Principles and practice of spinal adjustment; for the use of students and practitioners . uld be destroyed, and functional andorganic disorders would rapidly supervene. Even though the brain itself, which is the producing andreceiving centre of all impulses, be organically and function-ally perfect, it would be useless, were the irritability andconductivity of the nerves impaired. This is true becausethe brain is as dependent on the nerves for transmitting im-pulses to and from it as are the nerves on the brain for thereceiving of impulses. So long, therefore, as the nerve irritability and con
Principles and practice of spinal adjustment; for the use of students and practitioners . uld be destroyed, and functional andorganic disorders would rapidly supervene. Even though the brain itself, which is the producing andreceiving centre of all impulses, be organically and function-ally perfect, it would be useless, were the irritability andconductivity of the nerves impaired. This is true becausethe brain is as dependent on the nerves for transmitting im-pulses to and from it as are the nerves on the brain for thereceiving of impulses. So long, therefore, as the nerve irritability and conduc*tivity are intact, there will be a normal flow of impulses anda condition of health. When, however, the nerves are pre-vented from conducting a continuous flow of impulses, thevital processes are impaired, and the body then becomes sus-ceptible to the secondary and contributing factors in theproduction of disease. An acute disease may follow. If theinterference with the nerve impulses persists, it becomes thecause of the continuance of a chronic disorder. 163 164 SPINAL ADJUSTMENT. Fig. 36. Phantom of Nervous System. ABNORMAL NERVE FUNCTION 165 The Causes of Disturbed Nerve Function.—A thoroughknowledge of the various w^ays in which disturbed nervefunction may be produced is naturally very important, forupon the principal cause of this disturbed function, namelyvertebral subluxations, depends the science of spinal adjust-ment. A detailed discussion of the causes of disturbed nervefunction other than vertebral lesions is scarcely necessary ina work of this nature, and they will be referred to only briefly. The causes of disturbed nerve function embrace thosefactors which operate to alter the strength of the conductionprocess, for upon its conductivity depends its functionalactivity, namely the conveying of impulses to and from thecentral nervous system. These causes may, accordingly beclassed as follows: (a) Fatigue. (b) Malnutrition. (c) Traumatism. (d) Extremes of Temper
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