Philosophy of Osteopathy Andrew Taylor Still, D.O. 1899

Table of contents

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

CHAPTER II: OSTEOPATHIC EXPLORATIONS

• 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

CHAPTER III: THE HEAD

• 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

CHAPTER IV: EAR WAX AND ITS USES

• 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

 CHAPTER V: DISEASES OF THE CHEST

• 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

CHAPTERVI: THE LYMPHATICS

• 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

CHAPTER VII: THE DIAPHRAGM

• 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

CHAPTER VIII: LIVER, BOWELS AND KIDNEYS

• 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

CHAPTER IX: THE BLOOD