Still served as a Hospital Steward and surgeon in the Union Army during the Civil War. After the death of three of his children from spinal meningitis, he concluded that the medicine of his day was potentially harmful and often ineffective. He took a ten year hiatus from his practice and explored the insights of native healers as well as the implications of anatomic structure on function and health. He promoted the idea of treating the underlying structural problems not just symptoms and developed treatments based on an in-depth understanding of the structure of the body and how these structures interrelate with one another. After restoring balance to structural relationships, he found the body better able to recover from disease and injury. In other words, as mechanical balance and relationships were restored a patient was better able to return to function, health, and strength.
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