The Medical Follies; an Analysis of the Foibles of Some Healing Cults: Including Osteopathy, Homeopathy, Chiropractic, and the Electronic Reactions of Abrams, with Essays on the Antivivisectionists, Health Legislation, Physical Culture, Birth Control, and Rejuvenation |
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Page 119 - FADS IN HEALTH LEGISLATION The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories; institutions of public policy, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rule by which men should be governed.—JUSTICE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: The Common
Page 124 - employees, clerks, or other persons shall be provided whenever necessary, and each cuspidor shall be thoroughly emptied and washed out daily with a disinfectant solution. Thus Colorado, the mecca of the tuberculous, instead of attempting to educate its public to the menace of expectorating where food is lying about, promotes the habit by supplying facilities for it
Page 130 - of. It is estimated that there are in the State from 10,000 to 20,000, possibly more, nearwhite people, who are known to possess an intermixture of colored blood, in some cases to a slight extent, it is true, but still enough to prevent them from being white. In the past it has been possible for these people
Page 29 - THE RISE AND FALL OF HOMEOPATHY Diseases are cured, not by eloquence, but by remedies well and duly applied, of which, if any sage and discreet man, though he have no tongue, know well the proper usage, he shall become a greater physician than if, without practice, he ornament well his language. —CORNELIUS CELSUS
Page 79 - spine. Then the chiropractor gives the patient a push in the back, using one hand, two hands, and sometimes the knee, according to what he thinks the system will stand. There are court records of fractures of the bones brought about by this gentle manipulation, known as the Chiropractic Thrust.]
Page 130 - white or even to have the Court so declare them. Then they have demanded the admittance of their children into the white schools, and in not a few cases have intermarried with white people. In many counties they exist as distinct colonies holding themselves aloof from Negroes, but not being admitted by the white people as of their race.
Page 78 - doc, it's this rheumatism I've been sufferin' with. [Of course it may be a cold, or a sore throat, or diphtheria, or diabetes, or almost anything else that has already been diagnosed, or that the patient, in his rough and ready manner, has essayed to diagnose.~\ CHIROPRACTOR—Well, strip off your things and get into the
Page 58 - to explain these things to him would be as hopeless as explaining the theory of the well-advertised Professor Einstein. Scientific medicine admits that there are diseases of the mind and diseases of the spine, and its practitioners treat the former by mind-healing methods and frequently the latter by braces and supports and other
Page 79 - for it. Yes, two dollars for the treatment an' a dollar rental for the locker. Thus chiropractic diagnosis and treatment. Disease is caused by certain bones of the spine impinging on certain nerves. Disease is cured by pushing those bones off those nerves until by some unknown mechanism of physiology they are persuaded to stay off.
Page 125 - tremendous staffs of special barbershop hounds. Consider the following from the Colorado code-book: Soaps, bay rums, face lotions, hair tonics and other toilet articles and all solutions must be pure and unadulterated. Let anyone explain what that means—and if it means what he probably thinks it means, how