Kindle Notes & Highlights
The intervertebral disks are not compressed, made thinner, the nerves are not occluded, pinched or impinged upon. We, as chiropractors, have no use for such unscientific terms as “The spinal windows are occluded, closed up.”
Fractures and osseous ankyloses usually make them immovable; such are surgical displacements of which a chiropractor has nothing to do.
There is no place for a chiropractic displacement, a dislocation, a luxation, except between the articular surfaces of the articulating processes.
Nerves are never pinched or impinged upon in the foramina. Foramina are never narrowed. WE DO NOT ADJUST THE VERTEBRA. The vertebra itself, so far as a chiropractor knows, is never displaced, dislocated or subluxated.
“The clicking resulting from adjustment can never be shown to be ‘that bone has been thrown in place,’ as they so strenuously maintain. “The sudden separation of the facets takes place, and the ‘clicking’ sound is produced. “Separating the facets of the two bones—that is the articular surfaces—and lets the air in and gives the sound.”
An early claim that cavitation does not indicate a successful adjustent. He even mentions "air" being let in.
Chiropractors are demonstraating upon living subjects, no cadavers, no vivisection, that there are nerve fibers which have not been noticed by anatomists.
Intuition is the ability of knowing without reason, the immediate perception of truth without conscious investigation, or assigning rational causes for their existence.
to know anatomy is to understand chiropractic.
Importance of anatomy to chiropractors
The importance of bone pressure, nerve impingement, nerve tension, the all important fact that the position of the osseous frame, the neuroskeleton of the human budy, has all to do with the amount of nerve tension, normal or abnormal, known as nerve strain, the amount of heat, is never mentioned, in fact, is never thought of by the teachers of medical or chiropractic schools.
Maybe because it is not as important as you think.
Nerve tension is accomplished by the bones acting as levers.
Knowing the structure of bones and nerves, the names of each and all their surfaces, the descriptive terms, nomenclature and classification, their location and functions, do not inform us of the importance which chiropractors should attach to the position of bones.
Quite a declaration by D.D. on the limitations of knowledge of anatomy.
Displaced bones modifying nerve tension, vary the amount of heat.
Dysfunctional nerves produce heat
Excessive nerve vibration, molecular disturbance, causes inflammation.
What the hell is nerve vibration?!
Gingivalgia, pain in the gums, and gingivitis, inflammation of the gums, are because of an impingement on the twelfth pair of dorsal nerves, while hypercementosis, caries of the teeth, alveolar burrowing abscesses, toothache and gum boils are due to an impingement on the third pair of cervical nerves. Stomatitis can be relieved by removing pressure from off the right fifth dorsal nerve.
D.D. thought he could cure dental problems with adjustments.
I discovered and have proven by relieving a number of cases that expulsive gingivitis is caused by inflammation of the twelfth pair of dorsal nerves, a portion of the fibers of which ramify the gums as nervi vasorum. A relief of this nervous affection may be had by removing the impingement on these nerves.
Nerves from the last thoracic vertebra travel up to the mouth and cause inflammation?!
Temperature above that of normal creates disease. Impulsive nerve-vibration determines the amount of heat. The degree of heat of the body of a living being regulates the amount of function.
Now its temperature that creates disease.
