The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-10
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TOCELEBRATE !
FOUNDING
Thousands to Gather in
Honor Of Founder in Big
Fete in Missouri.
BY JACK CEJNAR,
International News Service.

KIRKVILLE, Mo-, April TO-
More than 5000 osteopaths from
all parts of the United States,
Mexico, Canada, and Europe are
expected to flock to this city the
latter part of May to take part in
the Golden Jubilee celebration here
of the semi-centennial anniversary
of the birth of osteopathy.
On May 25 all Kirksville will be
In holiday attire to pay tribute to
the memory of DR.. Andrew T. Still,
the father of the science of osteop.
athy, who came here in 1875 from
Baldwin, Kans., as the fidiculed ex.
popent of new.fangled theory,
and who died here December 10,
1917, -honored and respected as
the founder of a great new medical
science.
To Hold Convention.
Following the Still memorial day
will come a weeks convention of
the American Osteopathic Associa-
ton, which will be held in Kinks
vile for the first time in honor of
the fiftieth anniversary of the dis
covery of osteopathy. Increased
interest has been aroused in this
convention by the announcement
that the two osteopathic colleges
IN Kirksville are being merged.
They are the American School of
Osteopathy and the Andrew T. Still
College of Osteopathy land Surgery.
The consolidated college will be
known as the American School of
Osteopathy and Andrew t. Still
College OF Osteopathy and Surgery,
Combined.
Although fifty years have passed
since osteopathy was first intro
duced by DR.. Andrew t. Still it is
interesting to note that some Of
the men and women who helped
DR.. Still in launching the new sci
ence are still in active life. One is
DIR. A. q. Hildreth, now in charge
OF the osteopathic sanatorium for
the treatment of mental and ner-
| vous diseases at Macon, Mo. An
other is Harry Still, a son of DIR.
Still; who is connected with the
osteopathic college here. Members
of the first class that ever studied
osteopathy are still in active service
and will attend the Golden Jubilee
celebration here.
Theory Attacked.
The discovery of osteopathy was
first announced at Baldwin, Kan
sas, June %, 1874, but so hostile
was the medical profession, of
which DR.. Still up to that time had
been an honored member, and so
critical were his own friends and
relatives that within a year DR..
Still left Kansas and located in
Kirksville.
For eighteen years DR.. Still prac-
ticed osteopathy almost alone. He
lectured and demonstrated in all
of the school houses of Adair
county and delivered addresses on
osteopathy In Hannibal, Wades-
burg, Clinton, Holden, Rich Hill,
Harrisonville, Palmyra, Kansas
City and other Missouri cities. In
1892 he organized the first Ameri
| can School of Osteopathy and the
first class of seventeen members
was graduated here in 1894. In
1897 the American Osteopathic AS
ISOLATION was organized-now a so.
i'ciety with large membership.
Old Idea Upheld.
The osteopathy of today is a
great advance over that first an
nounced in Kansas fifty years ago,
JSS SAO PAoSlAIAOIlCIS VINO are com.
ing back to KirksvilIe to celebrate
still believe absolutely in the two
fundamental discoveries of DR..
Still. The first is that the normal
body is capable of making within
itself all of the medicine it needs:
the second is that when the BODY
machine becomes deranged the re.
suit is pressure, which interferes
with the normal flow of the forces
and fluids of the body. and this
interference must be removed by
mechanical adjustment before
health is attained.
On Monday, May &c, the first
day of the convention, great
parade will be held, in which will
be floats representing every Stat.
of the Union. Because of the grea+
part played by Missouri Character.
and scenes in the founding of este
opathy, a native Missourian. Iieu+
Col. James e. Rieger, of the Eighty.
ninth Division, U. s. A.. which
fought in the great war, will lend
the parade.