Dear Editor, I have read with great interest the editorial, titled “The Uniqueness of Osteopathic Medicine: Do We Know What it is?” in the Winter 1994 issue of the Joumal. In the concluding paragraph, readers were invited to send in our “…ideas about what makes osteopathic medicine different.” I accept this invitation. As is reflected […]

The Journal of Orthopaedic Medicine Vol 16 1994 No 3 73 PROFESSOR KAREL LEWIT Neurologic Clinic, Charles University, Prague SUMMARY Most therapeutic methods used in orthopaedic medicine effectively treat dysfunction, not pathology. Function and dysfunction are as real as anatomy and pathological anatomy. To treat dysfunction effectively, the therapeutic and even diagnostic approaches are fundamentally

Editor’s Note: On the theory that the road which leads to discovery is always interesting, Doctor Still was asked by the Editors of The Ladies Home Journal to tell the circumstances which led to his discovery of the comparatively new and growing medical school called “Osteopathy.” Doctor Still, at the age of seventy-nine, lives at