Dr. A.T. Still - Founder of Osteopathy

Lane’s collection of ten articles discusses Still in a different light than other authors have. Lane looks at Still through conventional scientific eyes and outlines the process by which Still developed his techniques. He describes Still as a medical thinker, scientist, reformer, therapeutist, and pioneer immunologist. Lane begins his series of articles with a discussion of medical reform and shows how Still’s proposed reforms revolutionized medical practice in an era of very slow medical reform, an era where bleeding a patient was commonplace as was blanket use of a few medications for many different conditions. Lane touts Still as the first to develop a real type of therapy for medical alication. The publication is written for a medical audience who understand the basic medical principles of the day, yet it is still quite accessible to educated minds. The latter articles contain commentary on various disease processes and view them through the eyes of Osteopathy. Lane also comments on biochemistry and immunology and again shows how Osteopathy intersects with these disciplines.