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Charles Clayton Teall
1863–1937
An early osteopathic physician and medical writer, he is best remembered for helping shape one of the field’s substantial early textbooks. His surviving published work points to a career rooted in teaching and explaining osteopathic practice for students and practitioners.
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The practice of osteopathy
by Carl Philip McConnell, Charles Clayton Teall
About the author
Charles Clayton Teall (1863–1937) was an American osteopathic physician and author. The clearest published record I could confirm is his joint authorship, with Carl Philip McConnell, of The Practice of Osteopathy, a substantial manual that appeared in multiple editions in the early 1900s and was later published in a 1920 edition.
Contemporary osteopathic sources also show that he was active in the profession beyond book writing. An issue of The Osteopathic Physician from 1902 identifies Dr. Charles Clayton Teall of Brooklyn as president-elect of the American Osteopathic Association, which suggests he held a visible place in the developing osteopathic community of his time.
Reliable biographical details about his personal life appear to be scarce online, so it is safest to remember him mainly through his professional work: a physician, teacher, and co-author whose writing helped document osteopathic ideas in the profession’s early decades.