Food Fundamentals Discussion of Food Based on Experience From the ViewPoint of an Osteopathic Physician, Together With a Study of IllHealth Caused by Wrong Habits of Living Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Food Fundamentals: Discussion of Food Based on Experience From the View-Point of an Osteopathic Physician, Together With a Study of Ill-Health Caused by Wrong Habits of Living

Only those who have freed themselves from the habit of thinking in the ordinary and much worn channels turn to osteopathy as their profession. And in the early days of osteopathy this applied with even greater force than it does now. The author spent three and one-half years in Kirksville, Mo.; the first half year to regain sufficient health to enter the school, and the remainder of the time to take the course in osteopathy. During this time he greatly profited by his close association with Dr. A. T. Still, the Founder of Osteopathy, who chose to make use of the author's services in getting out Osteopathy, Research and Practice, Dr. Still's last work. What ever was left the author of mental narrowness, biased opinion, prejudice in thinking, or following the cus tomary paths of mental activity, received a forcible and lasting rebuke when he began to comprehend that wonderful mind, expanded by original thinking, a mind which found it easy to soar above the clouds which limit ordinary thought - that master mind of Dr. Still. His words are still ringing in the author's ears: Keep your mud valves open and your engine in such con dition that you can move out of the hearing of theories, and halt for all coming days by the side of the river of the pure waters of reason and be able to demonstrate that which you assert.

The author having been educated as a teacher and having followed that profession for ten years, it was only natural that he should try to answer the questions addressed to him as a physician in a man ner that would readily convey his own point of view. To keep constantly doing this led to ceaseless observa tion, extensive investigation, and an endless amount of reading.

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