Massage; An Illustration; Chats on Osteopathy; Constipation; A Word About Catarrh; After an Anesthetic
Osteopathic Health, Vol. LIII, No. 7: Osteopathy Explained: Practical Questions and Answers Between Patient and Physician

American Osteopathic Association, Warren B. Davis, and Harvey Fuller

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Osteopathy Explained: Practical Questions and Answers Between Patient and Physician

VOLUME LIII, Chicago, Ill., July, 1928, Number 97 Published Monthly; $1.00 Per Annum; 10 Cents Per Copy

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OSTEOPATHIC HEALTH

Copyright, 1928, by The American Osteopathic Assn., Chicago, Ill. VOL. LIII Chicago, Ill. Number 7

Articles:

Pasteur and Still; Little Ills and Little Slips; Discovering Osteopathy; What We All Want; Osteopathy Explained: Practical Questions Between Patient and Physician; Training Peter Taster; Take It In Time
Osteopathic Health, Vol. LIII, No. 10: Osteopathy and Conservatism Inseparable

American Osteopathic Association, J. Deason, R. Kendrick Smith, E.E. Tucker, and Harvey Fuller

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Osteopathy and Conservatism Inseparable - Tuning in for Health by Osteopathy

VOLUME LIII, Chicago, Ill., October, 1928, Number 10 Published Monthly: $1.00 Per Annum; 10 Cents Per Copy

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OSTEOPATHIC HEALTH

Copyright, 1928, by The American Osteopathic Assn., Chicago, Ill. VOL. LIII Chicago, Ill. Number 10

Articles:

Dr. Still's Findings; Medical Recognition of Osteopathy; Osteopathic Physicians and Postgraduate Courses; Activity Essential; Concerning Infant Mortality; Insurance Favors Osteopathy; Why the D.O. Should Examine Every Child and Adult; Osteopathy a Complete Therapy; Osteopathy and Conservatism Inseparable: Some Suggestions on Health Conservation; Tuning In for Health by Osteopathy; Infantile Paralysis; The Lady-Killer Jest; Saner if We Sang and Played More; The Health Man
Osteopathic Health, Vol. LIII, No. 1: Good Health to All This Year

American Osteopathic Association, Blanche Mayes Elfrink, and P.H. Woodall

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Good Health to All This Year

What Osteopathy Does for Women - The Price of New Lives - Dr. Still's Words of Hope

VOLUME LIII, Chicago, Ill., January, 1928, Number 1. Published Monthly: $1.00 Per Annum; 10 Cents Per Copy

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OSTEOPATHIC HEALTH

Copyright 1927, by The American Osteopathic Assn., Chicago, Ill. VOL. LIII Chicago, Ill. Number 1

Articles:

Dr. Still's Words of Hope; The Price of New Lives; Osteopathy and Obstetrics; Osteopathy in Diseases of Women; Mechanical Causes of Woman's Ills; What Osteopathy Does for Women; Osteopathic and Medical Courses of Study Compared; What the World is Seeking
Osteopathic Health, Vol. LIII, No. 2: Osteopathy as Defined in the Encyclopedia Britannica

American Osteopathic Association and C.J. Gaddis

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OSTEOPATHY as defined in the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA - Influenza Prevention

VOLUME LIII, Chicago, Ill., February, 1928, Number 2. Published Monthly: $1.00 Per Annum; 10 Cents Per Copy

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OSTEOPATHIC HEALTH

Copyright 1927, by The American Osteopathic Assn., Chicago, Ill. VOL. LIII Chicago, Ill. Number 2

Articles:

Magic--Drugs--Osteopathy; Osteopathy as Defined in the Encyclopedia Britannica; Influenza Prevention: Osteopathy--The Best Specific for Flu and Pneumonia; Serious Ills That Follow the Flu; When Goitre is Curable; Osteopathic and Medical Courses of Study Compared; Preparedness
Osteopathic Health, Vol. LIII, No. 9: Osteopathy Explained, Part II: A Soldier-Poet's Tribute

American Osteopathic Association, G.M. Peckham, Lily G. Harris, and Harvey Fuller

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Osteopathy Explained, PART II: A Solider-Poet's Tribute

VOLUME LIII, Chicago, Ill., September, 1928, Number 9. Published Monthly; $1.00 Per Annum; 10 Cents Per Copy

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OSTEOPATHIC HEALTH

Copyright, 1928, by The American Osteopathic Assn., Chicago, Ill. VOL. LIII Chicago, Ill. Number 9

Articles:

Accidents Very Costly; A Soldier-Poet's Tribute to Osteopathy; Join the Live Longer Club; Sterility May Be Caused by Bony Lesions; Costs Less to Keep Fit; Children Need Not Have Mumps and Measles; An M.D. on Tonics; Osteopathy Explained: Practical Questions Between Patient and Physician, Part II: Why Osteopathy is Not Massage; Leg Length; Health as Capital; General Care of the Child; Drifting, Driving, Directing