history of osteopathy

Question 1

definition of osteopathy?

Answer 1

osteo - bonepathy - disease”dis-ease” - not feeling at ease, you diseased!

Question 2

what is osteopathy’s birthday? unfurling of banner

Answer 2

June 22, 1874

Question 3

history of AT Stills

Answer 3

-mom had been through a lot (parents killed by indians)-father was a physician and minister -he was anti-slaveryAT born on August 6, 1828

Question 4

AT Stills birthday?

Answer 4

8/6/1828

Question 5

explain AT Stills early education

Answer 5

first educated in a 1 room log schoolhouse -abusive schoolmasterAT Stills became a free thinker (hated school) -interested in anatomy when went hunting -observed cause-effect relationships in nature -ex/buzzards beak and stinky skunks”Thus nature has provided amply for all things with which to move, defend themselves, and live”

Question 6

AT Stills first treatment?

Answer 6

when 10 years old -used plow line and blanket to cradle his head -cured his headachelater led him to believe that the “artery is the river of life”

Question 7

AT Stills medical education?

Answer 7

performed medicine with his father -treated Shawnees -apprentice to his fatherlater attended medical schoolstudied his father’s methods: -blood letting (depletion therapy)

Question 8

AT Stills family?

Answer 8

wife diedthree children died -with all of the treatments he learned -said there must be a better way

Question 9

Hahneman

Answer 9

came up homeopathy -like cures like

Question 10

baunscheidtism

Answer 10

acupuncture where area is rubbed with stimulating fluids

Question 11

where did AT Stills move after he was kicked out of the church?

Answer 11

1875 moved to Kirksville, Missouri

Question 12

what is osteopathy?

Answer 12

body makes its own medicineosteopathy is to work and facilitate the natural machinery of the body for normal and reparative function

Question 13

first school of osteopathy?

Answer 13

American School of Osteopathy -in Kirksville, MO in 1892wanted to improve the present system and make it better

Question 14

foundational hypothesis of osteopathy?

Answer 14

many of the diagnoses were actually symptoms to other underlying problemscause can be found and does exist in the limited or excited action of the nerves which control the fluids of part or whole of the bodydiseases are mere effects, the causes being a partial or complete failure of the nerves to properly conduct the fluids of life**

Question 15

Four Tenets of Osteopathy?

Answer 15

1 body is a unit (mind, body, and spirit)2 body possess self-regulatory mechanisms (self-regulation, healing, and maintenence)3 structure and function are reciprocally interrelated4 rational treatment is based upon the above

Question 16

greatest known germicide?

Answer 16

blood