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Wonderful Growth Claimed to Prove Merit--Osteopathy is Rational Physio-Therapy--Growth is in Exact Proportion to Advertising Received--Booklets and Journals for Gratuitous Distribution--Osteopathy Languishes or Flourishes by Patent Medicine Devices--Circular Letter from Secretary of American Osteopathic Association--Boosts by Governors and Senators--The Especial Protege of Authors--Mark Twain--Opie Reed--Emerson Hough--Sam Jones--The Orificial Surgeon--The M.D. Seeking Job as "Professor"--The Lure of "Honored Doctor" with "Big Income"--No Competition.