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The Philosophy and Mechanical Principles of Osteopathy' is one of the landmark works in the field of Osteopathy, written by its founder, Andrew Taylor Still. Still was an American surgeon and physician who turned his attention to developing a system of treatment less invasive than the conventional treatments of his day. He investigated many 19th century practices and was inspired by their relatively tame side-effects. He believed that manipulation of the muscular skeletal system was the key to alleviating many illnesses, and developed his techniques into what he called Osteopathy (Greek roots osteon- for bone and -pathos for suffering). He promoted his system widely and founded the American School of Osteopathy, the world's first osteopathic school, in Missouri. We are republishing this work with a brand new introductory biography of the author.

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Date de parution	11 février 2015
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EAN13	9781473398757
Langue	English
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THE PHILOSOPHY AND MECHANICAL PRINCIPLES OF OSTEOPATHY
By
ANDREW TAYLOR STILL
Discoverer of the Science of Osteopathy; Founder and President of the American School of Osteopathy

First published in 1902

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Contents
Andrew Taylor Still
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
AGE O F OSTEOPATHY
DEMAND FOR PROGRESS
LIKE TH E APPRENTICE
TR UTH IS TRUTH
M AN IS TRIUNE
TRASH
OSTEOPATHY
A QUESTION OF INTELLIGENCE
OSTEOPATHY AN INDEPE NDENT SYSTEM
NATU RE IS HEALTH
OUR RELATION TO O THER SYSTEMS
OLD SYSTEMS HARD TO THROW OFF
CHAPTER I
IMPOR TANT STUDIES
PHYSIOLOGY
CHEMISTRY
PRINCIPLES OF OSTEOPATHY
SYM PTOMATOLOGY
SURGERY
CHAPTER II
SOME SUBSTANCES OF THE BODY
BONES CONSI DERED FIRST
THE BRAIN
THOUGHT IMP LIES ACTION
CEREBRO-S PINAL FLUID
THE SPINAL CORD
WHAT ARE NERVES?
N ERVE-POWERS
THREE CONDITIONS OF THE BLOOD -CORPUSCLES
FLUIDS OF THE BODY
BLOOD
DISE ASE DEFINED
THE FASCIA
AN ILLUSTRATION OF CONCEPTION
THE LYMPHATICS
UNIVERSALLY DISTRIBUTED
DEFINITION OF THE W ORD “TREAT”
CHAPTER III
DIVISIONS OF THE BODY
FIV E DIVISIONS
CHAPTER IV
HEAD, FACE , AND SCALP
ERYSIPELAS
BALDNESS
TREATMENT OF ERYSIPELAS
CHAPTER V
THE NECK
TREATMENT OF THE NECK
THE ARM
STRUCTURE OF THE NECK
CROUP, DIPHTHERIA, TONSILLITIS
DIPHTHERIA
TREATMENT OF DIPHTHERIA
WHO OPING-COUGH
CHAPTER VI
THE THORAX
LUNGS—PLACE, POW ER, AND USE
PNEUMONIA
CONSUMPTION
A DESCRIPTION OF CONSUMPTION
THE EFFECTS OF CONSUMPTION
THE CAUSE OF CONSUMPTION
MILIARY T UBERCULOSIS
VARIET Y OF BIRTHS
LU NG DISEASES
FO UND EFFECTS
DIGESTION
THE PHILOSOPHY O F DIGESTION
THE HEART
DEVELOPMENT
HE ART DISEASE
IN THE DARK
CAUSES
A FEW FACTS
ANEURISMS
RHEUMATISM
THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL MAMMA RY ARTERIES
CHAPTER VII
TH E DIAPHRAGM
“EUREKA!”
MED ICAL DOCTOR
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SPLANCHNICS
THE DIAPHRAG M IN HEALTH
OUT OF POSITION
LOCATION
NERVOUS PROSTRATION
GO D THE JUDGE
THE LESSON OF THE TREE
C HAPTER VIII
THE ABDOMEN
BE ORIGINAL
A GREAT HOST
GEOGRAPHY OF THE ABDOMEN
THE TH ORACIC DUCT
THE NERV ES MUST ACT
FEAS T OF REASON
LESSO NS TO LEARN
HARMONY MUST EXIST
AN OBSTRUCTION
THE OMENTUM
BLOOD- AND N ERVE-SUPPLY
T HE PANCREAS
AWAY WI TH QUACKERY
THE IMPORTANCE OF PURE BLOOD
DIS EASED BLOOD
HOW AB OUT NATURE?
BAS ED ON FACTS
BEGIN AT THE RECTUM
THE FUNCTION OF THE VISCERA
T HE MESENTERY
THE OMENTUM
WHAT IS TH E FUNCTION?
ESTABLISHE D ONE CAUSE
A PPENDICITIS
ANOT HER VICTORY
M ANY QUERIES
GOD’S WO RK COMPLETE
WHAT ARE ABDOMI NAL TUMORS?
PROLAP SED VISCERA
G O INTO CAMP
THE LIVER
THE KIDNEYS
FIGHT ING EFFECTS
OUR BASIS
THE STOMACH
THE PHILOSOPHY O F DIGESTION
THE PROCESS OF DIGESTION BY ELECTRICITY
CONSTIPATION OF THE BOWELS
THE TREATMENT OF C ONSTIPATION
SKIL L NECESSARY
CHAPTER IX
THE PELVIS
THE RECTUM
BLOOD- AND N ERVE-SUPPLY
THE UTERUS
EFFECT S OF WOUNDS
TUMORS
FROM HEALTH TO DISEASE
GYNAECOLOGY
THE IMPORTANCE OF A H EALTHY WOMB
DISEASES PECULI AR TO WOMAN
NATURE OUR SCHOOL
ANATOMICAL DIFFERENCES
OUR INSTRUMENTS
THE MACHIN E GIVES OUT
EXAMINATION
THE NORMAL A ND ABNORMAL
TREATMENT
WHITES, LEUCORRHOEA
DROPSY
CAUSE OF UTERINE D ISTURBANCES
LESS HASTE WI TH THE KNIFE
TUMEFACTION
CHAPTER X
FEVERS
DRUG S A FAILURE
AN ARRA Y OF TRUTHS
BEGIN WITH FACTS
ON FIRE
WE ARE LED ON
PERFECTIO N IN NATURE
DEGR EES OF HEAT
BOTH GUESS-WORK
POTTER’S DEFINITI ON OF FEVER
FEVERS O NLY EFFECTS
RESULT OR STOPPAGE OF VEI N OR ARTERY
FEVERS ARE FEVERS
GO T O THE SPINE
CON GESTION, ETC
LOOK FOR LESIONS
SUMMER AND WINT ER DISEASES
CONSTRICTION AND CONGESTION GOVERN AND MODIFY TEMPERATURE
PEDIGR EE OF FEVERS
M OST DREADED
TEMPERATURE
CHAPTER XI
BIOGEN
THE ORIGI N OF ACTION
FOR CES COMBINED
MATTER IN THE ATOM
THE MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL
THE VISIBLE AN D INVISIBLE
MAN IS ETERNAL
THE A DVENT OF MAN
THE SURVIVAL OF THE WEAKEST
METHODS OF HEALING
PR IMITIVE MAN
ME NTAL DWARFS
THE APPEARANC E OR OEDEMA
CHAPTER XII
SMALLPOX
THE ORIGIN OF CONTAGIO US DISEASES
USE OF VACCINE
JENNER’S COMMAND NOT HEEDED
CREDIT WHERE CR EDIT IS DUE
DANGERS OF VACCINATION
STAND READY FO R THE FIGHT
VICTORY IN A NE W GERMICIDE
WHAT SM ALLPOX DOES
TREATMENT OF SMALLPOX
G OOD NURSING
AN APPLICATION OF THI S PRINCIPLE
MEASLES
A COMPARISON
SC ARLET FEVER
C HAPTER XIII
OBESITY
A DYSPEPTI C CONDITION
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
CHAPTER XIV
EAR-WAX A ND ITS USES
AN EXPERIMENT
MAKE H ASTE SLOWLY
A GR EAT PROBLEM
DIFFERENCES IN SEVERITY
WRITTEN F OR THE HOME
NO TIME FOR DEBATE
CHAPTER XV
CONVULSIONS
PANNI NG FOR GOLD
FITS
WHA T IS A FIT?
RIB D ISLOCATIONS
CHAPTER XVI
OBSTETRICS
CAUSE
TREATMENT
DEVELOPMENT OF THE FOETUS
PREPARATION
CAUTION
FIRST EXAMINATION
SECOND EXAMINATION
CARE OF THE CORD
SEVER ING THE CORD
DRESSI NG THE CORD
DELIVERY OF THE AFTERBIRTH
CARE OF THE MOTHER
POST-DELIVERY HEMORRHAGE
TREATMENT
DIET
TREATMENT OF THE BREAST

Andrew Taylor Still
Andrew Taylor Still was born on 6 th August 1828 in Lee County, Virginia, Un ited States.
Still was the son of a Methodist minister and physician, and decided to follow in his father’s footsteps by studying medicine and serving as his apprenticeship under him. When the Civil War broke out, in 1861, Still became a Hospital Steward – a role in which he often acted as a”defacto surgeon”, as he later stated in his au tobiography.
After the Civil War and following the death of three of his children from spinal meningitis in 1864, Still concluded that the orthodox medical practices of his day were frequently ineffective and sometimes harmful and he began looking for alternative treatments with fewer side effects. Still investigated ideas such as hydropathy, diet, bonesetting, and magnetic healing. Eventually, he came up with the practice of osteopathy which he claimed could treat a vast array of ailments through the manipulation of the musculoskeletal system. In 1892, he went on to found the American School of Osteopathy (now A. T. Still University) in Kirksville, Missouri. He published four books on the subject: Autobiography of Andrew Taylor Still with a History of the Discovery and Development of the Science of Osteopathy (1897), ‘Philosophy of Osteopathy’ (1899), ‘The Philosophy and Mechanical Principles of Osteopathy’ (1902). and ‘Osteopathy Research and Pract ice’ (1910).
Along with his career in medicine, Still was active in the abolition movement and was elected to represent Douglas and Johnson counties in the Kansas territorial legislature in 1857. Kansas became a free-state the following year. Still also had a career as an inventor, patenting an improved butter churn, a smokeless furnace burner, and designing a moving machine to harvest wheat (an idea stolen from him by a salesman from the Wood Mowing Ma chine Co.).
Still and his family were among the founders of Baker University, Kansas, the first 4-year university in the state. He and his brother even donated 640 acres of land to be used for the univers ity campus.
Andrew Taylor Still died on 12 th De cember 1917.

PREFACE
In taking up a pen at my age, and assuming the responsibility of writing a book on the causes and treatment of diseases, philosophically and in a comprehensible manner, with words and forms to meet the demands of this enlightened age, I feel it is a very great undertaking, and ask that the world give me its friendly criticism. Read and adopt, or reject, as you may feel disposed when you have perused what I may write. I start out on this journey alone, with no compass except my reason, and if I fail, no one will suffer for the trip except ing myself.
A. T. S. Janua ry 1, 1902.

INTRODUCTION
MY AUTHORITIES
I quote no authors but God and experience. Books compiled by medical authors can be of little use to us, and it would be very foolish of us to look to them for advice and instruction on a science of which they know nothing. They are not able to give an intelligent explanation of their own composite theories, and they have never been asked to advise us. I am free to say that only a few persons who have been pupils of my school have tried to get wisdom from medical writers and apply it to any part of osteopathy’s philosophy or practice. The student of any philosophy succeeds best by the more simple methods of reasoning. We reason for necessary knowledge only, and should try to start out with as many known facts and as few false theories a s possible.
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