I started a collection of texts from old osteopathic journals that could be of interest to osteopaths and people curious about osteopathy.

You can fin the full list here
Some were translated into French here

AN OSTEOPATHIC ABSURDITY

I would like to use some of your space this month for the purpose of making a few suggestions regarding our beloved science. My cases have been as numerous and as interesting as usual, but several times the past few weeks I have heard it said that some Osteopaths from somewhere (not from Kirksville,) treated cases for forty minutes, or fifty, or sixty minutes, as the case may be. Now, of course, this is not Osteopathy. The idea of a surgeon telling his patient he would operate on his eye for fifteen minutes for two dollars, forty minutes for five dollars, or would cut off the appendix in twenty minutes for one dollar, or would cut away for one hour for five dollars. It seems to be very difficult for some of these people to grasp the first vital principle of Osteopathy. It must appear to them as meaningless as a Turkish bath rubbing. Of course, one versed in Osteopathy has little trouble explaining that Quality not Quantity is the great thing to be desired in Osteopathic work, but it strikes me that more attention should be paid to this ridiculous feature which some of these bright lights (?) advance as a reason people should go to them with their ills. If an Osteopath finds a luxation or a sluggish blood stream as a result of impeded venous flow and removes the cause, or reduces the luxation in two minutes, his work is done, for that treatment at least. This is Osteopathy as our beloved Dr. Still gives it to us, and if there are those at large who can keep setting and resetting a hip or an arm for forty minutes and the patient stands it, or pays for it, I am sorry for the patient. I would like to hear from others on this point.

Joseph H. Sullivan, D.O.
Journal of Osteopathy, July 1898