Adherence to Orthodox Lines of Thought. Walter Guthridge.. Amendments, proposed to Constitution.... An Address. Frank C. Leavitt.. Anti-Patent Medicine Crusade. W. F. Link. Page 324 372 464 325 214 Applicants for Membership in A. O. A....100, 141, 181, 220, 264, 306, 348. 396, 436, 475, 512 Application for Membership Blank.. Are the Osteopaths to be Swallowed Up? John T. Bass. Discussion-S. J. Fryette, 113; Oliver Van Dyne, 114; C. E. Still. 391 .31, 396 111 114 459 497 429, 469 36, 503 307 .93, 303, 344, 425, 472 123 233 237 279 282 274 277 406 271 273 Osteopathic and Physical Examination Case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. N. A. Bolles. 283 Physical Examination of Case of Valvular Heart Lesion. Robt. D. Emery. Discussion-C. B. Atzen, 120; J. M. Rouse. Subluxation of the Innominate. Ernest C. Bond. Tubercular Hip-Percy H. Woodall. Discussion-Lena Creswell Case Report Blank Case Report Matter, The. Edythe F. Ashmore. Comments on Denver Meeting. DENVER MEETING OF A. O. A.-REPORT OF NINTH ANNUAL MEETING. Action on Proposed Amendments to Constitution. Closing Exercises Discussion of Report of Committee on Education. Discussion of Report of Committee on Legislation. Election of Officers Opening Exercises.. Report of Board of Trustees Report of Committee on Education. Report of Committee on Prize Essay. Report of Committee on Legislation, with bill appended. Report of Committee on Necrology.. Report of Committee on Publication... Report of Committee on Referred Resolutions and Motions. Report of Committee on Resolutions. Report of Treasurer Selection of Meeting Place for 1906. Duality of Diseases in the Human Body, The. 287 313 118 123 316. 115 117 182, 221, 476 294 26, 95 87 48 88 59 75 81 43 50 54 70 71 84 87 79 82 265 270 29 252 135 450 41 322 Future of Osteopathic Education, The.. J. Strothard White. Greeting to Members of A. O. A., A. L. Evans. Innominate, The. L. K. Cramb. List of Members Elected at Denver. Merited Recognition, A. Mason W. Pressly NOTES AND COMMENTS. Congenital Hip Case. Chas. C. Natural Cure for Insomnia. S. Non-Manipulative Part of Osteopathic Therapeutics. Clara L. Todson. Non-Members of A. O. A., To. H. L. Chiles 183 Discussion-C. W. Young, 188; A. G. Hildreth, 190; M. C. Hardin. 194 374 Obstetrics Discussion. James B. Littlejohn, 397; Chas. H. Hoffman, 399; Chas. E. Osteopathy (from Encyclopedia Americana). Mason W. Pressly. 238 410 Osteopathy in the Encyclopedias. A. L. Evans.. 177 40, 99, 140, 180, 219, 263, 305, 347, 395, 435, 474, 511 Practical Conduct of Contagious Cases, The. Frederick H. Williams. Shall we Teach Surgery? and if so, How? Arthur G. Hildreth.. 477 Some Chemical Aspects of Excretion, wtih Special Reference to Uric Acid. N. Alden Bolles 488 Spleno-Medullary Leukemia, A Case of. C. A. Whiting. 439 442 446 Technique for Reduction of the Different Forms of Dislocation of the Hip. Chas. E. Still Unusual Feature in a Case of Pneumonia, An. Arthur M. Herman. 461 What is Osteopathy? A. L. Evans.. 223 White Swelling of the Knee Joint with Clinic Case. F. P. Young. 101 President's Address, Ninth Annual Meeting of the A. O. A., Denver, Col. CARL P. MCCONNELL, D.O. Osteopathic science has been taught for over a decade. During this entire period little has been accomplished in original scientific research work either to prove or disprove the theory of the osteopathic lesion. We have rested somewhat contentedly, and apparently in several instances have felt our theory proven, by exhibiting clinical evidence only. Beyond question clinical results are real results, in fact, indisputable evidence, and in this practical age no one may gainsay the force and logic of such factors. But clinical data is only one means toward the end of scientific therapeutic demonstration. From one phase of the problem it is an end product, a finished product of a medical system; specifically it is the portion that appeals to the layman, and answers the immediate questions of the physician. Still clinical evidence does not contain all the data upon which the ostecpathic theory has been built. Our physicians have paid strict attention to the experiments and investigation of physiologists and pathologist.. Facts wherever found are always acceptable. Like other systems of healing our science is based upon "chemistry, anatomy and physiology-not a smattering that is impossible, but with the great principles based upon them."1 Our interpretation of parts of these principles is not the same as the physicians of other schools; it is well known that the significance or meaning of a fact may be misinterpreted and the lesson to be learned misapplied. We have been fortunate in having good theorists in the osteopathic school. Theoretical knowledge is a necessity, and it has been said a "theory, in its proper use, signifies the highest form of knowledge." Our theorists' writings have been one great means of presenting osteopathic science to the public. Then theoretical writing supplemented by practical demonstration have been media that have courted and won public favor. Even if theoretical knowledge represents so very much, we should remember that the framing of a theory does not imply that all the links of the logical chain have been supplied. At no period of medical history have physicians of all schools felt more keenly the futility of medical methods and the lack of an all-embracing principle of medicine than at the present. A recent writer who claims to have discovered a principle that encompasses the entire field of medicine |