Osteopathy – An Autobiographical and Historical Account

The Prologue of Osteopathy – An Autobiographical and Historical Account begins: “Looking back over a long life in the service of Osteopathy it is a somewhat sobering spectacle and, at times, profoundly disturbing. Memory is often sobering and profound but if it is laden with osteopathic history then it becomes a battle indeed. The story has it’s roots in prejudice mixed with contempt and was to be regarded as just one more piece of impudent quackery. Now that we have suffered the baptism of fire and our true worth demonstrated it would appear that our future is assured, if only in a limited sense. Whether or not the Littlejohn Philosophy will survive is a problem yet to be solved and we must take comfort that the truth always survives – in the long term.”

John Wernham continues with Osteopathy – An Historical and Autobiographical Account: ”Of course there was a time when I was blissfully unaware what had been arranged on my behalf, on which I was due to be engaged from somewhere about the middle of my career in this earthly life to the end, so far as I know. It has been recorded that I first saw light on Thursday, second of May, 1907, at four o’clock in the morning, which meant that I hauled the local doctor out of his bed at this uncomfortable hour, much to his annoyance, no doubt. Of the details concerning the birth nothing is known except that my mother was well under five feet in height and I was the eleventh child; could this mean that it was a good idea to keep going in this child-bearing business?”

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