Andrew Taylor Still is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Andrew Taylor Still as American physician and politician (1828–1917); founder of Osteopathic Medicine.
Andrew Taylor Still was born at Lee County in 1828. His recorded nationality is United States.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Baker University.
The recorded fields of work are alternative medicine.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
That the work was done from United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Andrew Taylor Still died in 1917, aged 89. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Baker University
- Fields: alternative medicine
