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Question (Why did Osteopathy come before the world as a healing art?)
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| Collection Name | Andrew Taylor Still Papers
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| Title | Question (Why did Osteopathy come before the world as a healing art?) |
| Accession Number | 2009.10.602 |
| Old Number | EL-51.9; ATSP 2.6.9 |
| Author | Still, Andrew Taylor |
| Citation | Still, Andrew Taylor. Question (Why did Osteopathy come before the world as a healing art?" n.d. [2009.10.602] Andrew Taylor Still Papers. Museum of Osteopathic Medicine. Kirksville, Missouri. |
| Description | Essay (n.d.) in which Andrew Taylor Still states that osteopathy was born of necessity ("the mother of invention"), as previous writers had failed to identify the causes of common medical problems. Osteopathic medicine is "the mechanic's remedy for disease, " and osteopaths are "mechanical healers." |
| Subject | Still, A.T. (Andrew Taylor); Osteopathic Medicine |
| Date.Digital | 2010-01-22 |
| Format | Essay |
| Transcription | Question. ¶ Why did Osteopathy come before the world as a healing art? One says, or has said, that necessity is the mother of invention. It becomes necessary to have some method or system of the healing art based upon a philosophical foundation, because all authors who have written on diseases when their philosophy was carefully read, practiced and weighed, proved itself to be a lamentable failure. ¶ All writers have simply given us the effects minus cause after all their theorizing, experimenting, diagnosis and treatment. We have found that all of their theories do tremble when we ask the writer to show us the cause of such diseases as shaking palsy, asthma, [sp: pneumonia], consumption, goitre, gall stones, spasms, diseases of the heart, [sp: locomotor] ataxia, facial neuralgia, rheumatism, and the whole list of diseases of which the human is heir to from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot. This necessity is the mother of this invention or discovery, known as the mechanic's remedy for disease know as Osteopathy. Thus you see that the mechanical healer or Osteopath is the legitimate child of the mother of inventions. Her name is necessity. |
| Rights | Requests for permission to publish material from the papers should be directed to the Curator. The Museum does not claim to hold the copyright for all material in the Still Papers; it is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of other copyrights. |
| Publisher.Digital | Museum of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Language | English |
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