AT Still

Question 1

Sylvester Graham

Answer 1

Said to live by nature’s laws
Take no medicines, exercise, fresh air, etc.
Hydropathy (cold water baths)

Question 2

Mesmerism

Answer 2

Imbalance of invisible magnetic fluid in body causes disease
FRANZ MESMER: restored balance by passing hands or magnets over the body, inducing healing trance, denounced as fraud
Magnetic healers later in US, gave rise to hypnosis

Question 3

Spiritualism

Answer 3

Communication with spirits of the departed

“The Great Harmonia” by Andrew Jackson Davis: combined healing and the spirit world

Question 4

The Great Harmonia

Answer 4

By Andrew Jackson Davis
Combined healing and the spirit world
Harmony of body parts
Free flow of the spirit fluid
Emphasized healing with hands
Body as a machine

Question 5

Phrenology

Answer 5

FRANZ JOSEPH GALL
Character analysis, reading shapes/bumps on head as reflection of development of brain
“THE ONLY TRUE SCIENCE OF MIND”

Question 6

Bonesetting

Answer 6

Empiric treatment
Generally disreputable non-physicians
James Paget believed in efficacy
Skills handed down in families
Still called himself a "lightning bonesetter"

Question 7

Evolution

Answer 7

Herbert Spencer: coined the term evolution in "First Principles" based on Darwin
Popularized ideas about:
Cause and effect in disease
Structure/function relationship
Holistic workings of organisms

Question 8

Victor Broussais

Answer 8

Originator of “physiologic medicine”

Advocated drugless therapy

Question 9

Jean Charcot

Answer 9

Now famous for neurologic studies

Showed what happened when nerves were compressed (i.e., functional changes)

Question 10

Eclecticism

Answer 10

Evolved from Thomsonian herbalists

Question 11

Allopathy

Answer 11

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Question 12

Homeopathy

Answer 12

Founded in Europe by Samuel Hahnemann
“LIKE CURES LIKE”
Drugs given in minuscule amounts

Question 13

AT Still

Answer 13

BORN 1828
Jonesville, VA
METHODIST roots - "perfectionism" as Christian goal, preachers ("SONS OF THUNDER") preached hellfire and brimstone sermons
Teetotalers, clean living
Abolitionist
Decided on medicine in 1854
Stole Native's bodies for anatomy
Claimed med school in KC in 1850s-60s

Question 14

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 14

Free-state families including Stills settled in Blue Mound, KS near Lawrence
Pro-slave forces sacked Lawrence, KS in 1856, other skirmishes and deaths
AT Still served in free-state legislature

Question 15

Heroic medicine

Answer 15

Benjamin Rush was strong advocate

Venisection and purging bowels

Question 16

Thomsonians

Answer 16

Campaigned against state licensing
Responsible for repeal or blunting state licensing laws by early 1840s
Later became the ECLECTICS
Used only botanicals

Question 17

William Smith

Answer 17

MD

First DO

Question 18

Marcus Ward

Answer 18

Early graduate

Started own osteopathy school, Columbian School of Osteopathy

Question 19

Daniel David Palmer

Answer 19

Magnetic healer

Founder of chiropractic in Iowa 1898