RIVAL SCHOOLS OF HEALING

Evening Star, Issue 14185, 9 October 1909, Page 6

RIVAL SCHOOLS OF HEALING

American “ osteopaths,” who are now licensed in this State as qualified medical practitioners, strongly demand that they shall be allowed to issue burial permits, just the same as tho allopaths and homoeopaths. The osteopaths are authorised to sign, death certificates, but their struggle against the older schools of healing, they say, will not be complete until the law dispenses with the necessity of an osteopath's burial certificate being countersigned by an allopath, or hemmepath. The latter object, but the osteopaths reply : “You are nob inspired by the real welfare of the public, but by professional jealousy. The osteopaths are well-trained, educated practitioners, and we claim full medical privileges in every way.” It. is represented that the Boaixl of Health hero comprises allopaths exclusively, and “ that is why tho osteopaths do not get a fair chance.” Tho allopaths and homoeopaths reply that a line must- be drawn somewhere, and allege that if the osteopaths ba permitted to give burial certificates, then all sorts of other ct range schools of healing —“ chiropractom;,” fur example—which sec*’: to bo as numerous' iu America as the subdivisions of religious sects, will be clamoring for equal rights. The chiropractor nro not very numerous, but they have established what they call a “ health, aiium” at Washington, and their “cures” of canes hitherto considered incurable are laqgffly advertised. The chiropractors, or “ co&nrotherapists,” as they are sometimes called, seem. to have borrowed something from every school of. healing, and rejected just as much as they have borrowed.—New York correspondent ‘ Daily Telegraph.’