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by
B. J. PALMER, D.C., PH. C.
1881 - 1961
B.J. OF DAVENPORT*
philosopher, scientist, artist, builderthe bit of a mortal being whom Innate
Intelligence developed
*OIL PORTRAIT BY RAYMOND P. R. NELSON STUDIO,
131 EAST 66TH STREET,
NEW YORK CITY
PREFACE
Sarasota, Florida
READ THESE PAGES and please do so carefullybecause it involves
MANY complexed and vital questions which ALL OF US must know the
ins and outs about, to guard certain chiropractic potential factors for the
future.
We began to write our opinions, reasons, into a letter. It finally grew
into an article because of many issues needing explanation. As time went
on, our ORIGINAL article grew, broadened, enlarged, and became almost
a young book, but THE SUBJECT MATTER, in our humble opinion,
WAS SO IMPORTANT that we could not stop accumulating
EVIDENCE substantiating what we thought was the RIGHT thing to
protect, defend and preserve for historical mankind.
As we enlarged our revised edition4 times now since the
originalit became apparent as we began to dig back into our 60 years of
endeavors to PROVE THE CHIROPRACTIC PRINCIPLE AND
PRACTICE, WITH INCONTROVERTIBLE EVIDENCE that WE HAD
researched almost every intangible controversial angle, that we had
written our evidence and proof into articles, published them in books,
which SINCE have ALL been proven right, correct, sane, sound and
sensible, by others beyond ourself, proving that the deductions WE had
researched scientifically were correct, right.
We then began to recall the ways, means, methods, apparati, WE
had used into this ONE article. As we recalled this item, it began to
formulate into FOUR enlargement issues.
We do not propose using THIS fourth enlarged issue in any public
manner UNLESS, in OUR opinion, at some future date, it should be
given publicity to strengthen the convictions of OUR reliable, trustworthy
disciples who have in the past, are now and will in the future, use it to
strengthen the backbone of our pro-
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fession. Or, if in the future, we think it should be published by us to prove
to the scientific researchers what WE HAVE researched which THEY
are now adopting to correct THEIR unproven research which WE HAVE
established.
Time will tell what use we may make of this article you have.
WE have given this article MONTHS of preparation. We earnestly
suggest YOU take time and study its contents VERY carefully as WE
HAVE DONE in its preparation.
B. J. Palmer
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FOREWORD
My father, B. J. Palmer, put together the manuscript of this volume
over a relatively short period of timeactually not more than a year.
Most of it was written or assembled during the early morning hours of 5
to 8 a.m. during the last year or two of his life at his home in Sarasota.
However, it should be quickly noted that these thoughts and conclusions
were not only of these days but the result of over 60 years close study and
experience of the profession he headed and developed.
B.J. had his sorrows, frustrations and hardships, typical of all
pioneers in establishing a new philosophy, especially a new drugless
healing science, yet he had moments of the highest happiness and
satisfaction such as goes along with the personality of a genius.
No man can be great unless he gives up thinking about his pleasures
and peace of mind. A mind so dedicated to a new thought must be closely
in touch with a higher source of strength and inspiration to endure what is
a hard and painful road to travel. There are many obstacles to the proper
awareness of any new philosophy due to either lack of interest or
prejudice in a static world of complacent thinkers.
My father had a greatness that belonged to a life spent struggling in
his own inimitable way against monopolistic influences unwilling to
accept an allied healing art. B.J. followed a coursehis coursethat
drew loyal followers and critics alike who questioned his motives and
methods, yet he stood fast to his convictions of what he knew was right
for the preservation of chiropractics Philosophy, Science and Art.
This volume, number 39, the last written by B.J., aptly expresses
his hopes and aspirations.
David D. Palmer
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VOLUME XXXIX
PALMER
1961
THE NATURAL LAW
MAN IS THE LIVING expression of the epitomy of natural and normal
law.
The law of reproduction of the human race is and has been
controlled and directed by natural law, regardless of caprices and
Idiosyncracies of theoretical vagaries of scientific researchers.
Centuries have not changed them.
CHIROPRACTIC succeeds in getting sick people well because IT
recognizes constants of law IN living man, corrects interferences of those
constants IN living man, and then allows THE LAW itself IN LIVING
MAN to re-establish its health constant IN LIVING MAN.
We are told NATURE heals, NATURE cures, give NATURE
time. Can any man from outside-in, below-up, the scientific
researchers, stimulate or inhibit NATURE and cause a cure to come
artificially thus changing the pattern of the cause of constants of law in
living man? The reverse of this is embodied in the chiropractic
philosophy, science and art.
Chiropractic knew, WE knew, there is and was a law at work in
living man which could, would and did get him well. In exact ratio as we
eliminated variables, we established constants. As we established
constants, chiropractic researchers located and cooperated with the
LAW of living man.
Because man IS the prolonged continuation of the constants of law
of being, is the reason WHY CHIROPRACTIC has been the success it
has and is, because CHIROPRACTIC work WITH the eternal, natural,
internal law of living beings.
CHIROPRACTIC is simple and single. A CHIROPRACTOR is a
simple and single exponent of the constancy of constants working WITH
law WITHIN living man.
Man cannot cross breed one specie with another, in violation of law
governing species. If he tries, there is produced a hybrid
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which will not reproduce the original specie in violation of its law, both
fail to reproduce.
Bipeds and quadrupeds are subject to the same UNIVERSAL LAW
as it performs in living man.
Constants of law plan from above-down, inside-out, in all bipeds and
quadrupeds. Education with its failures of tested variables has never
changed the law of life down thru the ages and centuries, in production or
reproduction in living units today.
Natural LAW is applicable to all LIVING creatures alike, is not
geographic, secular, political or professional except as man KNOWS it
and works with it.
Any attempt of any outside second man to reverse, subjugate, from
outside-in, below-upward to amend INTERNAL LAW to meet HIS
theories to fit any pattern of his external variables, has ALWAYS failed.
Thus does LAW protect itself against reversible encroachments.
LAW has basic constants, and is not subject to varying fluctuations
of variables of men with conflicting theories.
Science research will succeed IF it seeks constants of Universal
LAW as it works thru the living UNITAL human race. Scientific
research will fail IF it complies complicated, multiple, endless
VARIABLES OUTSIDE of living man.
These preambles have been the basic and fundamental in ALL OUR
scientific research in the history of CHIROPRACTIC down through
these 60 years. To seek constants, to establish THE LIVING HUMAN
LAW, thereby automatically eliminating all variables of our technicians,
our faculty, our student body, produces a better, deeper, logical and
correct understanding of CHIROPRACTIC per se.
There are millions of variables in every profession, especially
medicine; countless constants even in our profession, but ONLY ONE
LAW IN LIVING MAN. Know, understand and practice with THAT law
of living man and you will have arrived.
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EVERYTHING chiropracTIC has been, from the beginning, is
today, basically sane, sound and sensible, because it weights EVERY
problem with its alpha and omega FROM ABOVE-
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DOWN, INSIDE-OUT in contrast to EVERY problem with the
assistance of competent (?) electronic technicians and other (?) qualified
(?) personnel of all medically-minded and trained personnel who
approach all problems exclusively from OUTSIDE CAUSE, OUTSIDE
CURE, from outside-in, below-upwardthats why medical men call us
NOWscientific. Because of this fundamental, basic and distinctive
difference IS WHY we have solved one simple and single dis-ease from
an INTERNAL CAUSE AND CURE and why THEY still grope in the
dark, failing for 5,000 years to find any cause or cure OUTSIDE-IN. Do
you see ANY reason why we should submit OUR approach to THEIR
approach; why we should reverse OUR approach, successful as it is, in
their attempt to NOW prove OUR approach with their methods, theirs
failing as they have down through the ages?
A new birth, a new human being, a new assemblage of old material,
which begins today little realizing that all that is living today was
predicated and was produced by law, principles and practices established
day before yesterday, centuries before the present generation was born.
To KNOW those laws, principles and practices of yesterday should be
the ambition of the so-called modern scientific researcher of today. He
too studiously dissects the world on living man of now, holds up to gaze
upon a dissected section, looks at it through todays distorted microscopic
mind and hypothecates what produced it AS OF TODAY. The law that
built living man and woman is hundreds of thousands of years old. The
law, THE SAME LAW THEN, the SAME LAW TODAY. It has been
OUR endeavor to ascertain THAT LAW and predicate our study of
todays living man based on a workable knowledge OF THAT ANCIENT
LAW, to correct obstacles which interfere with ITS freedom of action.
After studying this article, and piecing its data and information
together, you will be aware that each main objective chiropracTIC
subject HAS BEEN individually scientifically researched, not by
foreigners to our field or experience, but by those directly concerned and
vitally involved to see that such WAS scientifically researched through
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tific instrumentation. We dont know, nor have we any concept how far
the CRF desired to, or intended to duplicate much of which we have
already covered. A comprehensive survey of our 36 volumes of research
material, will convince you we have covered many of, if not most of, the
fields you might have contemplated researching. Or, it is possible, in the
earnest and sincere desire to present a scientific program to scientific
minds, you may have overlooked that much accomplished, is now in
print. At present, and during last winter while here, we wrote our Vol. 37,
which we hope to have in print this winter or next spring. It covers more
additional subjects, or has broadened the scope of some we have already
covered in earlier books.
Harvey (England) discovered a circulation of a fluid he called
blood which circulated throughout the body, lungs to heart, heart to
arteries and arterioles, to and through the organic system; back through
veins and venules to heart, then to lungs, etc. Harvey died of starvation,
trying to convince his colleagues. Here was a tangible, obvious subject to
be seen, watched, etc. Why should there have been any doubt?
To chiropractic belongs credit for discovering and developing two
additional circulations. The brain-nerve-body, body-nerve-brain material
system through which flowed an intangible, unseen, abstract, difficult to
prove that there WAS A something very powerful, dynamic, without
which we would be dead matter. We, who proved existence of this
continuity circular circulation call it the mental impulse nerve-force flow.
This abstract circulation regulates, controls and directs the flow of
arterial and venous blood.
To chiropractic belongs the credit for the third circulationfor the
want of a better titleSEROUS CIRCULATION. This is the nutrient
circulationserum being broken down, chemical food circulated,
efferently through INTER-canalicular system, returning through
INTRA-canalicular system, eventually to urea, urine and out.
SEROUS CIRCULATION has been written, described, illustrated,
thoroughly and fully in our Vol. (?). To repeat any part or parts here
would be duplication.
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The nearest scientists we know, who came to establishing a
SEROUS CIRCULATION, was Morat, in his PHYSIOLOGY OF THE
NERVOUS SYSTEM, and SAJOUS.
OF PRIMARY importance is the brain-nervous system which
conveys and transmits ALL power which drives all muscular motors
throughout the body, which develops circulatory directions for blood and
serous circulations.
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In THE NEWS (Sarasota, Florida, Dec. 14, 60) was an article titled
IS SCIENCE SOLVING SECRET OF LIFE ITSELF?
This article elaborates on chromosomes and genes, cellular
DIVISION, then makes these comments:
But there is design AND THAT is THE WONDER AND
MYSTERY of it
What IS IT that CAUSES each cell to do the right thing at
PRECISELY the right moment?
The author, Delos Smith, explains the wonder and mystery by and
through PHYSICAL processes of matter and material elements, as LIFE
ITSELF. That which is abstract, to him is unknown because he cannot
and does not weave INTO IT the abstract pattern of activity, function,
action, the right thing at precisely the right moment in directing the
intellectual mental impulse abstract supply to give matter action which is
life when expressed which IS the great unknown.
This article endeavors to explain abstract life through PHYSICAL
processes. No man has, nor can any man ever, explain away THAT
guiding factorthe Innate Intelligence which presides in ALL living
activities which differentiates it from dead, inactive substances.
That author says, when the cell divides, LIFE begins. This is false
reasoning and should be reversed, saying LIFEthe Innate Intelligence
enters, guides, directs activity, AFTER WHICH the cell divides. Life
per se, PRECEDES action of matter, does NOT follow it. Life has
existed, either acting in material form, or existing without form, for
millions of years.
That author makes much of cellular DIVISION. In one of
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our earlier volumes, possibly vol. 1 or 2, we explain a version with its
principle of developmental action where the male spermatazoan deposits
one-half the future child. The ovum deposits the other half. Innate alone,
then determines ratio of sexes and formulates matter to fit that need.
Instead of cellular DIVISION, it now becomes cellular EXPANSION
developing epiblast, mesoblast and dermablast, depositing each character
to eventually take form, shape, size, organic deposition, etc.
In a fracture, as an example, where one bone becomes two broken
segments, the nearest osseous tissue cell center ABOVE the break sends
down some of its reverse tissue cells FROM that center, deposits them on
the inferior edge of the break. A lower osseous tissue cell center, sends
UPWARD some of its reverse osseous cells from THAT center, deposits
them on the superior edge of that break. As many cells are sent forth from
BOTH centers as Innate finds necessary to mend and unite a solid form of
that break. Thus all osseous breaks or other injuries of soft tissue are
mended by new cells coming forth from their characteristic types of
tissue cell centers. The process is EXPANSION AND LIBERATION OF
CELLS from their respective centers. Such is ALWAYS under the
guiding intellect of the abstract living Innate Intelligence residing
temporarily in THAT living body.
(The proof of this is found in the many fracture specimens in our
Osteo Lab. )
As Delos Smith says: that IS the wonder and mystery OF IT
because no second outside person KNOWS what this internal abstract
intellectual LIFE factor IS. Neither does he know what it IS in himself
although living intimately WITH it from birth to death, which causes
EACH cell to do the right thing at PRECISELY the right moment.
We suggest our reader secure our earlier volumes containing an
elaboration of this phase of our researches.
In all the standard anatomy books (formerly in our private library,
now in the PSC school library) they elaborate on materialitiessuch as
organs, viscera, muscles, ligamentsand a sympathetic nervous system
through which existed a sym-
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pathy function by means unknown (Dunglison); later to be renamed
the para-sympathetic, and now the autonomous system, whatever that is.
This consisted of a chain of ganglia located external to the spinal
column, consisting of 128 independent brains independent of the
encephalon ( Dunglison), through which a reflex action hopped,
skipped, and jumped about, from one ganglion to another, hunting for a
place to land, from which it skipped to some otherin some intangible,
unexplainable way, to eventually arrive and light and express something,
they knew not what.
In none of these anatomy books was mentioned a direct hook-up
between brain cell, via continuity of nerve fiber, efferently reaching tissue
cell through which flowed a continuity of an abstract mental impulse
supply from which an impression had its afferent origin which was
returned directly through a continuity afferent nerve, to eventually reach
the mind in the brain where Innate Intelligence interpreted it as a
response to the efferent message sent forth to execute a certain definite
action at a certain definite place, for a definite pre-determined over-all
coordinated functional purpose.
That man had a conscious mind was generally and vaguely alluded
to; in and supposed to be behind which was an unknown quantity of
SUB-conscious mind still largely referred to.
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Much of the above has changed since OUR scientific research at
The PSC, which is NOW largely adopted as prima facie verification
suggested by translations conducted from German publications. All this
was done WITHOUT our asking any appeal for millions of dollars, or
hiring of professional competent electronic scientific researchers, in
scientific laboratories conducted under scientific apparati. Common
sense was OUR laboratory; common sense observations of what was
taking place were sufficient to reach conclusions now adopted by German
medical articles translated.
It would seem, then, that more common sense observations which
dispelled sympathetic, sympathy, reflex action, para-sympathetic,
autonomous nervous system, by-passing sub-con-
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scious mind for Innate Intelligence, could also be continued to be
researched with further enlightenment and accurate justification.
Step by step, down through the years, WE, HERE, have OUR OWN
scientific procedures and findings, ALL of which, added and united
together, WE use in our private and students clinics retaining all of
which we continue to teach as the basic and fundamental facts necessary
to prove every accuracy of the chiropracTIC principle and practice.
1. The Neurocalometer is a scientific instrument based on the
well-known, long established thermo-couple or thermopile principle of
where opposition of the two opposing metals, placed in the proximity of
heat, generates a minute electrical current which is established on a
sufficiently sensitive galvanometer.
No other living person has lived as long in years, researched so
many ways, always on the living triune unity of abstract with concrete,
never either one alone, consequently the modern today average
chiropractor thinks and believes our position today is questionable,
unscientific, subject to serious criticism, needing reformation.
Consider the faculty of today, at the PSC. Maybe 5, 10 or even 15
years ago, they entered our school. They sat in class and listened to
lectures from others who were as much novices to the fields of our
research as they or their teachers. When they graduated, they became
teachersof what? The present-day was taught present-day ideas, the
old, deeply grounded facts of scientific research some of us had spent a
life time to dig out, ferret, develop, were then and are now unknown
quantities. Little do they realize that WHAT THEY WANT TO KNOW,
IS KNOWABLE, if they went backward into the pages of our 36
volumes, into our records. If they did they would be astounded,
astonished, to realize what YOU AS WELL AS THEY HOPE TO SEEK
TODAY, WE SOUGHT YESTERDAY; what THEY HOPE AS WELL
AS YOU TO ASCERTAIN TODAY, WE ASCERTAINED THEN ALL
DOWN THROUGH THE AGES WHEN WE SOUGHT THEN WHAT
YOU AS WELL AS
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THEY SEEK AND HOPE TO SECURE NOW. Will they? Not, if they
and you pursue their present methods and processes of seeking data on
piece by piece.
(At the expense of being verbose, or laying ourselves subject to
critism for not displaying and exhibiting what we HAVE done, we shall
here cite a few examples and fields we covered with hopes it will bring
these scientific researchers backward INTO the fields of what they
TODAY seek.)
2. The Neurocalometer gives the EXACT locations of interferences.
Mental impulse flows, through nerves, when and where interfered in
transmission, offers RESISTANCE to flow which generates a secondary
slightly abnormal heat value, so minute it is beyond human sense means
of location. Being deeply imbedded in the body, the NCM can and does
locate what fingers cannot sense.
3. To overcome human variables in variations of differing peoples,
each failing to see accurately what was proved by the NCM, readings
were automatically shunted across to the neurocalograph, which recorded
these readings EXACTLY as picked up by the NCM, establishing one
standard accurate reading to which all agreed alike, on the same case, day
after day, on all pre and post readings, creating one uniformity of a
professional standard in our profession.
(Knowing fickleness of variables of average persons ability to see
accurately what he looks at, and knowing the inability of man to
remember data received from day to day, on any one case, let alone,
many, wherever possible we builded add our records in and through
graphing devices establishing a permanent record.)
(At no other time, or place in our profession, has such an extensive,
exhaustive and comprehensive scientific research been conducted to
validate the chiropractic contentions.)
(We have one large store room where are filed records, spinographs,
etc., all of which are numbered, shelved, so they can be quickly referred
to for statistical purposes in a break-down analysis of any one case, or
many. )
4. The visographdeveloped by us a method of instruction
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proving that differing readings, proving how futile were two or more sets
of eyes to see the same readings.
5. The neurocalograph was another scientific instrument which
accurately recorded from day to day, the pre and post readings, beyond
which mans memory is fickle. It was patented in The U.S.
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A break-down analysis of the word electro-encephalo-neuro-ment-
imp-o-graph and you will see the field of scientific research coverage:
electroelectrical pick-up, amplification and graphing
the pick-up wires being five-one-thousandths of an inch in
diameter
encephalobrain
neuronerve
mentmental
impimpulse quantity flow
graphto record for permanent reference
All squarely and exclusively confined WITHIN the field of the
CHIROPRACTIC principle and practice.
This specific but simple character of scientific research, uniting
the tri-unit unity between philosophy, science and art, could ONLY be
conducted with LIVE bodies.
The Timpograph electrodes pick-up will average generally five
one-millionths of a volt. That is assuming that the impulse supply is
flowing normally and freely. Under stimulation such as whiskey, rye,
beer, other liquors and other methods of electrical treatments or
stimulation, it will climb above that graph scale.
Under depressant drugs such as morphine, cocaine, novocaine or
other drugs of like purposes, graph readings show a below normal
impulse graph value flow.
The purpose of the timpograph is to record and graph the results of
pre and post subluxation adjustment QUANTITY FLOWS in all cases.
We have stated in another part of this report on our research that the
timpograph booth is completely wire meshed, ceiling, side walls, end
walls, under floor of linoleum, even to the door when closed which
excludes all external in-
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terfering radio, television, electrical, north and south pole magnetic
waves, to the end of eliminating all external variable distortions from the
graph. (The timpograph was patented in The U.S.)
In securing lie detector tests, of which we did a great deal, that too
was all exclusive and so far as we know the first such studio doing this
work where it was done in shielded and grounded exterior walls.
Otto Shierbeck and I spent night and day, to lick these distortions
that we might establish a perfect graph record without distortions. We
finally licked that problem after years of work.
It is possible to accurately and scientifically graph efferent and
afferent QUANTITY mental impulse or nerve force flows from any
patient case without distortion.
With only 5 one-millionths of a volt pick-up, it must be amplified
before it can be graphed. TO AMPLIFY such a minute quantity was a
simple matter but to amplify these graphs 400 trillion times WITHOUT
distortion was a problem.
All OUR timpograph research records were taken and made in a
completely mosquito-meshed copper shielded room. Ceiling, side-walls,
on floor under linoleum, even to doors which, when closed, sealed the
room from all extraneous foreign energy infiltrations. This room was
covered outside with iron sheeting. All electrode-pick-ups were shielded
and grounded likewise as well as all electrical supply which came from
outside the room.
In addition, in any and all other labs, where we were measuring
nerve force flow quantity values, these labs too were likewise shielded
and grounded.
6. NCM readings, being made in a shielded and grounded booth,
copper shielded and grounded on all sides, ceiling and floor as well as
iron sheeting, the same to screen out magnetic north and south pole
waves, eliminated external invasionary forces which otherwise developed
external variables in our recorded graphed readings.
7. These graphed readings now became a permanent record, from
day to day, of the reductions of NCM readings, as taken and recorded
from day to day, pre and post readings.
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8. The x-ray spinograph is another scientific instrument revealing
internal dis-relation-ships between vertebrae where the NCM has located
its interferences. Being deeply imbedded they are beyond vision or
palpation sense of accuracy. Each stage of exposure is calibrated from
feet to body, all of which is listed on special printed forms for future
duplication with exactness. Spinographs gave listings, all of which were
made under a scaled system of body placements, permitting future
duplications of replaces for pre and post checks.
We were THE FIRST to introduce x-ray work into our profession.
We were the FIRST in the City of Davenport and so far as we remember
were THE FIRST in the State of Iowa.
(Any researcher must have an unlimited courage to stay put on what
he is researching knowing that the world of people who surround him
oppose his lines of reasoning and approaches to new problems.
The SCHEIDEL-WESTERN x-ray was housed in a bay window, 3rd
floor room. We moved out two rent-producing beds to make way for
Scientific research.
(In those days we exposed glass plates. It took about 3 minutes to
make an exposure. There was no leaded shield around the tube. When an
exposure was being made the two large revolving disks sounded like
threshing machines. We personally exposed ourself in hundreds of cases
in a way which now would be considered dangerous, but at that time
nobody knew the dangers of radiation. Thousands of glass plates were
exposed, developed and interpreted on that floor.)
From then to now is a far cry in development, flash exposures, films.
Since those early days, the PSC has exposed over 2 and a half million
filmsall on LIVING beings.
We coined the word SPINography because of the nature of our
SPINE work on LIVING people. We dont recall that we EVER took one
radiograph of a cadaver. SPINograph has now become standard
terminology.
Each of our labs are fully equipped with the finest and latest x-ray
devices, dark rooms, developing rooms, interpreting rooms, reading
boxes, etc.
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9. Upon these findings, adjustments were delivered only at such
places, where interferences were recorded, as spinographs listed them, as
to direction proven to be correctly ascertained; post checking following
adjustment as mentioned above.
10. You will observe ALL OUR scientific research has been and is
established in and around the fixed living case principle from
above-down, inside-out, except for the actual adjustment, even the most
of that correction of the seating and setting of the vertebral subluxation is
done by Innate from above-down, inside-out. In reverse language it would
be impossible for a chiropractor EXTERNALLY to adjust and exactly
correct a subluxation internally IN A DEAD BODY.
11. The conturgraphometer was another scientific instrument
which accurately graphed contours of spinal columns of living cases. It
graphed anterior-posterior, lateral right to left and vice-versa, contours
from head to and including coccyx. It concluded scolioses, lordoses,
kyphoses, rotatory curvatures as well as abnormal adaptative curves not
listed as above. We took pre and post contours at various periods of cases
which were in our clinic. We desired to find whether adjustments did, or
did not modify, change or correct abnormal adaptative curve contours
back to normal. Securing our graphs, we overlapped the various graphs
taken at varying periods of time, on living clinical cases, we published a
large book reproducing many cases with these graphs, each graph in
different color overlapping one on the other, readily discerning
differences under the chiropractic process. It might be The CRF has some
such program in mind with your motion-picture x-ray instrument. If so,
We could be of great help.
12. Nerve tracing was another branch of our scientific research
based on following the path of sensitive nerve fibers originating in brain,
following through into spinal cord to locate accurately exits of certain
nerves going to certain organs located in lower body below atlas down to
and including coccyx. It was conducted on living bodies FROM
intervertebral foramina TO organ or organs which were dis-eased, which
nerves were under interference at some point or points superior to their
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at certain definite intervertebral foramina. This was done by digital
feelings following the sensitivity ON THE LIVING BODY with
cooperation of patient, of a tender nerve leading to or from organs which
were organically dis-eased. The direction was taken from the spinal
column to organ, or, from organ backward to the foramina.
Thousands of cases were nerve traced, photographs were taken,
typical cases of which were assembled into our Vol. 13 of our library
books.
From these nerve tracings we established the INFERIOR meric
system, which pin-pointed certain nerves which lead from certain
foramina to certain organs. A result of this research we established a
distinct nomenclature to identify certain spinal connections with certain
organic connections, such as HP (heart place) SP (stomach place)
identifying every spinal locations from atlas to coccyx in this manner.
Later, we developed the SUPERIOR meric system, connecting spinal
nerves superiorly with their definite areas in the brain.
Back in those Inferior Meric System days, we secured symptoms
and/or pathology data of our case, determined which organ or organs
were involved to match those symptoms/or pathologies, then determined
which inferior osseo mere was the one to adjust, such as we have
mentioned here.
Later, when we adopted the MAJORS AND MINORS approach, we
secured our histories of the case as just mentioned, then determined
which organ was most involved in the longevity of life of the case. If the
case had an acute chronic TB, as one example, that would be more vital
then, for example a series of headaches or constipation. If so, L.U.P.
(lung place or approx. 4th dorsal) would be our MAJOR, others matching
other symptoms could be and might be our MINORS as of lesser impor-
tance for the time being. Our premise for reasoning INCLUDING certain
MAJORS first and excluding certain MINORS for the time being was
based, if the MAJOR was adjusted first, Innate could and would
CONCENTRATE ITS REPARATIVE RECUPERATIVE REPAIRING
PROCESSES MORE WHERE MORE VITALLY NEEDED. All this was
before many subse-
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quent researches were developed which gave us a more accurate and
correct analysis of WHY, WHERE AND WHEN to adjust.
13. The entire purpose of all OUR scientific instrumentation was
to eliminate any dependency upon variable and differing opinions of
chiropractors or patients as to all minute internal changes beyond his
knowledge, and within our knowledge, to establish accuracy and build a
complete record of each case.
14. The results of these procedures are insistently and consistently
taught in PSC classes and clinics. The regrettable feature is that many
students, for many diverse reasons, overlook, forget and do not follow
such in their practices once they leave The PSC. This is not the fault of
there being no chiropractic IS TO establish itself as an accepted science
and the profession establish itself as a truly scientific profession, all of
which HAS BEEN DONE and WAS done in our own centers with our
OWN personnel.
15. Adjusting tables. A museum collection from 1895 to date. No. 1
is the first adjusting table D.D. Palmer adjusted Harvey Lillard on. It is a
one-piece, flat board. No. 2 is the Adams suit case portable folding
adjusting table to be taken from office to home visits. No. 3 is a crude
plumbers pipe two piece made by Dan Reisland, Duluth, Minnesota,
away back when. On exhibition are tables made when we adjusted the
knee-chest posture position. No. 4 is a massive, heavy hydraulic lift table
made by Bert Clayton.
Step by step we progressed in developing a table as we developed
the art of adjusting vertebral subluxations. As we developed the adjusting
technique, based on our scientific research down through the ages, we
developed tables to adapt themselves to it.
Some 18 old tables are placed on top of the big show case in the
clinic hall-way, as well as on the opposite wall suspended from the
ceiling.
The B. J. Palmer Student and Private Clinic rooms are equipped with
45 latest models of the P-T (Palmer-Thompson) head drop adjustable
tables, even to lift tables for the convenience for difficult cases.
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No where else can there be seen on exhibition 63 adjusting tables
with 42 in daily use such a scientific research in adjusting tables from
THE FIRST to very last word.
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16. Our research of living man proves man is a biped bilateral
animal.
The brain has two convolutions, left and right, each of which have
many gyri. The brain, as a totality, is connected with its body as a totality.
Likewise sections of each lateral half are connected with sections of
organs in its lateral half below.
By gyri we mean superior brain meric system subdivisions,
determined and located, on either left or right side of the two lateral
convolutions, by a selective abstract functional graphed hookup in the
living subject, as it flows its quantity of mental impulse or nerve force
supply FROM a brain subdivisional section TO a spinal cord section,
through a definite intervertebral foramen in the inferior meric system,
destined to deliver that flow to a specific organ in the inferior organic
meric system, all of which can be and have been specifically graphed and
chartered, connected as they are in the superior meric brain system to the
inferior meric system body.
Under our timpograph research we were able to develop in-
formation of how the superior brain, on each lateral half, was
sub-divisible into zones or meres organically below the magnum foramen.
Functionally, man can wink one eye-lid and not the other, move each
finger or hand or toe of foot, on each left side without doing so on the
right side; he can use one arm without the other, one leg and not the
other, etc., all of which proves bi-laterality of function. Which while this
may be true in some superficial functions under the direction of educated
desires, it is not logically true on both sides internally. Example: Man
cannot control breathing in one lung and not the other. Under the
direction of Innate they both breathe rhythmically together. This is also
the truth of two kidneys, etc.
In the study of dis-ease, man can be blind in one eye or a ptosis of
one eye-lid of one eye, and not the other, deaf in one
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ear and not the other, lose sense of smell in one nostril and not the other,
lose a sense of taste on one half of the tongue and not the other.
In the loss of use of muscular control, monoplegia exhibits
characteristics of specific areas of one side and not the other, such as a
finger of left hand and no other fingers. Hemiplegia can be of one entire
lateral half and not the other. In paraplegia we have both legs involving
both lateral sides.
In our timpograph research we were able to track down
neurological paths of functional flows of mental impulse supplies from
either lateral half of the brain to functional abnormalities in its
corresponding lateral half below, both efferently and afferently, pre and
post, before and after adjustment. The purpose here was to connect
certain sections of the superior meric system with certain divisions of
nerve paths below into the separations of its portions into the inferior
meric system zones or meres to which it fed its mental impulse supply.
While, in the gross, man knew his brain directed its body below, he
did not know how to sectionalize the brain to match it with sectionalized
sections of its body below, and prove direct connections between superior
and inferior by measuring quantity hows from one to the other.
Our ultimate objective was to locate and prove the location of an
interfering medium between living brain and body, which occasioned a
reduction in QUANTITY flow between the norm production above and
abnormal manifested below in functional disturbance in some specific
organ or organs.
17. Adjusting Techniques: During our 60 years directly connected
with the chiropractic principle and practice of the vertebral subluxation
and its adjustment, we have been directly or indirectly associated with
over 300 different methods of how to improve the efficiency of securing
better, quicker and more permanent results, in less time; doing less to
accomplish more, simplifying rather than complexing. Most methods and
means, have been ours in development. Many have been submitted to us
by conscientious and sincere chiropractors who believed they had better
and more efficacious means than ours.
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18. Concussions of forces can produce contusions or ptosis of soft
organic structures called prolapses. We, as chiropractors, are most
concerned with concussions of forces as they affect osseous structures,
their continuity and the results thereof.
The MOST violent concussion of an invasionary force upon the
contiguity of any one bone, would produce fracture. The next lesser
violence, a dislocation; and, lastly, least violence invasionary force, as it
would affect relationships between vertebrae, would produce a
subluxation between adjacent vertebrae above and below.
We are often asked WHY we stress more attention to the
occipito-atlantal-axial area and less to any and all other vertebrae inferior
to this area.
It is apparent to osteologists, that down through the centuries Innate
has gone through a consistent process of evolution of man from
horizontal to perpendicular position, obviously pursuing an endless intent
to protect spinal cord distribution through-out its body.
A study of ALL vertebrae below axis proves that ALL such are
osseously interlocked. Dislocations or fractures of vertebrae CAN occur,
if they do they will be out of their inter-osseous locks. A study of pre and
post zygapophyses of contiguous vertebrae are locked both superior and
inferior, inferior to superior, left to right, right to left, etc. This
interlocking of vertebrae is consistent with ALL vertebrae below axis.
There is NO inter-osseous locks between occiput above and superior of
atlas below: or between atlas below and superior of axis. The ONLY
exception to this rule is that the atlas, IN ITS ENTIRETY, cannot be
dislocated or subluxated POSTERIORLY because of the inter-osseous
lock of odontoid of axis.
There are no locks which prevent atlas from side-slipping up and of
condyles, superior and anterior or posterior, on one lateral side, with its
corresponding opposites sideslipping in and off condyles, posterior and
inferior on its opposite side. This is also true between inferior of atlas and
superior of axis. For this reason subluxations are common between
occiput and atlas, or between atlas and axis. With this shifting of
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constructions with occlusions of spinal canal creating pressures with
interferences of carrying capacity of a normal quantity of mental impulse
supply at that or those areas. With a spinal column in hand, make these
observations and see how true they are.
It is plainly evident to us, as we study the vast collection of matched
sets of occiputs, atlases and axes, as well as individual specimens in our
Osteo Lab., that Innate is still at work creating locks occasionally even in
these superior apparently exempt areas.
(A subject as broad as this, as vital as it is and has been to our
chiropractic principle and practice working with living spinal columns, it
is impossible in these few words to present a comprehensive series of
citations. Our Chiropractic Library Text-Book, THE SUBLUXATION
SPECIFIC, THE ADJUSTMENT SPECIFIC, is one entire volume
devoted exclusively to this research study. It is fully illustrated each of
which is explained. We suggest, for a complete and thorough study of
extensions and counter-extensions, flexions and counter-flexions as well
as rotations of spinal column, their limitations and reasons why, you
secure this particular book. )
We constantly kept in mind, 1 - It was impossible to adjust a
vertebral subluxation in a dead man. In a dead man no vertebral
subluxation with its four necessary and primary essentials; therefore, a
vertebral subluxation could only exist in a LIVE person; therefore, it took
the LIFE PRINCIPLE working IN MAN from above-down, inside-out to
finally correct THE subluxation.
We constantly kept in mind, 2 - The ultimate objective of getting
sick people well was to INCREASE flow of mental impulse supply by
opening the occlusion occasioned BY a vertebral subluxation, releasing
pressure or constriction upon spinal cord or its nerves, permitting a
restoration of QUANTITY flow from an abnormal QUANTITY low to a
normal quantity flow.
To prove whether any adjustic technic was better or worse than any
other, we tested hundreds WE developed, or have been submitted to us,
using the timpograph to see whether the adjustment DID OR DID NOT
permit an INCREASE QUANTITY flow as the result of its use. As would
be expected, many so-called
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techniques were camouflages conceived for purposes of selling a gadget
to our credulous people. Some had some value, others were dangerous
and reduced QUANTITY flows of mental impulse supply. Today, we
teach and use the one we tested so often that we are satisfied it is the best
we know now. It may not be the last word, but it is the last word as of
today. The timpograph, as we have previously explained, measures and
evaluates quantity flow, pre-adjustment and post-adjustment; therefore, is
a scientific evaluation of the value of any process of adjustment.
In this manner each adjustic technic was scientifically tested with
scientific instrumentation which went to the heart of the chiropractic
problem, all of which was done in our own centers with our own
personnel checking whether or not it measures and calibrates such
attained THE ultimate scientific objective of restoring the abnormal low
quantity of mental impulse flow to a normal quantity restoring health to
living sick people under observation.
As one example: Dr. Truscott asked to have HIS system of an
adjustment examined and checked. The full and complete report of a
same was published in one of our books. The results, or lack of them,
showed conclusively that he had nothing to add to accurate and exacting
approach to a basic or fundamental approach to solving any chiropractic
issues of value.
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In those early years we were like an orphan cast on a stormy ocean
in a small boat, no oars, no food, having no place to go and didnt know
how to get to shore to save ourself. All we had was a wild idea rattling
around in a vacant brain. We were told by our father about what
happened to Harvey Lillard. What DID happen? Harvey told him he was
in a stooped, cramped post position, he felt something pop in my neck,
and I went deaf instantly. Father examined Harveys rear neck and found
a big bump and when father pressed it, Harvey winced with pain. Father
reasoned that, if a bump in the neck produced deafness, then if that
bump were reduced Harvey MIGHT get his hearing again. Father pushed
that bump and Harveys hearing WAS restored. He later formulated a
chiropractic concept.
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We read about the miraculous cures at the Shrine of the Lourdes in
France and St. Anne de Beaupre. We read frequently in newspapers and
magazines of miracles which restored sicknesses because of
accidents. OUR thinking was that these accidents, incidents, just
happened were not the correct interpretations and did not explain the
restorations of health.
In all natural LIVING THERE IS A LAW AT WORK. There are no
miracles in nature. They are governed by law, nobody then knew. If
there was A LAW behind these miracles, WHAT was it? Medical men
could not account for miracles. That was WHY they were called such.
If there WAS A LAW at work in 1/2 of 1 percent at Shrines, WHY
couldnt it work in everybody else as well? Our lifes work was before
us, to endeavor to FIND THAT LAW and make it work in
EVERYBODY. Was this possible FOR US? That was the job we set out
to find and apply it to all alike.
In those early years, if ONE bump in Harveys neck restored
hearing, there WAS a hidden secret which we decided to find.
In those early years, we began gliding our first three fingers,
inferiorly, palpating spinous processes of vertebrae; then on right
transverse processes, then on left transverses. We found here and there IF
right transverses were POSTERIOR, then the left transverses were
anterior, then the spinous process should be right in one instance or to left
in the other and vice versa. As was expected we found MANY such
conditions. When we found a MARKED deviation, in relationships,
between its superior and inferior mates, we concluded here was a
vertebral SUBLUXATION, and consistent with our fundamental of
seeking to find this law of accidents, miracles and miraculous
cures, we began adjusting ALL such as we found them.
A cursory observation told us that the building of all new born
babes, in utero, was the result of a natural law at work, governed by
intellectual directed function. Simple observation said that, whatever this
law WAS, it had been working alike, for all, in millions for centuries.
After birth, every function in that babe and all people was the result of
this same Innate (inherent, or born with) Intellectual law at work,
directing each
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tissue cell, every bone, every organic structure, all were coordinated by
the same law, flowing from above-down, inside-out. All this was the
direct result of an intellectual law which reaches muscles performing
duties pre-determined and pre-destined from above-down, inside-OUT.
This intellectual power came from brain, through spinal cord, spinal
nerves, which desiccate when they leave spinal cord, through
intervertebral foramina.
As we palpated, we listed all outstanding irregularities as RS, right
superior, RI, right inferior; LS, left superior; LI, left inferior; S, superior;
and I, was inferior. Often times such existed in combinations. Even in
those early days, we were consistent in calling them ALL vertebral
subluxations. All we had to go by, to reach our conclusions as to where to
adjust was the PHYSICAL irregular relations between one or more
PHYSICAL vertebrae. That which modified our conclusions, in those
earlier years, was a careful and consistent study of our early study of
hundreds of spinographic plates as exposed on LIVING sick cases. Our
eyes were opened to the revelations that many of these irregularities, we
palpated, which we thought were vertebral subluxations, which we had
been adjusting, were bent spinous processes. This began a new career in
separation between those which were and those which were not a
subluxation in fact, to not rely too much on palpations. The bent spinous
processes, were, most likely occasional eithera. during youthful
cartilaginous-osseous ossification period, due to falls, bumping against
external objects, etc.; b. if not during youthful periods, many such were
proven to be fractures due to traumatisms. In any event, our thinking
began to face out of reliable reliance on palpation as our means of
determining which was and which was not a subluxation to adjust. This
caused us to form a greater reliance upon a careful study of spinographs
which saved us from punching backbones up and down, anywhere,
anytime, just because we palpated irregularities.
In those early years, we were cognizant of the necessity that there
MUST BE somewhere, somehow, occasions which occurred which
would and could account for miracles for which medical men had no
explanation. We understood that the law
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could not arrive to work because of a vertebral SUBLUXATION.
IN those earlier years, all we had to go by, to reach our conclusion
as to where to adjust was the PHYSICAL irregular relations between
one or more PHYSICAL vertebrae. This limitation of our understandings
of THE LAW not being at work, occasioned by a PHYSICAL vertebral
subluxation, did not cover the entire field of our understanding. We must
look further back in and behind the PHYSICAL to learn more about
proving WHERE, WHEN, HOW AND WHY, the law was not at work,
which it was in some people some places; other people, other places.
Here, then was a broad field of study to discriminate WHY and WHERE.
This then required an exhaustless study, not of the abstract law
incognito itself for that is beyond the ken of mortal man, but why this law
did not work in all people at all times; in some people in some places,
some of the time and in other people in different places part of the time
and later they recovered by or through some accident or miracle
without the aid of man. Later, when the NCM, NCGH, Timpograph, and
other allied studies came into being, we were able to PROVE
DOMINANT ABSTRACT factors where they did or did not work into
and through living man, as to whether there WERE interferences to this
law quantity flow of its mental impulse supply for brain to body, from
above-down, inside-out. When we reached that JOINT STUDY of
ABSTRACT LINKED WITH CONCRETE, we were now finding a
TRUE vertebral subluxation, and then ONLY when we found FOUR
elements in one location, did we ADJUST A VERTEBRAL
SUBLUXATION. This broadened our field of study in one instance and
narrowed it in the other, to adjusting ONLY when we find the
disconnections of four elements in any one location did WE ADJUST A
VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION.
Even still later, the timpograph PROVED more, than any other
combined study, whether WHAT we did, WHERE we did it, WHEN we
did it, as such, permitted a restored increased transmission, whether such
was actually adjusting a vertebral SUBLUXATION, restoring the
essential four elements into sick peo-
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ple, normal and natural relationships, or not.
To have a VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION, in fact and not in
theory, we MUST have(a) vertebral misalignment in dis-relationships
between its mates above and below; (b) an occlusion producing pressures
upon spinal cord or spinal nerves; (c) leading from brain to body; (d)
producing an interference to normal quantity flow of mental impulse
supply from above-down, inside-out; (e) reducing the carrying capacity of
spinal cord or spinal nerves, exhibited as dis-ease at peripheral endings of
those fibers. When these FOUR elements ARE present, two abstract, two
physical, we NOW know where TO ADJUST. Little did we know then
that there also could exist many misalignments, but such was always
WITHIN their inter-articular osseous locks, and was not, in fact a
vertebral SUBLUXATION with four necessary elements being present.
Today, MISALIGNMENTS ARE recognized for what they are, an
irregularity, inconsistent in juxtaposition with its corresponding mates.
But such is ALWAYS within those inter-articular osseous locks, a which
does not make it a subluxation; for, subluxations as we now know them
occur ONLY where there are NO inter-articular osseous locks preventing
them producing four corresponding factors as A CAUSE of dis-ease.
We, today, make keen distinction between one single misalignment,
or a series of them chain-like, as in sections or possibly the entire spinal
column could be involved, which we now know as adaptative curves;
or there could exist, due to carries, necroses, osteomalacia, or
tuberculosis of bones, or such could based on traumatic misshapen
vertebrae producing a curvature in fact. Even so, they are single or in a
series but ALWAYS within their inter-articular osseous locks.
The CAUSE of caries, necroses, osteomalacia, tuberculosis of the
vertebrae of the spinal column is no different than similar conditions
existing in other bones that the vertebral column. Adjustment of THE
VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION, IF DONE RIGHT, AT RIGHT PLACE,
RIGHT WAY, RIGHT TIME, WHEN YOU KNOW WHEN TO STOP,
WILL PERMIT Innate mental impulse source to flow normally from
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out, to correct pathologies in vertebrae as in any other bone distantly
removed.
Today, by CORRECTING (not ADJUSTING) a misalignment,
where they are, we can TEMPORARILY relieve a condition. In no sense
is what we do TO misalignments ADJUSTING a vertebral subluxation
to correct THE BASIC CAUSE of the primary with intent to get the
individual well, making a difference in our thinking between giving
SOME temporary relief, and permanently getting the case WELL.
By adjusting THE SUBLUXATION, leaving all
MISALIGNMENTS, or adaptive curves alone, our conturometer so
pungently proves, in correcting the too frequent misshapen spinal
columns. One large bookour Vol. 20 as we recall, had overlapping, dif-
fering graphs, taken pre and post on cases to prove this statement.
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There is only ONE issue, not ten, to be proven scientific: That
TIC is a ( 1 ) philosophy, (2) science and (3) art.
a. No one element lives alone in living bodies.
b. No one factor lives alone in sick or healthy bodies.
c. It takes joint action of ALL THREE to prove TIC is
SCIENTIFICALLY sound, Innately and physically.
d. Without ANY ONE element, TIC fails to be true or sound.
e. Without this unity we have NOTHING to prove.
f. No NOT ONE of these three united living elements can be
separated from the other two for scientific research, especially
when one is exclusively physical, omitting its abstract producer,
maintainer, and reproductive factor.
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Our timpograph research was developed to prove the unity of:
Innate and its body function
subluxation as an art, as a corrective factor,
recording quantity flow reduction before adjustment
recording increased restoration of quantity flow after adjustment
following subsequent quantity cows until case was restored to
health
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our instrument had a one-second timing factor on all eight graphs
which determined speed of travel of mental impulse flows, brain
to body, body to brain, efferently and afferently.
proving Innate philosophy; vertebral subluxation cause of
interference; vertebral adjustment cause of restoration, until health
was restored.
With this unusual, distinctive and unique phase of OUR scientific
research we were to place two electrode pick-ups on INNATE portion of
brain, two electrodic pick-ups on educated portions of our superior meric
system, and register frequency of thought-flashes between one and the
other and the possible, or impossible a lack of frequency of responsive
actions of education in educated brain responding to same. This led us
directly into a deeper study of extra-sensory perception which proved
most interesting.
With 30 years of intensive application in this timpograph field, we
were able to prove all correlated phases of chiropracTIC philosophy,
science and art hitherto unknown. While men were spending millions to
reach the moon, we spent 30 years to reach into the hitherto hidden
normal and abnormal recesses of mans existence, where, why, how and
when.
Having a large rolling sheet of graph paper, hundreds of feet long,
and twelve inches wide, each path identified as to source, location and
timing factor, we could continue our case study on any one subject
thoroughly, study comparative eight running differently located graphs
simultaneously on same sheet at same time.
(One of the peculiar twists we proved was that it took 19 times more
energy to sleep East and West than it did North and South. Reason was
simple. By testing sleepers both ways, we proved there was cross
conflicts of currents between external North and South pole magnetic
waves penetrating bodies of those with heads of our sleepers east and
west. By sleeping WITH North and South magnetic waves, this
eliminated conflicting opposition and they awoke more refreshed and
rested. One hotel chain actually adopted this idea and turned all beds in
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hotels North and South.)
There are only two avenues for medicine or surgery to take hoping
to treat sick peoplestimulate the inhibited dis-ease; or, inhibit the
stimulated dis-easeall this from compounded chemistry, prescribed
from out-side in, below-upward.
Dis-ease is ONLY two kinds, below par quantity of nerve force flow
producing a paralyzed, stagnated muscular function; or, the inward, from
above-down, inside-out effort upon the part of the natural NORMAL
internal mental impulse supply to adapt itself to the lowered functional
par.
Some symptoms and/or pathologies take on an above par ap-
pearance. Example: Reduce normal par quantity flow from brain to
kidneys, they become stagnant, paralyzed, do not draw off fluids FROM
body; therefore, do not convey them to kidneys, hence, are damned back
into body, dropsy, named according to area such deposits take place. It
could be dropsy of legs, ascites of abdomen, dropsy of heart or lungs, or
even hydrocephalous of brain in a child. Medical remedy? Tap the area
and artificially draw excess off to outside, or drug kidneys to stimulate
their action.
What was happening when kidneys WERE acting normally, and
there WAS NO dropsy? What was occurring, where was it coming from,
how was par reaching kidneys? When healthy, how, why, what was their
source? These questions are simple to the chiropractor.
This was the character of scientific research we were doing at the
PSC, with our timpograph. We measured quantity flow from brain to
kidneys in a par case. We also measured, calibrated and evaluated the
BELOW PAR flow when kidneys were sluggish, paralyzed, stagnated,
with kidneys, existing in body somewhere. By locating THE vertebral
subluxation which WAS interfering with PAR to BELOW PAR, by
adjusting this, restoring PAR flow between brain, through spinal cord,
out through intervertebral foramen to kidneys, we then measured quantity
action in kidneys, knowing they were going through that transition from
BELOW PAR UP TO PAR.
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It is possibleand it too frequently happensthat scientists out of
one field of research, going into another field blind, get deeply immersed
in ONE PHYSICAL phase of ONE ELEMENT OR ASPECT of a
problem losing sight OF ALL original or new foreign approaches, losing
or having NO knowledge whatsoever of all contributory or allied abstract
facts which created the original or primary problem being researched.
This type of research **** and has SACRIFICED the
Chiropractic THEORY (?) but IT DOES NOT go to the heart
of the Chiropractic problem,
After all, what is the ultimate objective of TIC or TOR? Is it to get
sick people well or to prove to the PHYSICAL scientific world that they
are PHYSICALLY scientific?
If, as, and when PHYSICAL scientists think Tic is PHYSICALLY
sound, what will they do with our abstract Innate, without which Tic fails
to get sick people well?
Once PHYSICAL scientists prove our principle and its PHYSICAL
aspects sound, have they ADDED TO or SUBTRACTED that abstract
Innate, WITHOUT which nothing has been proven, and the vital, living,
causative and curative factors have been eliminated?
What about thousands of chiropractors who have been adjusting
vertebral subluxations in millions of living sick people since 1895 getting
them well, uniting abstract Innate with Physical bodies, balancing Innate
above and function below, making normal a free quantity flow of mental
impulses from above-down inside-out, PROVING the new unity of
abstract philosophical with its concrete physical sicknesses?
SUPPOSE, when D.D. Palmer adjusted Harvey Lillard, in 1895, and
restored his hearing, he had hesitated, questioned in his mind what he had
accomplished, and debated whether he had better have some
independent researchers, neurologists, physiologists, etc., (quoting Al
Adams) investigate his theory and pass judgment whether his discovery
should be proclaimed and advocated BY HIM?
Suppose, D. D. Palmer, in 1895 had debated, questioned,
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meditated and invited in outside research teams, with the assistance of
competent electronic technicians and other qualified personnel, who
would be called in where necessary to have them investigate the how
and why Harvey Lillard had his hearing restored, pass judgment upon its
reliability, authenticity, whether it was a delusion on the part of D. D.
Palmer and/or Harvey Lillard, as to whether this was one of those
unknown and unexplainable miracles before he began to promulgate
and teach what he had to students.
SUPPOSE down through the years, from 1895 to 1960, thousands of
chiropractors, and millions of sick followed in his sons foot-steps, who
had their spinal dynamics adjusted, who got the sick well by the use of
that law and principle, was a special NEED or SPECIAL equipment
necessary for x-ray study of the spine IN MOTION (quoting Al Adams)
before THEY continued to delude themselves with what THEY had, what
THEY did, and, then and how, with results THEY attained WITHOUT
what The CRF NOW think necessary, for this foundation is THE FIRST
IMPORTANT STEP IN MAKING THIS A REALITY (quoting Al
Adams).
SUPPOSE, down through these years, these thousands of
chiropractors, and millions of sick, who went to chiropractors and gotten
well, a had refused to accept the chiropractic philosophy, its law of from
above-down, inside-out, its science and art, had sat back on their
haunches and seriously questioned their results of unbiased research,
was considered the answer to this very pressing problem now facing the
profession (quoting Al Adams ) without the CRF BASIC research in
chiropractic ( quoting AL ADAMS ).
SUPPOSE, meanwhile, the profession at large, BJ, The PSC, other
chiropractic schools, their graduates, had stood silently by, sat on their
haunches and had said, in your opinion what are the most urgent
requiring solutions TO VALIDATE THE CHIROPRACTIC
PROFESSION, AND HAD SAID there is little if anything WE can do
with what we have been taught, UNTIL such times as The CRF comes
through with THEIR reports as to what the motion x-ray instrument (to
cost $50,000),
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had reached its researchwhere would the profession be today?
SUPPOSE Alexander Graham Bell, with his telephone, Wright
Brothers with aeroplanes, Henry Ford with his horseless buggy, and
many others who made discoveries of notewhat was THEIR attitudes?
Did THEY prove they had what they said and demonstrated, or was it
necessary FOR THEM to sit back and wait for scientific researchers to
scoff and ridicule them or until these men had subjected THEIR
discoveries to disbelievers to prove they had WHAT they had? Had they
convinced the world, or did THEY wait until the world proved them sane,
sound and sensible with THEIR inventions. What about the Tin Lizzie?
Who converts who? Does chiropractic prove itself, when
chiropractors take sick cases and with their philosophy, science and art,
as is, of uniting the tri-une relations in LIVING people, by adjusting
vertebral subluxations, convince the people at large, millions of them, of
the rightness of their method? Or, must all of OUR profession first, sit
idly back and await for foreign groups to our field of thought and labor,
who are conversant with little of it, tell the world we have been right with
those premises and results which we have proven for years? Is it for them
to convince US, or WE convince them? Do THEY teach us what
chiropractic is, what it does, and how; or, Do we teach THEM? IF WE
must teach THEM what chiropractic is, before they are ready to begin, to
get ready, to commence, to start why the duplication to have THEM hand
back TO US, later what WE already know AND GAVE THEM?
The rebuttal will answer these questions by saying they will by their
scientific instrumentation and research will convince the great outside
world, who wont believe what WE believe any more than the world at
large will believe THEM when THEY get through. Did Bell, Wright
Brothers, Edison, Ford and other original thinkers, convince THEM they
were right by giving THEM to go ahead signal?; or, did those men and
many others forge ahead in spite of Doubting Thomass?
One knows of no ways of SCIENTIFICALLY researching any
ONEphilosophy, science, or artindependent of other two,
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and come out with an over-all conclusive and factual knowledge of HOW
man was systematically organized; WHAT organized him; WHY he was
produced as is, and for what purpose; Why he is here at all, BY himself,
FOR himself, internally and externally to act and react, receive and reject
environment as it helps or hurts him, his present and future. As well say
there is ONLY day, NO night; all cold, no heat; all sea, no land. These
and many more factors are one composite invisible, indivisible whole.
The anatomist scientifically researches dissection, all mans physical
parts.
The chemist scientifically researches chemistry, the fluids of matter.
The physic-ian scientifically looks at matter, assembles a heterogeneous
mass of hoped-for systems and symptoms and pathologies of matter,
gives them a material name, prescribes matter to cureand fails dismally
all along the line.
The church, psychologist, mentalist, scientifically researches the
Bible, God, Soul, Spirit, Ego, Personality, sane and insane.
Then the three get their scientific researches, piecing them
togetherwith what result?
Medical men with medical profession, with materia medica from
outside-in, below-upward for 5,000 years, has failed to do what Tic alone
has done since 1895.
As a result, they come out with THE GREAT DIVIDEthings
spiritual to churches of all denominations, with sectional sects, creeds,
and conflicts; and physic-ians of material schools, with theoretical
inconsistent trials by errors; no permanency; hit or miss, I give him
this. East is East and West is West, and neer the twain shall meet.
SERVICE is abstract which electric companies and telephone
companies render. Without this, they are out of business. With it, they are
in. SERVICE is the unity of THREE ELEMENTS, (1) a telephone; (2)
sending a voice over a wire for action; (3) receiving telephone response
both afferent and efferent through a central.
Heres a simple comparison!
We can scientifically research a globe.
We can scientifically research electricity.
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Of what use is the globe without electricity?
Of what use are they when together?
Why? To better use both to produce more light, with less electricity,
through a better globe.
All form a unity, all unite to produce ONE ultimate result which no
one alone could accomplish.
The only all triune chiropractic research that has ever been made in
our profession, WE, here in The PSC, established with our electro-
encephalo-neuro-ment-imp-o-graph.
Let us pause, hesitate, reflect, what does a motion picture film
exposed by a motion picture x-ray reveal as to par, above par, below par,
quantity flow of a mental impulse or nerve force flow from brain to
body? What can a motion picture film exposed by an x-ray instrument
prove whether the abstract interference has been corrected, whether a
restoration of normal quantity flow has been restored? AND, WITHOUT
THIS INFORMATION WHAT GOOD HAS IT DONE ANY LIVING
SICK PERSON WHO COMES TO A CHIROPRACTOR TO GET
WELL?
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For 20 years we built, improved, and developed this timpograph
instrument to make a study of the triune element living factor necessary
to prove chiropracTIC a philosophical, scientific and artistic unity which
DID get sick people well. This was a ONE OVER-ALL UNITED study,
not physical alone, but which studied ALL THREE when applied to sick
people to prove ALL THREE IN ONE were essentially AS ONE,
presenting only ONE problem, not TEN.
The fundamental and basic PRINCIPLE upon which ALL
chiropracTIC rises or falls is that there is brain and body through which
Innate Intelligence flows a normal, natural quantity if its mental impulse
supply from brain to body, to all parts, which, if, as and when it reaches
there, will perform a normal, natural health function in all parts. If this
normal QUANTITY is reduced, between brain and body, Innate and
function, then one only simple dis-ease in function exists at peripheries
wherever and whenever that quantity is diminished or reduced do so it
cannot fill its quota of production of the intention of Innate above.
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The ONE thing our father discovered and wrote about which WAS
the most important was THE VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION, the great
all-important interfering intermediary with its four abstract elements, (1)
a malposition in relation to its juxtaposition with its correspondents
above and below, creating, (2) an occlusion, (3) producing pressure or
constriction upon certain nerves going to certain organs (4) reducing
carrying capacity, manifesting a reduced function at organic periphery of
those nerves involved.
As a result certain factors were essentially to be investigated,
studied, NOT BY the assistance of competent electronic technicians
but by one who consistently kept his mind glued to the over-all triune
living factorsInnate in brain, Innate flowing through nerves, Innate
reaching periphery.
The timpograph was an instrument developed BY US to locate,
pinpoint, the place of interference in a living sick person, measure pre
and post, calibrate and evaluate the flow between brain and body, Innate
and function.
We backed up to one of our earlier research studies, viz: SUPERIOR
(brain) and INFERIOR (body) MERIC SYSTEMS. The average
chiropractor knew some things about the INFERIOR meric system in the
distribution of nerves FROM spinal column TO different organic sections
and organs of body below. Superior meric system was a study of sections
and locations of those sections OF BRAIN WITH THEIR CONTINUITY
NERVE BRANCHES FROM brain as they lead down TO the and into
the spinal cord, passing outward through intervertebral foramina to
various organic structures of the organic body below.
We mapped superior brain divisions which corresponded with body
divisions below through a continuity EFFERENT nerve system, as well
as the return nerves below with a continuity of AFFERENT system
returning back to brain, proving there was a DIRECT AND
CONTINUOUS FLOW OF MENTAL IMPULSE SUPPLY from each
section of brain, TO body and FROM body back TO brain, developing a
continuity nerve system through which Innate not only sent forth
functional impulse but also Innate received an afferent return message
telling it whether the efferent function may impulse had done its duty in
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that body at and to the place or places it was intended to perform it
function.
Having at our command 8 sets of pick-up electrodes, we could place
two on superior meric brain, leading to body, 2 on efferent nerves going
to body, 2 more on body itself, and 2 leading back to brain, thus
measuring the circuit quantity flow from brain TO body and body back
TO brain thus determining WHERE actual interference was on efferent
side, measure its drop where it was in the body level, and then measure
reduced response going back TO brain. In this way we could and did pin-
point the actual drop in quantity flow, where located, how much quantity
current was reduced in flow, where it was.
Our procedure then was to pre-graph register this drop before
adjustment, give adjustment given had accomplished its objective in
restoring abnormal low quantity to normal; whether adjustment, or
technic used, was correct or incorrect; whether patient getting better
worse from what we did, as we did it, and where. Was is given at right
place, in right manner, at right time and way? This further told us when
to stop, when there was nothing further to be done, that from now on the
rest had to be done by Innate. We thus proved effectiveness of adjustment
art, based on our scientific research on living sick bodies, to prove the
philosophy of the Innate process of inhibiting function or increasing it.
By checking our case, from week to week, we could tell HIM
whether he was or was not getting better when function was restored. In
this way we lined into one continuous study the Innate, mental,
philosophy, WITH adjusting technic of vertebral subluxation, with the
science of living proof offered of one unit of the triune relationships to
the abstract AND concrete physical properties.
You may ask, what has become of this prodigious monumental field
of our scientific research? It reached conclusions of fact, based on
reason, logically deduced and scientifically proven, without going outside
OUR field of thinkers and studies to seek men who DID NOT KNOW
what we sought.
These records were kept, filed away, into one series of large
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bound library of some 600 books, some day to come to light when the
vast field of so-called scientific researchers have reached our stage of
understanding.
The timpograph instrumentation, with its many evolutions in
development, cost around $100,000. 30 years of concentrated study and
application; night and day, constantly seeking answers to hitherto
unknown problems we raised into unknown and original fields.
Having reached many NEW conclusions, with OUR proof of the
triune philosophy-science-art angles, the instrument now lies dormant,
not that all the field has been covered, but when we semi-retired from that
work, we found no other capital of grasping the all-over tri-une studies
we sought, how to seek the answers, what to do to secure them, how to
seek them, to carry on.
In the B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic Notes, a printed circular
referring to the present day status for our timpograph research equipment
(Nov. 4,1960) he says:
There is a note of disappointment that I must pass on to you. We
have temporarily discontinued timpograph analysis. This is due to a
series of mechanical failures of the equipment, which unfortunately
cannot be repaired or replaced in a short period of time. Until further
notice, therefore, please do not count on us to furnish you with the usual
information forthcoming from this instrumentation. Reports that I have
received from the repair men are that it may be down, out of order, for
several weeks to a couple of months or more. You will be notified via this
letter as to what our final disposition of this phase of our work will be.
(As of this date (Dec. 6, 60,) we have telephoned from Sarasota, to
Davenport, and issued orders to have this instrumentation repaired and
placed in perfect working order as soon as possible. We were assured that
this was being done. When completed and in use once more, you will be
so notified through the BJP CC clinical notes. B.J.)
It was this unusual character of work which thoroughly convinced us
WE were able to dig into the depths of a new field
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of research of the abstract combined with the matter of living cases
linking a LIVING philosophy, with a LIVING science and a LIVING art,
into the unknown and obscure chiropractic law and its premise, probing
its principles and the soundest. Most provable field that man has ever
brought to a full and complete understanding with a workable application
ever brought to light to insure sanity of the human race, restoration of
health to the sick, linking OUR name amongst those who HAVE con-
tributed much of unlimited value to the continuation of life and health.
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What is being done with The CRF x-ray motion picture machine
which has been mentioned in CRF literature and letters. We have no idea.
All we have been told is that the CRF proposes to either purchase such
equipment, or have already purchased such to take motion pictures of
PHYSICAL backbones, in LIVING people, none of which would or
could bring forth the relevancy of the philosophy, art and science aspects
which are imperatively and vitally necessary to concluded any factors in
relation TO chiropracTIC. We presume they will secure information on
backbones extensions, counter-extensions, rotations; malformations,
exostoses, ankylosesPHYSICAL properties you can observe with their
distortions of relationships in juxtapositions with each other. This by
itself is of little value to prove the chiropracTIC principle and practice, of
the living unity of abstract with concrete; of Innate function with its
repression or lack of it, efferently or afferently.
As near as we can GUESS from the little which has leaked out, you
have some electronic scientists at Menlo Park that HAVE NO
CONCEPTION of the length, depth or breadth of the wide scope of
territory encompassed in our work. All they know is the little they are
told about BACKBONES.
SUMMATION: It was and is the evidence and proof of the research
stated in this article which has justly titled and entitled The PSC to be
called and known as THE CHIROPRACTIC FOUNTAIN HEAD; where
it is recognized by friend and foe alike as the authority on issues
concerning the living philosophy,
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science and art of chiropractic; where its opinions are quoted wherever
chiropractic is quoted. It is proper and fitting that it rest on its record of
protecting, preserving and defending chiropractic down through these
many years.
SUPPOSE
SUPPOSE B. J., under the direct guidance of his Innate, insistently,
consistently and persistently prompting him, had debated each and every
time he researched LIVING man, and saw certain laws, principles,
functional manifestations, which were as old as time, but er were new in
now solving issues never before observed, which baffled understanding
of the medical profession of health, do disease; causes thereof and how to
restore them when lost.
As with many another reality, such as electricity, birds flying,
(aeroplanes) fish swimming (submarines) and many other natural facts,
man had to wait until the 20th century to unravel his ability to duplicate
same.
SUPPOSE B. J. then issued or debated within himself, questioned,
every issue, all because the now existing medical sciences, medical
scientific researchers, had never seen these new and original
observations.
SUPPOSE he denied them within himself because they WERE new
observation.
SUPPOSE he had feared, shrunk away from himself, stood in awe
of, preferably venerated old concepts opposing what he declared to think
and present. Suppose he stood aghast at the newness, tremendous
difficulties ahead, hardly daring to suggest and present them to himself,
let alone the rest of the combined and recognized studies of man who
had, heretofore not observed, studied and knew themWHERE
WOULD CHIROPRACTORS BE TODAY?
SUPPOSE, following in his fathers footsteps, it was HE who
analyzed, deduced and developed, for the first time, a practical, workable,
premise of the adequateness of HOW life worked in LIVING, man, the
route it of took coming from ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT: WHO PUT
FORTH AND DELIVERED THE CONCEPT that Innate Intelligence
formulated, planned and
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executed actions in living structures and was in reality and intellectually
foreordained where living issues came into being, how and when it
entered the structural born babe, took complete possession of that body;
directed, controlled each and every function; coordinated all into one
complete harmonious wholethen SUPPOSE he questioned this because
scientists reversed our presentations, asserting as they did, everything
came from OUTSIDE-IN, BELOW-UPWARD, including causes of with
treatments and how to cure them,WHERE WOULD CHIROPRACTIC
BE TODAY?
It was HE who advanced the potential possibilities of a working
Innate in LIVING man. It was HE who denied Subconscious,
preferably naming what was a SUPER-conscious mind which was in and
behind all which was greater than any conscious mind.
It was HE, in his talk AFTER TOMORROW WHAT, advanced the
LIVING law that Innate working through the brain-generating power
house had a sufficient intellectual mental impulse supply to control and
direct ALL functions in every LIVING body, no exceptions permitted.
It was HE who declared that a normal healthy par power generated
in brain, if permitted to flow in a necessitated par quantity to and into all
parts of that LIVING body, it would be well worth well and healthy. This
par power was traumatically subjected to interferences between brain and
body sections where it should normally be manifested, should normally
perform its natural duties IF it arrived there.
It was HE, who under guidance of his Innate through to his very
limited education, formulated the deduction that; IF brain generated a par
quantity of intellectualized power, flowed it freely downward and
out-ward to, into and through spinal cord with its countless nerve fibers,
in a normal par quantity to equal brain generation, each of which nerve
fibres terminated at its periphery into a muscular fiber each of which
would alternately contract and relax with a rhythmic normal rate of
speed, formulating a normal par quantity of action where muscles
responded in each tissue cell, then all would be normal in every tissue
cell,
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causing every organic structure to be regulated coordinately with all other
organs of the body under a like par quantity of muscular action. IF this
condition existed there would be a normal and healthy LIVING body in
all its parts.
IF, on the contrary (a ) brain generated normal par quantity sufficient
to PROduce normal action in ALL ITS MUSCULAR PARTS, for which
it was Innate conceived, (b) was REduced somewhere along its path
enroute FROM brain; or (c) passing to, into and through spinal cord,
through its sub-divisions of spinal nerves or some section thereof, there
would be Reduced a normal carrying or conveying capacity, then,
quantity of par power reaching peripheral endings of those nerve fibres,
into and through muscular fibres, to and into tissue cells, would NOT re-
ceive their normal par quantity, hence less contraction and relaxations of
muscular fibres, hence a slowing down or reduction of speed of action in
tissue cells in the organs or organ involved, hence the ONE AND ONLY
ONE possible dis-easea paralyzed slowing down speed of action
BETWEEN brain and body.
What is basically wrong, and why, when we say the arm is
paralyzed, hangs helpless, or refuses to be moved at the direction of
educated OR INNATE direction? Answer is simple: MUSCLES ARE
PARALYZED. Why? Because they are not getting par quantity of force
or power, through nerves, to make it possible for MUSCLES to contract
and relax at direction of the educated individual or the Innate beyond HIS
control. Why? Because there is an interference to the flow of par power
between brain where power is generated FOR arm, and thus is NOT
reaching muscles IN arm. Once that interference is located and corrected,
power will flow of its own volition, from above-down, inside-out, in
normal quantity, TO muscles of arm and normal use will be
re-established. Same is true of all other dis-eased paralyzed functions of
other portions of the body, including softer internal organs.
If brain generated 100% flows to all muscles of arm, normal motion
control exists. If interference between brain and arm, via nerves enroute
is reduced 50%, muscles receive only 50% and muscles are paralyzed
50% depending upon which nerve fibres
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or how many were under interference going TO arm. Nothing entered
externally, from outside-in, below-upward TO THE PHYS-
IOLOGICALLY and functionally paralyzed arm, can supplant and
replace that which flows from above-down, inside-out. All medical
methods can do is STIMULATE 50% power and 50% of paralyzed
motion of muscles that ARE present, attempting to increase both absent
factors to a normal one. As well try to stimulate with similar methods to
and from outside-in below-upward wires and electrical globe to increase
abnormal reduced light to normal 100% increased light.
All symptoms and pathologies can be reduced from complexity to
simplicity, and can be measured and reduced to one formula of par
quantity and values which is not reaching muscular fibres in matter which
should be supplied with par power but which isnt.
The heart is but an organized chunk of muscles which requires par
mental impulse power supply to keep it pumping blood to and from the
body. The heart is not the seat of emotions or passions, divinity,
inspirations, aspirations or love. Arteries and veins have three sets of
muscles, longitudinal, circular and oblique, which propel arterial blood
forward to the entire body and pump it backward to the heart, through
veins from the entire body to the heart. Muscular power propels blood
from body to heart to lungs and from lungs back to heart for inhalation
and exhalation. Lungs require a par mental impulse power supply to all
muscles to produce muscular contractions and relaxations without which
there would be no breathing. Some stomachs require its supply of
muscular power to produce peristalsis, without which there would be no
digestion, It requires power to urinate and defecate, otherwise dropsy and
constipation exists. We could cite endless applications of this principle of
the necessity of a par supply of mental impulse to muscles of every other
portion of the working functions of LIVING bodies. Remove ALL
muscular structures from a body and there is left only tissue cells, skin
and bones.
Now enters two antipodal, contrary, differing approaches to dis-ease,
its causes and cure, as we know it; and, disease AS
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MEDICAL MEN theorize it with their 18,000 complicated combination
and complexed confusing empirical observations of diagnosed symptoms
and pathologies, all of which oppose OUR premise with its single and
simple interference to this par mental impulse supply from ABOVE
DOWN, INSIDE OUT, with their OUTSIDE IN, BELOW UPWARD
scientific instrumentations of what THEY THINK THEY hear, see or
observe, upon which no two medical physicians rarely agree, arbitrarily
treating same from OUTSIDE-IN, BELOW-UPWARD. These two
approaches oppose each other. Either we are fundamentally sound, or
they are basically wrong. What does history prove since 1895?
These two professions disagree, deviate, are of radically differing
opinions, think and act so differently. Our approach in EVOlutionary and
REVOlutionary. Could expect either to yield to the other, all of which
would depend upon which succeeded attaining their ultimate objective of
getting sick people well.
Does CHIROPRACTIC from ABOVE-DOWN INSIDE-OUT,
RIGHTLY APPLIED, GET SICK PEOPLE WELL? If it DOES, why all
this medical hue and cry, begging campaigns for millions, seeking to
scientifically research for causes of an endless graist of diseases,
seeking TO FIND an INDIVIDUAL CAUSE for each INDIVIDUAL
DISEASE with endless complications of specific cure-alls? Why
confusions existing in medicine today and has been for now centuries?
SUPPOSE, with these two diametrically professional opposing
groups, each seeking service for the better welfare of a sick world to the
cause and cure of ONE dis-ease with chiropractic and endless causes and
cures of endless disease with medicines galore.
SUPPOSE B. J. was to submit HIS simple law of life to a series of
medical scientific researchers, to see IF THEY THOUGHT HIM
WRONG, TO CONCEIVE THE WHOLE WORLD THEY WERE
RIGHT? Can we EVER expect THEM to overthrow centuries of failures,
with untold wealth involved, to cast away all they think they possess even
if they should ever be convinced we were right?
As one chiropractor who wrote us pungently state it:
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Instead of trying to fit chiropractic to the pattern of science, we
must get science fit to the pattern of chiropractic.
Instead of chiropractors trying to think the way of science, science
needs to think the way of chiropractic.
Until our leaders grasp this BIG idea, all else that follows is
doomed.
Did Edison, Wright Brothers, Ford, Bell and many others, belly-ache
about the size of their job? Did Albert Einstein cry on peoples shoulders
because he HAD TO CONVINCE THE WORLD HE DISCOVERED
THE LAW of relativity?
Did B. J. bury his head in the sand, ostrichlike, when he went into
radio 43 years ago when it was a kids toy?
Our Bib Job is TOO BIG for SMALL MEN. This Big Job is also
TOO SMALL for big men. Consider what two lone men, illy-fitted in
terms of education or science, for the Big JOB of presenting to a sick
world, one simple and single principlethey located THE LAW OF
LIVING man, how to locate THE CAUSE AND CURE of one dis-ease,
from Innate, from above-down, inside-out, to where it has converted
millions.
He who hesitates is bossed!
Education, per se, takes centuries to reverse itself. Kettering once
said, It takes 25 years to get a new idea through 1/4 inch of skull. He
was optimistic.
The solution is APPLICATION OF CHIROPRACTIC to sick people
getting them well, after they have tried everything in medicine and failed;
and EDUCATION TO MULTITUDES OF SICK STREWN ALONG
HI-WAYS AND BY-WAYS GIVEN UP BY MEDICAL MEN.
SUPPOSE, B. J. by right of heritage of birth, and by virtue of his
years of painstaking researching of the chiropractic philosophy, science
and art, endeavoring constantly down through the 50 years to consistently
increase its value to the human race, spreading its gospel over the four
corners of the world, with its many thousands of graduates and millions
of sick who now bless it for getting them well, was to be persuaded to
take his lifes work to the medical profession, asking them to take what
we have and give it a thorough medical investigation in their labs,
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and then take their report to the vastly interested world of science in the
healing arts. And, with this request from OUR profession TO THEIRS,
we would add WE will ask OUR profession FOR FUNDS to help you
carry on this research and spread broadcast what your report will be.
SUPPOSE medical researches accept OUR request and proceed with
their investigation. Here is a sample of their first report, Your very
existence, your foundation and basic starting and ending in all things you
do, is based on the LIVING INNATE INTELLIGENCE WHICH TO
YOUR PROFESSION IS ALL, ITS ALPHA AND OMEGA. We have
searched far and wide.
a. investigated secret scientific recesses.
b. we have gone into our exhaustless labs.
c. we have looked into hi-powered microscopes.
d. the clinical thermometer, whether high or low.
e. we have taken cardiographs by thousands.
f. blood pressures is a regular necessity.
g. we have taken blood counts and studied reds and whites.
h. taking urinalysis regular compulsion.
i. we have formulated endless chemical tests.
j. we have captured elements in test tubes.
k. we have taken exhaustless x-ray films and studied them deeply.
1. we have fluoroscoped sick living patients.
m. We HAVE ENDEAVORED TO CAPTURE THIS ELUSIVE
AND DELUSIVE INNATE INTELLIGENCE YOU TALK SO
MUCH ABOUT.
n. AND WE, IN THE END OF all scientific instrumentation.
o. We come to unalterable conviction that there is no scientific
evidence which could formulate the presence of Innate
Intelligence in living, bodies, sick or well.
p. The reason is simple, you cannot use the above substance or
material methods to convert an abstract.
Innate Intelligence into physical forms.
Your non-scientific phantasy of existence of an all-impor-
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tant Innate Intelligence in LIVING bodies is a myth, fiction and a
fabulous subterfuge to grasp imaginations of credulous sick people. Your
non-scientific philosophy has no merit, your science is based on
existence of a vertebral subluxation which we could and did see in x-rays
but you also said it interfered with the flow of Innate mental impulse par
quantity flow, none of which could we scientifically prove in any of our
labs.
SUPPOSE now that they, with our sanction and financial support,
researched our chiropractic, chiropractors, and chiropractic profession,
with their great power for securing magazine and newspaper space,
spread that report far and wide. Would this publicity help or hurt us? The
answer IS YOURS!
SUPPOSE Edison, when he discovered and developed advantages of
the electric globe and its light with his electricity, had said to the street or
the house-wife with kerosene lamps with dirty smoked chimneys and
kerosene lamp lighters on the streets of our cities, here is an
improvement with electrical heating for a better service to the people of
our city. One switch at the electrical plant turns on all electrical power
and lights all over the city with ONE push of a button. You can lay aside
kerosene cans, ladders, walking from one street lamp to another. We wish
you street-kerosene-lamp lighters would investigate, test, try OUR
electrical advantages. The advantages of electricity are endless. What
would BE THE rebuttal report?
SUPPOSE Wright Brothers with flying gadgets, when they
discovered and developed advantages of aeroplanes, with faster service
conveying people, mail, express, from place to place, longer distances,
shorter time, had said to railroad officials with slower trains, here is an
improvement for a better service to people of the world. Let your trains
rust, lay off thousands of employees. We wish you railroad officials
would investigate, test and try OUR aeroplane advantages. It may put
trains out of business, but look at the advantages. What would be the
railroad rebuttal report?
SUPPOSE Alexander Graham Bell, with talking long distances over
wires from city to city, state to state, country to country, shorter time at a
much-reduced cost over the pony express
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of the OLD West, had said to horse-back riders, here is an improvement
for an immediate person-to-person contact to conduct businesses. You
can turn your horses to pasture. We wish you Wells-Fargo officials would
investigate, test, and try using our telephone systems. It may lay off men,
but look at the advantages in a better service to commerce, businesses,
people. What would be their rebuttal report?
SUPPOSE Ford, with Tin Lizzies, horse-less buggies, gasoline fed
and oil lubricated engines, had suggested advantages of one man getting
from here to there immediately in his owned vehicle, conveying his
family long distances on vacations, at least expense, coming and going
when and where he pleased. Suppose Ford had said to people
everywhere, at little expense here is a self-driven automobile. No longer
will you need depend upon trains. We wish other conveyance methods
would investigate, test and try many advantages of a privately owned
method of transportation of people, freight. What WAS their rebuttal in
ridicule to think Ford could conceive a horseless buggy with fringe on top
running over our streets? What would be the rebuttal of older methods of
locomotion industries it would put out of business? Look at the
advantages in a better service to all people direct. Let us reflect at
tremendous odds these new and original thinkers had to facenot only
development of NEW methods but replacing older methods less
advantageous. Prejudice, greed, selfish interests, a new education to
replace the oldall these WERE faced by these men with head high, chin
up, looking forward to a better day when the new replaced the old.
Scoffings, ridiculings, questionings of sincerities and honesties as well as
motives, and many other harrowing tribulations came to all these men,
but, TODAY, we thank them for the courage displayed in remaining
steadfast to their convictions.
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THERE IS NO justification for another book, school, magazine, religion,
church or clinic unless there is a necessary need. Today we have too
many books, schools, magazines, religions, churches, and clinics, which
duplicate each other, therefore fill no new need, have no excuse for
existence. If a NEW book has something NEW which has not been said;
if a school has a NEW principle or practice; if a church has a NEW creed;
if a magazine has a NEW process of thought, or if a clinic has a NEW
service to render, THEN they justify reason for coming into being. We
believe, in establishing, building, and creating The B. J. PALMER
CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC, we have A NEW SERVICE to renderviz.,
the laying of a NEW fundamental of scientific knowledge cause and cure
of dis-ease, rendered a complete, scientific, exacting manner, securing
results better in worse cases, in quicker time, at less cost.
Building this Clinic is not a desire of a few people to make a living;
neither is it to develop a practice by dividing from or attracting that
which others have by detracting it here. Building this Clinic is what our
title impliesa deep understood purpose and plan supplying a need
which is absent any other place.
There is no business so fraught with guesswork, errors, and
innocent deceptions as that of treating sick with rash promises of implied
hopes of treating effects, thinking such might get them well. Dangers are
not those of malicious men but those of misdirected systems they blindly
create and stumblingly follow. Medicine is what it is, not because its
followers are insincere, suffering with delusions of grandeur, or because
their motives are questionable, but because of myths, mysteries, and
moth-eaten methods centuries in breeding which fasten themselves into
routine that none dare devise.
Beginning with asking patients for symptoms which patient alone
feels, which patient tells doctor, who repeats back to patient told doctor,
charging the case a fee for exchanging lay-man
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expressions of feeling into a jargon of latin never-understood terms; with
tapping and listening means and methods of observation of pathologies,
hoping to be able on the outside of patients body to know what is inside.
Doctor then separates, sorts, correlates, divides, multiplies and mixes his
hopes and beliefs, and out of the jack-in-the-box kaleidoscopic education
comes a compiled name called a diagnosis. After diagnosis comes U. S.
Pharmacopeia with thousands of endorsed proper and ethical drug
treatments, annually changed one or more of which will be sorted out
from many; deluge of drugs prescribed, any of which is an unknown
quantity in any one persons body. Doctor follows name to book, book
tells what he should prescribe. No symptoms or pathology, no name; no
name, no book; no book, no treatmentdiagnosis IS important to a
medical man. Without it, nothing can follow, for there is its beginning.
No wonder medicine is empirical, dogmatic, guesswork, a cut and dry, by
guess and by God prayer to the God Jupiter ( Rx ) that something works
in devious and peculiar ways. If patient dies, it was the grace of God; if
he gets well, doctor takes credit.
The Battle of searching for cause of disease has gone on for
centuries and still goes relentlessly on. Effects alone are observed. One
effect becomes cause of other effects. Effects trial effects, no primary
cause ever being found. Microscope is developed. It finds microscopic
life. All else previously failing, this opens new studies. Germs cause
disease is a new battle cry. They seek the enemy in tissue lairs. They
find one, tag him, announce his arrival, build a chemical gun to kill him.
Killing the germ, patient dies cured. They make another old repudiation
and another new announcement; this in time and place is denied. And so
the scale runs up and down, the year after year. Chemistry opens new
fields. It finds new secretions, locates its organs. Out comes diet with
vitamins, hormones, calories, etc. Then comes dotes, antidotes; vaccines
and antivaccines. Disease becomes animal, vegetable and/or chemical.
Everlasting, seeking, trailing, finding and denying. All because something
outside is said to disagree with something inside. Many causes, many dis-
eases; many studies, many treatmentscomplexities pile up until
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it is centuries top-heavy; overburdening schools, professors, libraries,
practitioners; bewildered, amazed and living in a maze, none know where
to turn, which way to for go, to win the struggle for healthful existence.
In a large sense, all professions have steadfastly persisted in following
same guides, make same approach, pursue same paths, mix same names,
apply same stimulative or inhibitive treatment methods, with
modifications as to neck-tie, parting hair, or color of shoes, all of which
brings sick man out the same small end of human life funnel-cases die;
and when physicians shuffle off, all wonder what the struggle was all
about.
Our lives have been researching to get sickness out of mystery, to
make health a simple study, to build avenues of approach practical;
eliminate guess-work and secure positive knowledge. This Clinic does
NOT diagnose any case. We ascribe no name to complexed group of
symptoms; neither do we go on a fishing expedition on outside to direct
us to think about what we hope is inside, that we might correlate or
separate them into accepted names to go to a book, to apply treatments of
effects that follow that name. With cause inside, cure inside, from above
down, with cause practical and internal inside out cure equally so; with a
known specific cause for one single and simple disease and a like specific
for adjustment; where subluxation was, how, when; when, how, why and
where to adjust area all are within reach of every man if willing to think,
study, apply mental faculties in solving age-old riddles of living human
beings. It required a foundation elimination of variables and
establishment of constants. As these have been done, man is an open
book in sickness and health, life and death.
The work of this Clinic has progressed so that were a case to enter
who uttered no word or sign, wrote no information; a said or revealed
nothing to us of that which was wrong with him, we could proceed along
definite, positive, scientific lines, find information necessary to
accurately and efficiently locate cause of his illness, whatever or
wherever it was, adjust it, observe and study his recovery, ascertain facts
as to his progress, and send him home well. Proceeding along these lines,
we need no symp-
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toms or pathologies, neither would we make a diagnosis, which proves
that the mysterious and unknown are not necessary to get sick people
well. Precision X-rays would be secured without information from case;
NCM-NCG readings would be secured without verbal cooperation;
adjustments would be correctly given without case revealing anything to
us; restoration of mental impulse supply to us would occur within him
whether he wishes it mentally or not; daily NCM-NCG post-checks
would be taken without a spoken word; precision X-ray comparative
graphs would be taken and silence do still prevail. To all this, without
verbal communication between patient and doctor, the electroen-
cephaloneuromentimpograph will establish a constant and variables graph
wave pattern of before adjustment and after, and prove the restoration of
brain to body from above down, inside out nerve-energy flow graph
wave. Truly, science is climbing to its superior objectives when this
foundation and stage of development have been reached.
That our lifes research was far-reaching, ahead of masses, a has not
been understood, even often by many supposedly close who were in
reality as far away as continents. Miles do not make distance, neither
does elimination of distances make people close; but mental
understanding makes people close, even though across the ocean. Where
misunderstanding exists, they are never together even though they sleep
in the same room year after year.
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KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
IN 1895, D. D. Palmer laid down a NEW principle that cause and cure
were within, cause being a vertebral subluxation with sequential
conditions. WHICH vertebra, WHEN, HOW, WHY to adjust? Which
vertebra to NOT adjust? When NOT, why NOT to adjust? These were
questions unanswered which time would solve. Twenty-four vertebrae
ahead of us. Only ONE should be adjusted! Having laid that principle, an
efficient practice was to be established. Practicing up and down entire
column, in all that word implies, began.
The entire spinal column was practicing territory. Every day,
entire spine, adjusting here and there, one or more, any place any time,
was correct procedure in those years. Many moves were played up and
down this back-bone checker-board. Those early days too much was
incorrectly done, too many inefficient places, too often, when not
necessary. Occasionally a case got well IN SPITE OF rather than
BECAUSE OF what we did. They got well not because WE KNEW
which, when, how, and why, but because we occasionally and
accidentally stumbled across the right which, when, how and why, and
happened to stop at right time. Many a case voluntarily stopped of their
own accord, after FIRST adjustment, went home, returnedand got well.
THEY did, without knowing, what we should have done, KNOWING.
Today, 52 odd years later, we aim to adjust ONE PLACE, an
average of 23.9 days between, in each case. The difference between 24
vertebrae every day and 23.9 days between is KNOWLEDGE gained by
exclusive process of deduction for facts, recognizing them scientifically,
researching until compiled into efficient procedures. Building constants
and eliminating variables reveals what we NEED know about presence or
absence of a vertebral subluxation; when and when no pressure exist,
where and where how to find them, and why we should
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or should not adjust this direction or that, at this place or that. One of
important fact-finding system consists in step-up of constants and
elimination of variables. Formerly, WITH variables, we did more, at
more places, than now, because we interpreted variables as constants.
Imagine a typewriter, a blank sheet of paper, on one side; man with
desire to write a legible and intelligent article, with typewriter. Imagine
man who has ideas and wants to write, doesnt know where 46 lettered
keys are and cannot mentally see them. Thats where average
Chiropractor either was or is, unless he knows where, when, how and
why. Typewriter has letters willing to be struck and to record proper
word and thought sequences. Man has ideas; program is established of
where he wants to go; he has ability to write paragraphs and chapters of
understanding thoughtbut he doesnt know where lettered keys are. Not
knowing, he pecks away heterogeneously on many or all of them.
Occasionally and accidentally he might peck out one word or two out of a
mass of desired ideas, which might be correctly spelled. Probabilities are,
though, not knowing where correct keys are, his pecking would consist of
jumbled letters. Typewriter is right; keys are right. He knows what he
wants to write: thoughts are right; words are in mind right. What is
wrong, when sheet comes out of a mass of jumbled letters which none
can read? He cant connect good intentions with good deeds well done
because he doesnt know WHICH KEYS to use.
Chiropractic was in that position a few years ago. The backbone has
26 letters of the human alphabet. They were ready to be adjusted. If
proper work was done at proper place, proper spacing, in proper manner,
books revealing health would be produced in human form. Chiropractor
did not have knowledge of which, where, when and how or why to adjust
proper vertebra. NOT KNOWING where to adjust or when, why or how,
pecking away at 26 vertebrae more or less as he must, occasionally he
MIGHT tick off an adjustment which would be correctly done. Proba-
bilities, though, not knowing where or when vertebral subluxation was,
pecking away would stumble out a jumble of backbone punches, doing
little if any good and possibly doing harm.
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To research and secure KNOWLEDGE was restored understanding to
Chiropractor: to make it impossible for him TO SEE letters and play
them wisely.
Elimination of variables makes for establishment of constants, which
creates clearline thinking, which is accurate thinking, which makes for
efficiently, which creates accurate adjustment, which is Chiropractic
knowledge, and knowledge is health efficiency restored.
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TWO MAJOR AND ONE MINOR ISSUES
THERE IS LITTLE anyone can add except that no new institution can long
exist or succeed without certain fundamental purposes and objectives.
Two major issues: (a ) medical; (b) Chiropractic.
(a) Medical contention is:
1. Patients who go to Chiropractors are psychological, or
2. There is nothing the matter with them.
3. Nothing a Chiropractor would do would help a major
pathology.
4. If patient gets well under hands of Chiropractor, it is A
MATTER OF OPINION that he is or is not well.
5. Patient EXPRESSES AN OPINION that he is or is not
well.
6. Chiropractor BELIEVES patient was sick and is now well.
7. If patient gets well, it is psychological.
Medical men complain because Chiropractors are NOT scientific.
In The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic, we go scientific with a
vengeance
Having proved that we ARE using their own devices AGAINST
THEM, they whine because WE DO.
(b) The average Chiropractor contends he must do MANY things,
using many moves, covering a long period of time, in MANY places, to
STIMULATE or INHIBIT function to alleviate, ameliorate, make patient
feel better.
Following this program, he adjusts many places, many ways with
many moves, from head to hips to heel, spending 15 minutes to an hour
every day, plus many adjuncts, many modalities, hoping he might
ACCIDENTALLY do right thing, right way, and an ACCIDENT might
happen to get patient well.
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The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic was established:
1. TO PROVE BY MEDICAL MECHANICAL AUTOMATIC
RECORDING METHODS that cases ARE sick, using same
tests, same proof whereby a medical man proves existence of
sickness exists in cases entering this Clinic.
2. To prove, after a certain period of things time, a change HAS
occurred, using same tests and same proofs to note change.
3. To prove that diagnosis is fallacious and of no value; it is not
necessary to diagnosis to be able to correctly analyze, and
adjustment with a diagnosis.
Meanwhile, between tests, nothing has been used or given but
simple abbreviated Chiropractic adjustment. This break down
Psychologically argument that they were not sick anyhow.
ON THE CHIROPRACTIC SIDE, the fundamental of this Clinic is
to see HOW LITTLE we can do, at HOW FEW PLACES, HOW
RARELY and HOW QUICKLY it can be done, to accomplish greatest
change in SHORTEST SPACE OF TIME, AT LEAST COST to case;
and to know what to do and why we do it, BEFORE doing it. We seek,
not treatment of effects, symptoms, pathology, but the specific for a cause
and the specific for its adjustment.
Dis-ease, per se, and its medical treatment, has always been
dogmatic and empirical, a theory, opinion, cut and try; little is known and
much is hoped.
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CONSTANTS AND VARIABLESDEFINED
A CONSTANT is some condition possessing reality, method, principle,
and/or practice, having a developed and known basis for existence,
which is established, remains fixed, contains elements of law, duplicates
itself under like conditions,
which establishes a rule for conclusion and function, a principle and
practice true to its terms;
which pre-determines mental, automatic or mechanical determination
and foundation for consistent, accurate and efficient thought and action;
which establishes fact in sequence of cause and effect, and thereby
precludes differences of individuality of thoughts as essential in the
equation;
which fact exists inherent within itself, independent of men, applies
itself universally to all alike;
which does not require education per se as a fitness for each person to
start over again in application to problems of new generations.
Readers Digest (July, 1937) in article Uncle Sams House of
Wonders (James W. Holden), we find this statement:
For the chemists of the countrys 1,700 research laboratories, the
Bureau looks into physical constantsdensity, viscosity, melting and
boiling points, atomic weight, and so on.
A VARIABLE is some condition founded on reality, principle,
and/or practice, having a hidden and undeveloped basis foe existence
upon which observer, student, investigator, researcher, or scientist is
compelled to vary, fluctuate, is not stable, wavers and wobbles without
reason or logic, observation of which is not dependent or reliable;
which forces man to use theories, opinions, personal judgment;
to try to reach a conclusion, to ascertain a certain fact on an uncertain
foundation upon which to judge and act;
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which by its necessary changeable differences cannot establish a fact
in any sequence or as cause follows effect, but does thereby include
differences of individuality of thoughts as essential in the equation;
which fact exists dependent upon experienced men and applies itself
only as they alone apply it;
which does require education plus per se, as a fitness which inherently
cannot transplant itself to newer generations on applications to its
problems.
Two potatoes by two potatoes makes five potatoes; two tomatoes by
two tomatoes makes six tomatoes, are variablesvariable being
difference between potatoes and tomatoes, changing rule of
mathematicsor does it?
Variables are additionsthinking to make it moreor subtractions
to make it less; are attempts made to essence or dilute; are designed
attempts to substitute treatments of effects for adjustment of cause; are
desires to replace stimulation or inhibition for restoration of transmission;
are ideas of medical diagnosis rather than Chiropractic analysis.
CHIROPRACTIC IS A PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND ART.
Philosophy, science and art each has ITS constants. In practice, each
practitioner has ITS variables.
The CONSTANT of Chiropractic PHILOSOPHY PRINCIPLE IS:
a vertebral subluxation;
occludes an opening;
produces pressure upon spinal cord or spinal nerves;
interferes with quantity transmission of mental impulse supply between
brain and body;
interference offers resistance to transmission;
interference and resistance reduce quantity energy flow from above-
down, inside-out;
reduction of energy flow reduces and slows down tissue cell action;
reduction of tissue cell action IS dis-ease.
CONSTANT of Chiropractic PHILOSOPHY PRACTICE is:
a vertebral adjustment;
increase opening;
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release pressure upon spinal cord or spinal nerves;
restores transmission of mental impulse supply between brain and
body;
reduces interference to transmission of mental impulse supply;
increasing quantity energy flow from above-down, inside-out increases
and speeds up TISSUE CELL ACTION;
increasing tissue cell action IS health, normal function.
Variables to Chiropractic philosophy would be ANYTHING which
any follower would inflict into it, which is in conflict, which would
nullify, modify, or abridge any or all of the above constants.
CONSTANT of Chiropractic SCIENCE is:
ascertaining exact location of vertebral subluxation;
ascertaining exact mal-position of vertebral;
ascertaining degree of pressure, interference, resistance;
ascertaining places of origin of function, paths of distribution on nerve
conveying quantity function, and location of functional effects because
of interference and resistance;
ascertaining correct adjustment to correct vertebral subluxation
mal-position;
delivery of adjustment accomplishing objectives of constant of
philosophy of Chiropractic;
to accomplish reverse objectives or releasure, reduced interference and
resistance.
Variables of Chiropractic SCIENCE would be anything which any
follower would inflict into it, which is in conflict, which would nullify,
modify, or abridge any or all of the above.
The CONSTANT or Chiropractic ART is:
adjust that subluxation, in that direction, in that manner which most
completely and most quickly accomplishes objectives of philosophy
and science.
Variables of Chiropractic ART would be anything which any
follower would inflict into it would be in conflict, which would nullify,
modify, or abridge any or all of above constants.
To list or enumerate variables of conflict which would nullify,
modify, or abridge the Chiropractic principle and/or practice constants,
would be to list and enumerate everything contrary and antipodal to
above philosophy, science and art.
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EACH HUMAN BEING is born into this world because of a consistent
irresistible Intelligent Force, working to a definite plan, designed to be a
definite patternall of which is constant.
Universal and Innate Intelligence are constants; their laws are
constant, purposes and designs are constants. They control earth, sea, sky,
stars and planets, air, water, light and heat, by immutable constant
control. Pattern from which man is made, process of his make, his
reproduction, is a constant. Life force in man, by-product of that force,
such as skin, muscles, bone, is governed by constant. Great and simple
principles and practices are staid and sturdy and become monuments of
lasting and permanent understanding which can never be destroyed
because they are constants. Why do we admire such men as Christ,
Lincoln, Edison, Ford? Because of their constancy of thought and action.
Imagine what would happen to any of this if variables, with their
ungovernable, irresponsible, and inconsistent ideas were to prevail. We
dont admire or respect wishy-washy, undetermined, variable human
beings who are gone with North wind and come back with South wind.
There is a constant underlying the Chiropractic principle and
practice: subluxation, occlusion, pressure, and interference to mental
impulse supply between brain and body, from above-down, inside-out;
which slows down tissue cell activity; which, given time, creates dis-ease.
Adjustment, opening occlusions, releasing pressure, restoring mental
impulse supply between brain and body, increases tissue cell activity;
given time, re-creates health. That constant is either right or wrong. If
right, it is TOTALLY right. If wrong, it is TOTALLY wrong.
Any drug or treatment which stimulates or inhibits functions or
sensibilities, does so because it has a positive and definite reaction
against that which makes function or sensibility. If digitalis
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stimulates heart action, it does so because it stimulates mental impulse
supply. If morphine deadens pain, it does so only because it inhibits sense
of feeling via afferent impression and its equivalent interpretation.
ANY drug or treatment which stimulates or inhibits function or
sensibility, does so only AS IT BLOCKS mental impulse nerve energy
flow efferent and afferent.
Any agency, whether given, taken, or received internally, taken or
received externally, regardless of whether a chemical, manual, thermal,
electrical, or physical means, whether material substance or an abstract,
which seemingly modifies, amends, abridges, or changes function, does
so not because it actually changes function direct, but that it modifies,
amends, abridges, or changes quantity energy flow by blocking either
efferent or afferent sides of the cycle behind functional activity and thus
indirectly affects function.
Crile and Speransky have proved this statement conclusively.
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Chiropractic principle and practice is to adjust, open occlusion,
release pressure, restore normal quantity flow between brain and body,
that Innate Intelligence can, does, and will rebuild normal rhythmic
energy wave flow to re-establish normal rate of functional and sensibility
tissue cell activity to a healthy level.
Drugs or treatments, according to potency, block normal quantity
flow either between brain and body or body and brain.
It is obvious a vertebral subluxation traumatically blocks mental
impulse from getting through, thus causes dis-ease.
It would be obvious that drugs or other treatments chemically block
same mental impulse from getting through. What would happen when, as
a result of adjustment, you RESTORE flow of mental impulse from
above down, inside out, and permit the case TO STOP that flow with
drugs or other treatments?
How can there be unity between these two contradictory ideas?
In our Clinic, we prohibit, without reservation, any cases taking any
and/or all drugs or treatments while under our care. One definite
statement is made to our cases in our FIRST-DAY
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INTRODUCTORY INSTRUCTIONS, as follows:
Use NO opiates, sedatives, hypnotics, or stimulatives, such as
aspirin, adrenalin, arsenic, bromides, allonal, insulin, diet, etc., while in
The B. J. Palmer Chiropractor Clinic. It destroys accuracy of NCM check
readings, makes it impossible to render service in restoring health, for
which you are paying. If in doubt about specific application to YOUR
case, ask for appointment to see Director of Clinic.
This sustains fact in the Chiropractic profession that specific
subluxation and specific adjustment IS sound, IS practical, and will work,
thereby offering proof to OUR profession. If sick get well in greater
percentage of worse cases in shorter time, with specific adjustment, then
it proves what it proves.
Getting sick well calls for precision, efficient, accurate, competent,
and honest work at every step. Getting sick people well is largely a
question of:
(a) understanding of depth to which Chiropractic applies
(b) understanding of methods Innate works in a human body
(c) discrimination between right and wrong interpretation of
constants and variables of spinographs
(d) correct and incorrect interpretations of long or short break
neurocalograph NCM readings
(e) judgment exercised on what to do, what not to do; when to
adjust, when not to adjust; how to adjust, how not to adjust,
etc.
(f) under-adjusting rather than over-adjusting a case.
(g) interpretation of actions and reactions and discrimination
between true and false retracing as a result of right or wrong
adjusting
(h) teaching cases to protect adjustment in its retention.
(i) using every, any, and all precautions to protect adjustment once
given, through care in getting off adjusting table, providing
ambulatory couches from adjusting table to rest rooms, having
rest rooms, and insisting upon their not-less-than 2-hour-use,
etc.
It takes little to adjust a subluxation; it takes little to upset
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it, yet everything revolves around both. Each must be safe-guarded, in
preparation on one side and protection upon the other. No Chiropractor
can afford to be careless on either side of this important issue.
Average Chiropractor gives little thought to all-important issues
stressed and mentioned. He wonders why his cases dont get well; why
adjustments fail. Failing, he begins chasing rainbows.
Results are for two kinds: stimulative temporary kind, and
restorative energy permanent kind.
Anybody can easily produce stimulative kind, with hot water,
electric shocks, massage, turkish baths, kicks in the pants, so to speak,
etc. These get results but they dont last. Whiskey will make a pauper a
stimulating millionaire in the evening, but next morning he will be
inhibited back to dark brown taste of pauper again.
Even rapid stimulation has its equally quick let down. Millions of
people should have ability to produce permanent restoration of function
as a result of a properly delivered vertebral-subluxation
adjustment-setment. This has a build-up and keeps building up and
staying up until that much desired health is back to stay. It comes slower;
it is gradual, but it is permanent.
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CONSTANTS AND VARIABLES
THERE IS A Species and family constant.
There are Species and family VARIABLES.
There is a Genus Homo anatomical and osteological constant.
All people are alike in general characteristics, but far differ in
specific variables.
All have head, two arms, two legs, nervous systems, vertebral
column, mental impulse supply constant.
Each has a face on that head that is variable, arms and legs are long
or short; no two vertebral columns are alike; no two mental impulse
supplies are exactly alike.
There are osteological constants. Each person has 24 moveable
vertebrae; an occiput, atlas, and axis. All bones are a constant to a
common constant. Yet, no two occiputs, atlases, or axes are alike. Each
possesses a variable from the constant.
There are left and right variables.
It is these variables that make two people anatomically or
osteologically a constant
make no two subluxations alike
make no two occlusions, pressures, or interferences alike
make no two dis-eases alike
These variables make no two people take same adjustment, or
respond to it alike; or react of same condition in same speed; or make
them get well in same manner.
To be a competent, efficient, and accurate Chiropractor calls for one
who knows constants and variables in osteology.
Some will try to fit atlas on upside down; axis below 4th cervical, or
turn an atlas right side to.
All Chiropractors have a fair understanding of something about
bones; a trifle more than that about an occiput, atlas, and
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All Chiropractors have a fair understanding of something about
vertebral subluxations and their adjustments.
A Chiropractor is ordinary or extraordinary according to whether he
knows ordinary or extraordinary osteological constants and their
variables, normal and abnormal.
Usual patient has an osteological constant in common with other
people. Usual patient has a vertebral subluxation and a vertebral
adjustment constant in common with other people. That patient stands a
good chance of getting well at the hands of A USUAL Chiropractor.
What about the UNUSUAL patient with an UNUSUAL variable
NOT IN COMMON with other people? What about the UNUSUAL
patient with an unusual variable subluxation requiring an UNUSUAL
variable adjustment?
These are Problem cases this Clinic is called upon to get well.
Variables are either anomalous, pathological, or traumatic. They can
be any one, two, or three, in any person. They frequently are in some one
problem case.
In the Palmer School are over 25,000 osteological specimens;
anomalous, pathological, as well as traumatic, valued at over $350,000.
Having spent thousands of hours studying them, we know WHAT to look
for, WHAT to see, WHAT to expect, and by process of seeing find them;
or by process of seeing, eliminate them when reading X-ray films.
It is the ability to include or exclude variables, with constant, which
give knowledge; and knowledge is ability.
It is variables which make Chiropractors fail on casenot that
ChiropracTIC is wrong; not that ChiropracTOR is incompetent,
inefficient, or inaccurate, but he does NOT know variables on which he
should be a specialist.
You must know your bones, to know your bones.
Page 143, Vol. 19 (Palmer) states:
Reading an occiputo-atlantal-axial set of spinographs is more than
looking for a subluxated position of one vertebra, to ascertain its presence
subluxated position, and figuring direction it should be adjusted to get
case well. There is the anatomical con-
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stant normal position, where it was but is not now. In addition to
subluxated position of one vertebra seen, we look for and ascertain by
negation any of hundreds of possible anomalous, and/or pathological,
and/or traumatic variables and how any or some of them being present
and affect and modify interpretation of position of subluxation otherwise
thought to be seen. Many modify conclusion and shift position to R. or L.
It is these elements which create impossible and problem cases which
we get in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic; which we seek and find,
which makes our interpretations different, which soon shows in getting
case well where others who follow simple routine fail. To think only
anatomical constant as was and should be, and thus ignore multitudinous
anomalous, pathological, and/or traumatic variants that modify usual
technique of reading spinographs, is to not see some of the most salient
issues of study.
Fortunately, majority of cases do not fit into these categories.
Unfortunately minoring of incurable cases DO fit into these categories.
The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic does have the Osteological
Laboratory which makes such comparisons vital to recovery of stubborn
cases. Ordinarily, a matched set of occiput, atlas, and axis before
Chiropractor in spinograph reading room makes it possible to compare
real with spinographs of duplicate parts of case. Extraordinary, thousands
of specimens of sets of occiputs, atlases, and axes are before us in our
Osteological Laboratory where we make comparisons between actual
variables to compare with spinographs of duplicate parts found in
unusual cases.
What you look at in a spinograph may be exactly what you see, but
are you seeing exactly what you look at in a spinograph? This is not
paradoxical. You look in a spinograph and see what appears to be what
you define it to be as to subluxated position, comparative to vertebra
above and below. Is it what you define? If an anomaly exists on one side,
not on the other; if pathology exists on prezygapophyses and not on
postzygapophyses; if traumatic crushed healed fracture cicatrix exists on
odontoid (cited as some of many possibilities) what you look at in a
spinograph may be exactly what you look at. These are actualities
occurring
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more or less in many people which cannot be put into type (except in a
general way), cannot be told by instruction (except in a general way)
neither can they be written into books (which we have not attempted.)
This education comes after specimens studying possibilities in
comparative sets, which took hundreds of hours with 25,000 specimens,
of what could happen if this or that was present and how it would modify
what you thought you saw if a spinograph were taken at this or that angle,
etc.
Broader the understanding of constant and knowledge of variables
in osteological specimens, more one can read in spinographs of living
individuals from whom spinographic pictures have been taken. Person
who looks at a spinograph and sees little in it is one who would look at
any osteological specimen and see little in it. Other person who has spent
years looking at thousands of osteological specimens can take a
spinograph set and see in it a reflection of his understanding of
anomalous, pathological, and/or traumatic specimens he has studied for
years.
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CONSTANTS AND VARIABLES
IN ADJUSTING SUBLUXATIONS
D. D. Palmer laid down a principle, including its elements, in 1895.
To that principle, and those elements, he gave a name. That principle and
those elements are:
a vertebral subluxation;
occludes an opening;
produces pressure upon nerves;
interferes with quantity par transmission of mental impulse supply;
causes dis-ease.
That principle and those elements are either right or wrong. If not
right, lets prove it wrong or correct it and them. If right, lets prove of it
so, and develop its application in service.
That principle add those elements are a constant. But what variables
we find practiced in its name!
What should you do, as a Chiropractor, to change variable back to
constant? Innate is a constant, subluxation is a constant, adjustment is a
constant; but Chiropractor tries to change constant into a variable.
Chiropractor deplores physician and science of medicine because it
is empirical, dogmatism, mass of experimentation variables; and
forthwith denounces medicine as possessing none of the elements of an
exacting or precise constancy. Yet the Chiropractor who brags about his
chiropractic becoming more scientific should himself become
scientific. How? By seeking the constant and eliminating variables in his
practice.
D. D. Palmer laid down the principle IN THE SINGULAR
subluxation. It was NOT plural. Yet Chiropractors today pluralize it from
2 to 24 vertebrae. Adjust occiputs to legs. Today there are given what we
call cutaneous or kiss adjustments. They dont penetrate to actually
move the vertebra.
Example: Case 73 entered our Clinic. Chiropractor adjusted atlas,
first from one side then other side, each day, for 21 days.
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Atlas, if subluxated, could not be both left AND right. Atlas, if
subluxated, was EITHER left OR right. It couldnt be BOTH directions.
Discussing this case, THE KNOWN MAN, VOL. 19 (PALMER) says:
If (a) vertebra WAS subluxated right, then it wasnt subluxated left.
If it was left, then it wasnt right. If it was either it couldnt be both
opposite directions, same day. One Chiropractor held opinion it WAS
both opposite directions same day, every day for 21 days. No wonder the
seeming necessity of pecking away every day on a variable from both
sides.
IF (b) atlas was subluxated right and this was adjusted first, then
head turned over and adjustment given from left, and case went home
with last peckment FROM LEFT, then case went home with worse
subluxation than when he entered office. Vice versa would also be true.
Pecking on wrong side on alternate days is a variable constituting an
inexcusable blunder. Adjusting from RIGHT, only when it exists as such
in fact, is a constant which constitutes sound intelligent understanding of
nature of atlas subluxation and its correction.
IF (c) subluxation WAS right on Monday, and on Monday he
adjusted from right first and left second; and subluxation WAS left on
Tuesday, and on Tuesday he adjusted from left first and right second,
he would be alternately, on opposite days, decrease and increase pressure
and make case worse one day and perhaps better next. (This would be
questionable because no case needs adjustment every day on same
subluxation. It is possible that pecking away on alternate side daily
MIGHT increase readings). Alternation would be haphazard, trusting to
memory which do side was first or last, yesterday or day before,
therefore, no constant was used as a basic start or finish. It would be bad
enough if he made a constant of which side was daily adjusted first for 21
days. Even this possesses elements of great danger, for
IF (d) subluxation was right, and for 21 days he adjusted from
RIGHT first and LEFT last, then each day he continued to make case
worse. It is no wonder case suspicioned Chiropractor did not know which
side atlas was subluxated to. Realizing he
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was getting worse, case left him and went to another Chiropractor who
found which side it WAS subluxated to. No Chiropractor can build a
business on variables of which this is a simple sample.
Example: IF atlas IS A specific vertebral subluxation, including its
elements. To claim others ARE, is to introduce variables.
Two vital principles:
1. Cause is within, cure is within. It is necessary to accurately locate
cause and efficiently correct it, that the cure life forces within may be
liberated to bring back health.
2. Rehabilitation of the part which has long been in dis-use. This
cannot be done by external manipulation, such as message. It must be
done by internal use by patient himself.
Every department of the Clinic works, confined, and scientifically
applies itself to these two vital practices.
You noted, under first principle, any, every, and all methods which
establish accurate and efficient mechanical automatic record, avoiding
studiously any, every, and all methods which permit free play to human
diagnosis which is admittedly guesswork with even the best. You further
noted, under second principle, all methods which permit case to work his
own parts to more quickly develop them back to normal.
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PRECISION X-RAYS
YOU ALL HAVE had X-ray pictures taken and yet you do not, nor does
anyone else, know just what an X-ray is! X-ray IS so called because the
X means unknown. It if is the unknown ray and that remains a fact even
today in these times of many scientific accomplishments.
New and valuable information is continually sought, and some day
we may know what kind of A RAY the X-ray is. Even though we dont
know what it is, its proper use has many wonderful and valuable uses,
both in various healing professions and in many commercial fields.
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THE PRINCIPLE OF Chiropractic and of X-ray were discovered in the year
1895. Chiropractic was founded by D. D. Palmer in Davenport, while
X-ray was founded by Prof. Roentgen, in Germany. Both of these
sciences have progressed along the hard road of practical experience and
scientific development, until today both are recognized throughout the
civilized world.
The first X-ray picture EVER made of a human spinal column was
taken by DR. B. J. Palmer and his associates in 1910. It was not until that
year that an X-ray machine was manufactured which had sufficient power
to penetrate the spinal column, or go through the thickness of the body,
necessary to make these pictures.
Immediately such a machine was made, B. J. ordered one, set up a
complete X-ray laboratory in The Palmer School, and was quick to begin
research along lines which were destined to revolutionize the practice of
Chiropractic from a hit and miss method to one of exactitude and
scientific precision.
As we press a button in our Modern Clinic X-ray laboratory today,
and take pictures of patients, noiselessly and automatically, our mind
often turns back to the days when we first started taking X-ray pictures of
spinal columns. It must have been like starting out to an unexplored land,
with no idea of what was ahead, probably not even having a starting point
but just going out into the darkness somewhere, to find something.
It was in those days that dark and spooky looking rooms were used
fittingly for this work; sparks and loud noises terrified patients, and in
THOSE days it was a major event for anyone to have an X-ray picture
taken.
But more than the inadequacy of these first crude machines, was the
great problem of determining suitable technic for this work. It was like
starting out in the dark. It was purely a case of conducting long and
tedious experimentation, trying to arrive at
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some standard by which some sort of a rule could be established. It was a
question of stepping up voltage, cutting down, increasing or decreasing
not only FORCE of rays but QUANTITY of them; and juggling many of
various combinations of technic possible with an X-ray machine. After
reaching some kind of a standard, working from that point until proper
X-ray pictures could be made. This was the great problem that confronted
us and our associates when they first introduced the X-ray in our
profession.
It was only by exposing thousands of X-ray plates that they were
able to bring about a STANDARDIZATION of X-ray technic in the
Chiropractic profession.
This work was not only confined to our profession, but many X-ray
plates made in The Palmer School were exhibited at national x-ray and
electrical conferences, and the type of work done here was highly praised
by man of other professions. The Palmer School was the pioneer in spinal
X-ray work. Since our three laboratories have totaled several million
X-ray films since the first Chiropractic X-ray pictures in 1910.
At that time, B. J. coined a new word which applied specifically to
spinal Chiropractic X-ray work, the spinograph, to art of spinography;
and an operator or one skilled in this work was and is today called a
spinographer. He is a specialists in spinal X-ray work.
Today, our spinograph machines are specially made for Chiropractic
X-ray work. They are shockproof to both patient and operator, and they
are noiseless. Jumping of sparks across spark gaps is eliminated in the
modern machine. Glass X-ray tubes of the past are enclosed in a metal
casing which likely contains oil. The casing not only protects delicate
parts of tube, but tends to eliminate some radiation of rays given off from
tube which are not DIRECT rays used in exposure of patient. They are
secondary rays. There are many ways in which secondary rays are
produced, but we do not wish to go into technicalities. Oil in the casing
serves as a means of cooling the tubes and insures it a longer life.
Several years ago, we introduced use of stereoscopic or third
dimensional technic in our X-ray work, and since that time have
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developed the technic to a very high standard in spinal work. We are
constantly researching along these lines.
It is logical to believe we can see more with three dimensions than
two, and more details can be ascertained from third dimensional pictures
than ordinary flat picture. Third dimension gives DEPTH in pictures; it is
as though we were looking into an actual human skull or neck when we
make analysis from a stereoscopic set of films. These pictures are of great
value to the Chiropractor.
We have pioneered and developed in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic
Clinic a new method of X-ray posture measurements, known as the
Posture Constant in Precision Spinograph Technic.
These measurements enable us to make a permanent record of a
patients posture when he comes in first day for his first or primary set of
films. In two weeks he comes for his second, or comparative set of films,
we are able to duplicate in every detail his sitting and standing posture.
He can come in fourth, sixth week, six months, a year, two years from
that time, and we can duplicate his posture exactingly and precisely in all
details.
We have special calibrations on numerous parts of our X-ray
equipment for this purpose. These figures are copied on a permanent
record sheet and filed away with each patients records.
Purpose of these precise measurements is to form a BASIS or
FOUNDATION for a new and specialized ART in Chiropractic X-ray
known as Subluxation-Adjustment X-ray Graphs. (Our Vol. XX) This
new art was introduced for the first time in the history of X-ray
development. Never before were graphs made from X-ray films. This
work is necessarily confined to the Chiropractic profession for
comparative measurements and changes of vertebrae or spinal segments.
Before we make accurate graphs showing actual vertebral change
cases, it is necessary to build posture constant measurements. It is for this
reason we go to much trouble in properly placing patients for X-rays, and
why we are continually copying figures during positioning of a case for
X-ray pictures.
With correct PLACEMENT of patients every time they come into
X-ray laboratory, we are able to take a SERIES of
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films into Graph Laboratory and by using a special lighted tracing table,
special oiled tracing paper, and India colored inks, show in concrete,
understandable, and MEASURABLE form, the exact and precise changes
having taken place in vertebrae adjusted in spine, and also changes of
contour, straightening of curvatures, or LENGTHENING of spinal
columns as a result of that specific adjustment at the top of the neck. (Our
Vol. XX.)
While technic of TAKING spinograph or X-ray films of spinal
column has been perfected for many years, this was the FIRST time
actual changes in vertebral position have been transferred to a means of
clear-cut precisenessand IT IS THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE BEEN
ABLE TO BRING THESE VERTEBRAL CHANGES OUT OF THE
FIELD OF PERSONAL OPINION INTO THE REALM OF SCIENTIFIC
FACT.
Today, it is no longer a matter of any one mans opinion whether it
has not moved, or whether a vertebra has moved. Opinion is
overshadowed in this work by scientific methods of recording and
mechanical comparison. That same idea is carried out in all departments
of our Clinic.
The subluxation-adjustment X-ray graphs show changes in spine in a
clear-cut manner, which anyone can see by comparing varied India ink
colors representing the series of films compared.
It is the conclusion reached by interpretation of X-ray films which
forms one most important factors in delivering a precise and exacting
adjustment necessary to restore health. It is ESSENTIAL our X-rays be
taken PERFECTLY and all details will be available for making a
conclusion for adjustment, or setment.
It IS interesting to look back upon progress in X-ray development
and upon progress of Chiropracticthe two having climbed together the
ladder of success, to scientific distinction.
X-ray units made and sold on the market were used to take one or
two single radiographs, such as fractures, dislocations, prolapses of soft
tissues, etc. At later date, radiographs were taken to show fractures of
dislocation has been set, or stomach, etc., has been drawn back into
position.
Far more than that was demanded to meet exacting requirements laid
down. Years have been spent to design, make and re-
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make patterns and manufacture sections to get our units to do ALL and
EXACTLY what we needed to produce character of work this Clinic
specified.
We demanded:
1. spinographs FOCALIZE to occipito-atlantal-axial region.
2. spinographs be brilliantly clear in sharp detail WITHOUT
distortion.
3. entire spinographic sets A-P Natural (1); Lateral Natural (2); A-P
Stereo (3-4); Diagonal Stereo (5-6); BP Stereo (7-8); 8 x 36
Stereo (9-10) be made to a match each other with PERFECT
precision.
4. stereoscopic spinograph sets MATCH line for line, blending one
into the other without distortion, or portray true third and fourth
dimension directions.
5. entire set of 10 spinographs of one person, made at previous date
precisely match entire set of 10 spinographs of same person taken
at later date. Before-and-after sets are required to perfectly match
without distortion.
6. a posture-constant be established which could be mechanically
duplicated, wherein future sets match past sets of same person.
7. spinographs so made would be so perfectly matched that
overlapping graphs which made would be to prove changes in
segments subsequently existing as the result of action previously
adjusted upon segments analyzed in spinographs.
Little of this was possible previous to manufacture of units. Graphs
were not possible because sets could not be matched. Sets could not be
matched because before-and-after sets could not be duplicated with
precision, Sets could not be duplicated with precision because there was
no posture-constant established or possible. There was no
posture-constant because equipment did not then exist that could produce
it.
Skill exercised in daily use is second to none. We doubt if any X-ray
laboratory insists upon every detail done must be just exactly right, at all
times, on all cases. Spinographs taken under this system now established
are painstakingly yet naturally
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postured, exposed, developed interpreted.
X-ray films reproduce light and darks shadows. The development of
X-ray films should be a very exciting part of the process of securing
internal X-ray information.
It is surprising how careless majority of X-ray films are exposed,
developed and interpreted. Hundreds of films sent here to be read are
so poorly exposed, taken, and developed, that many times we cannot read
them with any degree of accuracy.
As further example of accuracy used here, let us cite two examples:
common water used in developer, hypo, rinse, and washings, usually
contains many chemicals elements, with no constancy, which makes no
two developments equal at various times. These chemicals contained in
ordinary water will change light and dark shadows and changes values of
what is trying to be read. To establish the constant of our work, we use
only distilled water in our developer, hypo, rinse and wash baths. This
maintains a constant of chemical calculated values, always producing
films of equal value.
Hot water in summer causes gelatin to run; cold water in winter sets
it quicker than essential. To avoid these, we have installed two individual
refrigerating unitsone to cool developer, hypo and rinse bath, keeping
it constantly at 65 in summer, and room temperature in winter. Other
unit chills running water bath in wash tank, keeping it at a fixed
temperature.
X-ray technic is simple, yet exacting. To secure true pictures of
internal conditions on an external film requires careful positioning of
tube, patient and film. Taking an X-ray picture is similar to taking a
photograph. If lens is offside, farther side is slightly distorted by being
out of focus, etc. There is this difference: in X-ray films, we read only
shadows after having penetrated and passed through objects, so there is
that possibility of distorting shadows to make them produce something
that isnt there, or eliminate that which is, or distort it to what isnt in
fact. Taking of correct occiput, atlas and axis areas for HIO reading of
atlas subluxation calls for tube target being directly on a straight line with
nasal septum, occipital protuberance, center of odontoid process, and tip
of posterior ring of atlas arch, and at right angles
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to film, unless we are shooting for diagonal stereos, etc. From this
direction, all will be in proper relation to each other, and whatever IS
subluxated will be true on film. Direct tube target a fraction of an inch
laterally, inferior or superior, off center, and it can and sometimes does
change a wedge from right to left, or vice versaand thats the difference
between adjusting from right or wrong side making case teeter or worse.
Where careless X-ray work is done, wrong interpretations of X-ray made,
and case is adjusted a wrong way and gets worse, HIO as a principle and
practice is at fault and is condemned because it doesnt work.
In comparative X-ray work, from which graphs are made, duplicate
sets MUST BE exposed PRECISELY and EXACTLY alike; posture
constant MUST BE a constant. Make this simple test. Sit down on a solid
bottom chair. (a) Put legs forward; (b) pull them back close to you; (c)
turn toes in; (d) turn them outward; (e) put feet close together; (f) spread
them apart and FEEL THE DIFFERENCE they make by comparison in
contours of curves of spine. If X-ray technician is careless and pays no
attention to where case puts his or hers toes, legs, between one
comparative set and another, permits toes, feet, and legs to be variables
between one set and another and thus artificially creates variables in
positions of contours of spinal column with adaptive changes above
then it is obvious X-ray pictures above could not and would not be a
constant because you would be X-raying variables. Naturally, where
careless variable posturing is permitted, wrong interpretations of X-rays
are made, case is adjusted wrong and gets worse, HIO as a principle and
practice is at fault and is condemned because it doesnt work.
Permit your case, especially women, to come with high French heels
for one comparative set, low military heels for another comparative set;
with run-down heel on left or right she for another comparative set.
Where is constant of posture to secure a constant for comparison?
For this and these reasons, we in The Palmer Chiropractic X-ray
Laboratories:
(a) have squared-off, marked, foot turn-tables base-lettered
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one way and figured the other. Whatever position of feet is
naturally assumed by case first time, Thats the constant
recorded on our charts for that case and thats the constant they
are checked by at all future times as their constant posture.
(b) we permit no case to have X-rays taken except in stocking feet,
eliminating variable of high or low heels, rundown heels, to
creep in.
Upon taking second comparative set, X-ray graph is made. This
graph is added after taking each subsequent comparative X-ray set. The
graph is its own evidence. There is another step we check. THOSE
graphs are analyzed and broken into a study of transpositions of atlas or
axis. To secure and keep information directly at hand, where and when
needed, we have a COMPARATIVE X-RAY, MAJOR
SUBLUXATION ANALYSIS, COMPARISON REPORT. This is filled
in adjusting section of our Case File. If, as, and when called upon to
deliver another adjustment, THIS report places before us additional
information not secured any other way:
( a ) comparative sets, by dates each comparative set reveals:
1. change of wedge from R. to L.
2. change of wedge from L. to R.
3. decrease or increase of wedge.
4. no change.
5. position of axis, if changed, and how.
This report, because of what it reveals, has occasionally kept us
from giving an adjustment, even though NCM and NCG did present a
distinct and sufficient break reading. Suppose NCM graph did reveal
break reading and further suppose this report proves atlas major wedge
HAS changed from wrong to correct position, or has decreased, WHY
SHOULD WE adjust it? Is it not correcting itself following former
adjustment?
WHEN to adjust and WHEN NOT TO ADJUST is a vital question.
We need as much knowledge on this question as any other. It is simple to
say When we have a 2 point break reading, dont adjust. Other factors
enter which modify and clarify this conclusion. If you had a 2 point break
reading AND there WAS
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a vertebral subluxation TO YOU WOULD adjust. If you had a 2 point
break reading and there WAS NOT a vertebral subluxation, YOU
WOULD NOT ADJUST. How to know when one is and other is not,
needs sifting evidence, eliminating some factors, adding others; attaining
constant in one case and subtracting variables in other.
Each two weeks our Clinic takes a comparative X-ray set. This is
sent to graph laboratory where graph comparisons were made (see our
VOL. XX) ON CONDITION OF VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION. Is it
better; worse; has wedge increased or decreased; is there no change in
position? These are listed, after each graph comparison, on Comparative
x-ray, Major Subluxation Analysis, Comparison Sheet. This is then filed
IN FOLDER WITH Adjustment Department Records on which are
listed day, location, direction of each adjustment. Neither sheet is
referred to UNTIL NEEDED. When is either needed? When time
arrives for giving ANOTHER ADJUSTMENT. When has THAT time
arrived? When we get a 2 point break reading or more.
What happens when day arrives when we DO get 2 point reading or
more?
Case has been read with NCM-NTP-NCG. Record shows 2 point or
more break reading. We get out Comparative X-ray, Major Subluxation
Analysis, Comparison Report AND Adjustment Department Records,
and check following:
1. How long ago was LAST adjustment given? Is todays necessity
close or far away enough to be safe in not over-adjusting?
2. What is time element in relationship between todays necessity
and last graph report on our Analysis, Comparison Sheet? Is
time between close or several days or 2 weeks between?
3. Is vertebral subluxation corrected? Has it increased or decreased?
Has it moved from wrong to right direction; from right to wrong
direction? Is there a No change in position?
If Analysis, Comparison Report shows last graph proves
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THERE IS A DECREASE IN WEDGE, OR NO WEDGE, why
SHOULD WE adjust? Objective to take out wedge or to CONTINUE
CORRECTION has been accomplished, thus no bony occlusion, no bony
pressure, no bony interference. Graph record SHOWS BONY
SUBLUXATION HAS BEEN CORRECTED. Why adjust? You answer
rightly so, There is a 2 point or more break reading. We admit this
factor, but also reiterate the other factor that THE VERTEBRAL
SUBLUXATION HAS BEEN CORRECTED. In such a situation, NO
ADJUSTMENT WILL BE GIVEN notwithstanding existence of 2 point
break reading.
On reverse, suppose last comparative X-ray set shows INCREASE
in wedge and we HAVE NO 2-point break reading. No adjustment would
be given until such a shows up. Suppose last comparative X-ray set
shows INCREASE and WE DO HAVE a 2 point or more break reading.
In such event an adjustment WOULD BE given if, as, and when reading
appears.
No such conclusions can be reached without first setting up every
step of a program such as we use here. You cannot guess; you must
knowand you cant know without every phase of development leading
up to that definite knowledge. This acts as a check and curbs our efforts
one step more on keeping us in line with doing right thing at right time.
We anticipate your next question: How can we have 2 point break
reading WITH NO VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION EXISTING? We
remember another phase of our work-frequency of additional
inflammatory soft tissue callous pressure surrounding spinal cord
constricting occlusion and producing pressure as well as interference.
Correction of BONY vertebral subluxation corrected mechanical osseous
occlusion, pressure and interference but this did not correct CALLOUS
GROWTH SOFT TISSUE occlusion, pressure and interference internal
to bony vertebra surrounding cord.
Briefly reviewing this question, although fully covered in another
work. First symptom following creation of subluxation is inflammation.
Heat swells tissue. Meninges swell, squeeze inward, then outward, filling
spinal callous canal tightly. Vertebra subluxated creates friction from
motion of one vertebra around
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another. Innate Intelligence builds a protective layer of callous skin to
protect against and to prevent rubbing or wearing. Eventually when acute
fever becomes chronic, larger degree of swelling goes down but callous
remains. We now have TWO KINDS of occlusion, pressure, interference,
viz., bony or mechanical; soft tissue or callous.
Incipiency of any case (BUT NOT ALL) includes break readings of
mechanical AND callous pressures, assuming callous pressures is
present. Adjustment of mechanical pressure releases bony pressure but
leaves soft tissue callous constriction pressure. Time and Innate alone can
break down callous pressure. With wedge gone, bony or vertebral
mechanical pressure does not exist. When there is a 2-point or more break
reading existing WITH NO WEDGE VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION
EXISTING, we still can and sometimes do have a callous pressure
reading WITH NO NECESSITY FOR VERTEBRAL ADJUSTMENT.
To discriminate between in one and other was the purpose of checking
further curbs on over-adjusting with system if inter-relationship between
labs as used here, as described.
Information released by NCM graphs, X-rays and their graphs, plus
information of this report, definitely proves atlas does change position
FOLLOWING adjustment; and then begins a gradual rebuilding process
of muscles, cartilages, ligaments, intervertebral discs, etc., which permits
it to assume a more or less persistently permanent apposition, during
which process nothing more SHOULD BE DONE via so-called
adjustment. Anything done under this condition then (which does not
apply to all cases aliketherefore the report) would be to do something
at wrong time in wrong way.
Getting sick people well is simple when variables have been thought
out and constant is practiced, and carefully and consistently followed
thereafter.
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POSTURE CONSTANT
IT IS WITH these various sets of spinographs in mind and with necessity of
taking a SERIES of pictures of each case that we now enter into this field
of Precision Spinograph Measurements in the art of Spinography and the
Posture Constant.
Posture Constant equipment and technic is so called because it
affords a means of building and establishing a TRUE posture constant of
a patients sitting or standing position when placed for Spinographic
pictures.
Purpose of Posture Constant enables Spinographer to EXAC-
TINGLY AND PRECISELY DUPLICATE PATIENTS POSTURE FOR
COMPARATIVE SPINOGRAPHS AT ANY TIME AFTER FIRST
POSTURE HAS BEEN RECORDED. It does not matter whether we
wish to duplicate patients in two weeks from first recording, in two
months or two years, we can POSITIVELY replace that patient back to
original posture assumed when Primary set of X-rays were taken.
By REPLACING case BACK TO original posture we determine
extent of vertebral change brought about through adjustment and not
confuse this with change in patients posture. Posture being constant,
change that IS shown will be that of vertebra or vertebrae exclusively.
Body posture variables are completely eliminated and made constant
which shows in most accurate form actual extent of vertebral variable, so
far as change of position is concerned and also changes in spinal contour
which have, or have not occurred.
Posture Constant work calls for most exacting placement we have
yet called upon to make in spinographic work.
We allow patient to assume a NATURAL position for PRIMARY
set of X-rays. We then adapt or adjust equipment to FIT CASE. We do
not force case to fit equipment. It is more important to allow patient to
assume natural sitting or standing position in Primary Spinographs when
establishing Posture Constant.
In building Posture Constant it has been necessary to have
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made special calibrated devices attached to, or made part of our X-ray
equipment in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic.
There are such pieces of apparatus as chin measurement, which
gives a constant posterior skull line. This measurement is made with cork
in patients mouth before exposure is made for A-P views and correctness
of this measurement is dependent upon height and direct angle of Bucky.
For Diagonal and Lateral views this measurement is made with mouth
closed. There are devices for measuring distance of shoulders from each
side of Bucky. In this way, whatever variations in lower cervical shows
on A-P films will be that of a vertebral change and not due to a posture
variable.
There are 10 positions of stool seat which are recorded after case has
been properly lined up with Bucky. Turn-table upon which patient sits for
cervical pictures is marked into squares, lettered one way and numbered
the other, to record position of feet.
In making 8 x 36 stereo full spine pictures, patient stands upon
measured lines making possible duplication of standing position. Chin
measurement is made in these views as in A-P views.
To further check variables in posture, measurement of top of head
from top of Bucky is made and exact size of cork is recorded.
Height of tube must be kept constant from one A-P, from one
Diagonal series or one Lateral series of spinographs to another to avoid
shadow variables on X-ray films. A difference of several inches in tube
height would very materially change casting of osseous shadows on
X-ray films and make accurate comparative work impossible.
These and many finer points and measurements are made to
establish Posture Constant. Equipment of this kind could only be
precision-built.
We have a special Posture Constant recording chart upon which these
measurements are made in detail and filed away with each patients
records. Each time patient comes in for a comparative set of Spinographs,
record is referred to, equipment set up exactly as in first exposure, or
primary set of films, and pa-
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tient placed back to his original posture in every detail.
Having established a positive posture constant of patients position,
sitting or standing, we are able to take a series of Spinographs and see
actual vertebral change in that case with absolute accuracy.
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SUBLUXATION-ADJUSTMENT
X-RAY GRAPHS
RATHER THAN depend upon personal opinion as to amount of
comparative change in spine, or any specific vertebra, even with Posture
Constant, we developed what is known as the subluxation adjustment
X-ray graphs which we are able to show in various India ink colors on
special graphed oiled paper, exact change in a vertebra or spinal column
as a whole. (See our VOL. XX.)
Bearing in mind that posture constant has been established, skull
line, chin, shoulders, seat, feet, etc. fixed, we make an accurate tracing of
high points of primary set of spinographs, taken when case first entered
Clinic. This is done on a large tracing table with variable light density
underneath and cooled with circulating air.
By high points, let us explain tracing of an A-P cervical graph: In red
India ink, indicating primary spinographs, we trace posterior skull line, or
occiput, lateral masses of atlas, axis centrum and spinous, tips of spinous
processes; then with following graph lines, join these tips together,
showing very closely extent of curvatures and rotations.
To follow through with comparison: we take second comparative
spinographs, which were taken two weeks following primary, and place
A-P cervical film under first tracing of red, overlapping skull-line-tracing
of first graph over skull line of second film. Posterior skull line forms
permanent land mark upon which we base all graphs. Then tracing in blue
India ink lateral masses of atlas, axis centrum and spinous, tips of spinous
processes and joining tips together with graph lines.
Result is that if any change HAS occurred during first two weeks, it
will be very clearly shown by comparison of these two colored tracings.
Follow this through on fourth week with purple India ink
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graph tracing, with green for the sixth, eight week with black, and so on,
and result will be a series of colors showing a series of changes in atlas
and cervical region, provided case has received adjustment. If no change
has taken place, these lines will overlap until it will appear as one tracing.
When case is discharged, we make final tracing which completes
Continuous Comparative Graphs and in addition we make a tracing of
Primary set of films and Final set of films, including full spine 8 x 36
pictures. This is done in red and blue India ink. This pre and post graph
tracing shows final and conclusive change having taken place in a
clear-cut two color, or series of graphs.
In making comparisons and graphs of Lateral Natural and Diagonal
R. Stereo films we trace over certain high points, always using posterior
skull as basis, plus mastoid on Diagonal views.
With full spine 8 x 36 stereo graph-tracing we make skull line and
then mark each spinous process entire length of spine, joining these
together into a continuous graph line. This shows very conclusively any
curvatures and rotations and when final graph-tracing has been made,
shows precisely and accurately what corrections have been made as a
result of atlas HIO adjustment.
A-P cervical graphs will show change in laterality of atlas and
change of axis, scolioses and rotations of cervical region.
Diagonal graph will show change of atlas rotation, and lateral graph
any change of superiority or inferiority of atlas and axis and also change
of a kyphotic or lordotic condition in cervical region.
Posture constant and comparative X-ray graphs are inter-dependent.
Unless graphs are used to make comparisons there is no purpose in
establishing a Posture Constant and unless a Posture Constant IS
established graphs would be of no value because they would show a body
variable which should be constant, showing a vertebral variable.
It is not possible for any Chiropractor to build subluxation-
adjustment X-ray graphs with ordinary X-ray equipment which does not
make it possible to produce a Posture Constant. Equip-
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ment for this work must be calibrated and specially made. Technic for
this work must be exacting and precise in every detail.
The great step which this work has made possible is complete
elimination of all personal, or combined personal opinions in making
comparative spinographic interpretations and instead produce a positive
method of measurement which any Chiropractor or patient can see for
himself by comparing various India ink color on graphs. This work has
taken comparative spinographs out of field of theory and placed them
strictly in realm of science.
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NEUROCALOMETER RESEARCH
BACK IN 1924 there was invented an instrument which was destined to
change the methods used in Chiropractic; destined to change the
approach and mental reasoning of Chiropractors to their sick patients. It
was destined to make possible discovery of the specific for the cause of
dis-ease in the human body and to show accurately exact location of that
cause. That instrument is the NEUROCALOMETER.
The meaning of the word neurocalometer is
Neuronerve
Caloheat
Meterto measure
To measure the Heat of Nerves
Invented by Dr. Dossa D. Evins after considerable research. Dr.
Evins was a Chiropractor at the time he invented this instrument, his
diligent study into whys and wherefore of the Chiropractic adjustment
and the principle of pressure upon nerves, led to his invention which has
been most valuable and one of the most revolutionary since the discovery
of Chiropractic in 189S, since development of toggle recoil adjustment in
190S and introduction of X-ray to the Chiropractic profession in 1910.
Many times in progress, whether in Chiropractic or other endeavor,
it is the Revolutionary thing which leads to greater heights, makes
possible crystallization of many problems and establishment of better
methods.
The Neurocalometer was invented and has been developed on the
postulate that a subluxated vertebra causes pressures upon a nerve or
group of nerves as they pass through or emit from spinal column. This
instrument has taken that principle out of the field of theory and placed it
strictly and wholly in the realm of science. In other words, it has
furnished proof the principle is correct.
This instrument not only shows when pressure is present,
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but whether it has been completed or partially eliminated as a result of
the Chiropractic adjustment of the causative vertebra. When a vertebra is
subluxated, it causes pressure upon the surrounding tissues of a nerve or
bundle of nerves and this causes resistance to flow of nerve energy. This
resistance in turn causes heat at that point, as heat is produced when
resistance is added in a circuit carrying electricity. Neurocalometer is so
sensitive and so constructed with thermocouple detectors and galvano-
meter that it registers heat and records it as so many points, or units, on
the dial. It makes comparative heat readings of the spinal area.
Supposing we do have a subluxation at a certain point. Neur-
ocalometer is glided over area of spine, a detector on each side of spinal
column surface proper. As instrument glides over point where nerve is
impinged, needle deflects in a certain characteristic way, showing so
many points. This deflection of needle is caused by heat at that point,
which, is caused by resistance to nerve flow, and this in turn caused by
subluxated vertebra in question.
Now we see great value of instrument in locating exact point where
pressure exists and its further value in checking after adjustment to see
that pressure has been corrected, resistance corrected and flow of nerve
energy restored to normal. When normal energy restored, and normal
condition prevails we know nerve energy is flowing without interference
to body generally, or flowing without interference to certain organs or
tissues, depending which nerves were involved. Normal function and
health is natural and ultimate result.
After adjustment has been given, days or weeks following, or even
months, instrument has another great value in that it makes possible daily
checking to see that vertebra which was originally involved is remaining
in normal position. As long as vertebra remains in correct position there
will be no nerve pressure recorded by Neurocalometer, in which case
vertebra should not be further adjusted, but left alone to enable Innate to
bring about necessary repairs, or rebuilding, to ligaments and tissues
surrounding segment and to spine in general.
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Should bone slip out of position again, Neurocalometer will show
this by presence of nerve pressure again and further adjustment can be
made immediately cutting to a minimum amount of damage caused if it
remained out of position any length of time. Neurocalometer steps up
efficiency of Chiropractor and places his work on a strictly scientific
basis, making it possible to know when to adjust and when not to adjust.
In the past couple of years there has been developed the
Neurocalograph which is an advancement with Neurocalometer proper
and which we use daily in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic.
Neurocalograph is a highly sensitive and complicated instrument which
makes it possible to record on a graph sheet readings obtained with
Neurocalometer. It does away with necessity of making a mental picture
of needle variations as we glide along spine and also eliminates writing
these mental pictures manually on a graph sheet. Neurocalograph gives
most complete and precise picture of needle variations it is possible to
attain and all done automatically. It takes human element out of Neuro-
calometer work so far as recording is concerned. It makes possible
accurate recording of any and all heat changes and nerve pressure
interpretations found along spinal column. It places Neurocalometer work
strictly and completely in the field of science.
Credit for development of the Neurocalometer or Neurocalograph
goes to Otto Schiernbeck who is Consulting Engineer on our Clinic staff.
Recognizing need for correct speed of detectors along the spine in
proportion to speed of graph movement in instrument, we laid down
fundamentals which led to Mr. Schiernbecks invention of the
Neurotempometer. The Neurocalometer detectors, (hooked up with
Neurocalograph) are attached to Neurotempometer which draws detectors
along spine at a certain, fixed speed. In this way readings are always
made at exactly same speed day after day, which, is one important factors
which contribute to scientific accuracy of Neurocalograph readings,
especially in comparing graphs from day to day and week to week.
In addition to showing actual nerve pressure, Neurocalometer graphs
reveal heat line variation along spine which all have
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a definite meaning. We can tell by changes in heat line readings when a
case is taking drugs and then case is taken off drugs again later; we can
usually tell when a case has had a restless or sleepless night; we can tell
coming and going of certain types of menstruation; we can tell when
definite changes of bodily function are taking place; and a number of the
other conditions which, through our research, we have been able to
tabulate and bring into concrete and practical form.
Another interesting fact is that each case has a certain heat line
graph pattern which is characteristic to that particular case. These heat
line patterns are separate and distinct from actual nerve pressure readings,
but indicates a certain characteristic to each case. Patterns are finger
prints in Neurocalometer work. We could take a number of graphs of
different cases, mix them, and by observing peculiar characteristic graph
pattern of each case, we could separate graphs again into proper order
without looking into proper case numbers. By watching general peculiar
graph pattern of a given case and changes that enter graph picture from
time to time, we can readily tell when certain changes are taking place in
that case.
When you come in each day to have your Neurocalograph recording
made, we will study the graph and say one of two things: O.K.,
everything is all right. This indicates no nerve pressure is present and
nerve energy is getting through without interference, a necessary
condition for recovery. Or we will say: You do. meaning pressure is
present, bone has slipped out of position and you need an adjustment to
set it right.
We have a distinction between the front door and back door of our
Neurocalograph Laboratory. Once in a while, we will say: Out the front
door you go. This is a sure sign reading is favorable and you do not need
adjustment. If it is unfavorable and you need an adjustment, you get one
odherent and are placed on an ambulance cot and wheeled through back
door of laboratory to one silent rest rooms in the rear of clinic. The
front door and back door have two distinct meanings here.
As we pointed out in the beginning, Neurocalometer and its later
advancements Neurocalograph and Neurotempometer, are
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the most important steps in Chiropractic progress. They have made it
possible for us to obtain exacting and scientific information regarding
cause of disease in the human body. They are among chief factors in
bringing Chiropractic into a strictly scientific realm and a high state of
efficiency. It brought Chiropractic to its rightful place in field of science,
all of a which has been done for ultimate objective of getting our cases
well quickly and permanently.
Regardless of these scientific developments and instruments, we
know that the patient want just one thing, and that is restoration of health.
We know we are here for that single purpose of correcting cause of
disorder and allowing Innate to restore normal function.
We know too, these scientific advancements make it possible for us
to accomplish that objective and so justifies anything we have done to
develop Chiropractic to its present state of scientific efficiency.
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THERE IS AN INNATE ADJUSTMENT
FOR MANY YEARS, as the developer and world authority of Chiropractic,
we have maintained there IS an Innate Adjustment brought about as a
result of a concussion of forces contained, or delivered, in the manual
adjustment given by a competent Chiropractor.
There has been evidence in various ways to justify the existence of
this theory, it has not been until recently that actual concrete proof has
been possible because vertebral changes as shown in a series of
spinographs were merely a matter of personal, or combined personal
opinions.
A Chiropractor, or group of Chiropractors, could take a series of
films of a patient and study them in view boxes with result they could
CONCLUDE that certain changes had taken place as a result of the
adjustment, but that conclusion would be an OPINION only and nothing
more. There would be no actual measurable means to show the exact
change. While calibers and rules could be used to measure vertebral
changes, question of patients POSTURE would be one chief objections
raised in mind of the scientist. If there was variation in patients posture
from one series of films to another series in making comparison, naturally
many changes in vertebra in question, or in general spinal contour, might
be shown which would not be true changes of the vertebra, or vertebrae,
exclusively.
While this method of comparison actually DID disprove old medical
propaganda that Chiropractors could not move a vertebra, at same time it
still had too much of personal-opinion-element in it to make it strictly
scientific. Major changes were, of course, apparent; they were obvious. It
was these obvious changes in position of a vertebra under adjustment
which broke down unjust medical claims that a vertebra could not be
moved. We DID move it and could prove it by X-ray pictures of
before-and-after adjustment. The minute, finer details and changes were
matters
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of opinion in those days, and to layman or anyone not thoroughly familiar
with osseous X-ray shadows, they meant little if anything, even assuming
posture HAD been duplicated.
Today, such changes are no longer opinions but facts shown in
measurable and precise form of a strictly scientific nature. By thorough
study and understanding of later developments in technic of Spinography
and comparative interpretation, it is now possible to show there IS an
Innate Adjustment, or setment, of a subluxated vertebra after its proper
manual adjustment.
It is such theories as this and others that The B. J. Palmer
Chiropractic Clinic offers the finest facilities available in any science to
bring about proof. It is this Clinic which enables us and our associates to
develop new and advanced methods of Chiropractic practice, always with
sound foundation of our Chiropractic principles and philosophy, and
always with thought and effort to get sick people well more quickly and
efficiently, with pure, unadulterated Chiropractic.
It has been through correct approach to these problems, i.e., in
manner and spirit of scientists, these problems have been solved in The
B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic. Personal and pet ideas, favoritisms and
prejudices have been cast aside for truth in these matters. Science has a
hard and ruthless way of demanding most exacting standards one could
expect in any field of work. It is the complete disregard of feeling and
personal opinions which makes scientists what they are, and facts which
they conclude and established scientific. Such is the code laid down in
The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic. It is a code which seems
cold-blooded at times for it stops at nothing, nor does it deviate from
hard-and-fast rules necessary to arrive at facts and truth.
Work contained in these sections was obtained from scientific
research and development in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic, on
actual everyday living cases in attendance at the Clinic.
We discuss two major developments in spinographic technic which
made is possible a third development, or conclusions reached there IS an
Innate Adjustment in fact and not merely in theory. While this third item
is not, perhaps, strictly a development, it is a conclusion reached through
a study of scientific facts
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found in our new work of comparative interpretations.
The two major developments are:
1. Posture Constant and Precise Spinograph Equipment.
2. Subluxation-Adjustment X-ray Graphs.
Posture Constant forms the basis or foundation for graphs; graphs
show in concrete, measurable and understandable form, exact and precise
changes in POSITION of a vertebra, or spinal column as a whole, when
under adjustment.
3. This work has brought forth a third item, or conclusion reached
regarding actuality of an Innate Adjustment which we have focused
mainly to atlas and axis since atlas is Specific for Causes of many
Dis-eases. We find there are three general classifications of Innate
positioning, each with three sub-divisions for atlas; and two general
classifications for axis.
One more theory will thus find its place among the list of established
facts in our Science and make possible a better understanding of what
takes place after a Chiropractor Manual Adjustment has been given.
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POSTURE CONSTANT
THE POSTURE CONSTANT was developed and built for a specific purpose:
to eliminate variable body-posture-changes and make them constant and
consistent for purpose of building comparative spinographs and
ascertaining true changes of an individual vertebra, or spinal column as a
whole, when under adjustment and when compared by means of a series
of films over a given period of time.
Posture Constant technique and equipment enables trained
spinographer to exactingly and precisely duplicate patients posture for
comparative spinographs at any time after primary posture has been
established and recorded. It does not matter whether patients posture is
duplicated in two weeks from original recording, two months or two
years, patient can be positively replaced back to posture assumed first day
when primary set of spinographs were made.
Posture Constant work calls for most exacting and expert placement
and detail required in technic of spinography. The work is tedious. It
demands absolute precision work, not only in placement, but in exposure
technic and darkroom procedure. In addition, it demands precision-built
X-ray equipment. Such equipment has all been especially made for the B.
J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic and to date we are exclusive in this type of
scientific X-ray work.
Ability to replace patient back to original posture enables scientific
spinographer to determine extent of vertebral change brought about
through adjustment and NOT confuse this with any change in patients
posture. Posture being CONSTANT, change shown will be that of
vertebra or vertebrae exclusively, and in no way due to body-posture
variables.
While re-positioning of a patient is most exacting, at same time, we
allow case to assume a NATURAL POSITION for primary set of X-rays.
We do not force case to fit to equipment.
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It is important to allow patient to assume a natural sitting or standing
position when establishing Posture Constant. After such a position is
assumed, we then adapt, or adjust, equipment TO FIT TO THE CASE.
This procedure then shows the true, natural subluxation with its various
compensating curvatures below and is not changed in any way by what
spinographer thinks, or believes, is correct posture. Only Innate of patient
knows posture which is most natural to THAT case, and it is under those
conditions we desire to study and determine the subluxation.
It is a different matter to adapt the equipment to case for primary
posture and recording and to adapt case to equipment at some subsequent
time when desired to duplicate that original posture. In first instance, case
assumes natural position most suited to that case; but in second instance,
we replace case ourselveseven granting such position may not be
natural. If we are to make an accurate comparison of subluxated vertebra
in original position, with conditions which originally existed, we MUST
be able to go back, as it were, to that patients original posture, then true
extent of vertebral change cannot possibly be shown. There would be no
relation between first spinographs and last spinographs to be compared
and with such condition, with no relationship between the two, we would
not actually be making a comparison at all. Thus we see necessity for
Posture Constant in Comparative Spinograph work.
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POSTURE CONSTANT EQUIPMENT
IN BUILDING AND DEVELOPING the Posture Constant, it has been necessary
to have special calibrated devices attached to, or made part of the X-ray
equipment in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic. The type of work
conducted in X-ray Laboratory demands precision-built equipment. That
it does accomplish this work proves it honestly gets what it demands.
To give a general working idea of the equipment, it is sufficient to
point some of the major pieces of apparatus, Chief among these is the
chin measurement which gives a constant posterior skull line on all A-P
views, diagonal stereo, and lateral natural views, as well as natural or
stereo 8 x 36 full spine pictures. It is used with sitting and standing
postures. This measurement is made with cork in patients mouth for A-P
views, but in diagonal and lateral views, it is made with mouth closed.
Correctness of this measurement is entirely dependent upon correct
height and angle of the Bucky.
Another important measurement is made from top of head to top of
Bucky. This enables us to check on cases which are relaxed at one date
and rigid at another date; sitting up to straight one time, or slouching
down too much another time. This measurement is interdependent with
chin measurement and is very important in establishing Posture Constant.
Two basic measurements in this work are height of Bucky from floor
and height of tube in relation to center of film, or Bucky, and from the
floor.
After case has assumed natural position in primary set of X-rays,
seat upon which case sits (for cervical views) is then moved laterally until
occipital protuberance is in center of the film, or Bucky. This is done
without actually disturbing patients original posture. Base of seat is
divided into ten different positions: Laterally right and left of median
line; forwards and backwards. In addition to lining up occipital
protuberance with
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center line, spinographer can bring case back close to Bucky after natural
position has been assumed.
Following this measurement or seat positioning, edges of shoulders
are measured with two rods especially made and shaped to external edges
of Bucky. This avoids false conclusions reached relative to lower cervical
changes due to body-variables in this region.
Turn-table upon which patient sits is marked into squares, lettered
and numbered for purpose of recording position of patients feet. Even a
variation in footposition can and does alter position assumed by patient.
Therefore, it is necessary to be able to duplicate foot position. This is
done with patient in stocking feet. High and low heels will vary posture
and to establish a constant, we find best rule is to take all pictures,
including full spine (standing) pictures, in stocking fees.
So precise is this Posture Constant work that exact size of cork is
recorded, thereby enabling operator to duplicate same size cork from one
series of films to another. The smallest detail is not overlooked in
establishing Posture Constant.
Measurements determined from positioning a case for Posture
Constant are recorded on a special Posture Constant Record Sheet, which
contains spaces for all calibrated equipment on X-ray apparatus. This
sheet is filed away with X-ray records doing foe each case and is referrer
to in detail whenever case is positioned for a comparative X-ray. In fact,
most X-ray equipment is set up and measured just before case enters the
laboratory.
Number of Films Per Case
Primary set of X-rays consists of ten films:
A-P Natural
A-P Stereo
A-P Diagonal Stereo
Lateral Natural
B-P Stereo
8 x 36 full spine stereo.
That represents minimum number of films. Should it be found
necessary to take additional special pictures, such as pelvis,
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lateral spine, stomach, lungs, or any part of anatomy, that is done
regardless of number of films required with, of course, every con-
sideration to safety of patient.
Comparative sets which are taken every two weeks, consist of:
A-P Natural
Diagonal Stereo
Lateral Natural
In addition, comparative X-rays are taken of special views.
Final set of X-rays consists of eight films as in primary set,
including same views, except B-P Stereo, plus any of special pictures that
may have been taken.
In The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic, we do not spare films or
effort in securing all information it is possible to obtain through proper
X-rays, not only of spinal column in determining accurate Chiropractic
analysis, but of any special parts of anatomy which will show condition
of patient before adjustment, during adjustment, and after adjustment has
been completed, thereby showing Pre and Post change and also change in
a series between Pre and Post.
From standpoint of quantity of films the Clinic probably uses more
X-ray forms for original and comparative work than any Clinic in the
world.
Every case that has been in the Clinic since August, 193S, up to and
including January 1, 1938, has had an average of 19.4 films taken during
stay in Clinic.
Some stay a short time, having less than 19.4 films; many stay
longer, having more than 19.4 films and as high as eighty films.
To accomplish real comparative work, it is necessary to be prepared
to use large quantities of films.
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THE ESTABLISHING of a technic constant is followed through in exposure
of patient and is very important factor in comparative work. Special
exposure record sheet has been made for this purpose. Every exposure
made of a case is written and dated on this record. Whenever a case
comes into laboratory for a comparative or final set, same exposure is
used in every detail as used in primary set of spinographs. A variable
exposure technic from one set of comparative X-rays to another is not
advisable or tolerated. Tube distance, KVP, M.A., and time are same for
each individual case per given view. Any decided change in these factors
would cause variables in shadows densities which would be misleading in
building accurate comparative X-ray work. Especially is this true of cases
having pathological conditions of bone. Undue varying of penetration, for
instance, could make a condition appear something which was not there,
or something which was there not present.
Many technicians use different combinations of technic for various
cervical views, a different type of technic from one view to the other.
This is acceptable provided same technic is exactly duplicated for
comparative X-rays.
We do not see any reason why there should be any great difference
in technic between three views taken of cervical region. There is not a
great deal of difference between an A-P view and a lateral view, so far as
tissue thickness, especially of skull, is concerned.
There are some technics which require a 30 tube distance for A-P
view and 72 tube distance for lateral. Or there are some which specify a
decided change in KVP and in time between A-P and lateral views.
We reasoned there should be a constant in all cervical X-ray technic
except one factor: the KVP. We also reasoned X-ray work of cervical
region should be done with short exposure time
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since greater part of our stereoscopic work is done in that region.
Anything which would tend to eliminate possibility of motion should be
done. Long exposure time in this region would only give rise to a
tendency for motion and furthermore, prolonged time is not necessary
with modern X-ray equipment. We are of the opinion that when all
factors are properly calculated, long exposure time does not add to detail
failing to do that it is not necessary but, if anything, detrimental. One
other point in favor of short exposure time is that in doing comparative
work, it keeps the M.A.S. total far below a minimum.
Technic we are at present using in the B. J. Palmer Chiropractic
clinic for cervicals is a constant in tube distance (30); M.A. (20); and
time (one second). Only variable which we consider justified is the KVP.
This is varied approximately for average cases as follows:
A-P view 76 to 80 KVP
Diagonal view 74 to 78 KVP
Lateral view 72 to 76 KVP
Total M.A.S. 120
This indicates we drop KVP two points from A-P to Diagonal, and
two points from Diagonal to Lateral. In listing just given for KVP, we
give a range of four points for each view, which covers average type of
adult case.
B.P. Stereo Technic for average case:
35Tube Distance
84 to 88-KVP
30-M.A.
2-1/2 seconds
Total M.A.S.-150
General technic for full spine pictures, covering cases from 130 to
160 pounds, is as follows:
60 Tube Distance
76 to 86 KVP
25 M.A.
5 to 8 seconds
Total M.A.S.: 125 to 200 for flat pictures
Stereo 8 x 36; 250 to 400 M.A.S.
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A complete stereo set of cervical region, plus full spine stereo totals,
then from 520 to 670 M.A.S. for average case, which is about half total
specified by the U.S. X-ray manual, even if it was all taken at 30 tube
distance; but greatest exposure is made at 60, which reduces it further.
The M.A.S. for a comparative set in our work, taken between
Primary and Final, is only 80.
To us, X-ray is a power which, when properly used, shows many
wonders of the human body and makes possible one major divisions in
analysis of locating the CAUSE OF DISEASE.
Abnormalities
In process of building constants for X-ray work and X-ray
interpretations, it is important to mention great value of recognizing and
understanding abnormalities of spine and surrounding structures.
It is essential to be able to instantly recognize abnormal conditions
when they exist. To know abnormal, it is first necessary to know normal.
With introduction of stereoscopic work in our profession several years
ago, it greatly stepped-up our ability to SEE abnormal conditions, buy
only in proportion that we had knowledge to RECOGNIZE them by
knowing normal anatomy.
In this respect there is nothing finer to study than the osteological
collection in the Osteological Laboratory. The Laboratory consists of the
largest and finest collection of osseous specimens to be found in the
world. It surpasses finest collections made in medical institutions and was
builded over a period of years at a cost of over $150,000. There are over
25,000 specimens in this Laboratory. Value of this collection could not
possibly be measured in dollars and cents.
Ideal combination to gain knowledge of osseous structures is to
study normal and abnormal side by side. In this respect, Osteological
Laboratory offers ideal in this type of study.
The Laboratory has been built with special attention directed to
collection of spines both in regard to quantity and to extreme
abnormalities of spine. There is every type of spine, or spinal segment,
anyone would confront in actual practice, and perhaps many which one
would never have occasion to see.
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As an example of the importance of recognizing abnormalities of the
spine, we state the following case:
A short time ago, one of the patients of the Clinic was directed to us
concerning her X-rays. It appears her home Chiropractor had been in
Clinic to see her X-rays during our absence. Fine detail brought out in our
films showed a condition which this Chiropractor concluded was a piece
chipped or broken away from atlas ring. Upon return to his city, he
informed the mother of the patient what he thought had occurred and
made the statement that until this fracture piece had grown together
again, her daughter would not make progress: that such a condition would
press upon spinal cord, preventing recovery.
When patient heard about this, through the mother, she became upset
and was decidedly discouraged about her regaining health again,
notwithstanding as a paralytic case she was making remarkable progress.
Upon going over films with patient, we found condition which
home-Chiropractor referred to was merely a bifid abnormality of
posterior ring of atlas. It is a condition in which osseous development of
posterior ring has not been completed: it occurs often with
premature-birth cases. It is doubtful if it would join together in any case.
There was no fracture, or chipping away of vertebra. A bifid condition of
posterior ring is nothing serious. It does not cause pressure upon spinal
cord as a condition in itself, neither does it interfere with adjustment of
atlas. We find such cases frequently.
As soon as we explained this condition to the patient, she
immediately became at ease. All fears of never regaining health left her
mind and thus another case was saved from giving up Chiropractic solely
through ignorance on part of her local Chiropractor.
We point this out to show that a Chiropractor MUST be able to
recognize abnormal conditions of the spine if he is to build a constant in
his work as a Chiropractor and trained spinographer.
It happens often that occiputs are malformed, one side larger than
other; one-half hanging lower than other. Such con-
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dition naturally causes incorrect listing atlas wedge unless it is
recognized immediately.
Quite frequently, one lateral mass of atlas is larger, or wider, than
the other; or one transverse is shaped differently than other; one may
point upward, other downward.
Another common abnormality is posterior ring of atlas, part from
lack of osseous development just mentioned, in which ring is unevenly
formed, probably causing posterior tubercle to be over to one side as a
matter of development and not due to misalignment.
These conditions and many more finer points in relation cervical
abnormalities and entire spinal column as a whole, for that matter, are
details which are essential to recognize in our scientific work of today.
Such recognition is attained only through proper study and with proper
facilities for study.
This one reasonabnormalities and proper facilities for their
studyis sufficient to justify cost involved for internship for both the
newly graduated Chiropractor and older Chiropractor in the field.
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COMPLICATED METHODS OF SCIENTIFIC
APPLICATION?
FOR MANY YEARS we, as Chiropractors, have pointed reasons for failures
of invasionary medical practices due to complication, multiplicity of
methods and theories.
This is true in Medicine. Its practice IS a conglomeration of theories
and practices. There IS an ever-changing line of pet theories, practices,
and fads. There are new serums for this and that; new antitoxins for one
thing and another. They change monthly. Some are claimed to do
wonders and are later found to be actually harmful. But none remain in
medical practice any length of time. They change as often as styles,
because they are fadsnot scientific facts.
Medically, case cannot be treated until diagnosed. Percentages of
incorrect diagnoses is very high, in average medical practice. Hence the
percentage of incorrect treatment is also high. It becomes a guessing
process. Even if diagnosis IS correct, physician must then choose any
one, hundreds of different drugs, serums or treatments for a given
disease. There is nothing specific and clear-cut about the practice of
medicine. The reason is simple: MEDICINE DOES NOT HAVE A
SPECIFIC PRINCIPLE OR SET OF PRINCIPLES UPON WHICH TO
WORK AND GOVERN ITS PRACTICE. Unless we have principle,
foundation upon which to base work, of theories or practices, they
become lost in a maze of complications, running headlong in no
particular direction.
That same idea applies to a profession, business, or organization of
any kind, and also to individuals. We can never reach the top unless we
have a principle, or a definite plan upon which to work. We must have
aims and ideals; we must know where we stand as individuals, and decide
upon the limits we will go in
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certain directionsdecide what we will and will not stand for. We must
know how far we will deviate from the straight and narrow road in
attaining objectives. Some people stray and go in and out of all kinds of
by-ways in reaching theoretical goals others seldom, if ever, leave main
road or lose sight of goal ahead. That is the difference between
individuals. It is the difference between working on principles, or
working on pet ideas, fads and fancies. One will get you there, other will
not. One will get sick people well, other will not. PRINCIPLES make that
difference!
Chiropractors from over the world visit The B. J. Palmer
Chiropractic Clinic. They marvel at scientific equipment, elaborate
furnishings, color schemes, and extensive space it covers. They feel this
is the ideal in any profession or science; and it IS finest in Chiropractic or
any other profession. We have at our command finest and most accurate
instruments for making Chiropractic records of physical and mental
conditions for patients. No expense has been spared in purchasing, or
having specially made, scientific instruments; or in building special
laboratories and ground-shielded booths in which to house them.
For instance, the Neurocalograph which is an advancement with the
Neurocalometer, making possible automatic recording of Neurocalometer
readings of graphs, is installed in a grounded-shielded booth made of
copper screening, iron, etc., in which all outside energy is eliminatedall
radio waves, Hertzian, electric, and magnetic waves completely blocked
out of the booth. This makes Neurocalograph accurate and precise. There
are no outside variables entering the picture.
This grounded shielded booth idea is even more elaborately and
extensively carried out in the laboratory of the electroen-
cephaloneuromentimpograph. This instrument is so sensitive and highly
complicated that it requires two grounded-shielded boothsone for
instrument proper and other for patientconnected by grounded cables.
Not content with ordinary installation of the electrocardiograph, we
built a grounded-shielded laboratory for this instrument, keeping out all
variables which might interfere with absolute accuracy in making
recordings. Same applies to Electro-
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Cardi-O-Phon, Aw-De-O-Cardiograph, recording sphygmomanometer,
heartometer, lie detector, etc. They are used under more ideal conditions
than inventors intended. Every effort has been made to make automatic
precision recordings scientific in fact, accurate beyond possible doubt.
From microscopes to X-ray apparatus, from chemical laboratories to new
work on brain energy, from medical instruments to Chiropractic
instruments, The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic can boast of finest
obtainable. We on the Staff are proud to be a part of this organization
because it ranks top-notch in science and in scientific work conducted
within its walls.
Some of our Chiropractic colleagues, however, see all we have here,
and go away wondering whether or not we have gone into the scientific
side of this work to the extent that Chiropractic will become lost sight of,
in the process of compiling scientific facts required of each case. They
wonder if we are not leading in same direction as medical profession
which we have often criticized for getting into complicated fields. They
wonder if we are getting things so complicated in Chiropractic it will be
lost. Someone who walks in here for first time, and makes a tour through
Clinic in an hours time, may be justified in thinking these things. But no
one has a more clear-cut idea of the direction he is going than ourself. So
intense is our mind on a single, specific objective, that we naturally
imbues the rest of us with that thought and feeling. We know where we
are heading and what our purpose is, as individuals in our departments
and distinct phases of work. Each department head, while he has
scientific facts to obtain in his particular sphere, is nevertheless in
constant association with other departments and their doctors.
We could easily imagine one of these doctors becoming lost in many
so-called complications of his branch of work; but, on the contrary, this
Clinic is organized so that he naturally associates his ideas and his work
with general set-up for general good of the Clinic and patients.
Many suggestions and ideas are exchanged between department
heads who, seeing others work from outside, as it were, a sees some
improvement or change which could be made. There
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is such a thing as becoming so deeply absorbed in one type of work that
we cannot see the real things about it. Sometimes it is the fellow who is
doing some other type of work who sees something in OUR work which
could be improved. To do good work, we must get away once in a while
and look at our work from a distance; we must get perspective and
visionand that cannot come by sitting on top of our work too much; it
comes by getting away now and then.
The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic, or Chiropractic, itselfso far
as The Palmer School of Chiropractic is concernedwill NEVER
become lost in complications. And we tell you why: CHIROPRACTIC IS
BASED ON A SPECIFIC SET OF PRINCIPLES GOVERNING ITS
PRACTICE.
Regardless of scientific complications, the Clinic has one
fundamental principle and practice upon which results are obtained, and
that is the ADJUSTMENT SPECIFIC. One case doesnt get a treatment
for this; and another case a treatment for that. There is no treating effects
with electricity, baths, message, or anything of that kind. There is no
prescribing certain drugs for one condition and certain drugs for another.
No complications of treatment in medical and other fields of healing are
found in this Clinic. All cases receive ADJUSTMENT SPECIFIC AND
OBTAIN RESULTS THOUGH PROPER APPLICATION OF THAT
specific principle and practice, exclusively.
In this Clinic we have made it our business to locate that specific
subluxation and bring about its proper adjustment. We have obtained and
built special equipment to meet needs of special problem cases. We make
it our job to SOLVE problem cases, usually to protect the good name of
Chiropractic and at the same time being limited in equipment, or perhaps
ability, to solve problem cases, know we specialize in such cases. Having
Chiropractic foremost in mind, we go about the job of solving those
cases; and in solving them, we automatically give the home Chiropractor
a boost. Our procedure is such that we never cause detrimental effects,
ideas, or suggestions to come to the home Chiropractor by any action on
our part; but on the contrary we actually give him a build up, honestly
and constructively. When
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the case returns to him, the patient has more confidence in him than
originally.
Chiropractic will never become lost in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic
Clinic. Principles do not change. It stands higha thing of balance and
permanency to which we can always look to solve our problemsand
they ARE solved under most ideal conditions possible to have in
Chiropractic. The many scientific instruments used and continually being
developed are REVOLVING AROUND this single method of practice,
this single principle, the ADJUSTMENT SPECIFIC.
Physical facts of cases do not in any way influence adjustment given
or time when it should be given.
Actual information of HOW, WHEN, AND WHEN NOT to adjust is
determined by Neurocalograph-Neurocalometer-Neurotempometer
readings and their interpretations; Spinographs and Subluxation-
Adjustment X-ray graphs and reports. When these factors indicate
adjustment, it is given. When they do not, regardless of how patient may
be FEELING, an adjustment is not given. Proper judgment, technical
ability, and interpretation are chief factors in bringing cases back to
health in this Clinic.
Physical facts obtained through use of scientific and automatic
instruments are for sole purpose of showing condition of patient before
adjustment, condition or changes during patients stay in Clinic, and final
condition or result when case is discharged. These conditions are
recorded automatically and without necessity of personal opinions.
Building records is a very important issue in the scientific world today,
because we bring actual proof in solid, concrete, and scientific form, that
ADJUSTMENT SPECIFIC does get sick people well; that adjustment is
not a matter of psychology or imagination on part of patient, but IS the
reason for getting him well. We record many things over which patient
has no control and therefore any change or improvement in such things
must result from adjustment alone; it cannot be influenced by anything
else because nothing else is done. Following adjustment, case is restored
to normal health through his Innate powers, growing healthy naturally.
Conclusions of scientific facts and proof of effectiveness of
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ADJUSTMENT SPECIFIC are made from regular routine checks once a
week.
When case first enters Clinic, following examinations are made:
Electroencephaloneuromentimpograph
Electrocardiograph
Recording sphygmomanometergraph
Heartometergraph
Electro-Cardio-O-Phon and Aw-De-O-Cardiograph record
Contour-grafometer record
Urine analysis
Blood tests
Metabolism tests
Microscopical examinations
Physical examinations
Complete set of ten spinographs (minimum)
Neurocalograph-Neurocalometer-Neurotempometer record
Once a week thereafter, case receives all these examinations and
tests with exception of spinograph comparative sets which are made
every two weeks, with a final set of ten spinographs (minimum) when
case is discharged. For protection of patient from accumulating too many
X-rays in the system, spinograph comparative sets must be taken, at best,
once every two weeks. All other tests once a week.
Neurocalograph-Neurocalometer-Neurotempometer readings daily.
From this thorough routine procedure, facts are obtained through
systematic and scientific comparison of records. We are not reaching
opinions from theories and pet ideas, but from facts of comparative
records and tests. Everything is based on procedure which is not carried
through with such precision and exactness in any other Clinic in the
world. In fact, we do not know of ANY clinic or hospital which makes
such exhaustive tests once a week, under conditions herein described, or
which takes as many X-rays consistently of each case, keeping graph
comparisons, showing minute degrees of vertebral change. Hurried, in-
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complete tests, varying in procedure from week to week, are not tolerated
in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic. Every detail must be carried out
exactingly, and in proportion are the conclusions accurate and facts
scientifically correct. Nothing is left to personal or combined personal
opinions of department heads. In every way, these scientific facts are
recorded on graphs and films automatically and accurately. Whatever
changes are shown in a case are true, made automatically by precision
instruments, not influenced by human element or personal opinions or pet
ideas of ANYONE.
We systematically compile true statistics as to actual physical and
mental changes in our patientschanges as a result of exclusive use of an
exclusive principle and practicethe ADJUSTMENT SPECIFIC.
In a scientific and accurate way, we are able to prove that
Chiropractic DOES get results; that results we DO get are not a matter of
psychology or imagination on part of patient, but real, honest-to-goodness
results. They are recordings of scientific instruments which do not lie
instruments making recordings which any scientist or authority cannot
and will not doubt.
This is one phase of work in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic
one of the purposes. In years to come we will look back and realize how
valuable this work has been and is, in upholding principles and practices
AND RIGHTS of Chiropractic.
Most certainly we can look back and see that while many scientific
but justified complications HAVE entered the picture, the PRINCIPLE
and PRACTICE of Chiropractic have remained exclusive and distinct
from any and all other healing professions; and they remain the basis or
foundation for work and research conducted.
Chiropractic cannot become lost!
Principles do not change!
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CAN INNATE CONTACT EDUCATION?
HOW
does Innate Intelligence
a natural, normal Intelligence
of aeons of time
balancing abstract and concrete forms
building human forms, as one of millions of forms
with its estimated 400 trillion human tissue cells
in 280 days, in the mother
conceived, developed, during conception
all of which are properly placed, correlated, organized
given birth
and then directs, governs
and coordinately regulates
an endless series of harmonious functions
none of which, can any educated man
understand, much less improve upon
all of which flows from above-down, inside-out
from its vast memory store-house
how any portion, or the totality, is done, no educated man can
fathom
all of which is beyond the comprehension of
man-made, book-made, man-to-man, educationally assembled
within three score and ten years
when education needs revive some or all of this
and when this insignificant man-made assemblage of so-called
education
finds himself ready and willing to receive
HOW does Innate contact education?
Innate Intelligence pursues the accumulative CONSTRUCTIVE
survival value pattern.
Educated man, pursues the accumulative DESTRUCTIVE
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survival value pattern.
Educated man develops, almost entirely, from OUTSIDE-IN,
BELOW-UPWARD, developing wars, decimating millions, starving
millions more.
Medical scientific research, and medical researchers, develop a
pattern of looking from outside in, scheming how to formulate inside to
suit his external caprices. In all of 5,000 years, constantly dinning into the
minds of people like themselves, begging for millions, none of which
have yet discovered and developed a specific, single simple cause and
cure of a dis-ease. As they look from outside in, understanding little of
what they seek, they refer to the Supreme Innate Intelligence as the
SUB-conscious mind, beneath, below, inferior to their minds.
Chiropractic philosophy calls this Superior Innate Intelligence, which
flows from above-down, inside-out, a SUPER-conscious mind.
What a marvelous understanding of himself the so-called educated
man could and would have IF he could receive from this Innate gigantic
store-house of wisdom. For that reason, knowing he would permanently
destroy its values, Innate had fore-ordained that educated man would
up-set, rearrange, disturb, unbalance, attempt to rebuild all to HIS
scientific research theoriesIF such were possible.
What a marvelous transformation occurs when the simple educated
man gets an Innate thought-flash, now and then, which can be used to
mans welfare IF heeded and followed. Too often they are not. The
obvious is SO obvious it is NOT obvious.
Words are used to explain thoughts. How put into words the
characteristics of a thought, idea, ideals, ideations? We find ourselves
word-bound to present OUR thoughts AS thoughts, to another. This
article is an attempt to use somantics to try to do just that.
It is one thing to do suggest the possibility of this subject; another, to
present a method of transforming its becoming a reality; and still another,
how to use the it when it arrives, to overcome the handicaps of the
limitations of education, to act upon the boundless and permanent talents,
to convert failures to success. It is more difficult to prove such is factual
and realistic
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in terms and methods of science, commerce, professions, and of personal
benefit to individuals.
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Humble was the beginning of existence of the author. Jumping the
gap of 60 years, we find him surrounded by many huge PSC buildings at
the top of Brady Hill; many acres of ground; largest non-medical school
in the world.
On the professional side, we find a practical workable philosophy,
science and art, involving tremendous values to many thousands of
disciples who serve our work and works to millions of sick people over
the world. All this and more have profited from thoughts and labors of
this self-made boy-man. One man? No! He was surrounded by several
hundred loyal helpmates.
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HOW did this come about? Was it accident, happenstance, good
luck; or was it based on sound rational methods of approach and
deliveries?
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At the age of 19 (when this author FOUND HIMSELF) he observed
that an Innate Intelligence INTERNAL to LIVING man contacted
EVERY tissue cell, EVERY second, with EVERY organ in the living
human body, from ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT. This Innate sent
messages, via nerves, from brain to body; told each cell WHAT to do,
and received reply messages in return, whether it was or was not done, all
the time from birth to death.
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Any internal intellectuality great enough to build what is estimated
to be 400 trillion human tissue cells, formulate specific organs to do
specific duties, locate them in respective groups, correlate these systems
into specific over-all duties, start ALL working TOGETHER
harmoniously, is great enough for our comparatively insignificant
education to listen to, IF WE COULD GET IT to tell US what WE should
and should not know; how, when, where to do its bidding. It has
succeeded in doing right things, right ways, for millions of people, for
aeons of time; there-
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fore, should be good enough guide, informant, and teacher for us. It
would be wisdom on OUR part TO LISTEN, heed, take advice and
suggestions FROM Innate TO education.
If Innate was immaculate enough to conceive, build, direct, control,
regulate, and repair the building of a new complete unit of a child in utero
280 days, surely it was immaculate enough to tell the pretty education of
a few short years what to do, where, when, and why. After all, the
educated BRAIN is one of Innates organs, built for one definite purpose,
to make it possible for man to think with his contact with environment, to
compare relative values with ideas for surrounding conditions OUTSIDE
its completed body. While man does live entirely with THE INTERNAL,
he also contacts external worlds as well. To this end, Innate constructed
one brain solely to control INTERNAL functions, another to like limit
contacts with EXTERNAL world. This knowledge of Innate has been
repeating itself, in exactly same forms, same organs, placed same way,
functioning same way, in millions of people.
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LIMITLESS INNATE. LIMITED MATTER.
IS THE LIMITED expression of matter, of man, a hypocrite when HE tells
the sick world how to get well and by doing down the wrong road, here
and there, then and now, fails to serve health to himself?
Physician Heal Thyself!
There is an issue of matter, where one can take just so much
punishment down through the years, and no more. When that time
arrives, Innate rebells and teaches the individual that a limitless Innate
must do much within the limitations of a material body and, if the
individual pushes beyond that breaking point, beyond human possibility,
something gives, after which limitations of matter have been reached.
The limitless Innate, thought-flashes an unlimited frequency of
problems to a certain limited machine, who, through necessity, not
convenience, has a limited time in which to move mountains of failures
backed with prejudices.
This limitless Innate and limited man-machine can do just so much,
in his limited span of time from 1905 to 1961, and nor more. Innate,
pushing, squeezing, demanding every day be 16 to 18 hours, seven days a
week, (including Sundays), every 52 weeks a year, proves that matter can
only stand a limited wear and tear with a break-down, here and there, and
then and now, which follows especially if the individual accepts every
and all thought flashes demanding consistently, beyond its disability,
something gives and the inevitable happens.
To multiple people of limited matter, average day is an exhaustive 8
hours work, 8 of relaxing pleasure, and 8 of recuperative sleep. Not so
with some especially Innate-chosen limited human being, through which
the limitless Innate has chosen to perform definite and positive
responsibilities.
It is common procedure for this limitless Innate, to thought flash to
the limited sleeping brain endless unlimited ideas during
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the so-called 8-hour restful period. There is no returning to sleep until the
limited matters gets up, writes, rewrites that or those thought flashes
concisely, in explanatory language; then, and not until, does the limitless
Innate retire and let the limited matter return to sleep.
The more limitless Innate thought-flashes ARE respected in its
demands, to record its unlimited interpretations of its law and principles,
the more frequently they come, less rest sleeping limited matter gets,
month by month, year by year. This breaks down restful periods, wears
the man-machine to an exhaustive state of matter. The written word is
praised, but the man-matter suffers in exact reverse ratio.
Matter, regardless of the body Innate exists within, can resist
resisting conflicting frictions, to ITS human limit. After that it becomes
human abuse. You can wisely suggest matter should hesitate, call a halt
when it reaches the recuperative limit and exhaustive period. Innate,
having nothing limit, having found an assemblage of matter appropriate
to its biddings, thinks more of masses to be served, than of any one unit
himself.
Every living person HAS an Innate, or he wouldnt be alive. EVERY
such has organic functions as proof such exists within him. EVERY
person GETS Innate thought-flashes. Vast majorities do not realize this,
therefore are not conscious of such. The MORE educationally you
DENY, the LESS you will RECEIVE. MORE you ADMIT such, MORE
you CAN receive. Education is considered the new plus ultra, most
essential, it is THAT WHICH he seeks, struggles and strives to get more
and MOST of. Innate is the silent partner, unobserved, unknown. Because
education is 99 percent for ambitious of people, they think mostly in
terms of cramming more OF IT from OUTSIDE-IN BELOW-UPWARD,
getting little of Innate percolating down and through to education. By
reversing that order, all would realize Innate is the wholesome and
reliable knowledge of ALL things while education is artificial,
superficial, side-tracked counterfeit of THE REAL YOU WITHIN YOU.
Is it sensible and logical to have more faith in a spoonful of medicine
from outside than the intellectual power which built your body from
inside?
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Quantity and with quality of Innate is 100 percent at ALL times, on
ALL subjects. As it filters down through educated brains, with scholastic
trainings, its value diminishes rapidly even to zero in many people. This
drop in quantity and quality of reception between the two portrays mans
inequalities, preventing peak of perfection of thoughts and actions. If
educated man would think LESS of too much scholastic educational
training, and DEPEND MORE upon Innate thought-flashes, he could and
would take his place amongst the original thinkers of history who
conceive greater understandings of dormant potentials WITHIN HIM,
which are usually submerged by contrast.
(In the egotistic exaggeration of his ego, man speaks of the other
fellow, his conscience, that something in behind, as a
SUB-conscious, NON-conscious, UN-conscious mind; as though HE,
with his conscious mind was the greater. Any intellect great enough to
build a completed child-unit in 280 days, when man with his boastful
education could not make ONE tissue cell and cause it to functionate
life, is NOT BENEATH OR INFERIOR to his pretty thinking. In reality,
IT is a SUPER-conscious intellect.)
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It was when he FOUND HIMSELF in his relations with his INNER
SUPER-SELF, he decided to LISTEN TO INNATE MORE, AND LESS
attention to education, especially in gaining a knowledge of self, within
himself, thereby gaining a greater knowledge of what made man tick in
relation to his studies of life, health, sickness, and now to recover lost
values. He would listen, heed, and act upon ITS advices when
thought-flashes came through in a split second.
Man seeks to go TO the moon. To attain this goal, education
correlates scientific-mechanical brains, plus billions of dollars, to create a
rocket, cramping a living body inside to get there.
Paradoxically, the internal-human-natural-normal source of all
intelligence comes from ideas stored in that unseen, unknown Innate
above. By the time Innates knowledge reaches education, it becomes
perverted, distorted, modified by multitudinous theories coming IN from
OUTSIDE IN BELOW UP, becoming over-
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exaggerated, grotesque, drawing less from Innate from its natural and
normal, down to educateds monstrous and sensational concepts. Mans
great ambition is to conquer outer worlds beyond HIS inner world, then
contemptuously keep idle THE SUPERIOR SOURCE from which he
interprets negative, contradictory understandings.
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This young man found there existed a worldwide breach between
Innate people AND educated people. The small group were
non-conformists. The large group were conformists. When Innates
thought-flashes came through to smaller group, from ABOVE DOWN,
INSIDE OUT, larger group of educated people developed OUTSIDE IN,
BELOW UP innumerable complex arguments, debates, compromises,
endeavoring to prove smaller group were wrong, and there WAS NO
SUCH THING. The larger group worried, stewed, fretted; days, weeks,
months, and years, to prove smaller group were wrong. To deny contact
between small and large groups was the chore undertaken by larger
group.
With all its evaluation of building human bodies, Innate flashes its
spired messages in split flashes of time. Usual education misses all,
denies what it does receive, then begins the struggle of perspirations
opposing them. No wonder education misses much of internal realities. In
ONE FLASH visions and wisdoms of the ages can come true. Education
then takes years to bitterly oppose them.
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Difference between these two types of people is that the Innate
thought-flash person is an originator, comes up with new and startling
different presentations, something which moves human understandings to
new unknown fields. Educated types plod along in old established ruts,
takes paths of least resistance, does what grandparents did as they did
them, scoffs at a something new he cannot understand. The Innate
personality makes history. The other, with educate misunderstandings,
puts on brakes and ridicules them, because they cant be done
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Every impression received by Innate, from its material internal body
fixtures, or received through external environmental abstract senses of so
sight, hearing, tasting, feeling, or smelling, is recorded indelibly in Innate
memory. Like a taped talk, they are invisible, waiting to be played back
when needed. Each is mentally interpreted, stored, card-indexed,
catalogued, filed, subject to recall in an emergency, or upon desire, as
listeners circumstances warrant. This is not a new theory, it is
recognizable and is constantly happening to everybody. It occurs with
regularity with the Innates of all people, regardless.
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From boyhood to mature manhood, ours has been a full and crowded
life. Its trials, troubles, and tribulations; joys and sorrows; handicaps and
victories, are endless. Responsibilities and burdens have been light in
many ways, and tremendously heavy in others. Our diversifications of
interests and mental activities are beyond computation.
We enumerate some:
we have traveled many times around the world
mileage (1961) is 1,769,000
social
professional
legislative
legal
associations
secret orders
public speaker
writer
author
printer
publisher of 37 volumes
ten scientific laboratories
researcher
mental institution for mental cases
private clinic for sick
cafeteria
philosopher
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artist
musician (pipe organ)
scientist
circus fan
oriental art connoisseur
caveologist
volcanologist
osteologist
anthropologist
hobbyist
B. J.s trophy room with its hundreds of citations, honors, awards,
tributes, degrees, resolutions, complimentary memberships,
presentations of endless gifts, etc.
23 acres of Palmerton, housing 400 students
deep-sea fisherman
A Little Bit o Heaven with its almost two million visitors
institution of Chiropractic with 1,000 students, including 165 from
foreign countries
professional friend of thousands of legitimate, vaudeville, radio,
movie, TV and circus folks
winter home in Sarasota, Florida
All pile up a prodigious store of data, memories, ad infinitum.
Education could not possibly recall all items of information stored away.
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Suppose you entered into a conversation. Something somebody did
recalls to your mind that clich, That reminds ME, where YOU
educationally WOULD LIKE to recall some experience photo,
experience, you HAD LONG FORGOTTEN and had not resurrected for
years, yet you couldnt dig it up at that time or moment out of the past.
Millions of incidents forgotten. That one you NEED RIGHT NOW soon
comes forth clearly, with details. Have you ever talked about friends,
long gone, long obliterated, and you WANTED to recall a name, town,
date, and you couldnt? Conversation continued; suddenly, WITHOUT
ADVANCE NOTICE OR WARNING, it thought-flashes back with ALL
details surrounding THAT individualistic person, name,
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town, place, and time. WHERE did it come from? Innate storehouse
brought it out of the warehouse of memory and thought-flashes it TO
education. There is nothing so fickle as a lapsus lingua,
non-compus-mentis, when you need it. Memory OF EDUCATION is as
devoid as the memory OF INNATE is exhaustless. Our Innate
relationships with many educated people frequently recall many
diversified items; yet Innate knowing we needed them thought flashes
them direct, pronto. If permitted, this flashing back of ideas into the past
becomes a habit we rely upon.
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Throughout this explanation of the supreme values of Innate
thought-flashes, we have depreciated values of education per se. We do
NOT under-estimate any and all PRACTICAL applications of any and all
USEFUL educations in sciences and arts based on conformity with truth,
which work with rigid and dynamic constructive constructions and are
DEFINITE realities, present POSITIVE facts, have RELIABLE evidence
and proof, such as the science and arts of astronomy, chemistry,
mathematics, and all kindred forms based thereon.
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Peculiarly, this boy began to rely MORE AND MORE upon Innate
thought-flashes and less on educated opinions of those who surrounded
him. They sincerely and honestly advise him. They advised him NOT to
do this THAT way, but preferably he should do what THEY WANTED
him to do some educated way which his executives and advisors thought
was better. More and more, he followed advices of Innate. Eventually, he
was able to get help mates to ALSO see Innates ways which had paid big
dividends in HIS success; therefore, they began to listen to THEIR
Innates and they, too, came through as followers of Innates processes.
Realizing an odd and different kind of transformation was taking
place in himself, he wondered if other men and women went through a
similar process. How about men who evolutionized old problems into
new philosophies, sciences, and arts? Had they also come through from
ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT, with Innate thought-flashes? Being an
avarice reader of the products of intellects of the other people, he found
they, too,
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possessed this same secret method. Occasionally, some writer would
endeavor to explain it, trying to aid others to see the light. Time after
time, he assumed he saw writings of others explaining the same process
in them. It wasnt long until this youngest realized it was not a process
but old, and was used knowing by others. These types were
non-conformists. They refused to fit into usual patterns of education,
doing same things same ways as multitudes that surrounded him; and IF
they wished to develop a NEW philosophy, science, art, all had to go to a
source beyond and deeper than the hordes who squeezed in their outmold
and stagnant products.
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When was the best time to get an Innate though-flash through to
educated brain? Obviously, when there is nobody home, when the halls
are empty, when rooms are vacant. When IS that? When education is
asleep, when it is not there to interfere or oppose a clear passage, when
channels are open, when there is no interference FROM education To
Innate, between the two brains. For this reason, clearest, best of Innates
vast wisdom thought-flashes come through at night. Innate is so often
insistent that this youngster many and many a time found his nights
consistently awakened with his most brilliant solutions of the most
bothersome problems.
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What usually happens to the average person WHO WANTS TO
KNOW HOW TO RECEIVE INNATES THOUGHT-FLASHES? In
daytime, you get them and pass by them. At night, you are relaxed,
asleep, education is blanked out. Quietly and easily, Innate has a solution
for some problem which worried education. Innate flashes through to
your NOW empty educated brain; it awakens education; you begin to get
ready to commence to think YOU had a solution.
Silently, Innate sneaks up on your sleepy self. Innate flashes answers
so you MAY have them. Instead of getting up, having a pad and pencil
handy alongside your bed, writing while the idea is in full clarity, you roll
over on the other side, education saying, Ill remember that tomorrow
and then Ill think able about it
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and if it is worth while will write it. Right THERE AND THEN you
made your big mistake! In the morning, education is top man again.
Innate is back in its retreat, doing only these things which it has to do to
keep physical functions in motion. You didnt CAPTURE that idea when
Innate WANTED TO AND WAS WILLING TO GIVE; so you
educationally lost it. The more this indifference occurs this way, the more
Innate becomes discouraged and eventually ignores YOU because YOU
ignored Innate, until it becomes a fixed habit both ways, each ignoring
the other.
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The ordinary human animal has what are commonly called
hunches, intuition, instinct, wee sma voice, and sometimes a
conscience. There are FIVE accounted for which birds and other
animals have. When asleep, certain ones are dormant. Others are on the
job, such as hearing, smelling, feeling, etc.
Suppose, at night, while asleep, the baby cries, telephone rings, a
fire occurs, a prowler breaks in, and you become too cold or too warm.
Innate HEARS the baby, telephone ring, prowler in room; your nose
smells smoke; if cold or hot, you pull up or throw off blankets. All these
can awaken EDUCATION. These are typical thought-flashes FROM
Innate TO education.
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Describing this process of what to do when an ABOVE DOWN,
INSIDE OUT thought-flash comes through, or how is one to know what
is or when it is a thought-flash, or how is one to recognize such?, this
keen fundamental recognition was difficult for OUR education at first.
We had so much education outside in, below upward, bucking Innate, for
a long time outside environmental complexes of education completely
overshadowed and blanked Innate out of consideration.
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As days, weeks, and even years wore on, he and Innate became
intimately acquainted. Eventually, he looked up to, listened for the wee
sma voice. Was he imagining ALL that came through? Were they wild
phantasies of his flightly and meager
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education? He decided to test them. When in trouble, with worries,
problems of business, professions, or social misunderstandings, receded
to let Innate solve them in ITS own way, in ITS own time. He decided to
NOT PRESS for an immediate answer. He soon learned that if HE
arbitrarily followed usual educational routes, he lost what we sought. If
we turned the world problem over to Innate, eventually in ITS own
astounding way, at its own discretion, would flash through a correct and
right answer. More this occurs with beneficial conclusions, stronger
became the tie between Innate and him.
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When there are no restrictions between greater and lesser
personalities, all conflicts cease. Instead of bucking failures with
regularity, he was succeeding in attaining his objective with no internal
conflict. Eventually, when this camaraderie became fixed and firmly
established in his life, he realized this was a law and A WAY of life
one which had succeeded WITH HIM, would succeed with others. It
became to him a way to live, to convert failures into successes. If this
could occur IN HIM, it should be told to all who would listen, that every,
might use the same law and repeat SAME a route travel through life.
Innate then impressed upon him that it became his duty to explain the
process, method, and way HE succeed, that THEY might duplicate
WHAT he did, AS he did it.
Innate, seeing he DID accept its solutions of unsolved problems,
became MORE bold, flashed through MORE frequently, and usually
without hesitation. As intimacy grew deeper, Innate became a constant
companion, coming best when needed most. Innate soon had no
hesitation in flashing answers through to him at most unexpected times
and places. Inasmuch all thought-flashes were FROM Innate TO
education; and knowing how fickle is education and its short memories,
this man ALWAYS carries pad and several ink-pens, to then and there,
WITHOUT ONE MOMENTS HESITATION, makes notes on issues
involved. On trains, cars, planes, no matter where, OUT COMES THAT
PAD AND PEN.
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At first, while he knew there was an Innate personality within him,
living in the same home WITH him, it was like a far doing distant total
stranger. He knew, if he were to become what he wanted to be, he had to
get better acquainted. Being humble in the presence of this neither great
personality that was all, knew all, and was the great intellect the it was,
he hesitated receiving its thought-flashes. Were they real? Were they of
value? Would he find them so, or would he some day wake up to the
realization they were spurious, with question, not reliable or to be
depended upon? One by one he gone to get thought-flashes. At first, he
accepted them without fear, trepidation, and hesitation. It seemed Innate
was testing him, questioning his ability TO RECEIVE; and, if he
received, would he act upon them? Once Innate knew education
appreciated their values, then was when Innate became a living pal,
always ready, willing, and anxious to serve HIS best educated interests.
Innate cannot and seemingly WILL NOT flash thoughts through a
super-educated muddled brain filled with complex misunderstandings,
misinterpretations, and misconstructions of itself. It would be like trying
to get one clear sane thought into a brain filled with violent insanity.
Innate, knowing RIGHT answers to all living problems, will not take
time to unmix, dissolve the millions of errors, provoking, unreliable,
irresponsible, caprications, silly theories born of violent emotions, absurd
passions, and hysterical prejudices, concocted BY education, mounting
them mountain-high from OUTSIDE IN, BELOW UPWARD.
As Innate began to realize education of this young man WAS
understanding IT more and more, and education was relying more and
more upon Innate for directions, Innate replaced education as the guiding
director, and education was more and more submerged to Innate.
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To one who is educated, education is ne plus ultra at all times, all
ways, all places, for all purposes. He brags about his high school, college,
and university degrees; where he went; how many semesters; and what
subjects he received degrees for. The
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demand for educated scholars is deviously obvious and they are in
demand. They are a dime a dozen on the open market.
History repeatsall people who are and have been deep thinkers,
who have promoted evolutionary and revolutionary ideas, have been
poor, struggling geniuses. They are Innate typessubtle, concealed, as it
were behind a curtain, retiring and modest. These men pull OUT from
within. It is difficult for educated groups to see the brilliance of silent
personalities of inner fellows who reveal themselves ONLY under most
adverse difficult conditions.
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In presenting this thought-flash subject, we are asked many
questions:
What is the duration of a thought-flash?
This depends upon the subject. Some idea which education has been
worrying about may come as one simple single flash. When one begins
writing the received answer, it may continue during the entire time until
that particular subject has been completely finished. It may run for
minutes, hours, or days, depending upon how extensive the subject is.
Is there any language used?
Words are vehicles of thought. Words in any individualistic
language could be translated to fit the problem once each persons
language education begins to correlate answers you seek. In our writings,
it comes in English. Not knowing any other, we have NO idea what form
words take in any other. The thought-flashes itself comes as AN IDEA.
Later, you fit words to THE IDEA. Innate, being non-linguistic, thinks
without words.
How can THOUGHT take on the characters of language?
It doesnt.
How can education break down AN ABSTRACT THOUGHT into
words which have no words?
This is difficult to answer for THOUGHTS OR THOUGHT-
FLASHES have no alphabet or language.
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When this man, who had outgrown the usual pretense of evaluating
comparative differences BETWEEN educated
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thoughts and Innate thought-flashes, tried to explain to others that they
might profit also by the same method, they usually and incredulously
thought HE had gone daft or was turning to the mysteries of so-called
spiritualisms, communing with lost souls of some departed person now
on the other side, etc. He ran into skepticism from his followers. Here
and there, however, were a few who knew he HAD made a success, that
he must have had a method which brought it about, so they listened AND
TRIED to understand what he was endeavoring to tell them.
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In later years, this man, desiring to prove thought-flashes were an
anatomical, physiological and psychological reality, developed the
electroencephaloneuromentimpograph. With a set of eight electrodic
pick-ups and a ninth second time measuring device, all eight of which
could be placed at strategic places on and over differing sections of the
Innate AND educated brains, they could and did not prove definite paths
from one to the other; ascertain and prove direct nerve connections
between two brains; could and did measure, evaluate, and calibrate the
quantity flow of mental supply between one and the other. By this
process, a distinctive pattern was graphed which, for the first time in the
history of man, PROVED there WERE thought-flashes FROM Innate in
Innate brain TO education in educated brain. In this research work no
quantity measurement was ever more than five-millionths of one volt. To
graph this very minute quantity, it was necessary to amplify same 400
trillion times. The graph recorded nine channels simultaneously giving us
a comparative record of what was passing from one place to another
timing same. We have isolated distinctive patterns. For the purpose of
this article, when one certain pattern was graphed, we knew then a
thought-flash was passing between two brains.
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In this man, possessing little if any formal educationhowever, with
one brain flashing to the otherInnate directed him through all his years
with his worlds greatest, finest-equipped scientific research clinic, based
on studies, observations of hundreds of thousands of cases, after which he
brought forth a simple,
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long-buried, now discovered, exhaustless fountain of logic which solves
all mans mysteries as it did in him.
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Chiropractic is contrary to everything medical, in PHILOSOPHY,
SCIENCE, AND ARTa PHILOSOPHY BEGINNING AND ENDING
WITH THE superior and internal INNATE INTELLIGENCE from
ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT: A SCIENCE with provable knowledge
of ONE CAUSE OF ONE dis-ease being an INTERNAL interference to
the INTERNAL how of an abstract mental impulse or nerve force flow
supply, from ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT; an ART of correcting the
vertebral subluxation, by hand only, which is the PHYSICAL interfering
media between brain and body; which, when pressure is released upon
nerves conveying this intelligent abstract flow and NORMAL
QUANTITY FLOW is restored through nerves, from empiphery to
periphery; CURE coming from ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT,
BETWEEN Innate and function, brain and body, re-established health.
There is but ONE CAUSE, ONE CURE OF ONLY ONE DISEASE
paralysis of motion of involving any or all organs, varying IN DEGREE,
depending upon the extent of the volume of interference between.
This PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND ART, when exclusively,
efficiently and accurately applied to sick people who have tried all the
medical pharmacopeia and failed to find what they sought, then came to
the Chiropractor who followed the above principle and DID get well, a
has been proven now on millions of cases of all your types.
For purposes of the record, The ICA asked its BOARD OF
CONTROL for their definitions of chiropractic. Many submitted such,
from which We chose the essential parts, as follows:
a. Chiropractic is a philosophy.
b. of the source and development of internal human function
c. from above-down, inside-out
d. the science of determining the location of
e. the interference to the flow of between source in brain and
function in body
f. to the normal flow of mental impulses
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g. thru the nervous system
h. and the art of adjusting vertebral subluxations.
i. by hand only
j. which produce pressures upon spinal cord or spinal nerves
k. to allow for restoration of a mental impulse flow
l. so that Innate Intelligence
m. resident within each living body
n. has a free full flow
o. in the re-establishment and restoration of health.
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Medical men consider themselves educationally competent to
compound PHYSICAL chemical ingredients; prescribe and better give
same to the sick, from OUTSIDE-IN, BELOW-UPWARD, to cure
abnormal PHYSICAL diseases to restore health. They presume to be
paragons beyond question of lay people. Religious people consider
themselves educationally competent to build edifice in and thru which
they issue certain formal formulas and incantations, uttering expressions
from one of higher education to the masses of lower educations from
OUTSIDE-IN, BELOW-UP, thereby thinking to influence the Eternal
Universal Law to become modified according to his particular wishes,
hopes, and desires. Such educated men presume to be earthly models
beyond question of lay people.
The one established and outstanding education we DO question,
seemingly possessing little if any value, is medical with its ENDLESS
SHIFTING from one theory to another, from ONE DAY TO ANOTHER,
with MULTIPLICITY of causes, of a wide DIVERSIFICATION of
wrong diagnoses, IMPOSSIBLE prognosis, and VARIED treatments of
terrifying PHYSICAL diseases which SHIFT INCONSISTENTLY from
one thing to another and times, none ever anchored to any RELIABLE
AND TRUSTWORTHY natural and normal simple and single IN-
TERNAL correct law understanding of what dis-ease IS, what to do, how
to do it, to prolong human life and get sick people well. Any and all
branches and all phases of medical education based on the OUTSIDE
IN, BELOW UPWARD premises are wrongly approached, brazenly
applied, and even though the
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thousands of years old, are all strictly empiric and arbitrary, no two
highly trained educated medical men agreeing on ANY permanent
fundamental knowledge and ability to eradicate sickness, correct its
INTERNAL cause, permit an INTERNAL cure, thus failing to get sick
people well. Medical education is exhaustively based on COMPLEX
causes, from OUTSIDE-IN, BELOW-UP, the cure is OUTSIDE-IN, none
of which ever was right, nor is today. Antiquity does not add to its luster.
Any and all medical education contradicts any and all natural and nor-
mal, normal and abnormal; living healthy procedures from ABOVE-
DOWN, INSIDE-OUT.
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PALMERS LAW OF LIFE PHILOSOPHY, as propounded and
presented in our Vol. XXXVI, is not in any loose or strict sense of a term
a religion, per se. There are those who have tried to interpret it as such.
This philosophy acknowledges a Superior and Supreme Universal
Intellectual Law which many call God. Religions, including all, their
beliefs, faiths, rituals and ceremonials, plead, beg, ask for, and utter
prayers from OUTSIDE IN, BELOW UP, for same purpose and in same
manner as does medicine. In this sense, educated religious devotees
think they possess some in accessible rights and privileges, of
educationally asking for, telling, or advising this Supreme Being
HOW to instruct IT to regulate and govern all affairs of mere man on
earth, or how to advise IT to govern all things celestial.
The two philosophiesChiropractic and medicine, Chiropractic and
religionsare diametrically opposites. The two approaches to
educations are antipodal. Medicine HAS failed, IS failing. Chiropractic
HAS succeeded and IS succeeding where everything in medicine has not.
It is not within OUR province to set ourselves up as any criterion of what
is right or wrong, better or worse, in religions, except to cite contrasts as
apply to philosophies, sciences, and arts of the three great methods in-
volving welfare of mankindspiritually, mentally, and/or physically.
Nothing, no thing, no matter how done, can educated man
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change, modify, abridge, sense, talk UP TO the natural source of his life
from which he derives his living functions. He cannot talk UP TO Innate,
But Innate CAN and DOES TALK DOWN to all his living cells
including his educated brain IF he IS receptive.
In this a same respect, nothing, nothing, no matter how done or how
or what language used, based on his varied beliefs and faiths of his
loyalty and noble religions, can educated man modify, abridge, sense,
TALK UP TO the natural SOURCE from which man is but one of the
species and families TO his God; but God CAN and does
communicate DOWN to every living creature, in its own way at its own
time.
Educated man long has presumed to think that God should be
more MAN LIKE. In reality, man should be more God like. This can
come about ONLY from ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT. No plea or
prayer can reverse the natural law of direction.
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(We need not be told that comparisons or principles between
Chiropractic AND medicine will meet the approbation of Chiropractors.
Neither do we need to emphasize that any comparisons of the same
PRINCIPLES between our Chiropractic philosophy of ABOVE DOWN,
INSIDE OUT and religions is unpopular. We know that! We, as a
non-conformist, must speak truth as we see it. We have no desire to
influence or change any persons belief or faith. All we ask is weigh the
evidence and accept or reject as the best judgment dictates.)
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This Chiropractic PRINCIPLE, by contrast, is either right or wrong.
If right, it is 100 percent right. If wrong, it is 100 percent wrong. If right,
it will work. If wrong, It cant work. This discussion between
Chiropractic AND medicine rises or falls, lives or dies, based on THE
difference between the ABOVE-DOWN, INSIDE-OUT or the
OUTSIDE-IN, BELOW-UP principles.
Evolution is the unfolding of Innate from ABOVE-DOWN,
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INSIDE-OUT. REVOlutionary ideas deflate educations ideas producing
REVOlution. History proves that!
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That, plus the development this boy-man made in Innates natural
and normal CHIROPRACTIC, under the guidance of Innate
thought-flashes, made HIM realize HE must dedicate and consecrate HIS
life to teaching the Chiropractic Profession or succeed in like manner, by
explaining as best he could WHAT had occurred in him could occur in
others, because they contained same Innates as he, and they could also
climb out of mediocrity same as he had. When that state of his
understanding had been reached and he had FOUND HIMSELF, he
began to teach others how they, too, COULD find themselves. Until he
passed on to others this transition beyond himself, and they caught his
understanding of the process, life became a boundless field of human
service. He was as one inspired, as though he had discovered a wonderful
exhaustless fount of wisdom which anybody else could tap as others
tapped him.
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Many times, some of our educated people in our Palmer Enterprises
tell US not to do this this way, but do it that way, meaning of course WE
should follow THEIR educated methods of presentation. At such times,
we must decide whether to follow suggestions offered by our Innate by
preference, rejecting THEIR educated presentations. When they remain
with us long enough, they will learn the LAW OF INNATES
PRESENTATIONS. When they DO, they will understand why we feel it
necessary to reject their educated opinions.
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Let us make one point VERY clear, because the question is often
asked: What CAN I DO to contact Innate? YOU can no more contact
Innate than you can contact God with your babel of voices in pleas or
prayers. If you are willing and receptive, and this factor IS PROVEN TO
INNATE, INNATE WILL CONTACT YOU, if, as, a ready is Innate,
YOU cannot
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force an issue. It must come freely, willingly, without pressure.
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There will be those who think I (the educated person) have turned
mystic, whatever that is. There is nothing supernatural about this process
of letting Innate contact YOU, except that is quite unusual for Innate to
contact EDUCATION. It is rare, therefore a much misunderstood
process. There is nothing mystical about Innate being in close and
constant contact with tissue cell functions. Why, then, should it be
considered mystical when Innate contacts educated brain delivering
Innate thoughts TO educated brain, any more than it might be considered
mystical when Innate contacts liver and produces bile, or contacts heart
and pumps blood to and sucks it back from the body? One difference is,
WE cant stop material fundamentals in matter, But we do refuse to
accept immaterial functions OF THOUGHT as they come from Innate
brain to educated brain.
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The secret of this kids success was that he had the courage to be
himself, dared to constantly listen to Innate by preference, and act upon
its flashes. He reached this conclusion at 18, and has been so directed
ever since.
The transitions from kid, to young man, to man, and now in ripe age
of maturity; and the more this man egotistically sublimated himself to the
greater Innate, the more humble he became. He realized HIS education
was like one drop of water to an Innate ocean. What he egotistically
THOUGHT he knew was like one grain of sand to the seashore. Innate
proved there was a great unexplored world within him which needed
understanding
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CHIROPRACTIC . . . .
A New Attitude . . . .
A New Approach . . . .
. . . To The Health Of Man
By DR. KEN LIPKE
Editor-in-Chief
New York State Journal of Chiropractic
PEOPLE TODAY ARE great respectors of intelligence. They literally worship
those intellects whom they believe create, develop and maintain machines
of this day and age. The greatest intelligence of all, man has overlooked
and for the most part has ignored, in spite of the fact that this intelligence
has created, developed and maintained the most remarkable and amazing
machine ever made. This machine has over 400 trillion electrical circuits,
has chemical laboratories within itself that produce nearly every chemical
substance known, workshops that perform every mechanical movement
known to mankind, the far greatest recording, filing, and memory
information systems ever devised, an amazing never resting pumping
system with miles and miles of piping. These are a few of the limitless
and endless attributes of this unbelievable machine, which stagger the
imagination when one attempts to study it. This wonderful, machine its
operation and performance which are taken for granted, is of course the
living human body.
The living human body unlike man made machines never needs be
cranked, wound-up, oiled, greased, started-up or stopped. It runs itself, or
so most people think. However, astute observers and researchers of the
living human machine are in accord that there are innumerable evidence
of an intelligence working in the body that creates it, developing it and
maintains it. This intelligence is not something that can be seen. It has
been
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called different names such as sub-conscious soul, spirit, ego and many
others. In spite of these facts there has been always indisputable evidence
the body must be, and is, controlled and regulated by intelligence.
Chiropractors call it Innate Intelligence.
Science has not been able to determine what electricity is but it has
been able to observe its workings and has thus been able to harness and
use it for the benefit of mankind. So too with regard to Innate Intelligence
of our bodies. Science has not been able to determine what it is, but it has
been able to observe evidences of its existence and, just as electrical
engineers have done with electricity, chiropractors are beginning to learn
how to use and apply knowledge of this intelligence working within our
bodies.
Science has been able to determine that whatever this intelligence is,
it uses the brain as its major base of operation. Contrary to what most
people think, the brain has to do with thinking and memory.
Research has shown the brain is made up of trillions of control
centers which hook-up with the 400 trillion nerves of the body. This
forms a complex but highly organized and efficient mechanism that
directed regulates, coordinates and controls workings of every part of the
body. Through mechanisms of special senses organs of sight, hearing,
smell, taste and touch, the body machine is informed of effects outside
environment is having on the body and adapts the body to these outside
environmental effects. One of the more obvious illustrations of this adap-
tive function of the body is that body temperature in a room heated to 80
degrees will be 98.6. If a person was put immediately from there into a
room whose temperature was 50 degrees cooler, the body temperature
would remain and continue to remain at 98.6 despite the drop in
temperature. This adaptation to temperature change takes place and the
person consciously and does nothing to bring it about. This happens and
continues to happen many, many times during ones lifetime. Your hearts
are another example. Here is the greatest pump mechanism on the face of
the earth. For its size the amount of work it does is almost unbelievable.
It keeps pumping 72 times a minute of the hour of
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every day of your life for 70 years and more. Yet you consciously do
nothing about it. You dont wind it, crank it, dont feed it, oil it, gas it,
check it or inspect it. Where does it get power to keep itself going? What
maintains it, keeps it running, keeps it in a state of repair? You
educationally dont! There are thousands of similar illustrations which
could be pointed out. All point to the fact that there is intelligence within
our bodies, that created, developed and maintains it. Many developed a
brilliant minds down through the ages of mans history have been aware
of the existence of this intelligence. However, it was not until the Pal-
mers, D. D. and B. J., created the chiropractic profession, that an
organization, that an organized, concerted effort and movement began of
research, study and understand the law and its principle is involved.
Principles, in the opinion of this writer, which will someday, as it comes
into universal use and acceptance, prove to be one of the greatest series
of principles ever developed for the benefit of mankind.
It was in 1895 in Davenport, Iowa, that D. D. Palmer discovered the
chiropractic law. But it was through the exceptional leadership of his son,
B. J. Palmer, that the practical application and the basic principles of
chiropractic were developed. B. J. as he is known to chiropractors the
world over, had that unusual and unshakable courage and character that
has typified great men of history. He needs it to withstand the battles and
storms he encountered in his astounding lifetime of accomplishments.
The basic principles of chiropractic can be best stated in the simple
phrase HEALTH COMES FROM ABOVE DOWN, WITHIN OUT.
Chiropractors contend that man with his limited and finite
interunderstandings can never and will never be able to comprehend the
complex and infinite workings of the many mechanisms that make up our
body. Chiropractors prove we came equipped at birth with Innate
Intelligence that was and is fully capable, if not interfered with, of
creating, developing and maintaining our bodies throughout our lifetime.
Chiropractors demonstrate when Innate Intelligence is able to express
itself freely and fully in and through the body, by regulating, coordinating
and controlling the many mechanisms, organs and systems
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of the body, then the patient is in a state of HEALTH. That all
diseases regardless of where, when or how manifest themselves in the
body basically are caused by interference which prevents Innate
Intelligence from exercising normal control. Chiropractors have proven
that all dis-eases are basically and fundamentally a loss of the control
regulation or co-ordination of the body by Innate Intelligence. The area of
involvement or type of dis-ease develops as a result of the area or manner
in which interference to Innate control manifests itself. Chiropractors
present a principle and practice that the solution to the patients problem
can only be brought about by the correction of the interfering media and
consequent return of control, co-ordination and regulation of the body to
its Innate Intelligence. That it, and only it, has the knowledge
experience and means to heal, repair, rebuild and rejuvenate the sick
body of the patient.
To understand the chiropractic principle requires a distinct departure
from age old concepts of healing arts, which are racked with dogma,
traditions, old wives tales, fantasy, fiction, superstition and economic
distractions of greed. It requires an entirely new a way of thinking, an
entirely new outlook and attitude toward problems of sickness.
Chiropractic overthrows and exposes falsely based and erroneous
doctrines which, even though proven failures, have been clung to down
through ages. Greatest present day adherents to old failure ways of
thinking are the rich and powerful medical and drug interests. They
expend tremendous effort to suppress and destroy the chiropractic
profession and its new, realistic and increasingly effective attitude and
approach.
For years man has searched the world for the secret elixir for health,
for some magic pill, potion, drug, medicine, food, salve, or what have
you, they hoped would produce or create health in a sick body.
Thousands of years of searching and billions of dollars spent researching
and man still is affiliated by many old and new sicknesses. He has failed
to find anything that can be given or done to a sick person that will
restore health. Millions of dollars are spent each year studying and
researching an ever increasing number of diseases. Herein lies the fallacy
and reason for their failure, sincerity and dedication of searchers not
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withstanding. They have been looking in the wrong direction, from
outside-in, below-upward. Their entire approach to problem of sickness
has been wrong all these years. They spent all their time looking for
outside causes and outside cures of diseases. What they should have been
searching for is the cause of internal health. Aside from work being done
by the chiropractic profession there is no major group undertaking
research to determine the cause of health. This may sound like
over-simplification, but any who try to understand will see the fruitless of
the attitude and approach of medical and drug interests, which time has
shown is a vicious cycle of new drugs and new diseases. All in a never
ending pattern with no hope or indication of the pattern ever changing.
Observation reveals no basis to substantiate the practice of medicine,
practically or philosophy. We do not and cannot deny that drugs, which
are the basis of medicines approach to sickness, do have an obvious and
oft times dramatic effect on sick patients giving comfort and arresting
ailments. What we do contend, is that this is not what the patient needs
and wants. Drugs merely suppress or alter systems and manifestations of
sickness leaving the basic abstract cause of illness to remain only to
internally recur again in the same or perhaps a different form at a later
date.
Any competent medical man will admit no two cases or conditions
are exactly the same. Yet the basis of his practice is predicated on his
using a drug that worked before for someone else, in hopes it will
work again in same way for a condition that while similar has
individual distinctions. This same medical man will admit that when he
uses any drug he does not and cannot possibly know what the drug will
do to or for any individual patient. This he cannot know because of the
individuality of every person and every disease. The factor of the
individuality of each disease problem would, even if there was a basis for
the practice of medicine, make its practical application impossible.
Medical research is searching for multiple cause of diseases. Take
arthritis, for example. Admittedly there are no two cases of any condition
exactly alike. How can they ever find an external cure or cause for it? It
would mean that limitless and never ending research would
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be required for each patient, which is neither feasible or possible. The
problem of the individuality of every patients ailment is the most
overlooked and ignored problem in the practice of medicine because it
clearly reveals the fallacy of the external medical approach and practice.
Chiropractors contend no man or group of men will be able to
comprehend the limitless factors involved in the working of our bodies
and for this reason we come equipped at birth with an Innate
Intelligence of greater and more infinite wisdom than we can
comprehend which, when not interfered with, can successfully maintain
our body. When his Innate is in full and complete control of the body, it
is the Cause of health. The Cause of health or sickness regardless of
name, organ or system involved is lack of, loss of, or absence of control
by Innate Intelligence in the body. Aside from this cause, all the others so
called causes are an effect of this basic cause. The medical profession
with all their drugs, treatments and therapies is merely treating, arresting,
alleviating or suppressing effects and manifestations of the abstract
interferences which prevents Innate Intelligence from exercising full
control it requires to maintain health within the body.
From this it would seem that we chiropractors were saying we had a
panacea for all problems afflicting mankind and you would wonder why
the world was not beating a path to our doors. Chiropractic is merely on
the threshold. It has merely scratched the surface in uncovering
possibilities of this great law and its principles. Philosophically speaking
it offers that which mankind has been searching since his beginning.
While so-called miracle cures and a low long-over-increasing list of
cures can be pointed to, there is yet much to be uncovered, much to be
understood in the applications of this principle. More definite and more
accurate means of detecting and locating points of interference in the
spinal column need be developed. More effective and precise means of
correcting interferences must be devised. And, as important, means must
be created to make people aware of what it is chiropractors are for doing.
Patients then will understand and cooperate with the chiropractor in his
attempts to
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correct the interference to Innate control, restoration of which, will make
them well.
When one considers that chiropractic exists and continues to exist in
spite of the fierce and tremendous opposition of medical and drug
interests; that it does not have available to it the vast financial and
research which the medical profession has; that it does not have the vast
and complete hospital and rehabilitive facilities necessary to aid in the
recuperation of sick patients; that in spite of these and many other
obstacles which normally would have been enough to have eliminated
any other group; that the existence and continued growth of the
chiropractic profession, in spite of these obstacles, is in itself the greatest
proof of the merit of the chiropractic principle.
As the chiropractic profession continues research and understanding
of the abstract internal cause of health, and as knowledge increases in all
application of its principles making it necessary more effective,
chiropractic shall come into its own as a way of health and life. The
chiropractic profession is on the threshold of the greatest advancement of
mankind. As it developed and evolved, mankind will enter into a new era
of healthful living which will pave the way for advancement of mankind
to the heights of accomplishment and achievement for which he was
intended.
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PROBLEM
SOME OF THESE studies have been carefully written and thought fully filed
in some 72 two-inch binders of Lecture Outlines. Many may see the light
of day later. They are now a matter of record. They will be studied later
and applied for the benefit of mankind in days to come.
ChiropracTIC was conceived by D. D. Palmer, whom we are
convinced was fore Ordained to pursue a line of reasoning to fill a
medical vacuum of failures to get sick people well. His life culminated a
certain natural and normal characteristic philosophy, science and art to
accomplish what medicine had never attained. Chiropractors were the
media to convey this service of health to the sick. This basic and
fundamental issue, later became OUR lifes intents and purposes.
TO GET SICK PEOPLE WELL is the coveted objective. There is
only ONE road to that end, ONE route to travel. There are endless
diverse for offshoot side-roads leading to nowhere. Anyone can travel
these but they come to a dead-end sooner than later. Medicine has tried
them all and failed to arrive. Whether any individual can change the
medical pattern is debatable. That he can straighten and strengthen the
TOR patter is obvious. So long as TORS stay THAT ONE MAIN road,
do not deviate from the principle which accomplished HIS objective and
delivers THE objective the SICK PERSON wants and needs to GET
WELL, success will crown his labors.
Two issues stand out and are paramount:
a. To get the sick people well.
b. To charge a fee for service rendered.
Many of our profession considered the first of less importance than the
latter, therefore enlarge upon the latter and belittle the first.
This TIC principle and practice is SO simple. What is neces-
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sary and needed TO GET SICK PEOPLE WELL, is:
a. WHERE is the interference between source of life and lifes
expression in living bodies;
b. HOW to correct that interference, permitting the restoration of
life to flow directly from the source to expression.
After this has been accomplished, everything beyond that is
idealized and realized by Innate WITHIN the patient. Its SIMPLICITY IS
ITS GREATNESS. Every child, any child, can push ONE button, after
which light, heat, motion occurselectricity is all needed, wanted or
desired. Why complicate IT with extraneous issues that are foreign,
which defeat the end needed?
Fees have always been a bone of contention, a subject for dispute, an
issue a over which there is professional friction. In commerce, unions
dispute, strikes are called, blood-shed sometimes occurs, creating
hardships between manufacturer and laborer, conflicts rage, people suffer
for want of manufactured products, unions suffer for want of salaries,
union families suffer for want of breadand so the dispute over fee
incomes continues, all because the ONE PRIMARY issueslife, health,
sanity were lost sight of.
The average TOR stresses and maximizes EXTERNAL materialities
and overlooks and minimizes THE INTERNAL abstract Innate. This
reflects itself in prolonged periods of faultfinding with the internal and
abnormal value is given external which some TORS think necessary.
Our first paragraph states an ultimate constructive survival value of
fees. WE are concerned, wishing and hoping that MORE SICK PEOPLE
GET WELL, served with TIC and TORS, believing in the old adage that
a laborer is worthy of his hire and serving is paid to quantity and
quality of that service.
It is plain that, IT a TOR were to charge an UNREASONABLE,
high tariff for poor service rendered, few people could or would continue
to go to him for services. Neither would they speak well of his poor
service, neither would they refer friends or other sick people to him. High
fees with poor service, few people do afford to get well. Costs of all
service should be determined
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by QUALITY of service delivered meeting requirements of the sick plus
luxuries desired by the TOR, costs of overhead, the state of living he
desires for himself and family, etc.
There are varying degrees of values to fee asking and receiving
questions. Marlowe, and others SINCE his day, believed in turning on the
heat, pushing a pressure-contract-system, with all cases placed in a high
fee bracket level, longtime legal contract. Others prefer one standardized
mutual price throughout a district or state for ALL TORS in that area.
The scale being based on economic conditions of the area. Others
establish a one-price a system alike for all cases, rich or poor. Others
leave it for the individual case to establish HIS OWN FEE according to
what he considers the service he received is worth, of what good he has
or has not received. Still others have the contribution method, pay as and
what you please, at the door as you leave. This group believes that
GETTING SICK PEOPLE WELL IS PRIMARY AND any FEE
COMPENSATED IS OF SECONDARY IMPORTANCE. Between these
a varying price groups, there has always been a conflict.
This conflict isnt a question of what is done professionally is right
or wrong so much as when the fee enters the competitive field. The
average patient will go where he thinks he can best service for whatever
price he pays. This is usual in any and all commercial businesses. No
matter how many furniture, clothing, grocery stores in one town, they buy
pages of space, hours of T.V. time, to announce their competitive
merchandise and prices they sell for.
The best way, if it could be, would be to deliver our life health
service to the sick with no fee at all. Or, if not possible, to get some
non-taxable organization to support such a movement, or perhaps SOME
TO OTHER SECOND PERSON would pay the FIRST person. How
much such service would be worth, between SECOND person and FIRST
person, BEFORE delivering to FIRST person, would necessarily be
settled mutually between second and first persons.
A TOR who charges what might be considered a high or large fee
(the par of which is debatable) depends upon KIND of
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service he renders to EARN his fee. It has been OUR observation that the
moment you step up fees you also step up the simple into the complex,
the single into multiples, the little which is essential is complicated with
much window-dressing. Instead of leaving internal curing to Innate
WITHIN the patient, he aims to cover up and protect his high fee with
much that is FOREIGN to TIC, from OUTSIDE-IN, to confuse and
bewilder patient into thinking he is GETTING MUCH for HIGH fee
charged. In reality he usually gets less because he complicates external
curing process with things and methods which DETRACT and slow
down any natural and normal process, making it impossible to internally
cure the sickness. This process of adding on unnecessities, presenting a
false-front and a false conclusion of what does happen, is what we call
deceitful rigging in radio. He who complicates is compelled to charge
higher fees because he spends more time delivering less upon less
number of patients per day, doing nothing of benefit, trying to force one
simple, single ultimate objective of permitting Innate to get the sick
people well.
There is much to be said FOR AND AGAINST the high or low fee
systems. Assuming, however, that two TORS, both practicing WHAT
they did, AS they did it; where, when, how and why, down to its simplest
elements, delivered with equal efficiency and accuracy, both attaining
THE coveted objective of GETTING SICK PEOPLE WELL, from then
on it should be a personal prerogative as to HOW MUCH his services are
worth in his opinion. Even now we find a complication entering our pro-
fession. Some of our adherents retain the simple and single approach,
taking but a short time to deliver an adjustment and in a short time the
case gets well. Some patients are prone to resent SO MUCH MONEY
FOR SO LITTLE DONE to earn it. For this reason, at one time Marlowe
and others built HI PRESSURING the patient under
long-enforced-contract-legal contract systems at high fees. Patients
resented all ENFORCED contract systems of high fees and thus the TOR
ruined himself will honorably and automatically be forthcoming.
The reports of authenticated percentages of miracles which have
occurred at the Shrine of Lourdes in France is 1/2 of one per-
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cent. This is very low when we recall countless thousands who flock
there every summer, each case hoping HE will get a miracle also. The
known case on file in our archives of accidental cures reported in the
press are very low. Is it possible that if the facts were known of what
occurs, and which are never reported, they might be much higher? What
percentages are occurring in the cooperative group? Do they know?
Reports would be appreciated.
The law of averages and percentages enters all controversies of high
or low fees, or none at all. The TOR who receives the low-
fee-contribution MAY NOT give ALL necessary attention his case
deserves and thus overlook doing things HE SHOULD, neglecting some
essentials to make accurate and efficient service to get the sick well. Even
with a rapid turnover of multiple cases per day, the average of
frequencies of what might be called a-hit-or-miss-method he is bound
to strike a certain low average or percentage of adjusting RIGHT places,
THE RIGHT times, RIGHT manner and get that low percentage of cases
well. Even at that he might MISS a certain high average and percentage
and not deliver results he should because of enforced rapid turnover of so
many in so short a time. Contrast with the TOR who puts in lots of time
on each case, applying many or all technics and methods FOREIGN to
the TIC process and principle, to convince cases he IS earning his high
fee, doing things complexing, complicating and multiplying, WHICH
ACTUALLY DETRACT from his delivering the SIMPLE AND SINGLE
principle and practice which, when applied, DOES get SOME SICK
people well. What is HIS average or percentage? The fact that he can
charge HIGH fees is no proof he is doing right things to get sick people
well. In spite of this reverse in methods HIS average MAY BE much
lower than the low type of TOR fees which he condemns.
The reverse of all this has merit. The TOR who charges, or receives,
what might be and is considered to be A LOW OR SMALL FEE ( If it
is a fee at all, which is debatable, whether a donation at the door might be
so considered when dropping a stipend in the collection box) whether
such an income is commen-
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surate to what average professional man is entitled to have earned
because of his years of preparation, education, equipment, etc., to
establish his offices, and a salary for help to maintain them.
In establishing this low fee system with its increased drawing
power for a large clientele, which limits time he can spend upon any one
and every case, he is compelled to boil down TO LITTLE IF ANY
ESSENTIAL, cardinal facts as to WHAT he does, HOW, where, when,
why, to attain ultimate constructive survival a value of getting sick well,
thus eliminating all foreign issues. What ARE the essential cardinal
facts? A vertebral subluxation, its adjustment, done at right time, right
place, right way, knowing when NOT TO do anything unnecessary,
knowing when to quit fussing, fooling, adding fol-de-rols, quit rigging
appearances between TOR and patient. Small fees demand SIMPLE
methods. After all, TIC IS a simple principle, practice and procedure.
Instead of this TOR endeavoring to impress patients with his grandiose
personality and that what he does cures, he should and does leave this
conclusion of fact to Innate IN the patient and does not camouflage issues
beyond the truth involved.
We are not here concerned in whether the fee system is none at all, a
contributory one, or large enough to cover office overhead, or sufficient
in size to declare a profit for his investment in his education before
opening his office. We are vitally concerned in preserving the good name
of chiropracTIC in getting sick people well, KNOWING full well WHAT
IS necessary be done to accomplish that ultimate objective for which
chiropracTIC was born and for which chiropracTORS go forth to serve.
If a chiropractor desires to be a philanthropist, and donate his service
to all like, without discrimination, whether rich or poor, thats his
business and none should say him nay.
If a chiropractor desires to place a contribution box at the door, so
that as each person leaves, he can drop into the collection plate what he
thinks the service is worth, then that is also his business.
If he prefers to make a reasonable and consistent charge for what HE
thinks HIS service is worth, delivering it to all alike, rich or poor, white
or colored, male or female, regardless of acute
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or chronic case, irrespectable that it takes one day or months of
adjustments to get case well, that too is his prerogative and right.
If he builds a clientele to where one well person tells another sick
person and they stampede his doors to get his best service, that is also the
right of the sick public to come to him rather than another.
We find no fault in a SMALL practice with a LARGE fee, any more
than we do the LARGE practice with small fees; IF, and this IS the
VITAL discrimination factor, IF what either does have to get the case
well. One adjustment rightly delivered is worth anything it the cost TO
GET WELL. Medical men get HIGH FEES and deliver nothing because
they ignore Innate within the patient, flowing from above-down, inside-
out. Instead, he is saturated with HIS theories that it is what HE does and
gives from outside-in, below-upward that HE claims has curative value.
This is FRIGHTFULLY EXPENSIVE at all times in all ways, because it
calls for one experiment after another to cover many blunders, adding fee
upon fee without delivering health to get sick well. One is expensive
WITHOUT RESULTS, the other is beyond value because it DOES
deliver results.
But, regardless of whether numbers who enter his portals be few or
many, each entitled to a complete, exacting, accurate delivery of a health
service based on factual information OF THAT CASE, AND A
DELIVERY TO EACH CASE OF A SERVICE based on data secured
which makes his DELIVERY case get well, using such equipment in his
office which makes him satisfied that what he does, where he does it,
how, when and where, is within the purview and completeness of the
chiropractic principle and practice, then that is the right of certain fixed
principles necessary to be sincere and true to the completeness of his
chiropractic education with a due regard to respect his professional
standing in his profession bearing due consideration to all his fellow
members in rendering a complete service which will prove at all times
and in all cases, he is not rushing people through his offices like an
assembly line, in one front door, for rushed through, and out another, by
the minute.
No chiropractor, whose education and understanding of his
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responsibilities to his patient who is worthy of that title, or regardless if
he is the lone and only person in his office set up, can handle 200 cases a
day and render the proper service his clientele is entitled to.
If one the reverse, he has clientele of say 200 patients a day, and his
office staff consists of:
A. a receptionist to receive and keep records
B. an intern or interns to check cases, pre and post, with necessary
equipment installed therein
C. one or more interns to spinograph, expose, develop, read and
analyze his films, reporting to the doctor adjuster his findings
D. and one or more expert adjusters to correctly administer the
adjusting service each case is differently entitled to
then with such an efficient service, there exists a corps of assistance
which makes it possible to divide the service for which it is equipped to
care for a large clientele, personnel depending upon demands of the
clientele, then there is a division of the necessary services amongst the
various members of the office crew.
As simple as chiropractic is, as simple as getting sick people well is,
it is not so simple but what certain essentials ARE necessary to render
competent service to each case according to his needs. Each case is
individualistic requiring different observation and study.
If the chiropractic decides to charge a fee, he should go and fix what
it is all alike regardless of millionaire or pauper, so that he who walks in
sick and walks out well, knows exactly what he owes the doctor for
service rendered, except in such cases as demands is worthy of charitable
services for reasons better known to the doctor and the client.
The opposing group with their contrasting procedures is why we
have mixers, medi-practors. Instead of education of patients how
INNATE INSIDE HIM CURES, he follows conformists patterns of
adding unnecessities to impress the patient that IT IS WHAT HE does
which cures, thus suggesting to patient his paying a big fee that had been
earned by the TOR.
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It is plain that if our service was rendered gratuitously, we would be
jammed, crowded, over-run with sick people desiring to get well at NO
cost to them. This would force TOR to render a reduced QUALITY of
service, if any, defeating his primary objective making it impossible for
him to maintain that kind of service which WOULD, COULD OR DID
get sick well. This is a subject which would depend upon his sincerely,
honesty and capability to deliver what he should. These are personal
issues which can ONLY be settled, in the multiple or ultimate BY EACH
individual, wherein no ONE person can force HIS views into the minds
of another.
There would be no criticism of absolute group, be it large or small,
VOLUNTARILY pooling common interests and agreeing to establish a
fee system. From there on, each would endeavor to see how much he
could give and deliver for that agreed fee. The case would then go where
he thought he could and would get most for the fee regardless of to whom
he went.
We cannot fathom, after 70 years dealing with hundreds of
thousands of cases, having under our supervision and direction of the
methods and provisions necessary to better serve a professional, how one
person any alone in one office, can receive and render a competent
professional service to 200 cases a day; can KNOW where to adjust, how,
where, when and when not to low; can or possibly could render any sort
of a competent health service to so many cases in a day, day after day,
except by a hit or miss, Ill give him this, a promiscuous delivery of
some sort to all alike, without discrimination. He would have no way, of
separating one type of case from another, to know whether he was or was
not and when to know not to, letting Innate pick up from there to permit
the case to get well.
If a case was sick, tried many medical doctors, was given up to die
and then went to a TOR, got ONE adjustment and GET WELL, that was
worth ANY FEE, no matter how large because it saved his life. Saving
his life IS BEYOND a fee question, whether it be LARGE OR SMALL.
We have seen many bubbles come, gain momentum for a short time,
then bursting for a want of a basic and fundamental
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of approach favoring the rights of the sick to get well to receive what they
were entitled to.
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IT IS WELL known that vertebral subluxations are PROduced by an
external invasionary force meeting with resistance of the internal force.
To REduce the vertebral subluxations REVERSES the rule of
PROduction to correct a REduction.
IF Innate, with its ripe-grape invasion COULD correct the
subluxation, WITHOUT external vasionary force to REduce it, then
Innate would have been sufficiently cognizant of the original concussion
of force that PROduced the subluxation and prevented same from
occurring in the first instance. We must not overlook that ACCIDENTAL
concussions of forces, from external sometimes does correct the vertebral
subluxations WITHOUT the chiropractors invasionary force. BUT, we
must also remember that the ACCIDENTAL invasion is not less than
the original invasion which PROduced it.
We have thousands of newspaper and magazine citations of
accidental cures occurring without ANY intervention of any
professional person. When such does occur, they are called miracles by
medical men and other practitioners, little realization there was a law OF
PROduction and REduction occurring. The difference is, the chiropractor
accomplishes the same and result by doing WHAT he does, WHERE he
does it, how, when and why BY INTENTION with the proper knowledge
of reversing the law of PROduction WITH REduction.
The percentage of accidental cases, reported in papers and
magazines are undoubtedly sensational cases rather than the rule.
Compared to the totality if cases WITH subluxations, which ARE
reported would possibly below. Percentage of cases, WITH subluxations,
adjusted by chiropractors, compared to percentage which comes to him
for that purpose, when rightly adjusted, would be much higher than
accidental percentage reported publicly. What percentage is actually
adjusted in this group of cases which go this group of practitioners,
who, although NOT
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adjusting according to each actual necessity, so is an unknown quantity.
WE doubt if even THEY know what this percentage of accidental cases
get well with the little they do to correct them.
A vertebral subluxation is far more easily PROduced when patient is
most relaxed, and vice versa. Relaxation of tensed muscular on part of
patient, is a potential factor in determining of concussion used by the
chiropractor. Does this group any method or process to induce relaxation
on part of their patients, or is this potent factor ignored? Taking them as
is. In so doing, where the law of PROduction is not reversed by them, do
they weigh the evidence of the law of concussion of forces in PRO-
duction in their methods of reduction?
The theory may be suggested that Innate, in a living body, is THE all
powerful factor in life, health, capable of correcting ALL abnormalities
in all living bodies. IF there be value in this idea, does Innate set
fractures, dislocations, both of which WERE PROduced by a concussion
of forces, external invasionary force being greater than Innate could resist
in the matter through which it is a called upon to resist unexpectedly
when taken aware, when resistance was at low ebb? Same principles
applied to a vertebral subluxation, PROduced by and from a concussion
of an invasionary force when taken unawares. The ONLY way vertebral
subluxation can be REduced if to REVERSE the law of PROduction be
an external invasionary force, introduced either ACCIDENTALLY
which occasionally occursor by INTENTION by an invasionary force
introduces by a chiropractor who knows where and how. Even then, the
chiropractor intentionally seeks to take the subluxation unawares, when
patient is most relaxed, when resistance is at low ebb.
If there WAS merit in Innate, alone, being the all powerful factor
needing little if ANY assistance from a chiropractor with his invasionary
factor, has Innate been asleep at the switch all these centuries, in millions
of sick people, neglecting to correct what it SHOULD DO assuming it
was all powerful and such was a possibility because of a vertebral
subluxation which was Innate COULD NOT, has not and does not
REduce alone?
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Our Masterpiece
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This book covering OUR vast field of CHIROPRACTIC RE-
SEARCH WAS WRITTEN TO ACCUMULATE ENDLESS PHASES
OF EVIDENCE OF STUDIES AND SOME MANY ORIGINAL
CONCEPTIONS of physiological functions during our life time.
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We have named this VOL. 39 OUR MASTERPIECE, because for
the first time, we have reviewed, itemized and explained the many
voluminous phases for research covering 60 years to prove the
fundamental and basic foundation on which chiropractic rests. This was
done to prove that what work WE had done was a combined mental and
physical philosophy, science and art, proving step by step, method by
method, the necessities of forming a triune blending of one into, through
and with all its varied phases.
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