1. Alan Stoddard was an English osteopath and vegetarianism activist.
17 Facts About Alan Stoddard
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Alan Stoddard was born in Hale, Cheshire, on 22 August 1915.
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Alan Stoddard was educated at the British School of Osteopathy and qualified in 1935.
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Alan Stoddard studied medicine at King's College London where he qualified MD in 1942 and joined the Royal Navy as a merchant ship doctor in Middlesbrough.
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Alan Stoddard became a teacher at the British School of Osteopathy and one of several doctors in the United Kingdom with dual qualifications.
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Alan Stoddard was an appointed consultant at Brook Green Hospital.
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Alan Stoddard offered his patients a mixture of conventional and osteopathic treatment which was unusual at the time.
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Alan Stoddard worked for the National Health Service for 30 years and in private practice at Harley Street.
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Alan Stoddard authored his MD thesis on osteochondrosis of the spine but it was never submitted as he had lost it on a train.
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Alan Stoddard authored two textbooks on osteopathy and his book The Back: Relief from Pain was translated into eight languages.
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Alan Stoddard has been cited as playing a major role in the growth of osteopathy in the 20th century.
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Alan Stoddard was known for pioneering an osteopathic manipulation technique for chronic lumbar disc prolapse under general anaesthesia.
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Alan Stoddard was a lifelong vegetarian and was invited to travel to India by the Vegetarian Society in the 1950s.
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Alan Stoddard attended the 18th World Vegetarian Congress in 1965 and was a speaker at the 25th World Vegetarian Congress in 1979.
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Alan Stoddard was President of Croydon Vegetarian Society which merged with Caterham District Vegetarian Society in 1958 to become the East Surrey Vegetarian Society.
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Alan Stoddard was chairman of Plantmilk Ltd, a society that was founded to produce plant milk alternatives to dairy.
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In 1966, Alan Stoddard commented that "the combination of leaf protein and soya protein contain the complete range of known amino-acids, and we are satisfied that Plantmilk alone would sustain healthy life from the protein point of view".