Overloading--Similarity of Stomach and Womb--Births--Preparation for Delivery--Caution--Lasceration Need Not Occur--Care of Cord--Severing Cord--Putting on Belly Band--Delivery of Afterbirth--Preparing for Mother's Comfort--Post-Delivery Hemorrhage--Treatment for--Food for Mother--Treatment for Sore Breast. Page 234 CHAPTER XVIII. CONVULSIONS. Old Phrases--Results of Stoppage of Fluids--Old Theory of Fits--What the Real Cause may be--Listen for the Cause--What is a Fit--Sensory System Demanding Nourishment--The Causes--The Remedy--Dislocation of Atlas and of the Four Upper Ribs. Page 250 CHAPTER XIX. CONCLUDING REMARKS. Thoughts for Consideration--Offering a New Philosophy--Lymphatics and Fascia--A Satisfactory Experiment--Natural Washing Out. Page 258 CHAPTER XX. THE SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION. With What It Has Communication--Its Course--One of its Functions--Stimulation or Inhibition--Result Produced. Page 263 Philosophy of Osteopathy. CHAPTER I. SOME INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 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. NOT A WORK OF COMPILATION. To readers of my book on the Philosophy of Osteopathy, I wish to say that I will not tire you with a book of compilations just to sell to the anxious reader. As I have spent thirty years of my life reading and following rules and remedies used for curing, and learned in sorrow it was useless to listen to their claims, for instead of getting good, I obtained much harm therefrom, I asked for, and obtained a mental divorce from them, and I want it to be understood that drugs and I are as far apart as the East is from the West; now, and forever. Henceforth I will follow the dictates of nature in all I say or write. AUTHORS QUOTED. I quote no authors but God and experience when I write, or lecture to the classes or the masses, because no book written by medical writers can be of much use to us, and it would be very foolish to look to them for advice and instruction on a science they know nothing of. They are illy able to advise for themselves, they have never been asked to advise us, and I am free to say but few persons who have been pupils of my school have tried to get wisdom from medical writers and apply it as worthy to be taught as any part of Osteopathy, philosophy or practice. Several books have been compiled, called "Principles of Osteopathy." They may sell but will fail to give the knowledge the student desires. METHOD OF REASONING.