A.T. Still: From the Dry Bone to the Living Man
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Collectors and serious osteopathy students hunt for the 2012 hard-back study guide “A. T. Still: From the Dry Bone to the Living Man” because it is the only modern biography that walks readers through Still’s journey from frontier doctor to the founder of osteopathic medicine. John Robert Lewis combines newly-unearthed letters, patient ledgers, and museum-quality photographs with line-by-line analysis of Still’s core texts, so the book doubles as a scholarly reference and a step-by-step curriculum for understanding the philosophy, anatomy labs, and manipulative techniques that shaped the profession. Hard-back copies already command a premium; finding one in very-good, like-new condition with clean pages and only a single dog-eared page is increasingly rare.
What lifts this particular copy into the “must-buy” category is the author’s signature on the title page—verified and preserved—making it a personalized keepsake that links the reader directly to the biographer who spent thirty years mapping Still’s world. Because the 2012 first printing was small and most were used as desk references in teaching clinics, signed copies seldom surface on the secondary market. The sturdy boards and tight binding mean the book will survive daily consultation while you work through the palpation exercises, historical timelines, and annotated bibliographies that Lewis designed for adult and postgraduate learners.
Whether you are an osteopath preparing for board exams, a collector building a medical-history library, or a patient who wants the full story behind the healing hands you trust, this copy delivers: authoritative content, archival images you will not find online, and the bonus of an author-signed volume that already out-of-print dealers list as “scarce—enquire first.”
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