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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18514, 27 March 1922, Page 6

“A NI3W SORT OF TREATMENT.” TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —ln view of the fact that ” Anti-Chiro” has been inveighing in your columns against chiropractic, permit me to quote extracts fronj, a letter written by Dr Alfred Walion, who graduated at Harvard and practised principally as a surgeon for '2O years, and who changed from an old school practitioner to the final acceptance o£ chiropractic as a rational method of procedure in combating disease: Chiropractic is a dnigloss method of healing, and is based upon the scientific fact that the soft nerves as they escape from the lateral openings of the spine frequently become impinged by coming in contact with hard Ixuie; lienee, pathological changes take place at the termination ot the nerve, sometimes in the flesh and not infrequently the vital organs of the body. That such pressure actually existed, and a method of correcting it hy a verv simple process, was demonstrated by Dr D. "D. Palmer and is now Icing taught most successfully bv his son, E. J. Palmer. D. 0., at Ihe Palmer School of Chiropractic, at Davenport, lowa. I have personally seen cures effected hy the method of adjustment taught there by young men who have hail a thorough instruction concerning the spine, whoso skill in curing disease should make the racst. brilliant sunreon in the land ashamed of his incapacity. Chiropractic is not a “cure all,” and should never be claimed as such, hut it reaches successfully a. large number of so-called chronic diseases than any known mechanical method. Dr Walton established tli© Essex County Hospital, in the State of New Jersey, was president of that institution for its first year, and chief of the surgical staff. Dr Walton was the first person to render it possible for oxygen to bo employed, by the medical profession in an acceptable form; he invented the apparatus that made it possible to be transported from place to place; also his formula, oxygen, nitrous-monoxide, and ozone, is being used extensively in the hospitals in the "United States. Does “ Anti-Chiro” think that such a man n-i Dr Walton would advocate chiropractic if he thought it was without merit? ‘’AntiChiro” is right when ho says that “it is for the public to draw its own conclusions n-s to the efficacy of chiropractic," tint it wilt do so with nit unprejudiced mind. Has “Anti-Chiro” ever taken adjustments? If not, how does ho know that a chiropractor cannot adjust vertabvte? Let him pay a, visit to any chiropractor in this city, and not only will a" X-ray picture he made, but any vertebra in bis spine will he moved if he should so desire proof. In conclusion let mo say that I am a chiropractor, and that at one time I scoffed ut chiropractic, through ignorance of its methods, much in the same way as “AntiChiro” is now doing,—l am, etc.. Credit Where Credit is Due. Dunedin, March 2t.