Origins of Osteopathy

Question 1

This man was a preacher who knew some medicine and passed it down to his sons. He was a radical abolitionist and was eventually exiled for it.

Answer 1

Abram Still (A.T.’s Father)

Question 2

Born in 1828, this man would eventually become the founder of the osteopathic field.

Answer 2

Andrew Taylor (A.T.) Still

Question 3

This historical event was set up by the Kansas-Nebraska Bill and resulted in skirmishes between abolitionist and pro-slavery parties.

Answer 3

“Bleeding Kansas”

Question 4

The people of this movement were originally known as “Thomsonians” and were against state licensure for physicians.

Answer 4

Eclecticism

Question 5

This idea is that “like cures like”. It is characterized by miniscule amounts of a drug diluted down in water.

Answer 5

Homeopathy

Question 6

This movement emphasized regimen, was against medicine, and promoted hydropathy (cold water baths).

Answer 6

Grahamism

Question 7

This system was founded by Franz Mesmer and focused on restoring balance by passing hands or magnets over the body. This became what we know today as hypnotism.

Answer 7

Mesmerism

Question 8

The idea the dead could be communicated with, founded by Andrew Jackson Davis who wrote “Great Harmonia”. A.T. Still also believed in this.

Answer 8

Spiritualism

Question 9

This was the study of bumps on the head that was founded by Franz Joseph Gall, who called it the only “true science of the mind”.

Answer 9

Phrenology

Question 10

A system in which practitioners manipulated and corrected dislocations, fractures, and painful joints. A.T. Still was heavily influenced by this movement.

Answer 10

Bone Setting

A.T. Still: “Lightning Bonesetter”

Question 11

This theory was proposed by Darwin, influencing Herbert Spencer to coin this term.

Answer 11

Evolution

Question 12

List some beliefs of Still or general characteristics at the beginning of osteopathy.

Answer 12

Argued against drugs of the day.
Strong relationships existed between anatomy and mechanics.
Mesmerism, bone setting, spiritualism, and possibly evolution were influential.

Question 13

True or False: Heroic medicine was still frequently used in 19th Century medicine.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

True or False: Death from infectious disease was no longer a major issue at the time osteopathy was developed.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

On this date, A.T. Still “flung to the breeze the banner of osteopathy.”

Answer 15

1874

Question 16

These two also advocated changes in medicine of the time.

Answer 16

Broussais & Charcot

Question 17

A.T. Still opened this school, which taught only anatomy and osteopathy; among its faculty were William Smith, who is credited as the first DO, and the Littlejohn brothers.

Answer 17

American School of Osteopathy (ASO)

Question 18

This man started Columbian School of Osteopathy, which closed after only a year.

Answer 18

Marcus Ward

Question 19

This man was a magnetic healer who attended ASO but then went on to found chiropractic medicine.

Answer 19

Daniel David Palmer

Question 20

This was a competitor school of ASO that was founded by A.T. Still’s nephew.

Answer 20

SS Still College of Osteopathy