sentences:  Still claimed that human illness was rooted in problems with the musculoskeletal system, and that osteopathic manipulations could solve these problems by harnessing the body's own self-repairing potential.Still's patients were forbidden from treatment by conventional medicine, as well as from other practices such as drinking alcohol.These practices derive from the belief, common in the early 19th century among proponents of alternative medicine (then called "irregular medicine" or "unorthodox medicine"), that the body's natural state tends toward health and inherently contains the capacity to battle any illness.