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TECHNIC AND PRACTICE
OF
CHIROPRACTIC
BY
JOY M. LOBAN, D. C., Ph. C.
Professor of Anatomy and of Theory and Practice of Chiropractic at the Universal Chiropractic College. Formerly
Professor of Chiropractic Analysis at the
Palmer School of Chiropractic
SECOND EDITION
Revised and Enlarged
PUBLISHED BY
UNIVERSAL CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE
DAVENPORT, IOWA
1915
Copyright 1915
BY
JOY M. LOBAN
HAMMOND PRESS
W. B. CONKEY COMPANY
CHICAGO
THIS BOOK IS
Dedicated
TO THE GIRL WHO HAS BEEN MY STAFF
AND LANTERN, AIDING AND LIGHTING
ME ON MY WAY IN THIS NEW FIELD
My Wife
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Page | |
| Preface to First Edition | [9] |
| Preface to Second Edition | [11] |
| Introduction | [13] |
| Vertebral Palpation | [15] |
| Definition | [15] |
| General Propositions | [15] |
| Habits of Palpation | [15] |
| Facts Concerning the Spine | [16] |
| Preparation of Patient | [22] |
| Position of Patient | [22] |
| The Record | [23] |
| The Count | [29] |
| Atlas Palpation | [35] |
| The Group Method | [37] |
| The Individual Subluxation | [40] |
| Palpation in Position B | [46] |
| Palpation in Position C | [48] |
| Transverse Palpation | [49] |
| Curves and Curvatures | [53] |
| Difficulties in Palpation | [59] |
| Landmarks | [61] |
| Mental Attitude | [63] |
| Nerve Tracing | [64] |
| Organ Tracing | [64] |
| What Nerves are Traceable | [64] |
| Suggestion | [67] |
| Place in Diagnosis | [67] |
| Technic of Nerve Tracing | [68] |
| Subluxations | [76] |
| Definition—How Produced | [76] |
| Law Governing Location of | [78] |
| Varieties of Subluxations | [80] |
| Technic of Adjusting | [89] |
| General Principles of Adjusting | [89] |
| Special Technic (Thirty-two Moves) | [99] |
| Preferable Adjustments | [155] |
| The Cause of Disease | [165] |
| Simple Subluxation Disease | [184] |
| Secondary Causes | [185] |
| Germ Diseases | [185] |
| Diet | [192] |
| Poisons | [194] |
| Exposure | [198] |
| Bodily Excesses | [201] |
| Inflammation | [202] |
| The Process of Cure | [208] |
| Adjuncts | [215] |
| Spino-Organic Connection | [217] |
| General Discussion | [217] |
| Special Nerve Connections | [235] |
| Table of Diseases and Adjustments | [257] |
| Practice | [276] |
| Office Equipment | [277] |
| Schedule of Examination | [292] |
| Necessity for Correct Diagnosis | [298] |
| Frequency of Adjustments | [302] |
| Specific vs. General Adjusting | [303] |
| Talking Points | [306] |
| Promises to Patients | [308] |
| Retracing of Disease | [309] |
| Limitations of Chiropractic | [312] |
| The Use of Adjuncts | [315] |
| Personality | [319] |
| Chiropractic Prognosis | [322] |
| General Discussion | [322] |
| Practical Prognosis | [323] |
Preface to First Edition
This little work is offered to the profession without apology for its brevity or its form. It has been prepared because of an immediate and pressing need for such a guide in our colleges, and is offered abroad under the impression that many practicing Chiropractors feel the same need.
It is intended for handy reference and clinical use and is arranged as systematically as possible, style being everywhere sacrificed to utility.
The author lays no claim to the origination of any of the subject matter of this book nor to having invented any of the movements described under Technic of Adjusting. The arrangement and phraseology are in the main original. The intention has been merely to condense into practical and convenient form for students and practitioners certain knowledge now held and utilized in our profession.
The author feels himself indebted to the entire profession for the information embodied in this work, and to scientists of all time upon the results of whose infinite and painstaking research are based our present day advancement; to the many friends and co-workers whose valuable criticisms and suggestions have aided in this labor; and to his students, past and present, who have furnished the necessary encouragement and inspiration for the achievement of this, the author’s first text-book.
The chief merit of this effort—if merit there be—is its honesty. The author has endeavored to set forth fairly and simply the facts and hypotheses with which we have to deal. Its chief offense, in the eyes of many, will lie in its being just what it purports to be—a book on Chiropractic. Constructive criticism and suggestion are invited from all sources, for by our interchange of thoughts we grow.
J. M. L.
Preface to Second Edition
The republication of this book has been made possible by the sustained friendship of the profession for it, and the author’s thanks are due its many buyers and readers who, by their recommendation, have made it both possible and necessary that this book should live and grow.
The new edition has been somewhat enlarged by the introduction of additional matter into each section and by the addition of two entire new chapters on “Preferable Adjustments” and “Chiropractic Prognosis.” New plates have been added and old errors corrected. In every way an attempt has been made to express with conservatism the real advance made by Chiropractic since the first edition was put on the press.
J. M. L.
INTRODUCTION
No two students, approaching for the first time the study of Chiropractic, approach from the same angle. Their viewpoints differ. In order that all may gain as nearly as possible the same viewpoint from which to consider in turn the sections of this book, it will be well if each student reads the entire book before beginning to memorize its parts and convert them into practical working knowledge.
An effort should be made, abandoning all other, to acquire the Chiropractic viewpoint. This accomplished, the rest of the task requires time and patience alone, without waste labor. The section on Vertebral Palpation should be studied step by step, the study of each step being combined with practice in it. Likewise the section on Nerve-Tracing, theory preceding practice. The study of the Technic of Adjusting should occupy those months immediately preceding the commencement of actual adjusting practice and continue during such practice. The chapters on Practice are intended for the student about to enter the field. The table of Spino-Organic Connection can be best understood by those who have studied or are studying the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system.
Let every page be studied with a good medical dictionary open at the elbow of the reader. Pass no word without comprehension, no detail without mastery. He who would seek to modify the life processes of the human body must fortify himself against fatal error with every bit of knowledge he can acquire.