A text-book on hygiene and pediatrics from a chiropractic standpointCraven, J. H. (John Henry)
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A text-book on hygiene and pediatrics from a chiropractic standpoint
Craven, J. H. (John Henry)
Children -- Diseases; Chiropractic; Sanitation
If these internal processes are to be maintained there must also be a
certain environmental condition which will enable Innate Intelligence
to bring them about. The temperature, humidity, and atmospheric
pressure are all important in their proper relationship. Innate
Intelligence is capable of adapting the body to extremes in these
different environmental conditions, but the transition from one
degree to another, such as temperature, must take place gradually to
allow sufficient time for the adaptative changes.
It will be observed that these changes take place more or less
gradually in Nature, but man is inclined to pass from one extreme
into another without thought of time needed for adaptation. For
example he passes from a highly heated room into one with a very low
temperature, or comes from compressed air chambers, where the air
pressure is greater than the normal, into the normal atmospheric
pressure without sufficient precaution to the sudden change. These
sudden changes not only draw very heavily upon the adaptative forces
of the body, but actually interfere with the normal functional
activity of Innate Intelligence and produce subluxations. The more
natural the environment, the less energy will be required to bring
about adaptation and maintain the equilibrium of the functions. Even
though the environment is perfect, there must be a current of mental
impulses sufficient to produce adaptative action. When there is an
interference with the transmission of mental impulses to such an
extent that this adaptation can not take place there will be lack of
function.
An environmental condition that will require as little adaptative
energy as possible should be maintained. There should, therefore,
be some attention given to the sick room, not that the hygienic and
sanitary measures will in any sense cure the dis-ease, but that the
forces in the body may not be used up and dissipated because of an
environment that requires an abundance of force for adaptation.
The patient’s weakness in many incoördinations is purely adaptative
on the part of Innate Intelligence to prevent the patient from
continuing at work or doing other things that would require an
expenditure of the adaptative energies of the body. In other words,
it is for the purpose of conserving the energies that are needed in
the reparatory and restorative processes necessary to bring about
coördination.
For the above reason it is necessary to give attention to the sick
room in maintaining a condition to which Innate may easily bring
about intellectual adaptation and not draw upon the reserve carrying
capacity of the nerves.
Function of the Educated Mind
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