The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-04-15
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Office rooms over Andreas Peterson's
store. They have just been arranged,
re. papered, carpetcd and fitted to suit
the taste OF DR.. Petritsch and with
three nice rooms and an office he Is
now as we'll fixed as the average prac-
titioner.
While In his Office last Saturday the
writer held up to derision certain
charts the "long. haired doctor" holds
in particular reverence. After finally
asserting our belief that the maker OF
the charts was mon compos mentis,"
or else worked while indnlging In
Nightmares, DR.. Petritsch suggested
that the mental deficiency was prob.
ably the bad fortune OF the critic
rather than OF the maker OF the charts,
and he kindly offered to prove tat
least to give a demonstration OF the
perfection OF the charts.
The process Of demonstration proved
most interesting experience DIR.
Petritsch explained that any physical
difficulty, and the exact location, is
manifest In the eye. With that he
fixed his eagle eye on our own, and as
we looked at him with one eye and In.
to a mirror with the other, he pointed
out that which we never had noted
there-a series OF little brown spots.
BY the chart, which we had held up
to ridicule, the doctor pointed out
first that we have a crooked tongue,
sometimes, and It couldn't be denied.
Then he found In the eye an indica.
tion of arrangement of the bronchial
tubes, the heart, stomach, kidney and
lower gizzard. We have known for
sometime that there was difficulty at
each CT these places; our bronchial
tubes always did seem to 90 wrong,
especially when beating a carpet or
pitching dusty hay; our heart was
first affected at ten years of age, when
a fair-haired daughter OF Eve named
Ada let us walk beside her as we drove
the cows home from a common pas.
ture, and since that time everv bright
eye meath an Easter hat seems to
make the difficulty worse;our stomach
Is affected always, before meals for the
want OF something to ill the aching
void and afterwards because that void
is too full
Just how the doctor was able to find
these things in our eye Is still mys.
terry, but he did 1t, according to the
chart, and then he proved 1t TO us by
our spine, DR.. Petritsch said that II
our eyes told The truth our spine
would verify IT. and it did, by Jove-
at least the doctor said IL did, and we
prefer to accept the veritication that
our eyes do not tell lies. When our
Apollo naris-like form was barred TO
It's primeval beauty, the chiropractor
stretched us upon a cooling board and
with nimble fingers sought the secrets
OF our spine. "Your head Is not on
straight" said ne and we agreed, be.
cause we knew that something was
wrong with 1t. He said that 1t would
take too long to fix that, so he travelled
down the spine until he ran against a
snag. Eureka. I've found it," cried
he. "Here's your heart difficulty, one
vertebrae two inches out OF line" We
got scared at that, but says he, IN
fix that right now" and with that he
uouuIcu ny iIio use, puI IiiS MICE On tfle
back OF 1t and then jumped AS we re-
covered consciousness and our breath
we heard DR.. 'Petrisch saying "Thcre,
that's all right, that was pretty easy
one" ana we promptly tainted at the
thought OF the next one. Three more
vertebrae displaced from four to six
inches (more or less) were fixed 10 the
same way-and since Saturday we
have been absolutely we'll. Cough
drops wouldn't make US cough now,
nor could dozen hours with their
arms about our neck make that old
diseased heart beat one whit the fast.
er; neither does our stomach cry for
the lack Of food or on account OF a
surplus quantity. Today we can eat