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Rh Emerson Hough gave a little free advertising in his "Heart's Desire." There may have been "method in his madness," for that Osteopathic horse doctoring scene no doubt sold many a book for the author.

Sam Jones also helped along with some of his striking originality. Sam said, "There is as much difference between Osteopathy and massage as between playing a piano and currying a horse." The idea of comparing the Osteopath's manipulations of the human body to the skilled touch of the pianist upon his instrument was especially pleasing to Osteopaths. However, Sam displayed about the same comprehension of his subject that preachers usually exhibit who try to say nice things about the doctors when they get their doctoring gratis or at reduced rates.

These champions of Osteopathy no doubt mean well. They can be excused on the ground that they got out of place to aid in the cause of "struggling truth." But what shall we say of medical men, some of them of reputation and great influence, who uphold and champion new systems under such conditions that it is questionable whether they do it from principle or policy?

Osteopathic journals have made much of an article written by a famous "orificial surgeon." The article appears on the first page of a leading Osteopath journal, and is headed, "An Expert Opinion on Osteopathy." Among the many good things he says of the "new science" is this: "The full benefit of a single sitting can be secured in from three to ten minutes instead of an hour or more, as required by [93]