Physical culture . me to Originate Osteopathy By ANDREW T. STILL Many of oar readers have heard of the science of Osteopathy. It is the new druglesshealing art. It has much that is similar to that which is being advocated in this magazine* Ourfriends will unquestionably be glad to read the following article by Andrew T. Still, the Fatherof Osteopathy.—Bernarr Macfadden. MY FIRST awakening to the prin-ciples which today have cul-minated in the science calledOsteopathy7 was made whenI was about ten yearsold. I was a boy on myfathers farm in* Ma-con County, was subject to sickheadaches
Physical culture . me to Originate Osteopathy By ANDREW T. STILL Many of oar readers have heard of the science of Osteopathy. It is the new druglesshealing art. It has much that is similar to that which is being advocated in this magazine* Ourfriends will unquestionably be glad to read the following article by Andrew T. Still, the Fatherof Osteopathy.—Bernarr Macfadden. MY FIRST awakening to the prin-ciples which today have cul-minated in the science calledOsteopathy7 was made whenI was about ten yearsold. I was a boy on myfathers farm in* Ma-con County, was subject to sickheadaches, and whilesuffering from one ofthese attacks one dayI was instinctively ledto make a swing ofmy fathers plow-linebetween two head hurt toomuch to make swing-ing comfortable. Ilet the line down towithin eight or teninches of the ground,threw the end of ablanket on it, and laydown on the ground,using the lines for aswinging pillow. Tomy surprise I soon be-gan to feel easier,and went to got up with. DOCTOR STILL In a little whileheadache andfever gone. This discovery interestedme, and after that, whenever I felt myheadache spells coming on, I wouldswing my neck, as I called it. The next incident which gave mecause for thought occurred when I con-tracted dysentery, or flux, with copiousdischarges mixed with blood. Therewere chilly sensations, high fever, back-ache and cold abdomen. It seemed tome my back would break, the miserywas so great. A log was lying in my fathers yard. In the effort to get com-fort I threw myself across it on the smallof my back and made a few twistingmotions, which probably restored themisplaced bones totheir normal position,for soon the painbegan to leave, myabdomen began to getwarm, the chilly sen-sation disappeared,and that was the lastof the flux. MILL MACHINERY AROUSED MY INTEREST IN HUMAN MACHINERY My father, as a pio-neer, was a farmer, amill owner, a ministerand a doctor. I stud-ied and practicedmedicine with him. Pioneer life on
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