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Chas. D. Dixon, M. D.
WHAT IS CHIROPRACTIC ?
Chiropractic is a freak offshoot from osteopathy. Its fol-
lowers assert that diseases are caused by pressure on the
spinal nerves and can be eradicated by "adjusting" the
vertebrae.
It is the sheerest kind of quackery, practiced largely by
men whose general education is as limited as their knowl-
edge of anatomy, and who are profoundly ignorant of the
fundamental sciences on which the treatment of disease
in the human body depends.
Chiropractic is taught (heaven save the mark) on the
mail order plan. The modern medical school requires that
its matriculates have a fairly good general education. The
so-called "colleges" of chiropractic matriculate anybody
who can pay the fee. The medical school requires in ad-
dition to a good preliminary educational foundation, four
years, in some cases five, with hard study with much prac-
tical work before granting the degree of doctor of medicine.
The chiropractic "schools" profess to teach individuals how
to treat disease by a few weeks mail order education.
Study the advertisements of any concern that proposes
to give a "course" in chiropractic, send for the advertising
matter and obtain the follow-up letters by which these al-
leged schools obtain "students." The key-note of every
piece of advertising matter that eminates from these sour-
ces is "big money" in chiropractic.
Chiropractic is in no sense a profession. It is a scheme
by which sharpers induce men, generally of little or no
education and with a dwarfed sense of moral obligation, to
learn the tricks of a disreputable trade-quackery.83
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Dixon, Chas. D. (Charles D.). The Menace, an Exposition of Quackery Nostrum Exploitation and Reminiscences of a Country Doctor, book, 1914; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143569/m1/101/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.