Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-07-31
WHAT IS
CHIRO | / / L
The New Method or Analysing the
Symptoms and Adjusting the
Physical Cause Of Disease
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g. H. patchen, B. s. NJ. 2,
New York

"a lecture delivered before the
Health Culture Club" of New
York. November i2th, 1909 'es
All idea is the definite and logical
form which thoughts take on in
regard TO any subject which is con-
templated by the mind.
No matter how strange, unusual
or even how opposed TO established
custom or belief an idea may be, if
its claims prove to be in harmony
with all of the essential facts con-
corning the subject to which the
idea is related, it is true and valu-t
able and must be accepted.
The ChiropracGc idea represents
the thoughts which originally led
to the discovery Of the basic prin-
ciples of Chiropractic, and, later,
by other thinkers, to their further
development. But, many will, I'M
doubtedly, ask What is Chiro-.
practic? 1t is new word to me.
what does it mean?" Chiropractic
(Ki-ro-prak-tik( is coined word,
composed of two Greek words,
CHER, the hand Gin composition
Chiro), and Praxis, doing. Hence,
literally, Chiropractic, means the
doing of something by hand. A
Chiropractor, therefore, is hand
doer or hand practiCer.
Abstractly, the term is proper
one to apply to any trade or profess
sion in which the hands are the
tools used in performing any speci-
fled work. But, applied to the
study of the cause, nature and
elimination of disease, it means a
science and philosophy which
claims to be able not only to ana
lyze and locate unerringly, the ply
steal cause of disease, but, also, to
provide an original, unique and adj
equate means of adjusting or re-
moving this cause more promptly,
radically and permanently than by
any other method known at the
present time. s ~.
These claims, when heard for the
first time, may seem 50 absolutely
extravagant as to be unworthy Of
serious consideration but, really,
they are more so than many others
which, in recent years, have been
advanced and verified by discover
ers and workers in other depart
ments of human Thought and en-
deavor.
Now that these bold and chal-
longing statements have been deli
berately made, how shall we re-
ceive them? Shall we treat them
with the same derision, obloquy and
contempt that were showered upon
the immortal discoveries of Harvey
and other martyrs to the cause Of
medical science? Or shall we take
the attitude of the scholar and ear
nest seeker after truth, ask for.
further information, reasons and
proofs, and then, as any honest
judge or jury would do, carefully
weigh the evidence presented and
render a verdict which uninflunced
by either our prejudices or pre-
conceived opinions, is warranted by
the verified facts presented?
In conformity with the better
view, let us critically examine the
basic principles Of Chiropractic to
see if any are at variance with the
established facts of anatomy and
physiology, the two branches Of
medical science which are the
foundation Of all others.
These basic principles are:
1st. That, as to their origin, all
nerves, irrespective of the system
to which they belong, arise either
directly from the brain or are in
communication with it through.
connecting nerve flbers. That, as to-
their distribution, they either enter
the. spinal cord, becoming part Of
it, OF are connected withjit by COM
municating branches. 5T#
The spinal cord is an extension Of
that part of the brain called the
medulla oblongata. It passes out Of
the skull through an opening at its
base, called the foramen n magnum,i
into and through the vertebral
Spinal bones) canal which extends
downward from 3the fora1nen mag
mum, to the second lumbar verte-:
'brae. From the spinal cord, nerve
flaments emerge, on each side Of
the spinal column, through a small
opening between each consecutive
pair Of vertebrae, from whence
they proceed to the parts and or