The Chiropractor

by D.D. Palmer

The very slight difference in the size of the spinal foramina between the age of twenty-five and eighty would not be worth considering.

Do you not see that the long, wide gap between the atlas and axis affords no possible chance for nerve compression—no more than there is between the atlas and occiput? If you think the first or second spinal nerves can be pinched, compressed or squeezed by the approximation of the atlas and the axis or the drawing together of the occiput and the atlas, just try to explain such a condition to your next prospective patient.

The filaments of nervous tissue create heat and transmit impulses, it is the only structure which can increase or decrease the amount of heat,

hemiplegia, paralysis of the lateral half of the body, was due to a displaced sixth dorsal vertebra;

Since D. D. Palmer ceased to be the editor of The Chiropractor, its pages do not teach and its clinics do not make use of the sympathetic nervous system, the cranial nerves, the accessory, or communicating, or recurrent nerves.

Through evolution the nervous system has undergone remarkable differentiation and specialization attaining its maximum as a dominant ruler in the human species;

D.D. apparently accepted evolution

There are two intelligences in man, Innate and Educated, spirit and mind, the creator and the created. Either one can direct (Innate the involuntary and Educated the voluntary) the functions in normal force and amount, providing the lines (nerves of communication are normal in their structure and qualities.

the cultivation of correct thinking is of great importance to a chiropractor.

Arteritis, an inflammation of the nerves of blood vessels. While arteritis is known as inflammation of an artery, the inflammation is really confined to the nervi vasorum, the network of nerves which surrounds a blood vessel.

Inflammation (excessive heat)

Gout is a form of rheumatism, more especially of the toes.

Gonorrheal rheumatism is the result of gonorrheal poison contracting nerves, drawing the second lumbar vertebra out of alignment.

involuntary nerve contraction,

Nerve and muscle contraction draw vertebrae out of alignment. Adjust the first, second or third lumbar vertebra.

Tx for gonorrhea

Acute rheumatism should be relieved by one adjustment. In such cases, how about uric acid and bacteria as causes? Gorby.

Gorby? Is this a colloquial term?

An inflamed nerve may be recognized, when subcutaneous, by its hardened condition, its sensitiveness to pressure and its enlarged diameter. It is contracted lengthwise and enlarged diametrically.

Inflamed nerves can be palpated. They shorten and widen.

These conditions may be relieved by adjusting the displaced vertebrae which impinge against the nerves.

Bone out of place model

Anemia is the result of not enough stretch.

Anemia caused by decreased stretch of vasomotor nerves

Rheumatism is neuritis of the joint nerves.

Whatever the exact mechanism may be found to be, it is quite certain that in some way the nervous system exercises a control over production and discharge of heat.

In animals and vegetation the temperature is increased by a greater atomic action,

It is a biological fact that nerves vibrate in proportion to the amount of tension. There is no special center for heat production, regulation and dissipation. Heat is a function of the whole nervous system, a discovery made by D. D. Palmer on July 1, 1903.

Instead of the nervous system “exercising a control over the production of discharge of heat,” the animal-tissue (the nervous system) is controlled by an intelligence known as spirit.

Introduction of innate intelligence?

These diseases are acute, each should be relieved by one adjustment, one thrust upon the vertebra which is impinging upon the nerve whose fibers ramify the portion affected.

In costiveness adjust the 12th dorsal, for by its displacement the distance between its inferior articulating processes and those of the first lumbar are increased, thereby stretching the nerves which innervate the kidneys.

These displaced bones, whether in the joints of the toes or the vertebral column, stretch nerves which are attached to the surfaces of those bones, or to be more definite, the nerves are attached to muscles which are secured to bones by tendons, tension creates conditions known as disease.

Another take on the bone out of place model. Not pressure on a nerve, but tension or stretch.

anatomy.

A displacement displaces vertebrae, spreads them apart, does not draw them together.

I proceed to palpate on both sides of the spine, using one finger and thereby determine which one or both of the 12th pair of nerves and the one or both of the kidneys are affected. This is determined by the rigidity of the nerves; those affected will be swollen and sensitive to pressure. Palpation is made by a verticle movement back and forth of a half-inch. The sensitive, contracted nerve or nerves may be followed to the affected kidney or kidneys.

D.D. Palmer claimed he could palpate the 12th thoracic nerves all the way to the kidneys.

In chiropractic there is no need of a laboratorial diagnosis, whether made by chemical analysis, microscopical examination, or a bacteriological study of the discharges from the kidneys or bowels, they do not tell chiropractors anything of value. A laboratorial diagnosis is not chiropractic, it is allopathic—I

Nerve tension is because of trauma or toxine.

This intellectual being transmits its impulses, its commands, over the nervous system by molecular vibration.

Proposed mechanism for innate to affect organs

Inflammation and fever, pathological heat conditions, do not offer to the germ theorist any solution of this perplexed question.

Poisons affect nerves, not blood.

it contracts lengthwise and its diameter is increased. This ability of elastic resistance to any opposing force is an inherent quality of all living matter.

Insanity may be caused by auto-suggestion, continued thinking upon one subject without rest. In such cases the third cervical nerves will be found affected. Correct by adjusting the third cervical vertebra.

Cure insanity by adjusting C3

In 1908 James Gillman, a rancher on Mount Hamilton, Cal., who had been insane for several years, was bitten by a rattlesnake on the hand. The hand became swollen and showed the usual symptoms of snake bite. A few hours later the effects of the venom was no longer visible, and Gillman was restored to saneness, his mind became as clear and active as it ever had been. The poisonous venom had acted as an antidote, its contractile quality upon the nervous system had drawn the displaced vertebra, which caused his insanity, into alignment, accomplishing just what the chiropractor would have done by hand.

Fabulous story of a snake bite acting like an adjustment

Pathologists define catarrh as an inflammation of a mucous membrane. The thickening mucus is a result of a membrane being inflamed.

In our last lesson we learned that intuition is a knowing without reasoning. That instinct is a natural inherited impulse, unassisted by reasoning.

Function is the special and normal action of any organ or part of a living animal.

Definition of Function

Pathological functions are those performed in a greater or lesser degree than normal.

Definition of pathology

Vital force is that principle of life which imparts energy. It is inherent in each organ of an organism.

Tone is the normal activity, strength and excitability of the various organs and functions as observed in health.

An impulse is a communicated thought. Impulses are conveyed over the nervous system by means of vibration.

Nerves don't vibrate, they conduct electrical charge.

The motor is twofold, one originating in the mind of the physical, governs animal functions, the nerves of animal life, it is under the control of the human will; the other is not under the control of the human will but that of spirit, and controls the sympathetic nerve of organic life, creating and continuing an intellectual existence.

Functions performed normally, with normal force, produce activity known as health.

Another definition of function

Impulses are not liquids, therefore, do not flow. Light, heat, sound and impulses are transmitted by vibration—molecular action—they do not flow. Vital force is inherent, consequently, does not flow.

I am the first to state that displacements of the joints of the tension-frame cause nerves to become more tense than normal, thereby creating disease.

It has always been held that poisons affected the blood. That bloody delusion will soon be a theorum of the past. Poisons affect nerves. I am the first to say so—what of it.

The normal movement of a vertebral joint may be increased or decreased.