Word: osteopath
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...Many osteopaths on the way to their national convention in Chicago last week understood that King George VI's personal osteopath was to make them a speech and thus put a royal gloss on their rising profession. Dr. W. Kelman Macdonald of Edinburgh, who was the American Osteopathic Association's chief guest, does not belong to the King's medical household. Nearest approach to an osteopath in that prize group of British doctors is the Manipulative Surgeon to the King Sir Morton Smart...
...MacDonald, however, brought U. S. osteopaths something far more useful to them than gloss. The greatest weakness in their theory that "one of the primary causes of disease [is] a mechanical maladjustment ['osteopathic lesion'] of some sort which . . . may be found in a joint, muscle, ligament or other tissue," has been that no osteopath was ever able to produce a lesion in any creature by a scientifically impeccable experiment. Osteopath Louisa Burns of South Pasadena, Calif, claimed to do so, but could not convince sceptics. Dr. MacDonald appeared at Chicago last week with X-ray and documentary proofs...
Newark's "Dr." Harley was called both an osteopath and a chiropractor last week. According to an imposing certificate on his office wall, issued by a diploma mill called the "American Academy of Medicine & Surgery," he is a "Doctor of Medicine & Master Diagnostician." Subscribers to his anti-birth plan submitted photographs of themselves in street clothes and in the nude, and received numbered identification cards...
...boys are getting smarter each year."-Osteopath Harrison ("Buck'') Weaver, trainer of the St. Louis Cardinals...
...Presidential Candidate Alfred Mossman Landon of Topeka, gets osteopathic treatments regularly once a week."- Anonymous Osteopath at the AOA convention last week...