Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-12-17
Chiropractic For Colds, LaGrippe and Pneumoa


these ills present both here and abroad Whether
you believe in the ouof-date, od-fashoned germ, the
bran.nev1 bug the Conservation sugar diet the
mosphere, whatnot, the suggested cause of the
1918 variety, you cannot get away from this fact
One man sickens and dies; another man, subject to
exactly the same conditions of life, sickens but throws
off disease, and is soon back on the job; third man.
living perhaps in the household and seemingly sub
jet to more exposure than either of the other
doesn't even have cold.
WHY ?-There ism among you who will not
answer at once Because his resistance is greater;
his system is in more perfect condition
Aside from casting out fear and exercising good COM
nonsense in daily habits of life, what is there we
can do to keep our resistance up 10 top-notchf How
keep the force called Mature working lOO per cent
perfect all the time in everybody.
In this enlightened day, it will not be accomplished
by filling the human system with dope. Astrngents
contraction of tsSue Sedatves and narcotics lower
functional activity by producing supor diuretcs, dla-
phoretcs expectorants and catharcs stimulate certain
nerves over-acton, leaving them afterward in state
of proportionate paralysis
Because this true many physicians today agree
ing with DR.. Harvey S. Wiley, who, in an address be-
fore the physicians of Ohio says The era of medi-
food fresh air and exercise. A progressive physician
knows, today, that Nature is the only physician. We
learning that there for disease finding
out what they are, and giving Nature chance
This is exactly the thing Chiropractic does-gives
Nature chance-gets down to the CAUSE of disease,
and adjusts it.
We all agree that there exists within the body in
force of energy which operates and regulates the
aCtIO Of all nd funCf VIII in
way responsible for its nutrition growth and repair.
The existence of form of energy possessing these
tributes has been recognized and crudey eckoned with
by various authorities since the earliest history of he
healing art 1t is the ''Vis Medcatrx Natura of
the early medical writer's the 'Vital Force of Hahn
mann; the s'Subconscious Mind of Hudson; the "Di-
vine Spark of the New Thought movement the "All
Goodness of Christian Science, and the Mature of
modern medicine. This is true when we are healthy,
why not make the same Nature" work when we are
sick?
The discoverer of ChiropraCtic, Dr.. D. D. Palmer,
called this inherent power within the human body
Innate intelligence because is born within
u.s. Intelligence, because neither requires MOI is ss-
cephble of any form of education trang manifold
and diverse operations being carried perfectly and
unerringy, and with much power. precision discrim-
ination and regularity in the helpless newly born babe
in the most robust active and highly-educated adult
That this intelligent energy has its seat in the brain
and that the the medium through which all
of its operations conducted, is both an unavoidable
conclusion of logic, and demonstrable fact.
Chiropractc contends that pressure upon nerve in
ters with its and that this interference pre-
prevents the part gan which this nerve is con-
veyer of vital energy from performing its functional
duties with 100 per cent degree of efficiency. In at
least IS per of cases. the place where interference
with the transmission of metal impulses of degree su
fcient deranged functional activity Cor eds
case found be the ntervertebral foraminathe
little openings between the vertebre either side of the
SPINE where the thirtyone pairs of emit from
the spinal cord At any of these places, slight mis-
alignment of vertebra technically called SUBLUX-
ATOM, may press upon the pair of passing
out through as interfere more or less seriously with
their conductive power. The CHIROPRACTOR,
with his hauds, adjusts the subluxated vererbre by
unique quick precise. and effective and re-
ieveS this pressure from the Pressure removed
normal transmission of vital energy brought about
100 per of mental impulses reach such organs or
tissues these supply, and their functions are
performed perectlywith the result known as health
We receive solicitations of the spine in many WAYS
falls and shocks and exposures from babvhood m