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.

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    right in the center of his sermon, and picked up his saddle-bags (he was a physician), and when he got to the door there was Jim Bozarth telling him to come and set Ed’s thigh, which had been broken. There were fifty living witnesses to that then, and I suppose ten or twenty of them are yet alive. They wondered how old Dr. Still knew when to take up his saddle- bags. That is one of the attributes that God puts in man. Will the divine law do to trust in all things and under all circumstances? Look the world over, and you will see men and women of all nations, who, while making great pretensions of belief in the infallibility of the Infinite, do not hesitate to make themselves drunk with whisky and opium “as a remedy for dis- ease. ” You will sometimes see the doctor who is called to your bedside, drunk both before and after he makes you drunk. You seldom see a minister who has the courage to rise before his congregation and say, “Our system of healing the sick is worse than all devils; it teaches by precept and example that the wisdom of God is a farce, and that His laws will not do to trust in disease. ” By their acts and advice in sickness many of our ministers day after day set aside the divine law and bring God to open shame. They say in the best of language, “All of God’s work is per- fect,” with great emphasis on the word “perfect, and that “H's works prove His perfection,” yet do they believe what they say of God and the perfec- tion of His laws? If the minister really believes it, why does he send a man loaded with poison into the sick chamber of his family, and drink the deadly bit- ters himself? Has he studied God’s law as applied to