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ss true. Then, when his findings are
returned to the doctor, the doctor begins to
guess at the treatment. The whole process
is a scientific elaboration of a pathological
symptom that has no bearing whatever on
cause. The treatment fails, of course, for
one of Nature’s laws has set its eternal fiat
against illogical procedures. The god of
cure declares to every mind which has been
allowed to develop normally that cause
must be removed before effects will dis­
appear.”

Elsewhere in his book Dr. Tilden makes
this statement, “ The science of medicine is
a disjointed, illogical conglomeration of
isolated facts and fancies, without a
semblance of philosophical unity. Even the
hypothesis that has had any apparent
logical connectivity — the germ theory —
has no more philosophical connection with
health and disease than a brick thrown
through a window has to do with the con­
struction of the building. Germs have no
physiological connection with the causation
of disease, and cannot be considered as
more than an incident in disease.”

Chiropractors do not diagnose. They are
not interested in giving a name to the
effects of your disease. Chiropractors
analyze their patients. They reason that
there is a cause for your symptoms, for
your ill-health. Instead of diagnosing, the
chiropractor is interested in analyzing the
interferences to the normal, healthy func­
tions in your body. He wants to find the
reason why your body’s God-given healing