Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1921-07-29
Spiinology
By DIR. John H. Albert, d. {.
Post Office Bldg, CharlevOix, M.

The spinal origin of disease was first
brought to the attention OF the general
public through the chance discovery OF
a so called magnetic healer, who find
ing a mal-alignment in the spine OF q
deaf negro, thrust it into position with
his hands, and to his surprise as much
as the negro's the deafness was reliev'
ed.
The science was developed, slowly al
first, named chiropractic (kiro-praktik)
from two Greek words meaning done
with the hands or hand practice. With
in a few years more had been learned
of the function of the spinal nerves
than In the two thousand years that
gone before. 1t was learned that Ger.
tain definite nerves controlled certain
definite organs, that a pinching on a
nerve caused an abnormal functioning
OF the organ which this nerve Supplied
with life giving energy and that the
organ would become diseased. The
symptoms expressed depended on the
degree and character of the pinch.
At first the only patients that came
to the chiropractic-physician were those
that were positively beyond hope for
any other system Of healing to even
give relief of the most temporary kind.
Much to the surprise Of the patients
and their friends they actually did re-
cover. Gradually, very gradually,
patients whose complaints had not be-
come chronic began to drift into the
chiropractor's office and found that
the chiropractor, by his adjustings re-
lieved the more recent ailments as
well. At the present time there are
ten thousand NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in
the United States alone, you will find
them in nearly every country, you will
find millions of people in the United
States who now call the chiropractor
first, not waiting for the patients vi
tality to be lowered by doseings until
the chances of recovery are less.
Now that chiropractic is becoming so
wide spread and so thoroughly well
known by intelligent and advanced
people in all parts of the country it is
arousing a great many inquiries on the
part of those who have been slower to
see its value, and adopt it as being OF
use to them.
People have thought that chiroprac-
tic is just sort of Indifferent manipul-
alton or limited massage which might
be of benefit in case of sore muscles,
back ache, or something of that kind
and are now surprised to learn that
chiropractic is not limited; but is OF
broad and general application to the
entire subject of disease. Thousands
of the more conservative people are
now coming enthusiastically to the use
of chiropractic, not only for themselves
but for their families. They are hear
ing of its value and as matter of in
formation are now DESTROYS of knowing
what chiropractic will do and how il
does it.
| shall endeavor to give you this in
formation in series of articles-first
taking the more ordinary disorders OF
the body and later the less frequently
met with diseases endeavoring to show
how and why pinched nerve will
cause abnormal function (disease) why
the chiropractor adjusts the spine and
why recovery follows these adjustings.
The following definition of chiroprac-
tic will be of benefit in the reading OF
the articles that are to follow and will
help the reader to come to an under
standing of what chiropractice really is
"Chiropractic is the science that
teaches health in anatomic relation and
disease or abnormality in anatomic
diselation, and teaches the art of re-
storiug anatomic relation by a process
OF adjusting by hand"