Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, MD, DO
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History of OsteopathyThe practice of osteopathy began in the United States in 1874. Dr Andrew Taylor Still, MD, DO. Coined the term "osteopathy". Dr Still was a physician and surgeon in Kansas at the time of the American Civil War. Still named his new school of medicine "osteopathy," reasoning that "the bone, osteon, was the starting point from which [he] was to ascertain the cause of pathological conditions."
Still founded the American School of Osteopathy (now A. T. Still University of the Health Sciences) in Kirksville, Missouri, for the teaching of osteopathy on 10th May 1892. While the state of Missouri, recognizing the equivalency of the curriculum, was willing to grant him a charter for awarding the MD degree, he remained dissatisfied with the limitations of conventional medicine and instead chose to retain the distinction of the DO degree. The osteopathic medical philosophy is defined as the concept of health care that embraces the idea of the unity of the living organism's structure (anatomy) and function (physiology). |
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