This week, B.J. Palmer discusses some basic chiropractic fundamentals straight out of Volume I: The Science of Chiropractic, published in 1920. Enjoy!
“All movements, whether normal or abnormal, of, or in the body (including blood circulation), are but the personification of mental equivalents—mental functions guided by Innate Intelligence, creating physical expression. All ache or pain is but the Intellectual interpretation placed upon impressions received from the periphery concerning the abnormal physical conditions.
Every act and thought is controlled by Innate Intelligence through the medium of the brains and their prolongations—nerves —to tissue. It is the life of the body when transformed in the brains.
We are well when Innate Intelligence has unhindered freedom to act through the physical brain, nerves and tissues.
Disease is a lack of normal functions.
Innate mental impulses control the vital functions of assimilation, circulation and respiration, asleep or awake. Dreams are sensations interpreted by the same discriminating force.
Diseases are caused by a lack of current of innate mental impulses. This is produced by a constricting force placed around nerves through accidents—vertebral subluxations. These displacements are caused by a concussion of forces, the external meeting the resistance of the internal, induced by traumatism.
Chiropractors use the spinous and other processes as handles to adjust subluxations; by so doing they restore mental currents to normal transmission—and health exists.”
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Brandon,
Interesting, particularly with respect to where we are today with over 1,000,000 folks being killed annually by the allopathic medical model, the first page of text in Volume 1 includes the following statements:
Line 2) Drugs are an delusive snare.
Line 9) The sick need help, not drugs or incantations.
Line 12) Better to learn to adjust than to handle drugs.
line 14) The human body should be repaired, not poisoned by drugs.
There are 20 statements on this first page of this, the first PSC texbook. 20% are directed at the misguided mature of the drug model of health. Yet there are many chiropractors who wish to ignore the fact that chiropractic was developed by B.J. to stand as something separate, distinct and radically different from the allopathic medical model. Different, opposed to, in contrast to, superior to.
Chiropractic can and will, when properly presented, delivered and understood by enough of the population at large, replace the failed medical model of symptom chasing, palliative, outside-in, sickness care.
Nice comment Herb. Many chiropractors and students don’t realize that if BJ wasn’t who he was and didn’t do what he did, they wouldn’t be where they are today. Sad but true.
On a side note, you might have given me an idea for next week’s BJ excerpt!
You got it Herb!
Great blog Dr. B!
I am going to hand this one out to my patients.