Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-10
LETTERS
GIVE THE cHlRoPRAcToRs A
FULL HEARING

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Sir: May | have the opportunity
or correcting some OF the impressions
given concerning chiropractic and the
methods of ch:ropractors. asIexpress-
Ell in the remarks OF the medical doc
tors who attended Thursday nights
hearing OF House Bill 81?
Everything has to have a beginning.
Chiropractic is making its start, with
its present request for legal status in
Hawaii.
Dr. Hobdy's statement. as reported.
may have been a plea against some
unnamed healing art, being permitted
to practise; what cult it is that he re-
fers TO, do not know. II certainly
cannot be chiropraCtic, because his
identifying their methods as a rub
bling on the back" SHOWS that he was
not speaking OF chiropractic practise.
And if he does not know anything
about chiropractic practise, then he
must know still less about the chiro-
practic theory of the cause Of disease,
and therefore he is not fit man to
seek to dictate whether or not we
chiropracticors should be entrusted
with the personal rights of our citi-
zens in selecting the practitioner of
their choice in sickness.
Dr. Hobby stated that he represent
ed the County Medical Society. and |
presume the society is willing there
fore to- be bound by what statements
he made. And also presume he is
considered to be a fair sample of the
degree Of knowledge existing in the
society as to chiropractic. Why, then,
should such men VINO thus show their
ignorance of chiropractic presume to
pass on whether VI not chiropractic
adjustments are etIlcient in removing
the cause of diphlneria, and rendering
immune those VINO are exposed to it?
The results in the Thomas family
show that the child recovered in four
days., and that none who were eX.
posed and who were chiropractically
adjusted contracted the disease. Could
antitoXin show any better results?
Had antitoxin been used in this tam
lily. would the doctors consider they
had the right to lay any of the credit
for the immunity to its use? think
they would Then why not accord
chIropractic the same glory?
In the light of the ignorance shown
by the representatives of the medical
profession present at Thursdays
meeting concerning chiropractic, is it
any wonder that. the, chiropractors
here arr, pTofiting by the experiences
of their brethren in sofne of the states.
and are refusing to- be examined by a
medical board! .z-.. 4 IL.
The bedside results show that the
6hiropraetors' college 81 training is
ample to cope with all conditions that
arise in the practise of their profes.
sion, and ii their successful results
show the truth Of their contention,
then why should members of other
professions, ignorantoof everything
conc rnings the chirppraetic theory
and practise. presume to be compe-
tent to pass on what they shall and
shall not teach In their colleges?
Chiropractors are proud of their pro-
fession; they are anxious to see the
frauds and quacks within their ranks,
and House Bill 81 protects the people
Of Hawaii against the incoming of in
competent or unframed practitioners
who have been unable to get by the
chiropraetic boards In other states,
and the sooner this law is passed,
the less will, be the danger OF Hawaii
being flooded with incompetent prac-
titioners of this new science.
There can be no doubt of the eff.
cheney of the methods. and the results
being secured, after listening to the
testimony of the 20 or more well
people who told at the meeting Of
what chiropractic had done for them,
AFTER medicine had failed. 81 ii
The chiropractors of Honolulu court
the fullest investigation into their
methods and theory and practise, and
will welcome any fair opportunity of
demonstrating their ability in the
matter of coping with infectious and
contagious diseases, by removing
their cause through chiropractic spinal
adjustments. To the medical doctors
we say: Don't say it can't be done,
until you &.ord US a fair opportunity
to prove that it can be done"
FRANK C.. MIGHTON, d. c., ?