We may interject here the statement that no greater or more conclusive betrayal of incompetency can be offered by a Chiropractor than the declaration that he has completely “lined up” a spinal column in one, six, or a dozen adjustments, as some have declared. If one be honest in such statements it is proof positive that he is not capable of accuracy in palpation or else lamentably liable to auto-suggestion. Clinicians of proven ability, who have examined more than five thousand spines each, agree that no perfectly normal spine has been discovered, whether the spine has been adjusted or not. But the chiefest argument against general adjusting is that it scatters the reparatory forces of the body throughout many segments, some of which are not really in need of attention, while the one or two segments which need all possible concentration of energy receive only a diluted share. If my patient suffers from an acute pneumonia and nothing else and if I require that he submit to a general adjustment including some eight subluxations, two of which are Lumbars, I am unscientific and unwise. What that case demands is an immediate localized improvement. It is highly probable that the efficient Chiropractor of the future will be a specific adjuster; that every recognized body condition will suggest a definite and scientifically determined corrective measure; and that guesswork will be largely eliminated. Talking Points The things which it is most important that the Chiropractor should set before his patient are the theories and facts peculiar to Chiropractic, perhaps adduced by Chiropractic investigations alone. These theories and facts have been discussed elsewhere in detail: the subluxation theory, easily demonstratable with a spinal column as an object lesson, the relations between primary and secondary causes of disease, the directness and completeness of the results of vertebral adjustments, these explanations are more convincing than the display of a wealth of knowledge of methods and theories used by other schools of practice. Chiropractic has been builded not by virtue of previously established truths but solely on the vitality of the new principles enunciated by it.