Chapter I: Front Matter

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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.