''CHIROPRAPTIC. Defined.— Chiroprac tie a tiamegiven to the 'study and application of a universal philosophy of biology, theology, theosophy, health, disease, death, the science of the cause of disease and art of permitting the' the triune relationships be tWeen all attributes necessary to normal com posite forms; to harmonious quantities and equalities by placing: in juxtaposition the al). normal Concrete positions of definite mechanical portions with each other, by hand; thus cot' recting all rubluxations of the spine, atlas to coccyx inclusive; for the purpose of permit ting the 're-ereation of all normal cyclic um rentsi throigh nerves, that were formerly not permitted to be transmitted, through impale ment, but have now assumed their normal size and capacity 'for conduction as they emanate through intervertebral foramina — the expires, skins' of • which were formerly excessive or partially lacking— named disease.
'Historical.-;- The first Chiropractic adjust ment of a vertebra was given in September -1895, 'by' Di. D. D. 'Palmer. Neither the art nor science • was formed at this , time. Its growth remained practically! dormant till 1908, since his sow B. J. Pahner, D.C, -Ph;C., has developed it into a well-defined nom therapeutical science and art. that has no resembhnice to ant therapentical method. 'Health .(*qsiality) is restored, by 'completing the mental and physmal circuits; restoring the rear seats- of Cycles ,,of !mental impulses, acting through! thernaterialagnacy ; to• replace the lull etnotalof positive With an equivalent negative; ?bruiting meoliveitanne- of the •intelligeht immateriality into the mechanical:carporeeit,111 reconstruct the normal psychophysical unit; to make as one the triunity of creation, transmis sion and expression; to re-establish equilibrium between the abstract and concrete, all of which is induced by re replacing specific disordered con cte mechanical anatomy which permits adjust ment between that one law of two principles— cause and effect — the rules and manner of declaration of which are unique and unlike any theories of stimulative or inhibitive movements or applications used by any other school.
Premise.— °And in the beginning God,* as true to science as philosophy. Decapitate a man — he's dead, showing that life centres in brain and is there known as mind; passes to spinal cord and is there known as nerve force; thence to spinal nerves, there known- as mental impulses: To section spinal cord induces degeneratinri, pressure upon spinal cord induces paralysis; constriction upon a spinal nerve causes disease to all tissues beneath. Section, pressure and constriction are relative terms, each producing its degree of effect.
The steamfitter closes a valve to shut off steam; plumber shuts a faucet to diminish flow of water; electrician turns off the button to stop the flow of electricity; the same is also true of man, as above outlined, any section, pressure or constriction reduces the flow of life from brain (where originated) to tissue cell (where expressed) as function.
Section is impossible except with surgery or murderous intents; pressure impossible except by traumatic fractures or dislocations; con strictions though are frequent occurring with everybody, no vertebrate excepted.
The brain is encased within skull; the spinal cord passed through the spinal foramen where fractures or dislocations are rare but subluxations of vertebrae" are frequent and therein enters constriction.
These vertebrae are 24 in number, separate from each other, they become sublimated by jars, twists, wrenches, strains, etc., thereby creasing the lumen from which issue spinal nerves on each side on their way to every tissue of a body. This orifice is formed by notches of two vertebrae in juxtaposition. Nerves, passing through (being soft and en, tireiy surrounded by two movable hard sub stances) should one of its halves become dis torted it decreases the lumen and, the nerves having no avenue to escape, become constricted. Constriction does to nerves what .a foot upon a hose would do—decreases the diameter and circumference, thereby diminishing the carrying capacity, the distant manifestation being notably observed by the physician in pathology and felt by the patient in symptomatology.