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

Engineering skills

The osteopath cures by his engineering skill, that skill is only obtained by careful study until the student has learned the parts and functions of the body by his anatomy. In descriptive anatomy he learns form and place of all the parts. By physiological anatomy he learns the functions local and general. By practice he learns to be skillful and he cures as Nature does when harmony prevails in the body. The doctor of osteopathy must acquaint himself with all organs, blood and nerve supply, their separate and combined actions and uses or he will fail in getting good results as he hopes to obtain. Thus his successes mark his scale of anatomical and physiological knowledge. A person may be very fluent in words and very foolish in practice, thus the great use of much practical training on the living patient in the school room. The more normal the better for the student; he must get normal in his mind, he must drop the idea of abnormal wisdom. Midwifery can never be learned from deformed pictures.

A.T. Still
Journal of Osteopathy, December 1901