Rare Osteopathic Books in the Garbage

Someone at the NJ osteopathic association told me that over a year ago the relatives of an elderly osteopathic doctor who lived near my parents house had called to ask if someone wanted her library. She had died and left this enormous collection of rare osteopathic literature. None of the schools, libraries, institutions wanted any of it. The association didn't know what to do so they did nothing.

When I called the relatives and explained who I was and what my interest was they told me what I have since heard from many other relatives of deceased doctors of natural medicine. " You're too late. We waited and waited. We called everywhere. No one wanted anything. So each week we put a box of her library out for the garbage man. Now there is only one box left." I got my father to drive me over. As soon as I looked in the box I realized what kind of library this had been. The cardboard box was filled with some of the rarest old osteopathic materials I had ever seen. Apparently, the old doctor had collected this to pass on. No one wanted it. Almost all of it went into the garbage bin. A Chiropractic Library in the Dumpster