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TO THE ONTARIO OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION (OOA)

Within these pages you will find all the necessary information regarding membership. The OOA is committed to public education and professional representation of the manual osteopathic community within the Province of Ontario. The OOA controls membership with the strictest of standards. The OOA does not regulate the practice of manual osteopathy but supports an open and inclusive dialogue with practitioners, educators, associations, and government departments.

The History of Osteopathy

Dr Andrew Taylor Still was born in Jonesboro (now called Jonesville), Lee County, Virginia on August 6th 1828. After moving to Kansas in 1853, Andrew Taylor Still decided to become a physician, he was aged 25, a married man with 2 small children. His father, Abram Still, a circuit-riding Methodist minister, had also been a physician for the best part of his life and so Andrew Taylor Still became his father’s apprentice.

It was common practice in those days for a would-be-doctor to train simply by working with a practising physician and studying medical books, but it is thought by some that Dr. A.T. Still also received some formal medical training at a school in Kansas City, however no records remain to confirm this training. As an apprentice, young Andrew Taylor Still learned the medical treatment techniques of the time: bleeding, blistering, and purging - and was taught the use of compounds such as mercury, arsenic, heavy metals, as well as some natural elements such as simple herbs and tree bark.

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