Disease
"Do germs cause disease, or do dis-ease bodies allow genes to
invade? According to this dictum if the germ causes the disease it must
be present in every case of this disease; it must not be presented except
in conjunction with the disease, it must be susceptible to separate cultivation
in proper media outside the body, and finally, it must be susceptible
to transplantation again in the human body, where it must infallibly
produce the same disease.
The germ theory does not meet a single one of these conditions infallibly,
the germ frequently being absent from diseased conditions which are attributed
to it: being generally present in bodies in which the disease attributed
to it is most conspicuous by its absence! And while germs are susceptible
to cultivation outside the body, in suitable media, yet they are subject
to mutation as the medium is changed in character, and, if again introduced
into the body, they do not always infallibly cause the disease they are
supposed to cause, generally not causing disease of any kind whatsoever."
"Pasteur has already set us back over sixty years by this advertisement
of the germ theory." William Howard Hay, M.D., "Who Are The
Quacks?"
"Medicines are of subordinate importance, because of their very
nature they can work only symptomatically." Hans Kusche, M.D.
"The greater part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression
of acute disease by drug poisoning." Henry Lindlahr, M.D.
"Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of Nature's
protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the pathway
of transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned
with later on even though it palliates present symptoms. Pain may disappear,
but the patient is left in a worse condition, though unconscious of it
at the time." Daniel H. Kress, M.D.
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"A fever is one of the body's ways of 'burning up' bacteria and
virii; sneezing and coughing keep the respitory tract clear; inflammation
such as swelling and pain can be nature's way of limiting unnecessary
movement of the injured area; swelling also facilitates the movement
of materials in and out of injured tissues. Vomiting and diarrhea are
the body's way of telling us to get rest while it has repairs to do.
In such instances, doing things to relieve or suppress the symptoms
such as lowering the fever by giving aspirin, suppressing inflammation
with anti-inflammatory agents like cortisone or preventing vomiting or
diarrhea with drugs may in fact be very dangerous to our health. Yes,
there are bad symptoms which may need pain killers or aspirin or cortisone
or other drugs, at times, but my point is that symptoms are not necessarily
bad things.
However, there is one thing that all symptoms, good and bad, have in
common: both are unpleasant manifestations indicating that the body is
reaching the limits of its adaptive ability and is struggling to correct
internal imbalances.
Dis-ease describes a body that is functioning at less that its full
adaptive potential. Its resistance is low; its susceptibility to disease
is high. Whereas disease symptoms may be classified as good or bad, dis-ease
is always bad.
You can have dis-ease without disease if the malfunctioning of the body
hasn't reached a clinically demonstrable stage as symptoms. You can have
dis-ease with disease if the weakened, malfunctioning state of the body
has been going on long enough to progress to a clinically demonstrable
stage. And, finally, you can have disease symptoms without dis-ease if
your body is reacting to an environmental situation in an appropriate
manner. For example, it's perfectly all right to vomit if you swallowed
poison; in fact, it could save your life.
Care must be taken when using these terms when discussing chiropractic.
For years medical criticisms attacked chiropractic for claiming that
there is one cause of diseases-subluxations, and one cure for diseases-the
chiropractic adjustment.
This is false. Chiropractors do not claim to treat diseases at all but
to correct a major cause of dis-ease, nerve interference caused by vertebral
subluxations. When the body is able to function with less or no nerve
interference it is better able to heal itself of whatever diseases it
has.
It is the doctor within who does the healing. True, medical doctors
can clean a cut and stitch the skin together but it is the innate intelligence
of the body that directs the actual mending of tissues. Doctors may set
a broken bone, but it is the body that knits the ends together.
Does removing the cancerous breast correct the metabolic imbalance that
caused the cancer to grow in the first place? Does giving medication
to reduce blood pressure correct the malfunction in the body that is
causing the hypertension? Do antibiotics, which kill bacteria, improve
the body's resistance to infection? Absolutely not! Chiropractic places
the true healing ability of the body in its proper place-as its ultimate
healing ability.
Discussing adaptability and subluxation correction give chiropractic
its reason for practice. The public as well as many chiropractors relate
to chiropractic as anything other than just another 'therapy' for various
conditions. I could easily list all the diseases chiropractors 'treat'
with success.
But chiropractors don't treat diseases; the correct subluxations, one
of the major forms of dis-ease. However, from a very human point of view,
people have to be shown that it 'works'. So here is a very good example,
showing how an M.D. related the health of the spinal column to the health
of the body. Note that the Winsor studies don't mention backaches even
once.
How An M.D. Discovered Chiropractic or The Winsor Autopsies
"Why don't M.D.'s believe in chiropractic?", is a question
patients commonly ask chiropractors. Indeed, after years of drugs and
other therapies for a condition that may respond and heal after a few
visits to a chiropractor, patients often want to know why their M.D.
didn't send them to a chiropractor in the first place.
In all honesty, many M.D.'s won't stop their patients from going to
a chiropractor, but won't suggest one either. If their patients are lucky
enough to discover a chiropractor, well and good; if their patients are
never told about chiropractic, well, it's just too bad.
In spite of all the good that chiropractors do, in spite of all the
statistics that show that patients are very please with chiropractors,
the medical profession, rather than investigating this field for the
good of humanity, appears to be ignoring it.
But Henry Winsor, a medical doctor, didn't. "I wonder," he
thought, "how chiropractors can claim such good results? They state
that by working on or adjusting the vertebrae between the shoulder blades,
the fifth thoracic, they can help stomach aches and ulcers. By adjusting
a lumbar vertebrae they can relieve menstrual cramps and other 'female'
troubles, and by adjusting the fifth cervical in the neck they can help
thyroid conditions, and so on with kidney disease, constipation, heart
and lung disease, constipation, heart and lung disease and many others.
we M.D.'s criticize them, but what if they really have discovered a new
way to treat disease?"
The year was 1921. Dr. Winsor practiced medicine in Haverford, Pennsylvania
and after studying medical, osteopathic, and chiropractic literature,
he decided to perform an experiment to determine if chiropractic made
any sense. He would dissect human and animal cadavers to see if there
was any relationship between diseased internal organs and spinal vertebrae.
As Dr. Winsor wrote:
"The object of the necropsies (dissections) was to determine whether
any connection existed between minor curvatures of the spine, on the
one hand, and diseased organs on the other; or whether the two were entirely
independent of each other."
If the chiropractors were right in their theory, then a misaligned vertebrae
that impinged a nerve going to the kidneys would cause kidney disease.
If they were wrong, then a misalignment in the 'kidney place' of the
spine would not show a diseased kidney.
How are the internal organs connected to the spinal column you ask?
Through nerves, a certain type of nerve from the spinal column (sympathetic
nerves) connect to the internal organs and help regulate their function.
If these nerves are damaged by spinal misalignments, then the organs
may become diseased.
The University of Pennsylvania gave Dr. Winsor permission to carry out
his experiments. In a series of three studies he dissected a total of
seventy-five human and twenty-two cat cardavers.
Please remember that Dr. Winsor was not searching for gross curvatures
like scoliosis, where a person's spine is obviously twisted out of place.
He was looking for 'minor curvatures' or tiny misalignments that a person
could have in his or her spine without being aware that the spine was
not 'straight'.
What did the necropsies reveal? Was there a relationship between diseased
organs and the spinal column? The following are Dr. Winsor's words on
the results: "...221 structures other than the spine were found
diseased. Of these, 212 were observed to belong to the same sympathetic
segment as the vertebrae in curvature. Nine diseased organs belonged
to different sympathetic segments from the vertebrae out of line. These
figures cannot be expected to exactly coincide...for an organ my receive
sympathetic filaments from several spinal segments and several organs
may be supplied with sympathetic (nerve) filaments from the same spinal
segments."
In other words, there was nearly a 100%
correlation between 'minor curvatures' of the spine and disease to
the internal organs. Let us examine some of these disease categories:
Nine cases of stomach disease all had spinal misalignments in the area
between the shoulder blades.
Twenty-six cases of lung diseases had spinal misalignments in the 'upper
dorsal' region or an area slightly below the neck.
Thirteen cases of liver diseases were associated with misalignments
in the mid-dorsal region, similar to the region associated with stomach
disease. Since many digestive organs receive a nerve supply from the
mid-back region it is also not surprising that that same area was involved
in five cases of gallstones, three of pancreas disease, and eleven of
spleen conditions.
Seventeen cases of kidney diseases had the lower thoracic (10th, 11th,
and 12th thoracic vertebrae) out of alignment.
Eight cases of prostate and bladder disease had the low back vertebrae
misaligned (specifically the 1st, 2nd and 3rd lumbar vertebrae).
Two cases of uterus conditions had the 2nd lumbar misaligned.
All twenty cases of heart and pericardium conditions had the upper five
thoracic vertebrae misaligned.
Tow cases of thymus disease had lower neck and upper back misalignments.
Dr. Winsor's results were published in a respected Medical Journal the
Medical Times, and can be found in any medical library. But Dr. Winsor
was not alone in his findings. For decades many of the top medical and
non-medical researchers in the country were making similar discoveries
supporting chiropractic's claim: a well-aligned spine is essential for
a healthy body.
Dr. Winsor's research has never been disproved. But it has never been
seriously studied by the medical establishment either. And that is a
great pity." Tedd Koren, D.C. ("The American Chiropractor" October
1985.)
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