Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-09-27

?. STILL.
was suffering from Il peculiar pain
full lameness in her limbs. Skilled
physicians and surgeons from her
own town, Kansas City, and ST.
Louis were batfied. Some declared
it was a case of rheumatism, 9TH
ers hip disease, yet none were
able to afford any relief. 1t is
said she was utterly unable to
bear her weight on her feet or
move her injured leg, which was
greatly swollen and painful.
From some of her colored help
the mother had heard many won
derful stories of DR.. Still, and
when everything had failed, re-
solved to bring him to the house
without the knowledge of anyone,
and have him treat her daughter.
The prophet of Osteopatby gave
the young lady a treatment, and
in ten minutes she was able to
walk, run, and leap as we'll as
ever.
"Don't call this miracle" said
he. 81 exercise no supernatural
power, for | have none. This is
simply a scientific method of heal
ing, which anyone can practice
who thoroughly understands the
process"
From that time patients of a
better class came to him, and in a
few months he had established a
local reputation. His plan was
not so much to build up a practice
as to establish his theory. Ac-
cording to his own words he had
sworn eternal enmity to "drugs
and alcohol" and started a never
ending crusade against them. Two
of his sons, who were officers in
the United States Army resigned
and came home to enter their
fathers first class in the study of
Osteopathy. In 1890 he duly in
corporated the American School
of Osteopathy under the laws of
Missouri. A class of twelve or
fifteen students of both scxes, who
had been working for some years
in his school, was graduated in
1891 and most Of them were re-
tanned as teachers in the college
or as operators in the infrmary.
The first school-building used
for instruction was a small, single
story, three-room frame house. A
magnificent college building of
brick and stone was erected last
year. 1t is two and half stories
high, with a dissecting-room in
the attic, a large lecture-hall, rec
itation rooms, study-rooms, oper-
ating-roums, and offices, all bril-
liantly lighted by electricity and
supplied with all modern conven-
fences. Forty or fifty disciples to
the new faith graduated from the
institution this year, and have
gone forth into the world to make
war on drugs; and over one hun
dred are preparing to graduate in
the next class.
The chief study in the curriculum
is anatomy, and the time and at
tention given to this is four or five
times what it is in the best medical
colleges. Each student must be
able to name every bone, muscle,
nerve, artery, vein, and organ of the
body before he can pass. After the
student is perfect in anatomy he
then takes up Osteopathy. There
are no textbooks on this subject
yet, and he must get the informa-
ton from the teacher and bv prac-
tice.
Graduates from the school have
scattered over Missouri, Illinois.
Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska.
Colorado, and other western states
and territories. From the first they
encountered the bitterest opposition
from the medical profession, and in
many of the states there were laws
prohibiting any person not a gradu-
ate of some medical college from