New-York tribune., 1922-02-21
Chiropractic Offers
Own jury TO Offset
Expert Indictment
Lyndon K. Lee Says Theory
HasStrong SupportAmong
Specialists Who Also Are
Medical School Graduates

LH"uoh r. Lee, precedent OF the
Greater New York District Society of
Nhlropractic, yesterday challenged the
findings of the jury of thirteen medical
specialists who made public a report
of their investigation of the theories
and practice of chiropractic DR.. Lee
said the chiropractic, number of
whom he pointed out as former medical
practitioners, also had Jury Of spc-
ciaslsts. He declared there were
regularly licensed physicians in New
ork to-day who, although they might
not know it or would not care to admit
1t were employing the principles of
chlropractic in the treatment Of
patients,
The chropractic doctor said there
'N"eto'S IN the city claiming
10 be chiropractics and that they were
"~- .'o N..e p4,'ession by giving the
cnemlcS OF those properly engaged in
1t material on which to base their
criticisms. These takers" would CON
tinuo to harm the chiropractics as long
as New York State refused to license
those trained for the profession and
otherwlse regulate their practice, he
sand. sHa pointed out that chropractic
ls licensed and tho admission of gradu-
ate s."Utnts to professional rating is
provided for in thirty-two states, "in-
ciuding all those states touching New
FORK, except Massachusetts,
Denies Curc-All efficacy
"Chiropractlc does not claim to be a
cure-al! FOR disease" said Dr. Lee. at
does claim to be a very effective meth
od OF handling disease. 1t is abso
lutely unfair for medical doctor to
get chlropractic doctor up before h
legislative committee or any other
public body and ask him what chiro-
practic can do to eradicate conditions
which they themselves will admit they
can't control. DR.. Lee said he had
reference to certain diseases, such as
cancer, for example. "A good many
physicians right here in New York are
using chiropractic on their patients" ="
he continued. Some Of them are us ing
it without having any legal right to
do so.
"We, too, have our jury OF special
ists. 1t may be of interest to know
that many of them arc or were grad
yates Of medical colleges He men
toned by name Alfred Walton, NJ. d.
and Doctor Of Ehiropractic, a graduate
Of Harvard University, class of 1879,
former president and chief Of the
surgical staff of Essex County Hospi-
tai, New Jersey, who died two years
ago; G.. NJ. Patchen, NJ. D. and D. c..
Of 13 Central Park West, a graduate of
the New York Homeopathic Medical
College, class of 1868, and senior mem
Der of the American Institute of
omeopathy; U. A. Lyle NJ. D. and D..
G., Of Logansport, Ind; Edward p.
Bailey, NJ. d. and d. c., Los angeles,
Calf, practitioner, and others.
Drs. Lyle, Walton and others he had
in mind had written treatises on chiro-
practic, such was their enthusiasm for
1t, he said, and they had been called
upon to give numerous lectures on the
efficacy of the laying on of hands"
treatment.
Practscing Without License
Asked why it was possible for the
eniropract;c doctors to practice in
New York without license, Dr.. Lee
1eplicd.
"Nethe- iuries nor Judges in the
courts of special sessions have found
the practitioners in S5 per cent of the
cases guilty of an otfense.'
He said he was perfectly willing to
have the Dunnigan bill, now before
the Legislature, amended to include
a provision that graduate chiropractors
be made to demonstrate, before state
board Of chiropractic examiners. their
fitness for the practice before permit
ting them to be licensed