Principles and practice of spinal adjustment; for the use of students and practitioners . uded, as the vertebrae , in old age, when settling of the spine occurs, and therecomes the danger of complete closure of the intervertebralforamina, nature recognizes this danger, and the spine be-comes bent forward, and the back parts of the vertebrae arethrown apart to prevent this contingency. Comparison of the eftect of pressure of the margins of theintervertebral foramen upon a nerve has been made to theshutting ofif of-the flow of water through a hose, to the stop-ping of the current o
Principles and practice of spinal adjustment; for the use of students and practitioners . uded, as the vertebrae , in old age, when settling of the spine occurs, and therecomes the danger of complete closure of the intervertebralforamina, nature recognizes this danger, and the spine be-comes bent forward, and the back parts of the vertebrae arethrown apart to prevent this contingency. Comparison of the eftect of pressure of the margins of theintervertebral foramen upon a nerve has been made to theshutting ofif of-the flow of water through a hose, to the stop-ping of the current of electricity in a wire, and to many othersimilar examples. Such examples are misleading, and provenothing because the exact nature of the conduction process isnot understood and bears no similarity to the examples that is positively known is that pressure upon a nerve willprevent conduction of impulses by it, and that sufificient pres-sure to produce this effect may be exercised by the margins ofthe intervertebral foramina when a vertebra is subluxated. 26 SPINAL ADJUSTMENT. Fig. 4, ANATOMICAL BASIS OF CHIROPRACTIC 27 It is a strange fact that medical students are required tomake a minute dissection of the peripheral nervous system tothe minutest branches of the nerves, but a dissection of thespine is not required. Probably if such had been required,much that at the present time seems to the average medicalman as mysterious would long ago have been made clear. Ithas remained for the students of spinal adjustment to do this,and the spinal findings, post mortem, reveal the truth of theexistence of displacements of the vertebrae. The figuresshown on the following pages are reproductions of photo-graphs taken of a cadaver in process of dissection in the an-atomical laboratory of the National School of Chiropractic ofChicago, by the author, with the assistance of Dr. Erik illustrations show several important things: first, thatsubluxations really exist; second,
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