OUR MASTERPIECE

by

B. J. PALMER, D.C., PH. C.

1881 - 1961

“B.J. OF DAVENPORT”*

—philosopher, scientist, artist, builder—the bit of a mortal being whom InnateIntelligence developed

*OIL PORTRAIT BY RAYMOND P. R. NELSON STUDIO,131 EAST 66TH STREET,

NEW YORK CITY

PREFACE

Sarasota, Florida

READ THESE PAGES and please do so carefully—because it involvesMANY complexed and vital questions which ALL OF US must know theins and outs about, to guard certain chiropractic potential factors for thefuture.

We began to write our opinions, reasons, into a letter. It finally grewinto an article because of many issues needing explanation. As time wenton, our ORIGINAL article grew, broadened, enlarged, and became almosta young book, but THE SUBJECT MATTER, in our humble opinion,WAS SO IMPORTANT that we could not stop accumulatingEVIDENCE substantiating what we thought was the RIGHT thing toprotect, defend and preserve for historical mankind.

As we enlarged our revised edition—4 times now since theoriginal—it became apparent as we began to dig back into our 60 years ofendeavors to PROVE THE CHIROPRACTIC PRINCIPLE ANDPRACTICE, WITH INCONTROVERTIBLE EVIDENCE that WE HAD“researched” almost every intangible controversial angle, that we hadwritten our evidence and proof into articles, published them in books,which SINCE have ALL been proven right, correct, sane, sound andsensible, by others beyond ourself, proving that the deductions WE hadresearched scientifically were correct, right.

We then began to recall the ways, means, methods, apparati, WEhad used into this ONE article. As we recalled this item, it began toformulate into FOUR enlargement issues.

We do not propose using THIS fourth enlarged issue in any publicmanner UNLESS, in OUR opinion, at some future date, it should begiven publicity to strengthen the convictions of OUR reliable, trustworthydisciples who have in the past, are now and will in the future, use it tostrengthen the backbone of our pro-

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fession. Or, if in the future, we think it should be published by us to proveto the “scientific researchers” what WE HAVE researched which THEYare now adopting to correct THEIR unproven research which WE HAVEestablished.

Time will tell what use we may make of this article you have.WE have given this article MONTHS of preparation. We earnestly

suggest YOU take time and study its contents VERY carefully as WEHAVE DONE in its preparation.

B. J. Palmer

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FOREWORD

My father, B. J. Palmer, put together the manuscript of this volumeover a relatively short period of time—actually not more than a year.Most of it was written or assembled during the early morning hours of 5to 8 a.m. during the last year or two of his life at his home in Sarasota.However, it should be quickly noted that these thoughts and conclusionswere not only of these days but the result of over 60 years close study andexperience of the profession he headed and developed.

“B.J.” had his sorrows, frustrations and hardships, typical of allpioneers in establishing a new philosophy, especially a new druglesshealing science, yet he had moments of the highest happiness andsatisfaction such as goes along with the personality of a genius.

No man can be great unless he gives up thinking about his pleasuresand peace of mind. A mind so dedicated to a new thought must be closelyin touch with a higher source of strength and inspiration to endure what isa hard and painful road to travel. There are many obstacles to the properawareness of any new philosophy due to either lack of interest orprejudice in a static world of complacent thinkers.

My father had a greatness that belonged to a life spent struggling inhis own inimitable way against monopolistic influences unwilling toaccept an allied healing art. “B.J.” followed a course—his course—thatdrew loyal followers and critics alike who questioned his motives andmethods, yet he stood fast to his convictions of what he knew was rightfor the preservation of chiropractic’s Philosophy, Science and Art.

This volume, number 39, the last written by “B.J.”, aptly expresseshis hopes and aspirations.

David D. Palmer

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VOLUME XXXIX

PALMER

1961

THE NATURAL LAW

M AN IS THE LIVING expression of the epitomy of natural and normallaw.

The law of reproduction of the human race is and has beencontrolled and directed by natural law, regardless of caprices andIdiosyncracies of theoretical vagaries of “scientific researchers.”Centuries have not changed them.

CHIROPRACTIC succeeds in getting sick people well because ITrecognizes constants of law IN living man, corrects interferences of thoseconstants IN living man, and then allows THE LAW itself IN LIVINGMAN to re-establish its health constant IN LIVING MAN.

We are told “NATURE heals, NATURE cures, give NATUREtime.” Can any man from outside-in, below-up, the “scientificresearchers”, stimulate or inhibit “NATURE” and cause a cure to comeartificially thus changing the pattern of the cause of constants of law inliving man? The reverse of this is embodied in the chiropracticphilosophy, science and art.

Chiropractic knew, WE knew, there is and was a law at work inliving man which could, would and did get him well. In exact ratio as weeliminated variables, we established constants. As we establishedconstants, chiropractic “researchers” located and cooperated with theLAW of living man.

Because man IS the prolonged continuation of the constants of lawof being, is the reason WHY CHIROPRACTIC has been the success ithas and is, because CHIROPRACTIC work WITH the eternal, natural,internal law of living beings.

CHIROPRACTIC is simple and single. A CHIROPRACTOR is asimple and single exponent of the constancy of constants working WITHlaw WITHIN living man.

Man cannot cross breed one specie with another, in violation of lawgoverning species. If he tries, there is produced a hybrid

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which will not reproduce the original specie in violation of its law, bothfail to reproduce.

Bipeds and quadrupeds are subject to the same UNIVERSAL LAWas it performs in living man.

Constants of law plan from above-down, inside-out, in all bipeds andquadrupeds. Education with its failures of tested variables has neverchanged the law of life down thru the ages and centuries, in production orreproduction in living units today.

Natural LAW is applicable to all LIVING creatures alike, is notgeographic, secular, political or professional except as man KNOWS itand works with it.

Any attempt of any outside second man to reverse, subjugate, fromoutside-in, below-upward to amend INTERNAL LAW to meet HIStheories to fit any pattern of his external variables, has ALWAYS failed.Thus does LAW protect itself against reversible encroachments.

LAW has basic constants, and is not subject to varying fluctuationsof variables of men with conflicting theories.

“Science research” will succeed IF it seeks constants of UniversalLAW as it works thru the living UNITAL human race. “Scientificresearch” will fail IF it complies complicated, multiple, endlessVARIABLES OUTSIDE of living man.

These preambles have been the basic and fundamental in ALL OUR“scientific research” in the history of CHIROPRACTIC down throughthese 60 years. To seek constants, to establish THE LIVING HUMANLAW, thereby automatically eliminating all variables of our technicians,our faculty, our student body, produces a better, deeper, logical andcorrect understanding of CHIROPRACTIC per se.

There are millions of variables in every profession, especiallymedicine; countless constants even in our profession, but ONLY ONELAW IN LIVING MAN. Know, understand and practice with THAT lawof living man and you will have arrived.

********EVERYTHING chiropracTIC has been, from the beginning, is

today, basically sane, sound and sensible, because it weights EVERYproblem with its alpha and omega FROM ABOVE-

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DOWN, INSIDE-OUT in contrast to EVERY problem “with theassistance of competent (?) electronic technicians and other (?) qualified(?) personnel” of all medically-minded and trained personnel whoapproach all problems exclusively from OUTSIDE CAUSE, OUTSIDECURE, from outside-in, below-upward—that’s why medical men call usNOW—“scientific”. Because of this fundamental, basic and distinctivedifference IS WHY we have solved one simple and single dis-ease froman INTERNAL CAUSE AND CURE and why THEY still grope in thedark, failing for 5,000 years to find any cause or cure OUTSIDE-IN. Doyou see ANY reason why we should submit OUR approach to THEIRapproach; why we should reverse OUR approach, successful as it is, intheir attempt to NOW prove OUR approach with their methods, theirsfailing as they have down through the ages?

A new birth, a new human being, a new assemblage of old material,which begins today little realizing that all that is living today waspredicated and was produced by law, principles and practices establishedday before yesterday, centuries before the present generation was born.To KNOW those laws, principles and practices of yesterday should bethe ambition of the so-called modern “scientific researcher” of today. Hetoo studiously dissects the world on living man of now, holds up to gazeupon a dissected section, looks at it through today’s distorted microscopicmind and hypothecates what produced it AS OF TODAY. The law thatbuilt living man and woman is hundreds of thousands of years old. Thelaw, THE SAME LAW THEN, the SAME LAW TODAY. It has beenOUR endeavor to ascertain THAT LAW and predicate our study oftoday’s living man based on a workable knowledge OF THAT ANCIENTLAW, to correct obstacles which interfere with ITS freedom of action.

After studying this article, and piecing its data and informationtogether, you will be aware that each main objective chiropracTICsubject HAS BEEN individually “scientifically researched”, not byforeigners to our field or experience, but by those directly concerned andvitally involved to see that such WAS “scientifically researched” throughthe use of our own “scien-

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tific instrumentation.” We don’t know, nor have we any concept how farthe CRF desired to, or intended to duplicate much of which we havealready covered. A comprehensive survey of our 36 volumes of researchmaterial, will convince you we have covered many of, if not most of, thefields you might have contemplated researching. Or, it is possible, in theearnest and sincere desire to present a “scientific” program to “scientific”minds, you may have overlooked that much accomplished, is now inprint. At present, and during last winter while here, we wrote our Vol. 37,which we hope to have in print this winter or next spring. It covers moreadditional subjects, or has broadened the scope of some we have alreadycovered in earlier books.

Harvey (England) “discovered” a circulation of a fluid he calledblood which circulated throughout the body, lungs to heart, heart toarteries and arterioles, to and through the organic system; back throughveins and venules to heart, then to lungs, etc. Harvey died of starvation,trying to convince his colleagues. Here was a tangible, obvious subject tobe seen, watched, etc. Why should there have been any doubt?

To chiropractic belongs credit for discovering and developing twoadditional circulations. The brain-nerve-body, body-nerve-brain materialsystem through which flowed an intangible, unseen, abstract, difficult toprove that there WAS A “something” very powerful, dynamic, withoutwhich we would be dead matter. We, who proved existence of thiscontinuity circular circulation call it the mental impulse nerve-force flow.This abstract circulation regulates, controls and directs the flow ofarterial and venous blood.

To chiropractic belongs the credit for the third circulation—for thewant of a better title—SEROUS CIRCULATION. This is the nutrientcirculation—serum being broken down, chemical food circulated,efferently through INTER-canalicular system, returning throughINTRA-canalicular system, eventually to urea, urine and out.

SEROUS CIRCULATION has been written, described, illustrated,thoroughly and fully in our Vol. (?). To repeat any part or parts herewould be duplication.

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The nearest “scientists” we know, who came to establishing aSEROUS CIRCULATION, was Morat, in his PHYSIOLOGY OF THENERVOUS SYSTEM, and SAJOUS.

OF PRIMARY importance is the brain-nervous system whichconveys and transmits ALL power which drives all muscular motorsthroughout the body, which develops circulatory directions for blood andserous circulations.

********In THE NEWS (Sarasota, Florida, Dec. 14, ’60) was an article titled“IS SCIENCE SOLVING SECRET OF LIFE ITSELF?”This article elaborates on chromosomes and genes, cellular

DIVISION, then makes these comments:“But there is design AND THAT is THE WONDER AND

MYSTERY of it”“What IS IT that CAUSES each cell to do the right thing at

PRECISELY the right moment?”The author, Delos Smith, explains “the wonder and mystery” by and

through PHYSICAL processes of matter and material elements, as “LIFEITSELF”. That which is abstract, to him is unknown because he cannotand does not weave INTO “IT” the abstract pattern of activity, function,action, “the right thing at precisely the right moment” in directing theintellectual mental impulse abstract supply to give matter action which is“life” when expressed which IS the great unknown.

This article endeavors to explain abstract “life” through PHYSICALprocesses. No man has, nor can any man ever, explain away THATguiding factor—the Innate Intelligence which presides in ALL livingactivities which differentiates it from dead, inactive substances.

That author says, “when the cell divides, LIFE begins”. This is falsereasoning and should be reversed, saying “LIFE”—the Innate Intelligenceenters, guides, directs activity, AFTER WHICH “the cell divides”. “Life”per se, PRECEDES action of matter, does NOT follow it. “Life” hasexisted, either acting in material form, or existing without form, formillions of years.

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our earlier volumes, possibly vol. 1 or 2, we explain a version with itsprinciple of developmental action where the male spermatazoan depositsone-half the future child. The ovum deposits the other half. Innate alone,then determines ratio of sexes and formulates matter to fit that need.Instead of cellular DIVISION, it now becomes cellular EXPANSIONdeveloping epiblast, mesoblast and dermablast, depositing each characterto eventually take form, shape, size, organic deposition, etc.

In a fracture, as an example, where one bone becomes two brokensegments, the nearest osseous tissue cell center ABOVE the break sendsdown some of its reverse tissue cells FROM that center, deposits them onthe inferior edge of the break. A lower osseous tissue cell center, sendsUPWARD some of its reverse osseous cells from THAT center, depositsthem on the superior edge of that break. As many cells are sent forth fromBOTH centers as Innate finds necessary to mend and unite a solid form ofthat break. Thus all osseous breaks or other injuries of soft tissue aremended by new cells coming forth from their characteristic types oftissue cell centers. The process is EXPANSION AND LIBERATION OFCELLS from their respective centers. Such is ALWAYS under theguiding intellect of the abstract living Innate Intelligence residingtemporarily in THAT living body.

(The proof of this is found in the many fracture specimens in ourOsteo Lab. )

As Delos Smith says: “that IS the wonder and mystery OF IT”because no second outside person KNOWS what this internal abstractintellectual LIFE factor IS. Neither does he know what it IS in himselfalthough living intimately WITH it from birth to death, which “causesEACH cell to do the right thing at PRECISELY the right moment”.

We suggest our reader secure our earlier volumes containing anelaboration of this phase of our researches.

In all the standard anatomy books (formerly in our private library,now in the PSC school library) they elaborate on materialities—such asorgans, viscera, muscles, ligaments—and a “sympathetic nervous system”through which existed a “sym-

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pathy” function “by means unknown” (Dunglison); later to be renamedthe para-sympathetic, and now the autonomous system, whatever that is.

This consisted of a chain of ganglia located external to the spinalcolumn, consisting of 128 “independent brains independent of theencephalon” ( Dunglison), through which a “reflex action” hopped,skipped, and jumped about, from one ganglion to another, hunting for aplace to land, from which it skipped to some other—in some intangible,unexplainable way, to eventually arrive and light and express something,they knew not what.

In none of these anatomy books was mentioned a direct hook-upbetween brain cell, via continuity of nerve fiber, efferently reaching tissuecell through which flowed a continuity of an abstract mental impulsesupply from which an impression had its afferent origin which wasreturned directly through a continuity afferent nerve, to eventually reachthe mind in the brain where Innate Intelligence interpreted it as aresponse to the efferent message sent forth to execute a certain definiteaction at a certain definite place, for a definite pre-determined over-allcoordinated functional purpose.

That man had a “conscious” mind was generally and vaguely alludedto; in and supposed to be behind which was an unknown quantity of“SUB-conscious” mind still largely referred to.

********Much of the above has changed since OUR “scientific research” at

The PSC, which is NOW largely adopted as prima facie verificationsuggested by translations conducted from German publications. All thiswas done WITHOUT our asking any appeal for millions of dollars, orhiring of professional “competent electronic” “scientific researchers,” in“scientific” laboratories conducted under “scientific” apparati. Commonsense was OUR laboratory; common sense observations of what wastaking place were sufficient to reach conclusions now adopted by Germanmedical articles translated.

It would seem, then, that more common sense observations whichdispelled “sympathetic, sympathy, reflex action, para-sympathetic,autonomous nervous system”, by-passing “sub-con-

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scious” mind for Innate Intelligence, could also be continued to beresearched with further enlightenment and accurate justification.

Step by step, down through the years, WE, HERE, have OUR OWN“scientific” procedures and findings, ALL of which, added and unitedtogether, WE use in our private and students’ clinics retaining all ofwhich we continue to teach as the basic and fundamental facts necessaryto prove every accuracy of the chiropracTIC principle and practice.

1. The Neurocalometer is a “scientific” instrument based on thewell-known, long established thermo-couple or thermopile principle ofwhere opposition of the two opposing metals, placed in the proximity ofheat, generates a minute electrical current which is established on asufficiently sensitive galvanometer.

No other living person has lived as long in years, researched somany ways, always on the living triune unity of abstract with concrete,never either one alone, consequently the modern today averagechiropractor thinks and believes our position today is questionable,unscientific, subject to serious criticism, needing reformation.

Consider the faculty of today, at the PSC. Maybe 5, 10 or even 15years ago, they entered our school. They sat in class and listened tolectures from others who were as much novices to the fields of ourresearch as they or their teachers. When they graduated, they becameteachers—of what? The present-day was taught present-day ideas, theold, deeply grounded facts of “scientific research” some of us had spent alife time to dig out, ferret, develop, were then and are now unknownquantities. Little do they realize that WHAT THEY WANT TO KNOW,IS KNOWABLE, if they went backward into the pages of our 36volumes, into our records. If they did they would be astounded,astonished, to realize what YOU AS WELL AS THEY HOPE TO SEEKTODAY, WE SOUGHT YESTERDAY; what THEY HOPE AS WELLAS YOU TO ASCERTAIN TODAY, WE ASCERTAINED THEN ALLDOWN THROUGH THE AGES WHEN WE SOUGHT THEN WHATYOU AS WELL AS

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THEY SEEK AND HOPE TO SECURE NOW. Will they? Not, if theyand you pursue their present methods and processes of seeking data onpiece by piece.

(At the expense of being verbose, or laying ourselves subject tocritism for not displaying and exhibiting what we HAVE done, we shallhere cite a few examples and fields we covered with hopes it will bringthese “scientific researchers” backward INTO the fields of what theyTODAY seek.)

2. The Neurocalometer gives the EXACT locations of interferences.Mental impulse flows, through nerves, when and where interfered intransmission, offers RESISTANCE to flow which generates a secondaryslightly abnormal heat value, so minute it is beyond human sense meansof location. Being deeply imbedded in the body, the NCM can and doeslocate what fingers cannot sense.

3. To overcome human variables in variations of differing peoples,each failing to see accurately what was proved by the NCM, readingswere automatically shunted across to the neurocalograph, which recordedthese readings EXACTLY as picked up by the NCM, establishing onestandard accurate reading to which all agreed alike, on the same case, dayafter day, on all pre and post readings, creating one uniformity of aprofessional standard in our profession.

(Knowing fickleness of variables of average person’s ability to seeaccurately what he looks at, and knowing the inability of man toremember data received from day to day, on any one case, let alone,many, wherever possible we builded add our records in and throughgraphing devices establishing a permanent record.)

(At no other time, or place in our profession, has such an extensive,exhaustive and comprehensive “scientific research” been conducted “tovalidate the chiropractic contentions”.)

(We have one large store room where are filed records, spinographs,etc., all of which are numbered, shelved, so they can be quickly referredto for statistical purposes in a break-down analysis of any one case, ormany. )

4. The visograph—developed by us a method of instruction

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proving that differing readings, proving how futile were two or more setsof eyes to see the same readings.

5. The neurocalograph was another “scientific” instrument whichaccurately recorded from day to day, the pre and post readings, beyondwhich man’s memory is fickle. It was patented in The U.S.

********A break-down analysis of the word electro-encephalo-neuro-ment-

imp-o-graph and you will see the field of “scientific research” coverage:—“electro”—electrical pick-up, amplification and graphing—the pick-up wires being five-one-thousandths of an inch in

diameter—“encephalo”—brain—“neuro”—nerve—“ment”—mental—“imp”—impulse quantity flow—“graph”—to record for permanent referenceAll squarely and exclusively confined WITHIN the field of the

CHIROPRACTIC principle and practice.This specific but simple character of “scientific research,” uniting

the tri-unit unity between philosophy, science and art, could ONLY beconducted with LIVE bodies.

The Timpograph electrodes pick-up will average generally fiveone-millionths of a volt. That is assuming that the impulse supply isflowing normally and freely. Under stimulation such as whiskey, rye,beer, other liquors and other methods of electrical treatments orstimulation, it will climb above that graph scale.

Under depressant drugs such as morphine, cocaine, novocaine orother drugs of like purposes, graph readings show a below normalimpulse graph value flow.

The purpose of the timpograph is to record and graph the results ofpre and post subluxation adjustment QUANTITY FLOWS in all cases.We have stated in another part of this report on our research that thetimpograph booth is completely wire meshed, ceiling, side walls, endwalls, under floor of linoleum, even to the door when closed whichexcludes all external in-

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terfering radio, television, electrical, north and south pole magneticwaves, to the end of eliminating all external variable distortions from thegraph. (The ’timpograph was patented in The U.S.)

In securing lie detector tests, of which we did a great deal, that toowas all exclusive and so far as we know the first such studio doing thiswork where it was done in shielded and grounded exterior walls.

Otto Shierbeck and I spent night and day, to lick these distortionsthat we might establish a perfect graph record without distortions. Wefinally licked that problem after years of work.

It is possible to accurately and scientifically graph efferent andafferent QUANTITY mental impulse or nerve force flows from anypatient case without distortion.

With only 5 one-millionths of a volt pick-up, it must be amplifiedbefore it can be graphed. TO AMPLIFY such a minute quantity was asimple matter but to amplify these graphs 400 trillion times WITHOUTdistortion was a problem.

All OUR ’timpograph research records were taken and made in acompletely mosquito-meshed copper shielded room. Ceiling, side-walls,on floor under linoleum, even to doors which, when closed, sealed theroom from all extraneous foreign energy infiltrations. This room wascovered outside with iron sheeting. All electrode-pick-ups were shieldedand grounded likewise as well as all electrical supply which came fromoutside the room.

In addition, in any and all other labs, where we were measuringnerve force flow quantity values, these labs too were likewise shieldedand grounded.

6. NCM readings, being made in a shielded and grounded booth,copper shielded and grounded on all sides, ceiling and floor as well asiron sheeting, the same to screen out magnetic north and south polewaves, eliminated external invasionary forces which otherwise developedexternal variables in our recorded graphed readings.

7. These graphed readings now became a permanent record, fromday to day, of the reductions of NCM readings, as taken and recordedfrom day to day, pre and post readings.

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8. The x-ray spinograph is another “scientific” instrument revealinginternal dis-relation-ships between vertebrae where the NCM has locatedits interferences. Being deeply imbedded they are beyond vision orpalpation sense of accuracy. Each stage of exposure is calibrated fromfeet to body, all of which is listed on special printed forms for futureduplication with exactness. Spinographs gave listings, all of which weremade under a scaled system of body placements, permitting futureduplications of replaces for pre and post checks.

We were THE FIRST to introduce x-ray work into our profession.We were the FIRST in the City of Davenport and so far as we rememberwere THE FIRST in the State of Iowa.

(Any researcher must have an unlimited courage to stay put on whathe is researching knowing that the world of people who surround himoppose his lines of reasoning and approaches to new problems.

The SCHEIDEL-WESTERN x-ray was housed in a bay window, 3rdfloor room. We moved out two rent-producing beds to make way for“Scientific research”.

(In those days we exposed glass plates. It took about 3 minutes tomake an exposure. There was no leaded shield around the tube. When anexposure was being made the two large revolving disks sounded likethreshing machines. We personally exposed ourself in hundreds of casesin a way which now would be considered dangerous, but at that timenobody knew the dangers of radiation. Thousands of glass plates wereexposed, developed and interpreted on that floor.)

From then to now is a far cry in development, flash exposures, films.Since those early days, the PSC has exposed over 2 and a half millionfilms—all on LIVING beings.

We coined the word SPINography because of the nature of ourSPINE work on LIVING people. We don’t recall that we EVER took oneradiograph of a cadaver. SPINograph has now become standardterminology.

Each of our labs are fully equipped with the finest and latest x-raydevices, dark rooms, developing rooms, interpreting rooms, readingboxes, etc.

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9. Upon these findings, adjustments were delivered only at suchplaces, where interferences were recorded, as spinographs listed them, asto direction proven to be correctly ascertained; post checking followingadjustment as mentioned above.

10. You will observe ALL OUR “scientific research” has been and isestablished in and around the fixed living case principle fromabove-down, inside-out, except for the actual adjustment, even the mostof that correction of the seating and setting of the vertebral subluxation isdone by Innate from above-down, inside-out. In reverse language it wouldbe impossible for a chiropractor EXTERNALLY to adjust and exactlycorrect a subluxation internally IN A DEAD BODY.

11. The conturgraphometer was another “scientific” instrumentwhich accurately graphed contours of spinal columns of living cases. Itgraphed anterior-posterior, lateral right to left and vice-versa, contoursfrom head to and including coccyx. It concluded scolioses, lordoses,kyphoses, rotatory curvatures as well as abnormal adaptative curves notlisted as above. We took pre and post contours at various periods of caseswhich were in our clinic. We desired to find whether adjustments did, ordid not modify, change or correct abnormal adaptative curve contoursback to normal. Securing our graphs, we overlapped the various graphstaken at varying periods of time, on living clinical cases, we published alarge book reproducing many cases with these graphs, each graph indifferent color overlapping one on the other, readily discerningdifferences under the chiropractic process. It might be The CRF has somesuch program in mind with your motion-picture x-ray instrument. If so,We could be of great help.

12. Nerve tracing was another branch of our “scientific research”based on following the path of sensitive nerve fibers originating in brain,following through into spinal cord to locate accurately exits of certainnerves going to certain organs located in lower body below atlas down toand including coccyx. It was conducted on living bodies FROMintervertebral foramina TO organ or organs which were dis-eased, whichnerves were under interference at some point or points superior to theirexit or exists

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at certain definite intervertebral foramina. This was done by digitalfeelings following the sensitivity ON THE LIVING BODY withcooperation of patient, of a tender nerve leading to or from organs whichwere organically dis-eased. The direction was taken from the spinalcolumn to organ, or, from organ backward to the foramina.

Thousands of cases were nerve traced, photographs were taken,typical cases of which were assembled into our Vol. 13 of our librarybooks.

From these nerve tracings we established the INFERIOR mericsystem, which pin-pointed certain nerves which lead from certainforamina to certain organs. A result of this research we established adistinct nomenclature to identify certain spinal connections with certainorganic connections, such as HP (heart place) SP (stomach place)identifying every spinal locations from atlas to coccyx in this manner.Later, we developed the SUPERIOR meric system, connecting spinalnerves superiorly with their definite areas in the brain.

Back in those Inferior Meric System days, we secured symptomsand/or pathology data of our case, determined which organ or organswere involved to match those symptoms/or pathologies, then determinedwhich inferior osseo mere was the one to adjust, such as we havementioned here.

Later, when we adopted the MAJORS AND MINORS approach, wesecured our histories of the case as just mentioned, then determinedwhich organ was most involved in the longevity of life of the case. If thecase had an acute chronic TB, as one example, that would be more vitalthen, for example a series of headaches or constipation. If so, L.U.P.(lung place or approx. 4th dorsal) would be our MAJOR, others matchingother symptoms could be and might be our MINORS as of lesser impor-tance for the time being. Our premise for reasoning INCLUDING certainMAJORS first and excluding certain MINORS for the time being wasbased, if the MAJOR was adjusted first, Innate could and wouldCONCENTRATE ITS REPARATIVE RECUPERATIVE REPAIRINGPROCESSES MORE WHERE MORE VITALLY NEEDED. All this wasbefore many subse-

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quent researches were developed which gave us a more accurate andcorrect analysis of WHY, WHERE AND WHEN to adjust.

13. The entire purpose of all OUR “scientific” instrumentation wasto eliminate any dependency upon variable and differing opinions ofchiropractors or patients as to all minute internal changes beyond hisknowledge, and within our knowledge, to establish accuracy and build acomplete record of each case.

14. The results of these procedures are insistently and consistentlytaught in PSC classes and clinics. The regrettable feature is that manystudents, for many diverse reasons, overlook, forget and do not followsuch in their practices once they leave The PSC. This is not the fault ofthere being no “chiropractic IS TO establish itself as an accepted scienceand the profession establish itself as a truly scientific profession”, all ofwhich HAS BEEN DONE and WAS “done in our own centers with ourOWN personnel.”

15. Adjusting tables. A museum collection from 1895 to date. No. 1is the first adjusting table D.D. Palmer adjusted Harvey Lillard on. It is aone-piece, flat board. No. 2 is the Adams suit case portable foldingadjusting table to be taken from office to home visits. No. 3 is a crudeplumber’s pipe two piece made by Dan Reisland, Duluth, Minnesota,away back when. On exhibition are tables made when we adjusted theknee-chest posture position. No. 4 is a massive, heavy hydraulic lift tablemade by Bert Clayton.

Step by step we progressed in developing a table as we developedthe art of adjusting vertebral subluxations. As we developed the adjustingtechnique, based on our scientific research down through the ages, wedeveloped tables to adapt themselves to it.

Some 18 old tables are placed on top of the big show case in theclinic hall-way, as well as on the opposite wall suspended from theceiling.

The B. J. Palmer Student and Private Clinic rooms are equipped with45 latest models of the P-T (Palmer-Thompson) head drop adjustabletables, even to lift tables for the convenience for difficult cases.

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No where else can there be seen on exhibition 63 adjusting tableswith 42 in daily use such a scientific research in adjusting tables fromTHE FIRST to very last word.

********16. Our research of living man proves man is a biped bilateral

animal.The brain has two convolutions, left and right, each of which have

many gyri. The brain, as a totality, is connected with its body as a totality.Likewise sections of each lateral half are connected with sections oforgans in its lateral half below.

By “gyri” we mean superior brain meric system subdivisions,determined and located, on either left or right side of the two lateralconvolutions, by a selective abstract functional graphed hookup in theliving subject, as it flows its quantity of mental impulse or nerve forcesupply FROM a brain subdivisional section TO a spinal cord section,through a definite intervertebral foramen in the inferior meric system,destined to deliver that flow to a specific organ in the inferior organicmeric system, all of which can be and have been specifically graphed andchartered, connected as they are in the superior meric brain system to theinferior meric system body.

Under our ’timpograph research we were able to develop in-formation of how the superior brain, on each lateral half, wassub-divisible into zones or meres organically below the magnum foramen.

Functionally, man can wink one eye-lid and not the other, move eachfinger or hand or toe of foot, on each left side without doing so on theright side; he can use one arm without the other, one leg and not theother, etc., all of which proves bi-laterality of function. Which while thismay be true in some superficial functions under the direction of educateddesires, it is not logically true on both sides internally. Example: Mancannot control breathing in one lung and not the other. Under thedirection of Innate they both breathe rhythmically together. This is alsothe truth of two kidneys, etc.

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ear and not the other, lose sense of smell in one nostril and not the other,lose a sense of taste on one half of the tongue and not the other.

In the loss of use of muscular control, monoplegia exhibitscharacteristics of specific areas of one side and not the other, such as afinger of left hand and no other fingers. Hemiplegia can be of one entirelateral half and not the other. In paraplegia we have both legs involvingboth lateral sides.

In our ’timpograph research we were able to track downneurological paths of functional flows of mental impulse supplies fromeither lateral half of the brain to functional abnormalities in itscorresponding lateral half below, both efferently and afferently, pre andpost, before and after adjustment. The purpose here was to connectcertain sections of the superior meric system with certain divisions ofnerve paths below into the separations of its portions into the inferiormeric system zones or meres to which it fed its mental impulse supply.

While, in the gross, man knew his brain directed its body below, hedid not know how to sectionalize the brain to match it with sectionalizedsections of its body below, and prove direct connections between superiorand inferior by measuring quantity hows from one to the other.

Our ultimate objective was to locate and prove the location of aninterfering medium between living brain and body, which occasioned areduction in QUANTITY flow between the norm production above andabnormal manifested below in functional disturbance in some specificorgan or organs.

17. Adjusting Techniques: During our 60 years directly connectedwith the chiropractic principle and practice of the vertebral subluxationand its adjustment, we have been directly or indirectly associated withover 300 different methods of how to improve the efficiency of securingbetter, quicker and more permanent results, in less time; doing less toaccomplish more, simplifying rather than complexing. Most methods andmeans, have been ours in development. Many have been submitted to usby conscientious and sincere chiropractors who believed they had betterand more efficacious means than ours.

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18. Concussions of forces can produce contusions or ptosis of softorganic structures called prolapses. We, as chiropractors, are mostconcerned with concussions of forces as they affect osseous structures,their continuity and the results thereof.

The MOST violent concussion of an invasionary force upon thecontiguity of any one bone, would produce fracture. The next lesserviolence, a dislocation; and, lastly, least violence invasionary force, as itwould affect relationships between vertebrae, would produce asubluxation between adjacent vertebrae above and below.

We are often asked WHY we stress more attention to theoccipito-atlantal-axial area and less to any and all other vertebrae inferiorto this area.

It is apparent to osteologists, that down through the centuries Innatehas gone through a consistent process of evolution of man fromhorizontal to perpendicular position, obviously pursuing an endless intentto protect spinal cord distribution through-out its body.

A study of ALL vertebrae below axis proves that ALL such areosseously interlocked. Dislocations or fractures of vertebrae CAN occur,if they do they will be out of their inter-osseous locks. A study of pre andpost zygapophyses of contiguous vertebrae are locked both superior andinferior, inferior to superior, left to right, right to left, etc. Thisinterlocking of vertebrae is consistent with ALL vertebrae below axis.There is NO inter-osseous locks between occiput above and superior ofatlas below: or between atlas below and superior of axis. The ONLYexception to this rule is that the atlas, IN ITS ENTIRETY, cannot bedislocated or subluxated POSTERIORLY because of the inter-osseouslock of odontoid of axis.

There are no locks which prevent atlas from side-slipping up and ofcondyles, superior and anterior or posterior, on one lateral side, with itscorresponding opposites sideslipping in and off condyles, posterior andinferior on its opposite side. This is also true between inferior of atlas andsuperior of axis. For this reason subluxations are common betweenocciput and atlas, or between atlas and axis. With this shifting ofjuxtapositions comes

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constructions with occlusions of spinal canal creating pressures withinterferences of carrying capacity of a normal quantity of mental impulsesupply at that or those areas. With a spinal column in hand, make theseobservations and see how true they are.

It is plainly evident to us, as we study the vast collection of matchedsets of occiputs, atlases and axes, as well as individual specimens in ourOsteo Lab., that Innate is still at work creating locks occasionally even inthese superior apparently exempt areas.

(A subject as broad as this, as vital as it is and has been to ourchiropractic principle and practice working with living spinal columns, itis impossible in these few words to present a comprehensive series ofcitations. Our Chiropractic Library Text-Book, THE SUBLUXATIONSPECIFIC, THE ADJUSTMENT SPECIFIC, is one entire volumedevoted exclusively to this research study. It is fully illustrated each ofwhich is explained. We suggest, for a complete and thorough study ofextensions and counter-extensions, flexions and counter-flexions as wellas rotations of spinal column, their limitations and reasons why, yousecure this particular book. )

We constantly kept in mind, 1 - It was impossible to adjust avertebral subluxation in a dead man. In a dead man no vertebralsubluxation with its four necessary and primary essentials; therefore, avertebral subluxation could only exist in a LIVE person; therefore, it tookthe LIFE PRINCIPLE working IN MAN from above-down, inside-out tofinally correct THE subluxation.

We constantly kept in mind, 2 - The ultimate objective of gettingsick people well was to INCREASE flow of mental impulse supply byopening the occlusion occasioned BY a vertebral subluxation, releasingpressure or constriction upon spinal cord or its nerves, permitting arestoration of QUANTITY flow from an abnormal QUANTITY low to anormal quantity flow.

To prove whether any adjustic technic was better or worse than anyother, we tested hundreds WE developed, or have been submitted to us,using the ’timpograph to see whether the adjustment DID OR DID NOTpermit an INCREASE QUANTITY flow as the result of its use. As wouldbe expected, many so-called

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techniques were camouflages conceived for purposes of selling a gadgetto our credulous people. Some had some value, others were dangerousand reduced QUANTITY flows of mental impulse supply. Today, weteach and use the one we tested so often that we are satisfied it is the bestwe know now. It may not be the last word, but it is the last word as oftoday. The ’timpograph, as we have previously explained, measures andevaluates quantity flow, pre-adjustment and post-adjustment; therefore, isa “scientific” evaluation of the value of any process of adjustment.

In this manner each adjustic technic was scientifically tested withscientific instrumentation “which went to the heart of the chiropracticproblem,” all of which was “done in our own centers with our ownpersonnel” checking whether or not it measures and calibrates suchattained THE ultimate scientific objective of restoring the abnormal lowquantity of mental impulse flow to a normal quantity restoring health toliving sick people under observation.

As one example: Dr. Truscott asked to have HIS system of anadjustment examined and checked. The full and complete report of asame was published in one of our books. The results, or lack of them,showed conclusively that he had nothing to add to accurate and exactingapproach to a basic or fundamental approach to solving any chiropracticissues of value.

********In those early years we were like an orphan cast on a stormy ocean

in a small boat, no oars, no food, having no place to go and didn’t knowhow to get to shore to save ourself. All we had was a wild idea rattlingaround in a vacant brain. We were told by our father about whathappened to Harvey Lillard. What DID happen? Harvey told him he wasin a stooped, cramped post position, he felt “something pop in my neck,and I went deaf instantly”. Father examined Harvey’s rear neck and founda big bump and when father pressed it, Harvey winced with pain. Fatherreasoned that, “if a bump in the neck produced deafness, then if thatbump were reduced Harvey MIGHT get his hearing again. Father pushedthat bump and Harvey’s hearing WAS restored. He later formulated achiropractic concept.

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We read about the miraculous cures at the Shrine of the Lourdes inFrance and St. Anne de Beaupre. We read frequently in newspapers andmagazines of “miracles” which restored sicknesses because “ofaccidents”. OUR thinking was that these “accidents”, “incidents”, “justhappened” were not the correct interpretations and did not explain therestorations of health.

In all natural LIVING THERE IS A LAW AT WORK. There are no“miracles” in “nature”. They are governed by law, nobody then knew. Ifthere was A LAW behind these miracles, WHAT was it? Medical mencould not account for “miracles”. That was WHY they were called such.If there WAS A LAW at work in 1/2 of 1 percent at Shrines, WHYcouldn’t it work in everybody else as well? Our life’s work was beforeus, to endeavor to FIND THAT LAW and make it work inEVERYBODY. Was this possible FOR US? That was the job we set outto find and apply it to all alike.

In those early years, if ONE bump in Harvey’s neck restoredhearing, there WAS a hidden secret which we decided to find.

In those early years, we began gliding our first three fingers,inferiorly, “palpating” spinous processes of vertebrae; then on righttransverse processes, then on left transverses. We found here and there IFright transverses were POSTERIOR, then the left transverses wereanterior, then the spinous process should be right in one instance or to leftin the other and vice versa. As was expected we found MANY suchconditions. When we found a MARKED deviation, in relationships,between its superior and inferior mates, we concluded here was avertebral SUBLUXATION, and consistent with our fundamental ofseeking to find this law of “accidents,” “miracles” and “miraculous”cures, we began “adjusting” ALL such as we found them.

A cursory observation told us that the building of all new bornbabes, in utero, was the result of a natural law at work, governed byintellectual directed function. Simple observation said that, whatever thislaw WAS, it had been working alike, for all, in millions for centuries.After birth, every function in that babe and all people was the result ofthis same Innate (inherent, or born with) Intellectual law at work,directing each

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tissue cell, every bone, every organic structure, all were coordinated bythe same law, flowing from above-down, inside-out. All this was thedirect result of an intellectual law which reaches muscles performingduties pre-determined and pre-destined from above-down, inside-OUT.This intellectual power came from brain, through spinal cord, spinalnerves, which desiccate when they leave spinal cord, throughintervertebral foramina.

As we palpated, we listed all outstanding irregularities as RS, rightsuperior, RI, right inferior; LS, left superior; LI, left inferior; S, superior;and I, was inferior. Often times such existed in combinations. Even inthose early days, we were consistent in calling them ALL vertebralsubluxations. All we had to go by, to reach our conclusions as to where toadjust was the PHYSICAL irregular relations between one or morePHYSICAL vertebrae. That which modified our conclusions, in thoseearlier years, was a careful and consistent study of our early study ofhundreds of spinographic plates as exposed on LIVING sick cases. Oureyes were opened to the revelations that many of these irregularities, wepalpated, which we thought were vertebral subluxations, which we hadbeen adjusting, were bent spinous processes. This began a new career inseparation between those which were and those which were not asubluxation in fact, to not rely too much on palpation’s. The bent spinousprocesses, were, most likely occasional either—a. during youthfulcartilaginous-osseous ossification period, due to falls, bumping againstexternal objects, etc.; b. if not during youthful periods, many such wereproven to be fractures due to traumatisms. In any event, our thinkingbegan to face out of reliable reliance on palpation as our means ofdetermining which was and which was not a “subluxation” to adjust. Thiscaused us to form a greater reliance upon a careful study of spinographswhich saved us from “punching backbones up and down, anywhere,anytime, just because we palpated irregularities.

In those early years, we were cognizant of the necessity that thereMUST BE somewhere, somehow, occasions which occurred whichwould and could account for “miracles” for which medical men had noexplanation. We understood that the law

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could not arrive to work because of a vertebral SUBLUXATION.IN those earlier years, all we had to go by, to reach our conclusion

as to where “to adjust” was the PHYSICAL irregular relations betweenone or more PHYSICAL vertebrae. This limitation of our understandingsof THE LAW not being at work, occasioned by a PHYSICAL vertebralsubluxation, did not cover the entire field of our understanding. We mustlook further back in and behind the PHYSICAL to learn more aboutproving WHERE, WHEN, HOW AND WHY, the law was not at work,which it was in some people some places; other people, other places.Here, then was a broad field of study to discriminate WHY and WHERE.

This then required an exhaustless study, not of the abstract lawincognito itself for that is beyond the ken of mortal man, but why this lawdid not work in all people at all times; in some people in some places,some of the time and in other people in different places part of the timeand later they recovered by or through some “accident” or “miracle”without the aid of man. Later, when the NCM, NCGH, ’Timpograph, andother allied studies came into being, we were able to PROVEDOMINANT ABSTRACT factors where they did or did not work intoand through living man, as to whether there WERE interferences to thislaw quantity flow of its mental impulse supply for brain to body, fromabove-down, inside-out. When we reached that JOINT STUDY ofABSTRACT LINKED WITH CONCRETE, we were now finding aTRUE vertebral subluxation, and then ONLY when we found FOURelements in one location, did we ADJUST A VERTEBRALSUBLUXATION. This broadened our field of study in one instance andnarrowed it in the other, to adjusting ONLY when we find thedisconnections of four elements in any one location did WE ADJUST AVERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION.

Even still later, the ’timpograph PROVED more, than any othercombined study, whether WHAT we did, WHERE we did it, WHEN wedid it, as such, permitted a restored increased transmission, whether suchwas actually adjusting a vertebral SUBLUXATION, restoring theessential four elements into sick peo-

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ple, normal and natural relationships, or not.To have a VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION, in fact and not in

theory, we MUST have—(a) vertebral misalignment in dis-relationshipsbetween its mates above and below; (b) an occlusion producing pressuresupon spinal cord or spinal nerves; (c) leading from brain to body; (d)producing an interference to normal quantity flow of mental impulsesupply from above-down, inside-out; (e) reducing the carrying capacity ofspinal cord or spinal nerves, exhibited as dis-ease at peripheral endings ofthose fibers. When these FOUR elements ARE present, two abstract, twophysical, we NOW know where TO ADJUST. Little did we know thenthat there also could exist many “misalignments”, but such was alwaysWITHIN their inter-articular osseous locks, and was not, in fact avertebral SUBLUXATION with four necessary elements being present.

Today, MISALIGNMENTS ARE recognized for what they are, anirregularity, inconsistent in juxtaposition with its corresponding mates.But such is ALWAYS within those inter-articular osseous locks, a whichdoes not make it a subluxation; for, subluxations as we now know themoccur ONLY where there are NO inter-articular osseous locks preventingthem producing four corresponding factors as A CAUSE of dis-ease.

We, today, make keen distinction between one single misalignment,or a series of them chain-like, as in sections or possibly the entire spinalcolumn could be involved, which we now know as “adaptative curves”;or there could exist, due to carries, necroses, osteomalacia, ortuberculosis of bones, or such could based on traumatic misshapenvertebrae producing a curvature in fact. Even so, they are single or in aseries but ALWAYS within their inter-articular osseous locks.

The CAUSE of caries, necroses, osteomalacia, tuberculosis of thevertebrae of the spinal column is no different than similar conditionsexisting in other bones that the vertebral column. Adjustment of THEVERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION, IF DONE RIGHT, AT RIGHT PLACE,RIGHT WAY, RIGHT TIME, WHEN YOU KNOW WHEN TO STOP,WILL PERMIT Innate mental impulse source to flow normally fromabove-down, inside-

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out, to correct pathologies in vertebrae as in any other bone distantlyremoved.

Today, by CORRECTING (not ADJUSTING) a misalignment,where they are, we can TEMPORARILY relieve a condition. In no senseis what we do TO “misalignments” ADJUSTING a vertebral subluxationto correct THE BASIC CAUSE of the primary with intent to get theindividual well, making a difference in our thinking between givingSOME temporary relief, and permanently getting the case WELL.

By adjusting THE SUBLUXATION, leaving allMISALIGNMENTS, or adaptive curves alone, our conturometer sopungently proves, in correcting the too frequent misshapen spinalcolumns. One large book—our Vol. 20 as we recall, had overlapping, dif-fering graphs, taken pre and post on cases to prove this statement.

********There is only ONE issue, not “ten”, to be proven scientific: That

TIC is a ( 1 ) philosophy, (2) science and (3) art.a. No one element lives alone in living bodies.b. No one factor lives alone in sick or healthy bodies.c. It takes joint action of ALL THREE to prove TIC is

SCIENTIFICALLY sound, Innately and physically.d. Without ANY ONE element, TIC fails to be true or sound.e. Without this unity we have NOTHING to prove.f. No NOT ONE of these three united living elements can be

separated from the other two for “scientific” research, especiallywhen one is exclusively physical, omitting its abstract producer,maintainer, and reproductive factor.

********Our ’timpograph research was developed to prove the unity of:—Innate and its body function—subluxation as an art, as a corrective factor,—recording quantity flow reduction before adjustment—recording increased restoration of quantity flow after adjustment—following subsequent quantity cows until case was restored to

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—our instrument had a one-second timing factor on all eight graphswhich determined speed of travel of mental impulse flows, brainto body, body to brain, efferently and afferently.

—proving Innate philosophy; vertebral subluxation cause ofinterference; vertebral adjustment cause of restoration, until healthwas restored.

With this unusual, distinctive and unique phase of OUR scientificresearch we were to place two electrode pick-ups on INNATE portion ofbrain, two electrodic pick-ups on educated portions of our superior mericsystem, and register frequency of thought-flashes between one and theother and the possible, or impossible a lack of frequency of responsiveactions of education in educated brain responding to same. This led usdirectly into a deeper study of extra-sensory perception which provedmost interesting.

With 30 years of intensive application in this ’timpograph field, wewere able to prove all correlated phases of chiropracTIC philosophy,science and art hitherto unknown. While men were spending millions toreach the moon, we spent 30 years to reach into the hitherto hiddennormal and abnormal recesses of man’s existence, where, why, how andwhen.

Having a large rolling sheet of graph paper, hundreds of feet long,and twelve inches wide, each path identified as to source, location andtiming factor, we could continue our case study on any one subjectthoroughly, study comparative eight running differently located graphssimultaneously on same sheet at same time.

(One of the peculiar twists we proved was that it took 19 times moreenergy to sleep East and West than it did North and South. Reason wassimple. By testing sleepers both ways, we proved there was crossconflicts of currents between external North and South pole magneticwaves penetrating bodies of those with heads of our sleepers east andwest. By sleeping WITH North and South magnetic waves, thiseliminated conflicting opposition and they awoke more refreshed andrested. One hotel chain actually adopted this idea and turned all beds intheir

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hotels North and South.)There are only two avenues for medicine or surgery to take hoping

to treat sick people—stimulate the inhibited dis-ease; or, inhibit thestimulated dis-ease—all this from compounded chemistry, prescribedfrom out-side in, below-upward.

Dis-ease is ONLY two kinds, below par quantity of nerve force flowproducing a paralyzed, stagnated muscular function; or, the inward, fromabove-down, inside-out effort upon the part of the natural NORMALinternal mental impulse supply to adapt itself to the lowered functionalpar.

Some symptoms and/or pathologies take on an above par ap-pearance. Example: Reduce normal par quantity flow from brain tokidneys, they become stagnant, paralyzed, do not draw off fluids FROMbody; therefore, do not convey them to kidneys, hence, are damned backinto body, dropsy, named according to area such deposits take place. Itcould be dropsy of legs, ascites of abdomen, dropsy of heart or lungs, oreven hydrocephalous of brain in a child. Medical remedy? Tap the areaand artificially draw excess off to outside, or drug kidneys to stimulatetheir action.

What was happening when kidneys WERE acting normally, andthere WAS NO dropsy? What was occurring, where was it coming from,how was par reaching kidneys? When healthy, how, why, what was theirsource? These questions are simple to the chiropractor.

This was the character of “scientific research” we were doing at thePSC, with our ’timpograph. We measured quantity flow from brain tokidneys in a par case. We also measured, calibrated and evaluated theBELOW PAR flow when kidneys were sluggish, paralyzed, stagnated,with kidneys, existing in body somewhere. By locating THE vertebralsubluxation which WAS interfering with PAR to BELOW PAR, byadjusting this, restoring PAR flow between brain, through spinal cord,out through intervertebral foramen to kidneys, we then measured quantityaction in kidneys, knowing they were going through that transition fromBELOW PAR UP TO PAR.

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It is possible—and it too frequently happens—that ‘scientists’ out ofone field of research, going into another field blind, get deeply immersedin ONE PHYSICAL phase of ONE ELEMENT OR ASPECT of aproblem losing sight OF ALL original or new foreign approaches, losingor having NO knowledge whatsoever of all contributory or allied abstractfacts which created the original or primary problem being researched.

“This type of research **** and has SACRIFICED theChiropractic THEORY (?) but IT DOES NOT go to the heartof the Chiropractic problem,”

After all, what is the ultimate objective of TIC or TOR? Is it to getsick people well or to prove to the PHYSICAL scientific world that theyare PHYSICALLY scientific?

If, as, and when PHYSICAL scientists think Tic is PHYSICALLYsound, what will they do with our abstract Innate, without which Tic failsto get sick people well?

Once PHYSICAL scientists prove our principle and its PHYSICALaspects sound, have they ADDED TO or SUBTRACTED that abstractInnate, WITHOUT which nothing has been proven, and the vital, living,causative and curative factors have been eliminated?

What about thousands of chiropractors who have been adjustingvertebral subluxations in millions of living sick people since 1895 gettingthem well, uniting abstract Innate with Physical bodies, balancing Innateabove and function below, making normal a free quantity flow of mentalimpulses from above-down inside-out, PROVING the new unity ofabstract philosophical with its concrete physical sicknesses?

SUPPOSE, when D.D. Palmer adjusted Harvey Lillard, in 1895, andrestored his hearing, he had hesitated, questioned in his mind what he hadaccomplished, and debated whether he had better have some“independent researchers, neurologists, physiologists, etc.”, (quoting AlAdams) investigate his theory and pass judgment whether his “discovery”should be proclaimed and advocated BY HIM?

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meditated and invited in “outside research teams,” “with the assistance ofcompetent electronic technicians and other qualified personnel”, whowould “be called in where necessary” to have them investigate the howand why Harvey Lillard had his hearing restored, pass judgment upon itsreliability, authenticity, whether it was a delusion on the part of D. D.Palmer and/or Harvey Lillard, as to whether this was one of thoseunknown and unexplainable “miracles” before he began to promulgateand teach what he had to students.

SUPPOSE down through the years, from 1895 to 1960, thousands ofchiropractors, and millions of sick followed in his son’s foot-steps, whohad their “spinal dynamics” adjusted, who got the sick well by the use ofthat law and principle, was “a special NEED or SPECIAL equipmentnecessary for x-ray study of the spine IN MOTION” (quoting Al Adams)before THEY continued to delude themselves with what THEY had, whatTHEY did, and, then and how, with results THEY attained WITHOUTwhat The CRF NOW think necessary, “for this foundation is THE FIRSTIMPORTANT STEP IN MAKING THIS A REALITY” (quoting AlAdams).

SUPPOSE, down through these years, these thousands ofchiropractors, and millions of sick, who went to chiropractors and gottenwell, a had refused to accept the chiropractic philosophy, its law of fromabove-down, inside-out, its science and art, had sat back on theirhaunches and seriously questioned their “results of unbiased research”,was “considered the answer to this very pressing problem now facing theprofession (quoting Al Adams ) without the CRF “BASIC research inchiropractic” ( quoting AL ADAMS ).

SUPPOSE, meanwhile, the profession at large, BJ, The PSC, otherchiropractic schools, their graduates, had stood silently by, sat on theirhaunches and had said, “in your opinion what are the most urgentrequiring solutions TO VALIDATE THE CHIROPRACTICPROFESSION”, AND HAD SAID there is little if anything WE can dowith what we have been taught, UNTIL such times as The CRF comesthrough with THEIR reports as to what the motion x-ray instrument (tocost $50,000),

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had reached its research—where would the profession be today?SUPPOSE Alexander Graham Bell, with his telephone, Wright

Brother’s with aeroplanes, Henry Ford with his horseless buggy, andmany others who made discoveries of note—what was THEIR attitudes?Did THEY prove they had what they said and demonstrated, or was itnecessary FOR THEM to sit back and wait for “scientific researchers” toscoff and ridicule them or until these men had subjected THEIRdiscoveries to disbelievers to prove they had WHAT they had? Had theyconvinced the world, or did THEY wait until the world proved them sane,sound and sensible with THEIR inventions. What about the “Tin Lizzie”?

Who converts who? Does chiropractic prove itself, whenchiropractors take sick cases and with their philosophy, science and art,as is, of uniting the tri-une relations in LIVING people, by adjustingvertebral subluxations, convince the people at large, millions of them, ofthe rightness of their method? Or, must all of OUR profession first, sitidly back and await for foreign groups to our field of thought and labor,who are conversant with little of it, tell the world we have been right withthose premises and results which we have proven for years? Is it for themto convince US, or WE convince them? Do THEY teach us whatchiropractic is, what it does, and how; or, Do we teach THEM? IF WEmust teach THEM what chiropractic is, before they are ready to begin, toget ready, to commence, to start why the duplication to have THEM handback TO US, later what WE already know AND GAVE THEM?

The rebuttal will answer these questions by saying they will by their“scientific instrumentation and research” will convince the great outsideworld, who won’t believe what WE believe any more than the world atlarge will believe THEM when THEY get through. Did Bell, WrightBrother’s, Edison, Ford and other original thinkers, convince THEM theywere right by giving THEM to go ahead signal?; or, did those men andmany others forge ahead in spite of Doubting Thomas’s?

One knows of no ways of SCIENTIFICALLY researching anyONE—philosophy, science, or art—independent of other two,

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and come out with an over-all conclusive and factual knowledge of HOWman was systematically organized; WHAT organized him; WHY he wasproduced as is, and for what purpose; Why he is here at all, BY himself,FOR himself, internally and externally to act and react, receive and rejectenvironment as it helps or hurts him, his present and future. As well saythere is ONLY day, NO night; all cold, no heat; all sea, no land. Theseand many more factors are one composite invisible, indivisible whole.

The anatomist scientifically researches dissection, all mans’ physicalparts.

The chemist scientifically researches chemistry, the fluids of matter.The physic-ian scientifically looks at matter, assembles a heterogeneousmass of hoped-for systems and symptoms and pathologies of matter,gives them a material name, prescribes matter to cure—and fails dismallyall along the line.

The church, psychologist, mentalist, scientifically researches theBible, God, Soul, Spirit, Ego, Personality, sane and insane.

Then the three get their scientific researches, piecing themtogether—with what result?

Medical men with medical profession, with materia medica fromoutside-in, below-upward for 5,000 years, has failed to do what Tic alonehas done since 1895.

As a result, they come out with THE GREAT DIVIDE—thingsspiritual to churches of all denominations, with sectional sects, creeds,and conflicts; and physic-ians of material schools, with theoreticalinconsistent trials by errors; no permanency; “hit or miss, I give himthis.” “East is East and West is West, and ne’er the twain shall meet.”

SERVICE is abstract which electric companies and telephonecompanies render. Without this, they are out of business. With it, they arein. SERVICE is the unity of THREE ELEMENTS, (1) a telephone; (2)sending a voice over a wire for action; (3) receiving telephone responseboth afferent and efferent through a central.

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Of what use is the globe without electricity?Of what use are they when together?Why? To better use both to produce more light, with less electricity,

through a better globe.All form a unity, all unite to produce ONE ultimate result which no

one alone could accomplish.The only all triune chiropractic research that has ever been made in

our profession, WE, here in The PSC, established with our electro-encephalo-neuro-ment-imp-o-graph.

Let us pause, hesitate, reflect, what does a motion picture filmexposed by a motion picture x-ray reveal as to par, above par, below par,quantity flow of a mental impulse or nerve force flow from brain tobody? What can a motion picture film exposed by an x-ray instrumentprove whether the abstract interference has been corrected, whether arestoration of normal quantity flow has been restored? AND, WITHOUTTHIS INFORMATION WHAT GOOD HAS IT DONE ANY LIVINGSICK PERSON WHO COMES TO A CHIROPRACTOR TO GETWELL?

********For 20 years we built, improved, and developed this timpograph

instrument to make a study of the triune element living factor necessaryto prove chiropracTIC a philosophical, scientific and artistic unity whichDID get sick people well. This was a ONE OVER-ALL UNITED study,not physical alone, but which studied ALL THREE when applied to sickpeople to prove ALL THREE IN ONE were essentially AS ONE,presenting only ONE problem, not TEN.

The fundamental and basic PRINCIPLE upon which ALLchiropracTIC rises or falls is that there is brain and body through whichInnate Intelligence flows a normal, natural quantity if its mental impulsesupply from brain to body, to all parts, which, if, as and when it reachesthere, will perform a normal, natural health function in all parts. If thisnormal QUANTITY is reduced, between brain and body, Innate andfunction, then one only simple dis-ease in function exists at peripherieswherever and whenever that quantity is diminished or reduced do so itcannot fill its quota of production of the intention of Innate above.

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The ONE thing our father “discovered” and wrote about which WASthe most important was THE VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION, the greatall-important interfering intermediary with its four abstract elements, (1)a malposition in relation to its juxtaposition with its correspondentsabove and below, creating, (2) an occlusion, (3) producing pressure orconstriction upon certain nerves going to certain organs (4) reducingcarrying capacity, manifesting a reduced function at organic periphery ofthose nerves involved.

As a result certain factors were essentially to be “investigated”,studied, NOT BY “the assistance of competent electronic technicians”but by one who consistently kept his mind glued to the over-all triuneliving factors—Innate in brain, Innate flowing through nerves, Innatereaching periphery.

The ’timpograph was an instrument developed BY US to locate,pinpoint, the place of interference in a living sick person, measure preand post, calibrate and evaluate the flow between brain and body, Innateand function.

We backed up to one of our earlier research studies, viz: SUPERIOR(brain) and INFERIOR (body) MERIC SYSTEMS. The averagechiropractor knew some things about the INFERIOR meric system in thedistribution of nerves FROM spinal column TO different organic sectionsand organs of body below. Superior meric system was a study of sectionsand locations of those sections OF BRAIN WITH THEIR CONTINUITYNERVE BRANCHES FROM brain as they lead down TO the and intothe spinal cord, passing outward through intervertebral foramina tovarious organic structures of the organic body below.

We mapped superior brain divisions which corresponded with bodydivisions below through a continuity EFFERENT nerve system, as wellas the return nerves below with a continuity of AFFERENT systemreturning back to brain, proving there was a DIRECT ANDCONTINUOUS FLOW OF MENTAL IMPULSE SUPPLY from eachsection of brain, TO body and FROM body back TO brain, developing acontinuity nerve system through which Innate not only sent forthfunctional impulse but also Innate received an afferent return messagetelling it whether the efferent function may impulse had done its duty in

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that body at and to the place or places it was intended to perform itfunction.

Having at our command 8 sets of pick-up electrodes, we could placetwo on superior meric brain, leading to body, 2 on efferent nerves goingto body, 2 more on body itself, and 2 leading back to brain, thusmeasuring the circuit quantity flow from brain TO body and body backTO brain thus determining WHERE actual interference was on efferentside, measure its drop where it was in the body level, and then measurereduced response going back TO brain. In this way we could and did pin-point the actual drop in quantity flow, where located, how much quantitycurrent was reduced in flow, where it was.

Our procedure then was to pre-graph register this drop beforeadjustment, give adjustment given had accomplished its objective inrestoring abnormal low quantity to normal; whether adjustment, ortechnic used, was correct or incorrect; whether patient getting betterworse from what we did, as we did it, and where. Was is given at rightplace, in right manner, at right time and way? This further told us whento stop, when there was nothing further to be done, that from now on therest had to be done by Innate. We thus proved effectiveness of adjustmentart, based on our scientific research on living sick bodies, to prove thephilosophy of the Innate process of inhibiting function or increasing it.

By checking our case, from week to week, we could tell HIMwhether he was or was not getting better when function was restored. Inthis way we lined into one continuous study the Innate, mental,philosophy, WITH adjusting technic of vertebral subluxation, with thescience of living proof offered of one unit of the triune relationships tothe abstract AND concrete physical properties.

You may ask, what has become of this prodigious monumental fieldof our “scientific” research? It reached conclusions of fact, based onreason, logically deduced and scientifically proven, without going outsideOUR field of thinkers and studies to seek men who DID NOT KNOWwhat we sought.

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bound library of some 600 books, some day to come to light when thevast field of so-called “scientific researchers” have reached our stage ofunderstanding.

The ’timpograph instrumentation, with its many evolutions indevelopment, cost around $100,000. 30 years of concentrated study andapplication; night and day, constantly seeking answers to hithertounknown problems we raised into unknown and original fields.

Having reached many NEW conclusions, with OUR proof of thetriune philosophy-science-art angles, the instrument now lies dormant,not that all the field has been covered, but when we semi-retired from thatwork, we found no other capital of grasping the all-over tri-une studieswe sought, how to seek the answers, what to do to secure them, how toseek them, to carry on.

In the B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic Notes, a printed circularreferring to the present day status for our ’timpograph research equipment(Nov. 4,1960) he says:

“There is a note of disappointment that I must pass on to you. Wehave temporarily discontinued ’timpograph analysis. This is due to aseries of mechanical failures of the equipment, which unfortunatelycannot be repaired or replaced in a short period of time. Until furthernotice, therefore, please do not count on us to furnish you with the usualinformation forthcoming from this instrumentation. Reports that I havereceived from the repair men are that it may be down, out of order, forseveral weeks to a couple of months or more. You will be notified via thisletter as to what our final disposition of this phase of our work will be.”

(As of this date (Dec. 6, ’60,) we have telephoned from Sarasota, toDavenport, and issued orders to have this instrumentation repaired andplaced in perfect working order as soon as possible. We were assured thatthis was being done. When completed and in use once more, you will beso notified through the BJP CC clinical notes. B.J.)

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of research of the abstract combined with the matter of living caseslinking a LIVING philosophy, with a LIVING science and a LIVING art,into the unknown and obscure chiropractic law and its premise, probingits principles and the soundest. Most provable field that man has everbrought to a full and complete understanding with a workable applicationever brought to light to insure sanity of the human race, restoration ofhealth to the sick, linking OUR name amongst those who HAVE con-tributed much of unlimited value to the continuation of life and health.

********What is being done with The CRF x-ray motion picture machine

which has been mentioned in CRF literature and letters. We have no idea.All we have been told is that the CRF proposes to either purchase suchequipment, or have already purchased such to take motion pictures ofPHYSICAL backbones, in LIVING people, none of which would orcould bring forth the relevancy of the philosophy, art and science aspectswhich are imperatively and vitally necessary to concluded any factors inrelation TO chiropracTIC. We presume they will secure information onbackbones extensions, counter-extensions, rotations; malformations,exostoses, ankyloses—PHYSICAL properties you can observe with theirdistortions of relationships in juxtapositions with each other. This byitself is of little value to prove the chiropracTIC principle and practice, ofthe living unity of abstract with concrete; of Innate function with itsrepression or lack of it, efferently or afferently.

As near as we can GUESS from the little which has leaked out, youhave some “electronic scientists” at Menlo Park that HAVE NOCONCEPTION of the length, depth or breadth of the wide scope ofterritory encompassed in our work. All they know is the little they aretold about BACKBONES.

SUMMATION: It was and is the evidence and proof of the researchstated in this article which has justly titled and entitled The PSC to becalled and known as THE CHIROPRACTIC FOUNTAIN HEAD; whereit is recognized by friend and foe alike as the authority on issuesconcerning the living philosophy,

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science and art of chiropractic; where its opinions are quoted whereverchiropractic is quoted. It is proper and fitting that it rest on its record ofprotecting, preserving and defending chiropractic down through thesemany years.

SUPPOSESUPPOSE B. J., under the direct guidance of his Innate, insistently,

consistently and persistently prompting him, had debated each and everytime he researched LIVING man, and saw certain laws, principles,functional manifestations, which were as old as time, but er were new innow solving issues never before observed, which baffled understandingof the medical profession of health, do disease; causes thereof and how torestore them when lost.

As with many another reality, such as electricity, birds flying,(aeroplanes) fish swimming (submarines) and many other natural facts,man had to wait until the 20th century to unravel his ability to duplicatesame.

SUPPOSE B. J. then issued or debated within himself, questioned,every issue, all because the now existing medical sciences, medical“scientific researchers”, had never seen these new and originalobservations.

SUPPOSE he denied them within himself because they WERE newobservation.

SUPPOSE he had feared, shrunk away from himself, stood in aweof, preferably venerated old concepts opposing what he declared to thinkand present. Suppose he stood aghast at the newness, tremendousdifficulties ahead, hardly daring to suggest and present them to himself,let alone the rest of the combined and recognized studies of man whohad, heretofore not observed, studied and knew them—WHEREWOULD CHIROPRACTORS BE TODAY?

SUPPOSE, following in his father’s footsteps, it was HE whoanalyzed, deduced and developed, for the first time, a practical, workable,premise of the adequateness of HOW life worked in LIVING, man, theroute it of took coming from ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT: WHO PUTFORTH AND DELIVERED THE CONCEPT that Innate Intelligenceformulated, planned and

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executed actions in living structures and was in reality and intellectuallyforeordained where living issues came into being, how and when itentered the structural born babe, took complete possession of that body;directed, controlled each and every function; coordinated all into onecomplete harmonious whole—then SUPPOSE he questioned this because“scientists” reversed our presentations, asserting as they did, everythingcame from OUTSIDE-IN, BELOW-UPWARD, including causes of withtreatments and how to cure them,—WHERE WOULD CHIROPRACTICBE TODAY?

It was HE who advanced the potential possibilities of a workingInnate in LIVING man. It was HE who denied “Subconscious”,preferably naming what was a SUPER-conscious mind which was in andbehind all which was greater than any conscious” mind.

It was HE, in his talk AFTER TOMORROW WHAT, advanced theLIVING law that Innate working through the brain-generating powerhouse had a sufficient intellectual mental impulse supply to control anddirect ALL functions in every LIVING body, no exceptions permitted.

It was HE who declared that a normal healthy par power generatedin brain, if permitted to flow in a necessitated par quantity to and into allparts of that LIVING body, it would be well worth well and healthy. Thispar power was traumatically subjected to interferences between brain andbody sections where it should normally be manifested, should normallyperform its natural duties IF it arrived there.

It was HE, who under guidance of his Innate through to his verylimited education, formulated the deduction that; IF brain generated a parquantity of intellectualized power, flowed it freely downward andout-ward to, into and through spinal cord with its countless nerve fibers,in a normal par quantity to equal brain generation, each of which nervefibres terminated at its periphery into a muscular fiber each of whichwould alternately contract and relax with a rhythmic normal rate ofspeed, formulating a normal par quantity of action where musclesresponded in each tissue cell, then all would be normal in every tissuecell,

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causing every organic structure to be regulated coordinately with all otherorgans of the body under a like par quantity of muscular action. IF thiscondition existed there would be a normal and healthy LIVING body inall its parts.

IF, on the contrary (a ) brain generated normal par quantity sufficientto PROduce normal action in ALL ITS MUSCULAR PARTS, for whichit was Innate conceived, (b) was REduced somewhere along its pathenroute FROM brain; or (c) passing to, into and through spinal cord,through its sub-divisions of spinal nerves or some section thereof, therewould be Reduced a normal carrying or conveying capacity, then,quantity of par power reaching peripheral endings of those nerve fibres,into and through muscular fibres, to and into tissue cells, would NOT re-ceive their normal par quantity, hence less contraction and relaxations ofmuscular fibres, hence a slowing down or reduction of speed of action intissue cells in the organs or organ involved, hence the ONE AND ONLYONE possible dis-ease—a paralyzed slowing down speed of actionBETWEEN brain and body.

What is basically wrong, and why, when we say “the arm isparalyzed,” hangs helpless, or refuses to be moved at the direction ofeducated OR INNATE direction? Answer is simple: MUSCLES AREPARALYZED. Why? Because they are not getting par quantity of forceor power, through nerves, to make it possible for MUSCLES to contractand relax at direction of the educated individual or the Innate beyond HIScontrol. Why? Because there is an interference to the flow of par powerbetween brain where power is generated FOR arm, and thus is NOTreaching muscles IN arm. Once that interference is located and corrected,power will flow of its own volition, from above-down, inside-out, innormal quantity, TO muscles of arm and normal use will bere-established. Same is true of all other dis-eased paralyzed functions ofother portions of the body, including softer internal organs.

If brain generated 100% flows to all muscles of arm, normal motioncontrol exists. If interference between brain and arm, via nerves enrouteis reduced 50%, muscles receive only 50% and muscles are “paralyzed”50% depending upon which nerve fibres

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or how many were under interference going TO arm. Nothing enteredexternally, from outside-in, below-upward TO THE PHYS-IOLOGICALLY and functionally “paralyzed” arm, can supplant andreplace that which flows from above-down, inside-out. All medicalmethods can do is STIMULATE 50% power and 50% of paralyzedmotion of muscles that ARE present, attempting to increase both absentfactors to a normal one. As well try to stimulate with similar methods toand from outside-in below-upward wires and electrical globe to increaseabnormal reduced light to normal 100% increased light.

All symptoms and pathologies can be reduced from complexity tosimplicity, and can be measured and reduced to one formula of parquantity and values which is not reaching muscular fibres in matter whichshould be supplied with par power but which isn’t.

The heart is but an organized chunk of muscles which requires parmental impulse power supply to keep it pumping blood to and from thebody. The heart is not the seat of emotions or passions, divinity,inspirations, aspirations or love. Arteries and veins have three sets ofmuscles, longitudinal, circular and oblique, which propel arterial bloodforward to the entire body and pump it backward to the heart, throughveins from the entire body to the heart. Muscular power propels bloodfrom body to heart to lungs and from lungs back to heart for inhalationand exhalation. Lungs require a par mental impulse power supply to allmuscles to produce muscular contractions and relaxations without whichthere would be no breathing. Some stomachs require its supply ofmuscular power to produce peristalsis, without which there would be nodigestion, It requires power to urinate and defecate, otherwise dropsy andconstipation exists. We could cite endless applications of this principle ofthe necessity of a par supply of mental impulse to muscles of every otherportion of the working functions of LIVING bodies. Remove ALLmuscular structures from a body and there is left only tissue cells, skinand bones.

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MEDICAL MEN theorize it with their 18,000 complicated combinationand complexed confusing empirical observations of diagnosed symptomsand pathologies, all of which oppose OUR premise with its single andsimple interference to this par mental impulse supply from ABOVEDOWN, INSIDE OUT, with their OUTSIDE IN, BELOW UPWARD“scientific instrumentations” of what THEY THINK THEY hear, see orobserve, upon which no two medical physicians rarely agree, arbitrarilytreating same from OUTSIDE-IN, BELOW-UPWARD. These twoapproaches oppose each other. Either we are fundamentally sound, orthey are basically wrong. What does history prove since 1895?

These two professions disagree, deviate, are of radically differingopinions, think and act so differently. Our approach in EVOlutionary andREVOlutionary. Could expect either to yield to the other, all of whichwould depend upon which succeeded attaining their ultimate objective ofgetting sick people well.

Does CHIROPRACTIC from ABOVE-DOWN INSIDE-OUT,RIGHTLY APPLIED, GET SICK PEOPLE WELL? If it DOES, why allthis medical hue and cry, begging campaigns for millions, seeking to“scientifically research” for causes of an endless graist of diseases,seeking TO FIND an INDIVIDUAL CAUSE for each INDIVIDUALDISEASE with endless complications of specific cure-alls? Whyconfusions existing in medicine today and has been for now centuries?

SUPPOSE, with these two diametrically professional opposinggroups, each seeking service for the better welfare of a sick world to thecause and cure of ONE dis-ease with chiropractic and endless causes andcures of endless disease with medicines galore.

SUPPOSE B. J. was to submit HIS simple law of life to a series ofmedical “scientific researchers”, to see IF THEY THOUGHT HIMWRONG, TO CONCEIVE THE WHOLE WORLD THEY WERERIGHT? Can we EVER expect THEM to overthrow centuries of failures,with untold wealth involved, to cast away all they think they possess evenif they should ever be convinced we were right?

As one chiropractor who wrote us pungently state it:

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“Instead of trying to fit chiropractic to the pattern of ‘science’, wemust get ‘science’ fit to the pattern of chiropractic.

“Instead of chiropractors trying to think the way of science, scienceneeds to think the way of chiropractic.

“Until our leaders grasp this BIG idea, all else that follows isdoomed”.

Did Edison, Wright Brothers, Ford, Bell and many others, belly-acheabout the size of their job? Did Albert Einstein cry on people’s shouldersbecause he HAD TO CONVINCE THE WORLD HE DISCOVEREDTHE LAW of relativity?

Did B. J. bury his head in the sand, ostrichlike, when he went intoradio 43 years ago when it was a kids toy?

Our Bib Job is TOO BIG for SMALL MEN. This Big Job is alsoTOO SMALL for big men. Consider what two lone men, illy-fitted interms of education or science, for the Big JOB of presenting to a sickworld, one simple and single principle—they located THE LAW OFLIVING man, how to locate THE CAUSE AND CURE of one dis-ease,from Innate, from above-down, inside-out, to where it has convertedmillions.

He who hesitates is bossed!Education, per se, takes centuries to reverse itself. Kettering once

said, “It takes 25 years to get a new idea through 1/4 inch of skull”. Hewas optimistic.

The solution is APPLICATION OF CHIROPRACTIC to sick peoplegetting them well, after they have tried everything in medicine and failed;and EDUCATION TO MULTITUDES OF SICK STREWN ALONGHI-WAYS AND BY-WAYS GIVEN UP BY MEDICAL MEN.

SUPPOSE, B. J. by right of heritage of birth, and by virtue of hisyears of painstaking researching of the chiropractic philosophy, scienceand art, endeavoring constantly down through the 50 years to consistentlyincrease its value to the human race, spreading its gospel over the fourcorners of the world, with its many thousands of graduates and millionsof sick who now bless it for getting them well, was to be persuaded totake his life’s work to the medical profession, asking them to take whatwe have and give it a thorough medical investigation in their labs,

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and then take their report to the vastly interested world of science in thehealing arts. And, with this request from OUR profession TO THEIRS,we would add WE will ask OUR profession FOR FUNDS to help youcarry on this research and spread broadcast what your report will be.

SUPPOSE medical researches accept OUR request and proceed withtheir investigation. Here is a sample of their first report, “Your veryexistence, your foundation and basic starting and ending in all things youdo, is based on the LIVING INNATE INTELLIGENCE WHICH TOYOUR PROFESSION IS ALL, ITS ALPHA AND OMEGA. We havesearched far and wide.

a. investigated secret scientific recesses.b. we have gone into our exhaustless labs.c. we have looked into hi-powered microscopes.d. the clinical thermometer, whether high or low.e. we have taken cardiographs by thousands.f. blood pressures is a regular necessity.g. we have taken blood counts and studied reds and whites.h. taking urinalysis regular compulsion.i. we have formulated endless chemical tests.j. we have captured elements in test tubes.k. we have taken exhaustless x-ray films and studied them deeply.1. we have fluoroscoped sick living patients.m. We HAVE ENDEAVORED TO CAPTURE THIS ELUSIVE

AND DELUSIVE INNATE INTELLIGENCE YOU TALK SOMUCH ABOUT.

n. AND WE, IN THE END OF all “scientific instrumentation”.o. We come to unalterable conviction that there is no scientific

evidence which could formulate the presence of InnateIntelligence in living, bodies, sick or well.

p. The reason is simple, you cannot use the above substance ormaterial methods to convert an abstract.

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tant Innate Intelligence in LIVING bodies is a myth, fiction and afabulous subterfuge to grasp imaginations of credulous sick people. Yournon-scientific philosophy has no merit, your “science” is based onexistence of a vertebral subluxation which we could and did see in x-raysbut you also said it interfered with the flow of Innate mental impulse parquantity flow, none of which could we scientifically prove in any of ourlabs.”

SUPPOSE now that they, with our sanction and financial support,researched our chiropractic, chiropractors, and chiropractic profession,with their great power for securing magazine and newspaper space,spread that report far and wide. Would this publicity help or hurt us? Theanswer IS YOURS!

SUPPOSE Edison, when he discovered and developed advantages ofthe electric globe and its light with his electricity, had said to the street orthe house-wife with kerosene lamps with dirty smoked chimneys andkerosene lamp lighters on the streets of our cities, “here is animprovement with electrical heating for a better service to the people ofour city. One switch at the electrical plant turns on all electrical powerand lights all over the city with ONE push of a button. You can lay asidekerosene cans, ladders, walking from one street lamp to another. We wishyou street-kerosene-lamp lighters would investigate, test, try OURelectrical advantages. The advantages of electricity are endless.” Whatwould BE THE rebuttal report?

SUPPOSE Wright Brothers with flying gadgets, when theydiscovered and developed advantages of aeroplanes, with faster serviceconveying people, mail, express, from place to place, longer distances,shorter time, had said to railroad officials with slower trains, “here is animprovement for a better service to people of the world. Let your trainsrust, lay off thousands of employees. We wish you railroad officialswould investigate, test and try OUR aeroplane advantages. It may puttrains out of business, but look at the advantages.” What would be therailroad rebuttal report?

SUPPOSE Alexander Graham Bell, with talking long distances overwires from city to city, state to state, country to country, shorter time at amuch-reduced cost over the pony express

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of the OLD West, had said to horse-back riders, “here is an improvementfor an immediate person-to-person contact to conduct businesses. Youcan turn your horses to pasture. We wish you Wells-Fargo officials wouldinvestigate, test, and try using our telephone systems. It may lay off men,but look at the advantages in a better service to commerce, businesses,people.” What would be their rebuttal report?

SUPPOSE Ford, with Tin Lizzies, horse-less buggies, gasoline fedand oil lubricated engines, had suggested advantages of one man gettingfrom here to there immediately in his owned vehicle, conveying hisfamily long distances on vacations, at least expense, coming and goingwhen and where he pleased. Suppose Ford had said to peopleeverywhere, “at little expense here is a self-driven automobile. No longerwill you need depend upon trains. We wish other conveyance methodswould investigate, test and try many advantages of a privately ownedmethod of transportation of people, freight”. What WAS their rebuttal inridicule to think Ford could conceive a horseless buggy with fringe on toprunning over our streets? What would be the rebuttal of older methods oflocomotion industries it would put out of business? Look at theadvantages in a better service to all people direct. Let us reflect attremendous odds these new and original thinkers had to face—not onlydevelopment of NEW methods but replacing older methods lessadvantageous. Prejudice, greed, selfish interests, a new education toreplace the old—all these WERE faced by these men with head high, chinup, looking forward to a better day when the new replaced the old.Scoffings, ridiculings, questionings of sincerities and honesties as well asmotives, and many other harrowing tribulations came to all these men,but, TODAY, we thank them for the courage displayed in remainingsteadfast to their convictions.

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THERE IS NO justification for “another book”, school, magazine, religion,church or clinic unless there is a necessary need. Today we have toomany books, schools, magazines, religions, churches, and clinics, whichduplicate each other, therefore fill no new need, have no excuse forexistence. If a NEW book has something NEW which has not been said;if a school has a NEW principle or practice; if a church has a NEW creed;if a magazine has a NEW process of thought, or if a clinic has a NEWservice to render, THEN they justify reason for coming into being. Webelieve, in establishing, building, and creating The B. J. PALMERCHIROPRACTIC CLINIC, we have A NEW SERVICE to render—viz.,the laying of a NEW fundamental of scientific knowledge cause and cureof dis-ease, rendered a complete, scientific, exacting manner, securingresults better in worse cases, in quicker time, at less cost.

Building this Clinic is not a desire of a few people to make a living;neither is it to develop a practice by dividing from or attracting thatwhich others have by detracting it here. Building this Clinic is what ourtitle implies—a deep understood purpose and plan supplying a needwhich is absent any other place.

There is no “business” so fraught with guesswork, errors, andinnocent deceptions as that of treating sick with rash promises of impliedhopes of treating effects, thinking such might get them well. Dangers arenot those of malicious men but those of misdirected systems they blindlycreate and stumblingly follow. Medicine is what it is, not because itsfollowers are insincere, suffering with delusions of grandeur, or becausetheir motives are questionable, but because of myths, mysteries, andmoth-eaten methods centuries in breeding which fasten themselves intoroutine that none dare devise.

Beginning with asking patients for symptoms which patient alonefeels, which patient tells doctor, who repeats back to patient told doctor,charging the case a fee for exchanging lay-man

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expressions of feeling into a jargon of latin never-understood terms; withtapping and listening means and methods of observation of pathologies,hoping to be able on the outside of patient’s body to know what is inside.Doctor then separates, sorts, correlates, divides, multiplies and mixes hishopes and beliefs, and out of the jack-in-the-box kaleidoscopic educationcomes a compiled name called a diagnosis. After diagnosis comes U. S.Pharmacopeia with thousands of endorsed proper and ethical drugtreatments, annually changed one or more of which will be sorted outfrom many; deluge of drugs prescribed, any of which is an unknownquantity in any one person’s body. Doctor follows name to book, booktells what he should prescribe. No symptoms or pathology, no name; noname, no book; no book, no treatment—diagnosis IS important to amedical man. Without it, nothing can follow, for there is its beginning.No wonder medicine is empirical, dogmatic, guesswork, a cut and dry, byguess and by God prayer to the God Jupiter ( Rx ) that something worksin devious and peculiar ways. If patient dies, it was “the grace of God”; ifhe gets well, doctor takes credit.

The Battle of searching for “cause of disease” has gone on forcenturies and still goes relentlessly on. Effects alone are observed. Oneeffect becomes “cause” of other effects. Effects trial effects, no primarycause ever being found. Microscope is developed. It finds microscopiclife. All else previously failing, this opens new studies. “Germs causedisease” is a new battle cry. They seek the enemy in tissue lairs. Theyfind one, tag him, announce his arrival, build a chemical gun to kill him.Killing the germ, patient dies cured. They make another old repudiationand another new announcement; this in time and place is denied. And sothe scale runs up and down, the year after year. Chemistry opens newfields. It finds new secretions, locates its organs. Out comes diet withvitamins, hormones, calories, etc. Then comes dotes, antidotes; vaccinesand antivaccines. Disease becomes animal, vegetable and/or chemical.Everlasting, seeking, trailing, finding and denying. All because somethingoutside is said to disagree with something inside. Many causes, many dis-eases; many studies, many treatments—complexities pile up until

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it is centuries top-heavy; overburdening schools, professors, libraries,practitioners; bewildered, amazed and living in a maze, none know whereto turn, which way to for go, to win the struggle for healthful existence.In a large sense, all professions have steadfastly persisted in followingsame guides, make same approach, pursue same paths, mix same names,apply same stimulative or inhibitive treatment methods, withmodifications as to neck-tie, parting hair, or color of shoes, all of whichbrings sick man out the same small end of human life funnel-cases die;and when physicians shuffle off, all wonder what the struggle was allabout.

Our lives have been researching to get sickness out of mystery, tomake health a simple study, to build avenues of approach practical;eliminate guess-work and secure positive knowledge. This Clinic doesNOT diagnose any case. We ascribe no name to complexed group ofsymptoms; neither do we go on a “fishing expedition” on outside to directus to think about what we hope is inside, that we might correlate orseparate them into accepted names to go to a book, to apply treatments ofeffects that follow that name. With cause inside, cure inside, from abovedown, with cause practical and internal inside out cure equally so; with aknown specific cause for one single and simple disease and a like specificfor adjustment; where subluxation was, how, when; when, how, why andwhere to adjust area all are within reach of every man if willing to think,study, apply mental faculties in solving age-old riddles of living humanbeings. It required a foundation elimination of variables andestablishment of constants. As these have been done, man is an openbook in sickness and health, life and death.

The work of this Clinic has progressed so that were a case to enterwho uttered no word or sign, wrote no information; a said or revealednothing to us of that which was wrong with him, we could proceed alongdefinite, positive, scientific lines, find information necessary toaccurately and efficiently locate cause of his illness, whatever orwherever it was, adjust it, observe and study his recovery, ascertain factsas to his progress, and send him home well. Proceeding along these lines,we need no symp-

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toms or pathologies, neither would we make a diagnosis, which provesthat the mysterious and unknown are not necessary to get sick peoplewell. Precision X-rays would be secured without information from case;NCM-NCG readings would be secured without verbal cooperation;adjustments would be correctly given without case revealing anything tous; restoration of mental impulse supply to us would occur within himwhether he wishes it mentally or not; daily NCM-NCG post-checkswould be taken without a spoken word; precision X-ray comparativegraphs would be taken and silence do still prevail. To all this, withoutverbal communication between patient and doctor, the electroen-cephaloneuromentimpograph will establish a constant and variables graphwave pattern of before adjustment and after, and prove the restoration ofbrain to body from above down, inside out nerve-energy flow graphwave. Truly, science is climbing to its superior objectives when thisfoundation and stage of development have been reached.

That our life’s research was far-reaching, ahead of masses, a has notbeen understood, even often by many supposedly close who were inreality as far away as continents. Miles do not make distance, neitherdoes elimination of distances make people close; but mentalunderstanding makes people close, even though across the ocean. Wheremisunderstanding exists, they are never together even though they sleepin the same room year after year.

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I N 1895, D. D. Palmer laid down a NEW principle that cause and curewere within, cause being a vertebral subluxation with sequentialconditions. WHICH vertebra, WHEN, HOW, WHY to adjust? Whichvertebra to NOT adjust? When NOT, why NOT to adjust? These werequestions unanswered which time would solve. Twenty-four vertebraeahead of us. Only ONE should be adjusted! Having laid that principle, anefficient practice was to be established. “Practicing” up and down entirecolumn, in all that word implies, began.

The entire spinal column was “practicing” territory. Every day,entire spine, adjusting here and there, one or more, any place any time,was correct procedure in those years. Many “moves” were played up anddown this back-bone checker-board. Those early days too much wasincorrectly done, too many inefficient places, too often, when notnecessary. Occasionally a case got well IN SPITE OF rather thanBECAUSE OF what we did. They got well not because WE KNEWwhich, when, how, and why, but because we occasionally andaccidentally stumbled across the right which, when, how and why, andhappened to stop at right time. Many a case voluntarily stopped of theirown accord, after FIRST adjustment, went home, returned—and got well.THEY did, without knowing, what we should have done, KNOWING.

Today, 52 odd years later, we aim to adjust ONE PLACE, anaverage of 23.9 days between, in each case. The difference between 24vertebrae every day and 23.9 days between is KNOWLEDGE gained byexclusive process of deduction for facts, recognizing them scientifically,researching until compiled into efficient procedures. Building constantsand eliminating variables reveals what we NEED know about presence orabsence of a vertebral subluxation; when and when no pressure exist,where and where how to find them, and why we should

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or should not adjust this direction or that, at this place or that. One ofimportant fact-finding system consists in step-up of constants andelimination of variables. Formerly, WITH variables, we did more, atmore places, than now, because we interpreted variables as constants.

Imagine a typewriter, a blank sheet of paper, on one side; man withdesire to write a legible and intelligent article, with typewriter. Imagineman who has ideas and wants to write, doesn’t know where 46 letteredkeys are and cannot mentally see them. That’s where averageChiropractor either was or is, unless he knows where, when, how andwhy. Typewriter has letters willing to be struck and to record properword and thought sequences. Man has ideas; program is established ofwhere he wants to go; he has ability to write paragraphs and chapters ofunderstanding thought—but he doesn’t know where lettered keys are. Notknowing, he pecks away heterogeneously on many or all of them.Occasionally and accidentally he might peck out one word or two out of amass of desired ideas, which might be correctly spelled. Probabilities are,though, not knowing where correct keys are, his pecking would consist ofjumbled letters. Typewriter is right; keys are right. He knows what hewants to write: thoughts are right; words are in mind right. What iswrong, when sheet comes out of a mass of jumbled letters which nonecan read? He can’t connect good intentions with good deeds well donebecause he doesn’t know WHICH KEYS to use.

Chiropractic was in that position a few years ago. The backbone has26 letters of the human alphabet. They were ready to be adjusted. Ifproper work was done at proper place, proper spacing, in proper manner,books revealing health would be produced in human form. Chiropractordid not have knowledge of which, where, when and how or why to adjustproper vertebra. NOT KNOWING where to adjust or when, why or how,pecking away at 26 vertebrae more or less as he must, occasionally heMIGHT tick off an adjustment which would be correctly done. Proba-bilities, though, not knowing where or when vertebral subluxation was,pecking away would stumble out a jumble of backbone punches, doinglittle if any good and possibly doing harm.

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To research and secure KNOWLEDGE was restored understanding toChiropractor: to make it impossible for him TO SEE letters and playthem wisely.

Elimination of variables makes for establishment of constants, whichcreates clearline thinking, which is accurate thinking, which makes forefficiently, which creates accurate adjustment, which is Chiropracticknowledge, and knowledge is health efficiency restored.

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TWO MAJOR AND ONE MINOR ISSUES

THERE IS LITTLE anyone can add except that no new institution can longexist or succeed without certain fundamental purposes and objectives.

Two major issues: (a ) medical; (b) Chiropractic.(a) Medical contention is:

1. “Patients who go to Chiropractors are ‘psychological,’ or2. “There is nothing the matter with them.”3. “Nothing a Chiropractor would do would help a major

pathology.”4. “If patient gets well under hands of Chiropractor, it is A

MATTER OF OPINION that he is or is not well.”5. “Patient EXPRESSES AN OPINION that he is or is not

well.”6. “Chiropractor BELIEVES patient was sick and is now well.”7. “If patient gets well, it is ‘psychological.’”

Medical men complain because “Chiropractors are NOT scientific.”In The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic, we go “scientific” with avengeance

Having proved that we ARE using their own devices AGAINSTTHEM, they whine because WE DO.

(b) The average Chiropractor contends he must do MANY things,using many “moves”, covering a long period of time, in MANY places, toSTIMULATE or INHIBIT function to alleviate, ameliorate, make patientfeel better.

Following this program, he “adjusts” many places, many ways withmany moves, from head to hips to heel, spending 15 minutes to an hourevery day, plus many adjuncts, many modalities, hoping he mightACCIDENTALLY do right thing, right way, and an ACCIDENT mighthappen to get patient well.

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The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic was established:1. TO PROVE BY MEDICAL MECHANICAL AUTOMATIC

RECORDING METHODS that cases ARE sick, using sametests, same proof whereby a medical man proves existence ofsickness exists in cases entering this Clinic.

2. To prove, after a certain period of things time, a change HASoccurred, using same tests and same proofs to note change.

3. To prove that diagnosis is fallacious and of no value; it is notnecessary to diagnosis to be able to correctly analyze, andadjustment with a diagnosis.

Meanwhile, between tests, nothing has been used or given butsimple abbreviated Chiropractic adjustment. This break down“Psychologically” argument that “they were not sick anyhow.”

ON THE CHIROPRACTIC SIDE, the fundamental of this Clinic isto see HOW LITTLE we can do, at HOW FEW PLACES, HOWRARELY and HOW QUICKLY it can be done, to accomplish greatestchange in SHORTEST SPACE OF TIME, AT LEAST COST to case;and to know what to do and why we do it, BEFORE doing it. We seek,not treatment of effects, symptoms, pathology, but the specific for a causeand the specific for its adjustment.

Dis-ease, per se, and its medical treatment, has always beendogmatic and empirical, a theory, opinion, cut and try; little is known andmuch is hoped.

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CONSTANTS AND VARIABLES—DEFINED

A CONSTANT is some condition possessing reality, method, principle,and/or practice, having a developed and known basis for existence,—which is established, remains fixed, contains elements of law, duplicatesitself under like conditions,—which establishes a rule for conclusion and function, a principle andpractice true to its terms;—which pre-determines mental, automatic or mechanical determinationand foundation for consistent, accurate and efficient thought and action;—which establishes fact in sequence of cause and effect, and therebyprecludes differences of individuality of thoughts as essential in theequation;—which fact exists inherent within itself, independent of men, appliesitself universally to all alike;—which does not require education per se as a fitness for each person tostart over again in application to problems of new generations.

Reader’s Digest (July, 1937) in article “Uncle Sam’s House ofWonders” (James W. Holden), we find this statement:

“For the chemists of the country’s 1,700 research laboratories, theBureau looks into physical constants—density, viscosity, melting andboiling points, atomic weight, and so on.”

A VARIABLE is some condition founded on reality, principle,and/or practice, having a hidden and undeveloped basis foe existence—upon which observer, student, investigator, researcher, or scientist iscompelled to vary, fluctuate, is not stable, wavers and wobbles withoutreason or logic, observation of which is not dependent or reliable;—which forces man to use theories, opinions, personal judgment;—to try to reach a conclusion, to ascertain a certain fact on an uncertainfoundation upon which to judge and act;

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—which by its necessary changeable differences cannot establish a factin any sequence or as cause follows effect, but does thereby includedifferences of individuality of thoughts as essential in the equation;—which fact exists dependent upon experienced men and applies itselfonly as they alone apply it;—which does require education plus per se, as a fitness which inherentlycannot transplant itself to newer generations on applications to itsproblems.

Two potatoes by two potatoes makes five potatoes; two tomatoes bytwo tomatoes makes six tomatoes, are variables—variable beingdifference between potatoes and tomatoes, changing rule ofmathematics—or does it?

Variables are additions—thinking to make it more—or subtractionsto make it less; are attempts made to essence or dilute; are designedattempts to substitute treatments of effects for adjustment of cause; aredesires to replace stimulation or inhibition for restoration of transmission;are ideas of medical diagnosis rather than Chiropractic analysis.

CHIROPRACTIC IS A PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND ART.Philosophy, science and art each has ITS constants. In practice, eachpractitioner has ITS variables.

The CONSTANT of Chiropractic PHILOSOPHY PRINCIPLE IS:—a vertebral subluxation;—occludes an opening;—produces pressure upon spinal cord or spinal nerves;—interferes with quantity transmission of mental impulse supply between

brain and body;—interference offers resistance to transmission;—interference and resistance reduce quantity energy flow from above-

down, inside-out;—reduction of energy flow reduces and slows down tissue cell action;—reduction of tissue cell action IS dis-ease.

CONSTANT of Chiropractic PHILOSOPHY PRACTICE is:—a vertebral adjustment;—increase opening;

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—release pressure upon spinal cord or spinal nerves;—restores transmission of mental impulse supply between brain and

body;—reduces interference to transmission of mental impulse supply;—increasing quantity energy flow from above-down, inside-out increases

and speeds up TISSUE CELL ACTION;—increasing tissue cell action IS health, normal function.

Variables to Chiropractic philosophy would be ANYTHING whichany follower would inflict into it, which is in conflict, which wouldnullify, modify, or abridge any or all of the above constants.

CONSTANT of Chiropractic SCIENCE is:—ascertaining exact location of vertebral subluxation;—ascertaining exact mal-position of vertebral;—ascertaining degree of pressure, interference, resistance;—ascertaining places of origin of function, paths of distribution on nerve

conveying quantity function, and location of functional effects becauseof interference and resistance;

—ascertaining correct adjustment to correct vertebral subluxationmal-position;

—delivery of adjustment accomplishing objectives of constant ofphilosophy of Chiropractic;

—to accomplish reverse objectives or releasure, reduced interference andresistance.

Variables of Chiropractic SCIENCE would be anything which anyfollower would inflict into it, which is in conflict, which would nullify,modify, or abridge any or all of the above.

The CONSTANT or Chiropractic ART is:—adjust that subluxation, in that direction, in that manner which most

completely and most quickly accomplishes objectives of philosophyand science.

Variables of Chiropractic ART would be anything which anyfollower would inflict into it would be in conflict, which would nullify,modify, or abridge any or all of above constants.

To list or enumerate variables of conflict which would nullify,modify, or abridge the Chiropractic principle and/or practice constants,would be to list and enumerate everything contrary and antipodal toabove philosophy, science and art.

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EACH HUMAN BEING is born into this world because of a consistentirresistible Intelligent Force, working to a definite plan, designed to be adefinite pattern—all of which is constant.

Universal and Innate Intelligence are constants; their laws areconstant, purposes and designs are constants. They control earth, sea, sky,stars and planets, air, water, light and heat, by immutable constantcontrol. Pattern from which man is made, process of his make, hisreproduction, is a constant. Life force in man, by-product of that force,such as skin, muscles, bone, is governed by constant. Great and simpleprinciples and practices are staid and sturdy and become monuments oflasting and permanent understanding which can never be destroyed—because they are constants. Why do we admire such men as Christ,Lincoln, Edison, Ford? Because of their constancy of thought and action.

Imagine what would happen to any of this if variables, with theirungovernable, irresponsible, and inconsistent ideas were to prevail. Wedon’t admire or respect wishy-washy, undetermined, variable humanbeings who are gone with North wind and come back with South wind.

There is a constant underlying the Chiropractic principle andpractice: subluxation, occlusion, pressure, and interference to mentalimpulse supply between brain and body, from above-down, inside-out;which slows down tissue cell activity; which, given time, creates dis-ease.Adjustment, opening occlusions, releasing pressure, restoring mentalimpulse supply between brain and body, increases tissue cell activity;given time, re-creates health. That constant is either right or wrong. Ifright, it is TOTALLY right. If wrong, it is TOTALLY wrong.

Any drug or treatment which stimulates or inhibits functions orsensibilities, does so because it has a positive and definite reactionagainst that which makes function or sensibility. If digitalis

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stimulates heart action, it does so because it stimulates mental impulsesupply. If morphine deadens pain, it does so only because it inhibits senseof feeling via afferent impression and its equivalent interpretation.

ANY drug or treatment which stimulates or inhibits function orsensibility, does so only AS IT BLOCKS mental impulse nerve energyflow efferent and afferent.

Any agency, whether given, taken, or received internally, taken orreceived externally, regardless of whether a chemical, manual, thermal,electrical, or physical means, whether material substance or an abstract,which seemingly modifies, amends, abridges, or changes function, doesso not because it actually changes function direct, but that it modifies,amends, abridges, or changes quantity energy flow by blocking eitherefferent or afferent sides of the cycle behind functional activity and thusindirectly affects function.

Crile and Speransky have proved this statement conclusively.********

Chiropractic principle and practice is to adjust, open occlusion,release pressure, restore normal quantity flow between brain and body,that Innate Intelligence can, does, and will rebuild normal rhythmicenergy wave flow to re-establish normal rate of functional and sensibilitytissue cell activity to a healthy level.

Drugs or treatments, according to potency, block normal quantityflow either between brain and body or body and brain.

It is obvious a vertebral subluxation traumatically “blocks” mentalimpulse from getting through, thus causes dis-ease.

It would be obvious that drugs or other treatments chemically blocksame mental impulse from getting through. What would happen when, asa result of adjustment, you RESTORE flow of mental impulse fromabove down, inside out, and permit the case TO STOP that flow withdrugs or other treatments?

How can there be unity between these two contradictory ideas?In our Clinic, we prohibit, without reservation, any case’s taking any

and/or all drugs or treatments while under our care. One definitestatement is made to our cases in our “FIRST-DAY

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INTRODUCTORY INSTRUCTIONS”, as follows:“Use NO opiates, sedatives, hypnotics, or stimulatives, such as

aspirin, adrenalin, arsenic, bromides, allonal, insulin, diet, etc., while inThe B. J. Palmer Chiropractor Clinic. It destroys accuracy of NCM checkreadings, makes it impossible to render service in restoring health, forwhich you are paying. If in doubt about specific application to YOURcase, ask for appointment to see Director of Clinic.”

This sustains fact in the Chiropractic profession that specificsubluxation and specific adjustment IS sound, IS practical, and will work,thereby offering proof to OUR profession. If sick get well in greaterpercentage of worse cases in shorter time, with specific adjustment, thenit proves what it proves.

Getting sick well calls for precision, efficient, accurate, competent,and honest work at every step. Getting sick people well is largely aquestion of:

(a) understanding of depth to which Chiropractic applies(b) understanding of methods Innate works in a human body(c) discrimination between right and wrong interpretation of

constants and variables of spinographs(d) correct and incorrect interpretations of long or short “break”

neurocalograph NCM readings(e) judgment exercised on what to do, what not to do; when to

adjust, when not to adjust; how to adjust, how not to adjust,etc.

(f) under-adjusting rather than over-adjusting a case.(g) interpretation of actions and reactions and discrimination

between true and false retracing as a result of right or wrongadjusting

(h) teaching cases to protect adjustment in its retention.(i) using every, any, and all precautions to protect adjustment once

given, through care in getting off adjusting table, providingambulatory couches from adjusting table to rest rooms, havingrest rooms, and insisting upon their not-less-than 2-hour-use,etc.

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it, yet everything revolves around both. Each must be safe-guarded, inpreparation on one side and protection upon the other. No Chiropractorcan afford to be careless on either side of this important issue.

Average Chiropractor gives little thought to all-important issuesstressed and mentioned. He wonders why his cases don’t get well; whyadjustments fail. Failing, he begins chasing rainbows.

Results are for two kinds: stimulative temporary kind, andrestorative energy permanent kind.

Anybody can easily produce stimulative kind, with hot water,electric shocks, massage, turkish baths, kicks in the pants, so to speak,etc. These “get results” but they don’t last. Whiskey will make a pauper astimulating millionaire in the evening, but next morning he will beinhibited back to dark brown taste of pauper again.

Even rapid stimulation has its equally quick let down. Millions ofpeople should have ability to produce permanent restoration of functionas a result of a properly delivered vertebral-subluxationadjustment-setment. This has a build-up and keeps building up andstaying up until that much desired health is back to stay. It comes slower;it is gradual, but it is permanent.

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ANATOMICAL AND OSTEOLOGICALCONSTANTS AND VARIABLES

THERE IS A Species and family constant.There are Species and family VARIABLES.There is a Genus Homo anatomical and osteological constant.All people are alike in general characteristics, but far differ in

specific variables.All have head, two arms, two legs, nervous systems, vertebral

column, mental impulse supply constant.Each has a face on that head that is variable, arms and legs are long

or short; no two vertebral columns are alike; no two mental impulsesupplies are exactly alike.

There are osteological constants. Each person has 24 moveablevertebrae; an occiput, atlas, and axis. All bones are a constant to acommon constant. Yet, no two occiputs, atlases, or axes are alike. Eachpossesses a variable from the constant.

There are left and right variables.It is these variables that make two people anatomically or

osteologically a constant—make no two subluxations alike—make no two occlusions, pressures, or interferences alike—make no two dis-eases alike

These variables make no two people take same adjustment, orrespond to it alike; or react of same condition in same speed; or makethem get well in same manner.

To be a competent, efficient, and accurate Chiropractor calls for onewho knows constants and variables in osteology.

Some will try to fit atlas on upside down; axis below 4th cervical, orturn an atlas right side to.

All Chiropractors have a “fair” understanding of something aboutbones; a trifle more than that about an occiput, atlas, and

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All Chiropractors have a “fair” understanding of something aboutvertebral subluxations and their adjustments.

A Chiropractor is ordinary or extraordinary according to whether heknows ordinary or extraordinary osteological constants and theirvariables, normal and abnormal.

Usual patient has an osteological constant in common with otherpeople. Usual patient has a vertebral subluxation and a vertebraladjustment constant in common with other people. That patient stands agood chance of getting well at the hands of A USUAL Chiropractor.

What about the UNUSUAL patient with an UNUSUAL variableNOT IN COMMON with other people? What about the UNUSUALpatient with an unusual variable subluxation requiring an UNUSUALvariable adjustment?

These are “Problem” cases this Clinic is called upon to get well.Variables are either anomalous, pathological, or traumatic. They can

be any one, two, or three, in any person. They frequently are in some one“problem” case.

In the Palmer School are over 25,000 osteological specimens;anomalous, pathological, as well as traumatic, valued at over $350,000.Having spent thousands of hours studying them, we know WHAT to lookfor, WHAT to see, WHAT to expect, and by process of seeing find them;or by process of seeing, eliminate them when reading X-ray films.

It is the ability to include or exclude variables, with constant, whichgive knowledge; and knowledge is ability.

It is variables which make Chiropractors fail on case—not thatChiropracTIC is wrong; not that ChiropracTOR is incompetent,inefficient, or inaccurate, but he does NOT know variables on which heshould be a specialist.

You must know your bones, to know your bones.Page 143, Vol. 19 (Palmer) states:“Reading an occiputo-atlantal-axial set of spinographs is more than

looking for a subluxated position of one vertebra, to ascertain its presencesubluxated position, and figuring direction it should be adjusted to getcase well. There is the anatomical con-

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stant normal position, where it was but is not now. In addition tosubluxated position of one vertebra seen, we look for and ascertain bynegation any of hundreds of possible anomalous, and/or pathological,and/or traumatic variables and how any or some of them being presentand affect and modify interpretation of position of subluxation otherwisethought to be seen. Many modify conclusion and shift position to R. or L.It is these elements which create ‘impossible’ and ‘problem’ cases whichwe get in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic; which we seek and find,which makes our interpretations different, which soon shows in gettingcase well where others who follow simple routine fail. To think onlyanatomical constant as was and should be, and thus ignore multitudinousanomalous, pathological, and/or traumatic variants that modify usualtechnique of reading spinographs, is to not see some of the most salientissues of study.

“Fortunately, majority of cases do not fit into these categories.Unfortunately minoring of ‘incurable’ cases DO fit into these categories.The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic does have the OsteologicalLaboratory which makes such comparisons vital to recovery of ‘stubborn’cases. Ordinarily, a matched set of occiput, atlas, and axis beforeChiropractor in spinograph reading room makes it possible to comparereal with spinographs of duplicate parts of case. Extraordinary, thousandsof specimens of sets of occiputs, atlases, and axes are before us in ourOsteological Laboratory where we make comparisons between actualvariables to compare with spinographs of duplicate parts found in‘unusual’ cases.

“What you look at in a spinograph may be exactly what you see, butare you seeing exactly what you look at in a spinograph? This is notparadoxical. You look in a spinograph and see what appears to be whatyou define it to be as to subluxated position, comparative to vertebraabove and below. Is it what you define? If an anomaly exists on one side,not on the other; if pathology exists on prezygapophyses and not onpostzygapophyses; if traumatic crushed healed fracture cicatrix exists onodontoid (cited as some of many possibilities) what you look at in aspinograph may be exactly what you look at. These are actualitiesoccurring

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more or less in many people which cannot be put into type (except in ageneral way), cannot be told by instruction (except in a general way)neither can they be written into books (which we have not attempted.)This education comes after specimens studying possibilities incomparative sets, which took hundreds of hours with 25,000 specimens,of what could happen if this or that was present and how it would modifywhat you thought you saw if a spinograph were taken at this or that angle,etc.

“Broader the understanding of constant and knowledge of variablesin osteological specimens, more one can read in spinographs of livingindividuals from whom spinographic pictures have been taken. Personwho looks at a spinograph and sees little in it is one who would look atany osteological specimen and see little in it. Other person who has spentyears looking at thousands of osteological specimens can take aspinograph set and see in it a reflection of his understanding ofanomalous, pathological, and/or traumatic specimens he has studied foryears.”

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CONSTANTS AND VARIABLESIN ADJUSTING SUBLUXATIONS

D. D. Palmer laid down a principle, including its elements, in 1895.To that principle, and those elements, he gave a name. That principle andthose elements are:—a vertebral subluxation;—occludes an opening;—produces pressure upon nerves;—interferes with quantity par transmission of mental impulse supply;—causes dis-ease.

That principle and those elements are either right or wrong. If notright, let’s prove it wrong or correct it and them. If right, let’s prove of itso, and develop its application in service.

That principle add those elements are a constant. But what variableswe find practiced in its name!

What should you do, as a Chiropractor, to change variable back toconstant? Innate is a constant, subluxation is a constant, adjustment is aconstant; but Chiropractor tries to change constant into a variable.

Chiropractor deplores physician and science of medicine because itis empirical, dogmatism, mass of experimentation variables; andforthwith denounces medicine as possessing none of the elements of anexacting or precise constancy. Yet the Chiropractor who brags about his“chiropractic becoming more scientific” should himself becomescientific. How? By seeking the constant and eliminating variables in hispractice.

D. D. Palmer laid down the principle IN THE SINGULARsubluxation. It was NOT plural. Yet Chiropractors today pluralize it from2 to 24 vertebrae. Adjust occiputs to legs. Today there are given what wecall “cutaneous or kiss” adjustments. They don’t penetrate to actuallymove the vertebra.

Example: Case 73 entered our Clinic. Chiropractor adjusted atlas,first from one side then other side, each day, for 21 days.

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Atlas, if subluxated, could not be both left AND right. Atlas, ifsubluxated, was EITHER left OR right. It couldn’t be BOTH directions.Discussing this case, THE KNOWN MAN, VOL. 19 (PALMER) says:

“If (a) vertebra WAS subluxated right, then it wasn’t subluxated left.If it was left, then it wasn’t right. If it was either it couldn’t be bothopposite directions, same day. One Chiropractor held opinion it WASboth opposite directions same day, every day for 21 days. No wonder theseeming necessity of pecking away every day on a variable from bothsides.

“IF (b) atlas was subluxated right and this was “adjusted” first, thenhead turned over and “adjustment” given from left, and case went homewith last peckment FROM LEFT, then case went home with worsesubluxation than when he entered office. Vice versa would also be true.Pecking on wrong side on alternate days is a variable constituting aninexcusable blunder. Adjusting from RIGHT, only when it exists as suchin fact, is a constant which constitutes sound intelligent understanding ofnature of atlas subluxation and its correction.

“IF (c) subluxation WAS right on Monday, and on Monday he‘adjusted’ from right first and left second; and subluxation WAS left onTuesday, and on Tuesday he ‘adjusted’ from left first and right second,he would be alternately, on opposite days, decrease and increase pressureand make case worse one day and perhaps better next. (This would bequestionable because no case needs ‘adjustment’ every day on samesubluxation. It is possible that pecking away on alternate side dailyMIGHT increase readings). Alternation would be haphazard, trusting tomemory which do side was first or last, yesterday or day before,therefore, no constant was used as a basic start or finish. It would be badenough if he made a constant of which side was daily adjusted first for 21days. Even this possesses elements of great danger, for

“IF (d) subluxation was right, and for 21 days he adjusted fromRIGHT first and LEFT last, then each day he continued to make caseworse. It is no wonder case suspicioned Chiropractor did not know whichside atlas was subluxated to. Realizing he

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was getting worse, case left him and went to another Chiropractor whofound which side it WAS subluxated to. No Chiropractor can build abusiness on variables of which this is a simple sample.”

Example: IF atlas IS A specific vertebral subluxation, including itselements. To claim others ARE, is to introduce variables.

Two vital principles:1. Cause is within, cure is within. It is necessary to accurately locate

cause and efficiently correct it, that the cure life forces within may beliberated to bring back health.

2. Rehabilitation of the part which has long been in dis-use. Thiscannot be done by external manipulation, such as message. It must bedone by internal use by patient himself.

Every department of the Clinic works, confined, and scientificallyapplies itself to these two vital practices.

You noted, under first principle, any, every, and all methods whichestablish accurate and efficient mechanical automatic record, avoidingstudiously any, every, and all methods which permit free play to humandiagnosis which is admittedly guesswork with even the best. You furthernoted, under second principle, all methods which permit case to work hisown parts to more quickly develop them back to normal.

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PRECISION X-RAYS

YOU ALL HAVE had X-ray pictures taken and yet you do not, nor doesanyone else, know just what an X-ray is! X-ray IS so called because the“X” means unknown. It if is the unknown ray and that remains a fact eventoday in these times of many scientific accomplishments.

New and valuable information is continually sought, and some daywe may know what kind of A RAY the X-ray is. Even though we don’tknow what it is, its proper use has many wonderful and valuable uses,both in various healing professions and in many commercial fields.

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DISCOVERY

THE PRINCIPLE OF Chiropractic and of X-ray were discovered in the year1895. Chiropractic was founded by D. D. Palmer in Davenport, whileX-ray was founded by Prof. Roentgen, in Germany. Both of thesesciences have progressed along the hard road of practical experience andscientific development, until today both are recognized throughout thecivilized world.

The first X-ray picture EVER made of a human spinal column wastaken by DR. B. J. Palmer and his associates in 1910. It was not until thatyear that an X-ray machine was manufactured which had sufficient powerto penetrate the spinal column, or go through the thickness of the body,necessary to make these pictures.

Immediately such a machine was made, B. J. ordered one, set up acomplete X-ray laboratory in The Palmer School, and was quick to beginresearch along lines which were destined to revolutionize the practice ofChiropractic from a hit and miss method to one of exactitude andscientific precision.

As we press a button in our Modern Clinic X-ray laboratory today,and take pictures of patients, noiselessly and automatically, our mindoften turns back to the days when we first started taking X-ray pictures ofspinal columns. It must have been like starting out to an unexplored land,with no idea of what was ahead, probably not even having a starting pointbut just going out into the darkness somewhere, to find something.

It was in those days that dark and spooky looking rooms were usedfittingly for this work; sparks and loud noises terrified patients, and inTHOSE days it was a major event for anyone to have an X-ray picturetaken.

But more than the inadequacy of these first crude machines, was thegreat problem of determining suitable technic for this work. It was likestarting out in the dark. It was purely a case of conducting long andtedious experimentation, trying to arrive at

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some standard by which some sort of a rule could be established. It was aquestion of stepping up voltage, cutting down, increasing or decreasingnot only FORCE of rays but QUANTITY of them; and juggling many ofvarious combinations of technic possible with an X-ray machine. Afterreaching some kind of a standard, working from that point until properX-ray pictures could be made. This was the great problem that confrontedus and our associates when they first introduced the X-ray in ourprofession.

It was only by exposing thousands of X-ray plates that they wereable to bring about a STANDARDIZATION of X-ray technic in theChiropractic profession.

This work was not only confined to our profession, but many X-rayplates made in The Palmer School were exhibited at national x-ray andelectrical conferences, and the type of work done here was highly praisedby man of other professions. The Palmer School was the pioneer in spinalX-ray work. Since our three laboratories have totaled several millionX-ray films since the first Chiropractic X-ray pictures in 1910.

At that time, B. J. coined a new word which applied specifically tospinal Chiropractic X-ray work, the ‘spinograph’, to art of ‘spinography;’and an operator or one skilled in this work was and is today called a‘spinographer.’ He is a specialists in spinal X-ray work.

Today, our spinograph machines are specially made for ChiropracticX-ray work. They are shockproof to both patient and operator, and theyare noiseless. Jumping of sparks across spark gaps is eliminated in themodern machine. Glass X-ray tubes of the past are enclosed in a metalcasing which likely contains oil. The casing not only protects delicateparts of tube, but tends to eliminate some radiation of rays given off fromtube which are not DIRECT rays used in exposure of patient. They aresecondary rays. There are many ways in which “secondary” rays areproduced, but we do not wish to go into technicalities. Oil in the casingserves as a means of cooling the tubes and insures it a longer life.

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developed the technic to a very high standard in spinal work. We areconstantly researching along these lines.

It is logical to believe we can see more with three dimensions thantwo, and more details can be ascertained from third dimensional picturesthan ordinary flat picture. Third dimension gives DEPTH in pictures; it isas though we were looking into an actual human skull or neck when wemake analysis from a stereoscopic set of films. These pictures are of greatvalue to the Chiropractor.

We have pioneered and developed in The B. J. Palmer ChiropracticClinic a new method of X-ray posture measurements, known as the“Posture Constant” in Precision Spinograph Technic.”

These measurements enable us to make a permanent record of apatient’s posture when he comes in first day for his first or primary set offilms. In two weeks he comes for his second, or comparative set of films,we are able to duplicate in every detail his sitting and standing posture.He can come in fourth, sixth week, six months, a year, two years fromthat time, and we can duplicate his posture exactingly and precisely in alldetails.

We have special calibrations on numerous parts of our X-rayequipment for this purpose. These figures are copied on a permanentrecord sheet and filed away with each patient’s records.

Purpose of these precise measurements is to form a BASIS orFOUNDATION for a new and specialized ART in Chiropractic X-rayknown as “Subluxation-Adjustment X-ray Graphs.” (Our Vol. XX) Thisnew art was introduced for the first time in the history of X-raydevelopment. Never before were graphs made from X-ray films. Thiswork is necessarily confined to the Chiropractic profession forcomparative measurements and changes of vertebrae or spinal segments.

Before we make accurate graphs showing actual vertebral changecases, it is necessary to build posture constant measurements. It is for thisreason we go to much trouble in properly placing patients for X-rays, andwhy we are continually copying figures during positioning of a case forX-ray pictures.

With correct PLACEMENT of patients every time they come intoX-ray laboratory, we are able to take a SERIES of

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films into Graph Laboratory and by using a special lighted tracing table,special oiled tracing paper, and India colored inks, show in concrete,understandable, and MEASURABLE form, the exact and precise changeshaving taken place in vertebrae adjusted in spine, and also changes ofcontour, straightening of curvatures, or LENGTHENING of spinalcolumns as a result of that specific adjustment at the top of the neck. (OurVol. XX.)

While technic of TAKING spinograph or X-ray films of spinalcolumn has been perfected for many years, this was the FIRST timeactual changes in vertebral position have been transferred to a means ofclear-cut preciseness—and IT IS THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE BEENABLE TO BRING THESE VERTEBRAL CHANGES OUT OF THEFIELD OF PERSONAL OPINION INTO THE REALM OF SCIENTIFICFACT.

Today, it is no longer a matter of any one man’s opinion whether ithas not moved, or whether a vertebra has moved. Opinion isovershadowed in this work by scientific methods of recording andmechanical comparison. That same idea is carried out in all departmentsof our Clinic.

The subluxation-adjustment X-ray graphs show changes in spine in aclear-cut manner, which anyone can see by comparing varied India inkcolors representing the series of films compared.

It is the conclusion reached by interpretation of X-ray films whichforms one most important factors in delivering a precise and exactingadjustment necessary to restore health. It is ESSENTIAL our X-rays betaken PERFECTLY and all details will be available for making aconclusion for adjustment, or setment.

It IS interesting to look back upon progress in X-ray developmentand upon progress of Chiropractic—the two having climbed together theladder of success, to scientific distinction.

X-ray units made and sold on the market were used to take one ortwo single radiographs, such as fractures, dislocations, prolapses of softtissues, etc. At later date, radiographs were taken to show fractures ofdislocation has been “set,” or stomach, etc., has been drawn back intoposition.

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make patterns and manufacture sections to get our units to do ALL andEXACTLY what we needed to produce character of work this Clinicspecified.

We demanded:1. spinographs FOCALIZE to occipito-atlantal-axial region.2. spinographs be brilliantly clear in sharp detail WITHOUT

distortion.3. entire spinographic sets A-P Natural (1); Lateral Natural (2); A-P

Stereo (3-4); Diagonal Stereo (5-6); BP Stereo (7-8); 8 x 36Stereo (9-10) be made to a match each other with PERFECTprecision.

4. stereoscopic spinograph sets MATCH line for line, blending oneinto the other without distortion, or portray true third and fourthdimension directions.

5. entire set of 10 spinographs of one person, made at previous dateprecisely match entire set of 10 spinographs of same person takenat later date. Before-and-after sets are required to perfectly matchwithout distortion.

6. a posture-constant be established which could be mechanicallyduplicated, wherein future sets match past sets of same person.

7. spinographs so made would be so perfectly matched thatoverlapping graphs which made would be to prove changes insegments subsequently existing as the result of action previouslyadjusted upon segments analyzed in spinographs.

Little of this was possible previous to manufacture of units. Graphswere not possible because sets could not be matched. Sets could not bematched because before-and-after sets could not be duplicated withprecision, Sets could not be duplicated with precision because there wasno posture-constant established or possible. There was noposture-constant because equipment did not then exist that could produceit.

Skill exercised in daily use is second to none. We doubt if any X-raylaboratory insists upon “every detail done must be just exactly right, at alltimes, on all cases.” Spinographs taken under this system now establishedare painstakingly yet naturally

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postured, exposed, developed interpreted.X-ray films reproduce light and darks shadows. The development of

X-ray films should be a very exciting part of the process of securinginternal X-ray information.

It is surprising how careless majority of X-ray films are exposed,developed and interpreted. Hundreds of films sent here to be “read” areso poorly exposed, taken, and developed, that many times we cannot readthem with any degree of accuracy.

As further example of accuracy used here, let us cite two examples:common water used in developer, hypo, rinse, and washings, usuallycontains many chemicals elements, with no constancy, which makes notwo developments equal at various times. These chemicals contained inordinary water will change light and dark shadows and changes values ofwhat is trying to be read. To establish the constant of our work, we useonly distilled water in our developer, hypo, rinse and wash baths. Thismaintains a constant of chemical calculated values, always producingfilms of equal value.

Hot water in summer causes gelatin to run; cold water in winter setsit quicker than essential. To avoid these, we have installed two individualrefrigerating units—one to cool developer, hypo and rinse bath, keepingit constantly at 65° in summer, and room temperature in winter. Otherunit chills running water bath in wash tank, keeping it at a fixedtemperature.

X-ray technic is simple, yet exacting. To secure true pictures ofinternal conditions on an external film requires careful positioning oftube, patient and film. Taking an X-ray picture is similar to taking aphotograph. If lens is offside, farther side is slightly distorted by beingout of focus, etc. There is this difference: in X-ray films, we read onlyshadows after having penetrated and passed through objects, so there isthat possibility of distorting shadows to make them produce somethingthat isn’t there, or eliminate that which is, or distort it to what isn’t infact. Taking of correct occiput, atlas and axis areas for HIO reading ofatlas subluxation calls for tube target being directly on a straight line withnasal septum, occipital protuberance, center of odontoid process, and tipof posterior ring of atlas arch, and at right angles

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to film, unless we are “shooting” for diagonal stereos, etc. From thisdirection, all will be in proper relation to each other, and whatever ISsubluxated will be true on film. Direct tube target a fraction of an inchlaterally, inferior or superior, off center, and it can and sometimes doeschange a wedge from right to left, or vice versa—and that’s the differencebetween adjusting from right or wrong side making case teeter or worse.Where careless X-ray work is done, wrong interpretations of X-ray made,and case is adjusted a wrong way and gets worse, HIO as a principle andpractice is at fault and is condemned because “it doesn’t work.”

In comparative X-ray work, from which graphs are made, duplicatesets MUST BE exposed PRECISELY and EXACTLY alike; postureconstant MUST BE a constant. Make this simple test. Sit down on a solidbottom chair. (a) Put legs forward; (b) pull them back close to you; (c)turn toes in; (d) turn them outward; (e) put feet close together; (f) spreadthem apart and FEEL THE DIFFERENCE they make by comparison incontours of curves of spine. If X-ray technician is careless and pays noattention to where case puts his or hers toes, legs, between onecomparative set and another, permits toes, feet, and legs to be variablesbetween one set and another and thus artificially creates variables inpositions of contours of spinal column with adaptive changes above—then it is obvious X-ray pictures above could not and would not be aconstant because you would be X-raying variables. Naturally, wherecareless variable posturing is permitted, wrong interpretations of X-raysare made, case is adjusted wrong and gets worse, HIO as a principle andpractice is at fault and is condemned because “it doesn’t work.”

Permit your case, especially women, to come with high French heelsfor one comparative set, low military heels for another comparative set;with run-down heel on left or right she for another comparative set.Where is constant of posture to secure a constant for comparison?

For this and these reasons, we in The Palmer Chiropractic X-rayLaboratories:

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one way and figured the other. Whatever position of feet isnaturally assumed by case first time, That’s the constantrecorded on our charts for that case and that’s the constant theyare checked by at all future times as their constant posture.

(b) we permit no case to have X-rays taken except in stocking feet,eliminating variable of high or low heels, rundown heels, tocreep in.

Upon taking second comparative set, X-ray graph is made. Thisgraph is added after taking each subsequent comparative X-ray set. Thegraph is its own evidence. There is another step we check. THOSEgraphs are analyzed and broken into a study of transpositions of atlas oraxis. To secure and keep information directly at hand, where and whenneeded, we have a “COMPARATIVE X-RAY, MAJORSUBLUXATION ANALYSIS, COMPARISON REPORT.” This is filledin adjusting section of our Case File. If, as, and when called upon todeliver another adjustment, THIS report places before us additionalinformation not secured any other way:

( a ) comparative sets, by dates each comparative set reveals:1. change of wedge from R. to L.2. change of wedge from L. to R.3. decrease or increase of wedge.4. no change.5. position of axis, if changed, and how.

This report, because of what it reveals, has occasionally kept usfrom giving an adjustment, even though NCM and NCG did present adistinct and sufficient “break” reading. Suppose NCM graph did reveal“break” reading and further suppose this report proves atlas major wedgeHAS changed from wrong to correct position, or has decreased, WHYSHOULD WE adjust it? Is it not correcting itself following formeradjustment?

WHEN to adjust and WHEN NOT TO ADJUST is a vital question.We need as much knowledge on this question as any other. It is simple tosay “When we have a 2 point break reading, don’t adjust.” Other factorsenter which modify and clarify this conclusion. If you had a 2 point breakreading AND there WAS

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a vertebral subluxation TO YOU WOULD adjust. If you had a 2 pointbreak reading and there WAS NOT a vertebral subluxation, YOUWOULD NOT ADJUST. How to know when one is and other is not,needs sifting evidence, eliminating some factors, adding others; attainingconstant in one case and subtracting variables in other.

Each two weeks our Clinic takes a comparative X-ray set. This issent to graph laboratory where graph comparisons were made (see ourVOL. XX) ON CONDITION OF VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION. Is itbetter; worse; has wedge increased or decreased; is there “no change” inposition? These are listed, after each graph comparison, on “Comparativex-ray, Major Subluxation Analysis, Comparison Sheet.” This is then filedIN FOLDER WITH “Adjustment Department Records” on which arelisted day, location, direction of each adjustment. Neither sheet isreferred to UNTIL NEEDED. When is either “needed?” When timearrives for giving ANOTHER ADJUSTMENT. When has THAT timearrived? “When we get a 2 point break reading or more.”

What happens when day arrives when we DO get 2 point reading ormore?

Case has been read with NCM-NTP-NCG. Record shows 2 point ormore break reading. We get out “Comparative X-ray, Major SubluxationAnalysis, Comparison Report” AND “Adjustment Department Records,”and check following:

1. How long ago was LAST adjustment given? Is today’s necessityclose or far away enough to be safe in not over-adjusting?

2. What is time element in relationship between today’s necessityand last graph report on our “Analysis, Comparison Sheet?” Istime between close or several days or 2 weeks between?

3. Is vertebral subluxation corrected? Has it increased or decreased?Has it moved from wrong to right direction; from right to wrongdirection? Is there a “No change” in position?

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THERE IS A DECREASE IN WEDGE, OR NO WEDGE, whySHOULD WE adjust? Objective to take out wedge or to CONTINUECORRECTION has been accomplished, thus no bony occlusion, no bonypressure, no bony interference. Graph record SHOWS BONYSUBLUXATION HAS BEEN CORRECTED. Why adjust? You answerrightly so, “There is a 2 point or more break reading.” We admit thisfactor, but also reiterate the other factor that THE VERTEBRALSUBLUXATION HAS BEEN CORRECTED. In such a situation, NOADJUSTMENT WILL BE GIVEN notwithstanding existence of 2 pointbreak reading.

On reverse, suppose last comparative X-ray set shows INCREASEin wedge and we HAVE NO 2-point break reading. No adjustment wouldbe given until such a shows up. Suppose last comparative X-ray setshows INCREASE and WE DO HAVE a 2 point or more break reading.In such event an adjustment WOULD BE given if, as, and when readingappears.

No such conclusions can be reached without first setting up everystep of a program such as we use here. You cannot guess; you mustknow—and you can’t know without every phase of development leadingup to that definite knowledge. This acts as a check and curbs our effortsone step more on keeping us in line with doing right thing at right time.

We anticipate your next question: “How can we have 2 point breakreading WITH NO VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATION EXISTING?” Weremember another phase of our work-frequency of additionalinflammatory soft tissue callous pressure surrounding spinal cordconstricting occlusion and producing pressure as well as interference.Correction of BONY vertebral subluxation corrected mechanical osseousocclusion, pressure and interference but this did not correct CALLOUSGROWTH SOFT TISSUE occlusion, pressure and interference internalto bony vertebra surrounding cord.

Briefly reviewing this question, although fully covered in anotherwork. First symptom following creation of subluxation is inflammation.Heat swells tissue. Meninges swell, squeeze inward, then outward, fillingspinal callous canal tightly. Vertebra subluxated creates friction frommotion of one vertebra around

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another. Innate Intelligence builds a protective layer of callous skin toprotect against and to prevent rubbing or wearing. Eventually when acutefever becomes chronic, larger degree of swelling goes down but callousremains. We now have TWO KINDS of occlusion, pressure, interference,viz., bony or mechanical; soft tissue or callous.

Incipiency of any case (BUT NOT ALL) includes break readings ofmechanical AND callous pressures, assuming callous pressures ispresent. Adjustment of mechanical pressure releases bony pressure butleaves soft tissue callous constriction pressure. Time and Innate alone canbreak down callous pressure. With wedge gone, bony or vertebralmechanical pressure does not exist. When there is a 2-point or more breakreading existing WITH NO WEDGE VERTEBRAL SUBLUXATIONEXISTING, we still can and sometimes do have a callous pressurereading WITH NO NECESSITY FOR VERTEBRAL ADJUSTMENT.To discriminate between in one and other was the purpose of checkingfurther curbs on over-adjusting with system if inter-relationship betweenlabs as used here, as described.

Information released by NCM graphs, X-rays and their graphs, plusinformation of this report, definitely proves atlas does change positionFOLLOWING adjustment; and then begins a gradual rebuilding processof muscles, cartilages, ligaments, intervertebral discs, etc., which permitsit to assume a more or less persistently permanent apposition, duringwhich process nothing more SHOULD BE DONE via so-called“adjustment.” Anything done under this condition then (which does notapply to all cases alike—therefore the report) would be to do somethingat wrong time in wrong way.

Getting sick people well is simple when variables have been thoughtout and constant is practiced, and carefully and consistently followedthereafter.

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I T IS WITH these various sets of spinographs in mind and with necessity oftaking a SERIES of pictures of each case that we now enter into this fieldof Precision Spinograph Measurements in the art of Spinography and thePosture Constant.

Posture Constant equipment and technic is so called because itaffords a means of building and establishing a TRUE posture constant ofa patient’s sitting or standing position when placed for Spinographicpictures.

Purpose of Posture Constant enables Spinographer to EXAC-TINGLY AND PRECISELY DUPLICATE PATIENT’S POSTURE FORCOMPARATIVE SPINOGRAPHS AT ANY TIME AFTER FIRSTPOSTURE HAS BEEN RECORDED. It does not matter whether wewish to duplicate patient’s in two weeks from first recording, in twomonths or two years, we can POSITIVELY replace that patient back tooriginal posture assumed when Primary set of X-rays were taken.

By REPLACING case BACK TO original posture we determineextent of vertebral change brought about through adjustment and notconfuse this with change in patient’s posture. Posture being constant,change that IS shown will be that of vertebra or vertebrae exclusively.Body posture variables are completely eliminated and made constantwhich shows in most accurate form actual extent of vertebral variable, sofar as change of position is concerned and also changes in spinal contourwhich have, or have not occurred.

Posture Constant work calls for most exacting placement we haveyet called upon to make in spinographic work.

We allow patient to assume a NATURAL position for PRIMARYset of X-rays. We then adapt or adjust equipment to FIT CASE. We donot force case to fit equipment. It is more important to allow patient toassume natural sitting or standing position in Primary Spinographs whenestablishing Posture Constant.

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made special calibrated devices attached to, or made part of our X-rayequipment in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic.

There are such pieces of apparatus as chin measurement, whichgives a constant posterior skull line. This measurement is made with corkin patient’s mouth before exposure is made for A-P views and correctnessof this measurement is dependent upon height and direct angle of Bucky.For Diagonal and Lateral views this measurement is made with mouthclosed. There are devices for measuring distance of shoulders from eachside of Bucky. In this way, whatever variations in lower cervical showson A-P films will be that of a vertebral change and not due to a posturevariable.

There are 10 positions of stool seat which are recorded after case hasbeen properly lined up with Bucky. Turn-table upon which patient sits forcervical pictures is marked into squares, lettered one way and numberedthe other, to record position of feet.

In making 8 x 36 stereo full spine pictures, patient stands uponmeasured lines making possible duplication of standing position. Chinmeasurement is made in these views as in A-P views.

To further check variables in posture, measurement of top of headfrom top of Bucky is made and exact size of cork is recorded.

Height of tube must be kept constant from one A-P, from oneDiagonal series or one Lateral series of spinographs to another to avoidshadow variables on X-ray films. A difference of several inches in tubeheight would very materially change casting of osseous shadows onX-ray films and make accurate comparative work impossible.

These and many finer points and measurements are made toestablish Posture Constant. Equipment of this kind could only beprecision-built.We have a special Posture Constant recording chart upon which thesemeasurements are made in detail and filed away with each patient’srecords. Each time patient comes in for a comparative set of Spinographs,record is referred to, equipment set up exactly as in first exposure, orprimary set of films, and pa-

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tient placed back to his original posture in every detail.Having established a positive posture constant of patient’s position,

sitting or standing, we are able to take a series of Spinographs and seeactual vertebral change in that case with absolute accuracy.

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RATHER THAN depend upon personal opinion as to amount ofcomparative change in spine, or any specific vertebra, even with PostureConstant, we developed what is known as the subluxation adjustmentX-ray graphs which we are able to show in various India ink colors onspecial graphed oiled paper, exact change in a vertebra or spinal columnas a whole. (See our VOL. XX.)

Bearing in mind that posture constant has been established, skullline, chin, shoulders, seat, feet, etc. fixed, we make an accurate tracing ofhigh points of primary set of spinographs, taken when case first enteredClinic. This is done on a large tracing table with variable light densityunderneath and cooled with circulating air.

By high points, let us explain tracing of an A-P cervical graph: In redIndia ink, indicating primary spinographs, we trace posterior skull line, orocciput, lateral masses of atlas, axis centrum and spinous, tips of spinousprocesses; then with following graph lines, join these tips together,showing very closely extent of curvatures and rotations.

To follow through with comparison: we take second comparativespinographs, which were taken two weeks following primary, and placeA-P cervical film under first tracing of red, overlapping skull-line-tracingof first graph over skull line of second film. Posterior skull line formspermanent land mark upon which we base all graphs. Then tracing in blueIndia ink lateral masses of atlas, axis centrum and spinous, tips of spinousprocesses and joining tips together with graph lines.

Result is that if any change HAS occurred during first two weeks, itwill be very clearly shown by comparison of these two colored tracings.

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graph tracing, with green for the sixth, eight week with black, and so on,and result will be a series of colors showing a series of changes in atlasand cervical region, provided case has received adjustment. If no changehas taken place, these lines will overlap until it will appear as one tracing.

When case is discharged, we make final tracing which completesContinuous Comparative Graphs and in addition we make a tracing ofPrimary set of films and Final set of films, including full spine 8 x 36pictures. This is done in red and blue India ink. This pre and post graphtracing shows final and conclusive change having taken place in aclear-cut two color, or series of graphs.

In making comparisons and graphs of Lateral Natural and DiagonalR. Stereo films we trace over certain high points, always using posteriorskull as basis, plus mastoid on Diagonal views.

With full spine 8 x 36 stereo graph-tracing we make skull line andthen mark each spinous process entire length of spine, joining thesetogether into a continuous graph line. This shows very conclusively anycurvatures and rotations and when final graph-tracing has been made,shows precisely and accurately what corrections have been made as aresult of atlas HIO adjustment.

A-P cervical graphs will show change in laterality of atlas andchange of axis, scolioses and rotations of cervical region.

Diagonal graph will show change of atlas rotation, and lateral graphany change of superiority or inferiority of atlas and axis and also changeof a kyphotic or lordotic condition in cervical region.

Posture constant and comparative X-ray graphs are inter-dependent.Unless graphs are used to make comparisons there is no purpose inestablishing a Posture Constant and unless a Posture Constant ISestablished graphs would be of no value because they would show a bodyvariable which should be constant, showing a vertebral variable.

It is not possible for any Chiropractor to build subluxation-adjustment X-ray graphs with ordinary X-ray equipment which does notmake it possible to produce a Posture Constant. Equip-

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ment for this work must be calibrated and specially made. Technic forthis work must be exacting and precise in every detail.

The great step which this work has made possible is completeelimination of all personal, or combined personal opinions in makingcomparative spinographic interpretations and instead produce a positivemethod of measurement which any Chiropractor or patient can see forhimself by comparing various India ink color on graphs. This work hastaken comparative spinographs out of field of theory and placed themstrictly in realm of science.

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BACK IN 1924 there was invented an instrument which was destined tochange the methods used in Chiropractic; destined to change theapproach and mental reasoning of Chiropractors to their sick patient’s. Itwas destined to make possible discovery of the specific for the cause ofdis-ease in the human body and to show accurately exact location of thatcause. That instrument is the NEUROCALOMETER.

The meaning of the word neurocalometer is—Neuro—nerveCalo—heatMeter—to measure“To measure the Heat of Nerves”

Invented by Dr. Dossa D. Evins after considerable research. Dr.Evins was a Chiropractor at the time he invented this instrument, hisdiligent study into whys and wherefore of the Chiropractic adjustmentand the principle of pressure upon nerves, led to his invention which hasbeen most valuable and one of the most revolutionary since the discoveryof Chiropractic in 189S, since development of toggle recoil adjustment in190S and introduction of X-ray to the Chiropractic profession in 1910.

Many times in progress, whether in Chiropractic or other endeavor,it is the Revolutionary thing which leads to greater heights, makespossible crystallization of many problems and establishment of bettermethods.

The Neurocalometer was invented and has been developed on thepostulate that a subluxated vertebra causes pressures upon a nerve orgroup of nerves as they pass through or emit from spinal column. Thisinstrument has taken that principle out of the field of theory and placed itstrictly and wholly in the realm of science. In other words, it hasfurnished proof the principle is correct.

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but whether it has been completed or partially eliminated as a result ofthe Chiropractic adjustment of the causative vertebra. When a vertebra issubluxated, it causes pressure upon the surrounding tissues of a nerve orbundle of nerves and this causes resistance to flow of nerve energy. Thisresistance in turn causes heat at that point, as heat is produced whenresistance is added in a circuit carrying electricity. Neurocalometer is sosensitive and so constructed with thermocouple detectors and galvano-meter that it registers heat and records it as so many points, or units, onthe dial. It makes comparative heat readings of the spinal area.

Supposing we do have a subluxation at a certain point. Neur-ocalometer is glided over area of spine, a detector on each side of spinalcolumn surface proper. As instrument glides over point where nerve isimpinged, needle deflects in a certain characteristic way, showing somany points. This deflection of needle is caused by heat at that point,which, is caused by resistance to nerve flow, and this in turn caused bysubluxated vertebra in question.

Now we see great value of instrument in locating exact point wherepressure exists and its further value in checking after adjustment to seethat pressure has been corrected, resistance corrected and flow of nerveenergy restored to normal. When normal energy restored, and normalcondition prevails we know nerve energy is flowing without interferenceto body generally, or flowing without interference to certain organs ortissues, depending which nerves were involved. Normal function andhealth is natural and ultimate result.

After adjustment has been given, days or weeks following, or evenmonths, instrument has another great value in that it makes possible dailychecking to see that vertebra which was originally involved is remainingin normal position. As long as vertebra remains in correct position therewill be no nerve pressure recorded by Neurocalometer, in which casevertebra should not be further adjusted, but left alone to enable Innate tobring about necessary repairs, or rebuilding, to ligaments and tissuessurrounding segment and to spine in general.

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Should bone slip out of position again, Neurocalometer will showthis by presence of nerve pressure again and further adjustment can bemade immediately cutting to a minimum amount of damage caused if itremained out of position any length of time. Neurocalometer steps upefficiency of Chiropractor and places his work on a strictly scientificbasis, making it possible to know when to adjust and when not to adjust.

In the past couple of years there has been developed theNeurocalograph which is an advancement with Neurocalometer properand which we use daily in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic.Neurocalograph is a highly sensitive and complicated instrument whichmakes it possible to record on a graph sheet readings obtained withNeurocalometer. It does away with necessity of making a mental pictureof needle variations as we glide along spine and also eliminates writingthese mental pictures manually on a graph sheet. Neurocalograph givesmost complete and precise picture of needle variations it is possible toattain and all done automatically. It takes human element out of Neuro-calometer work so far as recording is concerned. It makes possibleaccurate recording of any and all heat changes and nerve pressureinterpretations found along spinal column. It places Neurocalometer workstrictly and completely in the field of science.

Credit for development of the Neurocalometer or Neurocalographgoes to Otto Schiernbeck who is Consulting Engineer on our Clinic staff.

Recognizing need for correct speed of detectors along the spine inproportion to speed of graph movement in instrument, we laid downfundamentals which led to Mr. Schiernbeck’s invention of theNeurotempometer. The Neurocalometer detectors, (hooked up withNeurocalograph) are attached to Neurotempometer which draws detectorsalong spine at a certain, fixed speed. In this way readings are alwaysmade at exactly same speed day after day, which, is one important factorswhich contribute to scientific accuracy of Neurocalograph readings,especially in comparing graphs from day to day and week to week.

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a definite meaning. We can tell by changes in heat line readings when acase is taking drugs and then case is taken off drugs again later; we canusually tell when a case has had a restless or sleepless night; we can tellcoming and going of certain types of menstruation; we can tell whendefinite changes of bodily function are taking place; and a number of theother conditions which, through our research, we have been able totabulate and bring into concrete and practical form.

Another interesting fact is that each case has a certain heat linegraph pattern which is characteristic to that particular case. These heatline patterns are separate and distinct from actual nerve pressure readings,but indicates a certain characteristic to each case. Patterns are “fingerprints” in Neurocalometer work. We could take a number of graphs ofdifferent cases, mix them, and by observing peculiar characteristic graphpattern of each case, we could separate graphs again into proper orderwithout looking into proper case numbers. By watching general peculiargraph pattern of a given case and changes that enter graph picture fromtime to time, we can readily tell when certain changes are taking place inthat case.

When you come in each day to have your Neurocalograph recordingmade, we will study the graph and say one of two things: “O.K.,everything is all right.” This indicates no nerve pressure is present andnerve energy is getting through without interference, a necessarycondition for recovery. Or we will say: “You do.” meaning pressure ispresent, bone has slipped out of position and you need an adjustment toset it right.

We have a distinction between the front door and back door of ourNeurocalograph Laboratory. Once in a while, we will say: “Out the frontdoor you go.” This is a sure sign reading is favorable and you do not needadjustment. If it is unfavorable and you need an adjustment, you get oneodherent and are placed on an ambulance cot and wheeled through backdoor of laboratory to one silent rest rooms in the rear of clinic. The“front” door and “back” door have two distinct meanings here.

As we pointed out in the beginning, Neurocalometer and its lateradvancements Neurocalograph and Neurotempometer, are

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the most important steps in Chiropractic progress. They have made itpossible for us to obtain exacting and scientific information regardingcause of disease in the human body. They are among chief factors inbringing Chiropractic into a strictly scientific realm and a high state ofefficiency. It brought Chiropractic to its rightful place in field of science,all of a which has been done for ultimate objective of getting our caseswell quickly and permanently.

Regardless of these scientific developments and instruments, weknow that the patient want just one thing, and that is restoration of health.We know we are here for that single purpose of correcting cause ofdisorder and allowing Innate to restore normal function.

We know too, these scientific advancements make it possible for usto accomplish that objective and so justifies anything we have done todevelop Chiropractic to its present state of scientific efficiency.

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THERE IS AN INNATE ADJUSTMENT

FOR MANY YEARS, as the developer and world authority of Chiropractic,we have maintained there IS an Innate Adjustment brought about as aresult of a concussion of forces contained, or delivered, in the manualadjustment given by a competent Chiropractor.

There has been evidence in various ways to justify the existence ofthis theory, it has not been until recently that actual concrete proof hasbeen possible because vertebral changes as shown in a series ofspinographs were merely a matter of personal, or combined personalopinions.

A Chiropractor, or group of Chiropractors, could take a series offilms of a patient and study them in view boxes with result they couldCONCLUDE that certain changes had taken place as a result of theadjustment, but that conclusion would be an OPINION only and nothingmore. There would be no actual measurable means to show the exactchange. While calibers and rules could be used to measure vertebralchanges, question of patient’s POSTURE would be one chief objectionsraised in mind of the scientist. If there was variation in patient’s posturefrom one series of films to another series in making comparison, naturallymany changes in vertebra in question, or in general spinal contour, mightbe shown which would not be true changes of the vertebra, or vertebrae,exclusively.

While this method of comparison actually DID disprove old medicalpropaganda that Chiropractors could not move a vertebra, at same time itstill had too much of personal-opinion-element in it to make it strictlyscientific. Major changes were, of course, apparent; they were obvious. Itwas these obvious changes in position of a vertebra under adjustmentwhich broke down unjust medical claims that a vertebra could not bemoved. We DID move it and could prove it by X-ray pictures ofbefore-and-after adjustment. The minute, finer details and changes werematters

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of opinion in those days, and to layman or anyone not thoroughly familiarwith osseous X-ray shadows, they meant little if anything, even assumingposture HAD been duplicated.

Today, such changes are no longer opinions but facts shown inmeasurable and precise form of a strictly scientific nature. By thoroughstudy and understanding of later developments in technic of Spinographyand comparative interpretation, it is now possible to show there IS anInnate Adjustment, or setment, of a subluxated vertebra after its propermanual adjustment.

It is such theories as this and others that The B. J. PalmerChiropractic Clinic offers the finest facilities available in any science tobring about proof. It is this Clinic which enables us and our associates todevelop new and advanced methods of Chiropractic practice, always withsound foundation of our Chiropractic principles and philosophy, andalways with thought and effort to get sick people well more quickly andefficiently, with pure, unadulterated Chiropractic.

It has been through correct approach to these problems, i.e., inmanner and spirit of scientists, these problems have been solved in TheB. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic. Personal and pet ideas, favoritisms andprejudices have been cast aside for truth in these matters. Science has ahard and ruthless way of demanding most exacting standards one couldexpect in any field of work. It is the complete disregard of feeling andpersonal opinions which makes scientists what they are, and facts whichthey conclude and established scientific. Such is the code laid down inThe B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic. It is a code which seemscold-blooded at times for it stops at nothing, nor does it deviate fromhard-and-fast rules necessary to arrive at facts and truth.

Work contained in these sections was obtained from scientificresearch and development in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic, onactual everyday living cases in attendance at the Clinic.

We discuss two major developments in spinographic technic whichmade is possible a third development, or conclusions reached there IS anInnate Adjustment in fact and not merely in theory. While this third itemis not, perhaps, strictly a development, it is a conclusion reached througha study of scientific facts

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found in our new work of comparative interpretations.The two major developments are:1. Posture Constant and Precise Spinograph Equipment.2. Subluxation-Adjustment X-ray Graphs.Posture Constant forms the basis or foundation for graphs; graphs

show in concrete, measurable and understandable form, exact and precisechanges in POSITION of a vertebra, or spinal column as a whole, whenunder adjustment.

3. This work has brought forth a third item, or conclusion reachedregarding actuality of an Innate Adjustment which we have focusedmainly to atlas and axis since atlas is Specific for Causes of manyDis-eases. We find there are three general classifications of Innatepositioning, each with three sub-divisions for atlas; and two generalclassifications for axis.

One more theory will thus find its place among the list of establishedfacts in our Science and make possible a better understanding of whattakes place after a Chiropractor Manual Adjustment has been given.

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THE POSTURE CONSTANT was developed and built for a specific purpose:to eliminate variable body-posture-changes and make them constant andconsistent for purpose of building comparative spinographs andascertaining true changes of an individual vertebra, or spinal column as awhole, when under adjustment and when compared by means of a seriesof films over a given period of time.

Posture Constant technique and equipment enables trainedspinographer to exactingly and precisely duplicate patient’s posture forcomparative spinographs at any time after primary posture has beenestablished and recorded. It does not matter whether patient’s posture isduplicated in two weeks from original recording, two months or twoyears, patient can be positively replaced back to posture assumed first daywhen primary set of spinographs were made.

Posture Constant work calls for most exacting and expert placementand detail required in technic of spinography. The work is tedious. Itdemands absolute precision work, not only in placement, but in exposuretechnic and darkroom procedure. In addition, it demands precision-builtX-ray equipment. Such equipment has all been especially made for the B.J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic and to date we are exclusive in this type ofscientific X-ray work.

Ability to replace patient back to original posture enables scientificspinographer to determine extent of vertebral change brought aboutthrough adjustment and NOT confuse this with any change in patient’sposture. Posture being CONSTANT, change shown will be that ofvertebra or vertebrae exclusively, and in no way due to body-posturevariables.

While re-positioning of a patient is most exacting, at same time, weallow case to assume a NATURAL POSITION for primary set of X-rays.We do not force case to fit to equipment.

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It is important to allow patient to assume a natural sitting or standingposition when establishing Posture Constant. After such a position isassumed, we then adapt, or adjust, equipment TO FIT TO THE CASE.This procedure then shows the true, natural subluxation with its variouscompensating curvatures below and is not changed in any way by whatspinographer thinks, or believes, is correct posture. Only Innate of patientknows posture which is most natural to THAT case, and it is under thoseconditions we desire to study and determine the subluxation.

It is a different matter to adapt the equipment to case for primaryposture and recording and to adapt case to equipment at some subsequenttime when desired to duplicate that original posture. In first instance, caseassumes natural position most suited to that case; but in second instance,we replace case ourselves—even granting such position may not benatural. If we are to make an accurate comparison of subluxated vertebrain original position, with conditions which originally existed, we MUSTbe able to go back, as it were, to that patient’s original posture, then trueextent of vertebral change cannot possibly be shown. There would be norelation between first spinographs and last spinographs to be comparedand with such condition, with no relationship between the two, we wouldnot actually be making a comparison at all. Thus we see necessity forPosture Constant in Comparative Spinograph work.

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I N BUILDING AND DEVELOPING the Posture Constant, it has been necessaryto have special calibrated devices attached to, or made part of the X-rayequipment in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic. The type of workconducted in X-ray Laboratory demands precision-built equipment. Thatit does accomplish this work proves it honestly gets what it demands.

To give a general working idea of the equipment, it is sufficient topoint some of the major pieces of apparatus, Chief among these is thechin measurement which gives a constant posterior skull line on all A-Pviews, diagonal stereo, and lateral natural views, as well as natural orstereo 8 x 36 full spine pictures. It is used with sitting and standingpostures. This measurement is made with cork in patient’s mouth for A-Pviews, but in diagonal and lateral views, it is made with mouth closed.Correctness of this measurement is entirely dependent upon correctheight and angle of the Bucky.

Another important measurement is made from top of head to top ofBucky. This enables us to check on cases which are relaxed at one dateand rigid at another date; sitting up to straight one time, or slouchingdown too much another time. This measurement is interdependent withchin measurement and is very important in establishing Posture Constant.

Two basic measurements in this work are height of Bucky from floorand height of tube in relation to center of film, or Bucky, and from thefloor.

After case has assumed natural position in primary set of X-rays,seat upon which case sits (for cervical views) is then moved laterally untiloccipital protuberance is in center of the film, or Bucky. This is donewithout actually disturbing patient’s original posture. Base of seat isdivided into ten different positions: Laterally right and left of medianline; forwards and backwards. In addition to lining up occipitalprotuberance with

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center line, spinographer can bring case back close to Bucky after naturalposition has been assumed.

Following this measurement or seat positioning, edges of shouldersare measured with two rods especially made and shaped to external edgesof Bucky. This avoids false conclusions reached relative to lower cervicalchanges due to body-variables in this region.

Turn-table upon which patient sits is marked into squares, letteredand numbered for purpose of recording position of patient’s feet. Even avariation in footposition can and does alter position assumed by patient.Therefore, it is necessary to be able to duplicate foot position. This isdone with patient in stocking feet. High and low heels will vary postureand to establish a constant, we find best rule is to take all pictures,including full spine (standing) pictures, in stocking fees.

So precise is this Posture Constant work that exact size of cork isrecorded, thereby enabling operator to duplicate same size cork from oneseries of films to another. The smallest detail is not overlooked inestablishing Posture Constant.

Measurements determined from positioning a case for PostureConstant are recorded on a special Posture Constant Record Sheet, whichcontains spaces for all calibrated equipment on X-ray apparatus. Thissheet is filed away with X-ray records doing foe each case and is referrerto in detail whenever case is positioned for a comparative X-ray. In fact,most X-ray equipment is set up and measured just before case enters thelaboratory.

Number of Films Per CasePrimary set of X-rays consists of ten films:

—A-P Natural—A-P Stereo—A-P Diagonal Stereo—Lateral Natural—B-P Stereo—8 x 36 full spine stereo.

That represents minimum number of films. Should it be foundnecessary to take additional special pictures, such as pelvis,

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lateral spine, stomach, lungs, or any part of anatomy, that is doneregardless of number of films required with, of course, every con-sideration to safety of patient.

Comparative sets which are taken every two weeks, consist of:—A-P Natural—Diagonal Stereo—Lateral Natural

In addition, comparative X-rays are taken of special views.Final set of X-rays consists of eight films as in primary set,

including same views, except B-P Stereo, plus any of special pictures thatmay have been taken.

In The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic, we do not spare films oreffort in securing all information it is possible to obtain through properX-rays, not only of spinal column in determining accurate Chiropracticanalysis, but of any special parts of anatomy which will show conditionof patient before adjustment, during adjustment, and after adjustment hasbeen completed, thereby showing Pre and Post change and also change ina series between Pre and Post.

From standpoint of quantity of films the Clinic probably uses moreX-ray forms for original and comparative work than any Clinic in theworld.

Every case that has been in the Clinic since August, 193S, up to andincluding January 1, 1938, has had an average of 19.4 films taken duringstay in Clinic.

Some stay a short time, having less than 19.4 films; many staylonger, having more than 19.4 films and as high as eighty films.

To accomplish real comparative work, it is necessary to be preparedto use large quantities of films.

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THE ESTABLISHING of a technic constant is followed through in exposureof patient and is very important factor in comparative work. Specialexposure record sheet has been made for this purpose. Every exposuremade of a case is written and dated on this record. Whenever a casecomes into laboratory for a comparative or final set, same exposure isused in every detail as used in primary set of spinographs. A variableexposure technic from one set of comparative X-rays to another is notadvisable or tolerated. Tube distance, KVP, M.A., and time are same foreach individual case per given view. Any decided change in these factorswould cause variables in shadows densities which would be misleading inbuilding accurate comparative X-ray work. Especially is this true of caseshaving pathological conditions of bone. Undue varying of penetration, forinstance, could make a condition appear something which was not there,or something which was there not present.

Many technicians use different combinations of technic for variouscervical views, a different type of technic from one view to the other.This is acceptable provided same technic is exactly duplicated forcomparative X-rays.

We do not see any reason why there should be any great differencein technic between three views taken of cervical region. There is not agreat deal of difference between an A-P view and a lateral view, so far astissue thickness, especially of skull, is concerned.

There are some technics which require a 30” tube distance for A-Pview and 72” tube distance for lateral. Or there are some which specify adecided change in KVP and in time between A-P and lateral views.

We reasoned there should be a constant in all cervical X-ray technicexcept one factor: the KVP. We also reasoned X-ray work of cervicalregion should be done with short exposure time

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since greater part of our stereoscopic work is done in that region.Anything which would tend to eliminate possibility of motion should bedone. Long exposure time in this region would only give rise to atendency for motion and furthermore, prolonged time is not necessarywith modern X-ray equipment. We are of the opinion that when allfactors are properly calculated, long exposure time does not add to detailfailing to do that it is not necessary but, if anything, detrimental. Oneother point in favor of short exposure time is that in doing comparativework, it keeps the M.A.S. total far below a minimum.

Technic we are at present using in the B. J. Palmer Chiropracticclinic for cervicals is a constant in tube distance (30”); M.A. (20”); andtime (one second). Only variable which we consider justified is the KVP.This is varied approximately for average cases as follows:

A-P view 76 to 80 KVPDiagonal view 74 to 78 KVPLateral view 72 to 76 KVPTotal M.A.S. 120This indicates we drop KVP two points from A-P to Diagonal, and

two points from Diagonal to Lateral. In listing just given for KVP, wegive a range of four points for each view, which covers average type ofadult case.

B.P. Stereo Technic for average case:35”Tube Distance84 to 88-KVP30-M.A.2-1/2 secondsTotal M.A.S.-150

General technic for full spine pictures, covering cases from 130 to160 pounds, is as follows:

60” Tube Distance76 to 86 KVP25 M.A.5 to 8 secondsTotal M.A.S.: 125 to 200 for flat picturesStereo 8 x 36; 250 to 400 M.A.S.

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A complete stereo set of cervical region, plus full spine stereo totals,then from 520 to 670 M.A.S. for average case, which is about half totalspecified by the U.S. X-ray manual, even if it was all taken at 30” tubedistance; but greatest exposure is made at 60”, which reduces it further.

The M.A.S. for a comparative set in our work, taken betweenPrimary and Final, is only 80.

To us, X-ray is a power which, when properly used, shows manywonders of the human body and makes possible one major divisions inanalysis of locating the CAUSE OF DISEASE.

AbnormalitiesIn process of building constants for X-ray work and X-ray

interpretations, it is important to mention great value of recognizing andunderstanding abnormalities of spine and surrounding structures.

It is essential to be able to instantly recognize abnormal conditionswhen they exist. To know abnormal, it is first necessary to know normal.With introduction of stereoscopic work in our profession several yearsago, it greatly stepped-up our ability to SEE abnormal conditions, buyonly in proportion that we had knowledge to RECOGNIZE them byknowing normal anatomy.

In this respect there is nothing finer to study than the osteologicalcollection in the Osteological Laboratory. The Laboratory consists of thelargest and finest collection of osseous specimens to be found in theworld. It surpasses finest collections made in medical institutions and wasbuilded over a period of years at a cost of over $150,000. There are over25,000 specimens in this Laboratory. Value of this collection could notpossibly be measured in dollars and cents.

Ideal combination to gain knowledge of osseous structures is tostudy normal and abnormal side by side. In this respect, OsteologicalLaboratory offers ideal in this type of study.

The Laboratory has been built with special attention directed tocollection of spines both in regard to quantity and to extremeabnormalities of spine. There is every type of spine, or spinal segment,anyone would confront in actual practice, and perhaps many which onewould never have occasion to see.

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As an example of the importance of recognizing abnormalities of thespine, we state the following case:

A short time ago, one of the patients of the Clinic was directed to usconcerning her X-rays. It appears her home Chiropractor had been inClinic to see her X-rays during our absence. Fine detail brought out in ourfilms showed a condition which this Chiropractor concluded was a piecechipped or broken away from atlas ring. Upon return to his city, heinformed the mother of the patient what he thought had occurred andmade the statement that until this fracture piece had grown togetheragain, her daughter would not make progress: that such a condition wouldpress upon spinal cord, preventing recovery.

When patient heard about this, through the mother, she became upsetand was decidedly discouraged about her regaining health again,notwithstanding as a paralytic case she was making remarkable progress.

Upon going over films with patient, we found condition whichhome-Chiropractor referred to was merely a bifid abnormality ofposterior ring of atlas. It is a condition in which osseous development ofposterior ring has not been completed: it occurs often withpremature-birth cases. It is doubtful if it would join together in any case.There was no fracture, or chipping away of vertebra. A bifid condition ofposterior ring is nothing serious. It does not cause pressure upon spinalcord as a condition in itself, neither does it interfere with adjustment ofatlas. We find such cases frequently.

As soon as we explained this condition to the patient, sheimmediately became at ease. All fears of never regaining health left hermind and thus another case was saved from giving up Chiropractic solelythrough ignorance on part of her local Chiropractor.

We point this out to show that a Chiropractor MUST be able torecognize abnormal conditions of the spine if he is to build a constant inhis work as a Chiropractor and trained spinographer.

It happens often that occiputs are malformed, one side larger thanother; one-half hanging lower than other. Such con-

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dition naturally causes incorrect listing atlas wedge unless it isrecognized immediately.

Quite frequently, one lateral mass of atlas is larger, or wider, thanthe other; or one transverse is shaped differently than other; one maypoint upward, other downward.

Another common abnormality is posterior ring of atlas, part fromlack of osseous development just mentioned, in which ring is unevenlyformed, probably causing posterior tubercle to be over to one side as amatter of development and not due to misalignment.

These conditions and many more finer points in relation cervicalabnormalities and entire spinal column as a whole, for that matter, aredetails which are essential to recognize in our scientific work of today.Such recognition is attained only through proper study and with properfacilities for study.

This one reason—abnormalities and proper facilities for theirstudy—is sufficient to justify cost involved for internship for both thenewly graduated Chiropractor and older Chiropractor in the field.

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APPLICATION?

FOR MANY YEARS we, as Chiropractors, have pointed reasons for failuresof invasionary medical practices due to complication, multiplicity ofmethods and theories.

This is true in Medicine. Its practice IS a conglomeration of theoriesand practices. There IS an ever-changing line of pet theories, practices,and fads. There are new serums for this and that; new antitoxins for onething and another. They change monthly. Some are claimed to dowonders and are later found to be actually harmful. But none remain inmedical practice any length of time. They change as often as styles,because they are fads—not scientific facts.

Medically, case cannot be treated until diagnosed. Percentages ofincorrect diagnoses is very high, in average medical practice. Hence thepercentage of incorrect treatment is also high. It becomes a guessingprocess. Even if diagnosis IS correct, physician must then choose anyone, hundreds of different drugs, serums or treatments for a givendisease. There is nothing specific and clear-cut about the practice ofmedicine. The reason is simple: MEDICINE DOES NOT HAVE ASPECIFIC PRINCIPLE OR SET OF PRINCIPLES UPON WHICH TOWORK AND GOVERN ITS PRACTICE. Unless we have principle,foundation upon which to base work, of theories or practices, theybecome lost in a maze of complications, running headlong in noparticular direction.

That same idea applies to a profession, business, or organization ofany kind, and also to individuals. We can never reach the top unless wehave a principle, or a definite plan upon which to work. We must haveaims and ideals; we must know where we stand as individuals, and decideupon the limits we will go in

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certain directions—decide what we will and will not stand for. We mustknow how far we will deviate from the straight and narrow road inattaining objectives. Some people stray and go in and out of all kinds ofby-ways in reaching theoretical goals others seldom, if ever, leave mainroad or lose sight of goal ahead. That is the difference betweenindividuals. It is the difference between working on principles, orworking on pet ideas, fads and fancies. One will get you there, other willnot. One will get sick people well, other will not. PRINCIPLES make thatdifference!

Chiropractors from over the world visit The B. J. PalmerChiropractic Clinic. They marvel at scientific equipment, elaboratefurnishings, color schemes, and extensive space it covers. They feel thisis the ideal in any profession or science; and it IS finest in Chiropractic orany other profession. We have at our command finest and most accurateinstruments for making Chiropractic records of physical and mentalconditions for patients. No expense has been spared in purchasing, orhaving specially made, scientific instruments; or in building speciallaboratories and ground-shielded booths in which to house them.

For instance, the Neurocalograph which is an advancement with theNeurocalometer, making possible automatic recording of Neurocalometerreadings of graphs, is installed in a grounded-shielded booth made ofcopper screening, iron, etc., in which all outside energy is eliminated—allradio waves, Hertzian, electric, and magnetic waves completely blockedout of the booth. This makes Neurocalograph accurate and precise. Thereare no outside variables entering the picture.

This grounded shielded booth idea is even more elaborately andextensively carried out in the laboratory of the electroen-cephaloneuromentimpograph. This instrument is so sensitive and highlycomplicated that it requires two grounded-shielded booths—one forinstrument proper and other for patient—connected by grounded cables.

Not content with ordinary installation of the electrocardiograph, webuilt a grounded-shielded laboratory for this instrument, keeping out allvariables which might interfere with absolute accuracy in makingrecordings. Same applies to Electro-

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Cardi-O-Phon, Aw-De-O-Cardiograph, recording sphygmomanometer,heartometer, lie detector, etc. They are used under more ideal conditionsthan inventors intended. Every effort has been made to make automaticprecision recordings scientific in fact, accurate beyond possible doubt.From microscopes to X-ray apparatus, from chemical laboratories to newwork on brain energy, from medical instruments to Chiropracticinstruments, The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic can boast of finestobtainable. We on the Staff are proud to be a part of this organizationbecause it ranks top-notch in science and in scientific work conductedwithin its walls.

Some of our Chiropractic colleagues, however, see all we have here,and go away wondering whether or not we have gone into the scientificside of this work to the extent that Chiropractic will become lost sight of,in the process of compiling scientific facts required of each case. Theywonder if we are not leading in same direction as medical professionwhich we have often criticized for getting into complicated fields. Theywonder if we are getting things so complicated in Chiropractic it will belost. Someone who walks in here for first time, and makes a tour throughClinic in an hour’s time, may be justified in thinking these things. But noone has a more clear-cut idea of the direction he is going than ourself. Sointense is our mind on a single, specific objective, that we naturallyimbues the rest of us with that thought and feeling. We know where weare heading and what our purpose is, as individuals in our departmentsand distinct phases of work. Each department head, while he hasscientific facts to obtain in his particular sphere, is nevertheless inconstant association with other departments and their doctors.

We could easily imagine one of these doctors becoming lost in manyso-called complications of his branch of work; but, on the contrary, thisClinic is organized so that he naturally associates his ideas and his workwith general set-up for general good of the Clinic and patients.

Many suggestions and ideas are exchanged between departmentheads who, seeing other’s work from outside, as it were, a sees someimprovement or change which could be made. There

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is such a thing as becoming so deeply absorbed in one type of work thatwe cannot see the real things about it. Sometimes it is the fellow who isdoing some other type of work who sees something in OUR work whichcould be improved. To do good work, we must get away once in a whileand look at our work from a distance; we must get perspective andvision—and that cannot come by sitting on top of our work too much; itcomes by getting away now and then.

The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic, or Chiropractic, itself—so faras The Palmer School of Chiropractic is concerned—will NEVERbecome lost in complications. And we tell you why: CHIROPRACTIC ISBASED ON A SPECIFIC SET OF PRINCIPLES GOVERNING ITSPRACTICE.

Regardless of scientific complications, the Clinic has onefundamental principle and practice upon which results are obtained, andthat is the ADJUSTMENT SPECIFIC. One case doesn’t get a treatmentfor this; and another case a treatment for that. There is no treating effectswith electricity, baths, message, or anything of that kind. There is noprescribing certain drugs for one condition and certain drugs for another.No complications of treatment in medical and other fields of healing arefound in this Clinic. All cases receive ADJUSTMENT SPECIFIC ANDOBTAIN RESULTS THOUGH PROPER APPLICATION OF THATspecific principle and practice, exclusively.

In this Clinic we have made it our business to locate that specificsubluxation and bring about its proper adjustment. We have obtained andbuilt special equipment to meet needs of special problem cases. We makeit our job to SOLVE problem cases, usually to protect the good name ofChiropractic and at the same time being limited in equipment, or perhapsability, to solve problem cases, know we specialize in such cases. HavingChiropractic foremost in mind, we go about the job of solving thosecases; and in solving them, we automatically give the home Chiropractora boost. Our procedure is such that we never cause detrimental effects,ideas, or suggestions to come to the home Chiropractor by any action onour part; but on the contrary we actually give him a build up, honestlyand constructively. When

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the case returns to him, the patient has more confidence in him thanoriginally.

Chiropractic will never become lost in The B. J. Palmer ChiropracticClinic. Principles do not change. It stands high—a thing of balance andpermanency to which we can always look to solve our problems—andthey ARE solved under most ideal conditions possible to have inChiropractic. The many scientific instruments used and continually beingdeveloped are REVOLVING AROUND this single method of practice,this single principle, the ADJUSTMENT SPECIFIC.

Physical facts of cases do not in any way influence adjustment givenor time when it should be given.

Actual information of HOW, WHEN, AND WHEN NOT to adjust isdetermined by Neurocalograph-Neurocalometer-Neurotempometerreadings and their interpretations; Spinographs and Subluxation-Adjustment X-ray graphs and reports. When these factors indicateadjustment, it is given. When they do not, regardless of how patient maybe FEELING, an adjustment is not given. Proper judgment, technicalability, and interpretation are chief factors in bringing cases back tohealth in this Clinic.

Physical facts obtained through use of scientific and automaticinstruments are for sole purpose of showing condition of patient beforeadjustment, condition or changes during patient’s stay in Clinic, and finalcondition or result when case is discharged. These conditions arerecorded automatically and without necessity of personal opinions.Building records is a very important issue in the scientific world today,because we bring actual proof in solid, concrete, and scientific form, thatADJUSTMENT SPECIFIC does get sick people well; that adjustment isnot a matter of psychology or imagination on part of patient, but IS thereason for getting him well. We record many things over which patienthas no control and therefore any change or improvement in such thingsmust result from adjustment alone; it cannot be influenced by anythingelse because nothing else is done. Following adjustment, case is restoredto normal health through his Innate powers, “growing healthy” naturally.

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ADJUSTMENT SPECIFIC are made from regular routine checks once aweek.

When case first enters Clinic, following examinations are made:ElectroencephaloneuromentimpographElectrocardiographRecording sphygmomanometergraphHeartometergraphElectro-Cardio-O-Phon and Aw-De-O-Cardiograph recordContour-grafometer recordUrine analysisBlood testsMetabolism testsMicroscopical examinationsPhysical examinationsComplete set of ten spinographs (minimum)Neurocalograph-Neurocalometer-Neurotempometer record

Once a week thereafter, case receives all these examinations andtests with exception of spinograph comparative sets which are madeevery two weeks, with a final set of ten spinographs (minimum) whencase is discharged. For protection of patient from accumulating too manyX-rays in the system, spinograph comparative sets must be taken, at best,once every two weeks. All other tests once a week.Neurocalograph-Neurocalometer-Neurotempometer readings daily.

From this thorough routine procedure, facts are obtained throughsystematic and scientific comparison of records. We are not reachingopinions from theories and pet ideas, but from facts of comparativerecords and tests. Everything is based on procedure which is not carriedthrough with such precision and exactness in any other Clinic in theworld. In fact, we do not know of ANY clinic or hospital which makessuch exhaustive tests once a week, under conditions herein described, orwhich takes as many X-rays consistently of each case, keeping graphcomparisons, showing minute degrees of vertebral change. Hurried, in-

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complete tests, varying in procedure from week to week, are not toleratedin The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic. Every detail must be carried outexactingly, and in proportion are the conclusions accurate and factsscientifically correct. Nothing is left to personal or combined personalopinions of department heads. In every way, these scientific facts arerecorded on graphs and films automatically and accurately. Whateverchanges are shown in a case are true, made automatically by precisioninstruments, not influenced by human element or personal opinions or petideas of ANYONE.

We systematically compile true statistics as to actual physical andmental changes in our patients—changes as a result of exclusive use of anexclusive principle and practice—the ADJUSTMENT SPECIFIC.

In a scientific and accurate way, we are able to prove thatChiropractic DOES get results; that results we DO get are not a matter ofpsychology or imagination on part of patient, but real, honest-to-goodnessresults. They are recordings of scientific instruments which do not lie—instruments making recordings which any scientist or authority cannotand will not doubt.

This is one phase of work in The B. J. Palmer Chiropractic Clinic—one of the purposes. In years to come we will look back and realize howvaluable this work has been and is, in upholding principles and practicesAND RIGHTS of Chiropractic.

Most certainly we can look back and see that while many scientificbut justified complications HAVE entered the picture, the PRINCIPLEand PRACTICE of Chiropractic have remained exclusive and distinctfrom any and all other healing professions; and they remain the basis orfoundation for work and research conducted.

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HOW—

—does Innate Intelligence—a natural, normal Intelligence—of aeons of time—balancing abstract and concrete forms—building human forms, as one of millions of forms—with its estimated 400 trillion human tissue cells—in 280 days, in the mother—conceived, developed, during conception—all of which are properly placed, correlated, organized—given birth—and then directs, governs—and coordinately regulates—an endless series of harmonious functions—none of which, can any educated man—understand, much less improve upon—all of which flows from above-down, inside-out—from its vast memory store-house—how any portion, or the totality, is done, no educated man can

fathom—all of which is beyond the comprehension of—man-made, book-made, man-to-man, “educationally” assembled—within three score and ten years—when education needs revive some or all of this—and when this insignificant man-made assemblage of so-called

education—finds himself ready and willing to receiveHOW does Innate contact education?Innate Intelligence pursues the accumulative CONSTRUCTIVE

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survival value pattern.Educated man develops, almost entirely, from OUTSIDE-IN,

BELOW-UPWARD, developing wars, decimating millions, starvingmillions more.

Medical “scientific research, and medical researchers”, develop apattern of looking from outside in, scheming how to formulate inside tosuit his external caprices. In all of 5,000 years, constantly dinning into theminds of people like themselves, begging for millions, none of whichhave yet discovered and developed a specific, single simple cause andcure of a dis-ease. As they look from outside in, understanding little ofwhat they seek, they refer to the Supreme Innate Intelligence as the“SUB-conscious” mind, beneath, below, inferior to their minds.Chiropractic philosophy calls this Superior Innate Intelligence, whichflows from above-down, inside-out, a SUPER-conscious mind.

What a marvelous understanding of himself the so-called educatedman could and would have IF he could receive from this Innate giganticstore-house of wisdom. For that reason, knowing he would permanentlydestroy its values, Innate had fore-ordained that educated man wouldup-set, rearrange, disturb, unbalance, attempt to rebuild all to HIS“scientific research” theories—IF such were possible.

What a marvelous transformation occurs when the simple educatedman gets an Innate thought-flash, now and then, which can be used toman’s welfare IF heeded and followed. Too often they are not. Theobvious is SO obvious it is NOT obvious.

Words are used to explain thoughts. How put into words thecharacteristics of a thought, idea, ideals, ideations? We find ourselvesword-bound to present OUR thoughts AS thoughts, to another. Thisarticle is an attempt to use somantics to try to do just that.

It is one thing to do suggest the possibility of this subject; another, topresent a method of transforming its becoming a reality; and still another,how to use the it when it arrives, to overcome the handicaps of thelimitations of education, to act upon the boundless and permanent talents,to convert failures to success. It is more difficult to prove such is factualand realistic

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in terms and methods of science, commerce, professions, and of personalbenefit to individuals.

********Humble was the beginning of existence of the author. Jumping the

gap of 60 years, we find him surrounded by many huge PSC buildings atthe top of Brady Hill; many acres of ground; largest non-medical schoolin the world.

On the professional side, we find a practical workable philosophy,science and art, involving tremendous values to many thousands ofdisciples who serve our work and works to millions of sick people overthe world. All this and more have profited from thoughts and labors ofthis self-made boy-man. One man? No! He was surrounded by severalhundred loyal helpmates.

********HOW did this come about? Was it accident, happenstance, good

luck; or was it based on sound rational methods of approach anddeliveries?

********At the age of 19 (when this author FOUND HIMSELF) he observed

that an Innate Intelligence INTERNAL to LIVING man contactedEVERY tissue cell, EVERY second, with EVERY organ in the livinghuman body, from ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT. This Innate sentmessages, via nerves, from brain to body; told each cell WHAT to do,and received reply messages in return, whether it was or was not done, allthe time from birth to death.

********Any internal intellectuality great enough to build what is estimated

to be 400 trillion human tissue cells, formulate specific organs to dospecific duties, locate them in respective groups, correlate these systemsinto specific over-all duties, start ALL working TOGETHERharmoniously, is great enough for our comparatively insignificanteducation to listen to, IF WE COULD GET IT to tell US what WE shouldand should not know; how, when, where to do its bidding. It hassucceeded in doing right things, right ways, for millions of people, foraeons of time; there-

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fore, should be good enough guide, informant, and teacher for us. Itwould be wisdom on OUR part TO LISTEN, heed, take advice andsuggestions FROM Innate TO education.

If Innate was immaculate enough to conceive, build, direct, control,regulate, and repair the building of a new complete unit of a child in utero280 days, surely it was immaculate enough to tell the pretty education ofa few short years what to do, where, when, and why. After all, theeducated BRAIN is one of Innate’s organs, built for one definite purpose,to make it possible for man to think with his contact with environment, tocompare relative values with ideas for surrounding conditions OUTSIDEits completed body. While man does live entirely with THE INTERNAL,he also contacts external worlds as well. To this end, Innate constructedone brain solely to control INTERNAL functions, another to like limitcontacts with EXTERNAL world. This knowledge of Innate has beenrepeating itself, in exactly same forms, same organs, placed same way,functioning same way, in millions of people.

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I S THE LIMITED expression of matter, of man, a hypocrite when HE tellsthe sick world how to get well and by doing down the wrong road, hereand there, then and now, fails to serve health to himself?

“Physician Heal Thyself!”There is an issue of matter, where one can take just so much

punishment down through the years, and no more. When that timearrives, Innate rebells and teaches the individual that a limitless Innatemust do much within the limitations of a material body and, if theindividual pushes beyond that breaking point, beyond human possibility,something gives, after which limitations of matter have been reached.

The limitless Innate, thought-flashes an unlimited frequency ofproblems to a certain limited machine, who, through necessity, notconvenience, has a limited time in which to move mountains of failuresbacked with prejudices.

This limitless Innate and limited man-machine can do just so much,in his limited span of time from 1905 to 1961, and nor more. Innate,pushing, squeezing, demanding every day be 16 to 18 hours, seven days aweek, (including Sundays), every 52 weeks a year, proves that matter canonly stand a limited wear and tear with a break-down, here and there, andthen and now, which follows especially if the individual accepts everyand all thought flashes demanding consistently, beyond its disability,something gives and the inevitable happens.

To multiple people of limited matter, average day is an exhaustive 8hours work, 8 of relaxing pleasure, and 8 of recuperative sleep. Not sowith some especially Innate-chosen limited human being, through whichthe limitless Innate has chosen to perform definite and positiveresponsibilities.

It is common procedure for this limitless Innate, to thought flash tothe limited sleeping brain endless unlimited ideas during

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the so-called 8-hour restful period. There is no returning to sleep until thelimited matters gets up, writes, rewrites that or those thought flashesconcisely, in explanatory language; then, and not until, does the limitlessInnate retire and let the limited matter return to sleep.

The more limitless Innate thought-flashes ARE respected in itsdemands, to record its unlimited interpretations of its law and principles,the more frequently they come, less rest sleeping limited matter gets,month by month, year by year. This breaks down restful periods, wearsthe man-machine to an exhaustive state of matter. The written word ispraised, but the man-matter suffers in exact reverse ratio.

Matter, regardless of the body Innate exists within, can resistresisting conflicting frictions, to ITS human limit. After that it becomeshuman abuse. You can wisely suggest matter should hesitate, call a haltwhen it reaches the recuperative limit and exhaustive period. Innate,having nothing limit, having found an assemblage of matter appropriateto its biddings, thinks more of masses to be served, than of any one unithimself.

Every living person HAS an Innate, or he wouldn’t be alive. EVERYsuch has organic functions as proof such exists within him. EVERYperson GETS Innate thought-flashes. Vast majorities do not realize this,therefore are not conscious of such. The MORE educationally youDENY, the LESS you will RECEIVE. MORE you ADMIT such, MOREyou CAN receive. Education is considered the new plus ultra, mostessential, it is THAT WHICH he seeks, struggles and strives to get moreand MOST of. Innate is the silent partner, unobserved, unknown. Becauseeducation is 99 percent for ambitious of people, they think mostly interms of cramming more OF IT from OUTSIDE-IN BELOW-UPWARD,getting little of Innate percolating down and through to education. Byreversing that order, all would realize Innate is the wholesome andreliable knowledge of ALL things while education is artificial,superficial, side-tracked counterfeit of THE REAL YOU WITHIN YOU.Is it sensible and logical to have more faith in a spoonful of medicinefrom outside than the intellectual power which built your body frominside?

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Quantity and with quality of Innate is 100 percent at ALL times, onALL subjects. As it filters down through educated brains, with scholastictrainings, its value diminishes rapidly even to zero in many people. Thisdrop in quantity and quality of reception between the two portrays man’sinequalities, preventing peak of perfection of thoughts and actions. Ifeducated man would think LESS of too much scholastic educationaltraining, and DEPEND MORE upon Innate thought-flashes, he could andwould take his place amongst the original thinkers of history whoconceive greater understandings of dormant potentials WITHIN HIM,which are usually submerged by contrast.

(In the egotistic exaggeration of his ego, man speaks of “the otherfellow,” his “conscience,” “that something” in behind, as a“SUB-conscious, NON-conscious, UN-conscious” mind; as though HE,with his “conscious” mind was the greater. Any intellect great enough tobuild a completed child-unit in 280 days, when man with his boastful“education” could not make ONE tissue cell and cause it to functionatelife, is NOT BENEATH OR INFERIOR to his pretty thinking. In reality,IT is a SUPER-conscious intellect.)

********It was when he FOUND HIMSELF in his relations with his INNER

SUPER-SELF, he decided to LISTEN TO INNATE MORE, AND LESSattention to education, especially in gaining a knowledge of self, withinhimself, thereby gaining a greater knowledge of what made man tick inrelation to his studies of life, health, sickness, and now to recover lostvalues. He would listen, heed, and act upon ITS advices whenthought-flashes came through in a split second.

Man seeks to go TO the moon. To attain this goal, educationcorrelates scientific-mechanical brains, plus billions of dollars, to create arocket, cramping a living body inside to get there.

Paradoxically, the internal-human-natural-normal source of allintelligence comes from ideas stored in that unseen, unknown Innateabove. By the time Innate’s knowledge reaches education, it becomesperverted, distorted, modified by multitudinous theories coming IN fromOUTSIDE IN BELOW UP, becoming over-

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exaggerated, grotesque, drawing less from Innate from its natural andnormal, down to educated’s monstrous and sensational concepts. Man’sgreat ambition is to conquer outer worlds beyond HIS inner world, thencontemptuously keep idle THE SUPERIOR SOURCE from which heinterprets negative, contradictory understandings.

********This young man found there existed a worldwide breach between

Innate people AND educated people. The small group werenon-conformists. The large group were conformists. When Innate’sthought-flashes came through to smaller group, from ABOVE DOWN,INSIDE OUT, larger group of educated people developed OUTSIDE IN,BELOW UP innumerable complex arguments, debates, compromises,endeavoring to prove smaller group were wrong, and there WAS NOSUCH THING. The larger group worried, stewed, fretted; days, weeks,months, and years, to prove smaller group were wrong. To deny contactbetween small and large groups was the chore undertaken by largergroup.

With all its evaluation of building human bodies, Innate flashes itsspired messages in split flashes of time. Usual education misses all,denies what it does receive, then begins the struggle of perspirationsopposing them. No wonder education misses much of internal realities. InONE FLASH visions and wisdoms of the ages can come true. Educationthen takes years to bitterly oppose them.

********Difference between these two types of people is that the Innate

thought-flash person is an originator, comes up with new and startlingdifferent presentations, something which moves human understandings tonew unknown fields. Educated types plod along in old established ruts,takes paths of least resistance, does what grandparents did as they didthem, scoffs at a something new he cannot understand. The Innatepersonality makes history. The other, with educate misunderstandings,puts on brakes and ridicules them, because “they can’t be done”

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Every impression received by Innate, from its material internal bodyfixtures, or received through external environmental abstract senses of sosight, hearing, tasting, feeling, or smelling, is recorded indelibly in Innatememory. Like a taped talk, they are invisible, waiting to be played backwhen needed. Each is mentally interpreted, stored, card-indexed,catalogued, filed, subject to recall in an emergency, or upon desire, aslistener’s circumstances warrant. This is not a new theory, it isrecognizable and is constantly happening to everybody. It occurs withregularity with the Innates of all people, regardless.

********From boyhood to mature manhood, ours has been a full and crowded

life. Its trials, troubles, and tribulations; joys and sorrows; handicaps andvictories, are endless. Responsibilities and burdens have been light inmany ways, and tremendously heavy in others. Our diversifications ofinterests and mental activities are beyond computation.

We enumerate some:—we have traveled many times around the world—mileage (1961) is 1,769,000—social—professional—legislative—legal—associations—secret orders—public speaker—writer—author—printer—publisher of 37 volumes—ten scientific laboratories—researcher—mental institution for mental cases—private clinic for sick—cafeteria—philosopher

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—artist—musician (pipe organ)—scientist—circus fan—oriental art connoisseur—caveologist—volcanologist—osteologist—anthropologist—hobbyist—B. J.’s trophy room with its hundreds of citations, honors, awards,

tributes, degrees, resolutions, complimentary memberships,presentations of endless gifts, etc.

—23 acres of Palmerton, housing 400 students—deep-sea fisherman—A Little Bit o’ Heaven with its almost two million visitors—institution of Chiropractic with 1,000 students, including 165 from

foreign countries—professional friend of thousands of legitimate, vaudeville, radio,

movie, TV and circus folks—winter home in Sarasota, Florida

All pile up a prodigious store of data, memories, ad infinitum.Education could not possibly recall all items of information stored away.

********Suppose you entered into a conversation. Something somebody did

recalls to your mind that cliché, “That reminds ME,” where YOUeducationally WOULD LIKE to recall some experience photo,experience, you HAD LONG FORGOTTEN and had not resurrected foryears, yet you couldn’t dig it up at that time or moment out of the past.Millions of incidents forgotten. That one you NEED RIGHT NOW sooncomes forth clearly, with details. Have you ever talked about friends,long gone, long obliterated, and you WANTED to recall a name, town,date, and you couldn’t? Conversation continued; suddenly, WITHOUTADVANCE NOTICE OR WARNING, it thought-flashes back with ALLdetails surrounding THAT individualistic person, name,

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town, place, and time. WHERE did it come from? Innate storehousebrought it out of the warehouse of memory and thought-flashes it TOeducation. There is nothing so fickle as a lapsus lingua,non-compus-mentis, when you need it. Memory OF EDUCATION is asdevoid as the memory OF INNATE is exhaustless. Our Innaterelationships with many educated people frequently recall manydiversified items; yet Innate knowing we needed them thought flashesthem direct, pronto. If permitted, this flashing back of ideas into the pastbecomes a habit we rely upon.

********Throughout this explanation of the supreme values of Innate

thought-flashes, we have depreciated values of “education” per se. We doNOT under-estimate any and all PRACTICAL applications of any and allUSEFUL educations in sciences and arts based on conformity with truth,which work with rigid and dynamic constructive constructions and areDEFINITE realities, present POSITIVE facts, have RELIABLE evidenceand proof, such as the science and arts of astronomy, chemistry,mathematics, and all kindred forms based thereon.

********Peculiarly, this boy began to rely MORE AND MORE upon Innate

thought-flashes and less on educated opinions of those who surroundedhim. They sincerely and honestly advise him. They advised him NOT todo this THAT way, but preferably he should do what THEY WANTEDhim to do some educated way which his executives and advisors thoughtwas better. More and more, he followed advices of Innate. Eventually, hewas able to get help mates to ALSO see Innate’s ways which had paid bigdividends in HIS success; therefore, they began to listen to THEIRInnates and they, too, came through as followers of Innates processes.

Realizing an odd and different kind of transformation was takingplace in himself, he wondered if other men and women went through asimilar process. How about men who evolutionized old problems intonew philosophies, sciences, and arts? Had they also come through fromABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT, with Innate thought-flashes? Being anavarice reader of the products of intellects of the other people, he foundthey, too,

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possessed this same secret method. Occasionally, some writer wouldendeavor to explain it, trying to aid others to see the light. Time aftertime, he assumed he saw writings of others explaining the same processin them. It wasn’t long until this youngest realized it was not a processbut old, and was used knowing by others. These types werenon-conformists. They refused to fit into usual patterns of education,doing same things same ways as multitudes that surrounded him; and IFthey wished to develop a NEW philosophy, science, art, all had to go to asource beyond and deeper than the hordes who squeezed in their outmoldand stagnant products.

********When was the best time to get an Innate though-flash through to

educated brain? Obviously, when there is “nobody home,” when the hallsare empty, when rooms are vacant. When IS that? When education isasleep, when it is not there to interfere or oppose a clear passage, whenchannels are open, when there is no interference FROM education ToInnate, between the two brains. For this reason, clearest, best of Innate’svast wisdom thought-flashes come through at night. Innate is so ofteninsistent that this youngster many and many a time found his nightsconsistently awakened with his most brilliant solutions of the mostbothersome problems.

********What usually happens to the average person WHO WANTS TO

KNOW HOW TO RECEIVE INNATE’S THOUGHT-FLASHES? Indaytime, you get them and pass by them. At night, you are relaxed,asleep, education is blanked out. Quietly and easily, Innate has a solutionfor some problem which worried education. Innate flashes through toyour NOW empty educated brain; it awakens education; you begin to getready to commence to think YOU had a solution.

Silently, Innate sneaks up on your sleepy self. Innate flashes answersso you MAY have them. Instead of getting up, having a pad and pencilhandy alongside your bed, writing while the idea is in full clarity, you rollover on the other side, education saying, “I’ll remember that tomorrowand then I’ll think able about it

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and if it is worth while will write it.” Right THERE AND THEN youmade your big mistake! In the morning, education is top man again.Innate is back in its retreat, doing only these things which it has to do tokeep physical functions in motion. You didn’t CAPTURE that idea whenInnate WANTED TO AND WAS WILLING TO GIVE; so youeducationally lost it. The more this indifference occurs this way, the moreInnate becomes discouraged and eventually ignores YOU because YOUignored Innate, until it becomes a fixed habit both ways, each ignoringthe other.

********The ordinary human animal has what are commonly called

“hunches, intuition, instinct, wee sma’ voice,” and sometimes a“conscience.” There are FIVE accounted for which birds and otheranimals have. When asleep, certain ones are dormant. Others are on thejob, such as hearing, smelling, feeling, etc.

Suppose, at night, while asleep, the baby cries, telephone rings, afire occurs, a prowler breaks in, and you become too cold or too warm.Innate HEARS the baby, telephone ring, prowler in room; your nosesmells smoke; if cold or hot, you pull up or throw off blankets. All thesecan awaken EDUCATION. These are typical thought-flashes FROMInnate TO education.

********Describing this process of what to do when an ABOVE DOWN,

INSIDE OUT thought-flash comes through, or “how is one to know whatis or when it is a thought-flash, or how is one to recognize such?”, thiskeen fundamental recognition was difficult for OUR education at first.We had so much education outside in, below upward, bucking Innate, fora long time outside environmental complexes of education completelyovershadowed and blanked Innate out of consideration.

********As days, weeks, and even years wore on, he and Innate became

intimately acquainted. Eventually, he looked up to, listened for the weesma’ voice. Was he imagining ALL that came through? Were they wildphantasies of his flightly and meager

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education? He decided to test them. When in trouble, with worries,problems of business, professions, or social misunderstandings, recededto let Innate solve them in ITS own way, in ITS own time. He decided toNOT PRESS for an immediate answer. He soon learned that if HEarbitrarily followed usual educational routes, he lost what we sought. Ifwe turned the world problem over to Innate, eventually in ITS ownastounding way, at its own discretion, would flash through a correct andright answer. More this occurs with beneficial conclusions, strongerbecame the tie between Innate and him.

********When there are no restrictions between greater and lesser

personalities, all conflicts cease. Instead of bucking failures withregularity, he was succeeding in attaining his objective with no internalconflict. Eventually, when this camaraderie became fixed and firmlyestablished in his life, he realized this was a law and A WAY of life—one which had succeeded WITH HIM, would succeed with others. Itbecame to him a way to live, to convert failures into successes. If thiscould occur IN HIM, it should be told to all who would listen, that every,might use the same law and repeat SAME a route travel through life.Innate then impressed upon him that it became his duty to explain theprocess, method, and way HE succeed, that THEY might duplicateWHAT he did, AS he did it.

Innate, seeing he DID accept its solutions of unsolved problems,became MORE bold, flashed through MORE frequently, and usuallywithout hesitation. As intimacy grew deeper, Innate became a constantcompanion, coming best when needed most. Innate soon had nohesitation in flashing answers through to him at most unexpected timesand places. Inasmuch all thought-flashes were FROM Innate TOeducation; and knowing how fickle is education and its short memories,this man ALWAYS carries pad and several ink-pens, to then and there,WITHOUT ONE MOMENT’S HESITATION, makes notes on issuesinvolved. On trains, cars, planes, no matter where, OUT COMES THATPAD AND PEN.

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At first, while he knew there was an Innate personality within him,living in the same home WITH him, it was like a far doing distant totalstranger. He knew, if he were to become what he wanted to be, he had toget better acquainted. Being humble in the presence of this neither greatpersonality that was all, knew all, and was the great intellect the it was,he hesitated receiving its thought-flashes. Were they real? Were they ofvalue? Would he find them so, or would he some day wake up to therealization they were spurious, with question, not reliable or to bedepended upon? One by one he gone to get thought-flashes. At first, heaccepted them without fear, trepidation, and hesitation. It seemed Innatewas testing him, questioning his ability TO RECEIVE; and, if hereceived, would he act upon them? Once Innate knew educationappreciated their values, then was when Innate became a living pal,always ready, willing, and anxious to serve HIS best educated interests.

Innate cannot and seemingly WILL NOT flash thoughts through asuper-educated muddled brain filled with complex misunderstandings,misinterpretations, and misconstructions of itself. It would be like tryingto get one clear sane thought into a brain filled with violent insanity.

Innate, knowing RIGHT answers to all living problems, will not taketime to unmix, dissolve the millions of errors, provoking, unreliable,irresponsible, caprications, silly theories born of violent emotions, absurdpassions, and hysterical prejudices, concocted BY education, mountingthem mountain-high from OUTSIDE IN, BELOW UPWARD.

As Innate began to realize education of this young man WASunderstanding IT more and more, and education was relying more andmore upon Innate for directions, Innate replaced education as the guidingdirector, and education was more and more submerged to Innate.

********To one who is educated, education is ne plus ultra at all times, all

ways, all places, for all purposes. He brags about his high school, college,and university degrees; where he went; how many semesters; and whatsubjects he received degrees for. The

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demand for “educated scholars” is deviously obvious and they are indemand. They are a dime a dozen on the open market.

History repeats—all people who are and have been deep thinkers,who have promoted evolutionary and revolutionary ideas, have beenpoor, struggling geniuses. They are Innate types—subtle, concealed, as itwere behind a curtain, retiring and modest. These men pull OUT fromwithin. It is difficult for educated groups to see the brilliance of silentpersonalities of inner fellows who reveal themselves ONLY under mostadverse difficult conditions.

********In presenting this thought-flash subject, we are asked many

questions:“What is the duration of a thought-flash?”This depends upon the subject. Some idea which education has been

worrying about may come as one simple single flash. When one beginswriting the received answer, it may continue during the entire time untilthat particular subject has been completely finished. It may run forminutes, hours, or days, depending upon how extensive the subject is.

“Is there any language used?”Words are vehicles of thought. Words in any individualistic

language could be translated to fit the problem once each person’slanguage education begins to correlate answers you seek. In our writings,it comes in English. Not knowing any other, we have NO idea what formwords take in any other. The thought-flashes itself comes as AN IDEA.Later, you fit words to THE IDEA. Innate, being non-linguistic, thinkswithout words.

“How can THOUGHT take on the characters of language?”It doesn’t.“How can education break down AN ABSTRACT THOUGHT into

words which have no words?”This is difficult to answer for THOUGHTS OR THOUGHT-

FLASHES have no alphabet or language.********

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thoughts and Innate thought-flashes, tried to explain to others that theymight profit also by the same method, they usually and incredulouslythought HE had gone daft or was turning to the mysteries of so-calledspiritualisms, communing with lost souls of some departed person now“on the other side,” etc. He ran into skepticism from his followers. Hereand there, however, were a few who knew he HAD made a success, thathe must have had a method which brought it about, so they listened ANDTRIED to understand what he was endeavoring to tell them.

********In later years, this man, desiring to prove thought-flashes were an

anatomical, physiological and psychological reality, developed theelectroencephaloneuromentimpograph. With a set of eight electrodicpick-ups and a ninth second time measuring device, all eight of whichcould be placed at strategic places on and over differing sections of theInnate AND educated brains, they could and did not prove definite pathsfrom one to the other; ascertain and prove direct nerve connectionsbetween two brains; could and did measure, evaluate, and calibrate thequantity flow of mental supply between one and the other. By thisprocess, a distinctive pattern was graphed which, for the first time in thehistory of man, PROVED there WERE thought-flashes FROM Innate inInnate brain TO education in educated brain. In this research work noquantity measurement was ever more than five-millionths of one volt. Tograph this very minute quantity, it was necessary to amplify same 400trillion times. The graph recorded nine channels simultaneously giving usa comparative record of what was passing from one place to anothertiming same. We have isolated distinctive patterns. For the purpose ofthis article, when one certain pattern was graphed, we knew then athought-flash was passing between two brains.

********In this man, possessing little if any formal education—however, with

one brain flashing to the other—Innate directed him through all his yearswith his worlds greatest, finest-equipped scientific research clinic, basedon studies, observations of hundreds of thousands of cases, after which hebrought forth a simple,

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long-buried, now discovered, exhaustless fountain of logic which solvesall man’s mysteries as it did in him.

********Chiropractic is contrary to everything medical, in PHILOSOPHY,

SCIENCE, AND ART—a PHILOSOPHY BEGINNING AND ENDINGWITH THE superior and internal INNATE INTELLIGENCE fromABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT: A SCIENCE with provable knowledgeof ONE CAUSE OF ONE dis-ease being an INTERNAL interference tothe INTERNAL how of an abstract mental impulse or nerve force flowsupply, from ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT; an ART of correcting thevertebral subluxation, by hand only, which is the PHYSICAL interferingmedia between brain and body; which, when pressure is released uponnerves conveying this intelligent abstract flow and NORMALQUANTITY FLOW is restored through nerves, from empiphery toperiphery; CURE coming from ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT,BETWEEN Innate and function, brain and body, re-established health.There is but ONE CAUSE, ONE CURE OF ONLY ONE DISEASE—paralysis of motion of involving any or all organs, varying IN DEGREE,depending upon the extent of the volume of interference between.

This PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND ART, when exclusively,efficiently and accurately applied to sick people who have tried all themedical pharmacopeia and failed to find what they sought, then came tothe Chiropractor who followed the above principle and DID get well, ahas been proven now on millions of cases of all your types.

For purposes of the record, The ICA asked its BOARD OFCONTROL for their definitions of chiropractic. Many submitted such,from which We chose the essential parts, as follows:

a. Chiropractic is a philosophy.b. of the source and development of internal human functionc. from above-down, inside-outd. the science of determining the location ofe. the interference to the flow of between source in brain and

function in bodyf. to the normal flow of mental impulses

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g. thru the nervous systemh. and the art of adjusting vertebral subluxations.i. by hand onlyj. which produce pressures upon spinal cord or spinal nervesk. to allow for restoration of a mental impulse flowl. so that Innate Intelligencem. resident within each living bodyn. has a free full flowo. in the re-establishment and restoration of health.

********Medical men consider themselves “educationally competent” to

compound PHYSICAL chemical ingredients; prescribe and better givesame to the sick, from OUTSIDE-IN, BELOW-UPWARD, to cureabnormal PHYSICAL diseases to restore health. They presume to beparagons beyond question of lay people. Religious people considerthemselves educationally competent to build edifice in and thru whichthey issue certain formal formulas and incantations, uttering expressionsfrom one of “higher education” to the masses of “lower educations” fromOUTSIDE-IN, BELOW-UP, thereby thinking to influence the EternalUniversal Law to become modified according to his particular wishes,hopes, and desires. Such educated men presume to be earthly modelsbeyond question of lay people.

The one established and outstanding “education” we DO question,seemingly possessing little if any value, is medical with its ENDLESSSHIFTING from one theory to another, from ONE DAY TO ANOTHER,with MULTIPLICITY of causes, of a wide DIVERSIFICATION ofwrong diagnoses, IMPOSSIBLE prognosis, and VARIED treatments ofterrifying PHYSICAL diseases which SHIFT INCONSISTENTLY fromone thing to another and times, none ever anchored to any RELIABLEAND TRUSTWORTHY natural and normal simple and single IN-TERNAL correct law understanding of what dis-ease IS, what to do, howto do it, to prolong human life and get sick people well. Any and allbranches and all phases of medical “education” based on the OUTSIDEIN, BELOW UPWARD premises are wrongly approached, brazenlyapplied, and even though the

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thousands of years old, are all strictly empiric and arbitrary, no twohighly trained “educated” medical men agreeing on ANY permanentfundamental knowledge and ability to eradicate sickness, correct itsINTERNAL cause, permit an INTERNAL cure, thus failing to get sickpeople well. Medical “education” is exhaustively based on COMPLEXcauses, from OUTSIDE-IN, BELOW-UP, the cure is OUTSIDE-IN, noneof which ever was right, nor is today. Antiquity does not add to its luster.Any and all medical “education” contradicts any and all natural and nor-mal, normal and abnormal; living healthy procedures from ABOVE-DOWN, INSIDE-OUT.

********PALMER’S LAW OF LIFE PHILOSOPHY, as propounded and

presented in our Vol. XXXVI, is not in any loose or strict sense of a terma religion, per se. There are those who have tried to interpret it as such.This philosophy acknowledges a Superior and Supreme UniversalIntellectual Law which many call “God.” Religions, including all, theirbeliefs, faiths, rituals and ceremonials, plead, beg, ask for, and utterprayers from OUTSIDE IN, BELOW UP, for same purpose and in samemanner as does medicine. In this sense, “educated” religious devoteesthink they possess some in accessible rights and privileges, of“educationally” asking for, telling, or advising this “Supreme Being”HOW to instruct IT to regulate and govern all affairs of mere man onearth, or how to advise IT to govern all things celestial.

The two philosophies—Chiropractic and medicine, Chiropractic andreligions—are diametrically opposites. The two approaches to“educations” are antipodal. Medicine HAS failed, IS failing. ChiropracticHAS succeeded and IS succeeding where everything in medicine has not.It is not within OUR province to set ourselves up as any criterion of whatis right or wrong, better or worse, in religions, except to cite contrasts asapply to philosophies, sciences, and arts of the three great methods in-volving welfare of mankind—spiritually, mentally, and/or physically.

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change, modify, abridge, sense, talk UP TO the natural source of his lifefrom which he derives his living functions. He cannot talk UP TO Innate,But Innate CAN and DOES TALK DOWN to all his living cellsincluding his educated brain IF he IS receptive.

In this a same respect, nothing, nothing, no matter how done or howor what language used, based on his varied beliefs and faiths of hisloyalty and noble religions, can educated man modify, abridge, sense,TALK UP TO the natural SOURCE from which man is but one of thespecies and families TO his “God”; but “God” CAN and doescommunicate DOWN to every living creature, in its own way at its owntime.

Educated man long has presumed to think that “God” should bemore MAN LIKE. In reality, man should be more “God” like. This cancome about ONLY from ABOVE DOWN, INSIDE OUT. No plea orprayer can reverse the natural law of direction.

********(We need not be told that comparisons or principles between

Chiropractic AND medicine will meet the approbation of Chiropractors.Neither do we need to emphasize that any comparisons of the samePRINCIPLES between our Chiropractic philosophy of ABOVE DOWN,INSIDE OUT and religions is unpopular. We know that! We, as anon-conformist, must speak truth as we see it. We have no desire toinfluence or change any person’s belief or faith. All we ask is weigh theevidence and accept or reject as the best judgment dictates.)

********This Chiropractic PRINCIPLE, by contrast, is either right or wrong.

If right, it is 100 percent right. If wrong, it is 100 percent wrong. If right,it will work. If wrong, It can’t work. This discussion betweenChiropractic AND medicine rises or falls, lives or dies, based on THEdifference between the ABOVE-DOWN, INSIDE-OUT or theOUTSIDE-IN, BELOW-UP principles.

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INSIDE-OUT. REVOlutionary ideas deflate education’s ideas producingREVOlution. History proves that!

********That, plus the development this boy-man made in Innate’s natural

and normal CHIROPRACTIC, under the guidance of Innatethought-flashes, made HIM realize HE must dedicate and consecrate HISlife to teaching the Chiropractic Profession or succeed in like manner, byexplaining as best he could WHAT had occurred in him could occur inothers, because they contained same Innates as he, and they could alsoclimb out of mediocrity same as he had. When that state of hisunderstanding had been reached and he had FOUND HIMSELF, hebegan to teach others how they, too, COULD find themselves. Until hepassed on to others this transition beyond himself, and they caught hisunderstanding of the process, life became a boundless field of humanservice. He was as one inspired, as though he had discovered a wonderfulexhaustless fount of wisdom which anybody else could tap as otherstapped him.

********Many times, some of our educated people in our Palmer Enterprises

tell US not to do this this way, but do it that way, meaning of course WEshould follow THEIR educated methods of presentation. At such times,we must decide whether to follow suggestions offered by our Innate bypreference, rejecting THEIR educated presentations. When they remainwith us long enough, they will learn the LAW OF INNATE’SPRESENTATIONS. When they DO, they will understand why we feel itnecessary to reject their educated opinions.

********Let us make one point VERY clear, because the question is often

asked: “What CAN I DO to contact Innate?” YOU can no more “contactInnate” than you can contact God with your babel of voices in pleas orprayers. If you are willing and receptive, and this factor IS PROVEN TOINNATE, INNATE WILL CONTACT YOU, if, as, a ready is Innate,YOU cannot

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force an issue. It must come freely, willingly, without pressure.********

There will be those who think I (the educated person) have turnedmystic, whatever that is. There is nothing supernatural about this processof letting Innate contact YOU, except that is quite unusual for Innate tocontact EDUCATION. It is rare, therefore a much misunderstoodprocess. There is nothing “mystical” about Innate being in close andconstant contact with tissue cell functions. Why, then, should it beconsidered “mystical” when Innate contacts educated brain deliveringInnate thoughts TO educated brain, any more than it might be considered“mystical” when Innate contacts liver and produces bile, or contacts heartand pumps blood to and sucks it back from the body? One difference is,WE can’t stop material fundamentals in matter, But we do refuse toaccept immaterial functions OF THOUGHT as they come from Innatebrain to educated brain.

********The secret of this kid’s success was that he had the courage to be

himself, dared to constantly listen to Innate by preference, and act uponits flashes. He reached this conclusion at 18, and has been so directedever since.

The transitions from kid, to young man, to man, and now in ripe ageof maturity; and the more this man egotistically sublimated himself to thegreater Innate, the more humble he became. He realized HIS educationwas like one drop of water to an Innate ocean. What he egotisticallyTHOUGHT he knew was like one grain of sand to the seashore. Innateproved there was a great unexplored world within him which neededunderstanding

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CHIROPRACTIC . . . .A New Attitude . . . .

A New Approach . . . .. . . To The Health Of Man

By DR. KEN LIPKE

Editor-in-ChiefNew York State Journal of Chiropractic

PEOPLE TODAY ARE great respectors of intelligence. They literally worshipthose intellects whom they believe create, develop and maintain machinesof this day and age. The greatest intelligence of all, man has overlookedand for the most part has ignored, in spite of the fact that this intelligencehas created, developed and maintained the most remarkable and amazingmachine ever made. This machine has over 400 trillion electrical circuits,has chemical laboratories within itself that produce nearly every chemicalsubstance known, workshops that perform every mechanical movementknown to mankind, the far greatest recording, filing, and memoryinformation systems ever devised, an amazing never resting pumpingsystem with miles and miles of piping. These are a few of the limitlessand endless attributes of this unbelievable machine, which stagger theimagination when one attempts to study it. This wonderful, machine itsoperation and performance which are taken for granted, is of course theliving human body.

The living human body unlike man made machines never needs becranked, wound-up, oiled, greased, started-up or stopped. It runs itself, orso most people think. However, astute observers and researchers of theliving human machine are in accord that there are innumerable evidenceof an intelligence working in the body that creates it, developing it andmaintains it. This intelligence is not something that can be seen. It hasbeen

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called different names such as “sub-conscious” soul, spirit, ego and manyothers. In spite of these facts there has been always indisputable evidencethe body must be, and is, controlled and regulated by intelligence.Chiropractors call it Innate Intelligence.

Science has not been able to determine what electricity is but it hasbeen able to observe its workings and has thus been able to harness anduse it for the benefit of mankind. So too with regard to Innate Intelligenceof our bodies. Science has not been able to determine what it is, but it hasbeen able to observe evidences of its existence and, just as electricalengineers have done with electricity, chiropractors are beginning to learnhow to use and apply knowledge of this intelligence working within ourbodies.

Science has been able to determine that whatever this intelligence is,it uses the brain as its major base of operation. Contrary to what mostpeople think, the brain has to do with thinking and memory.

Research has shown the brain is made up of trillions of controlcenters which hook-up with the 400 trillion nerves of the body. Thisforms a complex but highly organized and efficient mechanism thatdirected regulates, coordinates and controls workings of every part of thebody. Through mechanisms of special senses organs of sight, hearing,smell, taste and touch, the body machine is informed of effects outsideenvironment is having on the body and adapts the body to these outsideenvironmental effects. One of the more obvious illustrations of this adap-tive function of the body is that body temperature in a room heated to 80degrees will be 98.6. If a person was put immediately from there into aroom whose temperature was 50 degrees cooler, the body temperaturewould remain and continue to remain at 98.6 despite the drop intemperature. This adaptation to temperature change takes place and theperson consciously and does nothing to bring it about. This happens andcontinues to happen many, many times during one’s lifetime. Your heartsare another example. Here is the greatest pump mechanism on the face ofthe earth. For its size the amount of work it does is almost unbelievable.It keeps pumping 72 times a minute of the hour of

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every day of your life for 70 years and more. Yet you consciously donothing about it. You don’t wind it, crank it, don’t feed it, oil it, gas it,check it or inspect it. Where does it get power to keep itself going? Whatmaintains it, keeps it running, keeps it in a state of repair? Youeducationally don’t! There are thousands of similar illustrations whichcould be pointed out. All point to the fact that there is intelligence withinour bodies, that created, developed and maintains it. Many developed abrilliant minds down through the ages of man’s history have been awareof the existence of this intelligence. However, it was not until the Pal-mer’s, D. D. and B. J., created the chiropractic profession, that anorganization, that an organized, concerted effort and movement began ofresearch, study and understand the law and its principle is involved.Principles, in the opinion of this writer, which will someday, as it comesinto universal use and acceptance, prove to be one of the greatest seriesof principles ever developed for the benefit of mankind.

It was in 1895 in Davenport, Iowa, that D. D. Palmer discovered thechiropractic law. But it was through the exceptional leadership of his son,B. J. Palmer, that the practical application and the basic principles ofchiropractic were developed. ‘B. J.’ as he is known to chiropractors theworld over, had that unusual and unshakable courage and character thathas typified great men of history. He needs it to withstand the battles andstorms he encountered in his astounding lifetime of accomplishments.

The basic principles of chiropractic can be best stated in the simplephrase “HEALTH COMES FROM ABOVE DOWN, WITHIN OUT.”Chiropractors contend that man with his limited and finiteinterunderstandings can never and will never be able to comprehend thecomplex and infinite workings of the many mechanisms that make up ourbody. Chiropractors prove we came equipped at birth with InnateIntelligence that was and is fully capable, if not interfered with, ofcreating, developing and maintaining our bodies throughout our lifetime.Chiropractors demonstrate when Innate Intelligence is able to expressitself freely and fully in and through the body, by regulating, coordinatingand controlling the many mechanisms, organs and systems

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of the body, then the patient is in a state of “HEALTH.” That all“diseases” regardless of where, when or how manifest themselves in thebody basically are caused by interference which prevents “InnateIntelligence” from exercising normal control. Chiropractors have proventhat all dis-eases are basically and fundamentally a loss of the controlregulation or co-ordination of the body by Innate Intelligence. The area ofinvolvement or type of dis-ease develops as a result of the area or mannerin which interference to Innate control manifests itself. Chiropractorspresent a principle and practice that the solution to the patient’s problemcan only be brought about by the correction of the interfering media andconsequent return of control, co-ordination and regulation of the body toits Innate Intelligence. That it, and only it, has the knowledge—experience and means to heal, repair, rebuild and rejuvenate the sickbody of the patient.

To understand the chiropractic principle requires a distinct departurefrom age old concepts of healing arts, which are racked with dogma,traditions, old wives’ tales, fantasy, fiction, superstition and economicdistractions of greed. It requires an entirely new a way of thinking, anentirely new outlook and attitude toward problems of sickness.Chiropractic overthrows and exposes falsely based and erroneousdoctrines which, even though proven failures, have been clung to downthrough ages. Greatest present day adherents to old failure ways ofthinking are the rich and powerful medical and drug interests. Theyexpend tremendous effort to suppress and destroy the chiropracticprofession and its new, realistic and increasingly effective attitude andapproach.

For years man has searched the world for the secret elixir for health,for some magic pill, potion, drug, medicine, food, salve, or what haveyou, they hoped would produce or create health in a sick body.Thousands of years of searching and billions of dollars spent researchingand man still is affiliated by many old and new sicknesses. He has failedto find anything that can be given or done to a sick person that willrestore health. Millions of dollars are spent each year studying andresearching an ever increasing number of diseases. Herein lies the fallacyand reason for their failure, sincerity and dedication of searchers not

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withstanding. They have been looking in the wrong direction, fromoutside-in, below-upward. Their entire approach to problem of sicknesshas been wrong all these years. They spent all their time looking foroutside causes and outside cures of diseases. What they should have beensearching for is the cause of internal health. Aside from work being doneby the chiropractic profession there is no major group undertakingresearch to determine the cause of health. This may sound likeover-simplification, but any who try to understand will see the fruitless ofthe attitude and approach of medical and drug interests, which time hasshown is a vicious cycle of new drugs and new diseases. All in a neverending pattern with no hope or indication of the pattern ever changing.

Observation reveals no basis to substantiate the practice of medicine,practically or philosophy. We do not and cannot deny that drugs, whichare the basis of medicine’s approach to sickness, do have an obvious andoft times dramatic effect on sick patients giving comfort and arrestingailments. What we do contend, is that this is not what the patient needsand wants. Drugs merely suppress or alter systems and manifestations ofsickness leaving the basic abstract cause of illness to remain only tointernally recur again in the same or perhaps a different form at a laterdate.

Any competent medical man will admit no two cases or conditionsare exactly the same. Yet the basis of his practice is predicated on hisusing a drug that “worked” before for someone else, in hopes it will“work” again in same way for a condition that while similar hasindividual distinctions. This same medical man will admit that when heuses any drug he does not and cannot possibly know what the drug willdo to or for any individual patient. This he cannot know because of theindividuality of every person and every disease. The factor of theindividuality of each disease problem would, even if there was a basis forthe practice of medicine, make its practical application impossible.Medical research is searching for multiple cause of diseases. Takearthritis, for example. Admittedly there are no two cases of any conditionexactly alike. How can they ever find an external cure or cause for it? Itwould mean that limitless and never ending research would

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be required for each patient, which is neither feasible or possible. Theproblem of the individuality of every patient’s ailment is the mostoverlooked and ignored problem in the practice of medicine because itclearly reveals the fallacy of the external medical approach and practice.

Chiropractors contend no man or group of men will be able tocomprehend the limitless factors involved in the working of our bodiesand for this reason we come equipped at birth with an “InnateIntelligence” of greater and more infinite wisdom than we cancomprehend which, when not interfered with, can successfully maintainour body. When his Innate is in full and complete control of the body, itis the “Cause of health.” The “Cause of health or sickness” regardless ofname, organ or system involved is lack of, loss of, or absence of controlby Innate Intelligence in the body. Aside from this cause, all the others socalled causes are an effect of this basic cause. The medical professionwith all their drugs, treatments and therapies is merely treating, arresting,alleviating or suppressing effects and manifestations of the abstractinterferences which prevents Innate Intelligence from exercising fullcontrol it requires to maintain health within the body.

From this it would seem that we chiropractors were saying we had apanacea for all problems afflicting mankind and you would wonder whythe world was not beating a path to our doors. Chiropractic is merely onthe threshold. It has merely scratched the surface in uncoveringpossibilities of this great law and its principles. Philosophically speakingit offers that which mankind has been searching since his beginning.While so-called “miracle” cures and a low long-over-increasing list ofcures can be pointed to, there is yet much to be uncovered, much to beunderstood in the applications of this principle. More definite and moreaccurate means of detecting and locating points of interference in thespinal column need be developed. More effective and precise means ofcorrecting interferences must be devised. And, as important, means mustbe created to make people aware of what it is chiropractors are for doing.Patients then will understand and cooperate with the chiropractor in hisattempts to

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correct the interference to Innate control, restoration of which, will makethem well.

When one considers that chiropractic exists and continues to exist inspite of the fierce and tremendous opposition of medical and druginterests; that it does not have available to it the vast financial andresearch which the medical profession has; that it does not have the vastand complete hospital and rehabilitive facilities necessary to aid in therecuperation of sick patients; that in spite of these and many otherobstacles which normally would have been enough to have eliminatedany other group; that the existence and continued growth of thechiropractic profession, in spite of these obstacles, is in itself the greatestproof of the merit of the chiropractic principle.

As the chiropractic profession continues research and understandingof the abstract internal cause of health, and as knowledge increases in allapplication of its principles making it necessary more effective,chiropractic shall come into its own as a way of health and life. Thechiropractic profession is on the threshold of the greatest advancement ofmankind. As it developed and evolved, mankind will enter into a new eraof healthful living which will pave the way for advancement of mankindto the heights of accomplishment and achievement for which he wasintended.

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SOME OF THESE studies have been carefully written and thought fully filedin some 72 two-inch binders of Lecture Outlines. Many may see the lightof day later. They are now a matter of record. They will be studied laterand applied for the benefit of mankind in days to come.

ChiropracTIC was conceived by D. D. Palmer, whom we areconvinced was fore Ordained to pursue a line of reasoning to fill amedical vacuum of failures to get sick people well. His life culminated acertain natural and normal characteristic philosophy, science and art toaccomplish what medicine had never attained. Chiropractors were themedia to convey this service of health to the sick. This basic andfundamental issue, later became OUR life’s intents and purposes.

TO GET SICK PEOPLE WELL is the coveted objective. There isonly ONE road to that end, ONE route to travel. There are endlessdiverse for offshoot side-roads leading to nowhere. Anyone can travelthese but they come to a dead-end sooner than later. Medicine has triedthem all and failed to arrive. Whether any individual can change themedical pattern is debatable. That he can straighten and strengthen theTOR patter is obvious. So long as TORS stay THAT ONE MAIN road,do not deviate from the principle which accomplished HIS objective anddelivers THE objective the SICK PERSON wants and needs to GETWELL, success will crown his labors.

Two issues stand out and are paramount:a. To get the sick people well.b. To charge a fee for service rendered.

Many of our profession considered the first of less importance than thelatter, therefore enlarge upon the latter and belittle the first.

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sary and needed TO GET SICK PEOPLE WELL, is:a. WHERE is the interference between source of life and life’s

expression in living bodies;b. HOW to correct that interference, permitting the restoration of

life to flow directly from the source to expression.After this has been accomplished, everything beyond that is

idealized and realized by Innate WITHIN the patient. Its SIMPLICITY ISITS GREATNESS. Every child, any child, can push ONE button, afterwhich light, heat, motion occurs—electricity is all needed, wanted ordesired. Why complicate IT with extraneous issues that are foreign,which defeat the end needed?

Fees have always been a bone of contention, a subject for dispute, anissue a over which there is professional friction. In commerce, unionsdispute, strikes are called, blood-shed sometimes occurs, creatinghardships between manufacturer and laborer, conflicts rage, people sufferfor want of manufactured products, unions suffer for want of salaries,union families suffer for want of bread—and so the dispute over feeincomes continues, all because the ONE PRIMARY issues—life, health,sanity were lost sight of.

The average TOR stresses and maximizes EXTERNAL materialitiesand overlooks and minimizes THE INTERNAL abstract Innate. Thisreflects itself in prolonged periods of faultfinding with the internal andabnormal value is given external which some TORS think necessary.

Our first paragraph states an ultimate constructive survival value offees. WE are concerned, wishing and hoping that MORE SICK PEOPLEGET WELL, served with TIC and TORS, believing in the old adage that“a laborer is worthy of his hire” and serving is paid to quantity andquality of that service.

It is plain that, IT a TOR were to charge an UNREASONABLE,high tariff for poor service rendered, few people could or would continueto go to him for services. Neither would they speak well of his poorservice, neither would they refer friends or other sick people to him. Highfees with poor service, few people do afford to get well. Costs of allservice should be determined

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by QUALITY of service delivered meeting requirements of the sick plusluxuries desired by the TOR, costs of overhead, the state of living hedesires for himself and family, etc.

There are varying degrees of values to fee asking and receivingquestions. Marlowe, and others SINCE his day, believed in turning on theheat, pushing a pressure-contract-system, with all cases placed in a highfee bracket level, longtime legal contract. Others prefer one standardizedmutual price throughout a district or state for ALL TORS in that area.The scale being based on economic conditions of the area. Othersestablish a one-price a system alike for all cases, rich or poor. Othersleave it for the individual case to establish HIS OWN FEE according towhat he considers the service he received is worth, of what good he hasor has not received. Still others have the contribution method, pay as andwhat you please, at the door as you leave. This group believes thatGETTING SICK PEOPLE WELL IS PRIMARY AND any FEECOMPENSATED IS OF SECONDARY IMPORTANCE. Between thesea varying price groups, there has always been a conflict.

This conflict isn’t a question of what is done professionally is rightor wrong so much as when the fee enters the competitive field. Theaverage patient will go where he thinks he can best service for whateverprice he pays. This is usual in any and all commercial businesses. Nomatter how many furniture, clothing, grocery stores in one town, they buypages of space, hours of T.V. time, to announce their competitivemerchandise and prices they sell for.

The best way, if it could be, would be to deliver our life healthservice to the sick with no fee at all. Or, if not possible, to get somenon-taxable organization to support such a movement, or perhaps SOMETO OTHER SECOND PERSON would pay the FIRST person. Howmuch such service would be worth, between SECOND person and FIRSTperson, BEFORE delivering to FIRST person, would necessarily besettled mutually between second and first persons.

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service he renders to EARN his fee. It has been OUR observation that themoment you step up fees you also step up the simple into the complex,the single into multiples, the little which is essential is complicated withmuch window-dressing. Instead of leaving internal curing to InnateWITHIN the patient, he aims to cover up and protect his “high fee” withmuch that is FOREIGN to TIC, from OUTSIDE-IN, to confuse andbewilder patient into thinking he is GETTING MUCH for HIGH feecharged. In reality he usually gets less because he complicates externalcuring process with things and methods which DETRACT and slowdown any natural and normal process, making it impossible to internallycure the sickness. This process of adding on unnecessities, presenting afalse-front and a false conclusion of what does happen, is what we calldeceitful “rigging” in radio. He who complicates is compelled to chargehigher fees because he spends more time delivering less upon lessnumber of patients per day, doing nothing of benefit, trying to force onesimple, single ultimate objective of permitting Innate to get the sickpeople well.

There is much to be said FOR AND AGAINST the high or low feesystems. Assuming, however, that two TORS, both practicing WHATthey did, AS they did it; where, when, how and why, down to its simplestelements, delivered with equal efficiency and accuracy, both attainingTHE coveted objective of GETTING SICK PEOPLE WELL, from thenon it should be a personal prerogative as to HOW MUCH his services areworth in his opinion. Even now we find a complication entering our pro-fession. Some of our adherents retain the simple and single approach,taking but a short time to deliver an adjustment and in a short time thecase gets well. Some patients are prone to resent SO MUCH MONEYFOR SO LITTLE DONE to earn it. For this reason, at one time Marloweand others built HI PRESSURING the patient underlong-enforced-contract-legal contract systems at high fees. Patientsresented all ENFORCED contract systems of high fees and thus the TORruined himself will honorably and automatically be forthcoming.

The reports of authenticated percentages of “miracles” which haveoccurred at the Shrine of Lourdes in France is 1/2 of one per-

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cent. This is very low when we recall countless thousands who flockthere every summer, each case hoping HE will get a “miracle” also. Theknown case on file in our archives of “accidental” cures reported in thepress are very low. Is it possible that if the facts were known of whatoccurs, and which are never reported, they might be much higher? Whatpercentages are occurring in the cooperative group? Do they know?Reports would be appreciated.

The law of averages and percentages enters all controversies of highor low fees, or none at all. The TOR who receives the low-fee-contribution MAY NOT give ALL necessary attention his casedeserves and thus overlook doing things HE SHOULD, neglecting someessentials to make accurate and efficient service to get the sick well. Evenwith a rapid turnover of multiple cases per day, the average offrequencies of what might be called “a-hit-or-miss-method” he is boundto strike a certain low average or percentage of adjusting RIGHT places,THE RIGHT times, RIGHT manner and get that low percentage of caseswell. Even at that he might MISS a certain high average and percentageand not deliver results he should because of enforced rapid turnover of somany in so short a time. Contrast with the TOR who puts in lots of timeon each case, applying many or all technics and methods FOREIGN tothe TIC process and principle, to convince cases he IS earning his highfee, doing things complexing, complicating and multiplying, WHICHACTUALLY DETRACT from his delivering the SIMPLE AND SINGLEprinciple and practice which, when applied, DOES get SOME SICKpeople well. What is HIS average or percentage? The fact that he cancharge HIGH fees is no proof he is doing right things to get sick peoplewell. In spite of this reverse in methods HIS average MAY BE muchlower than the low type of TOR fees which he condemns.

The reverse of all this has merit. The TOR who charges, or receives,what might be and is considered to be “A LOW OR SMALL FEE” ( If itis a fee at all, which is debatable, whether a donation at the door might beso considered when dropping a stipend in the collection box) whethersuch an income is commen-

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surate to what average professional man is entitled to have earnedbecause of his years of preparation, education, equipment, etc., toestablish his offices, and a salary for help to maintain them.

In establishing this “low fee system” with its increased drawingpower for a large clientele, which limits time he can spend upon any oneand every case, he is compelled to boil down TO LITTLE IF ANYESSENTIAL, cardinal facts as to WHAT he does, HOW, where, when,why, to attain ultimate constructive survival a value of getting sick well,thus eliminating all foreign issues. What ARE the essential “cardinal”facts? A vertebral subluxation, its adjustment, done at right time, rightplace, right way, knowing when NOT TO do anything unnecessary,knowing when to quit fussing, fooling, adding fol-de-rols, quit “rigging”appearances between TOR and patient. Small fees demand SIMPLEmethods. After all, TIC IS a simple principle, practice and procedure.Instead of this TOR endeavoring to impress patients with his grandiosepersonality and that what he does cures, he should and does leave thisconclusion of fact to Innate IN the patient and does not camouflage issuesbeyond the truth involved.

We are not here concerned in whether the fee system is none at all, acontributory one, or large enough to cover office overhead, or sufficientin size to declare a profit for his investment in his education beforeopening his office. We are vitally concerned in preserving the good nameof chiropracTIC in getting sick people well, KNOWING full well WHATIS necessary be done to accomplish that ultimate objective for whichchiropracTIC was born and for which chiropracTORS go forth to serve.

If a chiropractor desires to be a philanthropist, and donate his serviceto all like, without discrimination, whether rich or poor, that’s hisbusiness and none should say him nay.

If a chiropractor desires to place a contribution box at the door, sothat as each person leaves, he can drop into the collection plate what hethinks the service is worth, then that is also his business.

If he prefers to make a reasonable and consistent charge for what HEthinks HIS service is worth, delivering it to all alike, rich or poor, whiteor colored, male or female, regardless of acute

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or chronic case, irrespectable that it takes one day or months ofadjustments to get case well, that too is his prerogative and right.

If he builds a clientele to where one well person tells another sickperson and they stampede his doors to get his best service, that is also theright of the sick public to come to him rather than another.

We find no fault in a SMALL practice with a LARGE fee, any morethan we do the LARGE practice with small fees; IF, and this IS theVITAL discrimination factor, IF what either does have to get the casewell. One adjustment rightly delivered is worth anything it the cost TOGET WELL. Medical men get HIGH FEES and deliver nothing becausethey ignore Innate within the patient, flowing from above-down, inside-out. Instead, he is saturated with HIS theories that it is what HE does andgives from outside-in, below-upward that HE claims has curative value.This is FRIGHTFULLY EXPENSIVE at all times in all ways, because itcalls for one experiment after another to cover many blunders, adding feeupon fee without delivering health to get sick well. One is expensiveWITHOUT RESULTS, the other is beyond value because it DOESdeliver results.

But, regardless of whether numbers who enter his portals be few ormany, each entitled to a complete, exacting, accurate delivery of a healthservice based on factual information OF THAT CASE, AND ADELIVERY TO EACH CASE OF A SERVICE based on data securedwhich makes his DELIVERY case get well, using such equipment in hisoffice which makes him satisfied that what he does, where he does it,how, when and where, is within the purview and completeness of thechiropractic principle and practice, then that is the right of certain fixedprinciples necessary to be sincere and true to the completeness of hischiropractic education with a due regard to respect his professionalstanding in his profession bearing due consideration to all his fellowmembers in rendering a complete service which will prove at all timesand in all cases, he is not rushing people through his offices like anassembly line, in one front door, for rushed through, and out another, bythe minute.

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responsibilities to his patient who is worthy of that title, or regardless ifhe is the lone and only person in his office set up, can handle 200 cases aday and render the proper service his clientele is entitled to.

If one the reverse, he has clientele of say 200 patients a day, and hisoffice staff consists of:

A. a receptionist to receive and keep recordsB. an intern or interns to check cases, pre and post, with necessary

equipment installed thereinC. one or more interns to spinograph, expose, develop, read and

analyze his films, reporting to the doctor adjuster his findingsD. and one or more expert adjusters to correctly administer the

adjusting service each case is differently entitled tothen with such an efficient service, there exists a corps of assistancewhich makes it possible to divide the service for which it is equipped tocare for a large clientele, personnel depending upon demands of theclientele, then there is a division of the necessary services amongst thevarious members of the office crew.

As simple as chiropractic is, as simple as getting sick people well is,it is not so simple but what certain essentials ARE necessary to rendercompetent service to each case “according to his needs”. Each case isindividualistic requiring different observation and study.

If the chiropractic decides to charge a fee, he should go and fix whatit is all alike regardless of millionaire or pauper, so that he who walks insick and walks out well, knows exactly what he owes the doctor forservice rendered, except in such cases as demands is worthy of charitableservices for reasons better known to the doctor and the client.

The opposing group with their contrasting procedures is why wehave mixers, medi-practors. Instead of education of patients howINNATE INSIDE HIM CURES, he follows conformists patterns ofadding unnecessities to impress the patient that IT IS WHAT HE doeswhich cures, thus suggesting to patient his paying a big fee that had beenearned by the TOR.

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It is plain that if our service was rendered gratuitously, we would bejammed, crowded, over-run with sick people desiring to get well at NOcost to them. This would force TOR to render a reduced QUALITY ofservice, if any, defeating his primary objective making it impossible forhim to maintain that kind of service which WOULD, COULD OR DIDget sick well. This is a subject which would depend upon his sincerely,honesty and capability to deliver what he should. These are personalissues which can ONLY be settled, in the multiple or ultimate BY EACHindividual, wherein no ONE person can force HIS views into the mindsof another.

There would be no criticism of absolute group, be it large or small,VOLUNTARILY pooling common interests and agreeing to establish afee system. From there on, each would endeavor to see how much hecould give and deliver for that agreed fee. The case would then go wherehe thought he could and would get most for the fee regardless of to whomhe went.

We cannot fathom, after 70 years dealing with hundreds ofthousands of cases, having under our supervision and direction of themethods and provisions necessary to better serve a professional, how oneperson any alone in one office, can receive and render a competentprofessional service to 200 cases a day; can KNOW where to adjust, how,where, when and when not to low; can or possibly could render any sortof a competent health service to so many cases in a day, day after day,except by “a hit or miss, I’ll give him this,” a promiscuous delivery ofsome sort to all alike, without discrimination. He would have no way, ofseparating one type of case from another, to know whether he was or wasnot and when to know not to, letting Innate pick up from there to permitthe case to get well.

If a case was sick, tried many medical doctors, was given up to dieand then went to a TOR, got ONE adjustment and GET WELL, that wasworth ANY FEE, no matter how large because it saved his life. Savinghis life IS BEYOND a fee question, whether it be LARGE OR SMALL.

We have seen many bubbles come, gain momentum for a short time,then bursting for a want of a basic and fundamental

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of approach favoring the rights of the sick to get well to receive what theywere entitled to.

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I T IS WELL known that vertebral subluxations are PROduced by anexternal invasionary force meeting with resistance of the internal force.To REduce the vertebral subluxations REVERSES the rule ofPROduction to correct a REduction.

IF Innate, with its “ripe-grape” invasion COULD correct thesubluxation, WITHOUT external vasionary force to REduce it, thenInnate would have been sufficiently cognizant of the original concussionof force that PROduced the subluxation and prevented same fromoccurring in the first instance. We must not overlook that ACCIDENTALconcussions of forces, from external sometimes does correct the vertebralsubluxations WITHOUT the chiropractor’s invasionary force. BUT, wemust also remember that the “ACCIDENTAL” invasion is not less thanthe original invasion which PROduced it.

We have thousands of newspaper and magazine citations of“accidental” cures occurring without ANY intervention of anyprofessional person. When such does occur, they are called “miracles” bymedical men and other practitioners, little realization there was a law OFPROduction and REduction occurring. The difference is, the chiropractoraccomplishes the same and result by doing WHAT he does, WHERE hedoes it, how, when and why BY INTENTION with the proper knowledgeof reversing the law of PROduction WITH REduction.

The percentage of “accidental” cases, reported in papers andmagazines are undoubtedly sensational cases rather than the rule.Compared to the totality if cases WITH subluxations, which AREreported would possibly below. Percentage of cases, WITH subluxations,adjusted by chiropractors, compared to percentage which comes to himfor that purpose, when rightly adjusted, would be much higher than“accidental” percentage reported publicly. What percentage is actually“adjusted” in this group of cases which go this group of practitioners,who, although NOT

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adjusting according to each actual necessity, so is an unknown quantity.WE doubt if even THEY know what this percentage of “accidental” casesget well with the little they do to correct them.

A vertebral subluxation is far more easily PROduced when patient ismost relaxed, and vice versa. Relaxation of tensed muscular on part ofpatient, is a potential factor in determining of concussion used by thechiropractor. Does this group any method or process to induce relaxationon part of their patients, or is this potent factor ignored? Taking them asis. In so doing, where the law of PROduction is not reversed by them, dothey weigh the evidence of the law of concussion of forces in PRO-duction in their methods of reduction?

The theory may be suggested that Innate, in a living body, is THE allpowerful factor in life, health, capable of correcting ALL abnormalitiesin all living bodies. IF there be value in this idea, does Innate setfractures, dislocations, both of which WERE PROduced by a concussionof forces, external invasionary force being greater than Innate could resistin the matter through which it is a called upon to resist unexpectedlywhen taken aware, when resistance was at low ebb? Same principlesapplied to a vertebral subluxation, PROduced by and from a concussionof an invasionary force when taken unawares. The ONLY way vertebralsubluxation can be REduced if to REVERSE the law of PROduction bean external invasionary force, introduced either ACCIDENTALLY—which occasionally occurs—or by INTENTION by an invasionary forceintroduces by a chiropractor who knows where and how. Even then, thechiropractor intentionally seeks to take the subluxation unawares, whenpatient is most relaxed, when resistance is at low ebb.

If there WAS merit in Innate, alone, being the all powerful factorneeding little if ANY assistance from a chiropractor with his invasionaryfactor, has Innate been asleep at the switch all these centuries, in millionsof sick people, neglecting to correct what it SHOULD DO assuming itwas all powerful and such was a possibility because of a vertebralsubluxation which was Innate COULD NOT, has not and does notREduce alone?

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********This book covering OUR vast field of CHIROPRACTIC RE-

SEARCH WAS WRITTEN TO ACCUMULATE ENDLESS PHASESOF EVIDENCE OF STUDIES AND SOME MANY ORIGINALCONCEPTIONS of physiological functions during our life time.

********We have named this VOL. 39 OUR MASTERPIECE, because for

the first time, we have reviewed, itemized and explained the manyvoluminous phases for research covering 60 years to prove thefundamental and basic foundation on which chiropractic rests. This wasdone to prove that what work WE had done was a combined mental andphysical philosophy, science and art, proving step by step, method bymethod, the necessities of forming a triune blending of one into, throughand with all its varied phases.

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