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...Still (he was originally an orthodox, allopathic physician), after serving in the Civil War, developed the principles of osteopathy. Basic is his theory that health persists only when the joints and other skeletal articulations function normally. This is especially important for the ribs, spine, pelvis. If the bones are in proper relation, then flesh, nerves and other parts of the anatomy hung on to them, function properly and prevent the invasion of disease. Inversely, to cure disease, the doctor must manipulate the bones into natural position. Hence the fundamental osteopathic principle: "Find the lesion, adjust it, and let it alone...
...dies . . . earth takes back its matter very quickly along the Orinoco. Some 1,500 years ago, the ancestors of the Piarros potted their dead in urns. That was, and to some extent is, a Mongolian practice. Most anthropologists declare that a Mongolian culture is discernible down along the mountainous spine of the Americas, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, and it may be that the Piarros burial tradition is a vestige from an Oriental migration. To check for the Museum of the American Indian, Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey and his wife are now on their way to Trinidad, base...
Just as the War began Dr. Albee was demonstrating original methods of bone grafting in Germany, England and France. He kept on in the French military hospitals, and later in those of the A. E. F. His invention of replacing, by bone grafts, parts of the spine diseased by tuberculosis goes by his name...
...Travis of Oakland, Calif., go the kudos and the profit of arranging for the transcontinental motor stage system. He is president of the California Transit Co., which maintains a daily bus service between Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., 670 miles. That route is the spine of the score of bus lines it operates along the Pacific Coast. Last year its revenues were...
...asked one Headmaster after the Princeton meeting: "But what are the schools for if they don't stiffen the country's spine...