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   [Illustration: A. T. Still.]

   Philosophy of Osteopathy;

   BY

   ANDREW T. STILL,


   DISCOVERER OF THE SCIENCE OF OSTEOPATHY AND
   PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL
   OF OSTEOPATHY.


   PUBLISHED BY
   A. T. STILL, KIRKSVILLE, MO
   1899.

   Copyrighted, 1899, by
   A. T. STILL.


   Lithoprinted by
   EDWARD BROTHERS, INC.
   Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.




Preface.


Many of my friends have been anxious ever since Osteopathy became an
established fact, that I should write a treatise on the science. But I
was never convinced that the time was ripe for such a production, nor am
I even now convinced that this is not a little premature. Osteopathy is
only in its infancy, it is a great unknown sea just discovered, and as
yet we are only acquainted with its shore-tide.

When I saw others who had not more than skimmed the surface of the
science, taking