Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-10-31
wonderful Nerve Cells.

Mug House Club which set many
brains a-working. Hisremarks opened
brain cells that had been Theoretically
sealed for years. We are supposed to
have 900, ,oOo, 900 nerve cells in the
brain alone. Each cell is an srchive
in which come impression is stored
away for safe keeping. 1t takes
mental burglar to open the cells and
let loose their contents-which we
style memory. A mental burglar is
man who creates thought. he sets
the rusty cog-wheels of your brain
turning this way and that, and pres
emily you wake up with mind re-
frsshed and an appetite for mental
pabulum. DR.. Wenzel is a "chiro-
practor."
We have dictionaries today which
contain half million words; yet the
average vocabulary of an educated
man is less than 5000 words. ScieD.
fists are the ablest linguists, because
they are manufacturers of words and
phrases. Now, you are smart man.
You have 60O,0OO.0OO little nerve
cells in your caput. Of these you
may make 100000 useful in the course
of long life. The rest-59o, 100000
are of no especial value. Some
times they dry up. Sometimes they
get filed with water. Your brain
becomes as dismantled industrial
plant. 1t is easy to understand that
the man who makes use Of the greatest
number Of brain cells possesses a
higher order of intelligence than one
who makes use of the smaller number
The most wonderful of all mechan-
isms is the spine, which is designed
principally for the protection of the
spinal cord, or marrow-an integral
part of the brain. The chiropractor
believes that each of the 26 joints in
your backbone positively controls by
means of nerves attached to the spinal
cord) some particular part of your
body. 1t is estimated that there are
.00O,0OO,000 nerve cells under such
control. Osteopathy is based on the
principle that circulation is the es-
sence of life; chiropractic is based on
the restoration of nerve action.
If the spinal column is displaced
and single vertebra presses on the
cord it produces paralysis Of the parts
below the pressure point. fit is dis
placed at the neck so as to press upon
or iDjure the chord, it generally causes
instant death. If the joints, or YER
tebrae, are put in place by the ohiro-
practic thrust before circulation has
stopped, recovery is possible. Idiooy,
insomnia, st. Vitus' dance, drunken
ness, mental depression, neurosis, etc,
are palliated by this treatment, be-
cause coordination of the nervous
system with the brain is restored.
The following statement by DR..
Wepzel made members of the Mug
House Club gasp: A young boy,
about IL. suffered from paralysis of
the right arm. He could not lift it
to the horizontal to save his life, and
the member was otherwise useless.
His parents had spent much money to
have him cured, but in vain Pro.
fessor - undertook to effect at least
a partial cure, and the demonstration
in chiropractice was made before a
large class. The boy was asked to
hold a thermometer in each hand, and
the temperatures were found to be
seven degrees apart. The good arm,
of course, was the warmer, because Of
its better circulation.
Professor - said: Nov, gentle
men, when have discovered the DOR
sal vertebra whose nerves control this
boys right arm, shall give it the
chiropractic thrust; you Will please
to note the result. After lingering
moment along the boys spine the
thrust was given. No pain accom-
panied it. In few seconds the ther-
mometer in the paraIyzsd hand reg
istered the same temperature as that
in the left. Aad in few weeks the
boy could use his right arm as well
as his left life had been restored to
it by a very slight adjustment Of a
single joint of the backbone. Doesn't
that make you thinkf
pafn anvwbere. main In the head,