Technic and Practice of Chiropractic

=Vertebral Palpation= 15 Definition 15 General Propositions 15 Habits of Palpation 15 Facts Concerning the Spine 16 Preparation of Patient 22 Position of Patient 22 The Record 2...

The _right_ or the _left_ subluxation is appreciated by running the tips of the fingers down the sides of the spinous processes. It really indicates rotation of the whole verteb...

The third Cervical, lying under the projecting spinous process of the larger second, may be hard to find, and therefore the full count is always required before listing any vert...

Pain may cause the patient to assume an unnatural or cramped attitude simulating curvature, especially of the Cervicals. More errors occur from this cause in judging the lateral...

Subluxations are never hereditary but may be congenital through violent or instrumental delivery into the world or may _appear_ hereditary because they occur shortly after birth...

A good illustration of the value of speed may be taken from a pile of stakes bound together by a cord. If a man with a hammer desires to remove the center stake of the group, an...

The great safety of the movement lies in the fact that it is impossible with any reasonable amount of force to move the transverse process too far. If the vertebra is not sublux...

On the hand the contact may be said to vary, according to the direction of subluxation and position of adjuster, so as to describe a circle around the pisiform in the course of...

In making the contact press downward, deeply and firmly, so as to crowd the muscles aside and place the pisiform directly _upon_ the transverse. Movement is given after the pati...

Posterior--P. Heel contact. Posterior, superior--P. S. Edge contact. Posterior, inferior--P. I. Edge contact. Posterior, right--P. R. Recoil. Posterior, right, superior--P. R. S...

When a vertebra has lost its normal articular relations with its fellows and occupies an abnormal position as a consequence in regard to _all_ surrounding or adjacent tissues it...

This tendency of poisons to increase subluxations already existing has caused many to conclude that _new_ subluxations could be produced by the motor reactions from poison. The...

Mental diseases--so-called--usually depend upon disturbance of the blood-supply to the brain, controlled by the Cervical sympathetic. Adjustments, relieving the pressure on the...

The causes of the change in the shape, form, and relation of the different segments are functional: the body changes to meet the changing needs of its environment and the steady...

_Ear_: The external ear receives branches from the vagus and from the first and second cervical nerves. The middle ear and Eustachian tube are supplied by the tympanic plexus ma...

Caked breast D 3. Calculi, cystic L 2 or 4. Calculi, hepatic D 4. Calculi, renal D 10, 11 or 12. Cancer No cure. Cancrum oris C 2 or 3, D 11 or 12. Canker (mouth) C 2. Carbuncle...

Anyone entering upon a profession assumes a great moral responsibility and the greatest responsibility of all falls upon the doctor, of whatever school. He enters the stricken h...

Everywhere the physical or objective sign is given preference over the subjective symptom. Before a single question is asked of the patient relative to the case or its history,...

Thus it is that the subluxation passes back in reverse order through the successive stages of its development, following a process which may be called the involution of the subl...

=Asthma.=--Spasmodic bronchial asthma is almost always curable except in the very aged, but the usual posterior curvature in lower cervicals and upper dorsals requires time and...

=Tabes Dorsalis.=--Posterior spinal sclerosis, commonly called from its chief symptom “locomotor ataxia,” recovers in 40 to 50 per cent of cases adjusted. No accurate pre-judgme...