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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    with success, whereas good results after our adjustment seldom fail * * * Page 7:—^'I receive hundreds of letters asking if we treat this, that and the other disease. You will not need to ask such questions of you will re- member that Chiropractic adjustment is applicable to all dis- eased conditions. ^riT Chieopeactic is Xqt Osteopathy Page 12:—Chiropractic is not Osteopathy. Chiropractic is a system of finding and removing the actual cause of disease, whereas Osteopathy, regardless of its claims to the contrary, is a system which is applied to the treatment of symptoms nine times where it is once applied to the actual removal of the cause. * * * Rubbing, pulling muscles, pressing and kneading over the abdomen and along the sides of the spine and neck, twisting, arm swinging, 'leg pulling' constitute the manipulations used in an Osteopathic treatment. To be sure, Osteopaths talk a great deal about subluxated vertebrae, but it is safe to say that in their spinal examinations they find only a small percentage of the subluxations which really exist, and are unable in the majority of cases to reduce the few luxations they do find, as their method is both uncertain and indirect. Page 13 :— * * * there is absolutely no resemblance between a Chiropractic adjustment and Osteopathic treatment. I have had a great many patients who have been treated by Osteopathy. As soon as the first adjustment is given they invariably say, 'Well, any one could tell that was not Osteo- pathy.' They require no explanations whatever, and when, in a short time, they see the disease yielding to Chiropractic ad- justments which the Osteopath had failed to reach, they are not only satisfied there is a difference between the two systems, but they are convinced that Chiropractic is as superior to Osteopathy as Osteopathy is superior to ordinary massage. Page 15:—''Just think of it! The most vital nerves in all the body are compelled to pass through o])enings which may be made so small as to actually pinch them and so interfere with their normal action as to cause disease in the parts or organs to which they lead. Stomach troubles, bowel troubles, headaches, neuralgias, heart troubles, blood troubles, paralysis, rheumatism, etc., each has as its cause an enlarged or constricted condition of the openings or spinal windows through which the nerves pass that control the blood supply and vital action of the cells of the organ or organs which are suffering with disease. Finally, we quote these statements from Tlie American. Monthly Chiropractor. Vol. ], No. J, June. 190S. OMahoma City, Oklahoma.