The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1920-07-16
MOLD CURED OF PAR
ALYSIS.
Is Stricken Accidentally i. In The
Back By a Bedpost That
Revived a Nerve
SENSATION LED TO A CURE

In the home of Edward M. Mold
there is bedpost. Many other
homes have bedposts-four, at least,
and some several times four-but the
Mold bedpost had a message to de-
liver, message al life-saving i'm
portance. 1t ought to have a Car
negie medal, that bedpost.
Edward M. Mold was injured in
the service of the United States
Army in April, 1917. The injury
left him paralyzed from the waist
down. All the army doctors avail
able or interested, tried to help him.
Eight different operations were per-
formed. But none of the operations
were of any benefit.
AS Mold lay helpless he thought of
many things he wanted to do and
couldn't. He wanted to study music.
Having the talent, he wished to ex-
press it and get the joy that comes
with the exercise of such skill. Also
he wanted the normal joys of life,
such, for instance, as being able to
walk in the sun.
But instead of these things he got
a wheel chair and his discharge from
the Army. For encouragement, the
doctors told him the truth. They
had kept it from him as long as they
could.
"Your case is incurable," pro-
nounced the physicians, and so he
was shipped from the hospital to his
home in Sedalia, Mo.
Thus things drifted along from the
date of his injury in April, 1917, to
October z, 1919. It was on the latter
date that the bedpost took a hand.
On that date, because he was help
less, he suffered a fall. The bedpost
struck him in the back.
Now, to strike in the back is a
social blunder, but the bedpost knew
nothing of this and if asked to de-
fend itself would undoubtedly have
retorted: "Look what I did for him. {"
Getting struck in the back caused
a sensation in one of Nold's toes. AS
he said, describing the incident, "It
gave me hope"
The reason for his hope was that
he had heard of chiropractic and he
thought chiropractor could at least
DO as well adjusting his spine as a
bedpost.
The first adjustment brought a
sensation in one hip. The second day
it reached one foot. The third day it
was in both hips. On the fourth day
full sensation returned to both legs.
In three weeks he began to walk. One
month later he walked a mile with
crutches. In six weeks he walked a
mile without crutches. Today he is
normal. Today he is in San Fran
cisco studying music, with good pros
pect of achieving his ambition and his
happiness.
The fall against the bedpost hap
pened to strike the right joint of the
spine in just the right way to give
the pinched spinal nerve little mo-
mentary freedom. Mold, as a result,
felt a sensation in his toe The Chi
ropractor does by art and skill what
the bedpost did by accident. But even
the chiropractor could not have sue
ceeded in Nold's case in one adjust
ment. He needed to continue the
work of restoring nerves, muscles
and ligaments to a normal position,
day after day, for six weeks, before
a complete adjustment of permanent
value had been made. The bedpost
opened the nerve line into the toe
for an instant, then it closed again.
But Mold got the message which fate
intended for him ard SO today he is
restored to usefulness.
This seems wonderful case-but
is isn't 1t is as simple as two and
two make four. Today many people
are going through life with some part
OF the body only half alive-a part
that is diseased because it is failing
to get 100 per cent. of impulse from
spinal nerve lines. To such persons,
the spinal adjustment is a God-send,
wonder worker. Yet it is only so
because it brings back what Nature
intended you to have-health, vigor,
viality, real nervous strength and
force in every organ of the body.