“Body Mechanics'.

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 409, 18 July 1928, Page 2

“Body Mechanics'.

Miss Driggun s Ucl Un CHIROPRACTIC SCIENCE Likeninc the brain to a dynam, „ nerves to electric wires aa H muscles to electric motors. Mi " ■ Dussan. D.C.. explained li’ j't of chiropractic” to a bis the Concert Chamber last 10 There was an attendance SOO including the chairman Hospital Board, Mr. William wL*' and several members of the 110.0““ Mr. Michael M. Bewia. ln said that the lecture would be flection on the medical professi "Chiropractics is a revolution/®-, parture from the orthodox mol 1 "' school." Mid Miss Duggan, aSi*/ discounted the opposition to it . saying that all important diacovL had been ridiculed. Mariners had . ’ declared that ships could never ti polled by anything but wind. i3 Pr Marconi. Newton and Franks, 7 all been scathingly criticised , their theories.

Chiropractics. which was reallv . version to an old truth, had bee/,. I’'' 1 ’'' 33 years the foremost ‘lruglem^a“ of curing in the world. It was hT on natural laws; it recognised mechanical laws in the bodv Th. palling lack of health in the world day was due. she declared to th. 1 norance of heatlth laws. **" THE NERVOUS SYSTEM The nervous system was the for dation of the body, and it governed - the organs. The spinal cord might t considered a continuation of thehr. tissue, and it took all the shoe ' which were given to the body tcv one of the bones in the spinal were displaced, a set of nerves Z necessarily depressed, with a corj/ ponding paralysis, partial or total some organ or muscles of the bodThe power was cut off or curtailed , the organs, be it the kidnevs, lunr. . heart, was made inefficient. Practisers of chiropractics, sh. u did not treat the part which was /• fulfilling its function, but went strair to the cause and restored the vital". there. They knew the practical tn, chanics of the human bodv and the had studied not only the physical the- mental aspects, but the conneebr link between them.

All paralysis, she said, was due t, pressure on a nerve centre. One mir' as well try to get more water o7t> a hose by adjusting the nozzle as taa : the affected part. The cause of t 3 pressure must be removed.