Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-13
Health Talk No. 40
do CHIROPRACTORS
BELIEVE IN GERMS!,
By r. B. BLEAN, d. C.

That GERMS exist Is certain
knowledge. but that they are the
cause Of disease is quite a different
statement. The three distinct the
cries OF disease, viz: Chiropra etc
germ and bi-chemic are mutually ex
elusive. They may all be wrong, bur
they cannot all be right.
The germ theory was promulgated
by German. Dr.. Koch, in 1882. and
Is by no means generally accepted by
medical men or scientists. In fact
some of it's strongest opponents are
medical men who marshal the most
controvertible facts with unassafiab1es
logic, while the great general public
have for centuries lived, laughed and
loved in perfect ignorance and disre
gard of the theory.
1t is the dictum of science that we
live in a sea Of life and that in every
drop of water, in every breath Of air
and every bite of food there are myr-
lads of germs. 81
II germs cause disease, II, follows
that the Introduction of germs into
the living organism would produce
uiScdSe III every case. ~
TIE instances that prove this un-
true are so legion that the germ the
orists have been composed to ex-
plain that the germs are impotent
unless the power of resistance of the |
patient is subnormal. For instance,
some people can not be snccesfuily
vaccinated that they die. Germ
Theorists" explain the susceptibility
of the patient is the measure OF his
power of resistance.
Power of resistance may be meas
ured in terms Of life current or4vi5
tally. The stronger the life current
the greater the resistance and, vice
versa the weaker the life current the
weaker the resistance. So We may
conclude that where 100 per cent OF
life current, or vitality. exists, the
susceptibility is zero, and where SO [
per cent exists the resistance is small
and the susceptibility corresponding-E
ly great. 4 n
1t requires but little reasoning
from these facts to conclude that
those who contract typhoid, for in
sance, owe their susceptibility to q
lack of vital force in the bowels, and
those who contract tuberculosis, q
pneumonia, ect., to a lack of resist /
ance in the lung tissue. and so thru /
the entire list of germ diseases.
Chiropractic goes several links /
farther back in the chain of cause
and effect. While the germ theorists-
stop at the susceptibility OF the pa !
tient, the Chiropractor says that the j
susceptibility is the result of a,lack
of vital power. or mental impulses,
due to pressure on nerve caused by
a nlisaligned vertebra: and then
when the vertebra is adjusted the i
normal power will again flow over
the nerve, the affected parts will
again become normal and the disease
germs and every other incidental eff
feet will disappear.
No clearer demonstration of the
relative merits OF antipodaI theories
could be given than that furnished
by the statistics of the recent eau"
epidemic in Iowa, where the death
rate was as follows:
MEDICALLY TREATED ONE
DEATH OUT OF EVERY Is cases.
SYSTEMATICALLY rR EATED s
ONE DEATH OUT OF EyERY 127 1
cases.
CHIROPRACTICALL ADJUST /
ED ONE DEATH OUT OF EVERY
1856 cases.
These figures are at once death
blow to the germ theory and won
derful recommendation for chiro-
practic.