Philosophy of OsteopathyStill, A. T. (Andrew Taylor)
Philosophy
Philosophy of Osteopathy
Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor)
Osteopathic medicine
Suppose venous blood to be suspended by cold or other causes in the
lungs to the amount of oedema of the fascia, another mental look would
see the nerves of the fascia of the lungs in a high state of
excitement, cramping fascia on veins which is bound to stop flow of
blood to heart. No blood can pass through a vein that is closed by
resistance, nor can it ever do it until resistance is suspended. Thus
the cause of nerve irritation must be found and removed before the
channels can relax and open sufficiently to admit the passage of the
fluids being obstructed. And in order to remove this obstructing cause,
we must go to the nerve supply of the lungs, or any other part of the
body, and direct our attention to the cause of the nerve excitement, and
that only; and prosecute the investigation to a finish. If the breathing
be too fast and hurried, address your attention to the motor nerves,
then to the sensory, for through them you regulate and reduce the
excitement of the motor nerves of the arteries. As soon as sensation is
reduced the motor and sensory circuit is completed and the labor of the
artery is less, because of venous resistance having been removed. The
circuit of electricity is complete as proven by the completed arterial
and venous circuit for the reduction of motor irritation. The high
temperature disappears because distress gives place to the normal, and
recovery is the result.
CHAPTER X.
THE FASCIA.
Where Is Disease Sown?--An Illustration of Conception--The Greatest
Problem--A Fountain of Supply--Fascia Omnipresent--Connection with
Spinal Cord--Goes With and Covers All Muscles--Proofs in
Contagion--Study of Nerves and Fascia--Tumefy--Tumefaction.
WHERE DISEASE IS SOWN.
Disease is evidently sown as atoms of gas fluids, or solids. A suitable
place is necessary first to deposit the active principle of life, be
that what it may. Then a responsive kind of nourishment must be obtained
by the being to be developed. Thus we must find in animals that part of
the body that can assist by action and by qualified food to develop the
being in foetal life. Reason calls the mind to the rule of man's
gestative life first, and as a basis of thought, we look at the
quickening atom, the coming being, when only by the aid of a powerful
microscope can we see the vital germ. It looks like an atom of white
fibrin or detached particle of fascia. It leaves one parent as an atom
of fascia, and to live and grow, must dwell among friendly surroundings,
and be fed by such food as contains albumen, fibrin and lymph; also the
nerve generating power and qualities, as it then and there begins to
construct a suitable form in which to live and flourish. And as the
fascia is the best suited with nerves, blood, and white corpuscles, it
is but reasonable to look for the part that is composed of the greatest
per cent of fascia, and expect it, the germ, to dwell there for support
and growth.
AN ILLUSTRATION OF CONCEPTION.
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