November 7 Tuesday – Sam wrote to his sister, Pamela A. Moffett:

It was really very kind of Dr. Steele to invent Osteopathy after Kellgren (the actual inventor of it) had already been curing all kinds of diseases with it when Dr. Steele was in his cradle cutting his teeth.

Osteopathy is a thief. I suppose the Kirksville man committed it, at any rate it is a theft. And I am glad it was committed; for I think that America will take hold of it & disseminate it, whereas conservative Europe prefers to be drugged & tortured & assassinated in the old way” [MTP]. Note: Dr. Walter W. Steele of Buffalo, NY.