Excerpt from Principles and Practice of Spinal Adjustment: For the Use of Students and Practitioners
This book has been written primarily with a view to presenting the subject of Spinal Adjustment along strictly scientific lines. While the theory of Spinal Adjustment has been repeatedly propounded, and its value as a remedial agency undeniably proved by the clinical results of those who have preceded me in this field of endeavor, I think that this work will constitute a step forward in placing this subject upon a scientific basis, and prove for all time that it rests upon facts that are irrefutable.
In common with most advances in the art of healing, Spinal Adjustment was first used in a purely empirical manner, its own advocates being unable to explain satisfactorily the results produced through its use. Careful investigation, however, has revealed the premises and furnished the data which rescue this form of treatment from the empiricism of the past and put it upon a substantial basis.
The greatest obstacle to the general adoption of Spinal Adjustment has been the inherited belief that vertebral subluxations are impossible. This belief has been successfully shattered by a large amount of experimental work, particularly upon the cadaver. In this work I was ably assisted by Dr. Erik Juhl and I hereby make grateful acknowledgement of this gentleman"s great help in this connection.
The first section of this work deals with the principles of Chiropractic. For verification of the different physiological facts enumerated in this part of the book I have referred quite extensively to the American Text Book of Physiology and Kirk"s Physiology.
The anatomy and physiology of the nervous system, and the spinal nerve influence upon the various organs, are an essential feature in a work of this nature, and must be thoroughly understood in order to appreciate the modus operandi of Spinal Adjustment.
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