And osteopathic medicine has a certain disreputable tinge going back a century when osteopaths believed all disease sprang from the spine or the skeletal system.

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In consequence, the applause was muted when, in his second inaugural speech, Brown bragged that his administration was building an artificial river down the spine of the state and mightily expanding the greatest system of public colleges and universities in the world.

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Physician groups have started heart hospitals, spine hospitals and orthopedic hospitals to get out from under the shoe of whatever the big medical system is in town.

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