"We would next have the young man assure himself that he is the possessor of a well-developed, healthy, working 'surgical conscience.' No matter how well qualified he may be, his enthusiasm in the earlier years of his work will lead him to do operations that he would refrain from in later life. This will be especially true of malignant disease. He knows that early and thorough radical measures alone hold out hope, and only by repeated unsuccessful efforts will he learn to temper his ambition by the judgment that comes of experience. Pirogoff, the noted surgeon, suffered from a malignant growth. Billroth refused to operate or advise operation. In writing to another surgeon friend he said: 'I am not the bold operator whom you knew years ago in Zurich. Before deciding on the necessity of an operation, I always propose to myself this question: Would you permit such an operation as you intend performing on your patient to be done on yourself? Years and experience bring in their train a certain degree of hesitancy.' This, coming from one who in his day was the most brilliant operator in the world, should be remembered by every surgeon, young and old." Oh, surgery! Modern aseptic surgery! In the hands of the skilled, conscientious surgeon how great are thy powers for good to suffering humanity! In the hands of shysters "what crimes are committed in thy name!" With his own school full of shysters and incompetents, and grafters of "new schools" and "systems" to compete with on every hand, the conscientious physician seems to be "between the devil and the deep sea!" With quacks to the right of him, quacks to the left of him, quacks in front of him, all volleying and thundering with their literature to prove that the old schools, and all schools other than theirs, are frauds, impostors and poisoners, about all that is left for the layman to do when sick is to take to the woods. PART TWO OSTEOPATHY CHAPTER VII. SOME DEFINITIONS AND HISTORIES. Romantic Story of Osteopathy's Origin--An Asthma Cure--Headache Cured by Plowlines--Log Rolling to Relieve Dysentery--Osteopathy is Drugless Healing--Osteopathy is Manual Treatment--Liberty of Blood, Nerves and Arteries--Perfect Skeletal Alignment and Tonic, Ligamentous, Muscular and Facial Relaxation--Andrew T. Still in 1874--Kirksville, Mo., as a Mecca--American School of Osteopathy--The Promised Golden Stream of Prosperity--Shams and Pretenses--The "Mossbacks"--"Who's Who in Osteopathy."