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
Whites, leucorrhœa
A few sensible Americanized questions and answers such as, “What is the disease you call leucorrhœa or whites? Why do you call it leucorrhœa? Does luco mean something that is white? Why do you give nothing but big names and leave out causes. Why does she waste off or out that white compound? Our old authors have never told us a word that would point the student to the cause of such wasting of the bread and meat of a woman’s life. Is not her blood the bread and meat that sustain her life? If so, what effect would be natural to take away her life support? How high up her back and how low down on her sacrum will the student find nodes or clusters of lymphatics, glands, blood supply, fascia, muscles, membranes, cells, secretions and excretions, venous drainage and arterial supply? In a word, why are we summoned to learn how to cure an affliction that you cannot give us any light on its cause? As this is said to be a school of philosophers, where is the philosophy you have to offer the anxious seeker? When the pilot gets lost, then a committee of the whole is formed and suggestions are in order, from all or anyone. A new pilot is sought. Trouble is in the camp, a remedy is demanded. The life of the old pilot will pay the penalty. A mutiny is in all the camps. A Moses must be found to lead. No old field notes will suit for guides. We have followed them to the letter. We are lost and to follow farther will be suicidal. Nature’s compass must guide us is the report of the committee of the whole. Now let Moses tell what leucorrhœa is and its cure.
A.T. Still
Journal of Osteopathy, December 1901
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