the development of any secondary or tertiary stage. If first adjusted
during the secondary manifestations symptoms may readily disappear and
no tertiary stage ever appear. There are some authenticated cures eight
and ten years past without recurrence of any sign. In the tertiary
stage the organic lesions do not respond. Prognosis is so hopeless in
this stage that it seems useless to apply Chiropractic at all.
=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-judgment can be formed as to the
probabilities in any particular case without experiment, nor has any
adequate explanation been offered as to why some cases recover and
others do not. Those cases which improve at all are likely to recover
fully. In any instance, time is required for the regeneration of the
dorsal column axons, and while this is going on no improvement may be
apparent at all.
=Tachycardia.=--If symptomatic, as of exophthalmic goitre, tachycardia
yields as the disease does. If primary, a few adjustments usually
establish a proper pulse rate.
=Tetanus.=--Only one undoubted case has been brought to the writer’s
attention and this one a marvellous cure. Adjustments were given as
often as every ten minutes for a time.
=Thoracic Aneurism.=--Cure exceedingly doubtful, and fatal termination
possible at any time. Little information is at hand.
=Tonsilitis--Quinsy=.--Simple or follicular tonsilitis aborts under
adjustment in from a few hours to two or three days. Quinsy, or
suppurative tonsilitis, runs its regular course as to duration, but is
frequently a febrile after the first day. Spontaneous rupture of the
tonsil will usually occur and sometimes two or three such ruptures
will lengthen the case slightly. Sequalae are wanting, but all forms of
tonsilar inflammation tend to recur unless a long course of corrective
adjustments is applied to the cervical region.
=Torticollis.=--Acute spastic or rheumatic torticollis in which
permanent contractures have not yet set in may be cured almost
invariably in a period varying from a few days to several weeks.
Chronic cases with permanent contractures yield very slowly, but
prognosis is good for a fairly accurate straightening of the neck. Such
cases often leave slight abnormalities even in the most competent hands.
=Tuberculosis, Pulmonary.=--See Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
=Tumors, Benign.=--Unlike malignant growths, benign tumors, fatty,
fibroid, etc., tend to gradual absorption under adjustment. Perhaps 75
per cent or more may be completely cured. Age is a factor, tumors in
young subjects being more readily curable than in the aged or infirm.
=Tumors, Malignant.=--Prognosis bad. If cancer in any form can be cured
proof has escaped the author’s diligent search. It is wisest to refuse
all cancerous cases.
=Typhoid Fever.=--Prognosis excellent if adjustments are commenced
during first week of fever, in which case the fever should be aborted
at once, followed by one or two mild exacerbations, then permanently
checked. Doubtful prognosis after first week, because of liability to
perforation during adjustment. After second week of fever very grave
prognosis under adjustment, and better with nursing alone.
=Uteroversion--Prolapsus=.--Uteroversions and prolapses are corrected,
sometimes rapidly but more often slowly and gradually. Favoring
circumstances are freedom from overwork or overlifting. Some extreme
cases result in failure.
=Valvular Diseases.=--These may be grouped for prognosis. No
percentages have been compiled, but it may be said that the prognosis
is generally good as to relief and restoration of compensation,
but poor as to rebuilding of the valves. Many cases of apparent
permanent and complete recovery are probably simply cases of excellent
compensation. Death occasionally occurs despite adjustments.
=Varicocele.=--Outlook good for a slow, certain recovery.
=Varicose Veins.=--Probability favors cure in subjects not beyond
middle life, providing they are not greatly overweight or too much on
their feet. Cure always slow.
INDEX
A
Abdominal muscles, 248
Abscesses, 323
Acne, 323
Adenoids of pharynx, 323
Addison’s disease, 323
Adiposis dolorosa, 323
Adjuncts, 215
Adjuncts, use of, 315
Adjusting, contact in, 94
definition of, 89
general, 303
how to learn, 164
principles of, 89
rapid movement in, 93
specific, 303
special technic of, 99
speed in, 131
technic of, 89
Adjusting position, rules for, 127
Adjusting tables, 284
Adjustment, effect of, 186, 189
object of, 90
specific, 230
vertebral, 89
Adjustment of curvatures, 153
Adjustments, coccygeal, 152
frequency of, 302
iliac, 150
sacral, 150
table of for any subluxation, 156
Advertising, 290
Age of subluxations, 84
Alcoholism, 323
Amenorrhoea, 324
Anatomy, comparative, 226
nervous, 234
Anchor move, 116, 118
Angina pectoris, 324
Anidroses, 324
Ankylosis, 58, 88, 324
Anosmia, 324
Anterior cervical move, 102, 103
pisiform, 100
Anterior fifth lumbar, 150
Anterior poliomyelitis, 324
Anterior subluxations, 84
Aorta, abdominal, 250
thoracic, 250
Aphonia, 325
Apoplexy, 325
Appendicitis, 325
Appendix, vermiform, 253
Approximation, vertebral, 82
Arm, anterior muscles of, 255
posterior muscles of, 255
Arteria centralis retinae, 243
Arthritis deformans, 325
Ascites, 326
Asthma, 326
Atlanto-occipital move, 106
Atlas, 18
Atlas move, 106
Atlas palpation, 35
Axis, 19
Axis of body, 223
B
Back, muscles of, 247
Bag punching, 97
Bent process, 59
Blindness, 326
Bodily excesses, 200
Body axis, 223
Brachial plexus, 225, 236
Bradycardia, 326
Brain, 242
Break move, the 107, 109, 110
Bright’s disease, 326
Bronchi, 249
Bronchitis, 327
Bladder, 253
C
Caecum, 253
Caked Breast, 327
Cards for collection, 291
Caries of spine, 56, 154
Case history, 297
Causes, accessory chains of, 177
direct chain of, 177
Cause of disease, 165, 167
Cause of disease, primary, 207
Cause of disease, secondary, 185
Cell, effect of impingement upon, 183
Center place, 206
Cerebrospinal meningitis, 327
Cervical move, double contact, 120
Cervical move, posterior, 119
Cervical plexus, 238
Chassaignac’s tubercle, 61
Chickenpox, 327
Chiropractice hypothesis, 172
Chiropractic, limitations of, 312
Choice of furnishings, 178
Cholangitis, 327
Cholecystitis, 327
Chorea, 327
Christian Science, 216, 315
Cirrhosis of liver, 328
Cleanliness, 286
Coccyx, 17, 19, 45, 152
Coeliac axis, 250
Collection cards, 291
Colon, 253
Comparative anatomy, 226
Concussion of forces, 178, 224, 226
Congestion of liver, 328
Conjunctiva, 243
Conjunctivitis, 328
Contact, close, 94
Contact point, 129
Constipation, 328
Coryza, 328
Count, 30, 33
difficulties in, 34
verifying, 33
Cranial nerves, distribution of, 240
Croup, 328
Cure of bodily excess disease, 214
dietetic disease, 212
germ disease, 211
exposure disease, 214
mental disease, 212
poisoning cases, 213
simple subluxation disease, 208
process of, 208
Curvatures, 153
causes of, 55
compensatory, 57
description of, 54
record of, 56
rotatory, 55
Curves and curvatures, 53
D
Deafness, 329
Diabetes insipidus, 329
mellitus, 329
Diagnosis, 231, 275, 298
Diaphragm, 248
Diarrhoea, 329
Diet, 192, 193
Dietetics, 315
Dilatation of heart, 329
Diphtheria, 187, 190, 329
Direction of subluxation, 25
Disease, cause of, 165
functional, 166
organic, 166
Diseases and adjustments, 257
table of, 258
Displacements, 84
Door sign, 290
Double contact move, 120
Double transverse moves, 135, 138, 139, 148
Dressing room, 286
Dropsy, 330
Drugs, 315
Duodenum, 252
Dysentery, 330
Dyspepsia, 330
E
Ear, 245
Edge contact, the, 144
Effect of adjustment, 188, 189
Effect of subluxations, 79
Elbow joint, 255
Electricity, 216, 315
Enuresis, 330
Epidemics, 189
Epilepsy, 330
Epiphysis, absent, 60
Epistaxis, 331
Erysipelas, 331
Eustachian tube, 245
Evidence, kinds of acceptable, 234
Examination, schedule of, 292
special, 296
Excesses, bodily, 200
Excitation, 162
Exposure, 198
Eye, 242
F
Fallopian tubes, 254
Fasting, 215
Fear, 201
Fees, 291
Fever, 205
Fever center, 206
Fibrocartilages, intervertebral, 83
First appearance, value of, 277
Foods, 194
Foot, 257
Force in adjusting, 98
Freidrich’s ataxia, 331
Frequency of adjustments, 302
Furniture, arrangement of, 282
office, 278
G
Gallstones, 331
Ganglion, ciliary, 243
Gasserian, 244
middle cervical, 247
sphenopalatine, 244, 246
superior cervical, 244, 246
Gastralgia, 332
Gastric ulcer, 332
Gastritis, 332
General adjusting, 303
Germ diseases, 185
Germs, 185
pathogenic, 185
Gland, thyroid, 247
prostate, 253
Glands, salivary, 246
suprarenal, 252
Gluteus maximus muscle, 256
Goitre, 332
Gonorrhoeal rheumatism, 332
Group method, the, 37
example of, 39
Gums, 245
H
Habits, 15
Hay fever, 332
Headache, 332
Heart, 249
Heat-regulating mechanism, 203
Heel contact, the, 133
Hemorrhoids, 333
Hernia, 333
Hip joint, 255
History of case, 297
Hodgkins’ disease, 333
Hook support, 105
Hydrocephalus, 333
Hydrotherapy, 315
Hyperaemia, 202
Hypertrophy, 333
Hypothesis, chiropractic, 172
Hysteria, 333
I
Ileum, 252
Iliac adjustments, 150
Ilium, 150
Immunity, 334
Impingement of nerves, 180, 209
Impotence, 334
Individual subluxation, 40
Infection, 186
Inflammation, 202
Influenza, 334
Inhibition, 169, 182, 189
Insanity, 201, 334
Interiliac line, 34, 62
Intervertebral disks, 83
Intervertebral foramina, 18
Intestinal obstruction, 335
Iris, 243
Irritable heart, 335
Irritability, 169
J
Jaundice, 335
Jejunum, 252
K
Key, 39
Kidneys, 252
Klebs-Loeffler bacillus, 187
Knee joint, 256
Knife move, 144
Kyphosis, 54
L
Landmarks, 61
Laryngitis, 335
Larynx, 246
Last finger contact, 102
Lateral cervical move, 107, 109, 110
Lateral displacements, 84
Law of momentum, 98
Leg, anterior muscles of, 256
posterior muscles of, 256
Leucorrhoea, 335
Library, reference, 289
Limitations of Chiropractic, 212
Liver, 251
Location of subluxations, 78
Lordosis, 54, 85
Lumbago, 335
Lumbar, anterior, 150
Lumbar plexus, 239
Lungs, 249
M
Maladjustment, 89
Malaria, 335
Major subluxations, 39
Massage, 215, 315
Mastoiditis, 336
Measles, 336
Meckel’s ganglion, 244
Mechano-therapy, 315
Medicine, 315, 316
Meniere’s disease, 336
Meninges, 242
Menorrhagia, 336
Mental attitude, 63
Mental states, abnormal, 201
Metrorrhagia, 336
Migraine, 336
Minor subluxations, 39
Mixing, 315
Morikubo move, 99
Motor reaction, 193, 196, 199
Movable kidney, 336
Movement for correction, 27
Muscles of abdomen, 244
of back, 247
of neck, 247
of perineum, 249
Muscular control, 97
Muscular suggestion, 96
Myelitis, 336
Myocarditis, 336
Myxoedema, 337
N
Naprapathy, 313
Napravit, 313
Neck, muscles of, 247
Nephritis, 337
Nerve, auditory, 245
chorda tympani, 246
great sciatic, 256
hypoglossal, 245
inferior maxillary, 244
internal carotid, 242
olfactory, 243
phrenic, 248
recurrent laryngeal, 246
trigeminal (trifacial), 244
Vidian, 244
Nerve connections, special, 235
Nerve impingement, 180, 182, 209
Nerve paths, 70
Nerve pathways, important, 242
structure of, 241
Nerves, cranial, 240
optic, 242
spinal, 237
splanchnic, 250
sympathetic, 240
traceable, 64
Nerve system, 171, 222
development of, 219, 220
outline of, 235
sympathetic, 171
Nerve-tracing, 64, 296
errors in, 73
place of in diagnosis, 67
suggestion in, 67
technic of, 68
Neuralgia, 337
Neurasthenia, 337
Neuritis, 337
Neurology, 234
Neuron, 220
O
Observation of patient, 294
Occipital subluxations, 66
Occipito-atlantal move, 106
Occlusion of foramina, 180
Office equipment, 277
Optic atrophy, 337
Optic nerve, 242
Oral suggestion, 95
Organs, effect of impingement upon, 183
Organ-tracing, 64
Osteopathy, 216, 313, 314, 315
Ovaries, 254
Ovaritis, 337
Overadjustment, 303
P
Palpation, atlas, 35
cervical, 42, 47, 48
coccygeal, 45
difficulties in, 59
dorsal, 43, 46
habits of, 15
lumbar, 44, 46
pelvic, 44
sacral, 44
transverse, 49
vertebral, 15, 295
Pancreas, 251
Paralysis agitans, 337
Parotitis, 338
Pectoralis muscles, 254
Penis, 253
Pericarditis, 338
Pericardium, 249
Perineal muscles, 249
Peritoneum, 252
Peritonitis, 338
Personality, 319
Pertussis, 338
Pharyngitis, 338
Pharynx, 246
Pisiform anterior cervical move, 100
Pisiform contact, 125, 135, 139, 141, 146
Pleurisy, 338
Plexus, abdominal aortic, 253, 254
Auerbach’s, 251
brachial, 238, 254
cardiac, 249
carotid, 244
cavernous, 243
cervical, 238
coelic, 250, 252
cystic, 251
Plexus, gastric, 251
hemorrhoidal, 253
hepatic, 251, 252
hypogastric, 253
inferior mesenteric, 253
lumbar, 239
lumbosacral, 255
Meissner’s, 251
ovarian, 254
pelvic, 253
pharyngeal, 246
phrenic, 248
prostatic, 253
pudendal, 239, 254
pulmonary, 249
renal, 252
sacral, 239, 254
solar, 250
spermatic, 253, 254
splenic, 251
superior mesenteric, 251, 252
suprarenal, 252
uterovaginal, 254
vesical, 253
Pneumonia, 339
Point 2 contact, 144
Poisons, 197
Position A, 22
Position B, 23
Position C, 23
Positions for palpation, 30
Posterior cervical move, 119
Posterior subluxations, 85
Potts’ disease, 56, 154, 339
Practice, 276
Preferable adjustments, 155
Pregnancy, 339
Preparation of patient, 22
Presumptive statements, 235
Private office, 282
Process, bent spinous, 59
Processes, spinous, 20
transverse, 21
Prognosis, 322
general, 323
Prolapsus, 345
Promises to patients, 306
Prostate gland, 253
Prostatic enlargement, 340
Psychoses, 201
Pudendal plexus, 239
Pulmonary tuberculosis, 340
Q
Quinsy, 343
R
Rachitis, 340
Rami communicantes, 172
white, 250
Recoil, name of, 132, 133
the, 125
uses of, 131
Record, the, 23
the complete, 29
sample of, 29
use of, 30
Rectum, 253
Reference library, 289
Reflex arcs, 241
Relaxation, 95
Rest room, 287
Retina, 242
central artery of, 243
Retinal hemorrhage, 340
Retracing of disease, 211, 309
Rheumatic fever, 341
Rheumatism, 341
Roll, the, 285
Rotary move, the, 111, 115, 116
Rotation, axis of, 80
vertebral, 80
Rubella, 341
Rules for adjusting positions, 127
S
Sacrum, 17, 19, 149
Sacral adjustments, 149
Sacral plexus, 239
Salivary glands, 246
Sample record, 29
Scarlet fever, 341
Schedule of examination, 292
Schneiderian membrane, 243
Scoliosis, 55
Scrotum, 254
Second metacarpal contact, 103
Segmentation, 219, 229
Selecting movement, 156
Seminal emissions, 341
Seminal vesicles, 258
Sensor areas of lower extremity, 257
Serratus magnus muscle, 255
Serum-therapy, 186, 315
Shoulder joint, 255
Signs, 290
Simple continued fever, 341
Single transverse moves, 141, 142, 146
Smallpox, 342
Smell, 243
Special cases, 301
Special nerve connections, 235
Specific adjustment, 230, 303
Spinal column, 16, 222
Spinal nerves, distribution of, 237
Spine, 16
Spino-organic connection, 217
Spinous, bent 59
Spinous process, 20
Splanchnoptosis, 342
Spleen, 251
Splenic enlargement, 342
Splenitis, 342
Spondylitis deformans, 342
Spondylotherapy, 215, 313, 315
Spread move, 148
Stimulation, 169, 189
Stomach, 251
Strabismus, 342
Subluxation, 217
direction of, 25
effect of, 179
the individual, 40
theory, 172
Subluxations, age of, 87
anterior, 84
contiguous, 37
effect of, 79
increase of, 191, 193, 196, 199
Subluxations, inferior, 83
lateral, 84
law governing location of, 78
major, 39
minor, 39
occipital, 86
posterior, 85
production of, 76
secondary causes of, 77
superior, 83
varieties of, 80
Suggestion, muscular, 96
oral, 95
Suggestive therapeutics, 315
Sunstroke, 342
Supporting head in adjusting, 105
Suprarenal capsules, 252
Susceptibility, 186
Sympathetic, cervical, 242
Sympathetic nerves, distribution of, 240
Sympathetic nerve system, 171
Syphilis, 342
T
Tabes dorsalis, 343
Table of diseases and adjustments, 257
Table of subluxations and moves, 155
Tachycardia, 343
Talking points, 306
Teeth, 245
Tenderness 69, 71
Tension, 181
Testes, 254
Tetanus, 343
Theory of Chiropractic, 172
Theory, subluxation, 172
Thigh, 255, 256
Thoracic aneurism, 343
Thoracic nerves, 238
Thrust, 91
Thumb move, 121, 123
Thyroid gland, 247
Tipping, vertebral, 82
T. M., 121, 123
Tongue, 245
Tonsilitis, 343
Tonsils, 246
Torticollis, 344
Trachea, 249
Transmitted shock, 91
Transverse adjusting, 135, 138, 139, 141, 143, 146, 148
Transverses, 21
Trauma, effect of, 174, 178
Tube, eustachian, 245
fallopian, 254
Tuberculosis, pulmonary, 344
Tumors, benign, 344
malignant, 344
Typhoid fever, 189, 344
U
Underscoring, 26
Ureters, 253
Urethra, 253
Use of adjuncts, 315
Uterus, 254
Uteroversion, 345
V
Vagina, 254
Valvular disease, 345
Variations in number of vertebrae, 60
Varieties of subluxation, 80
Varicocele, 345
Varicose veins, 345
Vermiform appendix, 253
Vertebrae, 16
cervical, 16
dorsal, 16
lumbar, 16
variations in number of, 16, 60
Vertebral palpation, 15, 295
Vertebra prominens, 17, 19
Vital energy, 169
Visceral nerves, 239, 253
W
Waiting room, 280
Worry, 201
Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not
changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced
quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
The hierarchy of the Table of Contents has been used as the guide to
the rest of the book, even though the two sometimes differ.
Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.
Page 26: “P R S” has an underline below “P” and a double-underline
below “R”.
Page 34: “flexed far toward” perhaps should be “forward”.
Page 79: “as well all the details” may be missing “as” after “well”.
Page 117: “all vertebra above, so to speak” perhaps should be
“vertebrae”.
Page 147: “this move is predicated” was printed as “this more was
predicated”; changed here.
Page 158: “Posterior, right, inferior--P. R. I.” was printed as
“P. R. L.”; changed here.
Page 187: “but is claimed” probably should be “but it is claimed”.
Page 307: “has been builded” was printed that way.