Andrew Taylor Still was born in 1828, Virginia, USA and is the founder of Osteopathy. He trained as a doctor which was the the only available type of medical education available at the time. As time passed, he did not go down the beaten track with his peers. The practice of administering large quantities of crude drugs and the general use of alcohol where from Dr Stills point of view were inappropriate. This lead him to search for new treatments for illness. This subsequently developed into his research for the application of physical treatment. This new treatment was the birth of what Dr Still called 'Osteopathy'.

In 1892 Dr Still initiated a school in Kirksville, Missouri to teach Osteopathy. From here it came to the UK around the turn of the century. In London, 1917 the first school of Osteopathy was founded and eventually other schools and colleges followed.