We had heard so often that Osteopathy was a complete satisfying science _that did things specifically_! Now it began to dawn upon us that there was indeed a "wealth of undeveloped scientific facts" in Osteopathy, as those glittering circulars had said when they thought to attract young men ambitious for original research. They had said, "Much yet remains to be discovered." Some of us wondered if the "undeveloped" and "undiscovered" scientific facts were not the main constituents of the "science." The students expected something exact and tangible, and how eagerly they grasped at anything in the way of bringing quick results in curing the sick. If Osteopathy is so complete, why did so many students, after they had received everything the learned (?) professors had to impart, procure Juettner's "Modern Physio-Therapy" and Ling's "Manual Therapy" and Rosse's "Cures Without Drugs" and Kellogg's work on "Hydrotherapy"? They felt that they needed all they could get. It was customary for the students to begin "treating" after they had been in school a few months, and medical men will hardly be surprised to know that they worked with more faith in their healing powers and performed more wonderful (?) cures in their freshman year than they ever did afterward. I have in mind a student, one of the brightest I ever met, who read a cheap book on Osteopathic practice, went into a community where he was unknown, and practiced as an Osteopathic physician. In a few months he had made enough money to pay his way through an Osteopathic college, which he entered professing to believe that Osteopathy would cure all the ills flesh is heir to, but which he left two years later to take a medical course. He secured his D.O. degree, but I notice that it is his M.D. degree he flourishes with pride. Can students be blamed for getting a little weak in faith when men who told them that the great principles of Osteopathy were sufficient to cure _everything_, have been known to backslide so far as to go and take medical courses themselves? How do you suppose it affects students of an Osteopathic college to read in a representative journal that the secretary of their school, and the greatest of all its boosters, calls medical men into his own family when there is sickness in it? There are many men and women practicing to-day who try to be honest and conscientious, and by using all the good in Osteopathy, massage, Swedish movements, hydrotherapy, and all the rest of the adjuncts of physio-therapy, do a great deal of good. The practitioner who does use these agencies, however, is denounced by the stand-patters as a "drifter." They say he is not a true Osteopath, but a mongrel who is belittling the great science. That circular letter from the secretary of the American Osteopathic Association said that one of the greatest needs of organization was to preserve Osteopathy in its primal purity as it came from its founder, A. T. Still.