Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine - Synapsis Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Andrew Baylor Still DR. STILL ' S life spanned the period of pioneering, of the Civil War, and the beginning of our present great epoch of scien- tific research. As a small boy he found his place in the westward movement when his father was appointed missionary to Missouri by the M. E. Conference of Tennessee. Thereafter, his life was filled with interesting events because he himself was keenly alert to everything about him. Growing up to be a good public citizen and learning medicine under the tutelage of his father, all the adventures that could appeal to a young and vigorous imagination opened before this youth. His contact with animals brought him considerable knowledge of their habits and nature ' s methods of protection. And about this same time, he discovered what has since become a principle of osteopathic technique . . . suboccipital pressure may be used to ease or stop a headache. Quoting from the Autobiography of A. T. Still, we learn . . . My science or discoverey was born in Kansas under many trying circumstances. On the frontier while fighting the pro-slavery senti- ment and snakes and badgers, then later on through the Civil ' War, and after the Civil ' War, until like a burst of sunshine the whole truth dawned on my mind, I was gradually approaching a science by study, research and observation that the world is receiving. Continued study of the habits and manners of the animals and the mechanism of the human body from exhumed and dissected Indians brought him to the final conclusion which he presented to the world . . . Man should study and use the drugs of his drug- store only. hi Xz Z- r X [16]

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:m Dean Holden, A. B. D. O. r i BORN: PHILADELPHIA, PA. EDUCATED: CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, A. B. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1916; PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOP- ATHY, 1922. APPOINTED HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY, 1915. WORLD WAR: SERVED AS SERGEANT MAJOR, 538TH ENGINEERS, A. E. F. APPOINTED DEAN OF THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOP- ATHY, 1924. SECRETARY AND TREASURER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHY AND HOSPI- TAL; SUPERINTENDENT OF THE HOSPITAL. m We recognize in Dean Holden a leader of vision and wide sympathy, and we feel a personal share in the pro- gressive step which is now reaching its fulfillment under his careful guidance. To his efforts we feel the greatest credit is due that Osteopathy is soon to have a new rnonu- ment to its progress and accomplishment in the form of a new College and Hospital.