Word: lymph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...view, except materia medico,, for which osteopathic theory and practice is substituted. The course is three years in length. The osteopathic method uses no drugs and is based on the theory that any disease can be controlled by nature's own remedial agents within the body- blood, lymph and nerve force. In diagnosing disease, osteopaths search for structural abnormalities of any kind, and seek by mechanical adjustments to remove these obstacles to proper natural functioning. Osteopathy employs good diet, hygiene and nursing as adjuncts. It does not ignore the microbic theory of disease, grants some value to surgery...