CHAPTER III

ANALYZING INFANTS

One of the most baffling situations the chiropractor meets is in caring for sick babies. There are several reasons for this: The baby can give no assistance in the way of subjective symptoms. It is difficult to nerve trace with any degree of satisfaction and assurance of accuracy; it is even very difficult to keep the child still for palpation. Therefore, it becomes necessary to rely largely upon the objective symptoms and the palpation, with what verification may be obtained from nerve tracing and the spinograph. However, there is no class of patients in which the results are so gratifying as with the babies and small children, for they respond to adjustments more readily than does the adult.

There is no time in the practice of the chiropractor when he needs to have better self-control than when he is taking care of infants. There is great need of every faculty that is employed in the analyzing and adjusting, especially if the child is seriously