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C H I R O P R A C T O R 9
Palmer College Archivesa person had asthma, rheumatism or other afflictions. I wished to know
what difference there was in two persons that caused the one to have
certain symptoms called disease, that his neighbor living under the
same conditions did not have. Physicians answered me by saying that
they would give such and such remedies. I did not want to know what
remedies they would give; I desired to learn what difference there was
in the man of health, and the one who was diseased. I wanted to
learn the cause of disease; why one was afflicted and the other was
not.
In my practice of the first ten years, under which I named mag-
nectic, I treated nerves, followed and relieved them of inflamation. I
made many good cures, as many are doing today under a similar
method. My constant thoughts were, that there was a difference in
the person affected and the one not so. I was fully aware that I was
treating effects. What wras the cause of those ailments, wras what I
desired to learn. I had progressed far enough to learn in what region
the cause of any described symptoms were.
There must be a turning point. It was so with Chiropractic. But
it took years to discover and develop that which I named Chiropractic,
which means hand fixing. A Chiropractor is one who adjusts or re
pairs with his hands.
Ninety-five per cent of all deranged nerves are made by sub-luxa
tions of vertebrae which pinch nerves in some one of the 51 joint
articulations of the spinal column. Therefore, to relieve the pressure
upon these nerves means to restore normal action—hence, normal func
tions, perfect health.
The laws upon which this science is founded are as old as the
vertebrata of the animal kingdom, but have been overlooked because
of inherent superstition misdirecting the unlightened mind of invest
tigators.
The cause of disease has been., and is yet, mysterious to the great
mass of humanity. Chiropractic has solved the mystery. The old idea,
that the cause of disease is outside of man, still prevails in most of the
schools of healing, and the cure consists in finding something outside,
which, by being introduced into the body of the sufferer, wrill drive
the disease out. Therapeutic methods give remedies to treat the
effects. The Chiropractic idea is that the cause of disease is in the per
son afflicted, and the cure consists in correcting the wrong that is pro
ducing it.
Chiropractic finds the cause in pinched nerves of the person ailing,
and releases that pressure by adjusting some o f.th e 52 articulations
of the verterbal column. In doing this there is no rubbing, slapping,
knife, drugs, artificial heat, electricity, magnetism, hypnotism, stretch
ing, or mental treatment, in fact nothing but the adjustment of the
displaced vertebra. This is not done with any surgical appliances nor
any apparatus whatever, but simply by the use of the hands. The
adjustment is almost instantaneous. The movements are unique and
Chiropractic in every respect; no other system has anything similar.
Chiropractic is the only system that exactly locates the cause of
disease and cures by hand adjusting.
A large share of diseases are caused by nerves being impinged in
the foramina, which is occluded by the displacement of the vertebra.
These vertebrae are replaced by the hands; using the processes as
handles.
Palmer College Archivesa person had asthma, rheumatism or other afflictions. I wished to know
what difference there was in two persons that caused the one to have
certain symptoms called disease, that his neighbor living under the
same conditions did not have. Physicians answered me by saying that
they would give such and such remedies. I did not want to know what
remedies they would give; I desired to learn what difference there was
in the man of health, and the one who was diseased. I wanted to
learn the cause of disease; why one was afflicted and the other was
not.
In my practice of the first ten years, under which I named mag-
nectic, I treated nerves, followed and relieved them of inflamation. I
made many good cures, as many are doing today under a similar
method. My constant thoughts were, that there was a difference in
the person affected and the one not so. I was fully aware that I was
treating effects. What wras the cause of those ailments, wras what I
desired to learn. I had progressed far enough to learn in what region
the cause of any described symptoms were.
There must be a turning point. It was so with Chiropractic. But
it took years to discover and develop that which I named Chiropractic,
which means hand fixing. A Chiropractor is one who adjusts or re
pairs with his hands.
Ninety-five per cent of all deranged nerves are made by sub-luxa
tions of vertebrae which pinch nerves in some one of the 51 joint
articulations of the spinal column. Therefore, to relieve the pressure
upon these nerves means to restore normal action—hence, normal func
tions, perfect health.
The laws upon which this science is founded are as old as the
vertebrata of the animal kingdom, but have been overlooked because
of inherent superstition misdirecting the unlightened mind of invest
tigators.
The cause of disease has been., and is yet, mysterious to the great
mass of humanity. Chiropractic has solved the mystery. The old idea,
that the cause of disease is outside of man, still prevails in most of the
schools of healing, and the cure consists in finding something outside,
which, by being introduced into the body of the sufferer, wrill drive
the disease out. Therapeutic methods give remedies to treat the
effects. The Chiropractic idea is that the cause of disease is in the per
son afflicted, and the cure consists in correcting the wrong that is pro
ducing it.
Chiropractic finds the cause in pinched nerves of the person ailing,
and releases that pressure by adjusting some o f.th e 52 articulations
of the verterbal column. In doing this there is no rubbing, slapping,
knife, drugs, artificial heat, electricity, magnetism, hypnotism, stretch
ing, or mental treatment, in fact nothing but the adjustment of the
displaced vertebra. This is not done with any surgical appliances nor
any apparatus whatever, but simply by the use of the hands. The
adjustment is almost instantaneous. The movements are unique and
Chiropractic in every respect; no other system has anything similar.
Chiropractic is the only system that exactly locates the cause of
disease and cures by hand adjusting.
A large share of diseases are caused by nerves being impinged in
the foramina, which is occluded by the displacement of the vertebra.
These vertebrae are replaced by the hands; using the processes as
handles.
