Book excerpt: The lay public is probably less familiar with the concept of osteopathy than with this of chiropractics. Let it be stated that both acknowledge the pathological effect of vertebral lesions (subluxations)upon the functioning of the nervous system. Osteopathy however may practice a different type of manipulations, and concerns itself with the whole structure, that is to say vertebrae, but also all other joints, muscles, ligaments and fascia. Osteopathy holds that if the structure is blocked in whichever of its componenets, health will be jeopardized, since the flux of energy which pervades organism will be impaired. It is a "manual" medicine, where the healer (physician, veterinarian) is "listening" to his/her patient. Hence the title of this book "What the horses have told me."