I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

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Still was involved in selecting the location for the site of Baker University's first building. T. Osteopathy

Still believed that osteopathy was a necessary discovery because the current medical practices of his day often caused significant harm and conventional medicine had failed to Andrew Taylor Stilld light on the etiology and effective treatment of disease.

He was one of the founders of Baker University the oldest 4-year college in the state of Kansas and was the founder of the American School of Osteopathy (now A. (August 6 1828 – December 12 1917) is considered the father of osteopathy and osteopathic medicine.