Our Platform Taken from 1898

A.T Still

It should be known where Osteopathy stands and what it stands for. A political party has a platform that all may know its position in regard to matters of public importance, where it stands for and what principles it advocates. The Osteopath should make his position just as clear to the public. He should let the public know, in his platform, what he advocates in his campaign against disease. Our position can be tersely stated in the following planks :

First:                      We believe in sanitation and hygiene.

Second:                 We are opposed to the use of drugs as remedial agencies.

Third:                     We are opposed to vaccinations.

Fourth:                  We are opposed to the use of serums in the treatment of
disease. Nature furnishes its own serum if we know how to deliver them.

Fifth:                      We realize that many cases require surgical treatment and
therefore advocate it as a last resort. We believe many
surgical cases are unnecessarily performed and that many
operations could be avoided by Osteopathic treatment.

Sixth:                     The Osteopath does not depend on electricity, X-radiance,
hydrotherapy or other adjuncts, but relies on osteopathic measures in the treatment of disease.

Seventh:                 We have a friendly feeling for other non-drug, natural
methods of healing, but we do not incorporate any other
method into our system. We are all opposed to drugs; in
that respect at least, all natural, unharmful methods
occupy the same ground. The fundamental principles of
Osteopathy are different from those of any other system  
and the cause of disease considered from one standpoint,



“disease is the result of anatomical abnormalities followed by physiological discord. To cure disease the abnormal parts must be adjusted to the normal; therefore other methods that are entirely different in principle have no  place in the osteopathic system.



Eighth:                   Osteopathy is an independent system and can be applied
to all conditions of disease, including purely surgical
cases, and in these cases surgery is but a branch of
Osteopathy.

Ninth:                    We believe that our therapeutic house is just large enough
for osteopathy and that when other methods are bought in
just that much of Osteopathy must move out.



KEEP IT PURE BOYS, KEEP IT PURE.