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

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To think

History should be an association of facts, so as to become desirable food for the mind. Thinkers by birth form one class, and thinkers by note another. One thinks and talks for display, the other talks and thinks to improve his day. To think easily you must stand solidly. To stand solidly you must guard well the construction of your foundation. Level the upper surface, and square all sides and plumb accordingly. A foundation should never tip to any point of the compass after being leveled, if it should it is an evidence that something is wrong with the underpinning. The amount the foundation tips to any point marks the amount of neglect that is shown and by a lack of careful preparation of the strong pillar on which you wish to stand.

A writer cannot do justice to that he does not comprehend, no amount of words, quotations or plagiarisms can disguise his ignorance.

If you should undertake to describe a muscle, you only do it by an intimate knowledge of all, material, mechanical and otherwise. How could a person speak the Chinese language by using English adjectives? What has his effort proven short of his ignorance? You can tell what you know and no more. Now this means when you describe a muscle or any principle in the human body, throw down every other consideration and consider with your own mind, and see if you are in possession of such truths and facts as can stand the most crucial examination, short of that of Deity himself.

Four is four, and two, one half of four. Take no truth that cannot be divided into four parts, and when all added together are equal to the original only, then your stories will not need to be disguised to hide their lack of brilliancy.

A.T. Still
Journal of Osteopathy, June 1898