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THE FIRST WELLAND GIRL TO GRADUATE IN OSTEOPATHY
[Welland Telegraph, 14 June 1910]
Many readers of this paper will be pleased to learn of the success of Miss S. Carolyn Blanchard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blanchard, Merritt Street, who is hereafter to be known as Doctor Blanchard, for she has recently graduated from the College of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo. Since graduating, Doctor Blanchard has been notified of having successfully passed the Missouri State Board examination and is now fully licensed to practice.
Our readers will recall an interesting interview with Doctor Blanchard published in these columns shortly after the San Francisco earthquake in which she suffered some unusually exciting experiences. She was at that time attending a college of Osteopathy; but her course was interrupted by the disaster which devastated the city. Later she took up her studies at Kirksville where the founder of the science, Dr. A.T. Still, continues to preside over the institution. The diplomas are all signed by the aged founder of the cult and this year, the graduating class numbered 175.
Dr. Blanchard, who is spending a brief holiday at her home here, at the request of the Telegraph, gave the following explanation of the science of Osteopathy.
“The human body is a magnificent mechanism created by a master mechanic, each part lying in such relation to other parts that there is exact anatomical fitting. Any disturbance of these relations results in less perfect functioning.
Violence, tightened ligaments, contracted muscles, caused by cold draughts, or toxins in the system are among the causes of such disturbance. The human machine is so contracted that it runs itself, requires no engineer-given pure air, food, exercise and a proper environment. It will even adjust itself up to a certain point. But when too long continued or too great abuse of its laws is persisted in, disease results.
The Osteopathic physician after his three or four years of hard work in the class room, and in clinics, knows the workings of the human body, much in the same manner as an engineer is familiar with his locomotive. He has learned the natural method of restoring equilibrium. He looks carefully into causes which lead to the symptoms, regulating environment when necessary and skillfully adjusts disordered mechanisms.
The Osteopathic physician with his mechanics understands how to rebuild and restore the broken down digestive mechanism, to tone up the nervous system, to rehabilitate the organs of assimilation, elimination and locomotion. All this is done without the use of drugs, for the true Osteopathic doctor gives no medicine.”
[See related article: WOMAN’S STORY OF DISASTER]
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