This week’s B.J. Palmer excerpt is coming a couple days early. It is from Volume I: The Science of Chiropractic published in 1920. This comes from the beginning of the book and is a series of epigrams B.J. Palmer wrote. I chose some of the best ones from pages 15-17. Enjoy!
“Chiropractic is a science.
Drugs are a delusive snare.
Health is better than wealth.
Chiropractic is the study of Innate.
Analysis includes both science and art.
The doctor who has no patients, loses none.
The sick need help, not drugs or incantations.
Better learn to adjust subluxations than to handle drugs.
We have our idiosyncrasies. Chiropractic is one of them.
The human body should be repaired, not poisoned by drugs.
Observations are stepping stones on the plain of progress.
Chiropractic is a distinct science, it is yet being developed.
The pathology of therapeutics, is not that of Chiropractic.
Chiropractic adjustments are attracting universal attention.
Adjusting shows the skill or awkwardness of the Chiropractor.
Pain is the mental interpretation of abnormal physical conditions.
Chiropractic is hand adjustment, founded on mechanical principles.
Why not learn to adjust the subluxations and help the disabled.
We intend to give free rein to Chiropractic thoughts and expressions.
Chiropractors find subluxations which cause abnormal functions.
The time is coming when a drug store will be thought less of than a saloon.
It appears that all nations have some form of home manual treatment.
A knowledge of the principles of Chiropractic is necessary for success.
Chiropractic seldom fails, and never does harm when properly handled.
Chiropractors adjust the cause of disease instead of treating effects.
M. D.’s rely largely on subjective symptoms; the Chiropractor on objective.
Sneers will not down facts; they are not weapons of a truly scientific mind.
We neither treat, knead, or manipulate our patients. We adjust subluxations.
We do not expect to please all. What is mental food for one is poison for another.
When we are in perfect health, functions of nerves are performed in a normal measure.
Those who practice the science of Chiropractic are Chiropractors, not “Chiropractics.”
Adjusting the cause of disease ought to be substituted for treating the ailment.
There is no effect without a cause. Chiropractors adjust causes, others treat effects.”
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Thanks for sharing these Brandon. I had forgotten about some of them.