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Excerpt from The Practice of Osteopathy: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Osteopathy This work on the practice of osteopathy has been written purely for the practitioner and student of osteopathy. Up to the present time there has been little attempt made along osteopathic lines in a literary way. The student has had nothing whatever to guide him in his studies but the notes he has taken from osteopathic lectures; and the practitioner no work to guide him or to refer to in his practice; yet it is with many misgivings, on account of the science of osteopathy being in crude published form, that I publish this work and give it to the osteopathic world. Still I feel a feeble attempt will be a stimulus to all apostles of the science, and especially so as the art of osteopathic practice is being well advanced. It will never be possible to write osteopathy completely and in detail as each case is an individual study. The best we can expect is to give the philosophy of the science and to state the principles in general terms. The science is practically unlimited; its breadth and depth are unmeasurable. Osteopathic practice consists first of understanding the normal so that the abnormal conditions may be recognized when met; and second, when these abnormalities are found, of giving specific treatment and readjusting the parts. Practically, to the osteopath it makes but little difference what the disease is; it is his business to locate the derangement and correct it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.