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...curricula include anatomy, pharmacology, surgery, bacteriology, other standard subjects in the education of a medical doctor. In all but eight states,* their graduates may now prescribe drugs and perform surgery, as well as practice the "manipulation" which is the keynote of their science. The main trouble has been the osteopath's emphasis on manipulation, a technique designed to maintain the normal circulation of blood and proper nerve function, which osteopaths regard as basic to all health. Thus, many M.D.s persist in regarding osteopathy as little better than chiropractic, whose practitioners claim that illness springs from maladjustment of the spinal...
Meanwhile, anti-Goslinites were flocking to the hearings of the California State Senate Education Committee, which happened to be in town on a statewide investigation of Communism in the schools. Charged Pasadena Osteopath W. Ernest Brower, president of the anti-Goslin School Development Council: Pasadena's schools are riddled with Communism. Brower pointed to the soft-pedaling of classroom competition among students and to the inclusion of sex education in biology and hygiene courses...
...Magic Spikes. Former Mayor Ed Kelly wore one to the 1948 Democratic National Convention, and credited the healing of a bone abscess to its power. Other wearers included Municipal Court Bailiff Al Horan and Illinois State Senator William J. Connors. Exact sales figures on the Magic Spike are unknown. Osteopath Raymond Kistler of Wyandotte, Mich, admitted that he bought 150 at around $150 apiece, resold them...
...diet of fresh apple and vegetable juices, then injections of glyoxylide. Koch insisted that no other drugs be used except "the smallest amount of morphine by mouth only." Many of the victims might have died anyway, but his instructions denied them even enough morphine to ease their pain. An osteopath told of trying the Koch treatment on five cancer patients (including his wife); all died. Last fortnight the Federal Court was asked to nol-pros the case. Koch, the petition said, has changed the labels on his drug; they no longer claim a cure for anything. The Food & Drug Administration...
...Track & Field Championships last week at Lincoln Neb., he ran up to the mark and heaved his steel-tipped spear into the air. It plunged into the turf shy of the blue flag which marked the world-record distance (258 ft., 2⅛ in.). The thrower, a curly-haired osteopath from Los Angeles named Steve Seymour, 26, had set a new U.S. record...