A.T. Still and Methodism

Andrew Taylor Still, the founder of osteopathy, was born into the family of an itinerant Methodist preacher. While this Methodist heritage has been acknowledged in some of his later writings for certain expressions and metaphorical meanings, little has been examined regarding the influence of this heritage on Still’s path to discovering osteopathy and its later practice.
The author of this article assumes that there may have been positive influences from Still’s Methodist heritage that could have shaped the osteopathic concept as it was practiced in its early days.