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Title: Philosophy of Osteopathy

Author: Andrew T. Still

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Language: English

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Philosophy of Osteopathy;

BY

ANDREW T. STILL,

DISCOVERER OF THE SCIENCE OF OSTEOPATHY AND
PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL
OF OSTEOPATHY.

PUBLISHED BY
A. T. STILL, KIRKSVILLE, MO
1899.

Copyrighted, 1899, by
A. T. STILL.

Lithoprinted by
EDWARD BROTHERS, INC.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

Preface.

Many of my friends have been anxious ever since Osteopathy became an
established fact, that I should write a treatise on the science. But I
was never convinced that the time was ripe for such a production, nor am
I even now convinced that this is not a little premature. Osteopathy is
only in its infancy, it is a great unknown sea just discovered, and as
yet we are only acquainted with its shore-tide.

When I saw others who had not more than skimmed the surface of the
science, taking up the pen to write books on Osteopathy, and after
having carefully examined their productions, found they were drinking
from the fountains of old schools of drugs, dragging back the science to
the very systems from which I divorced myself so many years ago, and
realized that hungry students were ready to swallow such mental poison,
dangerous as it was, I became fully awakened to the necessity of some
sort of Osteopathic literature for those wishing to be informed.

This book is free from quotations from medical authors, and differs
from them in opinion on almost every important question. I do not expect
it to meet their approval; such a thing would be unnatural and
impossible.

It is my object in this work to teach principles as I understand them,
and not rules. I do not instruct the student to punch or pull a certain
bone, nerve or muscle for a c