The Science Of Chiropractic

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... Thorax including; sternum, ribs and spinal column of a female. Kvphosis. The apex of curvature is between (ith and 7th Dorsal Vertebrae. Tbe Chiropractor would locate the incipient occluded foramen at that point on left side. Pressure on nerves was the cause of excessive heat, more especially on the affected side softening (Ith and 7th dorsal and contiguous vertebrae..Muscular compression, while vertebrae were soft, made centra wedge-shaped. This abnormal condition was undoubtedly done in youth. The ribs on right side grew to normal size; they show deformity only in distal half; which is thinner and more flat. The left ribs are micromegalous. Those adjacent to the occluded foramina are more so than others. Observe the difference in the cartilage of different ribs. ILLUSTRATION NO. 81. SMALL POX. Small pox and chicken pox are one and the same disease. A bad case of chicken pox; a mild case of small pox is chicken pox. They differ in degree and symptoms as do all diseases in different individuals. All ailments are but the effects of abnormal nerve impulse. There is not an ache, pain or misery, but are the interpretation of nerve impressions. All acts or movements of any or all parts of the body, (including the circulation of the fluids) whether regular or irregular, normal or abnormal, pleasant or unpleasant, are done by nerve impulse. There are no two of us that look alike, no two have the skeletal bones alike. No vertebra of the spinal column of one person will fit in that of another. There are no two whose nerves have the same sensation while in health, these differentiations are greatly increased when nerves are made abnormal by injury. Therefore the symptoms of small pox or chicken pox vary from an undetermined mild case where there...

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1914 Contents: the Moral & Religious Duty of a Chiropractor; Chiropractic a Science, an Art & Philosophy Thereof; Nerve Vibration; a Brief Review; Inflammation; Vertebral Luxations; Health, Disease, Life and Death; Rachitis or Rickets; Biology;.

This book is written for use in the class room. It may, however, be studied just as easily by the field practitioner, and is not too technical in most of its parts to be readily grasped by the layman. It has grown, rather than having been written; it is the expansion of the notes which were tested in the class room for six years, and the writer believes that, with the constant arrangement and betterment to suit the requirements of the students of Chiropractic, this has created a real textbook, rendering easily understood a subject that students have always said was difficult.

Chiropractic is by far the most common form of alternative medicine in the United States today, but its fascinating origins stretch back to the battles between science and religion in the nineteenth century. At the center of the story are chiropractic's colorful founders, D. D. Palmer and his son, B. J. Palmer, of Davenport, Iowa, where in 1897 they established the Palmer College of Chiropractic. Holly Folk shows how the Palmers' system depicted chiropractic as a conduit for both material and spiritualized versions of a "vital principle," reflecting popular contemporary therapies and nineteenth-century metaphysical beliefs, including the idea that the spine was home to occult forces. The creation of chiropractic, and other Progressive-era versions of alternative medicine, happened at a time when the relationship between science and religion took on an urgent, increasingly competitive tinge. Many remarkable people, including the Palmers, undertook highly personal reinterpretations of their physical and spiritual worlds. In this context, Folk reframes alternative medicine and spirituality as a type of populist intellectual culture in which ideologies about the body comprise a highly appealing form of cultural resistance.

This text informs readers about the procedures involved in the practice of evidence-based chiropractic, background information that is needed to obtain and interpret chiropractic evidence, as well as practical examples to assist with implementation.