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Southwestern Osteopathic Sanitarium, Blackwell, Okla., Southwestern Osteopathic Sanitarium

Historical Postcards (1908-2007)

Sepia postcard from 1918 with image of the Southwestern Osteopathic Sanitarium in Blackwell, Oklahoma. The Sanitarium was established in 1912 and moved to the building pictured in 1915.

George J. Conley was President of the Board of Control and Surgeon-in-Chief from 1914-1924. Dr. Conley would later be one of the founders and the first President of the Kansas City College of Osteopathy and Surgery (now Kansas City University). In 1924 the institution moved to Wichita, Kansas.

Annual Announcement And Catalog Of The Kansas City College Of Osteopathy And Surgery 1918-1919, Kansas City College Of Osteopathy And Surgery

Catalogs and Handbooks (1916-1957)

Academic calendar and course catalog for 1918-1919.

Wesley Hospital, Kansas City, Mo., Wesley Hospital

Historical Postcards (1908-2007)

Postcard shows a 1917 color rendering of Wesley Hospital at 11th and Harrison Streets in Kansas City, Missouri. Built in 1915 by Dr. Archie Robertson, it was taken over by the United States War Department in 1943.

In 1944 the Kansas City College of Osteopathy and Surgery (now Kansas City University) purchased the hospital and renamed it Osteopathic Hospital. It was used as a teaching hospital until its closing in 1972 when the University opened the Center for Health Sciences, later known as University Hospital.

Mercy's Messenger January 1917, Katharine B. Richardson

Archives

Mercy's Messenger was a newsletter describing the work of The Children's Mercy Hospital and soliciting donations, frequently including stories of young patients. This issue features Dr. Richardson's appeal for funding for a research laboratory to seek cures or better diagnosis and treatment of childhood diseases.

Osteopathy For Children, R.H. Williams

Early Osteopathic Literature (1910-1929)

16 page pamphlet.

Osteopathic Quarterly, Vol.1 No.1, Kansas City College Of Osteopathy And Surgery

Osteopathic Quarterly (1916)

No abstract provided.

Annual Announcement Of The Kansas City College Of Osteopathy And Surgery 1916-1917, Kansas City College Of Osteopathy And Surgery

Catalogs and Handbooks (1916-1957)

Academic calendar and course catalog for 1916-1917.

Herald Of Osteopathy, May 1914, Herald Of Osteopathy

Herald of Osteopathy

Articles in this issue include:

• Osteopathic Obstetrics by Geo. W. Reid, D.O.
• Some Daily Perplexities With Children by Robert Wimer Ford, D.O.
• Osteopathic Examination of Children by Louisa Burns, D.O.
• Of What Value Are Drugs in the Treatment of Children by Frederick Leavitt, M.D.
• Osteopathy and the Child by Charles C. Teall, D.O.
• Angina Pectoris, Chas C. Reid, D.O., M.D.

Philadelphia Journal Of Osteopathy Volume 12, Number 4, Philadelphia College And Infirmary Of Osteopathy

Philadelphia Journal of Osteopathy

Articles in this issue include:

• The Osteopathic Lesion by Earle S. Willard
• The Cause and Treatment of Constipation by Lawrence J. Kelly
• Osteopathy for the Infections of Childhood by Edward J. Drew

Osteopathy In Chronic Cases, R.H. Williams

Early Osteopathic Literature (1910-1929)

15 page pamphlet.

Philadelphia Journal Of Osteopathy Volume 12, Number 3, Philadelphia College And Infirmary Of Osteopathy

Philadelphia Journal of Osteopathy

Articles in this issue include:

• The Osteopathic Lesion by Earlr S. Willard
• Bacterio-Therapy in Diphtheria by Lawrence J. Kelly
• An Osteopathic Profession of Faith by Raymond W. Bailey
• Differential Diagnosis Between Neurasthenia and Hysteria by Charles J. Muttart

The Spinal Origin Of Disease, R.H. Williams

Early Osteopathic Literature (1910-1929)

16 page pamphlet.

Title page:

The Spinal Origin of Disease, Part I: Reasons for Treating the Spine

A Little Journey To The Home Of Andrew Taylor Still, Elbert Hubbard

Early Osteopathic Literature (1910-1929)

32 page book with photographs.

Cover:

A Little Journey to the Home of Andrew Taylor Still
By Elbert Hubbard

Title page:

Andrew Taylor Still: Being a Little Journey to the Home of the Founder of Osteopathy
By Elbert Hubbard
Done into a Book by the Roycrofters, at their Shop, which is in East Aurora, New York, mcmxii

Photographs:

"The Old Doctor" and Elbert Hubbard on the veranda at Kirksville -- Dr. C.E. Still.

Osteopathy In Acute Diseases, R.H. Williams

Early Osteopathic Literature (1910-1929)

16 page pamphlet.

Why Osteopathy: Mrs. Myra Progress Explains Osteopathy To Mrs. Dorothea Conservatism, R.H. Williams

Early Osteopathic Literature (1910-1929)

16 page pamphlet.

Title page:

Why Osteopathy?

Osteopathy: "The Question Is Not Whether A Doctrine Is Beautiful, But Whether It Is True", Walter Anson Merkley

Early Osteopathic Literature (1910-1929)

14 page pamphlet.

Title page:

Osteopathy

Paper read by Walter Anson Merkley, A.B., D.O., before the Rainy Day Club of New York, at the Hotel Astor

Osteopathic Health, Vol. Xix, No. 5: A Magazine In Health Science Simply Told, The Osteopathic Publishing Company

Early Osteopathic Literature (1910-1929)

Cover:

Osteopathic Health: November, 1910: A Magazine of Health Science Simply Told

Special Edition for Arthur Miner Lane, D. O., Boston, 420 Boylston Street, Berkeley Building
Registered Osteopathic Physician -in- Massachusetts - Connecticut - New York
Telephone Connection at Office and Residence

Title page:

Osteopathic Health: With Which is Consolidated the Osteopathic Advocate and the Right Way

Copyright, 1910, by The Osteopathic Publishing Co. All rights reserved.
Vol. XIX November, 1910 No. 5

Contents:

How "Bad" Mechanism in Our "Joints" Makes Sickness -- Let the Osteopath Define His Own System -- Osteopaths Begin at the Foundations of Health -- There …

Philadelphia Journal Of Osteopathy Souvenir Number, Philadelphia College And Infirmary Of Osteopathy

Philadelphia Journal of Osteopathy

Articles in this issue include:

• Philadelphia College of Osteopathy Makes Great Progress Goes on 4-Year Basis
• Osteopath Bill Unfair. Asserts Governor Fort

Osteopathy: A Brief Discussion Of Its Principles And Practice, R.H. Williams

Early Osteopathic Literature (1910-1929)

16 page pamphlet.

Title page:

Osteopathy: A Brief, General Discussion of the Principles and Practice of this Advanced Science of Healing, with an Explanation of the Mechanical Cause of Diseases and their Cure

Osteopathy: A Preventive Of Disease, R.H. Williams

Early Osteopathic Literature (1910-1929)

16 page pamphlet.

Osteopathy And Woman: "Who Ever Heard Of A Man Wishing He Were A Woman?", R.H. Williams

Early Osteopathic Literature (1910-1929)

15 page pamphlet.

Osteopathy: A Rational Method Of Treatment, R.H. Williams

Early Osteopathic Literature (1910-1929)

15 page pamphlet.

The Osteopath And The Liver, R.H. Williams

Early Osteopathic Literature (1910-1929)

15 page pamphlet.

Philadelphia Journal Of Osteopathy Volume 11, Number 12, Philadelphia College And Infirmary Of Osteopathy

Philadelphia Journal of Osteopathy

Articles in this issue include:

• Weather Influences by Eugene M. Coffee
• Mid-Year Class Graduates
• The Anemias by Earle S. Willard
• Heredity and the Doctors by Louisa Burns
• Medical Men Advocate Our Methods
• The Spectacular in the Healing Art
• Christmas Gifts for Dr. Flack

Herald Of Osteopathy, September 1909, Herald Of Osteopathy

Herald of Osteopathy

Articles in this issue include:

• Osteopathy Illustrated. The Spine and its Importance. By Asa Willard, D.O., Missoula, MT
• You Are Old As Your Spine by S.C. Matthews, D.O., New York
• The Beginning of Age by Louisa Burns, M.S., D.O.

Philadelphia Journal Of Osteopathy Volume 9, Number 1, Philadelphia College And Infirmary Of Osteopathy

Philadelphia Journal of Osteopathy

Articles in this issue include:

• "Most Medicines Are Worthless," says the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford University, England
• Dr. Charles J. Muttart, Dean of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy
• New Osteopathic Textbook
• Osteopathy as a Profession by Mason W. Pressly
• The Advantages Philadelphia offers to the Prospective Student of Osteopathy by H. Alfred Leonard
• The Word Osteopathy by Earle S. Willard
• The Choice of a Profession by Arthur M. Flack
• "Chiropractics" A Counterfeit
• College News

Philadelphia Journal Of Osteopathy Volume 7, Number 5, Philadelphia College And Infirmary Of Osteopathy

Philadelphia Journal of Osteopathy

Articles in this issue include:

• Osteopathy as Viewed by a Layman by James Benninger
• A Square Deal for the Appendix
• Oslerisms
• Do Drugs Ever "Cure"?
• Salt and Water
• The Pace of Time
• Happiness Dependent on Health
• Sickness a Disgrace
• Osteopathy as a Profession
• The Ideal of Equipment for Osteopathic Physicians
• Osteopathy a Science
• A Suffering Man
• Among the Good Books
• Pennsylvania Osteopathic Hospital
• A Song of Life
• Not Detachable

Philadelphia Journal Of Osteopathy Volume 7, Number 4, Philadelphia College And Infirmary Of Osteopathy

Philadelphia Journal of Osteopathy

Articles in this issue include:

• Summer Complaint
• The Eye
• The Function of the Appendix
• A Substitute for Meat
• An Osteopathic Operations
• The Awakening
• In the Good Old Summer Time
• A Testimonial by Wallace Irwin
• "It's Just the Nerves"
• Principles Govern Facts
• Advertising
• The Mistaken Diagnosis
• The Color of the Liver
• The Osteopathic Significance of the Neck
• Graduating Exercises, Philadelphia College of Osteopathy

Philadelphia Journal Of Osteopathy Volume 7, Number 3, Philadelphia College And Infirmary Of Osteopathy

Philadelphia Journal of Osteopathy

Articles in this issue include:

• Veto of the Osteopathic Bill. - Necessity For Cautioning the People of the State by O.J. Snyder
• A New Water Cure
• The Opinions of Other Governors
• Oslerisms
• Diseases of Women by Edward D. Burleigh
• Osteopathy vs. Surgery
• Respiratory Affections by J. Edward Strater
• Constipation
• A Supreme Court Decision
• Simple Methods For Complex Conditions
• The Future of Drug Medication
• Beware of Fakirs!
• A Few Opinions Worth Considering

Philadelphia Journal Of Osteopathy Volume 7, Number 1, Philadelphia College And Infirmary Of Osteopathy

Philadelphia Journal of Osteopathy

Articles in this issue include:

• An Argument Against Intolerance by Edwin Martin Downing
• The Scope of Osteopathy by J. Ivan Dufur
• Good Advice
• One Reason Why Osteopathy Deserves Legislation In the State of Pennsylvania by W.B. Keene
• "Commencing" by Gene M. Coffee
• Colleges of Osteopathy
• Proper Attitude of Medicos
• Osteopathic Legislation
• Medical Factionism
• Choice of a Profession
• As It Might Have Been
• Commencement
• Nerve Regeneration
• "Borrowed Plumage Without Trademarks"
• YE Book Reviews