Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine - Osteoblast Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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best were retained on the faculty. Almost from the beginning, the course covered twenty months, and included practically everything taught in the medical colleges except materia medica andimajor surgery, the latter being added a little later. In IQO4 the course was extended to cover three years of nine months each, and in 1916, four years of nine months each. Treatment of patients under supervision was a large part of the early course. Now a student is not allowed to treat until he has studied for two and a half years in anatomy, histology, chemistry, physiology, pathology, sympf tomatology and other fundamentals which help him to understand the deep truths of the science of osteopathy. The same standard texts were used here as in the best medical schools. The attitude of earlier instructors and writers was well stated by Dr. Chas. Hazzard in the preface to his Principles of Osteopathy: It is obviously unnecessary to include in such a work, material so easily available in the many standard texts of medical practice. It is better that the student should, so far as necessary, refer to them for the symptomatology, pathology, etc., of the diseases he studies, rather than to fill these pages with a repetition of what has been so well written elsewhere. Thus the author is left free to devote these pages exclusively to the osteopathic aspects of disease. A For more than thirty years, the American School of Osteopathy had no president who was not first a qualified doctor of medicine, convinced of the fallacy of drug medicaf tion before he took up osteopathy. Dr. Geo. A. Still, who was at the head of the school from the Old Doctor's death until November, 1922, took his M. D. degree at North' western University Medical School, studied surgery under Dr. John B. Murphy him- self, and attended clinics in the best known hospitals in Vienna, Berlin, Berne, Paris, London and Edinburgh, and was a whole-hearted osteopath because he had tested out and knew the futility of drugs. Dr. Geo. A. Still was a sample of the type of scientists who are carrying on to make Kirksville, the world's best known rendezvous for the ailing who still have hope, and the home of the greatest therapeutic college of all time. Page 191

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'Ghe A. S. U. I am the work of A. T. Still, A child of his creation. I am the product of his will, And of his consecration. I keep his spirit here below, To bless mankind's endeavor, For schools may come and schools may go, But I'll go on forever. I fear no danger from my foes, They're only on probation, For every school that comes and goes, Builds up my reputation. I mark my progress as I grow, In words of boasting-never, For schools may come and schools may go, But I'll go on forever. I'm growing better day by day, Improving my condition, And none shall rise to bid me stay, I thrive on competition. I'll bear my standard bravely on, And bonds of fear I'll sever, For schools may come and schools have gone-4 But I'll go on forever. CWith apologies to A. L. T.j W. N. H., June, QZ4. Pg 193