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A.T.Still - the founder of osteopathy

Andrew Still - the founder of osteopathy

(A brief curriculum vitae)

Was born in 1828 in family of the priest and the congressman in the city of Kirksville (USA). Has received nonproduction education.

In 1874 most of members of family of Andrew Still perishes from a flu epidemic.

Having felt the imperfection of medicine of that time, A.Still enters in medical college, and then gets on war where works as the surgeon.

Because of the incompatibility of sights leaves the medical college and develops his own technique of treatment. Thus independently does a resection of more than thousand corpses to studying anatomy and a pathology.

He studies all known directions of medicine, including folk medicine of Indians of Northern America.

Soon he begins a successful practice of treatment by hands mainly of infectious diseases - diphtherias, a meningitis, a belly typhus. The method of treatment names osteopathy: osteo - I listen pathya - a pathology.

Having received a solid experience, he opens in Kirksville the first school of osteopathy. A.Still never trained concrete technics, but taught the major principles, including one of them - thorough knowledge of anatomy.

He has formulated a rule of arteries - where blood does not pass, there is an illness. He taught to use in work modern knowledge of pharmacology, psychology, treatment by medicinal plants. Applied knowledge in the field of physics, technics, resistance of materials. On memoirs of eyewitnesses, during the work he used only soft, not injuring technics.