A consideration of the legal aspects of chiropractic : and more particularly of the question whether or not chiropractic is included within the terms of the Michigan Medical Act-Act. No. 237, Public Laws of 1899, as amended-and is subject to the provisions of that act. Brief, argument and authorities for the affirmative / by Loesch, Scofield & Loesch, Counsel for American Medical Association.

  • Loesch, Scofield & Loesch, Chicago.
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: A consideration of the legal aspects of chiropractic : and more particularly of the question whether or not chiropractic is included within the terms of the Michigan Medical Act-Act. No. 237, Public Laws of 1899, as amended-and is subject to the provisions of that act. Brief, argument and authorities for the affirmative / by Loesch, Scofield & Loesch, Counsel for American Medical Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    * :i: * includes your disease, regardless of what names your various doctors have given it. Chiropractic is the science of adjusting the cause of ALL diseases/' Page 72:—Are you sick? If so, you have subluxations. They ought to be fixed-regardless of how long you have been sufEering. That cause can be fixed now as well as later on. We know your case will keep until some Chiropractor gets in, Init why suffer for a few years more * * * ? Page 73:—MY CASE MIGHT BE INCURABLE. It probably is to the medical man or osteopath. That is why you are still ailing. But is it ^incurable' to the magic adjust- ments of the Chiropractor? Ask him and see. * * * jjg adjusts causes, therefore, gets results. Page 83:—The physical representative of the causes of all diseases, male or female, is in the spinal column. The Chiro- practor analyses your case from that place, gives you adjust- ments at the backbone and at no time do you expose more than your back to him or her; nor does he do anything to any other portion of your back, nor should he apply any liniments, hot fomentations, olive oil or any other form of ^dope' or 'treat- ment,' to you. The Chiropractor finds it unnecessary to give local examinations in other parts of the body, internal or external. ]S[o more knowledge is gained after an examination of that kind than before. Opposite page 97 is a reproduction of one of the diplomas issued by this school. Omitting the heading, it reads: BE IT KNOWN, THAT has completed the course of study, as taught in this 'Chiropractic's Fountain Head' school, and passed -the required examinations in Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Dissection, Analysis, Hygiene, Chiropractic Orthopedy, Nerve Tracing, Histology, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Theory, Philosophy and practice of Chiropractic; whereof we confer upon the degree of D. C. DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC * * * On the back of this page, we find this statement referring to the above diploma: It is presented to students who take a full course of nine months and pass the required examinations. Page 96:—The P.S.C. has one standard (a two years course of six months each) from which it will not deviate * Page 108:—IS CHIROPRACTIC OSTEOPATHY? Under this heading are printed letters from different schools and associa- tions of Osteopathy, in which the writers assert that Chiropractic is not taught or recognized by them.