CHIROPRACTIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 198, 23 July 1931, Page 5

CHIROPRACTIC.

References have at times been made to the desirableness of introducing chiropractic treatment into the local public hospital in respect to those cases likely to respond to it. From the chiropractic viewpoint the human body is a wonderfully contrived machine whose system or organs is perfectly adapted to perform the work for which it is specially intended. But the human frame, like every other machine, sometimes gets out of order. The motive power is derived from the brain and the nerve system is the distributing agency. The nerves are the transmission wires; and from the spinal cord nearly all the nerves of the body are given off. As the nerves are the transmission wires of the human body any interference With their carrying power will prevent the proper functioning of some other part of the human machine. Chiropractic is the science which teaches that the overwhelming majority of human ailments are caused by pressure on the nerves as they pass out from the 6pine to the various organs and tissues of the body; and it includes the art of removing such pressure—and consequently removing the cause of the disease —by a series of adjustments or rapid movements of tho hands, without the use of either instruments or drugs. The art consists in the practical correction of vertebral misalignments, displacements or subluxations which originate that pressure on tho nerves which is said to be the root cause of the vast majority of health troubles. When the displaced vertebra has been restored to its normal position and the pressure on the nerve lias been removed relief and cure have been experienced. Chiropractic has an ever-increasing number of adherents, but it is not claimed the treatment will cure all the ailments to which the human frame is subject. Believing, as he does, that there is evidence in support of this treatment, Mr F. J. Ryder, a member of the Palmerston North Hospital Board, desires it should be given a trial in the local hospital. Other members of the board, however, have not yet accepted the theory.