AMERICAN DOCTOR

Duration: 28½min

Year Published: 1961

Creator: Produced by Roland Reed Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: Sound

Description: Traces the growth of medicine through the centuries and establishes the osteopathic profession as part of the continuing development of the healing arts. Flashbacks depict the contributions of Hippocrates, Andreas Vesalius and Thomas Sydenham. Tells the story of Dr. Still's boyhood, his study of medicine under his father and his Civil War army service. Pictures the opening of the college in Kirksville and, in the graduation of its first class, the establishment of the osteopathic profession.

Complete Record: Source: AmOsteo Interest level: jh-sh-c-ad Price: $103.21; free-loan Format: sd color

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)