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  Chiropractic and Ostheopathy Dangers

Excessive talking, chronic coughing, nervous habits, as continual

movement of some part of the body, are all enervating inuences. The rst

two are particularly reprehensible. Many people make and keep

themselves sick by incessant talking.

My feet hurt me, ! feel sick all over"ill#tting shoes, painful feet,

pains in the back, physical pain from shock, in$uries, surgical operations,

pathological processes, loss of blood, impingements, impairments and

malpositions a%ecting the sympathetic system, and physical irritation, all

make heavy demands upon nerve energy. 

Osteopathy and Chiropractic have been largely responsible for the recognition of the

importance of the enervating inuence of malpositions; but they have resorted to

electricity, manipulations, needless "adjustments" and other stimulating measures, as

correctives, and have often produced more enervation by their treatments

than was produced by the malpositions.

!f there is a leak in a dam and it is not repaired, it continues to grow

larger until the existence of the dam is threatened. !f there is a leak in the

powers of the body and this is not corrected, its powers grow less and less

each day until the stability and integrity of the body are threatened. !f a

man&s life#blood is running away he makes an e%ort to stop the leak. !f hisnerve force is being leaked away day by day he should also make an e%ort

to stop this leak

Tilden says' The idea that disease can be cured is absurd. !t is as

reasonable to believe that a remedy can be given to overcome the e%ects

of a knockdown blow over the head. !t is as reasonable to believe that a

remedy can be given to cure the tire following work or exercise or to cure

the e%ects of inebriety while drinking is continued, or that a serum can beused to restore potency to those practicing sensuality.

(eligious people who have more faith in their )od and prayer than in

cutting out their bad habits, usually have nothing in the line of health or

intelligence to recommend either their )od or their prayer to us.

*onetheless, there are ebbs and tides in the vicissitudes of vital vigor, and

the self#regulating powers of the body may rally in a manner to overcome

both the disease and the drug so that abiding faith may at least reward

the patron of a prayer agent.

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n treating Osteopathic and Chiropractic maladjustments and

malalignments have noticed that all discomfort disappears when to!emia is removed.

s #ilden e!presses it. "$hen to!emia%chronic

into!ication%from any cause, is corrected, there is little left for thevarious schools to dispute about regarding causation."

+hat about germs !f enervation permits germs to gain a foothold

and complicate toxemia, it is but logical to assume that the rst step to

recovery is to get rid of toxemia and the precedent enervation. +ith

toxemia removed there is no longer fertile soil for germ propagation and

the secondary infection ceases to exist because of lack of its most

necessary food"toxin saturated tissues of low resistance.

-ure reuires the restoration of resistance, not the killing of germs,for germs are omnipresent. *obody can get well while he continues to

break down resistance. True health and tness are complex results of

delity to the greater aims of nature. !t is by no means enough to look

well and feel well. /hysiological bankruptcy is not always apparent on

the surface.