Part 32

Note.--The use of this move is not quite mechanically correct, but it is advised because of the possible danger of using the transverse processes as levers.

Eleventh Dorsal

Same as Tenth Dorsal.

Twelfth Dorsal

Same as Tenth Dorsal.

First Lumbar

Posterior--P. Heel contact. Posterior, superior--P. S. Heel contact. Posterior, inferior--P. I. Heel contact. Posterior, right, superior--P. R. S. Recoil. Posterior, right, inferior--P. R. I. Recoil. Posterior, left--P. L. Recoil. Posterior, left, superior--P. L. S. Recoil. Posterior, left, inferior--P. L. I. Recoil. Right--R. Lumbar single transverse move, if transverse is palpable, otherwise Recoil. (Same if R. S. or R. I.) Left--L. Lumbar single transverse move, if transverse is palpable, otherwise Recoil. (Same if L. S. or L. I.) Anterior--A. No correction.

Second Lumbar

Same as First Lumbar.

Third Lumbar

Same as First Lumbar.

Fourth Lumbar

Posterior--P. Heel contact. Posterior, superior--P. S. Heel contact. Posterior, inferior--P. I. Heel contact. Posterior, right--P. R. Recoil, hands reversed. Posterior, right, superior--P. R. S. Recoil, hands reversed.

NOTE.--The Heel contact may be substituted for the Recoil above if force be carefully directed in the proper direction in delivery.

Posterior, right, inferior--P. R. I. Recoil, hands reversed. Posterior, left--P. L. Recoil, hands reversed. Posterior, left, superior--P. L. S. Recoil, hands reversed. Posterior, left, inferior--P. L. I. Recoil, hands reversed. Right--R. Lumbar single transverse move, if transverse is palpable, otherwise Recoil. (Same if R. S. or R. I.) Left--L. Lumbar single transverse, if transverse is palpable, otherwise Recoil. (Same if L. S. or L. I.) Anterior--A. No correction.

Fifth Lumbar

Posterior--P. Heel contact. Posterior, superior--P. S. Edge contact. Posterior, inferior--P. I. Edge contact. Posterior, right--P. R. Recoil. Posterior, right, superior--P. R. S. Recoil. Posterior, right, inferior--P. R. I. Recoil. Posterior, left--P. L. Recoil. Posterior, left, superior--P. L. S. Recoil. Posterior, left, inferior--P. L. I. Recoil. Right--R. Recoil (Same if R. S. or R. I.) Left--L. Recoil (Same if L. S. or L. I.) Anterior--A. “Bohemian” anterior fifth Lumbar move. (Not always advisable.)

Sacrum

Posterior base--B. of S.--P. Heel contact on base. Posterior apex--A. of S.--P. Heel contact on apex. Entire Sacrum posterior Sac. P. Heel contact between sacroiliac articulations.

Coccyx

To be adjusted only when ankylosed in an abnormal position and then by leverage of finger through rectum.

A FINAL WORD

Some useful information pertaining to adjustment will be found in section entitled, “Practice,” q. v.

After a careful and painstaking study of the foregoing pages it will still be found that the student is not by any means equipped for the work. He must practice these things to learn them. We learn to do by doing. The chief use of this section will be as a reference and guide during the practice of adjusting.

THE CAUSE OF DISEASE

Disease a Morbid Process

Disease has been variously regarded as an entity, a process, a condition. It has been mentioned in terms which would almost personalize it, such as, “attacked by pneumonia,” “seized with cramps,” “in the clutches of tuberculosis.” Men have endeavored constantly to discriminate between diseases and to learn the appearance and peculiarity of each, and have resolved each into its peculiar elements only to learn that the merging lines between two diseases or between cases of the same disease are imperceptible. It is no more possible to define any one disease within exact limits and to distinguish it from all others than to consider one function of the human body without studying its interdependence with others.

Disease is a process. It is a natural process. It follows certain well-defined laws and consists in the abnormal performance of function in some bodily organ or organs, or in the untimely performance of some function which would be normal in its proper chronological relation with other functions or at another period of the body’s development. The balance of function of the body is destroyed--some function intensified or diminished--that is all. Every disease, properly studied, reveals its functional base.