Technic and Practice of ChiropracticLoban, Joy Maxwell
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Technic and Practice of Chiropractic
Loban, Joy Maxwell
Chiropractic
Chiropractors find with every contagious or infectious disease certain
subluxations whose location with relation to the disease is constant
and demonstrable. Thus all cases of pulmonary tuberculosis show a third
Dorsal subluxation with only enough exceptions to prove the rule;
tonsilitis is invariably accompanied by subluxation of the second,
third or fourth Cervical. Correction of the subluxation is, in all
except the most fully and virulently developed cases, followed by a
radical cure. Indeed, in many of the germ diseases it is possible to
abort the fever with improvement of all symptoms in from five minutes
to twelve hours. We are so accustomed to checking germ diseases at
once that failure to do so leads us to immediate investigation of
our palpation and adjustment to discover some technical error in the
application of the principles of Chiropractic to the case in question.
It is manifestly impossible by vertebral adjustment to raise the body
beyond _normal power_. Nothing is added to the body; no energy is
utilized other than the energy of the body itself which is provided
by Nature and released through restoration of the normal carrying
capacity of nerves. The highest goal attainable is normality, and it
is observed that no matter whether the impingement be in the nature of
an excitation or an inhibition of nerve action the effect of a correct
adjustment is always in that direction--toward normality. It may be
as well to digress here long enough to remark that abnormal change is
never the result of _adjustment_ but always of _maladjustment_, and
those who claim to be able to produce stimulation by moving a given
vertebra one way and inhibition by moving it another are entirely wrong.
It is evident from the results of adjustment in germ disease that
the normal body is entirely capable of throwing off the poisons and
exterminating the germs, which conclusion quite agrees with science.
The fact, not known by other branches of science, and asserted by
Chiropractic is simply that _the subluxation is the factor which
determines susceptibility_.
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