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This GeoArt is to celebrate Missouri turning 200 years old this year. What better way to celebrate the Bicentennial!!
MISSOURI BECOMES THE 24TH STATE ADMITTED INTO THE UNITED STATES AUGUST 10, 1821.
You will learn about some famous Missourian's while solving this GeoArt.
Andrew Taylor Still, DO, the founder of osteopathic medicine established the first school of osteopathic medicine in 1892 in Kirksville, Mo., which is known today as A.T. Still University.
Still returned was unable to farm due to a hernia he suffered during the Civil War battle of Westport, Missouri. Despite his doubts about traditional medicine, he worked as a physician to provide for his family.
Still stopped treating his patients with medicinal drugs and began to study alternative theories such as magnetism, mesmerism, phrenology, and spiritualism. He became interested in the human skeleton and dug up Native American graves to obtain bodies for study. Still came to believe that a properly aligned musculoskeletal system would lead to good health, while an out-of-alignment system would result in poor health. Bones, muscles, and joints could be manipulated and adjusted by a physician to improve a patient’s health without the use of drugs. He called his theory of medicine “osteopathy,” a name taken from the Greek words meaning “bone” and “suffering.
Where did Still establish the first school of osteopathic medicine in 1892?
A. N38° 25.528' W093° 20.440 Kirksville, MO
B. N 38° 24.384 W 93° 21.129 St. Louis, MO
C. N 38° 24.384 W 93° 21.301 Kansas City, MO