Autobiography of Andrew Taylor Still (1908)

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OsteoLib® (Vol. Ia): Autobiography of Andrew Taylor Still, 1897

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Autobiography of Andrew Taylor Still
(1908)

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
Andrew T. Still
-WITH A-

HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT
OF THE SCIENCE OF OSTEOPATHY:::
TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF
THE FOUNDING OF THE AMER-
ICAN SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHY;
AND LECTURES DELIVERED BE-
FORE THAT INSTITUTION FROM
TIME TO TIME DURING THE PRO-
GRESS OF THE DISCOVERY. . . .
ILLUSTRATED
REVISED EDITION.
PUBLISHED BY KIRKSVILLE, MO.
THE AUTHOR 1908
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Copyright, 1908, by
A. T. STILL.
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Preface.
I WILL inform the reader at the outset that this
book is written to state facts, without being confined to
exact dates and figures. Events that have made lasting
impressions on my mind, stated as correctly as
possible from memory, are narrated here without
regard to the rules of fine writing. I never kept any
notes of my life, therefore the stories may appear dis-
connected. When I tell you of an event it will be the
truth as I remember it, regardless of how it may look
in print. I want to avoid “biography" as I write, for
the reason that “biographies” are so nicely worded that
the reader often has to ask whom the narrator is
giving a write-up." Notwithstanding I am often told
that I ought to get a professional “biographer” to
write my life, I have concluded to write it myself.
When I read about the battles of the Rebellion,
“How Major A. T. Still charged on rebels with uplifted
saber, urging his men to victory, "I begin to doubt
professional biographers, for I know there was not a
saber drawn nor was there any yelling during a hard
fight of two hours' duration between thirty thousand
combatants on each side. I remember also the reporters
of the sixties, who never tried to write the truth, and
could not if they wanted to, because at this time five to
ten miles was as near as these reporters
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6 PREFACE.
ever got to bullets; and I think they are sometimes just as
afraid of the truth to-day as they then were of lead. I will
say to the reader, if you wish to read my story, please
read as I write it, and not the garbled account of some
newspaper misrepresentative.
—A. T. STILL.
Kirksville, Mo., June 15th, 1897.
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Preface to Second Edition.
IN offering a revised, second edition of my auto-
biography, to Osteopaths and others interested, I would
say that some things have been omitted which were
practically of no importance to the general reader,
their place being filled by that which will be found of
interest.
In 1907 the publishing house that produced the
first edition was so unfortunate as to suffer a loss by
fire, in which the plates of the autobiography were
burned.
In order to meet the constant requests for my
autobiography, I concluded that it was best to revise the
old edition, which had become exhausted. The new
edition will be found an improvement on the old. During
the years which have elapsed since the first edition was
published, there has been an onward and upward
movement in all of the departments of my school. I
have succeeded in being able to introduce Osteopathy
in such a manner, that the students can grasp and
comprehend the Philosophy of this Science, and prove
their ability to demonstrate that, which they assert,
namely; the true law of successfully combating disease
as Thinkers and Engineers who are well qualified to
conduct the human body from disease to health.
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8 PREFACE.
I want to thank Dr. E. B. Veazie and Prof. Bean for
their untiring interest and work in assisting me to bring
out this revised edition, for at my age and present state of
health it would have been impossible for me to have
accomplished it without their aid.
I purpose adding a chapter, short and compre-
hensive, covering the intervening time since 1897,
and such data as seems to me will be of interest to the
reader, giving somewhat of the history of the growth of
Osteopathy and the School during the past ten years.
In assisting me in this matter, and to whom I would
extend thanks are Dr. Franklin Fiske, Dr. Julius
Quintal, and to my sons and others I would give
credit for their aid and encouragement.
I hope this new edition will give satisfaction to all
readers as I expect this to be my last effort in writing
an autobiography.
With no further remarks I will bid you adieu.
—A. T. STILL.
Kirksville, Mo., January 1st, 1908.
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Contents.
CHAPTER I.
Early Life—Schoolboy Days, and the Unsparing Rod—A
Judge of Dogs—My Flint-Lock Rifle The First Cook
Stove and Sewing-Machine—End of the World Coming My
First Discovery in Osteopathy...............................Page 17
CHAPTER II.
The Wild Game of the Frontier—Mr. Cochran's Deer—The
Deer's Foot—Treed by a Buck—I Capture an Eagle—Night
Hunting—Brother Jim's Horn—The Philosophy of Skunks and
Buzzards—Milking Under Difficulties—Attacked by
Panthers...............................................................Page 34
CHAPTER III.
My Father—Transferred to Missouri—Long Journey—The First
Steamboat—At St. Louis—An Unscrupulous Divine —Hardships
in The West—The First Methodist Preacher in Northeast
Missouri—Presiding Elder—Trouble in the M. E. Church—
Stand Taken by Elder Abram Still—Removal to Kansas Page
49
CHAPTER IV.
In Which I Take a Wife—The Infair—A Destructive Hail-Storm—At
Wakarusa Mission—Bereavement—The Pro-Slavery Trouble—
A Dangerous Ride—The Pro-Slavery Men Drilling—My
Legislative Experience..............................................Page 55
CHAPTER V.
I Enlist in Company F, Ninth Cavalry Volunteers—Our Mission —At
Kansas City—Pursuit of Price—The Army at Springfield—
Summary Vengeance on Guerrillas—Captain Com-
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