Concerning osteopathy; a compilation of selection from articles published in the professional and lay press, with original chapters

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Preface to Revised Edition

THE first editions of Concerning Osteopathy met with such favor with the public and profession that it is with pleasure I have set for myself the task of preparing this edition for the reader.

The first editions which found a distribution through the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Australia, have been entirely revised — several chapters being omitted to give place to others which it is hoped will give the reader a fuller understanding of the present development of Osteopathy. I am indebted to Drs. J. Deason, C. M. T. Hulett and R. Kendrick Smith for contributing original chapters; to Drs. Asa Willard, Carl P. McConnell, M. F. Hulett and R. E. Hamilton for revision of chapters; to Drs. Mina Abbott Robinson, Roberta Wimer-Ford and E. E. Tucker for revision of articles, and to many other professional friends for valuable aid and suggestions relative to the revision.

G. V. Webster.

Carthage, N. Y.

June 1, 1915.

Preface To First Edition

THE purpose of this volume is to reflect the position of Osteopathy as a therapeutic agent in its work of adding to the sum total of human happiness by the amelioration of physical suffering.

Little originality of text has been attempted, but, rather, in the review of the osteopathic literature that has appeared from time to time in the professional and other publications, an effort has been made to select such articles as seem appropriate for this volume. These, in some instances rearranged and condensed to omit technicalities, have been compiled in a more or less logical order, giving the history of Osteopathy, its development as a science, an exposition of its theories, some of its practical workings and something concerning its founder, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still.

Osteopathy has so increased the sum of human comfort and usefulness that a spirit of inquiry has been aroused as to just what Osteopathy is, what it has done and what may be expected of it. With a view to preparing a volume which may in a measure provide the information desired, these pages have been arranged.

Acknowledgment is here made of the courtesy of the several publishers for the permission granted to select from their pages such articles and quotations as appear in this book. Where possible, credit has been given both to author and to publication.

G. V. Webster.

Carthage, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1910.