Autobiography, with a history of the discovery and development of the science of osteopathy.

  • Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor), 1828-1917.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Autobiography, with a history of the discovery and development of the science of osteopathy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    of provisions, strong wagons with three-inch tires, ox-bolts, covers, and everything fit to meet the storms of the plains, and neither did they forget their whiskey or snake medicine. Without these cool arrangements and necessary conveniences they would have' ended their trip close home, and their desired object would have been unattained. God, when He starts man out on the journey of life, fits him out with even greater care than this. Nothing is forgotten—heart, brain, muscles, liga- ments, nerves, bones, veins, arteries, everything neces- sary to the successful running of this human machine. But it seems man sometimes doubts that God has loaded his wagon with all needful things, and so he sets up numerous drug-stores to help out in the matter. We have about seven in this city, and they all have plenty to do, and will have until the laws of life are more perfectly understood. Man wants to take the reins of the universe in bis own hands. He says in case of fever he must assist nature by administering ipecac and other febrifuges. But by doing this he is accusing God of incompetency. You may be sure the Divine intelligence failed not to put into the machine of man a lever with which to control fever. The Lord never runs out of material; He constructs lawyers, musicians, mechanics, artists, and all the useful men, while I suppose fools are made out of the leavings. In the past I stood and watched four physicians, the best the medical schools could furnish, battle with all their skill against the dread disease of cerebro- spinal meningitis in my own family. I found prayers, tears, and medicine all unavailing. The war between