Here are some words from B.J. Palmer from Chapter 1 of Volume XVIII: The Subluxation Specific – The Adjustment Specific.
Enjoy!
SEEKING A SPECIFIC FOR THE CAUSE OF ALL DISEASE
REQUIRES:
(a) that disease, per se, can be and should be ignored
(b) that symptoms, pathologies, diagnoses, histories of effects, etc., could be discounted even tho not denied
(c) that diagnostic instruments could be tabooed and not used as a wasteful and extravagant use of time
(d) that dis-ease (notice hyphenation) is simple, not complex; all medical classifications being Chiropractically one common condition, except in degree of energy interference and location.
(e) that dis-ease was single, not multiple; one thing, not thousands.
(f) that dis-ease was internal, not external: a lack of energy flow to movable matter, reducing its functional rate of tone motion, action or function.
(g) that life and death were opposites, in presence or absence; no life equals death; death equals no life.
(h) that dis-ease was an intermediary stage somewhere between total life and total death.
(i) that CAUSE was a simple, single, internal; not complex, multiple, external; was merely a question of location and character of that which interferes with energy flow.
(j) that cause was an all-enveloping, all-inclusive for dis-ease, per se; being mechanical and needing correction mechanically.
(k) that somewhere WITHIN the composite unit was THAT cause and when found CURE would be found within also; neither or none of which could be gathered from the four corners of the earth, compounded and prescribed for consumption.
(1) there being but ONE dis-ease; there would be but ONE cause; requiring ONE correction; at ONE place; in ONE way; to restore ONE cure, which simplifies the subject of health, its absence and restoration.
