Not a Work of Compilation--Authors Quoted--Method of Reasoning--The Osteopath an Artist--When I Became an Osteopath--Dr. Neal's Opinion--The Opinions of Others--What Studies Necessary--What I Mean by Anatomy--Principles--The Practicing Osteopath's Guide--The Fascia--Not a pleasing Task--Without Accepted Theories--Truths of Nature--Body, Motion and Mind--Osteopathy to Cure Disease--The Osteopath Should Find Health. Page 11 CHAPTER II. OSTEOPATHIC EXPLORATIONS. Divisions of the Body--Searching for the Cause--Duty of the Osteopathic Explorer--Classification and Division--The Abnormal--Nerve Powers--Witnesses to Examine--Abnormal Growths--Cerebro Spinal Fluid--Body in Perfect Health--Chemistry--Nature's Chemistry. Page 29 CHAPTER III. THE HEAD. A Free Circulation--Death Blows--Something of the Neck--Order of Treatment--The Pelvis--Brains of Animals--Arterial Motion--Mental Vibrations--Overburdening the Mind--Hemiplegia. Page 43 CHAPTER IV. EAR WAX AND ITS USES. Nature Makes Nothing in Vain--A Successful Experiment--A Question for Ages--The Position--Meaning of Life--Some Questions Asked--Condition in Certain Diseases Caused by Cold--Cerumen in Fluid State--Winter Kills Babies--Some Advice to Mothers--A Case in Point--Connection of the brain and Other Nerves in Digestion--Unaided Investigation. Page 53 CHAPTER V. DISEASES OF THE CHEST. Where Confined--Consumption--Can Consumption Be Cured--Consumption Described--No Time for Surrender--Cerebral Spinal Fluid--How to Destroy Deadly Bombs of Decay--Battle of Blood for Life--Miliary Tuberculosis--Conversion of Bodies Into Gas--Forming a Tubercle--Breeding Contagion--The Seeds of Disease--Generating Fever--Whooping Cough--Clouds and Lungs Are Much Alike--The Wisdom of Nature--Water Formed in Lungs--The Law of Fives--Feeble Action of Heart--The Heart--From Neck to Heart--Dyspersia or Imperfect Digestion. Page 68 CHAPTER VI. THE LYMPHATICS. Importance of the Subject--Demands of Nature on the Lymphatics--Dunglinson's Definition--Dangers of Dead Substances--Lymph Continued--Solvent in Nature--Where Are the Lymphatics Situated?--The Fat and Lean. Page 104 CHAPTER VII. THE DIAPHRAGM. Investigation--A Struggle With Nature--Lesson of Cause and Effect--Something of Medical Etiquette--The Medical Doctor--An Explorer for Truth Must Be Independent--The Diaphragm Introduced--A Useful Study--Combatting Effect--Is Least Understood--A Case of Bilious Fever--A Demand on the Nerves--Danger of Compression--A Cause for Disease--Was a Mistake Made in the Creation--An Exploration--Result of Removal of Diaphragm--Sustaining Life in Principles--Law Applicable to Other Organs--Power of Diaphragm--Omentum. Page 114 CHAPTER VIII. LIVER, BOWELS AND KIDNEYS.