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The Osteopathic Physician could have softened up these muscles for the remainder of this man's earthly career, and the mind would have just as faithfully contracted them, and the rheumatism would have constantly reappeared.
Case 2. Mr. John R. S , aged 50, came for
treatment, apparently suffering from asthma. A careful examination disclosed no conditions that would warrant a diagnosis of asthma. His breathing was most peculiar and distressing. He would puff and blow in paroxysms, like a man who had just finished a ten-mile run. His history showed that about 30 years previously he had undertaken a swim off from Atlantic City to a wreck about a mile and a half from shore. After he had covered about a mile he commenced to get winded, and he realized that he must make the other half mile or go to a watery grave. We will not recount his terrible struggles before he finally reached the wreck, barely able to cling to it, until he was rescued by life-guards.
In this case you see the mind faithfully reproducing unconsciously to our patient, the very urgent desire that the lungs made upon it, for oxygen at the time of that strenuous struggle and still carried out this desire after a lapse of twenty years. This patient is still under treatment, and has been with us for two months. He is very nearly cured. This case requires not only wiping out the wrong mental image, but requires that the mind be taught all over again its function of rhythmic breathing.
Case 3. Mrs. Mary G , aged 41, came to us in
a very much run down condition. One very strange
