eck and branch off to supply
both above and below, to do their parts in animal life, to the heart,
brain and sum total of man and beast. Search faithfully for cause of
diseases in head, neck, chest, spine and pelvis; for all organs, limbs
and parts are directly related to and depend on these five localities to
which I have just called your attention.

With your knowledge of anatomy, I am sure you can practice and be
successful, and should be in all cases over which Osteopathy is supposed
to preside.

CARE IN TREATING THE SPINAL CORD.

I want to offer you the facts, not advice, but pure and well sustained
facts, the only witnesses that ever enter the courts of truth. A spinal
cord is a fact; you see it--thus a fact. That which you can see, feel,
hear, smell or taste is a fact, and the knowledge of the ability of any
one fact to accomplish any one thing, how it accomplishes it and for
what purpose, is a truth sought for in philosophy. The spinal cord is
the present fact for consideration. You see it, you feel it, thus you
have two facts with which you can start to obtain a knowledge of the use
of this spinal cord. In it you have one common straight cylinder which
is filled with an unknown substance, and by an unknown power wisely
directed. It is wisely formed, located, and protected. It throws off
branches which are wisely located. They have bundles, many and few; they
are connected to their support, which is the brain, by a continuous cord
in length and form to suit. After it has concluded throwing off branches
at local places for special purposes, then like a flashlight, it throws
off a bundle of branches called horse-tail plexus, _caudae equinae_,
which simply signifies the many branches that convey fluids and
influences to the extremities, to execute the vital work for which they
are formed and located. While the laws of life and their procedure to
execute and accomplish the work designed by nature for them to do, is
mysterious and to the finite mind incomprehensible, you can only see
what they do or perform, after the work is done and ready for your
inspection.

HOW TO TREAT THE SPINAL COLUMN.

Now as we are dealing with the omnipresent nerve principle of animal
life, I will tell you this one serious truth, and support it by the fact
of observation. To treat the spine, and thereby irritate the spinal cord
oftener than once or twice a week will cause the vital assimilation to
be perverted, and become the dea