Andrew T 1828-1917 Still

STILL, ANDREW T. (1828-1917), founder of osteopathy, was born in Jonesville, Va., on Aug. 6, 1828. His family moved in 1837 to Macon county, Missouri, and later to the Shawnee reservation near Kansas City, Kansas. Still took an active part in the slave question in Kansas, and in 1857 was elected to the Kansas Territorial legislature on the Free State ticket. He began searching for other means than medicine to combat disease and formulated his principles of osteopathy in 1874. He underwent a long period of opposition, but finally, in 1892, founded the Ameri can School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo., in conjunction with William Smith, a Scottish physician. In 1922 the Andrew T. Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery was founded and merged with the original American school. He was the author of The Philo sophy of Osteopathy (1899), Autobiography of Andrew T. Still (1897) and Osteopathy, Research and Practice (1910.

See "Andrew T. Still," Missouri Historical Review, vol. xix., by Ray G. Hulburt ; E. R. Booth, History of Osteopathy.

STILL, JOHN

(1543?-16o8), bishop of Bath and Wells, was born at Grantham, Lincs. He studied at Christ's college, Cam bridge. He was appointed in 157o Lady Margaret professor of divinity, subsequently held livings in Suffolk and Yorkshire, and was master successively of St. John's College (1574) and of Trinity College (1577). Still was vice-chancellor of his university in 1575-76 and again in 1592-93, and was raised to the bishopric of Bath and Wells in 1593• He died on Feb. 26, 16o8, leaving a large fortune from lead mines discovered in the Mendip Hills. He was for some time generally believed to be the author of the English comedy Gammer Gorton's Needle, which is now ascribed to William Stevenson (q.v.)