Show BIRTHPLACE OF OSTEOPATHY Dr Still the Founder of the School and His Home Homo In Kirks Kirks- vi yule lie Mo Kirksville Mo If I If a visitor In Kirk were to take a walk to the southwest southwest south south- west part o ol of the town some bright aft ho he would likely see an old man lying lazily upon a long wooden bench on the front porch of ot a long brick building This Is Dr A. A T. T Still discoverer o of osteopathy and founder of ot the American School of Osteopathy He has the very ways and air of ot an Idler and a dreamer As Aa Ashe Ashe he lies basking in the sunshine the I visitor will notice a pole seven or orI I eight feet long which ho he carries constantly constantly con con- with him Although 83 years old he Is scarcely gray and walks I like a soldier On one occasion a fashionably dressed dress I ed man from down east came to Kirksville Kirks Kirks- ville to see this strange old reformer and passing the doctors doctor's residence saw sawa a p plainly lInly dressed farmer wearing a coarse coarse shirt and Jeans stuffed into topped high boots Approaching him the stranger Inquired where he could find Doctor StillI StillI Still I am Doctor Still SUll answered the theold theold theold old man working In the flower bedI bedI bedI bed I mean Doctor Still the originator of at osteopathy he said Oh you want to see my good clothes Just walk up to the house and tell ma to show you my good suit Not all of ot Doctor Stills Still's peculiarities are those of dress He is very punctilious punctilious tillous about his meals meal's and when guests are expected at his home for dinner and dinner at that home homer ft J r h Yr oo i ip p. p oa AND HIS N means 12 o'clock noon they must be there 60 GO minutes after 11 Ma Still and the daughter Mrs George Laughlin have been embarrassed many times Umes upon the arrival of ot the guests to find Pa Still seated at the table enjoying a four-course four dinner all to himself Doctor Still attributes Osteopathy to an accident When he was only ten years old he had a n. severe attack of ot headache one hot summer afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon and having the disposition to lie In the shade anyway he made a swing of ot his hi's fathers father's s 's plow lines with a near branch of a shade tree Placing his head In this swing as an Improvised pillow which hung within about eight inches of the tho ground he soon became easy and went to sleep and when he awoke his headache was gone he says After that discovery he roped his neck whenever he felt one of the spells coming on and received Immediate relief I followed that treatment for tor 20 years before the wedge of ot reason reached my brain says he It took me 50 years or more to work out my theory based upon the fact that the body Is a perfect mechanism and that disease Is due to ill adjustment of ot the tho machine Doctor Still sun received a smattering knowledge of anatomy and of physiology ogy while he was a young man and rep rei a permit to practice medi medicine lne In Kansas principally among the Indians Indians In In- Indians with whom his father a Methodist Methodist Meth Meth- odist preacher labored as a Methodist Method 1st missionary |