Remember when...osteopathy was called a cult?

Medical Economics | April 27, 1998| | Copyright

It wasn't that long ago. I hold in my hands a copy of the September 1955 issue of Medical Economics. On page 155 is an article titled, "Why osteopathy is still considered a cult." It was in the very same issue that we published an article announcing a startling new invention: the telephone answering machine. Our title: "A robot will answer your phone."

Answering machines were new at that time, but osteopathy had been around for about 80 years. Even so, much of its philosophy had stuck firmly in the craw of organized medicine.

The controversy was literally bred in the bone: M.D.s took issue ...

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