TITLE PAGE AND PORTRAITS

PREFACE

CHAPTER I

• Early Life
• Schoolboy Days, and the Unsparing Rod
• A Judge of Dogs
• My Flint-Lock Rifle
• The First Cook Stove and Sewing Machine
• End of the World Coming
• My First Discovery in Osteopathy

• The Wild Game of the Frontier
• Mr. Cochran's Deer
• The Deer's Foot
• Treed by a Buck
• I Capture an Eagle
• Night Hunting
• Brother Jim's Horn
• The Philosophy of Skunks and Buzzards
• Milking Under Difficulties
• Attacked by Panthers

• My Father
• Transferred to Missouri
• Long Journey
• The First Steamboat
• At St. Louis
• An Unscrupulous Divine
• Hardships in The West
• The First Methodist Preacher in Northeast Missouri
• Presiding Elder
• Trouble in the M.E. Church
• Stand Taken by Elder Abram Still
• Removal to Kansas

• In Which I Take a Wife
• The Infair
• A Destructive Hail-Storm
• At Wakarusa Mission
• Bereavement
• The Pro-Slavery Trouble
• A Dangerous Ride
• The Pro-Slavery Men Drilling
• My Legislative Experience

• I Enlist in Company F, Ninth Cavalry Volunteers
• Our Mission
• At Kansas City
• Pursuit of Price
• The Army at Springfield
• Summary Vengeance on Guerrillas
• Captain Company D of the Eighteenth Kansas Militia
• Major of the Twenty-First Kansas Militia
• On the Missouri Frontier
• Fighting Joe Shelby
• Osteopathy in Danger
• Burying Dead Under a Flag of Truce
• The Regiment Treated to a Surprise

• The End of the War
• Rejoicing at the Dawn of Peace
• New Dangers
• The Evil of Drugs
• TerribleVisions
• A Picture Drawn
• Digging in Indian Graves for Subjects
• Studying from the Great Book of Nature
• The Ravages of That Terrible Disease Meningitis
• Prayers and Medicine
• Death of Four Members of My Family
• Is Medicine a Failure?

• As an Inventor
• The Tired Arm
• The Reaper and Mower
• The Rake
• The Steel Fingers
• An Invention Lost
• On a Farm
• A Smart Wife
• Churning
• The Philosophy of Butter
• Another Invention
• Studying the Drive-Wheels of Nature
• The Science of Osteopathy Developed

• An Effort to Draw the Attention of the People to Osteopathy
• Failure at Baldwin, Kansas
• History of Baker University
• Prayers for the Man Possessed
• Brother Jim's Skepticism
• Faith of My Good Wife
• A Wandering Osteopath
• My Story in Clinton County
• Treating Asthma
• My Studies
• A Hypnotist

• My First Case of Flux
• Old Methods
• More Cases
• Believed to be Possessed of the Devil
• Prayers from Fools
• A Dislocated Neck
• Leaving Macon
• At Kirksville
• Mother Ivie
• Dr. F. A. Grove
• Judge Linder
• Chinn's Cheering Way
• Robert Harris
• A Helpless Cripple
• Typhoid Fever
• Feeble in Health and Purse
• Punching for Inebriacy
• An Ointment for Drunkenness

• Reflections on the Seventies
• Choosing a Path in Life
• What Life Is
• Anxiety to Leave It
• Child's Pluck
• The Brain the Only Hope
• The Widow's Trials
• Brain Triumphant
• The Greatest Legacy Energy

• Working Alone
• Success
• The Pile Doctor and Lightning
• Rod Peddler
• Dr. William Smith Comes to Investigate
• The Lesson in Electricity
• Motor and Sensory
• What is Fever?
• Dr. Smith a Convert
• The Success of Lady Osteopaths
• Especially Excellent in Obstetric
• Diseases of the Season
• The Allegory of Joshua
• Basic Principles
• The Too-much-talk Man
• Charter of the American School of Osteopathy

• Introduction to Lectures
• Honest Criticism Invited
• Not a Writer of Books
• Old Remedies and Death
• To Study Osteopathy
• Thorough Knowledge of Anatomy Essential
• Woes of a Bald-Headed Doctor
• The World on Trial
• Judge of the Living and the Dead
• The Trial Proceeds
• For Twenty Thousand Years
• Struggles of Nations
• Soldier Under the New Flag

• Something about Infallible Signs
• Appealing to My Little Preacher
• Anxiety in Waiting for an Answer
• The Charges and Specifications
• Divine Law of Finger and Thumb

• The Great Vision
• A Wonderful Procession
• An Assembly to Benefit the Human Race
• War
• Defeat
• Surrender
• The Doctors in Council
• Forceps and Laceration
• The Spy on Osteopathy
• A Disturbed Artery and the Result
• Nature's System of Midwifery
• Osteopathy Defined
• Whips of Quinine to Drive out Fever
• The corpus Callosum
• Corpuscles
• The Equipments as Fremont's Surgeon
• How God Manifests Himself

• Various Disease
• Normal and Abnormal
• Nerves and Veins
• How Often to Treat
• Do Not Bruise the Muscles
• The Battery and Engine
• Beware of the Buzzards

• A Demand for a Revolution
• A Plea for an Advance in Osteopathy
• Object of Osteopathy
• How to Irrigate
• Death Defined
• How Pain is Created
• The Building of the Thigh-Bone
• The Solvent Powers of Life
• The Destruction of Pain
• The Object of Moving Bones and Muscles

• The Vermiform Appendix
• Operating for Appendicitis
• Expelling Power of the Vermiform Appendix
• Care Exercised in Making Assertions
• The Human Machinery
• Which Best, God's Machine or Man's?
• The Germ
• The Astronomer and New Worlds
• The Knife of Wisdom
• The Law of Affinity
• The Heart of Man and the Trunk of a Tree
• The Heart is King of All

• Lecture in the College Hall, Monday, January 14th, 1895
• Introduction
• God is God
• The Osteopath an Electrician
• Diphtheria
• Bright's Disease
• An Illustration
• The Age of Osteopathy
• The Children of Life and Death

• Lecture of A. T. Still, at Infirmary, January 20, 1895
• Why He Invited the Colored People to the Infirmary
• Memorial Hall
• Quinine and Fibroid Tumors
• Dover Powders
• Calomel and Castor Oil
• Not a Christian Scientist
• Not a Mesmerist
• Oxygen and Health
• To Patients
• The Object of Osteopathy
• Seventy-five Per Cent of All Cases Benefited
• Fifty Per Cent Cured

• Lecture Delivered in Memorial Hall, March 12, 1895
• A Mature Woman
• What is Man?
• The Unknowable
• Life Is a Mystery
• The Pace We Go
• The Machinery to Work With

• Osteopathy as a Science
• I Got So Mad I Bawled
• The Triumph of Freedom
• Reproached for Opposing the Teachings of My Father
• Osteopathy and Reverence of God
• The Telegraphy of Life
• The Circulation
• Preparing the Blood
• Sickness Defined
• The Electric Light and Osteopathy
• A Scholarship from the University of Nature
• Professor Peacock and a Lesson from His Tail

• Address in Memorial Hall, June 22nd, 1895
• All Patterns Found in Man
• Attributes of Deity Found in Man
• No Flaw in the Construction
• Lesson from a Sawmill
• Never was Flux
• Abuse of Osteopathy
• Some Notes of Warning
• Efforts to Seduce Incompetent Students to Practice
• Danger from Incompetents
• Danger of Going Out Too Soon

• Address at Memorial Hall, June 4th, 1896
• Debtor and Creditor
• Intermittent Fever
• Danger of Depopulation
• A Doctor's Prescription for Fever
• Electrical Machine in the Brain
• Injury to Spinal Cord Paralysis
• Effects of Medicine
• What an Osteopath Must Know
• The Seriousness of Studying Osteopathy
• Courses of Study
• Definition of Flux
• Spread of Osteopathy
• Style of Cases
• Specific Cases

• Lecture April 25th, 1895
• Not an Infidel
• Again That Wonderful Machine
• What Business Sagacity Teaches Us
• The Blacksmith and Watchmaker
• Object of the School
• Want No Moderate Osteopaths
• Medicine and Twelve Thousand Poisons
• A Case of Aphonia

• Address to Students and Diplomats, May 7th, 1894
• Osteopathy Adheres to the Laws of Nature
• Affidavits of Medical Doctor
• Osteopathy Can Accomplish All Things
• All or Nothing
• Stand by the Old Flag

• Address on Twenty-first Anniversary of the Discovery of Osteopathy, June 22nd, 1895
• King Alcohol
• Fitting Out Man for the Journey of Life
• The Lever that Controls Fever
• The Great Wisdom Knows No Failure
• Why "Osteopathy" Was Chosen for This Science
• Gall-Stones and Cure

• The Morning Stroll
• Dawn
• Astronomy
• Timidity
• The Flag of Truce
• The Kind of Scalps We Seek
• A Prayer for Wives and Mothers
• The New Joshua
• Divorced from Allopathy
• The Looms of Time
• The Web of Life
• "The Old Doctor"
• Some Questions Answered
• How Curious is Life
• Prophecy Defined
• Thought Touches the Infinite

• A Life Story
• The Machine for the Harvest of Life
• A Resolution for Truth
• High Respect for Surgery
• Surgery Defined
• What Can Osteopathy Give in Place of Drugs?
• A Few Questions are Propounded to the Medical Doctors

• Address on Sixty-Eighth Birthday
• Only a Few More Cycles of Time
• Surprise of People
• All the Word "Remedy" Means
• Answering Questions
• Most Sublime Thought
• Pleasure of Granting Relief
• Journey from the Heart to the Toe
• Intuitive Mind
• Will the Divine Law Do to Trust?

• Address on Sixty-Ninth Birthday
• Tribute to a Little Anatomist
• Parents' Duty
• When Still Was Off
• A Warrior from Birth
• Who Discovered Osteopathy?
• Clairvoyant and Clairaudient
• Born to Know Something of Drugs
• The Fight to Preserve Health
• Mathematical Fits
• Climatic Effect on the Lungs
• Diet
• Consternation
• Why I Love God

• A Business Allegory
• My First Life a Business Failure
• Seeking Success
• The Parson's Advice
• Investing in a Saw-mill
• Self-reliance
• A Soliloquy
• Asleep Under the Tree
• The Ram
• Up a Tree
• Legs as Well as Head Necessary to Success
• The Labeled Tree
• Label of Success
• How to Succeed in Business
• A Great Financier
• A Dream and Its Realization
• The Wife Appeals in Vain
• That Blessed Ram to the Rescue
• Knocked from the Top of an Unpaid-for Ten-Thousand-Dollar House
• The Ram Speaks

• The Muscles
• Brain Headquarters
• The Army of Muscles
• The Secret of God
• How to Live Long and Loud
• Time Coming for Big Dinners
• Command to Eat
• Off to the Country
• Osteopathy Cures Seasickness
• Country Friends
• Quiet and Shady
• Explaining the Cause of Lumbago
• Tired Nature Seeks Repose

• In Which I Make Some Allusion to My Family
• My Wife
• Gathering Gems of Thought
• My Children
• Drawing to a Close
• My Friends
• The Book of Life
• Our Dead
• Fred
• Conclusion

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