About Louisa Burns
Lived 1869 – 1958 (aged 88–89). Louisa Burns was an author, docent and writer.
Louisa Burns ( 1869–1958) was an American osteopathic physician and researcher in osteopathic medicine.
Education Burns was born in Indiana in 1869. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in 1892 from the Borden Institute and subsequently became a school teacher. Her interest in osteopathic medicine developed after she contracted a debilitating case of spinal meningitis, whose disabling effects were successfully reversed by osteopathic treatment. assisting in the development of today's understanding of somatic dysfunction. She headed the A.T. Still Research Institute from 1917 to 1935.
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American osteopathic physician
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Louisa Burns was born in 1869.
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Louisa Burns died in 1958.
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Louisa Burns was an author, docent and writer.
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