Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-24

(By ]. L. Holloway, NJ. S., d. o.
The following eulogium of DR.. Still
the founder of the osteopathic method
of treating diseases, is especially time
" in view of the recent celebration of
the eighty-ffth birthday of this re-
markable man at Kirksyille, Missouri,
his present home:
Ripe with age as with honors is Dr..
Still, yet he moves among us still-the
real man, not one whose virtues are
canonized in cold type, nor whose per-
sonality is shrouded in years grown
gray with age. Seldom does it happen
that the man who refuses to conform
to the thoughts of his time, or doff his
cap to the dogmas of the day, but I'M
complainingly accepts professional
and social ostracism rather than sur
render his conviction of truth, seldom.
does it happen for such an ole to live 9
to become the recipient of popular APP
plause and the center of a devotion
that time cannot mar nor death itself
diminish.
The great discoveries, as rule, are
not appreciated until years after they
are gone from the stage of action. But
today, we come to lay our garlands of
'ove, not upon the broken shaft of
hero long since gone, but at the feet
one we know, whose searching eyes
look into our own and whose heart
beats in unison with ours for a per
fected knowledge OF a science which
his genius brought to light The cir
cumstances of the rise of this man are
really wonderful. With no thought OF
future greatness, with no desire to sit
in kingly places, no ambition to take
his place by the side of great discov.
.erers or profound scientists, he
wrought in his own inimitable way, to
find truth and, having found it, men
and women everywhere are rising u.
to call him blessed.
His early life was hard, educational
advantages few, opportunities for pro,
fessional training limited, the outlook
for fame anything but roseate. En-
dowed with a keen scent for truth, Il
constancy that scorned to waver,
courage that quailed not before opin-
ion, sypathy that had the white glow
of love whenever human ills touched
his life, this devotee at Natures shrine
stood out separate and apart from his
fellows as one crying in the wilderness
to return to Natures ways. 1t was this
rugged independence, this high AMI
holy zeal for truth which impelled him
forward in the stress of storm when
friends deserted, want walked by his
side and poverty was his portion.
We shall never know the anguish
his spirit suffered, for no pen can tell
the graphic story of the hearts strus
gle in those dark days when he was
an outcast from social and professional
circles, a supposedly Anticipated bone
setter, with his sack of bones, home,
less wanderer, possessed, they said of
a strange hallucination, finding Meth
err sympathy nor support. But he had
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him the purpose to follow it. Genius
never tracks the multitude. 1t blazes
out new pathways, 1t surrenders u
no dogma and Graves no indulgence. It
sets itself to the accomplishment of
the impossible from the standpoint CT
the laity And so the fundamental
tenet of this new therapy; to-wit, per,
'erted function is the result of struc-
tural perversion, or as he himself puts
it. The rule of the artery is su-
preme," is brought forth as the child
of his brain, child whose infancy met
with no welcome from the learned
They spurned it as a bastard, ridicul-
ed it as mountebank, denounced it as
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