Publisher's Synopsis
"Born in Glasgow in the mid nineteenth century, John Martin Littlejohn was brought up in a culture which few people in the modern world would recognise. The son of a dedicated Reformed Presbyterian minister, he himself was ordained in Creevagh, Co Monaghan and began his journey in a poor background, progressed through the elite educational establishments of Glasgow and Columbia Universities and on to the world of a college in the rural heart land of America's mid west. A student of Andrew Taylor Still, the founder of Osteopathy, Littlejohn remained steadfast throughout his life to his faith and to the cause of Osteopathy - the philosophy that physicians should focus on treating the disease rather than just the symptoms. He founded the first school of Osteopathy in the United Kingdom in 1917 and although he was described as " a scholar in the best sense of the word, and a man of great intellectual honesty and courage," Littlejohn, came i
