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Osteopathy is a science with possibilities as great as the magnitude of the heavens. It is a science dealing with the natural forces of the body. We work as
osteopaths with the traditional principle in mind that the tendency in the patient’s body is always toward the normal. There is much to discover in the
science of osteopathy by working with the forces within that manifest the healing processes. These forces within the patient are greater than any blind force
that can safely be brought to bear from without. -- William Garner Sutherland, D.O., D.Sc.(hon.)
“Establish Thou the work of our hands.
Yea, the work of our hands establish Thou it.”
Have you ever had a thought strike you?
I have told many times of the thought that struck me before I
graduated from the American School of Osteopathy. [In trying] to
prove that motion between cranial bones in the living adult is
impossible....I gained knowledge not only of the articular mobility
of the skull but also of the Tide and something within that I call
the "Breath of Life." I do not consider this contribution of thought
mine--I call it a guiding thought. The goal with your patients is to find the way to healthy function
within the mechanism that they bring to you. Study the Lfe
principle and come closer to understanding what I mean by the "Breath
of Life." To the digger who will take time to dream and the dreamer
who will wake up and dig, the science of osteopathy will unfold into
a magnitude equal to that of the heavens.
-William C. Sutherland, D.O.
If we want to understand this [physiological] mechanism, we have to
understand and feel how it functions in both a state of
health and a state of illness. We have to learn through it; we must
function as it functions; we must think as it thinks; and we
have to experience it with our hands. We have to experience it in
terms of its living function, understanding the way this
body would act if it were in good health. We must not only explore
symptoms; we have to look around, everywhere, across
this living body, and find what it would like to be and how it would
like to live. I feel very strongly that we have the opportunity to go deeper into
the study of stillness.... I am trying to bring into focus a way...
of using the stillness objectively and subjectively in the diagnosis
and treatment of our cases.... It is a treatment
program in which health is related to a return to the freedom of
interchange between body physiology and stillness. -ROLLIN E. BECKER, D.O.
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