RESULTS ESTABLISH THE SCIENCE AND ART - A Manual of Osteopathy - Eduard W. Goetz, D.O. 1909

 It is in the results that the practitioner of Osteopathy finds his justification.  Osteopathy has passed the experimental stage.  It is now a demonstrated system of healing.  Osteopathy gains results because it uses and aids Nature.  The Osteopath is fighting on the side of truth, because he is on the side of Nature, and Nature allows none of her causes to go by default.  All Nature is pregnant with force, and Nature’s force is the most remedial because it is natural.  A prompt resort to osteopathic treatment in the beginning of sickness will generally ward off a long illness.

    Nearly all diseases, both acute and chronic, that come within the range of the medical profession have been treated and cured by Osteopathy.  One of the most remarkable facts in connection with the history of Osteopathy is that a large proportion of its cases has been discarded as incurable by the medical profession, and yet among these so-called "incurable diseases" a large proportion has been entirely cured.  It is not claimed that Osteopathy is a cure-all, nor is it pretended that it can give life and force where these have already been almost lost or dissipated, but it is beyond dispute that life has been made more comfortable to thousands of unhappy victims of disease, and death has been robbed of many premature victims by the hand of Osteopathy.