History of Osteopathy
Dr Andrew Taylor Still (1828 - 1917) was the founder and developer of Osteopathy. He studied medicine like his father and began his own practice in 1854. Tragically in 1864 he lost 3 of his children to a meningitis outbreak and lost his faith in conventional medicine. He then proceeded to search for another way of healing. He discovered the principles of osteopathy in 1874 and in 1892 established the first osteopathic school in Kirksville, Missouri, America.
One of Stills students John Martin Littlejohn introduced Osteopathy to Britain and founded the British School of Osteopathy in 1917. This was the first school of osteopathy in the UK and has produced the majority of osteopaths practicing in the UK since 1925 when the first students graduated.