Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-31
Health Talk No. 81
ChirOpractic: An Eco
nOmic Aid to the
Community.
BY r. B.. BLEAN, DC.

Probably every employer of labo,
in the community realizes the talue
OF HEALTH in their employees and
has given considerable thought to
ways and means Of making better
working environment In order that
the people working in offices. facto-
~. store. ETC., may keen in better
health, consequently give better SER
vice.
Sanitation. systematic exercise, re-
creation, fresh air. etc. are being
supplied and urged in many cases
and 1t pays dividends because 1t
means increased efficiency.
Efficiency In discharring his Ghas
ties Is the criterion . lie of an
usually one of the fundamentals that
enables a man to make himself vaiu-
able to his employer.
To what extent Is the average man
or woman healthy?a How many can
pass a rigid physical examination
How many are up to 100 pcr cent of
their possibilities? A person is eff
cient Just to the extent that he has
( control Of his physical and mental
i powers.
Is man who has detective heart
q a good prospect to push into a re-
Z sponsible position? TTe may drop
dead when he Is most needed.
Is the man who has defective EYE
sight or hearing the making Of Hal,
4 efficient salesman or foreman?f ! &
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work In the factory because of chron-
! 10 stomach trouble, that he can not
seem to get rid of. capable of getting
100 per cent out OF his machine?
II the employee who continually
goes to work with a headache cap
able OF giving the best service pos
slble? III.
Are the many chronic conditions
from which the majority Of people
suffer conducive/to - s9ass,rra Of
efficiency? How about Rheumatism,
lumbago. heart, stomach. liver. kid
roy and bladder trouble. to say
rothing. OF the minor ailments that
distract mans mind from the wnrl,
in hand? Do these things. mako fer
business efficiency?
FACTORY in this community but
what has q. number of chronic suf-
ferers who arS WORTH under a
Z handicap because of their conditions
therefore loss OF efficiency or ATE
laid up unable to work, no good to
themselves but a drag on the COM
pany that retains them on the pay
roll.
AS Chiropractic becomes better
known business men are coming to
recognize that this new health sys-
tenn has direct Bearing on the year.
~ balance Sheet There are many
wise their employees to take Chiro-
practic adjustments to keen fit.
& Nearly all the accident and health
insurance companies now recognize
claims signed by Chiropraetors. The
insurance companies are In position
to know, who returns the workman to
his duties in the shortest possible
time.
Inasmuch as Chiropractic Is g nom
medical method developed outside of
the medical schools many peolpe get
the impression that the medical pro-
fesaion do not sanction the practice.
However. It is true that many physi-
clans turnout the country not only
sanction Chiropractic but are study
ing and using it with wonderful sue
cess
In evidence Of this statement and
to further bring out the Worth of
Chiropractic as an asset to the bust
ness man, the value of tAwhen taken
in connection with various institu-
lions whose business is to develop
rlanhood and womanhdod and to fur
ther the health OF the community,
quote as follows from physicians To-
Gated In all parts OF the country.
DIR. WIFI. Schurppley says. Eighty
per cent OF our population are at
fllctedl with some sort of spinal de-
! feet and that this spinal defect is the
cause of SO much nervousness. in
digestion. L headache. rheumatism.
mental weakness and .'any other
grave and dangerous diseases, this
same spinal defect IS the only pre-
parcr OF the soil for organic. con-
taglous and infections diseases.
Dr.. Geo. NJ, Gould. Ithaca, New
York, says. From my long expert
5-cYace I am fully satisfied that the
great majority of Young people. from
rs to 20 years of age. are afflicted
with lateral curvature, OF the spine.
This Is the basis of eye strain and
this lateral curvature. and its attend
and eye strain are the causes of
more diseases than all sother causes
known to the medical world COM
bined." This medical authority SAYS
that he finds in the freshman class OF
the great University Of Cornell, over
80 per. cent afflicted with lateral cur
Nature and thatFh he believes there
are large part of our people, who
have lateral curvature of the spine.
~and suffer therefrom. and ascribe
their sufferings to other conditions"
According TO pr. r. N. Smith resi-
dent physician At the children's hos
, pital, ST f4suis, it is a well known
fact that there is not an orthopedic
hospital nor an orthopedic ward in
any other hospital, but what is filled
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