Andrew Taylor Still

About Andrew Taylor Still

Who is it?: Physician
Birth Day: August 06, 1828
Birth Place: Lee County, United States
Died On: December 12, 1917(1917-12-12) (aged 89)\nKirksville, Missouri, United States
Birth Sign: Virgo
Citizenship: United States
Fields: Medicine Osteopathy Osteopathic Medicine
Institutions: Baker University A.T. Still University

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Andrew Taylor Still was born on August 06, 1828 in Lee County, United States, is Physician. Andrew spent most of his childhood in the pro-slavery state of Missouri. However, just like his father, he was against slavery, and when civil war raged in various parts of America, he allied with the anti-slavery groups on both accounts. He was also nominated as the state legislator for Kansas. Having learnt the tricks of medicine from his father, the grim experiences during the war and the loss of his kids in the ensuing epidemic, led him to question the practices followed by physicians of that time. He set about determining more rational methods of treatment, which focussed on the disease rather than curing the symptoms. His pioneer work on how regulating the musculoskeletal system can help the body become more immune to diseases, led to the development of a new system in treatment, called ‘Osteopathy’. He faced severe criticism for his theories initially, but as he started curing more and more patients with his unconventional methods, his popularity soared, and many people became interested in learning his methods. Thus he conceived the idea of building a school for teaching and training people in osteopathy. His children were few among his first students at the ‘American School of Osteopathy’ located in Kirksville, Missouri. Taylor was the author of many books based on osteopathy, including his autobiography
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that science which consists of such exact, exhaustive, and verifiable knowledge of the structure and function of the human mechanism, anatomical, physiological and psychological, including the chemistry and physics of its known elements, as has made discoverable certain organic laws and remedial resources, within the body itself, by which nature under the scientific treatment peculiar to osteopathic practice, apart from all ordinary methods of extraneous, artificial, or medicinal stimulation, and in harmonious accord with its own mechanical principles, molecular activities, and metabolic processes, may recover from displacements, disorganizations, derangements, and consequent disease, and regained its normal equilibrium of form and function in health and strength.

Biography/Timeline

1858

Still and his family were among the founders of Baker University in Baldwin City in 1858, the first four-year university in the state of Kansas. Still was involved in selecting the location for the site of Baker University's first building. Along with his brother, Still donated 640 acres of land for the university campus. While maintaining his medical practice, where he treated patients afflicted with small-pox and cholera, Still spent five years building the facilities.

1861

Still was active in the abolition movement and a friend and ally of the infamous anti-slavery Leaders John Brown and James H. Lane. He became deeply embroiled in the fight over whether Kansas would be admitted to the Union as a slave state or a free state. The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 provided that the settlers in those two territories would decide the question for themselves. Civil war raged in Kansas as both sides tried to gain control of the territorial government. In October 1857, Still was elected to represent Douglas and Johnson counties in the Kansas territorial legislature. Still and his brothers took up arms in the cause and participated in the Bleeding Kansas battles (between the pro and anti-slavery citizens). By August 1858, a free-state constitution had been passed; Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state on January 29, 1861.

1864

After the Civil War and following the death of his wife, three of his children, and an adopted child from spinal meningitis in 1864, Still concluded that the orthodox medical practices of his day were frequently ineffective and sometimes harmful. He devoted the next thirty years of his life to studying the human body and finding alternative ways to treat disease. During this period, he completed a short course in Medicine at the new College of Physicians and Surgeons in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1870.

1867

Still adopted the ideas of spiritualism sometime around 1867, and it "held a prominent and lasting place in his thinking."

1870

Still was fascinated by machines, and whenever faced with a mechanical Problem, his answer was always to devise a better approach. In the 1870s, he patented an improved butter churn. He made improvements to a mowing machine designed to harvest wheat and hay, but before a patent could be submitted, his idea was stolen by a visiting sales representative from the Wood Mowing Machine Co. In 1910, he patented a smokeless furnace burner but had "some difficulty producing a full-sized working model. Heartbroken after his wife, Mary Elvira's, death in May 1910, he did not have the will to pursue the matter further, and the invention was never successfully marketed."

1892

Still founded the first school of osteopathy based on this new approach to Medicine - the school was called the American School of Osteopathy (now A.T. Still University) in Kirksville, Missouri in 1892.

1897

Still published four books during his life. His first book, published in 1897, was entitled Autobiography of Andrew Taylor Still with a History of the Discovery and Development of the Science of Osteopathy. A revised edition of the book was re-published in 1908 after a fire damaged the original printing plates. In 1899, Still published his second book, Philosophy of Osteopathy.

1902

In 1902, Still published his third book, The Philosophy and Mechanical Principles of Osteopathy, although some dispute remains over the date. Still published his fourth and final book in 1910, entitled Osteopathy Research and Practice.

1907

In a 1907 interview by the Topeka Daily Capital newspaper, A.T. Still's son, Charles Still, D.O., described his father's philosophy that the body would operate smoothly into old age, if properly maintained and that every living organism possessed the ability to produce all the necessary chemicals and materials to cure itself of ailments.

2013

In December, 2013 Still was announced as an inductee to the Hall of Famous Missourians. His bronze bust will be one of forty-four on permanent display in the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City. For the first time in the hall's history, the public was allowed to vote on new inductees. Still received over 38 percent of the votes, far outdistancing all others in consideration.

2019

Dr. Still sought to reform existing 19th-century medical practices. Still investigated alternative treatments, such as hydropathy, diet, bonesetting, and magnetic healing. Still found appeal in the relatively tame side effects of those modalities and imagined that someday "rational medical therapy" would consist of manipulation of the musculoskeletal system, surgery and very sparing use of drugs, including anesthetics, antiseptics and antidotes. He invented the name osteopathy by blending two Greek roots osteon- for bone and -pathos for suffering in order to communicate his theory that disease and physiologic dysfunction were etiologically grounded in a disordered musculoskeletal system. Thus, by diagnosing and treating the musculoskeletal system, he believed that Physicians could treat a variety of diseases and spare patients the negative side-effects of drugs.