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| | Andrew Taylor Still - SkepticWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Still died in 1917, aged 89 and revered by his numerous followers. |
 | | To do justice to him, we should observe that in Still's day, conventional medical treatment was largely unscientific, useless, unpleasant, and dangerous. |
 | | We should not be astonished that patients preferred what is, fundementally, a massage, to the methods of Still's more conventional colleagues: we should not even be surprised if he had more medical success than they did, simply by virtue of killing fewer patients. |
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