Once again, this is from Volume XIX- The Known Man by B.J. Palmer, published in 1936. Enjoy!
“The ordinary and average physician knows no better than to stimulate and inhibit the inhibition and stimulation. He was taught that, accepted it as a true premise, practicing it as such. He sees such in symptoms and pathologies. He has no other route to follow.
How different the ordinary and average Chiropractor. He has been taught the internal constant, the subluxation interference, symptomatic and pathologic variables, vertebral adjustment, and restoration of constant. He was taught to disregard symptoms and pathologies as aught but stimulated and/or inhibited effects.
For him to follow medical routine is a crime to his conscience, to his profession which taught him otherwise, and to service he is capable of rendering. So long as human nature is what it is, we will find weak sisters in any honorable group.
How wonderful that “Nature” is a constant in spite of variable mistakes of physicians, variable blunders of surgeons, and incompetent variables of some “Chiropractors.” Wondrous are the ways “Nature” works to save human life in spite of rather than because of mankind who serves variables to defeat a constant but never learns how.
How much more wonderful that Innate Intelligence is a constant because of efficient, competent, and honest Chiropractors who seek the constant and work with it consistently and intelligently denying all variables.
Innate is an intelligent, always present, internal constant. Why look outside for an empiric laboratory one? “Chiropractors” who think to treat symptoms or pathology of disease to stimulate inhibition, or inhibit stimulation, by modalities, are attempting to do by external means same thing medical men attempt to do when they treat symptoms or pathology of disease by stimulating inhibition or inhibiting stimulation, with drugs.
All either can do, by those principles and methods, is to whip up slowed-down current; or, slow down whipped-up current; hypo the hyper, or hyper the hypo. Each is taking unknown variables and by injecting other unknown variables tries to create an artificial external “constant.” Why try to build artificial external variables into a “constant” that is not a constant, never has been, after 5,000 years, when a genuine, real, and known natural internal constant exists?
Chiropractors know there is an internal constant, that vertebral subluxation interferes with its steady flow, releases this obstruction, and permits internal constant that is to flow freely and without interruption to organ that was sick. He restores constant from where it is to where it was not, all an internal capacity, potential, and conductivity.
Of primary importance is that this balancing factor is already inside man. Why artificially, externally, attempt to introduce it temporarily by injection, pill, powder, or potion? It is better to find interfering medium that shorts the circuit, release that interfering medium that changes steady flow to unsteady flow, breaks the continuity to discontinuity, and permit a restoration of steady flow from where it is to unsteady flow, so that entire circuit will be steady.
Why build a “science of medicine” which is admittedly empiric to try to find what will do this from outside when there is already a constant factor efficiently capable of doing it from the inside? Why build a “practice of medicine” which is admittedly experimentation to arbitrarily fluctuate variables, never fixing a constant from outside to inside?”
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Something that interested me in your quote above; no mention of technique. As in most of the Green Books, you will likely notice there is very little mention of technique and much mentioned about the Philosophy of Chiropractic.
Thanks for sharing!
Great historical picture of BJ!