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
The most baffling unsanitary and unhygienic conditions are the
internal, and yet if these conditions are considered in the light
of the same common sense as is applied to the external conditions,
no great amount of difficulty will be experienced in coping with
them. However, great difficulties will be experienced if an effort
is made to keep the internal in a proper sanitary condition by the
application of external means. This has been well demonstrated in
the application of medical hygiene. However, the author does not
want to be understood as implying that a great deal of good has not
been accomplished in the investigations that have been made along the
line of hygiene and more especially in sanitary science. But when
chiropractic philosophy is properly understood, it will be readily
seen that it is far better to clean the inside from the inside
than to attempt cleaning the inside from the outside. With all due
regard it must be said that up to the time of the introduction of
chiropractic hygiene all the efforts were to clean the inside from
the outside, but Chiropractic says the inside must be cleansed from
the inside and this contention has been amply proven in the results
obtained through chiropractic adjustments.
Advantages of a Proper Sanitary Environment
The body is capable of great possibilities in intellectual
adaptation. It is possible for Innate Intelligence to maintain a
degree of health in widely different conditions. Even where the
environment is extremely adverse and objectionable Innate will adapt
herself to the abnormal condition and maintain the normal processes
of life in the body. However, it must be remembered that a greater
amount of internal force is required to bring about an intellectual
adaptation to an adverse environment than to a normal, natural or
more perfect environment.
There must be a constant process of adaptation to the environment
even though that environment be a most desirable one. All internal
processes must of necessity be adaptative to external conditions.
Drummond says, “Life is uninterrupted correspondence with proper
environment.” This is true of the expression of life. If the
correspondence with the environment is interfered with there will be
a corresponding interference with the expression of the life in the
body.
The more adverse the environment the greater the amount of force
required to bring about this adaptation. Likewise, the reverse is
true—adaptation to a more desirable environment requires less
internal force. We should not compel Innate Intelligence to do things
that we could do educationally and save the body that extra amount of
internal force. To illustrate, one should not unnecessarily expose
his body to the cold and thus force Innate to expend internal energy
to adapt the body to that condition. One might better put on proper
clothing to protect the body. On the other hand, one should not go to
the other extreme and make a hothouse plant of his body.
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