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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    same^time? Let me eat quick and trot, and I will have health and strength. Off to the country I went with a flour-sack full of darkey bones in 1877, and have been studying bones ever since. At that time I was very anxious to know if God could cure chills and fever without quinine and whisky, fever without drugs, headache and a few more diseases without opium and other sedatives. I did not know at that time that I could apply this science successfully to all diseases of the land and sea. Still I had stopped all dry-land vomiting, but had not had an opportunity to have it tested on the sea. But it has proven its efficacy in seasickness just the same as on the land. I could not have the quiet in town that I had in the country; still it was very country-like in the town, as the hogs ran at large, and had rooted out holes which were fifteen to twenty feet across and wallowed in them; and when a rain came, it was a great resort for them to bathe in. They all had bathing-suits and snouts, and would often come into the kitchen in search of food, so it was necessary to have a few dogs to chase them out. Many thought it was economy to raise hogs in town, and let them eat their slop. I found it more pleasant to study Osteopath}' in the country, and discovered there, some as well- posted persons as I ever met. They could talk on all literary subjects, and were well qualified to listen to and decide on the merits of this philosophy, by which I reasoned that all the drugs man needed were put in him by nature’s quartermaster, and that the supply was abundant, but our knowledge was limited how to use the remedy nature had provided for us.