Autobiography, with a history of the discovery and development of the science of osteopathy.

  • Andrew Taylor Still
Date:
1908
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Credit: Autobiography, with a history of the discovery and development of the science of osteopathy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    died my horse Selim, and went to Bloomington (nine miles) to exchange my mink-skin for lead. The barter was made with ray good friend Thomas Sharp (an- uncle of Rev. George Sharp, of Kirksville, Mo.), and soon the hide was with his other furs, from coons’ and opossums’. Then I mounted Selim and started for home to tell Jim that I had found a per- manent mar- k e t for WE FOUND THEM LYING IN THE HOT ROADS IN THE DUST. mink-skins at five cents apiece. In a short time I shot a deer, and had a buck-skin to add to the fur trade, and took my “big” fifty cents in powder, lead, and caps. harly in the forties I was very much in dread of the Judgment Bay, or some such awful calamity. I was told of the signs and half-signs that were to come before the “end cometh” until mv young mind was nearly distracted.
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