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The following commentary is based upon the unpublished transcript of the proceedings before the Osteopathy, Chiropractic and Naturopathy Committee at Geelong Australia on Monday 8th of October, 1973.
Thomas Ambrose Bowen was born in 1916. He went to school in Geelong during the depression of the 1920's and left Ashby State School in grade 8 (about 14 years old). This was his only formal education. He had no secondary or tertiary education.
He found text books on Acupuncture and Shiatsu quite interesting and obviously influential in developing his work.
Mr. Bowen said he would modestly estimate his own success rate to be about 88%. He believed coffee was the main cause of migraines and that 90% asthmatics got relief through his manipulations and diet changes (no sago, rice, spaghetti, fried foods, potatoes, onions, dairy products, chocolate, pastry, peanuts, strawberries, or passion fruit). He never
advertised, he relied upon word of mouth. His gross income (mostly cash) was
roughly $45,000 in 1973. (A three bedroom home in Melbourne's eastern suburbs
could be purchased for around $12,000 that same year).
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Tom Bowen was concerned that practitioners were popping up all over the
place and that they may not be properly trained -"where are all these
practitioners coming from? One day you see a person in Homeopathy and
the next day he's a D.C. (chiropractor). This is one of the things I am
worried about".
