Andrew Taylor Still, 1828-1917
Trowbridge's book is a very interesting discussion of late-nineteenth-century evolutionary thought and the impact of this thought upon American medicine. Still certainly ranks as one of the least-known and original scientific thinkers of the late nineteenth century. --Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Journal of the WestCarol Trowbridge illuminates how Still's peculiar therapeutic achievement was fully a product of its phrenological, mesmeric, Thomsonian, Eclectic, spiritualistic and, above all, Spencerian evolutionary times. --Roger Cooter, Medical History